The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 05, 1983, Page 6, Image 6
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students it encount
registration was dest
before OSCAR.
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must make an appo:
discuss the courses av;
quirements in the foil
period was to occur
Thanksgiving holiday
The paradox is thi
days before the mastei
to the university. Such
but it hurt the student
meet with his adviser.
After a student com
his respective dean ar
pointment card, whic
and time to meet OS<
period of advisement
computer registration
dent missed his sched
was required to call I
printed on the card to
This is the start of
telephone number wa;
dreds of students who
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implementation of the;
ble lies. We are dealin
system in which man
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high. The shut down
student the greatest c
cess. Long lines oftc
iseum, where students
until the computers a
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boards, where the stud
are still open for regis
scanner and endures a
to Hicrr?vf?r cmn r?f f
were actually filled. T
be repeated.
Such was common 1
as up to date as they s\
dent who registered fc
learned the sad truth !
Though this is only
been utilized, it has al
registration period foi
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blems in obtaining th
jority of the student
there are many rou
smoothed.
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appointment time and
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because the boards were not
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a class he saw to be open,
50 minutes later.
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Student says
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Recently, there appeared on this
page a letter by Brad Weller in which
he discussed the necessity of repealing
the Blue Laws. Weller, like most of the
J politicians currently holding statewide
office, believes that we ought to repeal
the Blue Laws in the interest of
progress.
1 have always dislike the flogging of
s dead horses, and as a result I will not
* go into the various practical reasons
for maintaining these laws. Such
reasons are valid in themselves, but are
usually set forth by those with nagging
consciences and yet who also have a
fear of being branded impractical or
- ideological. Our nation and its Con
Peace movem
(Editor's note: The author is a secoth
medical school.)
By Ken Strauss
The deployment of cruise missiles, v
in nurope, is one more ominous sign i
American foreign policy and of the w
s by "Cowboy" Ronald Reagan of the
S of the countries of the world have so
ritory and affairs of their own countri
At the risk of sounding alarmistic, 1
ment, which horrifies and outrages
e peans, may be one of the dark turns i
e The missiles themselves are a tec
those who are able to ignore their a\
below enemy radar, follow the contoui
^ drop their warheads within a few 1
targets. But there's where their inh
undetectable missile is unquestionably
is of absolutely no value in an all-out
enemy radar.
j THEIR DEPLOYMENT, we are tc
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r I ing their own SS-20s pointed at Europ
I any guide, this move will only pror
r I deploy better missiles with more nume
f | warheads.
7 The Europeans have not forgotter
? history powerful nations who have
almost always eventually found occa:
paranoia and short-sightedness tend t
j portion to might.
1 The issue riveting the entire peace
the same as that debated in the trenc
' > The Western Front;" it is one of th<
tions: "What right have generals and i
1 On what grounds can they justify kil
suited, unconsenting and unheede
children/
This points up one of the moral pra<
in the Americans. We search desperate
to transplant into a dying baby while
build weapons designed ultimately, r<
Ji tionalize them, to kill every baby in t
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Blue Laws are
stitution have a strong orientation
toward a philosophy that upholds such
ideals as freedom, equality, justice and
truth.
But these ideals were themselves based
upon Christianity, in general, and
the Bible, in particular. Our political
system, as aennea in tne constitution,
springs from a biblical, Christian
mentality.
To set aside a day in honor of the
God who provided our fathers with
such ideals is a practical statement of
reverence for our God and those
ideals. To do away with such a day
would be a public affirmation that we
no longer have faith in our reverence
for our God.
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fhich began this month
of the militarization of REGAN INSIS1
'holesale abandonment Soviet world domii
notion that the citizens too much credit
ivereignty over the ter- economy or a Th
ies. Polish labor union
[ think that this deploy- Germany, a Japan
the majority of Euro- I would not like
in human history. Reaean would. I'
hnological marvel, for America and have
vful menaing. They fly any political stripe
" of hills and valleys and s'an domination is
lundred yards of their validity as the old
lerent danger lies. An to justify Vietnam
a first-strike missile. It Furthermore, ju
t exchange to fly below America.s wamin,
judges actions rath
)ld, is designed to scare But all of that as
ating aimed at dismantl- arms race? The nu
e; but if past actions are that we should not
npt them to build and to get us out.
rous and more powerful
THE REAL hop
. , , ment ? one that
? lat throughout their reaches as much in
massed wpannnc ha\/p 1a ,1 _
,?u uues inio our ci
sion to use them, since Western Europe, c
o increase in exact pro- compassing young
ings such unbearal
movement in Europe is leadership o
:hes of "All's Quiet on disarmament, on t
s ultimate human ques- Some will say t
politicians to make war? move the Soviet
lling millions of uncon- military force woi
:d men, women and they look at Gha
Military force do
Joxes the Europeans see courage and willpc
ly nationwide for a liver If it did, we wc
allowing our military to would have lost V
jgardless of how we ra- believe, if the spir
he Soviet Union. across the Iron Cu
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I hold then that Weller was
mistaken; it would not be a progressive
step io do away with the Blue Laws. It
would be a regression, a public retreat,
if you will, from those eminently progressive
ideals upon which our nation
is based.
In short, I agree that the laws are
idiosyncratic and ought to be reviewed
with an attitude of common sense. But
they should not be repealed altogether.
All good things come from God, and
as a Christian nation, part of our
iconography ought to be a weekly holiday
in his honor.
Steve Slimp
English junior
nuclear world
lest editorial
rs that the only alternative is capitulation to
lation. Aren't we giving the Russians a little
here? They can't dominate their own
ird World country like Afghanistan r?r a
. What chance do they stand aganist a West
, a Brazil or a United States?
: to live under communism any more than
ve lived under rightest regimes in Latin
had enough of wretched dictatorships of
But for me the theory of inevitable Rusi
if we don't race to rearm holds as much
"domino" theory of Southeast Asia, used
ist as good an argument can be made for
I world domination as the Soviets, if one
ler than rhetoric.
ide. What can we do to stop this quickening
clear freeze may be a first step, but it seems
trust the leaders who got us into this mess
>e I believe lies in a worldwide peace movecrosses
political and national boundaries,
to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as
ountry and, like the current movement in
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and old, labor and professionals, and brble
political, economic and social pressure
f our countries that their only alternative is
>oth and all sides.
his is a pipe dream and that nothing can
masses ? and besides if something did,
lid crush them. To them I would suggest
ndi and Christ and Martin Luther King.
>es not win in struggles against human
>wer.
mid have won in Vietnam and the British
^orld War II. There is great hope then, I
it of the European movement spreads east
irtain and west across the Atlantic.