The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, August 08, 1984, Page Page 4, Image 4
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Walking in the sweltering summer h
shade trees on the Horseshoe and
brigades of sprinkler systems, USC st
one place to find shelter and mingle v
their kind ? the student union
The Russell House Student Union, I
great stone edifice created by a non-j
fund years ago, is dwindling right bef<
A quick glance around the Russell 1the
the same services that have alway
the Activities Office, Carolina Prograr
cameroom, the Union Station, the c
snack bar, the Print Shop, Student IS
and the Golden Spur.
All were created from that big non-i
fund, which means whatever profit
might make remains within the studer
All of this profit and loss is handle
Business Office, hut the ladies that wc
tell you there's not as much work tc
there used to be.
The gameroom, which houses doz
games, is managed by the USC Books
bookstore is part of the Division of
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lana, which a ui ciiilii ui uic pi C.muc
What this means is that for every tc
video game in the gameroom, only a
it goes back to the Russell House.
Where the rest of the money goes i
operation are paid becomes rather clo
However, there are two places tha
surely doesn't go: back to the studeni
lower tuition.
The issue is not whether USC has a i
money; the issue is whether anyone su
of it.
The Union Station is managed by J
Golden Spur is closed, possibly for g<
The Russell House Mall is being bu
leased by the bookstore, again thro
Affairs.
Why shouldn't the rent on the 15
culated throughout the departments c
union? After all, aren't they located i
House?
Is everyone satisfied with the stud<
could it be a much nicer place?
USC is guilty of no wrongdoing
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cuuim;, yuu iiiliuuc liiuian giving.
Could the student union be moi
described as the "student mall?"
Are the other businesses as concer
dent participation and development i
union would be?
How much longer will USC ha
union?
No one has objected to the usurpati*
dent union.
The union is supported by the sti
fee, but no one wonders if the activ
buys as much as it used to.
The responsibility for action lies
Government. Until now, SG has igno
Maybe this year's administration woi
? Gamecock ~
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Regarding the article in the A?
n r> r\ r* Is li/limk ror\r*rta/4 #Uot r\<
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ifter costs of Pruitt feels that "There's plent
iudy. parking, just not next to the bui!
it the money (Students) want to go to. . .
\ union or to r, .
Mr. Prutt, I invite you and any
members of the faculty and
right to make ministration of this university to 1
ffers because parking space on this campus bei
the hours of 9 a.m. and noon o
Saga, and the weekday cither lhc fa" or 5
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ilt and being ?
ugh Business
shops be cir- m '
,f the student MpmnMRS (1
in the Russell
*nt union or Recently, 1 was looking throug
newspaper and I noticed that a 11
War is being rebroadeast. 1 thouj
I, unless, of forget. And at the same time, I rer
ten some months back on the w;
re cttectivcly own perspectives, my own remem
The huge gray stone stood a
, . , memories of the past. Names hac
ned Wltn Stu- ? names of dead men. Dead mc
IS the Student huge slab was a monument to a w;
that never existed,
ve a Student This monument, this hunk of r
tempt to honor the dead of a war
port and that left its survivors stil
on of the stu- Vietnam.
I remember Vietnam. As a teei
ident activitv newscasters on the 6 p.m. news re;
- i II I thought that event was so ordina
liy iee ClOliar uncanny ordinariness that was
pected. After reading the casualt
with Student then show the other side of the '
red the issue. anc* rebellious college student
test that said we shouldn't be ov
lor Detter or worse, we were thei
we would stay there until the job
the job would never be done.
The war had a personal meanii
Vietnam, and my family, like m;
Herb Reeves resignation for that news, prayi
r Ron Emter never come. 1 remember the i
Ron Emler strange car in the driveway and I
er Carolyn Griffon the house when the phone ranR
Mark McEwan that news never came. Yes, I rem
? Wanda M. Hite ment of its victims by us good /
.. Mark EthrMge Jr. Those who did walk out c
welcome home. Maybe unlike sc
777 2833 h?me to cheers and parades, th<
to the deadening silence of a nati
tors and guest editorials own kind. And just as thos
wars, the Vietnam soldier fough
toriais should be limited nocent people slaughtered, his
ges. Letters and guest endless line of body bags waitii
ne number, mailing ad way, being shipped home in a I
lyms are unacceptable, foest way out 0f the jungle,
circumstances warrant. ciea(j soldier was escorted
. 11CP military guard and pallbearers, fc
ecock, Drawer A, USC, e. ' ? c
of the maze of Vietnam would n<
He would always be shifting sai
warn
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Letters
illenges Pruitt on
semesters. To make it easier on you, I
jg. 1 suggest you drive a compact or subsnnis
compact car as many of the parking
y of lots are not conducive for use with a
Idinc "family-size" car.
Also to make it easier, perhaps you
could pretend you have a Commuting
other Student (CS) sticker, a group which
ad- even you admit is less advantaged than
ind a resident hall students.
ween How about, for a change of pace,
n any you decide to look for a parking space
pring near the Thomas Cooper Library? I
xiitvi vainpuo
.v*
f Vietnam cannot
h the television section of a This lack of a h
i-part series on the Vietnam height of the Viet
jht, it is good that we don't rebellious time wl
nembered a piece I had writ- over the horrors o
ar. It was a piece about my involvement in the
ibrance. war's participants
mid too few and too late There really die
I been carved into the stone tended hand woul
;n, not heroes, because this But how could
ar that never was and heroes another human be
day by the rule o
ock, was a Ration's vain at- M-16 rifle with h
that that nation did not sup- The answers are t
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i living iiu> iiigiiiiuai c taiitu uui wc tuuiu nitvc
through hell to pr<
riager, I would watch as the with disorder. Wc
ad off the day's casualty list. I remember Vic
ry; killing in wartime had an outstreched hands
accepted and strangely ex- off the planes. I
y lifst, the newscaster would standing at attent
war, the long-haired hippies how proud the pol
s carrying their signs of pro- negotiations. And
er there. But we were there, who didn't get tl
re, and like good Americans because so many
was done, not realizing that If my recollecti
intentional becaus
historical trash sv
ng for me. My brother was in couldn't help but
any others, waited with calm stone that stands i
ng all the time that it would of the Statue of L
ineasy feelings - stirred by a died masses yeari
the deafening silence through holds freedom al
. But, luckily for my family, precious of gifts f
ember it mostly for the treat- War. We have r<
Americans. from the guilt of
>f Vietnam had no hemes' if ihaf him?
? ? ii?Mi HU5V piV
ildiers of wars past who came to the Vietnam er
; Vietnam soldier came home us that now all t1
on that had turned its back on have names and 1
e soldiers of the past fought ed out of the junj
t his war, too. He has seen in- to pray no other
friends blown apart, and the who fought in Vi<
n ft t A Ko r U ? ?1 - 1 1
?5 iw uv 0111j/jjv.vj iiutuc. 111 a CU US DciCK.
body bag may have been the 1 remember Vi<
forget, just as *
to his final resting place by a Holocaust or an;
>ut the soldier who walked out scar of war on it
ever have a final resting place.
id in constant motion.
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THERE'S^
ERAL GOVERH^tW
MX V(HP MWE3TW& sr
luinriiK '
parking issue
won t even ask that you do this at y
p.m.. Or in the rain. Or both.
Mr. Pruitt, in short, if you don't
have a reserved parking place on campus,
then my letter is nothing new to
you. But if you do not know what it is
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11kt ior siuaems 10 paiK ai ujl,
please do not presume to tell me that
you know there is plenty of parking.
Jacqueline Finklea
Graduate Student
Department of Health Administration
be forgotten
ero's welcome was a sign of the times. The
nam War came during the 1960s. It was a
len people were promoting peace and love
f war. Many Americans didn't support U.S.
' war and, therefore, they didn't support the
In't have to be parades though; just an exd
have been enough.
we understand the precision art of killing
ing? How could we understand living day to
f kill or be killed? How could we hold an
ands that knew only a peaceful existence?
hat we couldn't know unless we were there,
; understood that a lot of good people went
eserve some kind of order in a country filled
: could have, but we didn't.
:tnam, and the newscaster's account of the
; offered to the prisoners of war as they got
remember the salutes and the honor guard
ion. And 1 remember thinking at the time
iticians must be feeling with such productive
I I remember the silent tears of the soldier
lat handshake or that salute. I remember
forgot.
ons seem fragmented, the fragmentation is
;e that was Vietnam ? a fragmented piece of
/ept under the rug. In writing this column !
: remember the words carved into another
in-New York Harbor. The words on the base
ibertv read: "Give me vour tired, vour hud
ling to be free.".America is a country that
jove all else, yet we have taken that most
rom those who dared to fight in the Vietnam
jbbed them of their freedom to be free ?
being part of that war.
ce of gray stone which stands as a monument
a veteran is anything at all, it is a reminder to
hose casualty lists and body count numbers
flontiiUr A :r?i : ? n
UVIUHIV3. nuu ii illume muiviuuais wno waiKgle
serve any purpose at all it is to remind us
such confrontation happens because those
stnam won't fight for the country that turnetnam.
1 don't think any of us can afford to
<t can't afford to forget Hiroshima or the
y other atrocity which left the unremovable
s victims.
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