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OniniAll THE GAMECOCK Page 6 ? September 14, 1984 1JJLJ.I.J-VFAI- . ? Fraternity de rezoning agri The way housing for Greek-le nities and sororities is handled at newcomers would no doubt agre< Instead of the large, two-story \ "fraternity row" pictured by found on or near most campuse we have the McBryde Quadrangle dormitory. And, of course, some especially those with black memb< housing. The exception to this however, called PiKA House, home to fraternity at 804 Whaley St. Th single-family residential area of somewhat-busy street. That is fraternity faces. Because of its locnfinn. the fr permission from the Columbia Adjustments to continue renting permission may be denied this ] board has responded to complai number of the PiKAs' neighbors The board said it doesn't want I nity brothers evicted in the middle it put them on a probation un the end of the semester. One neighbor said the house's and she could hear loud music co Two others refused comment Mo what their complaints were. Whatever those reasons are, severe if the adjustment board is ing the fraternity out of their fratprnitv whn<;p mpmhprc havr checking on their elderly neighboi them with yardwork ^nd such. There may have been some no the house a few times, the yar< messy at times. Fraternities are kr are those reasons for eviction? Fe renters can truthfully say they've excess noise, or couldn't clean up a party. Could it be that the PiKAs neighbors are victims of stereotyj have found adjustment board r victims of the same fallacies? The city should give the frateri the doubt and renew the permissi stead of putting them on December. The board members sj to evict the fraternity in the midd but if they were really concerned they would be more considerate If the board has begun thinki was made in 1975 when it agree renting the house, they'll have tc too late to back out now. If the f nusiance then, and only then, taken. But three residents' < enough to send a fraternity out i? Gomccoc Editor in Chief David Hill Managing Editor Leslie J. Dun son Copy Desk Chief Ron Brackett Copy Edito News Editor John Deiner Copy Edito Asst. News Editor Ann Farmer Copy Edito Entertain. Editor ' Marisa Porto Copy Edito Asst. Ent. Editor Susan Paine Copy Edito Sports Editor Andrew Miller Copy Edito Asst. Sports Editor Tracy Mixson Photo Editor Mary Ann Hollis General M< Asst. Photo Editor Jennifer Wooten Ad Managf Copy Editor Susan Llewellyn Production Copy Editor Hal Hewell Graduate Copy Editor Lynn Cusick Adviser Newsroom 777 7181 Advertising Business Office 777 3888 Production The Gamecock welcomes letters and guest editorials. / must be typewritten, triple-spaced on a 65 space line Letters should be no longer than 300 words and gues to one newsworthy subject no longer than four type editorials MUST be signed with the writer's name, tel dress, class standing or faculty position and major. Pst but the writer's name may be withheld upon request if We reserve the right to edit guest editorials and le Address letters arid columns to: Opinion Page Editor, Columbia, S.C. 29208. tter social fraterUSC is, as most j^HMHBBNSSH v'ooden houses on MM Hollywood and s like Carolina's, HH : and part of Sims MB ofWCIA9i organizations ? DH FWATT&IIlt ;rships ? have no M lAI is the commonly Pi Kappa Alpha e house sits in a "the house. That year, because the nts from a small ' 9 [o have the frater: of a semester, so til December and yard was a mess, Football ai >ming from there. To the Editor: nday when asked A point should be broug corning amiucies neid or ex they surely are audiences of a football ga, . , . , , know people who take an considering kick- rivalry to the point of being house. This is a ly serious about it. Often, tl been lauded for forget it's just a game. Ar rs and for helping intentional or not, such b displayed by adults affe c observant children who ma ise coming out of imitate their elders. You ma i may have been has a single college student lown for that. But a concern? Well, consider :w homeowners or n,e ui^uvuy. never made a little Al, lhe Carolina-Citade ~ family, including a mothe immediately after boys of fjve years o|d , beside me and my friend. few complaining Dical thinking and * nembers who are IllllJr GQ 5 i ~... uuy inc uciiciu ui 10 trie taitor, on agreement, in- We are writing to expre probation until preciation for all of the ki offers of help that have bee ay they don t want (Q Qur daug?tcr following le of the semester, accident on campus. W< with the students, ticularly grateful to the S of them. ___________ ng that a mistake d to the fraternity live with it ? it's ratermty is Deing a r\ r ? should action be r lOTBSSOr :omplaints aren't in the cold. Q: Are we not men? A: We are Devo. Back in 1978 it was a go ail gimmick that put an er "spudboys" from Ohio c rock map when they named album with this clever quei Devo based its m philosophy on the premi: r Ca!Hamson humans, who have long bee . 'n !ra,l Darwin's evolutionary lac r Laura Dannhardt . . , , r Maria Ferrara arc 8omS oacKwarus now r Crystal Chapman according to Devo, are in r Kip Botts de-evolution, thanks to of color television, microv jnager Ron Emler four-slice toasters and th( jr Doug Trueblood weekend. Manager Mark McEwan Thanks to technology, th assistant Ron Buchanan just aren?t what they u: "?oers argued the brave new Oh 777 4249 their inimitable sarcastic st 777.But a joke is a joke, rigl Apparently not to N< ill letters and guest editorials winning professor Willian i. who steadfastly maintains t editorials should be limited humans who are black ar d pages. Letters and guest an(j undebatably inferior i ephone number, mailing ad department. judonyms are unacceptable, Qn sjckening face ? the circumstances warrant. r?nnonnnf 'thar * m.n or <r, Gamecock. Drawer A, USC, . desi8n such a ludicrous w? ing, but Shockley has take ?J ment one step further. Letters uriinnnnp' ittitiiria of UUIGIIUGO QUIIUUU Ol was probably the first live in-stadium ht up con- game the kids hadeverattended. They pressed by were shouting whatever phrases the ne. We all fans surrounding them were shouting, interest in And I heard their mother explain to ridiculous- them that everytime people clap, it did lese people not mean, necessarily, that a id whether touchdown had been made. This made ehavior as the kids pay attention to the game, and cis young iney startea unaersianaing mat me ty begin to guys in black were trying to stop the iy ask, why guys in blue from scoring and vice raised such versa. the follow- One of the kids shouted, "Why are those guys doing push-ups?" He was 1 game, a pointing, of course, to the Citadel r and two cheerleaders. The mother responded was seated with, "They're demonstrating that This game they're from a military school, 1 supstudent's parents fairs office (Ms. L. Small and :ss our ap- Zawenski), the unknown campi ndness and police officer who assisted at the ac( rn extended dent, Dr. Handy of the chemist her recent department, Mr. Lamb, members < ; are par- ZBT and all of Erica's friends < Itudcnt Af- campus. Intercampus s 'pinheaded' ideas c Shockley, a 74-year-old professor emeritus at Stanford University, hopes od joke. A to prove his case in court. He is trying isemble of to get $2.5 million from the Atlanta >n the pop Constitution, a newspaper he claims their debut libeled him. -y. For Shockley, the time is right for a usic and pitched crusade. Calling his case the se that we Scopes Monkey Trial of the 1980s, :n on top of Shockley hopes to convince the court Ider, really not only that he was libeled, but also . Humans, that his theory of "dysgenics" holds the process water better than his seemingly empty the advent head. vave ovens, Statistically, the numerical e three-day discrepancies between the academic performance of blacks and whites is le old genes often quite high. But those numbers, sed to be, many times gleaned from culturally lioans with biased tests, fail to support anything yle. approaching the basic re-definition of it? the human makeup that Shockley pro)bel Prize- fesses is a genetic fact. i Shockley, Like the Scopes trial of 1925, at mai most* lorneys ior ine prosecution ana trie e genuinely defense are busy lining up their respecn the genes tive specialists and experts on the subject of genetics. alone, it is ience would However, unlike that landmark case ly of think- that inspired the movie Inherit the in his argu- Wind, the question of black inferiority morally cannot be called a question by ^ ^^^K^BES cm Yva/ssjmk mbmkmrsrmbhbb fects children nncc " Tlll>n with Q fl/linn tmina , l,? J/V/UV. IIVII) ?* III! M IMUIJI^ VUKW, ^IIC shrugged, "I really don't know why they are doing push-ups." Right before half-time, the kids were saying, "Someone's hurt down there!" They were punching their mother for more details, "Who is it, one of the bad guys or good guys?" I was shocked at what their squeeky little voices had just said. Here, I was so thankful to have been able to overhear the mom, who in evident dismay, replied, "Now I want you guys to remember, there are no good guys or bad guys down there ? only football players." Kim McNamara Journalism junior thank USC T. USC can be proud of the caring acus tions of its staff, administration and ;i- students. of )n John *and Barbara Semmens Rnskinn Rirlnn N .1 ?? O W. ire condemned anyone short of the late Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Pinheaded ideas like those brought up by Shockley are fine for groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Nobody ever really expected anything approaching rationality from them. But a man of learning? An educated adult? What basic psychological flaws has this man endured to become so * terrifying? A dark, nightmarish spectre of bigotry is descending on Atlanta. There, a man is being given the chance to spout racial rhetoric on a scale not seen since the days when it was i ?l - o - - iasuiuiicioic ncic in me 3oum 10 inaenture a man for life because of the shade of his skin. Society has come a long way in its attitude toward blacks. The battle is hardly over, with blacks still suffering from more than 200 years of heinous discrimination. But to see a man such as Shockley carry the torch of insipid banality is a special crime that has yet to be addressed by the legislative and scientific communities. Independent Florida Alligator University of Florida