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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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University of Florida