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I Whose affairs?
I
' University Inn shouli
"This project says a lot for Student Affairs.
We are thinking for the best for student
organizations," said Jerry Brewer, director of
student activities.
He wasn't talking about the Carolina Mall.
; He wasn't talking about rc-opening the
Golden Spur. He wasn't talking about a new
parking garage.
He wasn't even talking about 93 percent of
the students on this campus.
| Brewer was talking about the decision to
give space in University Inn to greek organiza|
tions. Fraternities and sororities will have two
| rooms each in the former dormitory to use as
| a "living room" and "lounge."
j We agree, this project does say a great de
for Student Affairs. Namely, that the division
of our affairs forgets about most of us toe
| much of the time.
And don't blame the greeks. Given the
same opportunity. anv other student Rro?jr
I would have seized the chance to have a roosr
to call its own, somewhere to store its "ritua
i equipment."
Granted, fraternities and sororities hav<
close ties with student affairs. The offices o
the greek advisor, Panhellenic Associatioi
and Inter-Fraternity Council are a floor unde
the offices of Brewer and other Student Af
| fairs officials.
| But, just as this proximity doesn't mean th
greeks have demanded special attention, i
doesn't mean Student Affairs should be so ab
sorbed by greek students.
Fraternities have lounges in their houses o
McBryde Quad. Sororities have lounges o
I the Women's Quad. Maybe these room
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enough, but they are more than other studer
groups have, and the decision to provide mor
space to greeks rather than offer any space t
non-greek student organizations was po(
Women's Quad co
The Women's Quad is almost finished, at least
that's what everyone says when they walk through
it.
Not that I'm knocking the quad, but I hope I am
still c USC student when it is completed.
The pleasantries of the Women's Quad are many
They include the miles of mud, unfinished brick
walks and an unneccesary fence that surrounds th<
area. ^
^ .
Marisa Porto
Opinion / W/'re editor
I'VE BEEN attending school here for two year
: now, and the Women's Quad has gradually tran
; sgressed from bad to worse.
I'm sure the construction workers, who hav
spent hours lounging around and eating sane
wiches, will forever be my friends, but the Women1
Quad should have been completed by now.
After all, President Ronald Reagan has been iiei
, twice. The campus was spruced up for him, and h
i doesn't even pay USC tuition.
I KNOW USC'S workers are doing their best t
; reconstruct the Quad. But it's annoying to look 01
: your window and find sand dunes three feet high i
your front yard.
The renovation process on campus, particular!
on the Quad, is just slower than expected. Even t\
squirrels that inhabited this section of campus hn\
fled to greener pastures.
Maybe it's part of the university's plan to g
students in shape by allowing them the privilege <
: walking, running or trudging (depending c
weather conditions) through the obstacle cour
otherwise known as the Women's Quad.
Student Senate hind
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\\ To.the Editor: represent.
At the beginning of the Spring run for a s(
j semester, the Election Commission lege, the pi
j drafted a bill. This bill would tation is sc
j. reform the election process by having seat
j making the elections more pie who wi
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Ij llgllimaic mill tusuy, wuiit ?1 Uiv stai wuuiu
same time, giving new life and tensively c
j direction to Student Government, who run f<
; The proposed bill to reform pro- sincerely v
j cess of elections terminated constituent
: residence seats and stipulated that nuine inter
i a person could only run for a seat ment and
i: in the college which he is enrolled, Howevei
j: whether an on-campus or off- reaching. ?
j. campus student. Many times a per- tial halls d
son living in a residence hall runs Senate, th
for his dorm seat, then moves to through th
j: another dorm the next semester, tion which
: As a result, he no longer represents fact will i
the people he originally ran to governnr
i go to all, not some
judgement. (Note that a non-greek student
organization may have ereek members. The
reverse is not true.)
Student Affairs may have thought nongreek
student groups would be unwilling to
pay the $43.75 a month rent on the University
Inn rooms. That assumption may ? or may
not ? be correct. Student Affairs apparently
didn't ask.
Other than fraternities and sororities, USC
boasts 220 active student organizations.
These organizations own property. They
have traditions as important as the rituals of
greek, groups.
What they don't have are houses, or halls or
: lounges. Their members take turns cluttering
i their dorm rooms with papers and records.
With scrapbooks, skis, tape recorders and
plaques.
; With mailing lists, musical instruments,
) mallets and banners.
1 The Gamecock has lots of those kinds of
1 papers; luckily, we also have an office. The
same goes for Student Government, Carolina
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: urogram union ana ArKU.
f That this editorial is connected with a stul
dent group that has a room doesn't change
r what's wrong or right.
What's wrong is that University Inn is going
to a privileged few.
e What's right is to benefit the most students
t possible. That means opening University Inn
i- to all student groups willing to pay the rent,
even if it means each group only gets half a
n room rather than two.
n Brewer said the university would earn no
is profit from the plan except increased student
g respect. That respect would come from a
it minority of USC students, and thus would be
e little profit.
? John Deiner, managing editor,
5i* and Ann Farmer, copy desk chief
instruction annoying
I'm not sure it's working though. All it does f
i me is make my shoes stick in the mud when it rail
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i it never seemed the Quad needed so much revam
ing. At least not to me. I sort of liked it better wh
the grass was green. But then, I've always had
; preference for green grass over brown dirt.
^ ANOTHER PROBI^M with the Quad is tl
^ once something is finiWed, it's closed off. Tl
simply makes no sense. I'd rather be able to use
? new side walk than m<? my way through muc
water to my next class.
The Women's Quad was never a rival for
USC Horseshoe, but at least last year, we 1
foliage. Now it is filled with so many sidewalks
looks more like a place to park cars than play b
The only indication that construction will fir
soon is the movement of large quantities of bri
from one side of the Quad to another.
Maybe the shortage of campus parking co
have been solved by using this area in a m
creative way. At least then we would have the pi
sant view of our cars in front of the dorms inst
of sand dunes.
IN THE recent weeks of construction,
s Women's Quad also seems to have becomc the c;
i- pus dumping ground. Walk on it any day of
week, and you'll find enough litter to make Woo
e the Owl gag.
Is
Perhaps this "sprucing up" of our front yar
another effort to spend more money on the par
e USC administrators. If so, I'd say they got
ie worst end of this deal because not only is the Q
unfinished, but it looks twice as bad as when <
struction began.
o All things considered, particularly the weat
it the Quad only has more fun in store in the next
n weeks. Winter offers us the pleasant slosh of thi
fernal rain and of course, the lovely stains of i
|y upon our shoes. And if the Quad is still incomi
ie by spring, we have one consoling thought ? tl
/e brick heaps will make some great picnic tables
et The construction is not only annoying to the c
if nus. it's an evesore. If the Quad construction i
>n effort to beautify this campus, then we're in
se trouble. The only thing beautiful about this pr<
is that we all know it can't go on forever ? car
Letters
ers election process, cc
By only being able to themselves into a more coh<
:at representing his col- an^ independed organiza
roblem of misrepresen- Thus, if someone has an ide
>lved. Furthermore, by complaint, he can easily go ti
s by college only, peo- hall advisor (which everyone
sh to run for a Senate an^ discuss the matter with
have to get out arid ex- Then the hall advisor will di:
ampaign. Thus people the matter with his dorm go1
3r a Senate seat would ment. If the dorm governme
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s and truly show a ge- hand, it can then send its Res
est about their govern- Hall Association representati
university. the senate with the concern.
, the bill is far more It is unfortunate that a hai
iven though the residen- of naive and short-sighted sen
on't have a seat on the had to close the door on
ey are still represented horizon which would have
e Resident Hall Associa- brought about if the Senate
will have one seat. This passed the bill drafted by the
ncline the resident hall tion Commission. Instead,
tents to organize passed another bill that kep
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Abortion is inhun
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Four years ago I was appointed Inside the clir
Campus Minister at USC by the preborn childrei
Presbyterian Church in America. apart by suction
During that time several things machines about
have appeared in The Gamecock powerful than
or that have tempted me to write but I vacuum cleaner
ls- have refrained because of my con- curettes and bur
mt viction that it is a student by saline inje<
lP* newspaper and input should clinics and ho:
cu generally come trom students, in
' a light of the recent biased reporting [
of the abotion issue, however, I i ^ _
have decided to write. | tiSfiLS
^am, after all, part of the. USC I
Jdy ai^vcrsay of Roc vs. Wade, morq?| H
than 300 people, many of them
the USC students, marched from the ^^^^ SHasSyi
iad Russell House to the State House abortion result
it to protest the current abortion babies are bein;
all. policy in this country. or suffocated. 1
lish
cks When The Gamecock appeared It seems that
the next day many of us involved more than 15 m
u ^ opened it to see what The time for Ameri
?^e Gamecock would do with the position on
" story. We expected some type of America recon:
ead coverage because college on the personh
newspapers have historically the Dred Scott
covered protest marches. What we
*"e found was an editorial about abor- NEW STUE
tion clinic bombings. Why was clearly show th
* e there no coverage? The abortion (perhaps all) o!
^ protest for the past several years excruciating pi
has been by far the largest protest >ng aborted. P
. . march in the state; why did The surviving outsii
ls Gamecock give no coverage at all?
? thought impos
* ? THE GAMECOCK continued as young as tv
u its one-sided coverage of the issue of particular i
-on" by publishing the cartoon of the viability was t
man seeking to kill an abortionist. the judges' d
er' By treating the subject in this Wade.
?w cavalier fashion The Gamecock
sin" really ignores the issue of abortion. Those who
r"ua abortion does
5'ete but merely "a
hose The vast majority of those in the not explain wh
pro-life movement have clearly legs and head
condemned the bombings. They "fetal tissue"
:am- are wrong and must stop. At the abortion. Mar
s an same time as the media focuses at- the editorial I
big tention on the bombings it ignores agrees) say thj
?ject the real violence associated with duce pictures
i it? the abortion clinics. Why is this?
immission says
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tion. races in existence. As it now ?* ?<?
;a or stands, on-campus students can cmmdJ
0 his run only for residence hall seats A*nn f
has) while college seats are filled solely N?wi
him. by off-campus students. This ron bi
scuss allows for 18 on-campus senators
vern- and 37 off-campus. In the past,
nt ic manv off-camDus seats have been i?Ah?? n
,r at left vacant in the Spring elections Sporta
ident which causes questions as to why Tf#cv
ve to the number was increased. This bill
was written by a small percentage wir?/o?pi?
ndful ?f the senators in one day as an Maris
ators alternative to the Election Com- Ph?te
thjs mmission bill which was carefully Jo,,,)h
been constructed over several weeks.
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Flee- Elxtion Commission
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iane, minister says
lies the bodies of The media has shown us pictures
n are being torn to the horror of the Nazi
machines (suction Holocaust. We have seen the horri15
times more ble pictures of the people starving
your household in Africa. All of this has been done
), cut apart by to remind us of the reality of these
ned and poisoned situations. Why is it wrong to pro:tions.
In many duce pictures of this new
spitais wnere an holocaust?
?t I I children we can kee^he debate on
question and it is not a brick and
s in a live birth mortar that has been blown apart
g starved to death with no loss of life but rather the
rhat is violence. bodies of innocent children that
have been torn apart by the men
after 12 years and and women who operate the aborillion
abortions it is tion clinics.
ca to reconsider its
abortion just as IT SEEMS to me that anyone
sidered its position with a desire to do what is just and
ood of slaves after moral is forced to re-examine his
decision. or her position on abortion as the
scientific evidence more and more
HES on fetal pain shows tus that we are taking away a
at the vast majority life in abortion. Those who are so
f abortions produce loudly pro-abortion (not prolin
on the child be- choice but pro-abortion; if they
remature babies are were pro-choice why would they
de the womb at ages object to women being required to
view pictures of aborted fetuses
sible in 1973, some prior to an abortion) must drop
/enty weeks. This is their denial that another life is inimportance
because volved and face up to the fact that
he major factor in abortion is the taking of a life,
ecision in Roe vs.
Then we must reconsider our
have told us that laws that say a woman has the connot
involve a baby stitutional right to take the life of
mass of tissue" can- her child. It is time to sit down and
iy there are arms and talk and restore the right of life to
ts and torsos in the everyone in the United States,
discarded after an especially those little ones we canly
(and it seems from not see and who cannot speak but
that The Gamecock who want to live.
it it is wrong to proof
aborted children. ^ee Ferguson
USC Campus Minister
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