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THE GAMECOCK Opinion 1 February 8, 1985 ? Page 7
Pay raise
U.S. government needs
new accounting system
Beginning Jan. 1, 1985, members of Congress and
men tmpiuytc^ ictcivcu a j.j pcrcciu pay raise,
a while a proposed pay cut for federal blue-collar
workers is on hold until next year.
Some federal workers who have been asked to give
up a 5 percent pay raise next year are already living in
conditions well below the poverty level.
Although Congress didn't approve the raise, they
didn't veto it either. The President's recommendation
for a 3.5 percent pay increase became automatic
when Congress adjourned for the new year.
Congressmen must have thought their salaries just
weren't enough. After all, not many people can
scrape by on annual salaries of $75,00().
Q U.S. senators and congressmen (not to mention the
President) have forgotten how to live with moderation
on a well-budgeted income. The nation's trillion
dollar deficit proves the point.
Members of Congress, their staff employees,
white-collar federal employees. Cabinet members,
the White House staff and our nation's vice president
all received the same raise Reagan proposed last
August.
Reagan is doing an excellent job of managing the
administration's budget policies. After all, the
federal government's blue collar workers know how |
^ to "rough it."
The President has spent too much time denying, as
well as aggravating, the budget problem. He only
persists in taking money from one sector of the
government and putting it into another. This manner
of accounting doesn't speak well of the nation's
financial advisorsThe
nation's citizens must not allow President and
Congress to take so large a portion of the national
economy to the detriment of the majority of federal
workers.
| Marisa Porto, wire / opinion editor
University concern for |
[ wjffy Alex Johnson
I guest columnist
Educators often delude themselves into believing that the>
are important social philosophers, forgetting for the moment
their prime mission of education, which is certainly important
enough in itself. We have one of these Delphic pseudo-oracle?
where I come from.
His name is Fred Davison, and he is president of the Univer
sity of Georgia, where I was an undergraduate. Davison en
joys believing he is more prominent than he really is.
Davison, flush from recent consideration to be secretary o
education, decided to expound upon the ills that have bese
collcgiate athletics during the past decade. Writing in a protni
nent education journal last month, Davison laid the problem;
of cheating and recruiting violations of athletes at the feet o
high schools, claiming that "professionalization" of higl
school sports has caused scandals among major colleges.
DAVISON HAS been whistled for a flagrant personal fou
and ought to be sent to the bench for that outrageous cop-out
It helps to remember the checkered history of the athletu
i department at the University of Georgia, despite that fact tha
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To the editor:
I agree fully with Leslie Dunson's
editorial on the abortion clinic bombings
(Jan. 23), but an important point
is being missed in this whole debate.
What has happened to the separation
of church and state, as guaranteed
in the First Ammendment to the Constitution?
Since when are the laws in
this country dictated by God and
Christian theology?
Whether God condones bombings is
irrelevant. Whether God approves ol
safe, legal abortions is irrelevant. The
Pro-lifers who arc implementing bomirofits
ignores a
the athlctic director, Vincc Dooley, wa
the NCAA's ethics committee and is
respected members of the coaching co
A former professor, who was fired
blem, has sued the University of Geor
its remedial studies program, revei
athletes on the 1980 national champi
allowed to stay in the program long al
and were then declared eligible after
requirements.
The football team was slapped with |
ment of a star fullback ? now at Cle
scholarships.
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' Florida State to two years' probation
[ investigation for 27 possible violation
t in the recruitment of the team's leadii
? During two decades, fewer than 40
of the football and basketball teams \
The stories of former glorified Build
or write or find jobs are tragic. Anyon
interview on national television witl
f player after the team went to the Fir
t knows this. When this supposed senio
enough courses to play but could bare
s and verbs, tried to express himself, th
f was obvious. He is by no means an e
i To believe Davison, these problems
schools.
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bings and psychological attacks on
clinic patients arc horrifying in their
Gestapo-like tactics. They are also
breaking the law. Clinic patients are
not.
The abortion issue was decided in
Roe vs. Wade, when intelligent, sensitive,
farsighted justices realized the
importance of freedom of choice and
the horror of millions of unwanted,
neglected children.
If the day comes when the alleged
Moral Majority and the violent, crude,
: myopic Pro-lifers change the Roc vs.
Wade decision, that will be the day
thletes' illiteracy
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failing that program's big or strong or fast
arms of the good old
probation in the recruit- It is a national sh
mson ? and lost three destroyed the acader
universities. And t>
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hed by a man who led for the lure of ABC
a decade ago, is under It would be too
s of NCAA regulations legitimately. The no
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reader says
democracy and this country's foundations
will crumble.
If you oppose abortion, do
something constructive. Adopt a child.
Offer to help an unwed mother who'
has excercised her choice to keep her
child. But keep your violent, twisted
sense of morality off my body and the
bodies of American women who
believe in planned, loved, well-caredfor
children.
Heidi Mohn
Journalism senior
problems
y of Georgia who is on probation, not
>1.
$f Georgia who allows illiterates to play,
gh School, whose athletes must meet
ards before they can suit up.
sn't high school professionalization. It's
avarice, expressed through the exploitaided
into believing that, because they are
, all their troubles will disappear in the
I alma mater.
iame that the glorification of sport has
nir* mic^inn in niir n:itinn\ m?k<
'pical of most college administrators,
to abdicate his professional obligations
s, CBS's and NBC's cash.
much trouble try to fund the schools
stalgia of old grads is instead massaged
of Herschel Walker, Doug Flutie and
e only people who benefit are the funtor
k executives.
icy, responsibility and especially the
, themselves should be so lucky.
te student in the College of Humanities
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