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The Gc Jeff Roge Tracy Muson, managing editor Andy Duncan, copy desk chiel Susan Paine, news editor | Yvette Latorre. assistant news editor Tone Cantrell. entertainment editor Gregg lasky. sports editor Joe Ricker, photo editor ; Ray Gronberg. assistant photo editor It's time to breene btre Now that details of othe major campus constructior projects have been workec out, it's time for USC t( make a final effort to per manently close Green* Street. Although no records have been kept telling exactly when USC students first asked the city to close the street, some say the first effort camc in the late 1960s. It was an accomplishment when USC worked with cit> officials about five years age to close the street between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on day* when classes are in session, But another attempt by Student Government to permanently close the streel three years ago failed. it seems strange that th< street is still open. USC was Sometimes brings strai We get a lot of mail in 77i< Gamecock office, but non< stirs the soul quite like a re cent letter from Corneli Hoekema Van dcr Court. Mr. or Mrs. Van dcr Cour is the president, founder am organizer of the Uni-WorI< Government for Peace Freedom, Dignity am n _ii n i ?_ is.cspeci 10 an reopie in mi World, a broadminde< organization based in Chino Calif., long a hotbed of in ternational activity. The letter opens with "Dear Citizen of the World1 salutation. Then it carries th torm letter to extremes wit an opening sentence that ad dresses itself any of th following: "King, Sheikh President, Ambassador Mtnicf Ar AI Pnrpinn Affaire iTiiiu.nvi v/i * vivigu r niuiK Representative to the Unite Nations, Editor-in-Chief of newspaper." We checke "Sheikh" and read on. Mr. or Mrs. Van der Coin una ua mat wc ai among "the 1,000 most irr portant citizens of thi world," we should surel want to participate in th Uni-World government' quest for "a World c Peace." Word 01 "Has the / afgftYr Kj&jfi WKRm&m&m si II no, tney re acting as it because has cancer, he can't fulfill his duties president." Carter C Sociology sophoma imecock rs. editor in chief Ron Emler. general manager Ooug Trueblood. advertising manager Bill Rogers, adviset Newsroom - 777 7181, 7182 Editor s Office - 777 3914 Advertising -- 777 4249 Business Office - 777 3888 Production - 777 2833 close I jet Tor gooa r somehow able to get $2 i million and property from i Columbia as well as $2.75 > million from Richland Coun ty for the new arts center. - And students are probably the only drivers who still use ? Greene Street instead of the , two-lanc Blossom Street. So if a majority of studentsdon't mind, it's time 10 ciose tne street. Student Government has obviously put the project on ' a back burner for three years. A blueprint of a malli like area that includes an am; phitheater in front of Thomas Cooper Library still hangs in the SG office. Some space at both ends of the street could also be con verted into parking lots that would alleviate some of that > problem on our campus. nur mail ww m m ige things p Then, with the inevitability s of an oncoming glacier, comes the request for alms, s Although "any amount of money is welcome," we arc t reminded that "It is for j many of you no problem to j support this worldwide organization financially with I a donation of a million I dollars." ( The letter then asks that we designate a "nonpolitical * person" as our ambassador to the Uni-World Government and as soon as possible a 44stnrf the ncpntiatinns fr>r n ' strategic location." Ape parently the heat is on in h Chino. I- After a massive fundc raising drive that swept the i, length and breadth of our office. we came un iust short of the requested $1 million. To d be exact, $999,999.40 short, a Although our selection of d an ambassador has not yet begun, wc feel safe to predict t that whoever it is will be e expendable. i- As we begin our great is work, wc onlv hone that Mr y or Mrs. Van der Court didn't ie send a similar letter to Presis dent Holderman. This sort of >f thing is right up his global alley. n the stri coverage of mr^y- A "e "No, I think there is too much e as phasis on the issue." Cindy Shei ox Audiology Speech Patholo ire graduate studf Opini Chr^Jli Student dei When President Ronald Reagan spei words find their way into print. When the president says, "Make mj or "Go for it," you'll see it on p^ge on r : * i? !_ .1.. i - ^ r% - i * 1 i- - lor ii is ilie iotcm neagan line, ana nt to promote his new tax package. At i tional convention of Jaycees in India last week, the president implored the to "go for it," and suggested that package will help them go wherever " The president's use of slogans popular culture turns attention fr< substance of issues to the style of his pi tion. When the president quotes Eastwood, it is news, bigger news, i media, than an explanation of the co which it appeared. According to the posters that gre< president in Mooresville last week, "/ is Standing Tall Again," even as t< held Americans captive in Beirut. H of Americans have been killed in the East during the Reagan years. Eac Reagan or other administration assert that "our limits have been ri and the words sound more and more Simnlv nnl "sfandinc tall" is not th< goal for a government. Protecting terests and living cooperatively in ceommunity are antithetical to machc ing. But crowds love macho. Prisoner des To the editor: Greetings. I am presently in prison | a sentence of two to four years for i stolen property. 1 didn't have any kn of it being stolen, yet I have received sentence just the same for having th property. I I am writing to you in hope that 1 n set President Reag; SB fllMmiffliinm im "f\ln r.nupranp nf Qiirh an aunnt ic W. ?? IV? important, but President Reagan was exploited in the process." sly gy Bentley Murrell int MBA graduate student on SSvIRSII x'>N^ Intercai iounces Re jks, his "Go for it," the la slogan tor its tax plan, r r day," to do with the substance < e. "Go has big bandwagon app< ? uses it for it" and "Don't go fo the na- sense, the president's lat napolis argued with. Jaycess his tax The Jaycees loved the it" is. They cheered for it, and i plan that would decrea i from without deereasinc revei jm the busy cheering to ques resenta- mathematics. i Clint n some They cheered when tl ntext in his proposal for a const mandating a balanced b too busy cheering to no ;ted the 1986, the Reagan admin \merica cumulated half of the U :rrorists debt. That's right, fr< undreds January 14, 1980, th? Middle cumulated a debt of abo h time, and at the end of fiscal officials pected to be two trillion cached" and his adherents will hollow. not his fault, but the ; proper president's programs hi vital in- ment revenues and incr a world ) postur- At the same time, the less for its money Lei ires USU si communication with ot serving Mental contact with pt buying advancement can only 1 owledge ment as far as my gener a nrison Thi? cnuimnmpnt ic < e stolen as could be expected. S< request of you to place t dent newspaper or to a nay find way. an's operatio v ipwysBB WBfl "No, I think the press was overreacting to this matter, especially concerning the ability of the administration to handle this." Lizanne Garcia Chemistry senior jhers in. ET1NG! ...Rsmembfe .NewCokW? mpus agan's med itest Administration malnourish las less than nothing has incrcas of the tax plan, but it Reagan adi ;al. Since "Don't go "Strategic r anything" make no which, evei est stance can not be provide lit tinental bal all from cr : "go tor h inemc. they cheered for a tax The crov ise everyone's taxes, quested lin< nues. They were too jng about v tion the president's eradicate w to consider the presid( ie president repeated stituional s; itutional amendment quadrennia udget, and they were president a te that by the end of vision or ? istration will have ac- viating the nited States' national with Congr July 4, 1776 to Presuma e United States ac- be happy ut one trillion dollars, perhaps tl 1986, the debt is ex- President I dollars. I he president Reagan's d say thai the deficit is Ronald fact remains that the purses anc ave decreased govern- generation, eased its outlays. sion, is bu; government is getting . The number of tters :udent corre hers at your school. My eteri rrsons of intellectual blinded ju letter a had environ- alwavs hot al well being, jxtremely depressing, ) I'm reaching out in his letter in your stussist me in any other n been in go h: V ; ' RHunHHBMlVl1 ms ? ; ; \:l ?mi iiiniinw m "No, I think the press is receiving misinformation on the president's state of health." Perry Strafford Political Science senior t i? IN I H^Rl 1 lis .-ait i VI.. w ia imagery cd children in the United States ;ed steadily since 1980 while the ministration pours money into its Defense Initiative," a program i its proponents admit, could only nited protection from intercon listic missies, and rio protection at uise missies. ^ vd roared when the prcsidant ree item veto power, without thinkyhat programs the president might ith it. They were too busy cheering that a linr?-itr?m wnnlrl rhanop :nt from a partner in the conystem of cheeks and balances, to a lly elected dictator, by giving the uthority to cut any program, proippropriation from any bilf, ob- W need for the president to negotiate ess. bly, the president's followers will to "go for it" in Nicaragua, or icy are waiting for Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega to make President ay. Reagan is calling sows' ears silk I selling pipe-dreams. The Pepsi , placated by the language of televi'ing Indiana Daily Student Indiana University ispondence lal appreciation and sincerity. Of a stice and my well being, there is ^e. Timothy Cam 84-C-986 Attica Correctional Facility Attica, N.Y. 14011 f mrl tastp?" w vi ? w * I "Nd. It's good to know the president's health, but the press is going overboard with this metter. " Carolyn Mills BAManagement Science senior