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4 [[f Friday, September 6, 1985 ;
?-THE GAMECOCK
Charge it
A little increase
compute big bu
What next?
Did you take a good look at your bill
during registration?
Tuition went up.
Health center fees went up.
A computer fee showed up.
A library fee appeared from
nowhere.
Food prices went up at campusnffilintpd
oatories.
And if you've done a load of laundry,
you noticed that even the price of
using washing machines went up ? 33
percent.
And most of it has come with no warning,
unless you remember other increases
during recent years, including
the housing cost increases last year.
For what are we paying all this
money?
Tuition: USC did not get full
formula funding irom mc state
Legislature, so the difference had to
come from somewhere. The obvious
source was students.
Health center: The measles immunization
program says it all. Fees
went up about $10, even for students
who don't need to go to the Golden
Spur and get a shot in the arm.
Computer fee: Science and
mathematics majors arc all too familiar
with this surcharge, and it's becoming
an unpleasant companion to the rest of
us. To worsen the matter, OSCAR,
USC's registration system and allaround
gremlin, charged people who
shouldn't have been charged. If you
Int
Meese misses
(Editor's note: Marijuana has been estim
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On the heels of Attorney General Edw
Domestic Cannabis Eradication and Si
Program, it is time to consider a new af
this "problem" ? an approach that maj
become a solution.
Legalize marijuana.
There is an enormous market for the
past year alone, $16.4 billion worth of
was ^produced nationwide, according
from the National Organization for 1
Marijuana Laws. Federal estimates re
billion.
All states are "into the business." Mai
been labeled Indiana's second-biggest
ana it is Kentucky s largest.
An entire industry revolves around
ranging from those who grow and refine I
those who sell and ship it. It is a tax-fr
with a large array of buyers and industry
to eradicate.
While the recent federal crackdown i
: 121-1
intrcuiuic aiiiuum ui puumuy auu mci
number of plants, Kevin Zccse, pr
NORML, estimates it eradicated, at mosi
fourth of the nation's total marijuana c
Only one-fourth. The rest is still growi
and uncontrolled by any health ager
plants will be on the street within a
months.
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restrictions could be set on the product,
quality and protecting its buying public
Today, an underage person can acqui
of marijuana more easily than he can at
pack. With the product legal, the fear ol
being "in our grade schools" would b
I almost completely, as age requirement
readily imposed and enforced.
It would he a legal product and therel
I to quality controls and age restrictions,
sale to a more confined market.
As it stands today, marijuana is use
people between the ages of 25 and
i here, a small ne1
cks for overtaxed
have a fee listed for a history, Engli
or other class not computer-oricnte
check it out and get your refund.
Library: When USC's state mon
was cut three years ago by the stc
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ixgmuiuiv., llll iii'iciijt (tiovs ouiivi vv
cut. Also, the Summmit Fund goal f
the library fell short. But this
specifically the kind of cost tuiti
ought to cover. It is frustrating to p
$2 per hour for an athletic course,
ternship or studio art class, in which
trips to the library may be needed.
Food priccs: With the econoi
emerging from a depression a
freshmen required to purchase a m
plan, why does Saga need to raise prii
that are already near off-campus leve
Surely Saga's profits will incre;
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ded eating places in the Carolina Mj
Laundry: This one's a puzzler,
dorms wc polled had noticed new
even improved washing machines
dryers, and campus equipment ofi
takes two or three cycles to be effecti
For these seemingly illogical
creases, however, there is an obvi<
explanation.
Thn nn!\/prcit\; ic roicino tuition m
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higher than it has admitted, and fees
any other name still pay the same bi
Considering the influx of B-or-bel
students into Carolina, the prescntat
of all these surcharges instead ol
higher tuition increase to cover th
seems a bit silly. Students
reasonably intelligent; we know wl
torcamoos
; with 'solutic
ated to be minimum-age laws, such
alcohol, identification cou
- t i i i i
in ivieesc s cnasc, anu saics couiu uc r
appression and the like. No one checks
)proach to nickel bag on the street.
\ actually, Consider the market fo
product, as opposed to <
dustry's growth would ere;
plant. The high-quality product. This
marijuana push for a more refined p
to figures shoddy merchandise from
leform of People would come to <
ached $52 and quality would be enfo
as the Food and Drug Ad
rijuana has groups such as the B<
cash crop, Cultivators and sellers c
would be eradicated,
marijuana, Health factors also mi
he plant to debate. If the industry is
ee industry regulations could be imp(
impossible product is offered to the
pot" would be eliminated
eceivcd an higher-grade, safer produc
ted a large The level of THC ? t<
esident of ingredient that makes peo
t, only one- and limited, unlike today
ache. Marijuana, like cigarettes,
ng, tax-free a form of king cancer. Bi
icy. Those cancerous as an unfiltered
matter of Another benefit of inari
prospect of its eventual
dards and tifiablc industry has form
foncnrino itQ hp suhiect to a "sin tax."
That is not to mention tl
re an ounce taxes that would be collec
:quire a six- Perhaps it is time to ac
F marijuana token "eradication" el
c abolished motivated by politics moi
s would be Perhaps it is time the feder
Meese turned their attentit
ore subject juana, creating a system t
limiting its more effectively control a
d most by
35. With
in fee there
students
sh we're getting the runaround.
d, If the university needs money for the
library, fine. Students shouldn't mind
pv needed increases, and the library can
ite always use another book or magazine
1 a subscription. But the university should
or charge fairly. It shouldn't force a
is karate student to pay $2. The library's
on not where you practice karate,
ay And if the university is going to
in- charge more for laundry facilities, it
no should improve those facilities first.
Unfortunately, it's too late to change
checks that have already been written.
ny Students do have an outlet to protest
nd what they consider unfair charges,
cal though.
ces If you had to pay a computer fee,
Is? keep track of how much time you used,
ase If you didn't use $20 worth, let the
ja- university ui muuciu mcuia muw.
ill. If you can find cheaper laundry
No facilities, or better ones at the same
or price, don't use the university's
or machines, and let your friends know
ten about the place you've found,
ve. If Saga's prices are too high for what
in- you get, eat off-campus or in your
3us room when you can. Freshmen are
stuck with their meal plan, but many
/cn students can avoid the cafeterias,
by If nothing else, write The Gamecock.
lis. Call your Student Government presitter
dent, Kelvin Stroble, at 7-2654. Call the
ion president's office at 7-3101. Call Saga
f a food services at 7-4161. And don't
em forget to let the state Legislature know
are how their denial of USC's full-formula
lien funding request affected you.
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your ID when you buy a amount of public sci
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ate a highly marketable, marks all over it, <
industry, along with the leather jumpsuit with
roduct, would eliminate ears and a long tail,
the market. But just for argi
expect a better product, assume you're Thi
rceable by such agencies
ministration and private ^
:tter Business Bureau. 1
?f low-grade marijuana
jst play a part in this Problems? C
brought aboveground, back.
jsed before the finished If you have an
public. Nearly all "bad it. The Gamecoi
from the streets, and a letters to the e
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taxation, once an idenled.
The substance could
like tobacco and alcohol.
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knowledge the futility of
fforts, which may be
re than by anything else.
al government and Edwin
>n toward legalizing marihrough
which they could
nd regulate it.
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and watilevision.
wearing your usual foolish outfit,
the mood, and you've just come upon Bateme
under man and Robin sneaking around
you are your hideout. A fight ensues.
in which Now hold up those cards of
>p of your yours, making various grunting
0 draw up and smashing noises.
ith 'Zap!', The fight is over, and Batman
' on them. and Robin, put at a disadvantage
ring on the by the hideout floor's 30-degree
1 found the slope, are at your mercy. What
memorable do you do?
in." They If your answer was, 44Pump a
il geniuses few pounds of lead into ' eir
otham City trusty Bat-brains and dump mem
for the in- into the nearest Bat-sewer," you
amic Duo. are wrong.
uys had lit- What you really do, you stupid
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ne criminal boiling tea, tell them every detail
ed to carry of your master plan so that they
ti the least might more efficiently foil it
rutiny, how later, and then politely leave so
that they are free to escape.
Idn't wear a Villains always chose their hentie
question chmeii using only one criterion:
)r a black- That the assistants be more igpointed
cat norant than they. How many
times did The Joker veil. "Get
iment, let's 'em, boys," after which the hene
Penguin, chmen would start whacking
lo thg editor
omplaints? A pat on the Letters shoi
writer is a sti
opinion, USC wants to hear member of the
:k invites its readers to send All letters i
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think.
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ter's name and a telephone Drawer A, Ri
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Sights
ome painting, planting
righten up university 9
Returning from the dust
>wls of the Midwest or the
irking lots of the Northeast,
>u have to appreciate the
>ol green grasses, bushes and
ees added to the USC cam
js during tne summer. i
Even the library pond has
>me new additions. The duck
imily grew, as did the little
nes, who are now large
lough to appreciate an occaonal
french fry. ^
Paint covered a few years of
rime on many buildings, inluding
dormitory rooms and
>unges, as well as Russell
louse.
And, at last, students can
?? "? . _ iU?
ina me way ? iu mc
Carolina Mall in Russell
louse basement, thanks to the
ttractive garnet and black
igns posted inside and outside
he student union. i
We appreciate the effort to ^
>eautify the USC campus. It's
>ften hard to compete with the
preading acreages of collegeown
campuses when you're
ocated downtown in the state
capital.
It all looks nice, but forgive
js for hoping it won't mean a
'grounds improvement fee"
3n January's bill. 0
Crusaders!
w
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flndy
Duncan
away at the Caped Crusaders, only
to inevitably get their guts
kicked in. How many times
u - a A..?u
wouiu yuu willingly cuuuic ?utu
pain and humiliation for some ^
pasty-faced clown who looks like
Cesar Romero in the last stages
of some rare tropical disease?
Now the crooks may not have
been the last word in intellect, but
they were the crew of the
Manhattan Project compared to
Gotham City's finest.
We assume that Commissioner
Gordon and Chief O'Hara took
some sort of civil-service exam to
enter the field of law enforce
ment, but the TV record gives no ^
indication of it. Why couldn't fP
they trace the Batphone, or put a
tail on the Batmobile, or hire a
few extra guards over at the local
pen to avert the regular
Thursdav-morninn breakout of
Special Guest Villains?
And that reminds me of
another thing . . .
Holy printer's ink! Is this the
end of Andy's column? His
career? His rope? Tune in Monday,
same Bat-time, same Batnewspaper.
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