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Viewpoint THEJGAMECOCK, Monday, September 16, 1985 B 5 ? THE GAMECOCK Hey, CPU Caribbean | In an attempt to provide USC w ter programming, Carolina P Union may give uf> a long campu ?uA AH M:?.. uv/ii ? uic /vii-i^iiici . This editorial is the first evei movement we hope other < organizations and individuals wi the Save the All-Niter Crusade. While CPU ought to be commer its desire to upgrade cultural and e: ricular activites at Carolina, we f< progress may, indeed, be a step b Because although we uninterested in the Caribbean < Festival events proposed to rep ? All-Niter this year, we are much i terested in the Exotic Banana-Eati test, "Eating Raoul," the street < front of Russell House, breakf; a.m. and the early-morning trip beach. Every college and university h * 'Siiruival' %f Ml ? V Ml 1 only a game To the editor: "Bang! Bang! I got you!" This is a familiar phrase I remember from my childhood days. I would bet that many men and even some women remember that phrase also. Maybe seeing an old friend 0 and reminiscing about the days of "taa" and "caDture the flae" br ing that childish attitude back to mind. Last fall I had a chance to relive some of those old memories. I played the National Survival Game with my brother and a group of childhood friends. I played it this past summer a!nd even this past Saturday. ^ ,, Who am 1? I'm an averagew 20-year-old male who goes U> coWi Q lege and church, works and vaca innc iifit ti mtr familu T am PAr_ iivsua Trim aiij laiiiu/i * am vvi tainly not a person: 44 ?. . who believes that society is about to be destroyed by violence prompted by economic, racial, religious, political or military conflict." I am also a person who had a good time playing the Survival Game and meeting people like myself. \xrun* r.om.t it ^ tw uai 19 nit ouivivai vjaniti it is a game, nothing more, nothing less. Throughout my previous experiences playing the game I did not kill anyone. In fact, I never killed anyone and never would even think of such an act. What I did do, though, was tag a number of people and get tagged myself. The game is not played with real guns. Actually the guns were originally used to mark cattle. ^ Would it be better if we threw the 9 paint balls at each other like snowballs? The National Survival Game and others like it are an extension of childhood games like "tag" and "capture the flag." There is nnthino mnrallv wrnno with this game. Robert L. Painter Business junior Food Lion not Belgian-owned To the editor: This letter is in response to the story on union pickets at the local Food Lion stores. As an employee of this company, I am appalled that The Gamecock could present as truths the numerous ^legations that this union^made without first making some sort of effort to even find out if they were, in fact, true. The allegations are, in fact, very false and misleading. Food Lion is not foreign owned. The Telephone systems, asbet smoking, Pete Rose's recorc the All-Niter, apartheid, < campus parking, U2, Lai Days. What do you think about1 If you have an opinion share with the Carolina com letter to The Gamecock. Letters must be yped, doul ' # include the writer's name I plan OK, but ith bet- kind of unique festn rogram Lisa Birnbach claims s tradi- is Cockfest during ho true Gamecocks knoi it in a Burn can compete ^ :ampus festival, the All-Nitei ill join: CPU President T< terest in the All-Nite ided for recent years, but la! xtracur- Russell House Patio :ar sucn ciosea ureene streei ack. students for most of aren't In fact, last year Cultural least as well as a lace the memory. nore in- Last spring, CF ng Con- Bizarre to Spring Fli iance in the All-Niter may be ast at 2 But too many sch ) to the and spring flings, Carolina to becon as some university with a only foreign involvedment in the company is that 44.8 percent of the company's stock is owned by one Belgian company. The remaining 55 percent is owned by Americans. The foreign investment, not ownership, was used to open hundreds of stores and create thousands of jobs through North and South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. Food Lion employs 16,000 people, and they are all U.S. citizens. There are no Belgian managers or officers. The only money that the Belgian shareholder receives is the dividends on their stock, just like ? k . 1 A AAA A _ ? , : ? ? ? i ii w i t , v v v ri 111 v i i v a 11 shareholders. There are no ''Belgian workers" and Food Lion does not "ship profits back to Belgium." This is nothing but a pack of lies designed by this union to -divert custoraws-from one ^non-unionized store to a higher priced unionized store. If the United Food and Commercial Workers Union wants to make a point, they should first get their priorities in order. Mainlv th#?v chonlH ?tirlr tr? fhp truth and not create unsupported lies just so they can waste the worker's money picketing stores. It is obvious that the union is angered becasue one chain of stores refuses to relent to these union tactics to increase their membership and will not give in to unionization and higher prices. Brt?4? Price AcdMNlfiM nagifir nvvwniini iii'jwi Do Whites have any morality? To the editor: A Tale of Two Lands: Once upon a time two groups of Whites sailed from the same .general homeland area in search of richer homelands. One group sailed west and found a wide, rich land roamed by tribes of Reds, who had not thought to register lau/fiillt/ thmr Au/ni>r?hin rtf fhp imttiuiij v v* atva v? v??v land. Taking lawful advantage of the Reds' legal oversight, the King of the Whites assumed title to the Jand and gave it to the Whites, who (1) killed off the Reds, (2) got rid of the King and (3) prospered. The other White group sailed am/I f/min/4 n ??/>!> lrtn/1 3V/uu1 anu iuuiiu a i iwu lauu .roamed by tribes of Blacks. They took the land from the Blacks ? and in doing so killed some of the Blacks, but not almost all of them as the other Whites did with the Reds. In creating a rich and civilized country, they tried tc Ill/A U/itk Ul onbc inctAO /I r\i 1IVV null HIV JLFlAV'fta IIIOIVAU U1 just killing them. In later generations the Blacks, stos, football, number wh< i-breaking hit, verification, irinking ages, Letters si ke Wobegone writer is a st of the comr AH letter r euiung. f\ j you'd like to names will r munity, send a exception. I Send yo )le-spaced, and Gamecock, and telephone umbia, S.C we want our /a\ or event. Author team. USC's biggest event Also, even mecoming week, but only chance ti a! a a. 't! --?*? n inai noi even i iger wun an cveni vith our unique fall magnitude, C r. the 'C' stands >ne Cantreil said in- asking CPU t r has been lagging in only to keep ( it year, at least, the The best arj and Bailroom and a Niter, howeve : stayed packed with is not. the night. It is not ba; *s All-Niter went at It is based < ny other In recent And to us, II chanced *snrino (Nnto' If v ? O "f?O 1* tv*v* V / ing, and word is that ing the All-Ni rcome Fall Fling. a freshman > ools already have fall uniquely CV.J and we don't want President Toi le like every other tell him how top-ranked football The Gameco< feeling they were now capable of running the modern nation created on their land by the Whites, asked for the return of their land ? with all modern im provemcms. now: ii me iviajority of Man were Moral, which group of Whites would be in that Majority? ? if either. Iamaa GaHitniaii ll?m9? wwnwWiy Sftciftl studies Library unfair to non-smokers To the editor: I would like to suggest that Thomas Cooper Library develop a smoking policy which would treat all students and staff equally. At present there are various areas and resources which nonsmokers are restricted from using if Ihey do not wish to bne subjected to the unpleasant and harmful effects of smoking. They are: 1. Restrooms on all levels; a i- t i i a! i'J z. aiacK icvci lounges, incir M phones and seating areas; 1 3. The newspaper room and its reading materials. If it is necessary to accomodate ai a minority of the population (and R this issue is debatable) who have w a dirty, unhealthy habit which is also dangerous to the majority, it s< seems to me that noe lounge, with p its restooms and phones, would si ciiffi/<i*nt PurrAnt liKrarv 1% uv ijui iiviviivi vuuvni ui/iut j y policy leaves a non-smoker no smoke-free use of these areas. Non-smokers deserve equal access. n Weymowd J. Floyd c PdhNc bcdMi I fumm Am* i/tn H 9TBMIU IM88RI ^ Prisoner in N.Y. \ seeking pen pals 1 To the editor: e 1 am a prisoner incarcerated in \ a New York state prison. I am seeking to correspond and s become friends with anyone c wishing to befriend this stranger. i I want to see the world outside t these walls, through your eyes. j Some of my interests are: I \ play guitar, write poetry and do a \ lot of academic reading. (I am a -t walking encyclopedia, I am!) I am also verv active in all sDorts. . all year. I also have a very good j sense of humor, which you need ] in prison to keep your head < straight. , If you enclose a photo of yourself with your letter, I'll reciprocate with same. I hope to i hear from some of you folks, and I soon! f 72-C-U4 m 141, Attica C.F. J Mto. BY 14011 , ire the writer can be reached for lould also include whether the udent, staff member or member nunity. s are printed and subject to 150-maximum is suggested, and lot be withheld except by special otters cannot be returned, ur opinion to: Editor, The Drawer A, Russell House, Col- , . 29225. All-Niter though this may be CPU's d run programs concurrent of the Caribbean festival's PU should remember what for ? Carolina. We are not o drop its Caribbean plans, *nr traHitirmal All_KIit??r gument for keeping the Allr, is the definition of what it sed on the Caribbean, an Carolina. Carolina means a lot more. ou're also interested in savter, even though you may be vho hasn't experienced this rolina tradition, call CPU ne Cantrell at 777-7130 and you feel, or write a letter to :k at the address below.) I UAyiMMtrtaKw ! 1 lould a mi I don't like the photograph of i top this column, but that's not t JCker, wno snapped it. us tne mj ork with. Almost every photo ever taken c xnething the coroner would use f< urposes ? although in this case he hake his head sadly, flip the rainack into place and tell the ne Guess we'll have to check dental oor bugger. Not much else to go I readily admit that autograph ustake me tor Robert Keatora, an ast in a different mold from that o )avid. I would like to think, he aoks don't cause small children to ingry villagers to storm my house md torches. But that's just what licate, and they seem to get worse >y. I know how Dorian Gray rnusi If someone who looked like my \ d into your neighborhood, prope lit ground water inside a week. But it wasn't always this way. I ihort notice produces dozens of I :ute and adorable that they must b leighbor infant whom my parent he photo session. Or maybe they b picture frames with the face of i Dambino already fastened there, t :aken with it that they hadn't the h( i photo of me. * f U I a! i. _ _ ii my ioiks arc ngni, anu mai ai me, no traces of him remain by I photos taken when I was in sixth < Here I resemble something like with ears, slathered with a head of major oil companies competing f< Add Isaac Asimov eyeglasses an< plaid pants, and you begin to grasp the horror. One interesting thing about the f way the perspective keeps changin you have been so moved by my pre all my columns so far, but if you floor side by side, you'd see what Moore Gardei students of q Moore Garden used to be Satur a dump. fill ir The field was overgrown thing with crabgrass and other cl- plant inging weeds, which were Mi 1-* r% /\f Qotiir inv, v/inj sj 1 among the potholes and to foi dirt. recov It wasn't a place you filled wanted to be and certainly not a place you wanted to It'i live near. It was terrible not a having to tell friends to turn Th right at the jungle to get to Gard your dorm. comi But because a group of caresstudents cared about the be .i< Carolina community, M; Moore Garden looks better. not t Although not Eden, it looks ing < good. next So thanks is due to all the help students who took several dum 3 Dther love tl me that perches [s|= he fault of Joe k-^ iterial he had to IV-5 )f me looks like ta or identification |r i/ probably would f . J dotted tarpaulin |, arest constable, j ^ records for this I : on, eh?" JllHay ^ ? hounds rarely d my physique is |/(|||CQIl ^ t Michelangelo's iwever, that my The photo on the flee in terror or tightly about my fac ; with pikestaffs photos of President I t my photos in- whacked off his nose; as the years scud was so tiny that neu l have felt. Reagan's face the siz< )hotograph mov- visible. rty values would But every succeedii of my torso, my sur vly mother upon head, so that by Frid baby pictures so tell that Joe took the e photos of some David Letterman issu s rented just for this slow pan backu. ought dime-store walk through the i a cuddly generic soon. Otherwise, by ind then were so reveal that I am weai :art to swap it for I guess the whole oimi/la/4 Tlio /?Anna/i avuiutu, t nv vv/iiuvv igelic tot is really Duncan" and the pi ;he time of some see no reason why tl or seventh grade. page would be sprue a croquet mallet different picture eac hair that had five Kant on Wednesday or drilling rights. on. i a pair of neon Because if you wai > the full extent of looking at myself. One more thing: I >hoto above is the my clutches withou g. I doubt any of Soup" at the Russt >se that you saved Tuesday. It stars th laid them on the the four funniest m I mean. I'll be there, but do Editorincliltf Ann Farmer MUMfinf Editor Tracy Mixson r?u iuii Andy Duncan kukttnt Copy Ot?k Chief Linda Taylor News Editor Marisa Porto JUsfctMt Mows Edhori Jeri Rowe Juliet Nader Spotlight Editor Roni Bea Kayne AsstetMt SpotHflM Editor Ed Chambliss ii shows uality days to dig up weeds, 1 holes, rake up dead s, haul away muck and plants. iny of us slept in those day mornings, trying roet the nipht before or " O"- '"O"* ering from the workweek. s good to know that ill students are typical, e cleanup at Moore len also showed the nunity that Carolina ar d that students can :oent, and neat, even, aybe we should all try o stay out so late drinkdt up so late studying time, so we can also create a p*rk where a p used to be. I 1 lis mug? first column was cropped so e that it looked like the wire leagan when he had the thing ; the scar, you may remember, /spapcrs were forced to print : of a J.B. White ad to make it ig photo has shown a bit mere roundings and the to? of my lay's paper you co?M actuary pictuie while 1 was reading the le of Rolling Stone. I just hope rard, reminiscent of Scarktt's Confederate wounded, stops next Friday the camera wiH ing argyle socks and no pants, photograph problem could be tion between the name 4 4Andy lotograph isn't explicit, and I hey need be related at att. The ed up considerably if we ran a :h issue: Einstein on Monday, , Don Knotts on Friday and so a i a vi . .aa!- . a i _ r ii me iruin, i m geiiing urea 01 couldn7 let this column escape t inserting a plug for "Duck '11 House Theater tonight and e Marx Brothers and is one of ovies ever made. It's also free, n't let that stop you. Spelt* Edh#f Gregg Lasky AMtotMt &p*rt* WHwr Jeff Owens Nwt?fr?pfcy Editor f! Joseph Garnett :i AuittMt MwleyepliY MHw j] Ray Gronberg I A4vi##r I Bill Rogers jj Dkoctw ? Bill Clements I Product!** I Lewis Covington !; Mark Armstrong rj