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Viewpoint r I Wednesday, September 18, 1985 ? r?? THE GAMECOCK Rights You've got th ? A nasty incident happened yestei Russell House Patio. A group of students from a camp organization had an information ta hanriino nut f1v<*r? tn mcc^rchv Someone who didn't particularly a flyer got verbally abusive, tauntin representatives. The abusive student ended by ri the group's poster and turning ov< all the while yelling that the group 1 to be on the patio handing out litei The student was, of course, wroi ? ways. All campus groups have access t have a First Amendment right to f In addition, the student had a rig refuse the literature and keep walk student obviously was too immatur U.S. shou * maintain1 i. o AX.: iu o. am 0 r .H',b i'rii VJ I-,) ?.i iuiolJibb t Ail-Niter not endangered, CPU chief says To the editor: I'd like to thank the editorial staff of The Gamecock for their inttracl in cnuinn ihf 1IIIVI VOL III ?IIV i ass t There is, however, one problem with this valiant effort. You can't "save" something that isn't en? dangered. I would, however, like to clarify a few points. There are several factors that have been and still are influencing our decision to postpone the event. The All-Niter is planned and coordinated over the summer by our Traditional Events Committee. Until recently, we had no chairperson for that committee. We also lost both our supervising staff members this summer. So in essence we weren't equipped with the staff needed to plan an event of that nature. Another consideration was the various activities planned during the months of September and October by the university itself. We felt it would be in everyone|s best interests to work with these activities rather than compete with them. I am still, however, unable to see how The Gamecock saw our involvment in the Caribbean Cultural Festival as a replacement for the All-Niter. As you staff is obviously unaware what the festival entails, let me fill you in. The Caribbean Cultural Festival is a systemwide event sponsored by the president's office with the following goals: To build a better relationship between the Caribbean nations and the USC system, as well as with the people of South Carolina. To educate the public and USC system to the ties that bind us to the Caribbean people and their V.t culture. :, ?,,.V ; V ' We at the Carolina Program Union were honored to be chosen lem, even on rday on the such a logical The tale isn >us religious The abusiv< ble and was but an irritat< on him and a ~ i title IU IrtKL iouoweu. tg the group The studeni Christians tur good. pping apart Well, we'vi 5r the table, have tempers iad no right sionally, like rature. ng, in many The best 1 respect the r o the patio, respect your i ree speech. do. ;ht to simply And if son ing, but this right, remem e to consider that they are, Last Friday which said sor Africa. Callini claimed South governments t rights and pc found within > eluded that tl economic and WTo me this take toward i great deal in c ways South A ties with them South Afrk lilww Cape Town v Company as j i merchant fleei ipQ tiers from He ILpCI in New York. was named fo fend the Dutc! An imports feast which c heritage, was ; Sri:, sion of ThanV Zulu chief ni a banquet, cli all their cat reaching effe ac nartirinnntc in c??v??rnl rvf Uil pM? ? * V?MI V* events. T/ic Gamecock always seem be insinuating an unwillingnes the president's office to w with or incorporate students i the activities they sponsor. V not write an editorial comir ding the president's office, t Caribbean Cultural Festi Committee and the Carolina I gram Union on having the itiative and ability to w together. The Carolina Program Ur never said we were cancelling All-Niter, and we have no p to cancel it. We are still in process of planning a fall e1 and have yet to determine the mat it will follow. Tor? Cantrell CPU president Picket action lacks logic To the editor: One doesn't know wheth< fee! amused, appalled or agg ed by the Food Lion picketin cident, given front-page cove in The Gamecock of Sept. 6. not so much the incident it but the logic behind the v> episode that appears so bizarre and droll. A ? * # ll All /lllllA??rAV fit At! nit* \nuuvvu tut;/ putting so much effort, time money into the whole camp because Food Lion is viol standard American employ practices or because Food Li a "colonial carpetbagger,' both? In any case, the argur smack of simplistic jingois well as geopolitical and econ myopia. If Food Lion is unf its employees, aren't employees themselves free American and 18 to ex themselves and resort to own industrial action? Or i United Food and Comm Workers International Unio ing it for them? If one is talking a state property j option. t i't one-sided, however. [ p student stalked r?ff pvcntnallv ^ :d member of the group jumped a brief, mainly verbal, fight t made the ironic comment about ning the other cheek and left, for e news for you: Even Christians i, tempers that they lose occaeveryone else. esson from this incident is to ights of others to preach, and right to politely leave when they neone shows disrespect for your ber them for the ignorant fools and don't let them get to you. I read an editorial in The Gamecock Afiri ne pretty strange things about South cior g its culture psychopathic, the writer I Africa cannot function like Western onis >ecause "Western ideas about human nati >litical freedom are nowhere to be anc Afrikaner society." The editorial con- whc le United States should cut off all cen political ties with South Africa. eve: seems Hike a very harsh position to dor i country that fundamentally has a ble ommon with ours. There are so many thei frica is like us that I feel cutting our the i would be absolutely stupid. I :a's history goes back to 1652, when sim vas started by the Dutch East India anc a food-and-repairs stopover for their son I. Around the same time, intrepid set- Tr< dland were also establishing outposts Bo /ir t i a! iir.ii n. a Cai Vii i rememoer correcuy, wan aireei r the wall Peter Stuyvesant built to de- ecc h on Manhattan from Indian attacks.) pai int event in early American history, a aused a deep impact on our cultural do Thanksgiving. The South African ver- So isfciving'turned out quite differently. A all hied Dingaan Invited Dutch settlers to "8 nbbed 600 of them to death, and stole rjfi tie. Naturally, this event had far- sis cts; it also helps to explain why the sai the "colonial carpetbagging," ? haven't American companies and s to American-controlled multinas in tionals been doing exactly the " ork same thing all along all over the ^ nto world, particularly in resource Vhy As an uninvolved foreigner, I n ien- find this double standard highly he puzzling. Besides, in this case * ival don't the benefits to the average ^ 'ro- consumer in terms of low prices M in- come into the picture at all? ork c orK P.B. Nayar tl ,ion Graduate student s the f lZ Smoking policy ' for- stops conflicts > To the editor: This is in response to Raymond J. Floyd, who insists that he is discriminated against in Cooper Library because he doesn't smoke. I would like him to note that smokers are confined to five 1 rooms, while non-smokers have ;r t0 the whole rest of the library. He riev- should also note that as most of ? the restrooms open onto smoking 5 in" , - ? ;rage lounges, it would ridiculous to go jt js there to smoke. tself, 1 would also like to point out 'hole that il is Possible to make use of very the smoking lounges and newspaper room without being are) inundated with smoke. All are > antj large and well-ventilated, so you iaign can a*ways find a smoke-free ating area? and nonc arc populated enment tirely by smokers. In fact, I was on is introduced to the smoking ? ? or lounges by a non-smoker who '< ? - ?1 A uses iiiciii as a piatc iu ici?a anu j nents study in m as We smokers are not bad, vile lomic and disgusting people. We enjoy a;r t0 smoking, but do not demand that the V?u do, nor that y?u han8 an(j around while we smoke. The press smoking areas, in segregating us their so ^at we can cnj?Y our tobacco is the without offending others, are ercial designed to prevent conflicts, not n do- promote discrimination. J. David Bergeron bout Engineering sophomore Ywism Lit ikaners regarded the natives with fear an 1 from then on. imagine the biggest problem faced by j >t in any country was how to get along i;a inKoKitnntr TKic nmklum time caIi/oH ivv, iiiuauuaiiid* i mo piv/uiviu nao auivvu estors by the worst plague in modern ;n "imported" diseases wiped out over t of some eastern Amerindian tribes. But r ask yourself what our forefathers woi le without measles and smallpox? Isn't that we could have developed some kind id as an inducem&it to get native help in streets of Plymouth and Boston? don't have to explain all the fas lilarities in the historical events of Sout! 1 the United States, but that country, 1 nething like our western migration (tr ;k) and also like our war between the st er War). On the politico-economic side o nth Africa, like our country, has built >nomy and a (relatively) stable societ ir ratively short time. rhis gets us to the question of why we sh< wn all American companies now opei uth Africa. What would this accomplish , it seems like a rather large infringeme ;hts of these corporations.-And from tht [hts standpoint, it seems like a curious th t on when we simultaneously encoun me companies to do business with such 3 AAlfiiiAvmn 0% JUUKWUI llld U If not, we sta "It had been startling and isappointing to me to find out Hat story books had been written y people, that books were not atural wonders, coming up of hemselves like grass. Yet egardless of where they came rom, I cannot remember a time vhen I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, over and binding and the paper hev were printed on. with their mell and their weight and with heir possession in my arms, capured and carried off to myself." ? Eudora Welty ing, You may have been abused by Wer rour enemies, misunderstood by ?< four friends, cheated by your col- thro eagues and ignored by your way ramily, but I'll bet that none of acjSf (Tou have ever been done wrong conj ay a book. som Some philosopher, I forget sorn mhnm eniH "A room without *" books is like a body without a dale soul" Hut Soul jams my bookcases, clut- , ters the floor, crowds the table, qZ( stuffs the desk. My room has t-Qr more soul than a Motown use| reunion. ^ What I need, I suppose, is one of those libraries like a traveler G might find in a British manor opei house, with three levels of books, pie' a spiral staircase and wheeled lad- the ders to W.H. Auden and cnaries the Addams on the top shelf. I pic- effc ture myself in tweed jacket, per- stoj ched in the rafters reading Keats ma! and yelling to some visitor far lite below, "For God's sake, Picker- the MHUHmGi Sess^?eSe C ASYX ~Tm s CBCfiEA' | SINCE g OFFI ?a i ! 1 K I d suspi- as China, a nation that tens of millions of its < any col- Furthermore, Amei with its Africa have played a cr fnr mip Qrviith Afriran onvprni I UI VUI WVMVII < kikivuu VI 111 history, all races equally. Ami 90 per- hiring large numbers < did you employees the same w ild have jobs open to all races, it possi- centives for workers of apar- education, with conse< building I am not defending j African government s] icinating has served its purposi h Africa fast as humanly possib too, had ty we had achieving ! le Great (Little Rock, Selma, e ates (the understanding of theii if things, I hope this short c a strong there are ususally at le 1 a com- and the same situatio different but valid p )uld shut South African student rating in have other viewpoint! ? First of would also write ab< nt of the many ways an admi ine to in- __ . _ ige these Marion souu countries English graduate f the world ind banned I Undy I Duncan I take off those galoshes! nc e you raised in a stable?" smetimes, while leafing wl uch the newsnaner on the be to the comics and the lingerie is I run full-tilt into the latest tr; troversy over some book that th e group wants removed from ci ,e bookstore or some library, in >uite often the book is a scan- ci >us red-light volume such as e\ :kleberry Finn or The Return id he Native or The Wizard of hi or the A merican Heritage Die- ni \ary. You know, the stuff you 2< i to read by flashlight under blanket. . b onorallw hannino a hnnk R V1AVIUI1/ ) VM?I?????|5 ^ ? ns a floodgate of curious peo- w who rush out together to read n thing and find out what all tl fuss is about. Maybe a more r ;ctive way to get people to F p reading a book would be to I ke it required reading in 1< rature classes. That's what y did with Jane Austen, and r Edhorln chtef Ann Farmer Managing Editer Tracy Mixson Copy Dart CWaf Andy Duncan Asstotant Copy Dsak Chlaf Linda Taylor Marisa rorto Atttttwrt Nawt lAtara Jeri Rowe Juliet Nader SpctHfM ititw Roni Bea Kayne Assistant Spstttffct Edttw Ed Chambllss ICANSEET^ ! { PAS BEEN 9 SING EVER I has systematically butchered jwn people in our lifetime. ncan companies in South ucial part in influencing both nent and businesses to treat erican employers do this by 3f blacks, by paying women ages as men, by keeping all and by offering generous into upgrade their skills and juent salary increases, ipartheid, and I believe South pokespeople when they say it ; and is being dismantled as >le. Remembering the difficul?ome of the very same goals tc.), why can't we show more r problems? mtline was enough to prove ast two sides to any question, in can be viewed from many erspectives. If there are any ;s or history teachers here who > on the problem, I wish they 3ut them in this column. In irable country, Sffuth Africa I I i, unite: together body's read her since. I always get very nervous lenever I hear rumblings about inning books. After all, a book nothing but a person's ideas anslated onto paper. Saying at you don't want a book cirilated is the same thing as sayg you don't want an idea cirjlated ? and allowing rerybody to have their own leas is what the United States as been advertising in 5-foot eon letters on its marquee for 39 years. These ramblings are inspired y the fact that this is Banned looks Week 1985, but I didn't 'ant to emphasize that too luch. I don't want people to liink championing freedom to ead is a seasonal thing, like St. Patrick's Day or spring break, t's all year long. It's all lifetime ong. After all, how much soul can a lation afford to lose? Sport* Editor Gregg Lasky j Aesbtant Sports Editor Jeff Owens Pttotopraphy Editor Joseph Garnet! j A??l?t?nt Photography Editor Ray Gronberg Advtor Bill Rogers Dirocttr Bill Clements j Lewis Covington Mark Armstrong