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Viewpoint , I Wednesday, September 25, 1985 ET 5 |H ????-????THE GAMECOCK |Sj Censor: ? Lobbyist There has been a rec record industry panel records and rate them a The contents of songs w copies of the lyrics wou to consumers. While th harmless at first, it coul cussions in the future. Is it censorship? Not quite, but it cc close. ^ On a recent "Donal P dience debated the issue One mother felt the 1 "Like a Virgin" were for her daughter. Other the lyrics were neither e Who was right? Neither. The views expressed and the other members * |Gu?st g<! i llnfa Sr 9i VIIIUII < Block s ~ 1 am writing in respoi W editorial which appeared in September 20 regarding the USC/Clemson clash at Wil November 23. Thp prlitnrinl in nnpctinn < the Student Senate for the a< provisions prior to voting or tion. In light of thecontrove the proposed lottery system it was with disgust that I rea in the editorial; namely, t block seating should be al 'season averag&number o "before the remaining stifde distributed to students usin further emphasize the plig the editorial argued that ' dedicated uamecocK tans game" while students wh< block seating are more likel games. The editorial also students who do not block s who will be selling their rai son football tickets to oth< profit." It is those opii Gamecock editorial that I which 1 address the remain Firstly, while every stud activities fee included in 011 a USC home football tickei .1.., ?i,,. "in me nidi ui nit i? Carolina Football Ticket that these same "students ; dent ticket to each game" as long as student tickets a ment, 1 would assume, als Therefore, as I have come I ^ ticket distribution system t at USC, the very ide? guaranteed student tickets fundamentally in violation tion policy to begin wit! belonging to an organizati prior to general student dis the same special activities 1 the right to a ticket but n( Secondly, the implicate dedicated Gamecock fan games, while non-block s "fair-weather" fans who ^ games, is what instigatec V Perhaps if block seating w dent would then have an e a home game ticket and t games, rather them receiv tovers" after block sea distributed. The issue is r Meal plans, telephone ! niter, apartheid, drinkin; U2, politics. wnai ao you inin* aoi If you have an opinior the Carolina communitj Gamecock. Letters must be typed ship? :s call for rei :ent push to have a opinions. V judge the lyrics of relatively ta ccording to content. individual, ould be judged, and And the ' Id be made available record lyri ip fnrmpr mav cppm nnhlir. Thi d have serious reper- judged by ; be virtually unbiased ai >mes uncomfortably And it d< Records hue" show, the au- eventually ; of labeling records. depriving a lyrics in Madonna's then be for too sexually explicit this panel, s in the audience felt When st xplicit nor offensive. they usual! therefore, be the con< by both the mother ing a recor of the audience were table and \ wantage eating for > gar nse to the Viewpoint most home The Gamecock Friday, enjoys an ei proposed lottery for the USC/Clems iiams-Brice Stadium on means by v viously, if was an attempt to lobby number of t doption of block seating is adopted I 1 the distribution resolu- tion resolut rrsy already surrounding be distribut for a USC home game, system will d the opinions expressed Thirdly, 1 ;hat organizations with tain percem ilowedjo gjckjup?their terj^systren if block seating tickets the cxpens WtibVefVar^ randomly rec&ttR no .. . U ? U...... ?i^l g lilt lUll^iy 3J31C1II. 1 U VVTVIWU UVI ht of the block seaters, gameisdur 'most block seaters are a great nun who attend every home and out of 3 do not participate in number of y not to attend all home others by si implied that it is those should the ieat with an organization resolution ndomly generated Clem- block seati jrs less lucky at a "nice any other I lions expressed in the seats at Wi i find offensive and to seaters like ider of this letter. Lastly ai ent is paying the special tion of ded ir tuition has the right to football te it is expressly stated on games. Bl< '85 University of South show their Information" pamphlet the gates i are not guaranteed a stu- dress in but "the right to a ticket temperatui re available." This state- We all wc o includes block seaters. game, but :o understand the student terested in hroughout my four years chance at a of prearranged and possible i to those who block seat is Therefore, to the expressed distriDu- senate to \. Why should students student an ion be given their tickets I realize itribution, when they pay many stuc ee which guarantees only home gam )t an actual ticket? have the r >n that block seaters are game and s who attend all home stituted w eating students are only necessary do not attend all home chance at I my writing this letter. using the ere eliminated, every stu- organizati :qual chance of obtaining rather tha herefore attend all home inn q /^Kanpp of th/? aii? u viiuiivv u? niv tvi iting tickets have been tot who has attended the iystems, football, the All- elude the g ages, campus parking, where the < All lette >ut? 350-word i you'd like to share with not be witl U send a letter to The cannot be Send yc , double-spaced, and in- Drawer A Editorlachlef Ann Farmer Minagiftg Editor Tracy Mixson Copy D??k Chief Andy Duncan AMisttNt Copy 0?*k Cht*? ^ Linda Taylor ftimffUttftVflfiB \?pr ff IVliVV Marisa rurio kuiiiMi Mows EditiK* Jeri Rowe Juliet Nader Spotlight Editor Roni Bea Kayne , AtttetoM Spctliflkt Editor Ed Chambliss km&mm ?? cord ratings Vhat is explicit to one may seem ime to another. It depends on the 'individuals" who will be judging cs will not be members of the e contents of the songs will be i inrlnctri? ?\onol It A, IVVV/IU 1I1UUOU J pailVl. 11 WVJU1V4 ' impossible for this panel to be id objective. oes not end there. labeled as "unacceptable" might be banned from the airways, thus rtists of income. The artists would ced to conform to the opinions of udents walk into a record store, ly know what is on the records; labeling is unnecessary. It should ;umer who, by buying or not buyd, decides which artists are accepvhich are not. ^*"V- * lies is wrong games but that every fee paying student qual right to the chance of obtaining a ion football ticket, regardless of the /hich these tickets are distributed. Ob the policy to distribute an average ickets to each block seating organizatior by the Student Senate into the distribu ion, the number of tickets remaining tc ed to the students by way of the lottei 3 be severly limited. I think it is practical to assume that a cer tage of tickets obtained through the lot 1 will be sold to others desiring a ticket a e of the university, which ultimatel reVenue from the "illegal" sale of thes kets. However, since the USC/Clemsoi ing Thanksgiving break when potential! iber of students will travel home, both ii the state, I am willing to bet that a grea these tickets will be given or sold t< tudents who participate in block seating nrr?i/icir>n artrmfprJ tn the Hist rihnt in allowing allotment to organizations fo ng. Block seaters are no different froi JSC student except that they enjoy bette illiams-Brice Stadium. The fact is, bloc cold, hard cash too. nd perhaps most important is the que; ication and fan support given to the US< am by the USC students attending th )ck seaters and non-block seaters alik dedication every time they pass throug it Williams-Brice Stadium, or bother t garnet and black when game tin cs continue to hover in the 80-90 rangi >uld like a ticket to the USC/Clemsc beyond this desire, every student ii i attending the game deserves an equ "winning" a ticket from the greate lumber of student tickets availabl 1 would like to encourage the Studei remember that they represent every US d not just the block seaters. : that this letter is likely to incite a gre lents who choose to block seat at US es. However, that is just the point; we { ight to exercise the choice of attending who we attend it with. If a policy is i ...III inlninn anil nrnani->o?? INCH win uiciivt; jwiiini? cinjr ui^uiiicum in order to have a better than avera receiving tickets to various football gam lottery system, then it is these ve ons which will suffer from the quanti n from quality membership. Lee Latha Psychology/socioiogy seni< writer's name and telephone numbc writer can be reached for verification, rs are printed and subject to editing, maximum is suggested, and names w hheld except by special exception. Lette returned. >ur opinion to: Editor, The Gamecoc n II 11 C r < , ivu^cii nuujc, \^vjiuiuuia, j.v.. Viewpoint Editor /tm> Or/Po Sports Editor Gregg Lasky Assistant Sports Editor Jeff Owens Photography Editor Joseph Garnetl Asslstsnt Photography Editor Ray Gronberg AOVIMT Bill Rogers Dlr*ct*r Bill Clements Production Lewis Covington Mark Armstrong jMTsTo? m swjH| Iff5Tomj? Electricity I Editor's note: While Andy Duncan is recovering from his 21st birthday festivities, his faithful apprentice and assistant spotlight editor, Ed Charnbliss, will be filling in. Andy's column will return on Monday. Right before Andy was carried off by a gaggle of blond floozie* we were discussing what kind ol columns 1 should write in hi: absence. Unfortunatly, he wa: i wisked away before he could saj ; little more than "Cottag* cheese," and "Don't write abou * electricity." 1 We learn about electricity ver young in life. Most of us lean ) very early that if we scuff our fee J on the livine room carnet am then touch a friend's braces ou friend twitches violently and yell in extreme pain. Let me explai t how this primative torture work; y > As you scuff your feet your bod e* picks up electrons, which are ver n small particles that carp( y manufacturers weave in to attra* n dirt. When you touch yoi t friend's braces, these travel t o your finger where they jump t his body and go back into th rt carpet. r Now that we both understan n how electricity works, how aboi r a short history of it. k Benjamin Franklin, the fir real electrical pioneer, flew a kii >- in a thunderstorm and was subs< C quently hit by a bolt of lightninj le He also yelled in extreme paii :e This proved that lightning w; u .1 i a i _ ? r n powercu uy me same miee ; o carpcts. This also damage ?e Franklin's brain to the poi c. where he could only speak in i in comprehensible phrases such "A penny saved is a penny ear al ed," and "Early to bed and ear st to rise makes a man health e. wealthy and wise." To save tl nt public from this unspeakat C s I Letters 1 Opinion missed jn * OP X <? I M A A 4 A n ;s itsdi 511.uci1.1u11 ry To the editor: ltV Have you ever heard of respo sible reporting, Ya know, gettii the faets correct before y< publish an article, whether it ' m an editorial or not. I am talkii about the editorial "Ugly Figh ? which appeared in Monday's e< ,r tion of your editorial section Granted, it was someone's p< A sonal opinion, but whoever arr jU ed at this opinion must have do rs so without carefully looking the facts. I am not in a fraternii ^ nor did 1 witness the fight, t after reading your headline stc in the paper and then reading l ""T editorial concernine the fight found it hard to believe these t | articles were about the sai incident. "A friendly basketball gamt That line in your article brouj me to laughter. How could > I possibly call that a frien game? And then you condemi I the fraternity brothers for try to protect themselves from bunch of idiots who I am cert would not listen to reason. 1 I'll tell you something, I v\ 'hey (the fraternity brothers) I you there. I would have liked jjgffT las a shocking Ed 1 i Chambliss fc t horror, he was eventually given a bat y job at the Post Office, where he tin l screwed up the communication of sin t the United States. To this day we tin i are still recovering. clc r Another great, but s lesser?known pioneer was Luigi elc n Galvani. In 1780, Galvani Ui >. discovered that when he attached tri ly two different kinds of metal to re y the leg of a frog, an electrical cur- wl ;t rent developed and the frog's leg ap :t kicked, even though it was no ir longer attached to the frog, Fr o which was dead anyway. This led an o to light year leaps in veterinary pa ic medicine. Now, a skilled so ----?: :? ~ velarium uiu tan iciM' a uug mat va d has been seriously injured or kill- br it ed,implant pieces of metal in its ga muscles, and watch it hop back te st into the pond just like a normal w te frog, except for the fact that it si e- sinks like a stone. st g. The greatest electrical pioneer st n. is, of course, the electric com- w as pany. In 1923, they developed y( as adaptation of the simple electric y< :d circuit; the electric company th Ill St'ilU) tltvuitilj mi v/u^n a "lie IV/ ai 11- a customer, then immediately th as gets the electricity back through E n- another wire, then (this is the ti ly brilliant part) sends it right back c; y, to the customer again. B he This means that an eletric com- a >le pany can sell a customer the same to the SHI you to try to talk this out with it them. 1 would like to make one d suggestion to you if you do ever ti find yourself in a similar situation. Make sure you are wearing d your rose colored glasses, s n- because when your idealist values r ng fail, you can always resort to plan s -v?? n 4t\/^ ?a o. i uu wuuiun i mi <1 man wun be glasses, would you?" ng ? t" Robert Nelsen a Computer science junior 1 I. s nc Students misled ; by 'pretty sign' ! >ut t )ry To the editor: ( . .. ... 4 IIC It is refreshing to see tnai stu? 1 dent government is making a wo sincere effort to represent the stume dent body this year. In fact, you could say they're actually working hard in decision-making halls ( on the first floor of Russell ( ou House. dly i ted However, it could not have ! ing been encouraging for our 1 a representatives to notice that ain higher authorities have apparent- 1 But ly overlooked their offices. fish It seems that our plush lad Carolina Mall has pushed its way for into the Russell House and placed x I <?\ .'s i sv m _ \\ * / r x / c history \ ?.?* ' ; ' ^m\ j ;ch of electricity millions of tes a day and never get caught, ce very few people take the le to examine their toasters ?selv. In fact, the last year any new :ctricity was generated in the lited States was 1937. The elecc companies have been merely -selling it ever since, which is hy they have so much time to iply for rate increases. Today, thanks to men like anklin, frogs like Galvani's id utilities like the electric commy, the human race can do all rts of nifty stuff with electrons nd carpets). Why, we can oadcast the Carolina-Michigan ime. We can watch David Letrman throw stockings filled ith baked beans off of a fiveory tower and roll over yrofoam coolers of beer with a earn roller. We call a friend and ish him a happy birthday or call 3ur parents and tell them that 3u were in a car accidcnt and lat you are all right. But most of I, electricity allows me to type lis random arrangement of the nglish language into the typesetng machine so that the paper an be printed and you can read loom County and then throw it way. Now, about cottage cheese. . . mm I r 1 v..*, :j s pretty billboard where the stuent government office informalon sign had been located. 1 suppose those in charge have ecided that students should be pending their money in the mall ather than meeting with their tudent representatives. In addition, the student lovernment office location was iccidentally left off the Russell -louse directorv on the Greene ireet side. Now that student government s doing its job, their effort goes nore or less without recognition. Maybe the 10 percent of our acivities fees that is skimmed off he top by "higher authorities" lach year can be used to buy a ?ign. Now that the cost of tuition. lousing, SAGA, parking, vashers and computer use has in:reased, students should have the opportunity to enjoy respectable services. I say let us demand that all of our activities fees stay in student affairs rather than go to an obscure destination. If not a sign, how about an inexpensive flyer to hang from the Carolina Mall's pretty billboard. Tony Snell Journalism senior