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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
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~ 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
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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
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Editorlachlef
Ann Farmer
Minagiftg Editor
Tracy Mixson
Copy D??k Chief
Andy Duncan
AMisttNt Copy 0?*k Cht*?
^ Linda Taylor
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Jeri Rowe
Juliet Nader
Spotlight Editor
Roni Bea Kayne ,
AtttetoM Spctliflkt Editor
Ed Chambliss
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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
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' 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Opinion missed
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;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
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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: (
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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
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history \
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;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
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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