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Wednesday, October 8, 1985 Desegreg Mandate ii The May 17, 1954 court deci segregation unconstitutional ca spread controversy which has resolved. Many institutions in the rest of the United States have n \ desegregated. Take USC for example. USC, as an institution, has bee ^aarlti mnl 1 t ^ * ioiu; nsu. 11 uuuil? quuillicu ! races into their preferred nu organizations within USC, howe> to completely desegregate. The most obvious example of t system. The greeks on campus are h< separate organizations. The Council governs black sororiti nities, the Panhellenic Associ white sororities and the Inter-Fr cil governs white fraternities. Eac Tax increase Logic seems to have taken a powder here in the United States. Take, for instance, the current mild panic over the trade deficit. When I left the country nearly three weeks ago, this was only a '. potential issue. When I returned, it had achieved such importance that it not only had made the cover of the news magazines, but the president himself was paying attention. As with South Africa, he was trying to figure out a way to stop Congress from taking some meaningful action. You may ask why, after years of massive trade deficits, everyone is suddenly so concerned about the problem. After all, the country has been running a deficit for a decade now. and the gap has been widening so that this year it may reach an estimated $130 billion. You , would think thaMta a<Uniniatr&~ tion would have a plan by now t<* 1, deal with it, and in a sense 'it does. It will continue doing what it has been doing and hope the deficit goes away. With the exception of some scattered supply-siders who, like theoretical communists, are waiting for their theory to be api"" "1 in.i / 4 a ^| i ', .. < \ * ^ ation nportant step ision declaring own constitutioi lused a wide- independently fi not yet been This will soor ! South and the Rv Mnv nf -r ?V ? ? J ot been totally dissolve and be governing all oi governing all of portant step in n desegregated rest of the camp students of all President Hoi ijors. Many an honest effon /er, have failed other organizati support of the his is the greek university ? bo Completely d :aded by three going to be easy Pan-Hellenic ing to have to i r? * - cs anu iraier- Deliets that have ation governs The goal of coi aternity Coun- can be achieve* :h group has its ministration wo needed to lo plied in its purest form, there is almost no one who does not think that the trade deficit is tied to the federal budget deficit. The latter, a $200 billion annual mistake. contributes to the overvalued dollar, which in turn makes American goods non-competitive abroad. And yet, the administration and a lobotomized Congress does nothing about the budget deficit. Congress tried in the last session, trimming the budget by about $S0 billion, only to learn after recess that it made almost no difference. The fact is that the government is starved for funds. It cannot keep the defense industry rolling in dough and at the same time keep taxes where Reagan put them in his 1931 tax cut. The obvious answer is to raise taxes, but a popular president won't permit it. ^ Thek trade deceit/budget deficit package is not the only area in which presidential obstinancy stands between the problem and a solution. Somewhat the same situation applies in the field of arms control, where only the president thinks that his Strategic Defense In Ann Farmer Tracy Mlxson ^MM ^ #11*1 Andy Duncan Awfetsst Gspf D#sh Cfttef ' -.-ISSSrlmSt I JImimHMim Nhsr Wm*1-11,1 IWti RonI Bte Kay fie flwlmni ImDUm viiii!ji|nk fevfun FdChambtiss Viewi ??? THE m for campus i and functions separately and om the other two. i change. 1986, the three groups will come two new groups ? one : the fraternities and the other ' the sororities. This is an imcompletely desegregating the )US. I j t t % laerinan nas long oeen making t to desegregate the greeks and ions. To do this he needs the students that make up this th greeks and non-greeks, esegregating the campus is not . Both whites and blacks are golet go of many customs and ' been in existence for centuries, nplete desegregation, however, d if the students and the adrk together. iwer deficit itiative (Star Wars), no matter what its true merits may be, can result in the elimination of nuclear weapons. It is this belief, first enunciated about two and a half years ago, that explains why the president has an almost emotional attachment to his pro posal, and why he refuses to put it in the bargaining table at Geneva. In this and other matters, people sort of stand around and wait for the commander-in-chief to change his mind. Former Majority Leader Howard Baker has now joined much of the civilized world in saying that maybe a tax increase is in order. But nobody, certainly not the president, paid much attention. Instead, the president is pushing for a taxreform bill that would be revenue neutral ? in other words: besides (point ? and that oxymoron known the- eongt-essiorial leadership is wondering whether it can be done. Meanwhile, the deficit ticks like Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart." The Pitt News Univ. of Pittsburgh ^ ^ Cotoo* Pratt Swvto* / <W$s) * I* -XI li "WffpWl Cfl Wf /VAPo f.tli. fJti,, >i. wpvlll CwW Gftfff AajAry Jiff Owens fdHtf Joseph Darnell tafctMt Ptetogrtpfty Editor Ray Gronberg Bill Rogers OktttMT Bill Clements CnMnttn iew/i Covington Mark Armstrong mmbH point flECOCK Whose colu To a writer, heaven is where they buy your stuff before you write it, and heti is a blank sheet of paper. Modern technology has substituted the blank computer screen for the blank sheet of paper, but the principle is the same. All this afternoon, hell sat at the adjoining desk and grinned at me with rotting teeth. After I loafed around for about 18 hours, gnawing my shirttail and rending my hair, my friends in the newsroom took pity on the poor sinner and agreed to end my misery. gi $nn Farmer, editor: T^e thtylf*;r pvvui ninuj o, lie 1 lev CI ICIWUlliy jokes. He just looks over and drawls, "ANN!" or "GREGG!" or whoever the perpetrator may be. Which reminds "me. . . have you heard the one about the journalism professor and the armadillo? : Gregg Lasky, sports editor: Remember the whiskey bottle from a previous column? Well, Andy staggered into the newsroom just before deadline j&bbering about J.A. Prufrock and T.S. Eliot, wielding that dreaded bottle, and force-fed spirits to the entire staff. He had* to be carried out on a stretcher, so we. figured this is the least we could do. Salute! marK Armstrong, production: Andy pretends he is horrified by Students suffer f To the editor: I am writing in regards to the m blem in Preston and the Horesho lack of efficiency. This is my seco anf! mV f^nnH Wflr liuino in Pr??ctr always found the living conditions a ; to be satisfactory ? not good, bui until recently. In my opinion, the A ing run poorly and the mainu inadequate. I requested that shelves be put ii five weeks ago. True, this is a trivi necessary. And it should not take I done. After speaking with the Arei accused me of taking the shelves c when I left in May, which isn't response. He said that there were jobs that had to be completed fir mis, oui now long aoes n tane to ] on the shelf racks in the closet? The manager is usually cordial bi any concrete answers. The offi maintenance crew is always busy, 1 Send us a Meal plans, telephone systems, theid, politics, campus parking, a< What do you think about? If you have an opinion you'd li the Carolina community, send Oamecock. Letters must be typed, double elude the writer's name and a te I where the writer can be reached fc MBMnaBamwanMii i li mn is mis, < such things as black velvet paintings and pink plastic yard Ham- f ingos. But the truth is, Andy hopes to be famous enough one day to buy a painting of himself from a broken-down pickup truck on the exit ramp in front of South of the Border. Mr. B.T. Tucker Jr., printer and preacher: This man has always had a mental block. It did not start today. Juliet Nader, assistant news editor:\ remember the time I parked beside Andy at the Coliseum. He said, 4M didn't know you were a commuter student." I He gav$ mc one** of thos?^dtik*??hAt >made me paranoid the rest of the day. In fact, every time I park I get paranoid ? ask Marisa. Bobby Jones, Garnet . and Black editor: When I get mental block I wander into The Gamecock newsroom and help Andy with his column by talking endlessly about what I did all summer. Christy White, ad manager: Andy, Andy who? Oh, he's the one who writes that wonderful column. Is this really on the record? Alex Johnson, office pest: Tuesday, 9:35 p.m. I was working the day shift out of homicide. My partner is Andrew Duncan. Andrew walked up to me and said he had writer's block and rom maintenance aintenance pro- Preston Maintei e Area Office's noons standing nd year at USC students and con >n Dorm. I have ,s wasiea ume i tnd maintenance maintenance ne< t satisfactory ? *00 niuch to ask ,rea Office is be- housing, which i ;nanee staff is ?ne l^e ho ment that the H< 1 my closet over as one the al task, but it is previously. Thei five weeks to be sonnel themselv< a Manager (who I don't think >ut of mv closet that we c?n't ' true), I "got no cumstances. But more important fer because of tfc st. I understand ? think that it is t put three boards system. Jt can never give ce claims their but why is it the letter , football, apar- Letters should :ademics. student, staff community, ike to share with All letters are a letter to The A 350-maximum withheld except spaced, and in- be returned, lephone number Send your Ic >r verification. Drawer A, Russ 5 College Press Service ! 1? HHRflBy vkwvm wsaonsr anyway? flndy Duncan needed help with his column. "I have writer's block and need help with my column," Andrew said. I said sure. "Sure," I said. So I shot him. Buddy Moore, copy editer: As I sit at his terminal, looking at his miniature Penguin and Joker toys and his comic books, I think about the things I like about Andy Duncan. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. ' ? Tony Snell, Andy's a&efo and publisher: Andy is available for January bookings. He can speak, sing and sign autographs. SI,000 per engagement. 1 get 80 percent; he's from the country, you see. AnnlixotiA.. ....il.UI. A- ?- - Lf (i|/puvauuii3 avanauic iu oc fllS honey-bun. Call BR-549. Ed Chambliss, assistant spotlight editor and cottage cheese procurement officer: As I sit here looking up at Andy I can only describe him as q grain of rice pilaf with glasses, wearing a double-breasted lobster bib. Marisa (Hi-Ho Cherry-O) Porto, news editor: This is the same man who is still mad at me for throwing away a poster of a fat n..?2? - Russian woman wearing a pink bikini and high-top tennies. And we still love him. staff's apathy nance Manager spends his afterin front of the dorm, watching tversing with residents? To me, this :hat could be used to tend to the :ds of residents. I don't think it's , considering we pay a large fee for in turn pays his salary. using officials even made the statejrseshoe Office wasn't as organized other area offices she worked at e is evidently a problem if the peris are telling the students. we, as students, ask for so much be accommodated under the cirthe student should not have to sufIA npnltnAn^A Ar onotK IW aiVQii^viivv VI npaillj V/l mv oiaii. ime for a re-evaluation of the entire Jerry Chapman Public relations sophomore also include whether the writer is a incmocr or memoer ot tne printed and are subject to editing, t is suggested, and names will not be by special exception. Letters cannot tters to: Editor, The Gamecock, ell House, Columbia, S.C. 29225.