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? ?? ?? Deficit TU? u., i lit; uu Reagar President Reagan appc ignores the deficit it will Well, it won't. During the past few been growing at a phei acts as though the huge < to him, but it docs. He has consistently ha ting to have his cake and cut taxes, increase deten: Security. He can't have ; Cutting taxes was a wo mise, and it was extren American public. It is nol light of the president's c (3 percent increase per yc two years, on top of inHj president's commitment cuts) and it becomes imp In short, the president into a corner. None of th< before Congress fit his "perfect bill." Take the current bill Gramm-Rudman Deficit mnn t Kir n n i r* U aiivni nao ?aiuiu lIHJ |/l V The budg * 4 * , 4 Jfif The Gomeco< . idget won't bal i must give up :ars to believe that if he the exceptio go away. reduction in This does i i - Yv,ai3, iiiw u^uv.11 iut^ ui me 011is t lomenal rate. Reagan The presit Jeficit does not belong proposal. It The prop< d the attitude of wan- reality. He c eat it too. He wants to gress, but th >e and maintain Social Democrats ; all three. recognize th nderful campaign pro- much. lely popular with the What is hi t practical, however, in time? It is g ommitment to defense ger. And wl ar for each of the next loses. ation). Add that to the to social security (no The hug< uiiviu^iujrilll has promised himself and the imrr e deficit reduction bills fcring and h ideal dream of the edge. Everyone before Congress. The life that they -Reduction Ammend- This is a cla: jsident's support with everything let ? one carl i / u g&Sr1 gecoUP Z " l yMM "i Edftor In chlof A nn Farmer M?sugii?g Editor 1 Tracy Mixson Copy 0*?fc Chi el A ndy Duncan AttfetMt Copy 0o?k Chi?f Linda Taylor Ik bwi/liiiiM UMm Marisa For to Jeri Row* J Juliet Nader Spotlight Iditar RonI Bea Kayne AMktMt Sp?tllf ht Editor ,Ed Cham bliss ance itself; something ii ui uiic minor acian: u cans ior a defense spending. not please the president, nor do any hat call for tax increases. Jent, however, has issued his own fits his ideal, but no one elses. 3sal balances in theory, but not in omplains about opposition in Cone opposition is bipartisan. Both the and the Republicans in Congress at the president is asking for too ippening to the deficit in the meanrowing bigger and bigger and biglen the deficit grows, the country t deficit is being blamed for ;nt, the struKcliniz farm economv icnsc trade deficit. Industry is suflas lost its world-wide competitive has been told at one time of their can't always have what they want, ssic case. The president can't have - something has to give. toonist's poin l?) J^/h %m Jki y Vl?wps4at f?ter 1 Amy DelPo ' I] Sp*rt?E?t? | Gregg Latky t Assistant Sports Editor Jeff Owens Photofrophy Editor , Joseph GarnetI Assiotmt Photofirtphy Editor /fay Gronberg Advis#r Bill Rogers Director Bill Clements Production Lewis Covington Mark Armstrong I Literary sn( I know a bit of social etiquette, such as where your elbows go when you eat, but I didn't know until recently how much this campus frowns upon comic books. You can slouch arnunH th<? . hallways of the Humanities J Building all day long, jawing P about Frost and Lawrence un- I. til your tongue gets sprained, L but just mention the most re- ft cent copy of Howard the Duck | or allude to what a great character Dr. Doom is, and your companions will flee as if they were the cast of "Friday the 13th" and you were Jason. Some intellectual acquaintances of mine recently discussed an aspect of J.D. Salinger's work that's often overlooked in even the most exhaustive critical analyses: the difficulty of reading Sal inger in a moving car. One of them claimed to have been so enthralled by "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" that she tried to finish the story on 1-26 between Newberry and Laurens, but had to stop because of uncontrollable nausea, a feeling she t of view [ t Send us q I* Divestment, President Reagan, the football, campus parking, meal plai dent Government. What do you think about? If you have an opinion about any would like to share with the Carolir send a letter to The Gamecock. Letters must be typed, double-sj; elude the writer's name and a telej where the writer can be reached for ' )bs aren't c Ml normally experiences only during carnival rides and John Jakes novels. I said, "I don't have that proDicm. A tew days ago I read two entire issues of Fantastic Four in the back seat of my aunt's car on the way to the fish camp and didn't even feel it." Within seconds, all the literati were scuttling sideways down the hall like crabs, keeping one eye on me as if, like the Human Torch, I might spontaneously combust any second and take the nearest bohemian with me. Igtten to I1QH cfurlonfn k#vw dIUUCIIld too apathetic ro the editor: The treatment of humanitarian troblems by the majority of American citizens rests heavily on ither propaganda and media overage (i.e., apartheid in South Africa) or the intensity of a crisis, uch as starvation in Ethiopia. Yet ? despite the intensity, the ipparent national interest, the /I U(;agaiiuii tlllU II1C IllCClia overage of such crises ? the maority of USC's student populaion continues to lethargically >rovide an inadequate and em?arrassingly squeamish amount >f student support when cornered to other campuses. Q: What is our problem? A: We're simply as apathetic as hey come and should all consider hanging our names to Skip or iabs. My plea is for an awakening of he USC students to the lumanitarian problems facing he world, the nation and other iniversities, not only those pro>lems deemed relevant by the nedia, but also the problems we, he students of USC, deem as elevant. I'm not saying that we all need o join the Peace Corps, although nost of us could use the exjerience. No, the main ingredient or an awakening is to become 111; o ro /\f 1- 1 ? 1 i..uiv wi iiicjc piuuiciii!) anu, nore importantly, the possible sffcct car lives may have on hem. Example: A man who invests stock in South Africa ioesn't need to personally assassinate Botha to protest aparheid. He needs only be aware of he problem and the effect his iivestment may have. John Rashford, Jamaican>orn, educated in the United itates, Europe and Russia, and :urrently a professor in Charleston, will be addressing the tudents of USC on such pro)lems, but from a botanical and inthropological perspective; i.e., uhal imnar-l ? " f mm? uii^/UVi UUV9 UUI l^SUUItC ise and wasteful consumption lave on the third world? What is he connection between McDonald's McDLT and starvaion in Ethiopia? rtt?r ' World Series, Letters should < ns, Sting, Stu- student, staff r community. All letters are | thing that you A 350-word maxi ta community, not be withheld e cannot be returnt taced. ntul in. jhonc number Send your leti verification. Drawer A, Rime! :omic at all J Andy Duncan i I will be the first to admit that such titles as X-Men and Strange Tales aren't in the same league as King Lear or i*} The Waste Land, but just because you can't buy Cliff's Notes for something or trace its allusions back to Celtic myth doesn't mean it fits somewhere between oond scum and porno novels on the ladder of literary worth. And I can assure you that prolonged exposure to comic books will not rot your mind. I'm living proof of that. Right? Right? J 1 -1-1 the editor MyaiuaMMnaMaMiMaMalk The lecture is 7:30 p.m. , Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Room 250 of Gambrell Hall and is free. To conclude, I quote Leo Tolstoy in his similar plea to Russian society for an awakening: "I sit on a man's back choking him > and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all possible means except by getting off his back." William Fanjoy GINT senior ^ John Dunbar ' * Biology junior Letter a play for gay rights To the editor: While I believe that proper channels must be observed in the ' ^ distribution of literature on campus, the letter in Monday's edi tion of The Gamecock did not serve that purpose. Rather, those nameless members of the GSA attempted to use the magazine Potential as a means of making a play for so-called "gay rights." I also find the number of cases of AIDS among heterosexuals in Europe and Africa irrelevant considering this is the United States, where the number of cases } of that disease is triple the number of that on those two continents. It appears evident that it is also the purpose of the GSA to free themselves from the responsibili ty of being the major contributors to the spread of the most terrible disease of the 20th century. Futhermorc, while the GSA feels there is no call for malice or bigotry toward them at this university, they can expect it J not only from literature, but from other students. This point is evident in the decision to withhold the names of those responsible for the letter I've referred to today. Finally, I would like to suggest in the future if letters arc found to be so offensive that the names must be withheld, they should not be printed. Michael D. Morin Criminal justice freshman also include whether the writer is a nember or a member of the printed and are subject to editing. mum is suggested, and names will xcept by special exception. Letters :d. ters to: Editor, The Gamecock II House. Columbia, S.C. 2933$. *