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fits his ideal, but no one elses.
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opposition is bipartisan. Both the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.,
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ise and wasteful consumption
lave on the third world? What is
he connection between
McDonald's McDLT and starvaion
in Ethiopia?
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' 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
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jhonc number Send your leti
verification. Drawer A, Rime!
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Andy
Duncan
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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
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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$. *