The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 12, 1986, Page 5, Image 5
. Viewpoint
Wednesday, February 12, 1986 g
Eyesore
Option of pavi
f administration'
Although no plans for paving
the 'pit' are in placc, the
idea deserves some attention.
Why the pit has been
overlooked in the midst of a
serious parking problem is a
question students have a right
to ask.
Paving the pit could
possibly add badly needed
^ parking spaces to campus by
? disposing of stubby growth
that once was probably grass,
hven if this adds only a couple
of snaCOM it will hp twn mr?r*?
the university did not have
before.
The administration has been
spending thousands of dollars
on beautification projects all
over campus. The pit happens
to be an obvious eyesore
nobody seems to care about.
Students who park there often
find layers of grime caked all
over their cars, especially durCheezit!
It's
In my history class Monday, a
certain girl sitting next to me
said, "Hey, I put your face
together with the one in the paper
the other day! You're Ed
<? Chambliss!" Well, it may have
" been the thrill of a lifetime for
her, but now I have newsprint all
over my face.
While 1 was cleaning the
"BBildmafiO b3" off of my
forehead, I noticed yet another
"Hey You!" letter in my mailbox
in inc newsroom. 1 read it (obviously)
and decided to put it in
today's column.
To Bo, Bud, Tex and Duke,
3 their dog, I was forced to print
this Yankee column by a very
well-armed northcasterner.
Sorry.
It's called "Postulations from
a damn yankee on life in these
here southern states" and it's by
Stephen C. Guilfoyle.
How is it a guy from the Big
Apple ended up in Spartanburg,
S.C., and attends (JSC? I don't
j know. It happened to me, and
I'm still not sure how. But here /
am trying to cope with the differences
between how I used to
do things and how I must now do
them. Most prominent among
them is how to talk.
I am still a damn Yankee to
Southern people. I was listening
to a movie, and there was a
character with a Brooklyn accent.
He was talking like this: "Youse
guys just don't know from stealjp
ing a car. We wuz doing 'dis on
Lon 'gisland 'fore you could spit
on a train widdout your ole man
slapping your rear for it. Youse
it fi. < TL.
n% c/y ii uj/ i4tnii . . . / ntr
cups!''
My mother would not let me
speak with a New York accent.
So / was shocked when someone
said that was how I sounded.
And my friends in New York,
in the few times I have talked to
them since I moved, have said /
^ have a Southern accent. I was as
W surprised as when my roommate
said / had a Brooklyn accent.
I do admit / say 'y'all.' / have
picked 'y'all' up because I hear it
alt (he time. The first time I said
it, my sister looked at me and
said, "He said it!"
/ was the last one in my family
to fall into the mindset that
allows a person to think in 'you
alls.' Hut I am just as likely to say
'youse xuys' because 'youse' is
still inside me waiting to get out.
In fact, it came out during the
Christmas break.
* Send us a
The Gamecock needs your
press your likes and dislikes bj
ter to the editor.
Letters must be typed, doubl
a maximum length of 300 wor
include the writer's name, addr
number and where the writer c
tor verification.
I Letters should also includc
writer is a student, staff o
member. Guest editorials musi
ng pit deserves
^ ; j x'_
5 uunsiueraiion
ing windy or dry days. Rainy
days turn the pit into a swamp.
This is the priee students must
pay for not having a spot in
Pendleton Street or Blossom
Street garages.
The pit should not be
overlooked simply because it is
not located in front of a dorm
or classroom. The pit receives
greater use this semester than
usual because of the increase
in commuting students and
students with cars. Because it
is so frequently used and by
such a large population,
perhaps the university should
stop bypassing the idea of pav
ing the pit and give it serious
consideration.
And, maybe it's time
students also did something
about the parking problem
and let administators know
that answers exist and the time
has come to take action.
> a Yankee!
V MB
^ba
ggildmBiO
1 went to see "Prizzi's
Honor," and this movie was
chock full of Jack Nicholson doing
his best New York accent. I
found myself yapping like a New
Yorker for days after the film
was a distant memory.
So what are some of the different
ways we say things in the
New York? For one, in New
rorK, we say 'youse' and 'youse
guys' (translation: 'y'all').
"You 're gonna get da beat in of
your life. " (translation: "I'ma
going to tan your hide. ")
Calling roll in class, when a
teacher would say, "Stephen
Guilfoyle?" my response was
"Yo." (translation: "Right
'chere.'')
A New York greeting is a cross
examination to put Perry Mason
to shame. "Wuzzup? Wuz goin'
on? Wuz happen in'? Wuz new?
Wuz doin'?" (translation: "Hey!
Ho w y 'all doing ?'')
/ vu rnuy /aiign, nut it is just as
proper to say 'wuzzup' in New
York as it is to say 'hey' in
Columbia.
When we moved here, my
brother and I did not know why
all these people were saying 'hey'
to us. "Hey, " they'd say.
"Hay? Horses eat hay," we
would think to ourselves.
We did not know they meant
'hello.' I know I wish people
would say hello again and drop
this 'hey' thing.
'Hello' is a much stronger
greeting, because you can be sure
a person meant it as a greeting.
'Hey' could be just 50 much gas
escaping. A person who says
tl > -
nt-y i.v just trying to greet you
and be on with whatever he is doing.
He can't even make the effort
to speak another syllable.
You know where you stand
with a person who says 'hello.'
letter
1 I 1 11 "
opinions. Ex- 500 words and rl
/ writing a let- turc. Photos can
The Gamecock
e-spaced, with letters a month
ds. They must will only be wit
ess, telephone and pseudonyms
an be reached The Gamecoci
letters and guest i
; whether the returned. Send
x community Gamecock, Dra\
t be limited to umbia, S.C. 2921
HHnnMnaBaM
TH? OUW TttUla
eveCTVOVi is ^
M m
m n n
lAffij
^ A V _\ k <
UUUJ VJUVJ
Co?oyo P?ess S?ivice J
Letters to
Intramural rules
damage sports
To the editor:
I have played many co-rec
sports in my four years here at
USC. I have seen a lot of rules 1
thought were needless, difficult
to enforce and worst of all.
damaging to the sport. I use as
my example a rule in co-rcc
basketball.
This particular rule says guys
cannot enter the lane, period. Did
1 say "enter the lane"? Excuse
me, 1 meant "cross the plane" of
the lane. I'll tell you what I saw at
our most recent basketball game.
The guys on both teams would
stand around outside the lane and
watch the girls shoot, rebound
and pass the ball out
occasionally.
Oh yes, the guys did get to bring
the ball upcourt. Probably
the most frustrating thing of all
though was watching a loose ball
roll toward you frcrvi ilie iane,
knowing you couldn't reach in
and grab it, but had to wait for it
to come out of the lane.
No, 1 take that back; the most
frustrating thing was breaking
free on a fast break, pulling up at
the free throw line and sinking a
perfect jump shot only to have
the two points erased and have
one point and possession awarded
to your opponent because of a
lane violation when your hand
"broke the plane" as you were
shooting.
I ask, why were the guys even
allowed on the court? They certainly
weren't allowed to play
basketball, just some wimpy
substitute game that just happened
to be similar to basketball.
Don't get me wrong, I am all
for any rules serving to protect
girls from being hurt, but if they
haun liLo .
iaw iu ul II1UI UctlSKClUctll
rule, then why bother to have corec
in the first place. I was not
playing co-rcc basketball; I was
watching three-on-three women's
basketball.
And the irony of it all was it
didn't even protect our girls from
injury. I stood outside the lane
and watched helplessly as the
girls on both teams fought for rebounds
and shots as tenaciously
as any guys I've seen. In the process
one of our girls was injured,
not seriously, but injured
nonetheless.
While I applaud the intramural
office for attempting to make co
rcc sports more enjoyable for
both men and women, I ask that
they be more realistic in their
7 1
i
he writer may submit a picnot
be returned.
: will print no more than two
by the same writer. Names
hheld by special exception
are not allowed.
k reserves the right to edit
"dltm\'A K I n;ill
?/VlVVI.I Mill IIUl l/V
letters to: Editor, The
ver A, Russell House, Col08.
mi cm swp this
comumsT JTOCK
w
1
<
c
the editor
regulation of the games. If they
arc not careful, they will regulate
guys right out of co-rec sports.
Byron Reams
Electrical Engineering,
senior
Reports indicate
SDI dangerous
To the editor:
Please allow me to thank Mr.
Darren Mullinax for his letter on
Jan. 31, which was in response to
my letter of Jan. 24.
Mr. Mullinax feebly attempted
to reject my arguments that condemn
the Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI) as "no more than
educated guesses," and he asked
me if I thought the scientist
developing SDI did not have ;
more experience in this than I do. |
Apparently he did not read my
letters carefully, because 1 clearly
stated my information came from i
"facts and statistics that nave t
been drawn from their own
statements and reports."
For example, on Nov. 4, I
pointed out that even if the SDI
system works as planned, 2,000
Soviet nuclear warheads would
penetrate our defense, and every
U.S. ritv with a population of
25,000 or more could be struck
by several of these. This information
is easily found in publications
and statements of the
Department of Defense and the
U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Guesses are opinions formed at
random from uncertain evidence.
Therefore, what 1 have presented
are not "educated guesses," but
the simple horrible mathematical
facts of the fallacy of the proposed
SDI system.
The climatalogical model I
referred to is also an 'official'
source. Two studies were funded
by the National Science Foundation,
and another was conducted
jointly by the Department of
Defense and the National Center
A ~i : . n -i. TI
iui /\111k>>()in.-1 n. rxcsetiiLii. i ne.^e ]
models were based on the known <
facts of current nuclear arsenals i
and how their usage would alter i
the climate. 1
Mr. M u 11 i n a x adeptly i
employed an abuse of logic when I
he said "with every other invention
of the past came critics, but i
the inventors went on and created j
items that are very helpful to us <
today." Certainly he must realize i
there have been many more
failures in the progress of
technology than successful inventions,
and the criticism of a faulty
' ' ?hi*
flfltt HiYjatianai mmmmmi M
DfH ?
SC Prwi Association I
Fad 1985 * *
Kditor In Chief
Marisa J. Porto
Managing Kditor
Jen Rowe
Copy Desk Chief
I inda Taylor
Assistant Copy l>csk Chief
Buddy Moore
News Kditor
Juliet Nader
Assistant News Kditors
Carl Dawson
Hob Kudelka
v~\r~\ n
i juulruy
isffi-m ouvy t
:ah stop this ei&c
ommka^tll
awssl?k
mm
concept does not insure its
success.
I have not condemned the SDI
concept with educated guesses,
but it must be apparent to you
now that the Reagan administration
proceeds with its planning
based on uneducated guesswork
and/or I urge you to explore this
issue more carefully and not to
base your support for SD1 on
mere faith in technological
progress.
Terry Jackson
Geography, graduate
assistant
Abortion issue
sparks confusion
To the editor:
I would like to express strong
agreement with the sentiments expressed
by Nelson Cooney in his
Ian. 29 letter.
Cooney is right about the logic
jsed by those who support our
:urrent situation of legalized
abortion: There seems to be so
nuch confusion in their midst,
some say the baby is not a human
jeing until it's born; some say
iven though it is a human being
he mother still has a right to
lave it aborted, while some say
.ve don't know when life begins.
vVhich way are they going to have
t? They can't have all three.
The truth, which is known even
ay high school biology students
md has been shamefully hidden
Dy so many medical doctors, is
:hat life begins at conception and
is one continuum until death.
The most eloquent statement
[hat can be made against abortion
is the siRht of the arms and
legs, hands and feet, fingers and
.oes, and eyes, ears, nose and
mouth of a baby whose life has
been tragically cut short by
abortion.
It is not necessary for all these
babies to be killed by abortion. In
Columbia help is available for
women who arc pregnant and in a
pinch, whether they are married
;>r not, from groups like Birthright
and Daybreak, as well as
many of the churches in the area.
Women can get help taking care
af their child, or they can put the
baby up for adoption.
But these babies do not deserve
lo die. Mother Theresa has said it
is a terrible thing that a child
should have to die just so that the
mother can live as she pleases.
Dorc Schupack
community member
lie Gamecc
Businets Kditor
Maria Fratus
Viewpoint Kditor
Lynn Cusick
Spotlight hditor
Mary Jo Miller
Assistant Spotlight Kditor
Ed Chambliss
Sports Kditor
John Hoy e He
Assistant Sports Kditor
Jeff Shrewsbury
Photography Kditor
Ray (iron her^
.TO \S A
teg I
Yankees biased
against Rebels
To the editor:
After reading about Mario
Cuomo's chances for Southern
support in the 1988 presidential
race in Friday's Gamecock, I was
left with a troublesome insight.
I was struck with the ease with
which Frofessor Paulu/.zi was
uuic iu uuuciuuc, reopie in ilie
South arc hostile to foreign
culture." The remark reminded
me of a recent social gathering in
which one of my Northern white
friends cheerfully commented 011
the general inability of Southern
whites to use the English
language in a grammatically
fluent manner.
Could it be there is need on the
part of Northern whites to
dispense with regional chauvinist
attitudes when courting Southern
votes in presidential elections?
How sad that these enlightened
folk are so blind!
It is worthwhile to point out
similar remarks about Negroes
would bring howls of selfrighteous
protest, but that the
same remarks made at the expense
of Southern whites arc
gleefully received with the self
satisfied sense that indeed, all is
well in the true American
heartland.
It may be disillusioning to
llinl/ O ft nil ^ ' 4 ??
uiuin mat Ullll till, IJUI INDI llicril
friends are only human and thai
while mouthing the platitudes of
equality and the universalis!
creed, they stray from these principles
long enough to lampoon
their ancient rivals in the South.
But before we proceed to mix
motivators or hurl old epithets
and slander, let us pause to
reflect. As a Southern white, I
will gladly ignore these insults it
but one truth should be
acknowledged. If we should let it
be known that regional
chauvinism is roughly equivalent
to and possessed of no more basis
in rpacnn or r?i/-\rolc tl>i"
... . VM.^X/11 V/ I I IVI UIJ 11I?II |JI f
judicc of other sorts.
Jews, blacks, Italians, and so
on . . . isn't the human soui
within us all? Why, bring me
Boecaccio and Corelli and Puc
cini, () Puccini! I would,
however, consider it unlikely that
Pauluz/i's approach will win
many votes in the South for
Mario Cuomo.
John L. Godwin
History, graduate student
^T7 1
^yy
Assistant Photography Kditor
Sean Keefer
Adviser
Hill Rogers
Director
Hill Clements
Production
l ewis Covington
Murk A rmstrong
Advertising Manager
Margaret Michels '
Student Advertising Malinger
A'elli I reus