The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 18, 1986, Page 4, Image 4
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4 * Friday, April 18, 1986
Unity
White and blai
together to so
Black and white fraternities
and sororities at USC are
entering a new era o f
understanding and cooperation
with the imminent merger
of their governing bodies, and
the people who are coordinating
the merger are to be
commended for their longoverdue
action.
But the success or failure of
the merger rests upon the
shoulders of USC's greeks
themselves, and like all
change, such success is to be
found in compromise and
communication.
Twenty-five years ago white
greeks started the annual
Greek Week festivities, while
black fraternities and
sororities started a separate
greek week ten years later.
This year marks the first time
black and white greeks have
celebrated the event together.
The black fraternity Alpha
Phi Alpha is rushing a white
pledge, another indication that
USC greeks are giving some
Keeping kids
out of USC:
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Editor's note: This is the only
part of a story describing this
writer's participation in the PreGraduation
Intervention Program
at (JSC. Some language
that may be considered offensive
has been inserted to provide
drama.
A half hour earlier, they had
gathered ? high school seniors,
most of them. To them, it was all
a joke.
They were in Prc-Graduation
Intervention, a program that
helps high school students stay
out of college.
The kids walked across Sufnter
Street to the gate of The
Horseshoe, where a guard frisked
them and checked their vaccination
records.
In an upper window of the
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gentleman lowered his binoculars
and turned to his companion.
"Fresh meat comin' in," he said.
Waiting beneath the trees,
some of the kids told jokes.
Others told stories. And then
eight or nine huge college
students crashed through the
shrubbery, looking ready to kill.
"Yo, up against the wall,"
yelled the first one. 44Ciet your
$%&!! movin'."
"There isn't any wall," one of
the kids said.
The gang leader looked
perplexed. "Well, get up against
the shubbery, then, you dumb
$%&!!s." The college students
shoved the squalling visitors
head-first into the shrubbery.
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was % he/ore & except after 5.
The kids weren't as terrified as
they should have been. A blond
boy started laughing.
"What the ! you think is so
funny, boy?" the leader asked.
"You think this is a joke?" He
grabbed the kid by the collar and
brought him up level with his
chin.
"You lousy ! of a
You can still
laugh. You ain't never had four
English papers due on the same
day. You ain't never taken a
Saturday-morning cumulative
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;k greeks work
lidify merger
support to an integrated greek
system.
But more needs to he dnnp
Until white fraternities
begin rushing black pledges, a
more completely integrated
system remains an unrealistic
notion.
A few positive first steps
have been taken. However,
total unity between black and
white greeks is still a long way
off.
What's needed are more
cooperative projects between
black and white groups, like
the Delta Delta Delta / Kappa
Alpha Psi Pedal-a-thon for the
Ronald McDonald House.
Recent joint projects have
shown that black and white
groups remain seperate as seen
in the individual displays set
up on opposite sides of the
Russell House patio Monday.
But even so, black and white
greeks have shown maturity in
their spirit of cooperation, and
hopefully will keep up the
good work.
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Duncan
geology exam. You ain't never
lived in a dorm with a roommate
who plays old Arlo Guthrie
records all day long. You ain't
never seen your best friend go up
on the mezzanine of the Thomas
Cooper library and never come
down again. You ain't seen
nothin', smart
As they walked across campus,
the leader said, "I ain't got a
name. Just a student number. It
starts with 250, so that's what
they call inc. I been here four
years and they ain't upgraded me
to sophomore status yet.
"I plan to stay here 'til I get my
$*:*$ing Ph.D. in hotel,
nil runt ;in<l foiirivm act.
ministration, so 1 ain't got
nothin' to lose if I was to slit you
open right here and Iced your
guts to the English 1 As. You got
that, you lousy $%&*! laces?"
One of the kids held up his
hand. "Sir, what made you come
to college in the first place?"
'' M y c/o & S i n g guidance
counselor told me I worked well
with people," 250 said. "Here we
are at the Russell House
cafeteria."
Inside, the group waited in line
45 minutes for guards in paper
hats to hand them each a super
burrito with sour cream. "I
can't eat this," one student
moaned. "What am I supposed
to do with it?"
"I'll show you what to do with
it, you dumb &!" 250 said.
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To the editor:
If Mr. Heilsberg will check
Genesis 3:21 tells us how God gave
Eve "coats of skins and clothed tl
yes on that Judgement Day you
before the Living God and I pra
may be clothed in the righteousnc
Christ instead of being naked doesn't
mean God intended us to 1
public here on the earth.
On the subject of indecent <
would like to add that 1 was thorou
pointed and disgusted with the pic
back page of Porfolio. Mr. Tay
pulled that picture three times b
didn't you stand on your convicti
of succumbing to peer pressure. A
"out of your hands now" ? you a
Portfolio and arc ultimately resp
it. Your attitude and flippant rema
becoming to the position of an edit
jor university magazine. God is n
? "For whatever a man sows, tl
also reap."
As for the girl in the picturc an
sunbather, 1 don't believe God wil
answer that "Spring is in the air,'
free thinker." Mr. Taylor, I si
reread your Editor's Page, then co
Guest edil
Obscenity la
Society creates laws and
restrictions on the behavior of its
people and its institutions in
order to run smoothly and prevent
unfair treatment. The lack
thereof would mean chaos.
However, a law repressing a
behavior which neither interferes
with society's functioning not
hurts anyone would contradict its
very justification, and its implementation
would be a total
waste of effort.
Because one's freedom to swing
his arm stops where another's
nose begins, people should mind
their own business and not try to
make laws out of the restrictions
of their belief system when the
behavior they want to forbid in
others is known not to hurt
others physically, materially or
pecuniarily.
This is a pluralistic society, and
no segment of society, regardless
of how powerful or numerous it
be, should impose its own
peculiar restrictions onto the rest
of society. Else such a line of
will print no more than two
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If ic f im/? f a lit Ko/'l o
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exposure I is going on around us.
ghly disap- have been various react
ture on the bing. But the one that
tor, if you of many people who sa
cforc, why up at a house across tl'
ons instead was a white sheet v
Lnd it's not Khadafy" in blood-r
re editor of dangerous attitude t
onsible for shared by many.
irks are not The bombing of Lib
or of a ma- come as a complete <
ot mocked been in the area for a '
lat shall he word of the bombing c
nouncement of more
id the nude Following the bombing
1 accept the three major networks
' or "I'm a that one of our planes
Liggest you things like, "But then
nsiucr your comment yet." As it tu
torial
ws create, in
reasoning would justify, for example,
some religious group
making telephones illegal in
Pennsylvania.
To forbid things on the ground
that other people's feelings not be
hurt is another fallacious line of
reasoning to avoid. Since feelings
are irrational, laws established on
u uums wouiu nc inconercni.
Potentially, anything could be
made illegal and society would
regress. That is why due to the
emotional nature of so-called
obscenity, there can be and is no
agreement over what it is or is
not, and thereby even less rationale
for its restriction. At best,
obscenity is in the mind of the
beholder.
Cross-cultural examinations
indicate beyond gainsay that
there is nothing intrinsically
wrong with nudity. The same
evaluations actually reveal that
the social problems traditionally
attributed to the subject increase
with a society's increased modesty
consciousness, the intolerance
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Mathematics junior
of total or partial human
nakedness. In short, the restriction
creates the vice. A paradox
? that is why the Tassadav uirls.
stark naked ever since their
ancestors shed their hair, do not
know that they arc "obscene and
indecently exposed," while
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e "missing in action," with the
that they arc dead. We also put a
French Embassy by accident.
around campus have been playing
s of the men by saying'that we
hadafy." And we did. Hut at what
as to the I rench Embassy, people
that, "They deserved ii because ^
not let our planes fly over them,
to waste time by going around."
fact that a countrv wants to re
\\ give us the justification to ignore
ut in their embassy? I do not think
top of all this, word on Tuesday is
viets have cancelled an important
the upcoming May summit. This
;hanccs that we will have a summit
lytitne soon. But this is OK,
"showed Libya." ^
inclusion, <$ne more Jibing to fhink W
; sKijVs *e$n" sta? St" [lit* 4*liife of
60 days just by the president
cm there. After that, Congress can
elarc war or recall the troops and
ly for 30 days. That is 90 days that
y and bomb Libya without "ofeclaring
war on Libya. That is
3e we can kill Khadafy. But what
[ be in both human lives and in our
relations? Will it be worth it? I hat
be seen. ^
Earlc Crawford
Journalism, freshman
i, problems
elsewhere a woman exposing her a
face feels guill. Only their respec- ~
tive education can be the cause of
the difference. Ihit it can chanuc.
It is thanks to the obscene and indecent
women who, at the turn of
the century, by outrageously exposing
their ankles, a deviant
behavior at that time, challenging
a strong societal diktat, that
women arc no longer lorced to
wear hot, clumsy and uncomfortable
dresses every day of their
lives, whether or not the weather
suggests it. A
For these reasons, 1 am forced
to conclude that the obscenity
laws interfere with the rational
and efficient working of society
(without mentioning people's inconsistent
suntans). I hey are
another waste of efforts for a
self-defeating purpose, i.e. the
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therefore submit that, like with
the blue laws, only their complete
and permanent removal would
eventually solve the problems
they have created.
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