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7 "V iewpoifit i) * ^ Friday, October 3, 1986 Fear Danger of getting social diseases makes students less sexually actii The sexual revolution has slowed considerably. This situation is a result of a number of incidents, fro the TP-P?:tahlishmpnt r?f rnncprvativp mnral i;a1iif>c tr> t outbreak of several social diseases. Perhaps the ma reason is one particular disease: Acquired Immunity De ciency Syndrome, or AIDS. It kills. And it has no cure. College students have the reputation of being pr miscuous. Many are out on their own for the first tir without parents around to monitor their every move. So isn't surprising many choose this time to experiment wi their sexuality. The possibility of getting AIDS means many young pe pie's lives will be quite different. Fear of this social disea has helped bring back monogamous relationships, ai celibacy lias become chic for the more career-oriented today's collegians. Many students now claim they are born-again virgir and sex on the first date is not very popular. In the Sept. 25 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, a surv of 2,600 college students conducted by resear psychologist Srully Blotnick found only 19 percent now a prove of an occassional one-night stand. In 1966, 48.1 p( cent approved. A main reason given for this decline w the fear of sexually transmitted diseases. The outbreak of AIDS has increased tensions bet we homosexuals and heterosexuals, and, according to Rolli> Stone, homosexuals have adopted the habit of asking th< potential partner about sexual and medical histories. The survey found, however, "straight" students ha not changed their sexual habits, although many ha limited their number of partners out of fear of infectio 1 hey hardly ask questions of partners and don't tend practice "safe sex." Students should start considering the consequences having several sexual partners. They should not be afraid to ask. It may be better to suffer the embarrassment of quizzi a potential partner, than risking sexual diseases that m be harmful or fatal. Word on the street Are singles today becoming les sexually active, promiscuous? r / i , k Vf "I think they are because "Society is becoming I they are afraid of diseases restrictive. Each year it g and a lot of people are look- worse; you can tell by inn fnr o rnlo+innnUin m + Unv rinn nf on?i?l " my iui a iciaiiuiioiujj laillCI Jiae ui dULltil UldCdbCS. than just a tumble in bed." Kathy Clark Sharon Thomp Undeclared freshen Psychology sophon I S|NjfS HjH ^* JH [ ifilfe 9&Jh r Eg \ BfflBB '( "Even with the diseases "| do believe singles that have been occuring, sex getting less sexually ai will always be sex and peo- because they've bee pie -'will always have it no aware of all the AIDS sc matter what, they'll just be and herpes scares. The careful." become more shrewd be they do something. Jennifer Reed Bob S journalism rresnman unemical engineering fresl ?Write us a letter u n in ?m?a? Tell us what's on your mind. Letters must There is a limi be typed, double-spaced and only 250 words. the same write Include name, address and telephone We reserve tl number for verification. Names will be on outdated t< withheld upon request. Guest editorials are topics. limited to 500 words. Indicate whether vou Write to: I are a student, a USC staff member or a com- Gamecock, Dr munity member in letters and editorials. Columbia, S.C I O- | ^ ne c,y * Getting in shapi en ng For those of you who have ever thought ;jr about getting in shape, attempted to get in shape (several times), are now getting in snape, or nave oeen in snape since tne age 01 ' four when you sprinted away from your franve tic mother after you'd slipped out of her grasp n. and hauled it out of the bathtub, I think we've to all shared some common experiences. I'm starting a new campaign to get fit for r- the twelfth time this year. You would think I ( would look like Miss USA after all the starts I've made. Just for the effort I should be awarded my loss of fifteen pounds. rig i reniemoer me aays wnen i was jusi staray ting out. I would psyche myself up to go jog, and pull the old Nikes out from under the mountain of dirty laundry. I cheered myself on as I frantically searched for a matching pair of sweat socks, finally settling for one brand new and one barely survivihg. Then I was all ready to become Bruce Jen!? ner in one dav. Well, that ninedream didn't "" " ' r r quite materialize. As I rounded a corner after about 15 minutes of intense gravel-burning, I started to heave and sweat from the new senIsation in my vacationing lungs. Then began all the arguments in my head ? "Keep going, it feels great!" versus "Come on, be sensible, stop, go home and call Domino's." P Needless to say I tound a compromise as 1 slowed to a walk. But, never fear, every time a car passed by I would begin pounding the Letters to the Wrong decision Z"om? ? ^ mm could be e: ess made By staff be no m< statements |6tS viously fla the To the editor: enough re As a former journalism stu- our studer dent, I understand that there is This an no way the media can satisfy all written b\ of its publics. What I and many (or appro> son other students don't understand ing what r lore is the relevance of the article writ- staff is tr; a ten in the Sept. 30 issue of The tinuously Gamecock entitled, "Black peo- ten, racial pie score lower on 1Q tests that The rej white, according to professors." definitely First, I must say this is the se- views at q cond time that I have seen this many oth ^"8* very same article or an article so all of thei I similar that specific statements in one leti are exactly the same that was It is sac printed in The Gamecock. It is The Gam obvious that this article isn't the so low at view of anyone (writer) on The of this cal Gamecock staff, but someone is front pag responsible for approving this more new raciallv over-toned article to be articles t plastered on the front page of other thai arp The Gamecock. Reading this arti. cle leaves qi ;stions on my mind. CtiVG Why is The Gamecock address- Jui 'Ome 'ng comPetence ?f blacks as opposed to whites. Why has The Qf of 4 ares Gamecock never published an ar- ? ? iv've l'c'e l^at states why, if in fact, '1 blacks actually show lower IH Di ifore scores? f Lastly, why has The Gamecock To the edi , , failed to let articles by W.E.B. This let hultZ Dubois, Louis Farrakhan, or recent ar hman Jesse Jackson appear in the people sc I he i F-dltor In Chief A t of two letters per month by Linda Taylor A r. Managing Editor A fie right to stop printing letters ^otin B?yette * ^niPC t a mal/A rAA m f?r I I Copy !>**>< thief J w ...... .www. .w. Stephen Guilfoyle S ... c j * * ru A?slgJ?nl Copy F Viewpoint Editor, The De#k Chief F awer A, Russell House, USC, Wendy Eden f 29208. News Editor A Buddy Moore A ( e holds memorie Juliet Nader Jjj pavement once again to convince the driver I was an avid athelete, and just in case I knew the occupants, they would think the same thing. The battle continued for about 10 more minutes when I passed a house with two guys niltciHp Thpu u/hictlpH m n art A that iuic if If I looked good enough to warrant a whistle, then why was I out here (didn't take much to convince me, did it?)? Time to go home. So, I did. Hello, Domino's? Then there was the beginning of my aerobics stint. I went out and bought a lowcut, high-cut neon pink leotard with shiny black tights. I figured if I looked good I would feel better about exercising. Well, that idea back-fired. Since I looked so good I felt like I had to do extra well in class because I would make a fool out of myself if I looked t editor r this, one can argue than whites, accor of these view points professors." <treme, but they would I am a black journali 5re extreme than the and I detestfully feel t of the racist whose ob- was in poor taste. My c wed studies were given plaint is, there was n trartls to he nrinted in rplpvanrp in fH*? nrtirlf* it paper. really had no journalist d many other articles The article was racially t The Gamecock staff ed, offensive to blacks, /ed) leaves me wonder- important it contained i nessage The Gamecock figures or evidence, /ing to convey by con- Obviously, the artic publishing poorly writ- offensive to its black re ly overtoned articles. I'm almost certain the 3eat of such incidents of its white readers c leaves their ethical less because they're noi uestion. This article has being attacked. Exaci er racial discrepancies; group of readers was I ti could not be covered supposed to appeal to? ter. the article have to app< 1 but quite obvious that front page of The G ecock staff's IQ drops How many more racia times to have an article articles can we as read iber to be printed on the to appear in The Game e when there have been " also find it quite i 'sworthy black-oriented me Gamecock found hat appear on pages i._ /s-worthy enough t n the front. in the newspaper at all, same time failed to real Erlynda Mitchell tide supplied no ilor, retail management outline to support these finHinoc Alcr? ? laimn failed to explain "wh CflUlol score lower on IQ te< ' ? _A_ M.. leaves you with the mer lifting Story tion that blacks are "supposed to" score lc itor: ly because they're bl ter is in response to the truth of the matter is, tide entitled, "Black was racially offensive ore lower on 1^ tests tacttuiiy written in a p jamecock assistant News Editors Mary Pearson S I my DelPo Sports Editor I J aria Fratus Jeff Shrewsbury S Uu/nnUl I'/llln. i.tllloxl Unnrl. IMIln. L uliet Nader Wayne Washington loney Editor Photography Editor ' \itrick Jean Jennifer Steib futures Editor Assistant Photography Editor 'aula Wethington Thomas Humphrey ,?shtt?nl Feature *Cdltors Klckoff/Graphlcs Kditor I 'athryr, Jeffr, Tracy Mixson I - 1 "1 Collage Press Ser^LjU^ny ^" | vm ? J s I will forget ?' like Jane Fonda and pooped out after the second fast routine. What added to the dilernna was when I walked in and everybody asked if I was the instructor. They couldn't understand why I sud ucniy conapsea wun nysiericai laugnter. i aid miraculously manage to keep up with the instructor until the end ? not because I was in great shape, but mainly because I didn't want to embarrass the Danskin company. A r*. i_ * r i. - ? - - /Aiicrwarus, 1 ieu great, ana u wasn i unin the next morning that I found out I couldn't move ? at all. I tried to lift my head off the pillow to no avail. Finally I just collapsed into my bed ? I'll try tomorrow. My dreams were filled with Aerobics instructors yelling, "come on, just one more!" The next day I got up resisting the screams of protest coming from every muscle in my body. I limped to the kitchen where I gorged five pounds of food, negating all that hard work two days before, then went back to bed. After all, I deserved it. It would've been hard for me to imagine then that eventually I would begin to teach the Aerobics class ? I called it Naderobics, and now i ve gouen revenge on au tne instructors who relentlessy yelled "just one more!" My motto is "come on you guys, just five more!!" Juliet Nader is Viewpoint Editor of The Gamecock. | ft: ding to manner. In the future, I suggest that sm major The Gamecock newspaper staff he article carefully review its material hief com- before publication, especially o overall when it attacks a certain group of in that it people. ic appeal. overton- Taminy Thorpe and most Senior, journalism io factual le as quite Hollings voted adersand r jP' majority lOf raiSlflO 306 ould care ** u t the ones the editor: tly, what The voune democrats at I ISP :he article should withdraw their support Why did fr0m Fritz Hollings because he ;ar on the voted for the federal mandate of amecockl raising the drinking age to 211 lly biased Since the YD's feel like ers expect students are being railroaded >cock1 because they don't vote and ronic that aren't active, and circulating a the article petition against the drinking age o publish increase; their support of incum- ^ but at the bant HollinRS is hvDOcritical. ize the ar- Henry McMaster, the 39 yearstatistical old Republican candidate for the : "suppos- United States Senate, opposes the he article federal mandate to raise the y" blacks drinking age, believing it should its, which be ieft Up t0 the states to decide, e assumpnaturally God bless America! >wer simp- God bless President Reagan! lack. The God bless Henry McMaster! the article and was .Innlr* Krnfftf oor racial Senior, management ^ .' Willi. mi . ., ;V:'' - ' . mi luff artist Production Vobb Lane Mark Armstrong iptclal Assignments Lewis Covington Editor Arfv?Hl?lna Muhquav ial Millard Margaret Michels tdvlsor Assistant Advertising Manager ?/// Rogers Jan Hodges ;raduate Assistant Margaret Renkl )lrector of Student Media . 3ill Clements