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* ^ 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?
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they are afraid of diseases restrictive. Each year it g
and a lot of people are look- worse; you can tell by
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than just a tumble in bed."
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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
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* Getting in shapi
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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?
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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
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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 *
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w ...... .www. .w. Stephen Guilfoyle S
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Viewpoint Editor, The De#k Chief F
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29208. News Editor A
Buddy Moore A
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Juliet Nader
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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
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Collage Press Ser^LjU^ny
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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.
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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 ^
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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