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"V i 0 w p o i n t $ \ 2 Friday, October 10, 1986 iiwi No excuse Get out there, express opinions: \/nto attanrl ramniiQ i/i/nrte/innc r v iu/ uiii/iiu i/uriiji/uu ww iwji The excuse that it's the beginning of the year is not valid anymore. Students on this campus have not been showing concern fV\r ieciiAC lotnK/ ac Ki; fU/i Innlr Ir* ? ?/% i vi ijouvo uo nu|jiajfvu \j y lliv, lciv.iv UI UllWlL-.M 111 IWU important events: alcohol and elections. A workshop was held Oct. 1 for students to voice complaints and suggestions to alleviate the problem of strict alcohol consumption and party guidelines instated by the administration. Although there have been many gripes about the harsh rules such as prohibiting drinking at parties during the week, and "invasion of privacy" by searching students' belongings at the dorms, there was low at lenuence ai mc meeting to discuss changes in the new alcohol policy. Luckily, concerned members of the Carolina community such as Student Government President Amy Houser were there to represent these apathetic students. She proposed extending the required hour of terminating on-campus partfrom 1am tn ? a m According to Jerry Brewer, Dean of Student Life, who represented the administration at the workshop, the administrators cannot determine what is in the best interest of students without getting feedback. He said the suggestions brought up would be considered for the spring semester. So the students' opinions do count and if more students had attended the workshop, at least they would be confident that the flHministratinn wac rnncirlfrino thfir in future decisions. Also lacking interest was the recent Student Government secretary elections. After the controversy of having the SG president appoint the new secretary position once it had been vacated, students didn't even show up at the polling places. Only 450 students voted. Not only is that number not enough to get a sufficient majority, it isn't enough to get a II UC lUIlSCUMJS. Now, how are administrators and student government supposed to know how students feel if they don't even express it by attending workshops, or voting for the right candidate. Get out there and express your opinion, there are no more valid excuses. Knee deep Ancient Columbia drainage system causes inconvenience, accidents It's obvious it rained yesterday. It's even more obvious some of this sudden downpour caused several problems. Something needs to be done about the drainage system on the strce? v of Columbia. Flooding was especially evident and hazardous on campus, causing many near-accidents. For some icason the drains have been strategically placed at some points where the level of the openings are up to two inches above the ground level. The city of Columbia needs to alleviate this problem, which seems to have occurred through erosion around the ancient drainage svstems. A plethora of wading pools formed, and some side gutters were reminiscent of Niagara Falls. Comments were heard around campus about wearing bathing suits and swimming or canoeing to class, and those who wore leather shoes had to chuck them out for duck shoes. The city needs to get a corps of engineers together to devise some new protection from future downpours of this intensity. Hopefully, it will not take a number of deaths for the city to realize something needs to be done. Heavy rain is endangering lives, and until the city finds some way to curtail the flooding, use care in walking and driving through these slick spots. I CCXUGt M?SS uuvtct - - - T j io> nmy, WHE. w&tm>em Write us a letter Tell us what's on your mind. Letters must There is a limit of tv be typed, double-spaced and only 250 words. the same writer. Include name, address and telephone We reserve the righ numoer ior vcrmcauuii. n<tiucM win uc uii uuiumcu tupio i withheld upon request. Guest editorials are topics. limited to 5(H) words. Indicate whether you Write to: Viev are a student, a USC staff member or a com- Gamecock, Drawer / munity member in letters and editorials. Columbia, S.C. 292C A MMDM ChicflfBbme I PQN'T KNOW, PETRoV,... '4 SOMETHING AEOUT TUB OT |gl flKMEHECREBBS U A toast to teens At 11:37 a.m. today, I will officially be 20 years old. It's a birthday I am neither excited about nor well-prepared for. I still can't drink ? legally. I won't sleep late; I've already filled the absence quota in most of my classes. Those hassles, however, are minimal com V* r* tAn o/\n/>arn? m\f tnnnann t/oorc yen v~u iu iiiv, iuj; tuucvi u. 1117 ivvuugv ;vui j are over. Whoa. What was that? I won't be a teenager any more? I'm actually getting older? I'll no longer be able to blame my irresponsibility on my age. I've probably used up at least 25 percent of my life as I head towards the world of careers, wages, and no spring breaks. If I live to be a teenager again in 2079, I won't have any of my spunk or dark hair. The teenage years are gone. But return now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, as we relive events which every ex-teen remembers with innocent, melancholy pride: Officially a teen. Yeah, the day you turned 13. Puberty. Pimples. Mood swings. Raising hell with your friends and ire with your parents. Mom and Dad looked upset that day, not because their little child is growing up, but because they are entering into seven years of pure hell. You made sure of that. First day of high school. No matter how cool you thought you were or how dominant or confident you had been in the past, this I Tar* . 4 betters to the Article insults Ecdiccd campus blacks However, I community To the editor: Gamecock Well Gamecock editors, 1 dissension would say you broke your record among a ci this semester for stirrinc the emo- of vounc tions of non-traditional ? Black future leac ? students on this campus. You community manage to include such trash as "Black people score lower on IQ tests than whites . . (Wed. Oct 1, 1986) in at least one or two issues each semester. Wonders ? small minds ? flga'ffgars never cease. You managed to UtJICll print your most recent insult ? just five weeks after classes COSJIQ began, yet right in the midst of exams for many classes ? which To the edit is probably some of the same tac- 1 attenc tics used by these so-called Defense fo researchers. day night, Tests and performance are two P.E. Cent different thines. However. l ane. This Gamecock, your IQ in terms of offered by sensitivity is equal to that of your disappoint performance in serving the total students al population of this campus. "0." disappoint You never fail to degrade black He taught students with tidbits of what you other it consider to be "news." However, methods) you do a poor job of reporting when conf the positive aspects of black stu- rapist. Th< dent life. You are preparing your 2. Keep th< staff for careers in South Africa jewelry or M avU arkr U i ? ?? 4 Un i i I # I 1 C ^ A D . |jci iuijj:*, uin iiui in nit mum- inc. l\u ethnic society of America. Then The reas again, South Africa will not even for this cla have room for your biased and tised in ZZZZ [The C Kdilor in Chief As /o letters per month by Linda Taylor A> Managing Kditor M t to stop printing letters John ^?yet,e y ~ l,^ Copy Desk Chief JU o make room for new Stephen Guil/oyte M Assisianl Copy Pi vpoint Editor, The Desk Chief Ke V, Russell House, USC, Wendy Eden Pi News Kditor At Buddy Moore A'< I ^ y r'r-^hiw*irii 'iif, ige years I'll be Patrick Jean ^ vrj N - I was a new world. Older students looking down upon you without pity or pleasure. Long hallways leading to uncertain classes and cloudy futures. You felt small that day and scared out of your wits. But you lived to talk about it, and maybe even graduated. First kiss. Aw, how sweet. Wasn't it great? Wherever it was. whenever it was. filed forever in the brain's library of life-changing events. You felt like the ruler of the world and the greatest of your gender. False metaphors, but still a great day. Growing up. A birthday, break-up, or some other bittersweet event that makes you think. A long stare in the mirror. You suddeneditor attitudes in the near because of a progran "The Onrah Winfrr i journalism major. She had as her guests hope I never serve my who had been jailed fc so poorly as The of rape, not just on : which cultivates were repeat offender: rather than harmony agreed that rape is nol liturally diverse group passion. It does not rr people preparing for victim is ugly, pretty, iership of that same fat, thin, old, young crime of power, domi violence. Sallie A. Butler The men also all < Journalism junior usually if a woman course in self-defcns cannot be raped, not rnnrQP her stren^th but bec? ww wUUI wC awareness and alerti 0 urged every woman to save me defense course becau like themselves who or: dieted to raping as an led my first "Self- to alcohol. r Women" class Mon- Our instructor aske Oct. 6, at the Blatt vite our friends to cal er taught by Daniel attend the next sessior i is one of the courses be Oct. 13, Monday n CPU. We were all very in the Combatative Rc ed because only three day your life could t [tended, but not at all tne Knowledge you ga ed by our instructor, class. us (along with lots of nportant defense Elizabe the four basic rules Mature freshm ronted by a robber or a :y are: 1. Don't panic. MinSctar'c e defense simple. 3. No WilliIDICI o valuable is worth your n like hell, if possible. U8flGTICI3I ion 1 decided to sign up iss after seeing it adver- To the editor: The Gamecock was Those who missed ramecock sistanl News fall tor* Mary Pearson c jia fty ist'ifis npuris ivtiicur aria fratus Jeff Shrewsbury ewpoint hdltor Assistant Sport# Kdltor rliet Nader Wayne Washington uney fcditor Photography Kdltor /trick Jean Jennifer Steih mures Kdllor Assistant Photography Kdltor ndu Wethington Thomas Humphrey distant Features hdltors Kkkoff/Ciraphlcs Kdltor jthryn Jeffries Tracy Mixson ? -rj5S<. ' # i '* "? i leaving behind *! ly realized that childhood was over. You were thinking about aging, what to do after high school, how to organize life now to be happy in the future. Welcome to stage one of adulthood. cnoosing a aestmy. uoing into college, work or the armed forces. Getting married or becoming a bum. Settling into a daily regimen of life and compromising with the world around you instead of rebelling against it: Arguing with your parents less, and beginning ? to understand who they are and how they raised you. Hoping you'll do as well with your kids. You're becoming, perish the thought, older. And wiser. i There are other memorable events of teen life, such as learning to drive and drinking that first beer (hopefully not on the same day). Writing about them could fill The Gamecock for the rest of the year. But why harp on them? These good and bad events made us grow up and taught us lessons about life. However, they're part of an era which a you have left behind or are about to, like me. As I launch the journey towards my 21st birthday, I will sit wistfully with a beer, toast j my unpredictable and educational teens, wipe a tear from my eye, and pluck the gray hairs from my arms. My teenage years will always influence me, but I'm letting them go. Reluctantly. t?J # l 1 saw on Dr. losenh Ton's three talks :y Show." should consider his message. Hethree men speaks as a man of conviction, >r the crime and relates an experience that too ce, but all few of us seem to fully unders5. They all tand. As a Christian minister a crime of from a Communist country, Dr. latter if the Ton gives us a first hand report tall, short, on Communism in Romania, : rape is a where religious and political nance, and freedom of expression apparently do not exist. When the Cornagreed that munist boss came to his church, has had a says Dr. Ton, people there were ? e that she frightened for his teachings about because of the meaning of exitence might mse of her after all be taken as some form of ness. They anti-government subversion. The take a self- first Communist boss who came ise of men had wealth, power, influence, are as ad- women ? yet confessed the emp alcoholic is tiness and despair that life had come to hold for him. He gave :d us to in- Dr. Ton permission to speak frecII CPU and ly within his district. Later, 1 which will another Communist boss had Dr. ight at 8:30 Ton arrested, held subject to in>om. Some- terrogation, and physically A >e saved by beaten. in from this But out of this came someting worthwhile. For Dr. Ton discovered the true meaning of th Williams existence through suffering for an, nursing his faith in Lord Jesus Christ. Such a discovery could never tfllllf have been achieved in the pursuit la 11% Qf transient pleasures ? of protO 3II Perty, power or privelege. John Godwin the first of Graduate student, history i | |j| WMaMMnMMMnHHMMMMnMmNMMHMNMMIMMIMHIIiailHWMHMMmAai Staff artist Production Robb Lane Mark Armstrong Special Assignments Lewis Covington jj Editor Advertising Manager Hal Millard Margaret Michels Advisor Assistant Advertising Manager Bill Rogers Jan Hodges Graduate Assistant Margaret Renkl Director of Student Media Bill Clements ^ *