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Viewpoint 2 ^ Monday, October 27, 1986 Looking out USC security was keeping a keener r i ? * i a i eye out ror students wis weeKena You may have spotted more security officers than usual around campus this Homecoming weekend. a i n ?i ?: 1,? i iu uctti wiiii uic uiiiuA vi aiuiuui, lcictuvcs duu menus, residence halls such as Bates and the Towers requested additional protection from campus police. Danny Baker, USC assistant vice president for law enforcement and safety, said this is standard practice when spcciai uccciMuii^ dueli a?> nuiiiccuiinug uuwu inc campus with guests and visitors. He added that the security guards gladly comply with these requests, because they are genuinely concerned. As usual, the division stationed several security guards at the football game. Baker said since it was a football weekend, law enforcement raised the number of people on duty. "One of the things we do is re-evaluate what to do at different times of the year and add some security on our own," he said. He said the security guards strive to provide a safe environment for students to go to class in. "The welfare of the student is the officers' main concern," Baker said. It's nice to know our mothers aren't the only people looking out for us. Often people wrongly think armed and uniformed police are more concerned with enforcing laws than helping people. The fact is that USC's security guards strive to provide a safe environment for students, and it's time to give them some credit. The added security during Homecoming helped ease the minds of students wanting to relax and spend time with their relatives and old friends. After all, USC's security officers' main concern is working for the students, not against them. m "fo ew the { f ! LOW W'S'UMWT.OH RttLLY 28fl AbouT GWtttf I TD W 1 I W??A,IcoH'T / COUtGI PRtSS I COUfCt PStSS SfRVtCC *sI'LL J ON TH e CZLEBRVfoN ofTF? " j fW? coutGt pfitss^vjcf L I ? I i ] J'?# 1? wracks' Write us a letter Tell us what's on your mind. Letters must There is a limit o be typed, double-spaced and no more than the same writer. : 250 words. Include name, address and We reserve the ri ! telephone number for verification. Names on outdated topic: will not be withheld. Guest editorials are topics. i limited to 500 words. Indicate whether you Write to: Vi | are a student, USC staff member, or com- Gamecock, Drawe i munity member in letters and editorials. Columbia, S.C. 29 ^=g-?'^ m How do these You weren't there. It wasn't pretty, either. 1 was there, with three members of 77i< Gamecock, a few official-looking administra tion types with nice jackets, and one othei student. The purpose of the gathering? Tc decide what to do with the Golden Spur former hotbed of fun, a place where an in credibly good time could be had by al members of USC's family. Although this public forum was called wit! hardly any warning of the event in the paper -i ? ? J ?t * _ ? -1 1 1 i. - * i J we ueciaea 10 go aneau auu iuukc inc uccimui for you because you weren't there. We knew you wouldn't mind. We bandied around a few obscure idea such as turning the Spur into a sushi bar, o perhaps just dress it up in ferns and send first year biology majors through to find the Los Ark or the restroom, whichever come first. . . true, we were incredibly disorganiz ed, partly from slightly pungent cranberr juice, possibly from the effects of seeing th Russell House Theater with the lights on (ver disorienting). The committee showed us the plans SAG/ held for the Spur. Robert Beall, an obscure but highly power Maybe gradual USC celebrated Homecoming recently, ani I suddenly realized hey, I'm going to becom one of the alumni in two months. My, how time flies. I don't know where went, but it's gone, never to be seen agair And that made me sad. When I first considered graduating froi USC a semester ahead of schedule, I though it would be the greatest thing to happen t me. Here I was, a kid who three years ago left place I had lived my entire life (New Jersey to go to a college I never knew much abot until l was about to graduate trom nig school. Now that I'm about to become a truly it dependent adult, in control of my destin; I'm not so sure I made such a splendid choic It's not that I can't handle the 19 hours c | Letters to th nofanco cuctom the s MUIU,,UU meetin is sophisticated ?s7 bornes To the editor: matter The article "Bombed Out" precise which appeared Wednesday, Oct. United 15, in The Gamecock not only would showed the ignorance of the Atlant writer, but a lack of appreciation suppor for a strong United States gram, military defense against Com- ly to e munist aggression. Firstly, the beyont notion that President Reagan indeed should have made a permanent existed agreement with the Soviet Union, primai a country who doesn't even weapo respect the rights of its own type < ritiypnc mnrh Ipse thp riohfQ of threat* J others within a 36-hour period, is of the utterly preposterous. It is obvious ning ifThT Editor in Chief f two letters per month by Linda Taylor Managing Editor ght to stop printing letters John Boyette s to make room for new ^TphTam'> Assistant Copy ewpoint Editor, The Desk Chief r A, Russell House, USC, Wendy Eden 208. New* Editor Buddy Moore IP Mi 1 GOTTA GO WITH TWb IWPEEN W TO FELU, PERVIS.... Hlf? TV $R7T? * .WjfiS HAVE SUCKER PROPUCTION VAIA AND HMIF fT^ITIONEC 1WE CANI "A PATE. WELL WITH A MEPIA W ^ THAT TAR6ET5AN Uf^ALE v 'answers' for thi ' ' i r sjB ' f i ful political figure in the student government, broke the seal on top secret, coded documents labelled "SAGA: the Spur, the World." s As the plans unfolded, the journalists, r myself and what's-his-name, the only student there, gazed in mute horror at the sinister prot portions the SAGA plan took, s Encompassing all aspects of the campus food program, the real plot was to slip y Ibogaine, a particularly insidious drug, into e the daily bread of students, faculty and ady ministration, making us slaves for the powerful masters of reality: food service middle \ management. As you can imagine, we were whipping up a righteous frenzy as the plot unfolded before ting early isn't a in Tom Gatto | a Jt ;h classes this semester, or the three jobs I have, or the constant pressure of finding gainful i- employment after I graduate (or at least pary, ticipate in commencement) this December, e. I just don't quite want to let go of college )f lite yet. Le editor oviet Union used the world doom, high g at Iceland as a propagan- and exotic weaponry it to enhance world outcry rent to war is a realit eagan's so-called "stub- if it is nuclear or nol s" on SDI. The fact of the we as citizens of th is, the Soviet Union knew should appreciate 1 ly beforehand what the that has existed foi States position on SDI years and the soph be, and with the North our military defense ic Treaty Organization's this freedom possibl t fr\r Rpaoan's *\DI nrn the Soviets tried desperateliminate scientific research Junior, manage j the laboratory. Secondly, the reason why peace has I since World War II is ily due to sophisticated Editor's note: Opin nry as a deterrent to the Gamecock's editoria :>f Soviet regression that sensus of the entire s ins the democratic values researched and writi free world. Finally, concer- point Editor Juliet i the writer's paranoia of casionally another si , trnrnBrntmrnrnammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Gamecock Assistant New* Editors Sport* Editor A my OelPo jeff Shrewsbury Maria Fratus Assistant Sports Kditor Viewpoint Editor Wayne Washington Juliet Nader Photography Kditor >!e Money Editor Jennifer Steib Wendy Eden Assistant Photography Edi Features Editor Thomas Humphrey Paula Wethinpton Klckoff/iiraphic# Editor Assistant Features Editor Tracy Mixson Kathryn Jeffries I s Spur grab ya? * our eyes. We realized, with massive amounts of Ibogaine in our system, no graduate would be able to get a job in any field that required urinalysis tests; which pretty well cuts out most of the major departments in the university (except maybe English), and definitely leaves open the "door to success" in routes such as McDonald's or Taco Bell. Robert begged us not to bombard the Grand Marketplace with flour, but instead, urged us to go and spread the word around campus, to all students, faculty, administra- ^ tion, to come to the organizational workshop for the Sub-committee to Recapture the Spur (SCRS) from 5 to 6 p.m. tommorrow in the Russell House Theater. There, our leaders will show us how to think for ourselves and; guide our destinies toward realization of that Ultimate Goal: having a place to go to at night to dance, hear bands, or just mess around like those crazy collegians that we are.Or do whatever you want to do. All you . have to do is show up. : m Tom Red wine is resting nicely now, and the w doctors say he can have visitors in a few days. The 5 to 6 p.m. workshop isn't a hallucination, it's real. splendid idea Of course, I won't miss the lousy dorm rooms, the leaky bathrooms, the stale cafeteria food or the stodgy professors. But I will miss all the good people I've met and all the good times I've shared with them. They far outweigh any negative things that i might have happened. And with my time at South Carolina running out, my mind more and more recalls the I best three or so years of my life. I'll never let go of those memories, and I want to add on to them. That makes me sad. Because I know I won't be able to do it as a student, but rather as an alumnus. Tom Gatto is a lowly sports writer for The Gamecock who is heading the 'you-knowwhat' out of Dodge in December. ^ , Labels wrongly t. Therefore, put on liberals e free world the freedom To the editor: r over forty This letter is directed to the istication of closed-minded person who took . e that made it upon herself to decide for the \ e! entire campus that as a liberal- ! minded student, me, my friends Brian Smith and other liberal-minded students men! science are stupid, unhappy, gay and ; communist. What gives this young woman, or anybody else the right to choose for me my' ; iions in The social, emotional, sexual or 'Is are a con- political status? . taff, and are First, 1 do not consider myself ; ten by View- stupid. In fact, due to my open Wader or oc- mind, 1 consider to have allowed ; 'aff member. " n*n? % _ - r" : Special Assignments Director of Student Media Editor Bill Clements Hal Millard Production ) Staff Artist Mark Armstrong ! Robb Lane Lewis Covington Datebook Editor Advertising Manager lor Bobby Jones Margaret Michels v Advisor Assistant Advertising Manager Bill Rogers Jan Hodges Graduate Assistant Margaret Renkl y ^