The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 27, 1986, Page 3, Image 3
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I feci it necessary to answer allegations in
the editorial of the Oct. 8 Gamecock ("Improved?")
concerning the disbanding of the
Student Organization Licensing Commission.
Some of the statements in the editorial arc not
founded on facts but on rhetoric and could
very well lead to misunderstandings on the
students' part as to the purpose behind
PL(86)027.
I anticipated this response on the part of
^ some students who might think that Student
Government has sold out once again to the
administration and taken away the students'
power. This is not so. Though it cannot be
argued that the hill had the administration's
backing, it also had the backing of the Executive
Committee and Student Senate.
The statement, "the decision of which
groups should be on campus is now being
decided solely by administrators" is false.
The decision of which groups to allow on
campus has been taken out of the hands of the
i! administration by the courts. The federal an^discrimination
clause covers all aspects of
^ the university, including student
I organizations.
' This precedent was set by the court case
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Student Association in 1983. In making the
decision of which organizations to allow on
campus, the students have no more choice
than the administration. We on SOLC were
reminded several times of the fact that, by
law, no organization may be denied a license
if all requirements are met.
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Harry Sharpe
The allegation of "lack of interest and
commitment shown by former student
members of the (SOLC)" is incorrect. First,
the SOLC was composed entirely of students.
There was no administration official at the
meetings. Second, the members were interested
and committed enough to apply for
and serve on the committee. Members of the
committee will tell you just how committed
they were when meetings ran for three hours.
Implying that SOLC members were not
"upstanding" is unwarranted and false. The
senators and student volunteers who served
on SOLC do not deserve this treatment from
The Gamecock and deserve an apology.
The removal of any direct association with
the university is not an effort to encouragc
"responsible" groups but is a move to provide
the university with protection from being
named in a legal case. With the removal of the
doctrine of sovereign immunity the university
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is more vulnerable to lawsuits. Further, this
action was in no way intended to imply that
groups arc irresponsible or not "commendable"
in their behavior.
The new policy docs not remove all association
with the university, onlv forbids usage of
the university's name or initials in the name of
the group. Already last spring all groups were
asked to remove the uiversity's name from
bank accounts. This was not an administration
move but an order from the State
Treasurer's office.
Finally, the main reason for implementing
the Student Organization Registration System
was simplicity. No organization can be denied
a license without threat of a lawsuit. No
organization ever came before SOLC without
first meeting all the requirements set by the
univcisty. The office of Student Affairs did
all the work, and will continue to do so. All
PL(8^)027 did was legitimize the present
system and remove some of the red tape involved.
As such it did not diminish student
power in the least.
Harry Sharpe is a student senator and former
member of SOLC.
Editor's note: All information in the "Improved?"
editorial in the Oet. 8 issue of The
Gamecock was obtained from Student
Government President Amy Houser, and
Coordinator of Student Organizations
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myself to be exposed to many i
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Second, I am not unhappy in
my choice of liberalism. I can
assure you that if I were unhappy
with my choice, I would not have
made it, or would have changed it
by now.
Third, 1 am heterosexual, but
why and how issue of sexuality
entered into this person's definition
of me and other liberals is
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It is the freedom of choice
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Yes, 1 am definitely liberal,
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if she is so immature as to run a
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realize what she is doing to
herself and others before she
hurts someone.
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to let Madame Sadat go. I
question whether there should be !
a place at USC for such cruds.
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follow up his Caribbean and ,
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work. Both are eminently i
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homelands. The addition of these j
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would further enhance USC's i
renowned international
reputation.
Nobody has any right to complain
about Holderman spending
$125,000 on a tent for a banquet
or about the Rolex watches he
gave the 15 leaders of the Caribbean
states. Docs anyone really
believe he should have given
Mickey Mouse watches to them?
Foreign dictators and their wives
demand the very best.
If tuition continues to increase,
that's the price we have to pay for
rnsiirinp that riponlc from Bocota
to Bangkok do not continue to
confuse the real USC with
Southern Cal. And a 14 percent
increase is a small one at that.
The Greenville News says
Holderman is pompous and arrogant.
But around Strom Thurmond
and other world leaders
I've seen him around, he is as
humble as a churchmouse.
Like Holderman, I greatly
sympathize with the white rulers
of South Africa. As far as I'm
concerned, all these sissified
liberals running around here
whining about USC divesting in
South Africa can shut up or go to
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