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> Viewpoint 2 ^ Wednesday, December 10, 1986 iHf GAMr.COCKmiMMiMiiiB mmmmmmmmammmmammmmmmBmmmmmm Final evaluation Editorials, articles, letters, prints but what has been accomplishei I lie plight of the University of South Carolina bete during and alter the lawsuit against the university for release of Sadat's salary has been greatly publicized. Pr dent llolderman wanted publicity for the employment I'M!', names, tincl lie got it, but lie also got publicity he die Wfint. ( ountless editorials, positive and negative, as well te.uiucs, news stories, columns, and letters have been w ten ;uid broadcast about this issue in everything from University of Radford's The Tartan to The CharU Ohsuver, The New York limes, WIS TV, and A atnonj' others. Now what needs to be evaluated is the impact a'l publicity has had on the progress of this university. What Holderman had in mind when he brought in these famous names is commendable. He provided the 4 i . ... * . 1 - . I- ? I 4 .1 pens i(>I us; visiung icciurcis who were mu lop anu m icspectcd in their fields. I in r what appalled the students of this university was cost, because, although the lecturers were beneficial improved the value of their diploma, it was at their pense. Revelation of this expense came at a time when s binding lor IJSC is in danger of being cut, which w( cause a tuition increase deadly tor many students. >?< victims of a tuition increase who will not be back next ; and other students are mistakenly assuming the mt paid lor Sadat's three semesters is a cause for the tui inciease. Ill is is not good for these students' view of administration. Having important people such as Sadat on can b: ought prestige, but with it, and the lawsuit, unfortun 1\ came infamy. A university should be known for outs ding academics, rather than for the company it ke Keeping company with famous names can tend t( glamorous, but not necessarily prestigious. Glamoi 11icc, hut also frivolous. The visiting professors were ai ctedible asset and we would hate to lose them in the a math of this controversy. But those who have nothing a name itself to of fer should not be hired in the futur Maybe now that we have the public's attention we ch.iiinel it into a more positive image with more prestig employees, and less names hired with such hefty sums lame's sake. I "SIP, CPRX>iTiOH 1 .. P? COHFUSOtf. *iu >ouu 'AFMS if IRSN aNi> hK/r qu\TH surg. \*Xfy SCCMSTO... WUTTblUiNK. [ -?^\ ) tm is '{. vtO GReaT Jtmvmsx. * \ 4_#%Jfc>Aa ||k& .|ii% 1 * v - t^r> ;/vr* l**# >au sM-r%>*+. m**?p v ^W|\\ JH .^? c. I . ^ . 1 not 'tJYui ft rrifii apteovm fafil "?,i-.i , [M't.'f*t> ur.^ift, iH/.r i'j A yi.cn cn<'V-.1 Happy Holidays froi The Gamecock Stai _ ' > | r ~ Write us a letter I HI w . what's on \oui iiiiiicI I oilers musl I here is a 'i - tsped, double spaced and no more than I he same vvn yo words. Include name, address and We rcservi r I? {ih<>11? number tor veiilication Names on outdated .'.ill not t>< Aiihhcld ( iiiesl ed11<111;<Is are topics. :!ni((l to M)0 wolds Indicate whether von VV*rile l( it' .1 student. I S( stall member, <>i com (u/tmrock, I ii'Uhiiv member in letters and editorials ( olumhia, S i; >d 1 i? 1 >rc, \\ the || es'" w I *,l - Till cxtatc mid Z What finals, sal nicy i / m Irving real hard to give a damn, 1 tola the myself last year when I went home for Christmas Break. 1 was drained by exams and inns a scmcstcr ?' what seemed to be the hardest 1 classes I had ever taken. I was just not I'ltCprepared to put myself into that Christmas tail- state of mind. < cps. I had only bought one present, so I was ) be forced to fight The Mall Crowds, put close to ir is $100 on my only credit card, and overextend 1 in my crct^1 ''m'1 'n doing so, making Dad real angry when he got the bill. "er" So, 1 was pushing and shoving my way but through people who started shopping while I e. was studying for my exams, preparing for my can finals, and writing those last few term papers, jous a,,d they were complaining how they didn't have enough time to buy presents. I thought it was ironic. Books for inv brother, a sweater for one sister, earrings lor another, and a desk set lor Dad were all gilts bought with good inten 7 tions, bur with a drudgery on both my part and the salespeople's. The only gift that brought me any satisfaction in the buying was a small statue/music box lor Morn. Morn loves angels and this one L was perfect. Hut it was still the lirsi gilt I A bought, so even that satisfaction disappeared P when I had to face The Mall Crowds to get those books, sweater, etc. for the rest. Hut the shopping wasn't half as bad as corning home and finding the Christmas tree L already in place. I never helped put the tree up Bk before, but I was always there when it went 11P- aiJd I was able to tell Mom what she F f f rv f ll ~ NAACP provides 1 Z. m black was racial respect (unities tl I o the ecr or: take lor gi I appreciate the letter in the a iradiiioi Nov. 24 issue of The (iatneeoek As lor t - a. ... UI.. .I i MI iw uuiiA u|;(ii(iinin. i |UI?;CUY1I, 1 would imagine that events such as hundreds ihe Miss Black America Pageant to develo and organizations like the conl'idenci NAAC.'P appear to he a form of very aggrc segregation to the generation tempt to i horn within the last two or three the multi decades. black rac< You sit next to blacks m tensive to m restaurants and theatres. You in we strive t leract with blacks on athletic maintain i r? g* teams and in classrooms. You rT may have even shared ;i doim LJL room or ventured out on a dale w11h someone not ol your race. You have come to respect and ad m mire a fevs black role models both flGclU from a distance ? Martin I 111her King and Bill ( osby, and at close range ? USC black faculty 0 members. However, your generation is lotheed k rcaninu benefits of cultural bar I must mony as a result of clarion et Ions regarding ^ by such organizations as the i<> I he ( NAA( I'. I he organization's No\ 14, &|m long and exciting history includes newsrooii great leaders such as Mary Mc- response j Cleod liethunc, lames Weldon which ha Johnson and W. I II. DuUois. on the pii These people conceptualized Iy, I woi IPThH hlilnr hi < liit-1 limit of two letters per month by / mtla lav/or M;ina?iiiK I ilitor l* the right to slop printing letters John Hoyette i , ( opv Desk ( liIt-1 topics to make room lor new .. ' .. ' Stephen (iinl/tule Assistant ( o|i\ >: Viewpoint F.ditor, the Drsk ( hit-r Drawer A, Russell House, IJS(', H'emlv l-.tlen , ( 2(>208 Nr?s Killliir Hiul(l\ \/<n>re %t# y lespeople did to ! k Stephen Guilfoyle r . should do. much to her chagrin. But I came home to find the tree waiting lor me, much to my chagrin. I'd also missed out on watching most of the usual Christmas television shows; the Cirinch, Rudolph ? all perennial family favorites ? and I had outgrown that silly little Santa ( laus show. I'd also missed the traditional X-mas movies. "It's A Wonderful l ite" had already finished playing on most ol the channels, and some pervert had eolori/ed "Miracle on 34th Street," and I wasn't going to watch it. It was December, it was Hearing the 25th, and it )ust wasn't Christmas. History, hnglish, psychology, et cetera had all but drained me of the will to live, and here it was, the happiest (supposedly) time ol the year. I ests had enervated my will, salespeople made me feel like I had just built a secret synagogue, and they were the Cicstapo knocking on the door. I was used to Christmas being comruericial, but lately, it seemed to have gotten obnoxiously so. : editor rtance ol racial pride long to respond exce at a time when being ( ousar's letter was a threat to their very directed to a Mr. They fought loroppor- geography student. V iat many blacks now not reply I decided ranted ? like attending mysell because Mi. ( lally white university. ter contained a he Miss Black America derogatory to gcogra it's an opportunity lor On Monday, No ol young black women (iumccock 1 catureel il p their character and announcement in i' to compete in this note: ''As siate< ssive society. It's an at (iatrwcock letter pol ecogni/e the beauty ol to outdated issues, faceted heritage ol the debate on this issue.' ;. It should not be ot test this policy as it any other culture that several reasons. 0 improve our race and l ust, it is unlaii I inn cultural identity. respondents because i to discard letters sub Sullie Duller to your announc Junior, journalism discontinuance. It is the reader's time to 1 - M ters tor the paper c ter proiesis you arbitrarily discai r Secondly. I his neb ecock rule ot censorship and (mma <H A is suppor litor: hinds this would be i prolesi your 'policies' illegal. reader submitted letters linally, uiy let I e '.ianwciH A On I nday, some 'outdated' t(>| I hand delivered to your presented in Mr. (( ii a letter which was only one week belo to one by I I ( ousar submitted. My letter d appeared in the paper altirmalion ol out I eceding I riday. Normal inent right to dein tilil not have waited so older topic, but 01 jamecock Assistant Nrvss I tlilors Sports Iriitor Ann I it'll'?> /<>// S hit'w shitr \ / ialu\ Vsstsijnl spurts I iliinr Viewpoint I ilitor If ?/v/i?* II ii\hinylt>n I it I It'I \tulfi I'lioin^rHptiN I ili I l.ilitor Iftittift i Slfil> II t'Hti\ I tlfll Ssslslunl I'lnil o^r ;ipli\ I ilil K-utnri-s I cliior I huniti\ Ilitin/ihrt \ /'aitlii II ftIIIIIHI Assistant I rulurrs I tlilm Kulhnn h'/lnc\ ( ^^11' I 'Mf I my Christmas I wasn't tit company for strangers, and I wasn't with strangers, but my closest family. When it came time to go to church for Midnight mass, I didn't want to go, and I misbehaved while I was there, acting like a 5 year old. I wasn't even thrilled about the traditional festivities, which always happen after the mass. Once all the kids in the family finally discovered there was no Santa Claus, we started to open our presents when we ) returned from church. Hut the reading during the service stopped rue from being the rambunctious brat USC and Spartanburg County malls had made me into. I even started to sing a few of the carols, until I saw my sisters staring at me like 1 was strangling a cat instead of singing a song. 1 was a human being again, because I heard tlie true meaning of Christmas, "Unto you this day is born, in Bethlehem, a saviour. . ." and it helped. Anything that can turn a 19-year-old crusty curmudgeon into a human being again has got 1 to have some worth. It was enough. So when I go home this break and find the tree waiting for me and have to fight those crowds again, I'll have something to look forward to, at least. Stephen (' (iuilfoyle is copy desk chief of I he Ciamecock and a regular columnist. Since this is his last column of the year, he would ? like to thank everyone who read his column >' and told him about it pi thai Mr. never be'outdated.' Nevertheless specifically I suppose it is only right to yield l.owery, a your valuable print space to more Vhen lie did fundamental issues like ticket I to do so prices and swaying grandstands. ousar's let statement Terry Jackson phers. (Graduate assistant, geography v. 17, The \i lie following gi . a editor's Some advice to d in I he wcy w?re"S epi'epsy victims ' I must prois stated lor I o the editor: I am ;i third year, last semester 10 yout eor- law student and have concluded it allows you that a real need exists to speak nutted />rior frankly about epilepsy. ements ol Approximately 2.5 million a waste ol Americans have epilepsy (the prepare let- result ol excessive signals produc>11 ly to have ed by the brain's nerve cells) and d them the vast majority "control" their ulous policy seizures with medications. 11 instrument Although someone's seizures since I he may be generally controlled, a ted by state "break through" may occur ocmcthical and casionally. I do not know the details ol Samuel May's seizure i addressed occurrence, (the well-thought of pics initially graduate student with epilepsy msar's letter who recently died), but I do enre mine was courage all IJSC students with was also an epilepsy who have concern* list Amend about their own situation to call onstrate, an then neurologists and talk to ,K' l,,al Wl" See "latteri," psfla 3 "Mult \r11si Dirrclor of Sludrnl Mrdia ttnhh / ,//!, Hill ( ten writs Oxlchiiok t (liior Production Hi'hln !nnr\ Murk ArrnMronn Kit kutl Iriitor lewis Covington /olin Ihnt'llc \<lwrlislnx MmiaiO'r l,,r \tl\isor \/dtt>(ir('I Miehi'ls Hill l\'oi'ff, \ssistunl Advertising ManaRff ^*tittlu;i11 Assistant Inn llinly,i \ Va/Ktirrl ttcnkl