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Viewpoint Wednesday, September 23, 1987 THE GAMKCOCK 3 AMY DELPO Editor in Chief ! STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Copy IX-sk Chief nr?| BRENDA BLYTH News Editor HAL MILLARD Viewpoint Editor 1 TAMARA WILLIS Features Editor ? uamecoCK WAYNE WASHINGTON snorts Editor KEITH JONES Photography Editor ROBB EANE Graphics Editor ! PAULA WOJTOWICZ Beat Editor I Strike Third football walkout makes players look greedy, uncaring 9 Game over. Monday night's football game between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets in The Meadowlands might have been the last game of the season for the National Football League. Unless an accord is reached between players and owners by Wednesday, picket lines will go up and the quality of life on Sundavs will on rtnwn fnr fnntKoll ?j- ..... uv/on iv/i iv/uiL/an tails. It used to be that football was played by real men who played for the fun and the glory of the sport. Now it has been taken over by money-hungry pansies out to line their pockets and stuff their wallets. It used to also be that football players measured their worth by how much of their opponent's blood was on their uniforms ^ and how many paint marks they had gotten on their helmets from going head-to-head with the opposing team. Those days are gone. ot ^ Now a player's worth is measured in bank accounts, sports cars and how much money he can get from writing a book about 1 drug abuse. mv What has happened to the American sport of kings? rc" Apparently, players are feeling their oats, and owners are getting tight-fisted. At the heart of the imbroglio is free agency, the biggest sticking point. Free agency, which would allow a player to move on ' after four years and name his price, is good for the player, and that's basically it. People on the players' side say this strike is not about money, but about dignity and freedom. That's wrong. roc Free agency is a way to get more money, serving to drive up the price of talent and causing more problems than it's worth. Even if the strike ends tomorrow, the thought of these players J" asking for the moon when they already have it is sickening. Most starting players in the NFL make more than the president of the my T UII'* *1? 1 * * w..uvu uiaiw, anu wiiiic me president gets a ntetime pension he f A doesn't' get a million dollar signing bonus' like a Vinnie jjjjj Testeverde or a Brian Bosworth. 1H? Gene Upshaw, executive director of the player's union, said I during halftime of the Patriots-Jets game: stu "None of us wants this, not the players, not the fans, not the shii owners, and that's really sad." hca No joke, Gene. Tell us something we don't know. j A strike hurts everyone. Granted, a player has rights to pro- j tect. But the owner is running a business and has to act accordingly. He can't dole out money endlessly. He also wants certain i things to stay like they are because, for the most part, they work. More money and unrestricted free agency is just plain bad. / Gene, of course no one wants a strike ? especially the fans ( who are the ultimate victims. Without fans there could be no w? football. This is the most important thing to keep in mind. sch Maybe the players should realize that. If they continue to dis- the count and alienate the fans they may find themselves in a worse > predicament than they are in now. thil So the players can take their solidarity malarkey and strike if wrJ they want to. In the end, it will only make them more contempti- paj ble in the eyes of fans whose vision, which was once filled with the heroes, is now clouded with visions of villains and greedy fro crybabies. 1 in i I be j anc | a #? W A ^ V>KJL I CCU \Jll 1 poi the A column in the Sept. 21 issue of The Gamecck incorrectly yo[ stated that Kelly's Barber Shop had gone out of business. c Kelly's has moved to 1504 Assembly St. We apologize for the bee error and hope it has not caused any inconvenience. c,? ( __J mo _ To ii rn -4 I 1 1 he Statt i cur mil .mil Ho has Assistant Copy Desk Chief Historian col Andy Bechtel Bobby Jones trui Assistant News Kditors Adviser \s Todd Hincs Bill Rogers pro Jeff Shrewsbury Director of Student Media mc, Assistant Features Fditor Bill Clemenis I t'irdous liamji Production Y Assistant Sports Editor Chuck Norris I Rae Leigh Son Ha Assistant Photography Kditor Advertising Manager Jonathan Williams Margaret Michcls Jcnt Datebook Kditor Assistant Advertising Manager "ea Tony Moreno Dawn Miller pos< I tllfrH Policy: I hi (ramicixk will try lo print kttrr% rrctlwd. letter* %hou1d br. al a miOmum. 250 lo VOO wordi lon| (?urit s j udt editorials should not rtctrd WO word? V%? th* right lo tdit ktltrt for tl)k or pottlbto lib*I Iht (tamecock will not withhold ] name* und%*r aat clrcow*laa<?. ?J 111 111 ? I. Soaked student takes on f got hit with one of the damn sprinklers today. r~?????????????? re of these days, I'm going to get so fed up. . . . I should have guessed what was happening when : ' roommate came into the room, his clothes inched in water, hie pvpc vuiHn n/i?Vi i?rr?. tcatedly mumbling "The horror, the horror." Stephen Hot day, huh?" Guilfoyle HLI. H?| Fhen he collapscd onto the bed and would speak ??? jj 'He'll be all right," I thought, and decided I j better get to work. So I packed my bag and ided out to cross The Horseshoe. Then I saw. Then 1 realized what horror my . miniate had mentioned before collapsing. The sprinklers. dent appeared on the 'Shoe, armed to the The Horseshoe, every square inch of it, was started to attack all the sprinklers. But the ^ered with sprinklers. There was no possible way nearly as heavily armed; they stood I cross it. watched. 'Now I'm really angry," I say and returned to I use my machine gun to take out the ! iucmii. nearest nm. The hoses shatter and make i vly roommate is coming out pf his shock and is ful sound when hit by inch-long bullets. 1 :c* again realV?.iri&""what lias just Happened to myself a little skirmish area from which l. 'Ahhhh," he says. I took out my rocket propelled grenade 'm too busy trying to repack my bag with the next and used it to clear an area down at ff I'd hoped I'd never have to use. 1 take off my torn of the 'Shoe near the South Ca rt, put on some camouflauge paint, put on a library and admissions. There were hun dband, strap the bullet belts for my M-60 students waiting to cross once the sprink chine gun around my chest, and I'm ready. turned off, which I did. left. Permanently. "he university police were concerned when a stu- The custodial service men were chargii Attending college not lil w luiiiiuuii mym nccus 10 dc snaucrca. College does not prepare you for the "real 7orget all the lines you were fed from high ool counselors and well-meaning relatives about value of a higher education. Paula \ college education is a fine thing, but if you -p ilk it prepares you for the real world, you're WQ)tOWlCZ \ college diploma is not a guaranteed job. Term |flflNflS8?&8| >ers and final exams have little to do with paying j ' bills on time. Studying in the library is different EflwMHr m filling out forms at the unemployment office. rhe only way to be prepared for reality is to live ???.? the real world. It is permanent. We expect it to middle-class or upper-class background ar elainnurOIK Fillt it ;ilcr? mi>am iliconnnintmani *^- ? *- c-~ ' ? ? .. ...vuw.1 v<l.iul/puiiiiiii\.iii intu |j<iiciii> iu pay ior pan oi tnei 1 tragedy. expenses. rhink about it for a minute. College life is tern- College is fun. And a diploma is still a w ary. Students can pretty much do or say what reward, although it's not worth what it si y want ? and four years later, nobody will be The real world is not like that. nind to remember them. They're sheltered. Jut you can't be sheltered in the real world as The real world is living off $800 a montl i are in college. ing about a great-grandfather who can r College is four years of learning new ideas, take care of himself, helping a best friend oming idealistic, spending on parties and a miscarriage. : " ' onupping ai is. mart instead 01 iieik's. < College is a homogeneous atmosphere where ride to work when the car is in the shop, st of the students are aged 18 to 22, come from a the bathroom. Letiers to the editor ^ rilrfP 10 heckling by a right-wing female man's stateme t Siji 1 WLIV j W}U) loved to get down in the gutter other side. a with Abbie. Frustrated in the 111 necessary knowledge that 1 would not be allowed to present an argument, I simply said what I thought of both of them. the editor: But that didn't do much good except __ was a student at USC in the late to catch the participants by surprise H OYYIf s, anu at me time l was deeply in- and add fire to the circus. ved in "The Movement." Out of The people who were part of "The ^ f* iousity I went to listen to Abbic Movement" in the late '60s are KlvP V V ffman speak. Needless to say, he nowadays divided into two camps. not changed. He is rude, in- The first camp is made up of anar- To the editor: icrent and unconcerned with the chists, communists and socialists; the First of all, th ? although he is a good clown. second one of a group of people Stephen Guilfo always, Mis tactics are aimed at much harder to classify except for ing editorial. II voking others to violence, and his their opposition to the first. becoming just ssage is destructive. To explain the differences here tradition as tin would be impossible. It would be a themselves. To et, unlike other people who did good idea, however, to invite so- weeks before L want him to be invited to speak meone from the second camp so that be doing somet ', 1 am glad he was allowed to at- students can listen to the other side. We'll take s I. This position I hold not only A good speaker would be Russell can get uise I believe in free speech, but Means, leader of the American In- Some of his < uise it is only through being ex- dian movement and former aspirant taking place tl :d that young people can make a for the Libertarian Party presidential could hardly $ment. nomination. However, if no such simply says, "C oward the end I got in line to ask speaker can be found, I would be '87: Hooray fo a question, but I became subject willing to stand in to refute Hoff- are no movie cl I M ~w in - - use sprinklers ????their little carts, brandishing their rakes and I shovels. I didn't want to hurt any people, so I look out my bow and arrow and punctured their tires. But most of them just took to charging me on foot. | I had sprinklers to my back and custodians to my ] front. 1 was trapped. There was no escape. But then, from out of nowhere, came thousands of students. They formed a line in front of me to 1 keep the custodians away. The rest were using their bare hands to take out the last of the sprinklers. "I'm just a student who not fed un enough in frJBiHBfl decide to do something about these tilings," I told the assembled students. "And looking at all the ???J burning grass and the craters from the grenade explosions, maybe this violence wasn't the right thing teeth and to do. y weren't "But students at USC are getting more and more :>ack and fed up everyday. Students living in Thornwell arc getting angry because they've had no screens on sprinklers their windows for God only knows how many i wonder- months, and they're sick of waking up to find three 'd cleared new mosquito bites. to attack. "Students all over campus are getting sick of the sudden enforcement of visitation policies that launcher should never have been written in the first place, the bot- "And they've always been sick of having to wear roliniana a wctsuit to get to class on time because of the drcds of damn sprinklers. lcrS Were "Anrt nrr>ttvr nx.'ll f~-i ? ' 'v/v/ii, ??v ii uv t cutty icu up. Yeah, one of these (Joys I'm gonna get really lg me in angry. ke 'real world' It's working in a convenience store or a fast-food I place at minimum wage because those jobs arc the only ones available. I'm not talking about soap-opera reality. That's reality for most people in this country. Where in college do you learn to cope with realities such as those? Where do students learn about living with their actions? How to cope with the big problems in life? Do students learn the importance of having family and friends they can count on during bad times? I j Of course not. College students are sheltered. ????* The problem with thinking college will prepare id rely on you for the real world is that you don't hear about r college personal tragedies in college, only the dramas and comedies. 'onderful If something happens, students can re-take the lould be. classes they failed and joke about them later. If a student does something illegal, it is kept quiet. In the most drastic cases, students drop out of school h, worry- so fast that nobody else knows about it. 10 longer If you're luckv. the real world run he in?r .it fnn who had as college. But in the real world, you have to take it as it etting a comes. Cleaning In college, everybody knows you can always quit. nis and present tlie chickens. I am sure it will be a great disappointment to many. We are having our third annual (ion/alo Leon dance in the Russell House Ballroom. I JSC" graduate Formula 7 will he playing. They arc the winners of the C'oors* "Battle of e the Bands" contest. That Friday "COITIiriO afternoon, we are also having a con' & cert on Ihe Horseshoe with Gene >11^0^1 r' Cotton, a well-known college UlVtSV performer. As for the floats, one could hardly say those living on The Horseshoe I would like to thank are kepi up all night, yle for his Homecom- Horscshoe/Woodrow residence hall lis annual put-down is government will be building their as much a Carolina third display, and Preston is building ; Homecoming events their first. Homecoming is not just get his attention three for greeks; it's loi everybody, lomccoming, we must Homecoming is the one lime of the hing right. year when everybody at Carolina my irce punnciiy wc comes together, it is the best cure 1 can think of for apathy, to which suggestions are in fact yon, Stephen (iuilfoyle, seem to liis year. Our poster subscribe. hi- i;illi'<l nil cti/ li Carolina Homecoming Maria Sehultz r Hollywood!" There I*>87 Homecoming Commissioner apboards or giant red International studies, junior