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Viewpoint [ 2 THE GAMECOCK Monday, October 19, 1987 > AMY DELPO Editor in Chief ! STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Copy Desk C rI '1 BRENDA BLYTH News Editor TAMARA WILLIS Features Editor t WAYNE WASHINGTON Sports Editc UameCOCK KEITH JONES Photography Editor RODB LANE Graphics Editor PAULA WOJTOWICZ Beat Editor I ! Ozone Governments must act no 4" f\ ri / ?> 1 ? ? ikj vaui iuyvr ?> erusiu People are talking about the earth's ozone layer again, the news is not good. Recent studies show that a hole in the ozone over Antarcti getting worse every year. And some evidence indicates tha ozone layer is diminishing over populated areas, potenl causing changes in the earth's climate and endangering health of humans. Most people started hearing ? and worrying ? aboul ozone layer for the first time in the late 1970s. Environment} said there was strone evidenpp that r-hiomfinrkro^orKi-^c. ... are compounds used as propellants in aerosol sprays, were i ting with the earth's ozone layer and slowly destroying it. Scientists warned that the diminishment of the ozone c cause an increase in the number of cases of skin cancer, a ch; in the planet's climate and a weakening of man's imn system. Surprisingly, the United States government acted in 1978 i attempt to slow this process down by banning the use of CF< aerosol sprays. Once that had been accomplished, most pe assumed the problem was solved. Wrong. Because aerosols were not the only way CFCs were being i and because European countries continued their use in s\ cans, CFCs were still being released into the atmosphere and damaging the ozone. So now we are being told again to worry about ozone dc tion. Some scoff at the warnings, saying it's not their prot hppillicp thp Ua ? * ' 1 - r vnvvia i uc ten iui muusanus oi years. Wrong again. Cases of skin cancer are increasing wow; the temperature around the earth are increasing now; the time to save the 02 is now. Although the evidence is not concrete, governm< "worldwide should begin regulating the use of CFCs and o chemicals that might be damaging the ozone. If we don't ki for sure, it's better to at least safeguard against the possib that the warnings may be true. \ partciT RjgpocTtdfr- [ p I ?? i |_ Ihe Staff AfifiUfaitl f1Anv VIaoL ,*'~4 * I. vu(fj ltcsr vinri riisionwi Andy Bechtel Bobby Jones ^ Assistant News Editors Adviser a Todd Hines Bill Rogers Jeff Shrewsbury Director of Student Media i Assistant Features Fditor Margaret Michels ^ Firdous Bamji Production Assistant Sports Fxlitor Chuck Norris Rae Leigh Son Ha ( Assistant Photography Fditor Advertising Manager | Jonathan Williams Margaret Michels Datebook Fditor Assistant Advertising Manager ' Jenny Sharpe Dawn Miller A Policy; 14* Gaentcotk wtti try (? pfiai Ifttm wtlhM. l*iUn (M.ati Mitem, 25# to )W worfr k>?f. C * tdNortalt AmM 3M ??nl? We mmi ClM right I* kt?m fw *** <h Mtl. 7W Cwwrwl HI ?< wlefc >tr> Mf drtMKMCf i 1 - , ~mtm iM ^ w^-n _~?"tF-ycica is 1 t the uS: I l anHnBHa * ^ ;rs 3 sti11 ^ n :PJi" _ P | 'VlteaR StoKiNG ReST^X^QNS ARB Sg Please don't fnrpp tioc I hate tics. The only times I wear one are when I'm at inter- m ? views and I'm trying to impress my future ^"* boss in an interview, at weddings or at funerals. g?=- I will occasionally wear one when a girl says I 4 r? look "cute" in one, and 1 haven't had a date in a I ff 'fM ~ year or so. But she must be a special girl. JCti 'yWg So let's review: money, marriage, death or sex ShrCWsblirV - ffiimr arc (JlP nnlll r?nr/\nt I ^ * ? ...v v?i; ivuuni i uiapc u iic aruuna my necx. 9HH My mother taught me well. As a general rule, however, I don't like ties. r. r* It just doesn't seem right that a person such as : . me, who cleans his room once a year ? whether it needs it or not ? should be forced to wear a piece ????????? of cloth around his neck just to show some guy Women have no problem > who's got a job that he's a respectable young in- them, dressing up is easy becau dividual, which I am. nifty women's clothes on the mi It seems to me an employer would want to see me have classy styles and pretty co in my real light ? in sweatpants and a Bob Marley cut blouses to choose from. ,? T-shirt. But for men, there is one way, What makes a tie so important to an image? they are dressed to the nines. It's Image must be the only driving force that makes called a tie. otherwise normal grubs into brown-nosing, Where is the justice in the I pseudo-GQ, stiff-necked, uncomfortable dweebs. clothes are mostly comfortable I can't believe there could be any other reason and they can look "dresse< for putting yourself through the humiliation and everything they wear and guys ridicule that accompanies the excessive display of most uncomfortable piece of j useless fashion. jock-strap just to look non-bum A list of cliches about a i/:? ? - . - /-mci me Virginia game Saturday, my friends 1 and I had a serious problem that took us awhile to MM decide. If you didn't notice, USC had a big win iPffi Saturday, and Williams-Brice Stadium was really The win was big; the problem was this: Exactly what kind of win was it? OCCpilCIl ^ Did we thrash them, throttle them, lash them, Guilfoylc 41 C. splash them, crash them, smash them or dash their , . hopes? ?? JL- * bid we outplay them or out-finesse them? W ' What exactly, my friends and I needed to know, f J | did we do to Virginia? 'SWw I Did we kill them, chill them, spill them or drill them? wmm Did we skunk them, dunk them, chunk them or It's not pretty, and I'll pi make monkevs out of them? Smart th<?m i-?r 1 ' ** jmvmhv jutiuuci snip ill IDC ITOICSSIOI them? Cliche Association, but, to get at I mean, my friends and I all knew that we beat and mean it, I call them as I see i Virginia. But how? We beat them. Did we fool them, school them, out-tool them or out-duel them? Anyway, on to more stuff fron Did they leave the field like men who had seen a of the game as just one of the fan hi? - - * ? -- envoi, iiRt men wnu naa jusi attended their in the end zone. i grandma's funeral, like guys who had just kissed Sterling Sharpe is incredible, their sisters or like guys who had been pushed and Harold Green is incredible, shoved around with impunity? Brad Edwards is incredible. Well, we shoved a few of these ideas around for Roy Hart is incredible, a while, then we decided that the only thing we could say was something we wouldn't be allowed to These guys were all over the print in a family newspaper. Or The Gamecock jumping, hitting and just playinj either. So upon further thought, my friends and I pressive football. We tried to g< _J decided we just beat them. "Sterling, Sterling, Sterling," in t ! .8 bf y: eer cutcf S fkri mure lilr** *V?A V" 5 I'm sure there was a reason for inventing ties at some point in time, although I can't imagine why there was ever a rationale. To be fair, women used to have to wear petticoats in 100-degree weather. 1 guess this is their revenge. ^ jL That's got to be it. Women invented ties in the WJI late 1800s as a form of revenge against the men who have kept them down for so long. I'll bet Susan B. Anthony was involved in this little caper. ? I can just hear her now addressing a convention of militant babes [] "All right, ladies, it's time we started to filly these hairy-legged jerks back for all the suffcoftg 1 vith fashion. For they've put us through; we'll show them wh'a^tt's ise there are really like to wear five layers of clothes in the himurket. They always mer . . .cut those petticoats into strips and tie them | ilors and strangely around your husbands' necks. basically, to show "If we do this right, we can cause a fashion trend a little strip of hell and get them to wear wool as well. If they refuse, \ tell them they'll be no more night baseball until 3 fact that women's they wear them everyday and make themselves i and usually classy look stupid." i-up" in almost So in reality, we see that sex was the reason the have to wear the tie got on, and now sex is the reason the tie comes _ |L apparel next to a off. ^ \ imish. I think Susie would be proud of herself. the Virginia win 1 1 the announcer said he had broken that record, but the rest of the guys just wanted to sit in silent awe of his performance, I guess. And how can a guy come off knee surgery and play that good? Harold Green was spinning oiuuhu, muKing cuts ana taking out the Virginia ~ ^tT defense. Incredible. gM? " Antl w^at can 1 say ab?ut Hart and Edwards? They either see the future and know where the play wHT /r' lS going, or they have a nose and can smell where 4: 7 And we don't care what that referee said. That 4 was an interception for you, Brad. ^ ^ Now, about tailgating. robably lose my Three words describe a tailgate for me: friends, nal Sportwriters' beer and chicken. The adjectives for these words least one cliche in are these: cold beer, fried chicken and fried 1 tnem. friends. My friends are fried because it has been sunny the past two games, and the cold beer has been good. ri my observations s who was sitting Try and say Dickie DeMasi three times fast. It has a sort of Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang beat to it. Dickie DeMasi Dickie DeMasi Dickie DeMasi , Dickie DeMasi Dickie DeMasi Dickie DeMasi Dickie I DeMasi. Sounds like fun, huh? So was watching Joe Mor- iu rison put in our reserve quarterback in the past two ^ 1 it field, running, games. g some damn imct a chant going, Yes, USC football is incredible. he end zone when It's good to be a Gamecock fan.