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I Viewpoint Wednesday, December 9, 1987 THE GAMECOCK 4 _ ________ _______ i AMY DELPO Editor in Chief ,-p. STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Copy IXsk Chief 1 DC BRENDA BL.YTH News Editor I BRAD EARRAR Viewpoint Editor ; bamecock TAMARA WIL LIS Features Editor WAYNE WASHINGTON Sports Editor KEITH JONES Photography Editor ROBB I.ANE Graphics Editor PAULA WOJTOWICZ Beat Editor ; Education Problems of private colleges could boost public institutions The demographies of higher education have been shifting from private to public schools in no small way over the past decade. And as Louis Morell points out in The Chronicle of Higher Education. "At the heart r>f fhr nmhinmc ,~rknfrrv.-it;r.rr w , - - - ? W.. w |/i VC1V1IIJ VV/illl Willing private colleges is the generally inconsistent and uncoordinated way support is provided to public institutions." It has been a mystery to many why small schools with names recognized only by avid readers of the inside covers of Scholastic Aptitude Test guidebooks have been able not only to survive, out to cnarge grossly inflated prices in the process. Many students attend private schools in search of the best education money can buy. And they hope their time and money spent in the small-school environment will open many doors upon graduation and entrance into "the real world." But do the benefits of private schools outweigh the steep tuition? According to endowment, the answer is no. With fewer students at private schools, there is less money to go around. If more young people decide to attend public schools, the number of parents who want to support private schools will decrease. So these institutions are forced to raise the already overpriced tuitions or expand the size of enrollment. But many private schools Hrp rpln^tont * o l/? ? * 1 ui v iviuviuiu iu iqi\c niui t diuucillb WHO III ay HOI DC 3S well" qualified just to maintain their endowment. Private schools have another big problem. The big statesupported schools are getting better academically. (JSC, for example, has never had a better national reputation, academically or otherwise, than it now enjoys. Many students, who think they can receive a fine education at a fraction of the cost of exclusive private schools, are very content with public universities. Higher education has been around long enough so that most people know which schools are best at certain things. The bad ones can be weeded out. After you get past the Ivy League schools, the Notre Dames and others, the rest fall into a broad category with the recurring themes of anonymity to all but a handful. It is no coincidence the respected private schools have the highest endowments. It is safe to say Harvard won't fold as a result of fewer students in private schools. But the others are not so fortunate. And it is probably their own fault. After all, people will not mind the steep costs as much if the diploma they receive at the end of four years gets them a good job upon graduation. But if you apply for a job and the interviewer asks you, "You went where? Is that one of those technical schools I've seen advertised on television . . then you probably won't be inclined to join the alumni booster club. Private schools arc in trouble, and they can only blame themselves. And they are barking up the wrong tree if they think the yuppies they have produced in recent years will bail them out K\/ Hnnotinn t/-v VT_ I isj uunaiuig n.7 uitu uniui uiaicis. ino one nas ever accused them of altruism. Meanwhile, students at public schools are finding their academic workloads rigorous enough. They feel just as prepared when they graduate as anyone else, without a massive student loan to pay back. Private schools need to rethink their priorities and get back to education. It seems as if everyone else has. MBHmzaBmEEsmm All m- moc*AT\c r/o\ PP?SIP6NTIM- ^ANPlPATES ){ ]'/ Villi I TEicnefrau-r i i 'III v*h iwiwi?, ^ |\" / /V - MM AMp V c>w(*6?&&\ ,<^'<V*) nniu. wn vur 1 v j) - -M14 ^5-^j fx? K^ucse. ^\ K+ ,/ l'^'J ] ^ Ste,. ijv tTi ' The Staff Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics Kditor Andy Hcchtcl I racy Mixson Assistant News Kditors Historian Todd Hi lies Bobby Jones Jeff Shrewsbury Adviser Assistant Features Kditor Hill Rogers i irdous Bamji Acting Student Media Assistant Sports Kditor Director/Advertising Manager Rae I.cigh Margaret Michels Assistant Photography Kditor Production Jonathan Williams Chuck Norris Datehook Kditor Sou Ha Jenny Sharpe Assistant Advertising Manager ! Dawn Miller I fllffS Policy: I ht 4,amt<o<k ?lt1 try lo print kltrrt rrcrhrd I flteri thould it a miilmum. 2M) lo KM) word* Ion* <?or*i editorial* thould not firrrd *00 word* V** rrttr** th* rlffct to rdli for ?f?l# or pnidMf lib* I the (mmen'fk will not withhold mmrt uridtr ?n> <lrcum?t?nr# J 1 VJUUU, UUI Well, here we are at the end of the y barely three weeks left . time when people start handing out aw. right, so let's get on with it, shall we? Best movie: Swimming To Cambodi Gray's spellbinding monologue, directed by Jonathan Demme. \N orst movie: Some Kind of Wot sickeningly bittersweet rehash of Pre which was wretched enouch itself. Best album: Pleased To Meet Replacements. Best sons title: "It's the E:nd of the V\ Know It (And I Feel l ine)," R.E.M. Best comeback: the "dehydrated" 1 which showed it could surviv bassisl/songwriter/singcr Roger Wate Most in need of a comeback: Talking Best live performance: Mojo Nixoi Roper at Kockalcllas' this past Augus Most unwelcome comeback: tie-dye T Best talk-shoM appearance: Weirdo Cr on Late Night with David I.etterman, showed that he basically played himse the / 'mure and River's Edge. Worst talk-show appearace: Grace Jo Night, in which Jones showed ho\ obstinate she ically is. Best campus protest involving cardbo lie between South Africa "shanty" b> Chapel's I I) i nil. (Johk. the I tier's (lead, It met the Cocks and lost its head, Ding. dony. the Ctemson Tiger's da I lie hells <ue lolling lor the Gamecoi ringing of elation won't stop for a Ion ringing in ("lemson's ears won't stop time either; (hey got their hells rung. *\l ft'df) inciiiii.i Of> i/> "I ... V V . ; v > VIIIH^ I Kt /, IV. J with the panic's store), the Rut ledge CI chimes out the spoils of victory across t The melody waits slowly over The Hoi seeps into cracks and windows. It starts out like any other ice i ballad, sounds that cut through the rue ty. It's one of those superhuman things in hearing the ice cream man from st awnv ;uul nil licai inn \/l/\tn in b ...win III 111V UUJt It's selective perception. I hey don't p.m.; they hear 20 to 7. And it's not the ice cream truck belt music-box melodies of "Pop Goes th It's the Gamecock light song. Who would'te thought they could t ja//y tune and put it to a Disney-m< Letters to - - Letter wrong about feminists Io (lie editor: A rcceni letter C aryn C rabb wrote condemning feminists for heino critical of the mass media's treatment of women was so pathetically ignorant it hardly deserves a response. I'd invite the writer to read any number of studies published in the Journal of liroudcusdng, the Journal of Communication and in general consumer magazines that overwhelmingly support the charge the image of women in the media is distorted and damaging. But what I find more depressing than the writer's trivializing and ED0&U W gISN i l> , j el, ugly ret ear with just Now is the ards left and ra, Spalding Andy masterfully Bechtel iderful, the wmmmmmmmmmm tty In Pink, Mc, the 'orld As We ??????? Africa Alliance and Pink Floyd, Students l or America, e without Most unimpressive camp rs. dent march on the Stat< Heads. funding. n and Skid Best reason to cancel ela t. Sweatiest day on The H -shirts. pope's visit. ispin Glover Best song played over 1 in which he system before pope arrr If in Back to Underground. Best speaker brought to >nes on l.ate Abbie Hol fir.an, "Mayfl n vain and Worst speaker brought even if no one really bro ard boxes: a Best new architecture in ' Free South ingen Center. jells signal 1(1. . . :ks, and the g time. The tor a long Todd correspond Hint's lapel belfry he campus. rseshoe and :ream-truck kus of a ei- track? C an von imagine kids can do with that melody accc :vcn blocks quarterback sack in slow icent rnnm mi lit IVmnu - v-1' w .'...in; I \/i u 11^>, hear 6:40 Black Death flag as he c the fans after a bad call ing out the color to put the light sonj e Weasel." Of course, Mu/.ak does i And after the light son ;ake such a dition ot the I JSC' , 'ma r >vie sound- lullaby. II I were a crit the editor ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnamtmmmmmmmm misrepresentation ol .in important issue is her patrom/ing attitude toward what she calls "women's libbers" and her lack ol appreciation for what they have done for her. It is these "libbers" fighting on her behalf who have allowed her to take for granted her right to an education and job opportunity, her right to vote and run for public office. And despite her claims, feminists have not devalued the role ol motherhood ? our culture did that a long time ago. It's ironic and sad to see women bashing feminists. You'd think we would have a little more vision and certainly a lot more gratitude. It's also sad that in what the writer describes as a liberated society she chose to label herself a "female journalist" instead of just a journalist. It's especially unfortunate because / m~T~* iJaasaBE j WE NEVER. SMOUlpWAVE ) Tom\W mPlkC?... I NOW IT REMINDS ME. 1 OF HOME. reive 1987' Worst new Most predi Penn. [Nicaragua "gulag" by Best friend us protest: the second stu- Worst enen : House lor full-formula leader Dan Meese and ss: the pope's visit. Best trend orseshoe: the day of the power, sue! 65 mph. I orseshoe public-address Worst tren ted: "Jesus," the Velvet drugs, etc. campus: the pope (sorry, Best video: lower Madam," etc.). Best mini-st to campus: Brother Jim, Best Supren ught him here. Best preside Columbia: USC's Swear- Best accom hig ditto) IJSC's fin ccstacy with t ** *' 'if ^ 1 i -, .?.- about it. Bu m I the alma ma t?0 Gamecock t son tans. The beat a football-highlights film speakers tin unpanying a Roy Hart begins. An< motion? Picture a close- memories ol a cheerleader waving the day in Nov avorts across the field or have a year It's invt n Ii ?I" *~*rf i'ii on- ui;mi(11 in oa I into music-box tympani. t all tlie time. We've got g, the chimes strike a rcn- now all we n nater. It's like a soothing clown on l)e vbound baby, I'd lie in Good lucl she is neither, but rather the author of shallow prose. Becci Kohhin.s Journalism gruduute student Column writer wastes space To the editor: Concerning the F riday column by Paula Wojtowicz and any other column she has burdened us with, I think the space taken up by her column would be better put to use with ads or just left blank. I don't know about other USC students, but who cares how she feels about Christmas cards? Personally, < \ J s awards architecture In Columbia: AT&T pecially that metal junk on top. I: the PTL. hullabaloo, which showed n televangelism is. Ial:the Iran-Contra affair, which showfeared all along ? President Ronald ot in control. ited college football team: Clemson. le college football team: Columbia, int college football team: Miami. er: Sean Penn. ing jailbird: Sean Penn. M ctable break-up: Madonna and Sean of the press: Gary Hart. ly of the press: a tie among Nicaraguan iiel Ortega, Attorney General Edwin Sean Penn. in government: Allowing states more 1 as letting them raise the speed limit to d in government: Testing for AIDS, (You've got to be kidding.) *ries: (ditto) ic imin nominee: (ditto) ntisil candidate: (ditto) plishment of Student (Government: (a i e season such a tunc ? forget about "London tiling Down." it's called infant coaxing. Clemson it a lot. The kids arc weaned on the [" and the color orange, and their around saying, "Ma boy's gonna be a Jay." And no one can do a damn thing I it's kind of nice to hear this version of ter. because it t;ik?-s vmi h;?rt ncs kind of tug at the heart strings of ans, they get under the craw of Clemwill go on until the final thud of the ning off Dec. 31, just as a new year j* i that new year will be filled with * * "The Game" until that certain Saturember when it happens again. We'll remembering what i' .Is like to kiss a be rather than your ?>ster. our cake and our ice cream music, and ced is a tall swig of Ciatorade to wash it !C. 31. < in the Gator Bowl, fellas. 1 ii . . . I'd rather read about Jeff Shrewsbury's grandmother's prowess ,*| in poker than what color card that "fun" Paula is going to send to her friends. I hope she isn't a journalism major, because like her previous attempts at writing, she has yet to provide us with any feasible journalistic skills other than what seem to be en iiihj nci uiaiy, wmcn, n uer mother were to read them, would send even her off to blissful slumber. I hope the staff of The Gamecock can fill those spaces with print other than that which is in the "id" state, although 1 was glad to sec Janice ffc K return to her old complaining sti.^e in the Nov. 18 paper. David Oventhal Journalism sophomore A