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2 THE GAMECOCK Friday, January 22, 1988
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Parking
Checking of meters should be
low on university's priority list
The parking patrol is a weak link in an otherwise strong USC
chain. Almost everyone has been put out with them at one time
or another.
i ne university uucs nui neeu near as many paiKing pan unci i>
as it now employs. The threat of receiving a parking ticket is
enough to deter most delinquent parkers. Many people obey the
speed limit all their lives without ever receiving a speeding ticket.
The very idea that they could be monetarily set back and publicly
humiliated is reason enough to obey the basic speed law.
And what is the theory behind the 30-minute meters? Who
goes anywhere for 30 minutes? It is difficult to enjoy a meal in
less than half an hour. When are 30-minute classes held? Why
are these meters placed in front of the library? "No honey, I
can't go out 'til later . . . I've got to study for my Biology 490
final, but it shouldn't take more than half an hour." It's like
buying one bag of popcorn to watch Gone With the Wind ? it's
just not enough.
And consider the people who issue the tickets, the patrollers
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your behavior are a ticket book and a watch. It is a
thankless job, and it should be. Existentialism has manifested
itself in the campus parking lot. The patrollers perform a perfunctory,
depressingly negative task. And what is worse, the
parking patrollers are basically decent people. If it were up to
them, they probably would be content to issue warnings instead
of tickets.
Not only does their job cause undue stress, anger and a
monetary expense, it takes away from the positive things these
people could be doing here on campus as well. Without anyone
losing a job, the patrollers could make a parallel career move.
The university could keep the minimum number of parking
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crews. The university would look nicer. Motorists
would be happier. And the patrollers would be doing something
productive for a change. These people would love to hear a
"thank you" or "good job" for once. No worker is wasted on
the grounds crew as long as there is one scrap of paper blowing
around on what otherwise is a beautiful campus.
And visitors at USC would be much more impressed with a
clean campus than punctual parking-meter checkers. Again, the
policing of parking areas has zero utility value, especially when
the misused university personnel could make the campus a
model for other schools while winning pride for themselves in
the process.
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It was a slow Wednesday evening. The kind of
Wednesday you could spread on a piecc of bread
and jams in your throat when you swallow.
It was Slap Maxwell, me and Bob Fulton, "The
Voice of the Gamecocks," on the radio giving the
play-by-play as the basketball team wiped the
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pretty.
Then something hit me like a brick. The kind of
brick that smashes you in the face before you even
see the schinoe who threw it. Yeah, I had to write a
column.
Then I thought, "What gets under every USC
student's craw?" I had to find it. Time was flying.
So 1 poured a drink and thought a little more.
Fulton sounded as if he had potatoes stuffed in
his mouth and was talking live-remote from a cave.
Nothing fishy there.
And Slap on the tube was just Slap. No problem.
Then 1 looked outside my window on the third
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the campus, a bustling mccca of students and
knowledge crammed onto a few acres of land.
Then something hit me like a ton of sand. It was
an idea. It was the weather.
That was the one thing that made people grind
their teeth and sock their mother in the jaw. Yeah,
Senators bail <
Student Government should consider getting a
recall provision into-the Constitution. There's a
bunch of student senators who should have the fear
of God nut into them
Case in point: the Student Senate meeting I attended
Wednesday.
Sen. Stanley Davis is not the most popular
senator. In fact, he's disliked by many senators.
And he is disliked because he gets up and talks on
just about every bill and resolution that comes
down the pike. He has his opinions and exercises
his right to be heard on those issues.
And he objected to one of the bills Wednesday.
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favor of his objection. So he exercised his right to
have the Senate overturn her ruling. He took a long
time, constantly coming up with different points
that he said proved the bill would be
unconstitutional.
But while he was at the podium speaking, so
were most of the senators in the auditorium. About
four times Hunter had to rap her gavel to get our
"nonoraoie senators to shut their big mouths.
And for the rest of the debate, they all whispered to
each other.
And then some of the senators got up and started
to run around, trying to figure out if Hunter's rulLetters
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In his letter of Jan. 13, Andrew ^ j aren*
Robinson expressed his "anger and Ancj jn .u
disappointment" with Sen. Mark i
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The senator expressed overtly Chris- fen(j Some?
tian beliefs and opinions, and in universities
Robinson's view "slighted" H. Ci. sent com
Wells, Dr. Sigmund F reud and Karl holding sut
Marx. Robinson thinks the USC ad- troversial s
ministration should be "more Perhaps
thoughtful,'' presumably by should sim
avoiding commencement speakers of jlope not |
Hatfield's ilk. be reached,
i didn't attend the December tolerance:
ceremony, out i aid participate in the (jose 0f
graduate commencement this past Robinson ?
May. On that occasion, I heard a amount of
speaker who was a throwback to
Stalinism, still nostalgic for the 1930s
and the "struggle against fascism" in Assistant
which she fancies herself to have ^
been engaged. She didn't care much
for the 1980s: too much individual
freedom, too much creation of I
capitalistic wealth, not enough Marx- JUJi M.
ian fervor among the masses, I
suppose. To the edit
I endured the speaker's railings As yon r
against Masters of Business Ad- Republican
ministration students, which surely 8 in I
"offended. . . literally hundreds of Hard to ur
graduates, faculty members and per- Pu*s so m
sons in attendance" (to use the small state
criterion applied by Robinson) who minority oi
were not of the Marxist faith. Much lend the
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repugnant and ? yes, indeed, Mr. The reas
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it was a good plan.
So I grabbed my pad, slipped into my trcnchcoat,
doffed my fedora in the mirror and ambled
outside to investigate.
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mist you could break pieccs off of, box up and
send to someone. It was the kind of mist that made
you want to find a light pole and just lean against
it.
But I knew I had to keep moving. There was
work to do, and all the dames were home studying
or out with their regular jakes.
As 1 looked across The Horseshoe 1 could feel
out of meeting.
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ing was sound. They were asking senators their opinion;
they were asking Woody Carothers, assistant
vice president for student affairs, his opinion. They
asked S.G. President Michael Hogue his opinion,
and they even asked former Sen. Johnny Young his
opinion.
But while the senators were getting all these opinions
and the rest of them were chatting about
God-knows-what, the Senate was not listening to
Sen. Davis as he continually stated his objections
and came up with more.
The senators refused to listen.
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ion. campaigns of the six mi
oes this leave us? Robin- running for the Republic
veto some speaKcrs, ana i non. success ncrc tor a ca
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Christianity, Robinson and give his campaign the
t likely to see eye to eye. is necessary to keep him g
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ssed muster with the two other hand, if a candidal
ly that speaker would of- ly here, he is portrayed as
me else. State-supported this image will dry up pt
would be unable to pre- support and funding,
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views un any ton- iowa caucus can provide
ubject. bring national exposure t(
commencement addresses who come in second or th
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Until some resolution can individuals as alternati
, though, I suggest mutual leading candidate. This w
if I can stomach a large support among the votei
Marxist claptrap, can't to support someone oth
?it through an equivalent front-runner.
Christian exhortation? In summary, the tiny s
William R. Sandherg l,as Sl,ch a psychologica
professor of management l'lc v?lcrs across the na'
candidate can afford to
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jority of the population
or; that the Iowa caucus
nay know, the first major Dole as a winner who wi
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Iowa. To some it may be Republican Party to
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something wasn't right. White clumps of
something were spattered along the grass. Yeah, it
was icc.
It hadn't melted yet, and it was hanging on like a
pit bull on the mailman's leg, despite the wet day.
The patches were remnants of the ice storm that
shut down the town more than a week before.
It was a storm that hit like a Tyson uppercut and
leveled the capital of a state for more than four
days. It made the town quiet, too quiet.
And now standing there in the mist it was warm
again. Not too warm, just warm enough to make
you think. And two weeks later, it'd probably leap
up to 75 degrees and then go back down again ^ |
quicker than a dame's wink. "
It was as predictable as loaded dice. Anyone
knew that.
I knew the weather was screwy, but I had more
important things to worry about. I needed
something for a column.
My job was a dirty one, but somebody had to do
it. To most people it didn't mean a hill of beans in
this cra/.y thing we call life, but maybe someone
out there was watching and reading. Or maybe my
elevator just didn't go all the way to the top floor.
Maybe next week I'll have something, though, or
maybe not. Until then, hi, mom. Send money.
, abuse power
It doesn't mutter-what biMnhis was; It doesn't
matter because the senators won't consider it again
until next week.
Because a bunch of senators got fed up with not
listening to Davis and just got up and left. About
half the senators present started pouting and
stormed out. j
So once again, your elected representatives hav*
shown they do not possess much maturity of
dedication to their jobs. If they don't like what is I
being said, they're going to leave. ; ,
They refused to listen to a senator who had ob* >
jections to a bill on constitutional grounds. And
the senator in question probably knows what he ifc
talking about ? he was chairman of the committee
that wrote the new constitution.
They stormed out in the middle of the meeting, '
forcing it to end and wasting valuable time in
which they could have come up with alternative
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they thought it would be better to just leave, ac- 1 Jf)
complishing nothing.
These senators who ran for their offices (dr !
managed to get themselves appointed to them), yet
stormed out rather than debate an important issue, '
prove an old saying: "Those who seek political
power are those least qualified to wi'*M it."
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mdidate will for S? At F1C21 ,
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money that To the editor: fj)
:oing for the It has recently been reported that
ises. On the SOme members of the Congress will '
i does poor- be introducing more punitive sanca
loser, and tions against the regime in South
>ssible voter Africa to induce the government to
institute further reforms. Strong opion
that the ponents of apartheid have argued, *
is that it can however, that sanctions and
3 candidates disinvestment might have an adverse
ird, and this effect on the livelihood of black
iortray these South Africans. Recent opinion polls
ves to the Gf South Africans confirm these
rill win them suspicions.
s who want John Kane-Berman of the South
ler man trie African Institute of Race Relations
reported this past month that in 12 of
tate of Iowa 14 polls conducted over this past
I impact on year, more black South Africans
tion that no were opposed to sanctions than in Iff
ignore it. 1 faVor of them. In eight of these polls,
Dole will be opponents of sanctions outnumbered
the most out supporters by a 2-to-l margin.
trong ties in Likewise, a survey by Germany's
efit the ma- African Foundation found that twofhprp
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will portray Africa do not want sanctions because
II be the one they fear sanctions will cost them
to take the their inh* The fact is sanetinns have
victory in already cost many South Africans
ucus will be not on|y their jobs, but the opporbandwagon
tunity for advancement in a society
he fall. moving slowly but surely toward
roy Mullinax desegregation and f u 11 g> J
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?nts for Dole Don Weaver
itical science 1987 history graduate