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Viewpoint I Friday, February 5 1988 THh GAMKCOCK 3 ;T --""v ? /Nu* '-I Lounge g S.G. plan to renovat deserves support of s Today, a vote is taking place. It's a very impoi me ursi time in me more man imcc ycais smcc hi was closed, we, the students of USC, will have an decide what is going to happen to that empty and area of Russell House. At a table on the second floor of Russell Hous be available with a copy of the bill that will be v Not only must USC students ask themselves " have a non-alcoholic student lounge?", but also 41 pay for it the way the Student Senate's Finance < suggested?" The Golden Snur. which was a bar behind {J: Grill, was closed in the fall of 1984 because th went up from 18 to 19. And since then, the space ed save for an occasional comedian, rock band Many plans were suggested, but when students we usually said we wanted a lounge. A task force plan to have the university renovate the loung* students pay the operating costs. T U n Kill cfiiHnntc n/ill Kn imt inn fr?r r\rr?\/i ri f?c a 1 I1V t-fill OVUUVlllJ Mill UV T V/imgj 4V/I pi VTIV4VO u those costs. It will take $1 from every student ac lected each semester and save it for the lounge, average of 14,500 students paying the activity fe would raise about $28,000 a year. The bill also says the money for the Spur wil off the top of the total fees. So about 5 percent o Unrvrto Unf/\rn tVio onp_fnnrlpH ornnnc c UC gVJIIV, liVIUIk. liiv. |;civviuugv IU11UVU 1 O Government, Student Media, Carolina Progri sports clubs get the shot at the students' parts U fees. And the percentage-funded groups take ab( of the activities fees before other student organi; chance. Some student organizations hate percentage fi they don't get a fair chance at the total fund. Am no mention of an activities fee increase to cover Snnr. sn everv student organization ? as it sta have to take about a 5 percent cut in funds. But on the other hand, this issue has been dr long by the Student Senate and the administrate ding bill, no matter how bad it seems, is a very b end of a very long tunnel. And it will pay for students can go, get a non-alcoholic drink and between classes. The latter far outweighs the former. We're ' few bucks if the students get a lounge, but w< Cthrilled that this issue, approaching its fourth { soon be put to a final restr~ Vote yes. ' ^ fJ > ' Sk 5? \^' '*& ') CT'^ ~s* I BRIN6THEM If % TO THEIR | FEET ' ft | | WITH OUR J |j CLOSlMS lj CENTRAL ~M.VI ACT L-, AMERICA > -g&agati ^M9 J 1111 The Gamec< I.. * .. Editor In Chief Photography I JF.FI SHREWSBURY BRIAN SAULS Managing Editor Assistant Phot vtppukw mm prwi k KF1TH JONFS Copy Desk Chief Senior Report* ANDY BECHTEL MARY PEARS< Assistant Copy Desk Chief Datebook Kdil EILEEN ROSS JENNY SHARF News Kditor Graphics Fdit< TODD HINES TROY TAC.UE Assistant News Editors Comics Kditor TONY MORENO TRACY MIXSC TOROD NEPTUNE Adviser Viewpoint Kdior BILL ROGERS PETE MAC KEY Graduate Assl Features Kditor KAREN ADDY PATRICK JEAN Acting Directs Assistant Features Fditors Media/Advert CLAIRE OIEPENBROCK MARGARET N SUSAN NESBITT Production Sports Kditor CHUCK NORF WAYNE WASHINGTON SON HA ^ Assistant Sports Kditor Assistant Adv f JIM STUCKEY MELISSA HEf> I/Ctters Policy: The Gamecock will try lo print l?llfrs received. Ulteri ?hoi nnrdt long, (jonl tdllorlili tliould not ntud 500 *orii. We Ihf right I litvcl. The Gamecock will nol withhold n?me? under ?> drc uimUnce. Mlten Social Security number. ?L students ~vsr%<?-, M 3? Still tant vote. For ~~~12 M c Golden Spur |= arj Kj opportunity to ?i ? fH f i mostly unused ?1 . Bj ~^]m\ 1\ H ;e, a ballot will 7jt |g| 'oted on. ^ ? Ifl Do we want to 'Dowewantto WmmV&mamb* Committee has ^ came up with a 2 and have the plan to pay for ;tivities fee colwhich, with an Trustee Fj 1 be taken right f the fees would Remember when Playboy magazine xz ;uch as Student among the top-10 party schools in / am Union and wasn't here, and I suppose not many f , . . . recall that and the glory days of the Go OI the activities Obviously, someone was paying attentii -vnt AO ^ norrpnt _ .I ,_ . as ine campus sianus loaay, u appears zations get their stick of Topps bubble gum. If you'r though, revelry continues. indings because . Yeah, sure i.'s here hanging on by its , , , , in some cases, but we do still have it. Wc there has been college for criminy sake. Just call us the COStS of the foolish. It was George Bernard Shaw nds now ? will said youth is wasted on the young, anc every ounce of the experience and tryin agged on for so bla"- s? 5U? rae f But there s someone out there on th 3n that tnlS iun- Trustees, if you'll excuse the expressioi right light at the step on my buzz. No, check that, leve a lounge where And his name ironically is state Rep. M i . ? LI ? t watcn television He's got this little plan to rip the bow Willing to lose a ku of what being in college is about. H ; are even more make the guys into gentlemen and the g anniversary, will Southern belles. His tactics include bot visitation rights and obliterating cced < Allow me to point out that it's no 1988, and Rep. Fair is out to take us b Back to the days when young folk did 1- 'Gamecoc Student Sen. Steve McElveen took a Gamecock at Wednesday's Studi 'gi meeting. Basically, he criticized the pa . -v ti. ir didn't dn Student fifivfrnmpnl'? ir>h The Senate agreed it would advertise dum vote on the Golden Spur. I was at > and the senators said they wanted an ac rrSb l^at not on|y would list the facts aboi 1 Jjrt but also discuss both sides of the issu< should have been advertised graphically, just so students could see what it was, and the ad should hav neutral words that shouldn't hint, S slightest way, which way students sho Wednesday, a senator or two sai( disappointed with the ad, and McElv< on The Gamecock. The Gamecock, he said, hasn't sho terest in the issue ? even though for tl years, this paper has been the one vc consistently said the students should h where they can relax in Russell House alcoholic or not. / The Gamecock musn't think the n / important, he said. Yet, the paper wil Kfer | ._ of the bill ? not the referendum, bi l"'fe that the students will vote on today, e: 11 Letters to >ck Genesis story ' remains valid To the editor: Editor Here we 8? a8a'n- The continuing battle between creation science and ography Kditor wrongly titled evolution ? as it began from nothing and continues ,r along the pathway to nothingness. As 3N you may have already guessed, this lor letter is in response to Samuel Starks* >E obviously controversial column, "Bi)r ble's story of creationism not scientific" in the Feb. 1 edition of The Gamecock. )N 1 find it quite unfortunate that this learned student has decided to reject the intelligent beliefs of his grandmother for what he thinks to be a |s,ant well-analyzed and rationally thought i - 1 * 12 r inrougn unuer si aiming ui a Jr Student hypothesis. Stark writes, "Academi ising Manager cians and politicians, however, tend 4ICHELS to accept ^e theory of evolution a? ' the leading account of man's origin i,S as do most intelligent people." First of all, this is a false statement ? ertising Manager mosl do not_ A< E- wiidc^smitl J KRSON (three earned doctorates in advancec iid b?, at ?M> to 300 sciences) writes in his book Tht 10edu i?ner?form?i?orpottiw* Natural Sciences Know Nothing o m?? include .ri.er", ?.m, Evolution: "The theory of evolutioi ______is, of course, a philosophy ? ? \ar PNt DOWN \Ht I'bW'Nt ran P<tCt THE ToGA PMY IHVolVi^Q THE TONPPN- PJI Mt> THE C^ITERIA LM??S... m -m m m ur not living up inked USC ???????????????? America? 1 ._ , , are left to ilden Spur. f on becausc | as dry as a < e looking, ^ ^ fingernails ui :ll. hell, it's nines ^ XHr young and mmm?m?mmum / who once n J 1 I'm using ? A ^ / g to have a #?????????????? e Rnard of reel and netted onlv with nermission from th< n, trying to lady's father. Back when knees were no-nos anc 1 my buzz. dueling was all the rage among the gentlemen a ichael Fair. South Carolina College. Well, we're living today with string bikinis, tigh jeans and slam dancing. And the youth don't pe 'els out of a anymore by those standards; we maul. These ar is plan is to the '80s, man, the year of our Lord 1988. Wc'v als into true come a long way, baby. h quelching OK, so there's AIDS. It's nothing to laugh abou dorms. because it's reaching epidemic proportions. Bu t 1888, but this fellow from Greenville wants a quarantine in ack in time. itiated to further ensure the isolation of this killin the Virginia social disease. Instead of letting us be matur k' cares about ? shot at The :nt Senate ut the issue, I Guilfoyle " a bit more p it and know WW e contained W i even in the " * uld vote. J?..??? d thev were sen pounced legal, senatorial jargon it is written in, explainii wn much in- how much money is involved. he past three >ice that has And The Gamecock is running it, Sen. Mcl avv. a 1UU115V, vctu, iiui uuauu y\fu vnanvu^vu mi.-* puj;v,i \\it \j whether it is because it was decided everyone involved in S.< did a rather poor job explaining it to the studen jferendum is And students are probably not going to care. II run a copy This paper is not here to save S.G. or the Senj it the bill ? or anyone from an inadequate ability to advert xplaining the or from an inadequate desire to pay for advert Jhe editor philosohpy which promises QfQ|*I{C V that is) ? a principle which has always been popular among the about cr naive, for it promises the formation and creation of order ? of machines ? from nonorder without any con- To the editor: cept or telenomy, that is 'for I am responding tc nothing.'" What Stark and his article refuting the "most intelligent peole" base their special creation in I intelligence on is quite unintelligent. F irst of all, it is nc Intelligence based on hypotheses that argument to insinua are actually full of holes is more of a the opposing view ai pseudo-intelligence. dent, analytical As far as the creation story in thinkers as Starks Genesis ? there are not two ? one cceded in doing. will find no contradictions. Genesis I Science is not in is a basic outline of what Genesis 2 evidenced by the i expands upon. An intelligent study commonly believed j of the account would reveal this tact. ed theories ot the p< As for the history of crcationism, origins are incredi it is being shown more and more that especially considerii i the scriptures contain many scientific cannot be tested, statements that are being proven deciding what is an I through modern research. Ar- can theories be p ? chaelogical findings are also showing discarded. This is th*? Rihlp in hr v<?rv armrale. If one science, which is tl t looks at the so-called evidence for cesses and events th evolution in any area of science, one over in nature and i will find, once again, large gaps and as often as they occi 1 incongruencies which will never be only happened once ? found to be truth. observe what is nov I It is important tc i Chuck Coward lion is just a theory i Biology senior itself. In order for i JOUXNMWNV 7A B a 165 m 01 ???? ?> If mf?iff to his name adults about the whole thing, he wants to segregate the campus. That's a pretty powerful word usually attributed to something different, but it easily applies in this situation. Boys stay on one side of the campus and girls on the other. No more picking someone up at their door for a date, no more integrated television viewing, no more AIDS. Nah. j Rep. Fair seems to forget a couple of things. First, there have been no cases of AIDS on this campus ever, and secondly, we've all got to tackle the big world someday. So we're going to have to ! face it eventually. Why not let us make mature decisions while we're here? I seriously doubt when Rep. Fair attended USC ; he never visited a female residence hall. But that's i the kind of thing he wants to alleviate. That att titude shows little faith in today's college student. One of the major problems with the AIDS t disease today is the trigntenmg reality 01 it. Kep. t Fair is playing up to these fears and suggesting one e of the silliest solutions someone could find. Fore tunately, President James Holdcrman and Dennis Pruitt, vice president of student affairs, are not it playing along with the zaniness. it Rep. Fair simply isn't living up to his God-given ; i- name on this one. But let me be the first to wish g him the best of luck in the next election for support e from the younger voters? he'll need it. tour's future ? ing. But because of the issue's importance, we are forced to bail S.G. out. And McElveen has the gall to suggest that we haven't shown any interest in this issue, that The Gamecock isn't interested in the referendum. If it weren't for this paper badgering you and the rest of the "movers and shakers" in the Senate for the past four years since the Golden Spur was originally closed, nothing would have been done. I've been followine this issue since 1984. when 1 | was just a reader of The Gamecock. And when I | joined the staff in 1985 and started working for the I paper, I was put on the senate beat, followed the J issue and wrote about it. And after I left the beat and moved on to other things, 1 still followed the issue and made sure the paper did the same. ig I've written editorials and told reporters about the issue. I've seen other reporters come up with stories on the issue. And we've been following that ?1- story since the Spur closed, and we've always said ut we wanted a lounge for the students. G. So take a shot if you want, Sen. MeElvcen. But ts. don't say this paper doesn't care about the Spur. we re me oniy ones wno nave since ine oeginning, ite and we'll be the ones making sure the Spur will be ise just what the students want. is- Still want to help out, Sen. McElveen? occurred, spontaneous generation TlUllc? must have taken place, thus con# tradicitng the Law of Biogenesis, euuun wmcn siates inai an 111c tunic?) irum life of its own kind. In other words, organic cannot come from inorganic. Taking into account the perplexity of ) Samuel Starks' the issue, no one should reject any plausibility of possibility, especially if one is willing Monday's issue. to believe that natural laws are not a >t tactful in any universal constant. ite that those of Furthermore, Starks asserted that '? "inrlprwin. "r.pnpcit nr(>tPtll< Iwn (li^tiliclivclv and rational" different accounts of creation . . ." mistakenly sue- This is simply not true. The lack of vegetation on a dry earth (land) corifallible. This is responds to the "third day" of Creaunount of once tion. The account then goes on with md now disprov- added details. This supplemental inist. The issues of formation is not a contradiction, bly speculative. But whether or not one chooses to lg origin science accept the Biblical creation model or and only by not, the theory that life was specially id isn't plausible created by an uncontained or nonroven false and contigent force such as a superunlike operation natural being should not be dismissic study of pro- ed. Scientists have admitted that at recur over and there is no satisfactory explanation :an be tested just yet, which returns to the fact that ir. I lie beginning evolution is a meory. u snouia oe , and we can only discussed just as thai, instead of bev. ing taught as an absolute truth. note that evoluand has problems Donna Lynne Kelly evolution to have Knglish freshman