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Viewpoint I Monday, February 29, 1988 THE GAMECOCK 3 | Dancing USC should Wt for company U It's ironic that the USC depa decided to cancel next year's D deal is happening at USC and i would be a fine time for USC'j the stops. After all, USC has proclaime Columbia. And everything el university and the city are doin; label. There's USC's $15 million K be finished in December to mak facility in January 1989. There's the upcoming visit of ?) who is scheduled to speak and And there's the appearance < at The Township auditorium, classical-dance company, the ] Columbia is a major cultural 1 other cities in the United Stat mance sold out in six-hours si this significant event. In addition, the $25 million 5 tall in Columbia. USC should take advantage mote its own arts programs. Ir The department's chairman, decision to eliminate the show theatre productions at Longstr dar there, and USC's other cam of the oldest buildings on can ^ renovations. Unfortunately, th program that already has prob USC is one of the only state try that doesn't have a dance n be a super time to get that gc couldn't find a suitable place fc of this important year in the USC's dancers will have to wa As Suzanne Davidson, a U year's concert, told The Garnet classes, if you don't perform, think we will lose good dana places to go and perform." And, as Susan Anderson, da ment, told The State, this dec standing in the community. "> you lose your audience when y Certainly, the theatre and s have a negative impact on te dz sion is untimely. But there's st pany in Concert is scheduled tc the theatre and speech departrr advantage of the significant d( hope so. So much is happenir dance ? in Columbia this ye would not be complete unless chance. We encourage Green and h decision. Find a place for the E off this important year of cult ^/-4 / <ffi>jAf^ /-4C3^^ri^' I IIUID II) rnrnmrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmm** ' nnt-. if* 1 IIP" It; 1 itHiit iu n i iVi .i rrilYfi-ixiii ihAir ,'i- ri n. ii rin, Hit .i.r...i. ?** Editor in Chief JEFF SHREWSBURY j Managing Editor STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Copy Desk Chief ANDY BECHTEL News tldilor TODD HINES Avvivtuiit Npwt li'Hitnrs TONY MORENO TOROD NEPTUNE Viewpoint Fdlor PETE MACKEY Features Editor PATRICK JEAN I Assistant Features Fditors CI AIRE DIEPENBROCK SUSAN NESBITT Sports Editor WAYNE WASHINGTON Assistant Sports Editor JIM STUCKEY Adviser BILL ROGERS letters Policy: Th* (iamt?xk wUI try to print worai loaf. IiMU runori?i? inuuiu nui nimi jw i Th4 Gamctock will nol withhold nimfi Mnd? Socltl Security number. rwlr t/i'M/"/ \ji /v nj j if ivi /ytutc 9 perform again rtment of theatre and speech has >ance Company concert. A great n Columbia to suggest that 1989 > Dance Company to pull out all d 1988 the "Year of the Arts" in Ise going on suggests that the g what they can to empower that ^oger Arts Center, which should ;e way for the first concert in that famous dancer Rudolf Nureyev, dance at Carolina in April. )f the Bolshoi Ballet on April 11 Considered the world's finest Bolshoi's decison to perform in event. It will perform in just 11 :es. That tickets for the perforiows that Columbia tuned in to 5.C. State Museum will open this of all these developments to prolstead, it's canceling shows. Russell Green, told The State the was made because five scheduled eet Theatre have filled the calenipus theatre, Drayton Hall ? one lpus ? is undergoing long-term e decision is bound to weaken a lems. flagship universities in this coun[iajor in theatre. This year would )ing. But the department says it >r the company to take advantage life of the arts at Carolina. So it two years to perform again. SC alumna participating in this cocky "Even though there will be you lose quality and stamina. I irs, because they will find other nee director in the theatre departision will weaken the company's Ve will lose our momentum, and ou are not on display," she said, peech department's decision will ince program here. And this deciill a year before the Dance Com) perform again. Is there a chance ipnf ran rhanop 11c nlonc anH til/o VMfc VUI1 VIIMII^V IVO piuiu UUU IUAV :velopments in the arts here? We ig in the arts ? in particular, in ar, that the "Year of the Arts" USC gives its own performers a is department to reevaluate their )ance Company in Concert to cap ural growth at USC. II imecock Photography Editor BRIAN SAULS Assistant Photography Editor tpiiov i ppp Science Kditor JIM NEWMAN Senior Reporter MARY PEARSON Datebook Editor JENNY SHARPE Graphics Kditor TROY TAGUE Comics fCditor TRACY MIXSON Graduate Assistant KAREN ADDY Acting Director of Student Media/Advertising Manager MARGARET MICHELS n i r ruuuuiun RICHARD GRIFFIN j SON HA Assistant Advertising Manager MELISSA HENDERSON kllm rtctltrd. I?ll?ri ihould bf, it maximum, ISO lo 100 ?ord?. W* rtttrte the rtffcl lo ?dll kllm for ?lyl* or pouiblt r any ctrcunuUiK*. Ullcri mml Includc writrr') mm* ?nd yVAGGARTW NEVER SL ANVW,I1> EH : i to you n I0T IN THAT &K Scandal retii "Let he who is without sin cast the first stc A wise man once spoke these words, and I ? to adhere to them, but if I tend to denigrate, < whimsy. My objective is not to inspire those who ha' ploded over the threat to one man's religion b colleague who simply stated his own disb< This is not a rebel song. 1 come before you fnrmpr cpmi.rAlioion miirvr Now that my qualifier is out of the way, lei to it. A certain Jimmy Swaggart is in the hot sea breeches are smoldering. Goodness gracious, balls of fire! He's a fire-and-brimstone guy his sermons on the tube are always quite anin But now the press has dug up a few pictu Jimmy sharing company with a woman repute, and he's paying for it. He's been put i bo for three months and must undergo two ye rehabilitation. I thought rehabilitation was for drug usi other nasty habits. Obviously, in Swaggart's 1 work this incident is as nasty a habit. But it physical rehabilitation; it's mental. I wonder kind of treatment is in store for him. It's just another segment of the now popul piHpnppc f mAPtinn tKo r/>o 1 mnn u/Ka mm *h ture pulpits. So far they're not doing very w Oral Roberts lost a little face with his clai Letters to t Letter betrays ^ becc Christianity To the editor: Does Elston Gunn actually believe that garbage he wrote in his letter in the Feb. 24 issue of The Gamecock? (|j If so, he should be sent to the S.C. State Hospital on Bull St. for jj|i psychiatric help. First he asks how people can To believe that the earth orbits the sun O and proclaims that those of us who and do are devil worshippers. Well, I do Gun think that the earth orbits the sun (as som does the entire educated world along peoj with almost all of the uneducated Star world), and 1 assure you that I am A not a devil worshipper. He then goes dent on to condemn gravity, electricity, angi astronomy and biology, calling them bcli< satanic. That's crazy. This man ob- defii viously fails to realize that gravity is a this fact of life (why else do things fall to chaj the ground?) and that electricity is seric not a theory, but a fact (how else do One we light our homes?). As for of C astronomy and biology, what's stari wrong with examining the stars, Ir planet, animals, and plants that God crea has created for us? crea He concludes bv wishing all true how Christians the blessings of heaven whc and secular humanists the horrors tauj and anguish of eternal, everlasting the damnation. That's not a very Chris- beet tian thing to do. As a Christian, one reas should pray that everyone receives nigh the blessings of heaven. A true Chris- the tian would never pray for a group of for people to receive eternal damnation thin in hell. Remember the words of the G Lord? L.et he who is without sin cast plar the first stone. As far as I know, men Jesus Christ was the only man ha\ without sin, and at the moment, he is Gee currently deceased (until his coming the again). to tl Mr. Gunn, 1 urge you to take a the look at yourself and your beliefs. eart While you may claim to be a Chris- T tian \ir\i 1 Hnn'f ant lilr/* U/KiU /"'an you're looking at yourself, take a Cioc good look at F'at Robertson. I think Gen mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmammmmmma ivvvmi IEPIA5LU65 f r INESS.... j \ irns televai inc." p?? ispirc f call it \ :yc"v Todd ^ las'a Hines 's get L t. His ft great , and *?????????? latcd. res of an ominipresent death threat of ill got the dough by the grace of n lim- ? and carries on today. ars 01 Then his son Richard even c and reins of The PTL Show from ineof Tammy Bakker. Everybody 's not mess. But it began a renewed s what tion on the TV evangelists be lar in- And so who's next? Well, 1 ie pic- not Ernest Angsley, Rober ell. Graham. More than likely it': /-.f .i. i:-i- 1 1--? ui mi- ^puiugiu ciuu nuiKing wavi he editor 11 find he would be the ruin of foc great nation should he ever ime its president. fcj Thomas licyward ^ sophomore, 1 political science ar lenesis story J'< iconsistent I the editor: til n F eb. 15, I read some amazing V* disturbing letters in The C2 lecock. It seemed that there were ai e extremely sharp, intelligent n< >le who were irked at Samuel at ks' potshots at Biblical creation. ui graduate student, a medical stu- m and two Ph.D. candidates were y because they have opted to :ve the Book of Genesis is the nitive textbook on origins. How - logically flawed and convoluted J >ter of the Bible can be taken jusly by anyone is beyond me. ^ need only read a few sentences ^ jenesis before the inconsistencies T t coming out. i a? i vitnt>i.">, m^iii twiu Urty UlC w ted on the first day. The sun is !V ted on the fourth. I'm not sure y< they teach these things now, but li n I was in grade school, we were 2;ht that the rising and setting of ai sun, a phenomenon observed uise the earth rotates, was the it on for night and day. Creating tl it and day before the creation of ir sun is certainly a backward way f; a perfect being to go about doing n gs. w enesis 14:16 says the sun, moon, ti tets and stars were set "in firma- c< it," a solid arch or vault. I must 'e missed that National s| graphic full-color spread where y Voyager probe went smacking in- e< le crystalline sphere that keeps all w heavenly bodies from falling to " h. n here are other irregularities in the c icsis account, like the fact that A 1 created animals before man in d icsis 1:24-5 and created man 1< ngelismto s " Robertson," boys a fHP could. 1 have nothing ag to be a really good allegations about rr other various and si that there's a feedin The only problem himself from sometl ing. He's treating hi: constituted a seedy f i You make the call. What's even wors ??????? leading competitor, ty work and purport this past year. But he Swaggart Swaddle. God?or mavhc nnt ??? ? ? j ? d ?ttuu iv. a) icsn that's what Roberts the pictures for five itually took over the Ba-bing ? they're ? former hosts Jim and Bush has denied s knows about that to be seen what wil icouring for informa- now got to push his ] hind the scenes. after making such ac to be seen. immm, let's see. It's As for now, TV t Schuller or Billy closely, and this ad< ? some guy who is in race. Who ever said is. Can you say "Pat strange bedfellows? :fore animals in Genesis 2:18, or Thi at Cain was afraid someone would him ti 11 him when God sent him out into lional od, where there were no people in Robei c world to do the deed. The list of the D lomalies goes on and on. see it I guess the reason I find it disturb- birth g when four intelligent and learned said ii rople accept Genesis as a theory of speak igins is that, stripped of its Holy he's 'rit wrapper, it is not even a well- routir instructed story, let alone a scien- Sec lie treatise on where we come from. evolui 'hen men and women of this There iliber, who are trained to spot flaws than I id inconsistencies, cultivate an ig- Ma xancc to spare their faith any harm a bio! id to foist their religion onto others bioch rider the guise of "equal treat- blood ent," it worries me. circle* Jeff Ford know School of Medicine glowi answ< Letter writer religic ;eems idiotic ^ o the editor: Prole It's 11:30 p.m., do you know and a hich hotel your TV evangelist is in? durin Ir. Gunn, arc you an idiot, or do religi< [)u just appear that way? I would atheis ke to address your letter in the Feb. Mr 4 issue of The Gamecock one topic most [ a time. letter Firstly, everyone should know that write was no mistake the separation of Sam ! ic church and the state was written no the Constitution. Are you miiliar with this satanical doculent? If Pat Robertson is elected, we ould have the most obvious associa v/ii \/i V.IHH tn unu .>unt mat na^ ivti unfronted America. Kdift How can a man who claimed to peak the word of God for so many y()U cars suddenly not become influenc- crea\ rl by the thoughts that inspired these write 'ords? Does the removal of the title icttei reverend" from his name suddenly ereal lake him a politician? With so many t ,u: I 1 ?1: ?: i 1 '- * iiiii;iii rtiiu inigious ounus in print imcrica, should a powerful othei cmonstrator from one faith be our iader? I ^WCtea^Tnbune ? potlight nd girls? Sure, I thought you ainst the man, and he appears guy despite all his unfounded lissles in Cuba, sneezing and indry tidbits. All I'm saying is g frenzy going on out there. is that he's trying to distance liing that he grew to fame do- i i TV evangelism days as if they )ast. Is it such a terrible thing? e is that he's charging that the George Bush, began some dirs the latest developments as the Webster's dictionary describes ricting" or "restraining," and >on is claiming Bush did with months after they were taken, tlready slinging mud. uch allegations, and it remains II happen. But Robertson has past into the background again :cusations, so that also remains evanoHism i? hpino pverl uprw '"O ? -? ? v- * v* J ds to a more exciting political that politics and religion make 11 mmmmmtmrnmrnsmammaamBamaamarnm s is a man that claims God told o run. Sounds like a good NaEnquirer lead: "God speaks to tson about the presidency after avid Letterman show!" I can now, alongside "Mother gives to twin iguanas." Frank Zappa [ best on Nightwatch, ". . . he s uii pumiuiii issues, i ncn wnen behind. . . he pulls his Jesus le." Robertson is dangerous, ondly, if you don't believe in lion, fine! Tell it to your kids. is more proof for evolution for creeationism. ybe you're right, though. 1 am logy major. Lately, as I study emistry, I find myself putting on my forehead and sitting enJ by candles. Thanks to you 1 now why the textbook was ng. Satan was calling. I ?red him last night by screaming le Krebs Cycle. igree with you ? put more )n in schools. More about ms hanging Quakers, Christian* s lynching Christian blacks. stants rioting against Catholics, II of the world keeping Jews out g World War II. Without 3n there would be no need for its. . Gunn, your article was the obnoxious, utterly ridiculous I have ever read. Please don't anymore. Let's save room for Starks. Randall Krawcheck, senior, biology >r\s note: If you wish to let the Gamecock's editors know how feel about the debate between ionism and evolution, please in. All tellers are read. Today's rs on (he debate between ionism and evolution theory are 'ast letters The Gameock will on (his subject, as there are - letters that need to run. i