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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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':
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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.
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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 ???
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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?
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^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
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ds to a more exciting political
that politics and religion make
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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.
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