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Viewpoint I 3 THE GAMECOCK Monday. March 21, 1988 Survey Staff of 'Game< ^ results of stude. The Gamecock has received tl poll about itself. We thought we' TELLUS surveyed 159 on-cam relating to this paper, how it is needs to do to continue improvinj cent of students read The Gamed week. Only 6.3 percent of studei week. We're glad to confirm our part of USC student life. We were not surprised to lea favorite part of the paper was tl take a break with Calvin and H news were next in line. On the otl was listed as the least favorite re a tells us we must continue trying ^ reporting about the things that a Evaluating the tone of our cov< polled said they thought the cover had no opinion and 5 percent tho said it was biased said The Gan I favor of the USC administratioi succeeding at providing news as j opinions for this page. Meanwhile, 99.4 percent of stu< portant to have a student-run n And we were happy to discover t mation they read in this paper. \ As for what we need to, do several suggestions they said the; staff. Some we can act on. such issue-to-issue articles (which prol gestion, that we develop more ii more on students. Responding to comics, are prohibited by space ? that we add more controversy, tc vocative and resourceful. But we' troversy. We're going to report leave the controversy to you. Like we include more letters to the edit ter we receive. Writing them is 01 so inclined, we're glad to hear fr And remember 99.4 pen listening. I CATBIRP I ?Ije e-r*$EK&t&ckC ' ? " 'M" '1!1" '" ' 1'^' ' ; 1 f" ' ^ '1 ^ Editor in Chief JEFF SHREWSBURY Managlr- Erf'tor STEPHEN GU1LFOYLE Copy Desk Chief ANDY BECHTEL News Editor I TODD HINES Assistant News Editor ! TONY MORENO Viewpoint Kdior i PPTP MAPIfPV Features Editors CLAIRE DIEPENBROCK SUSAN NESBITT Sports Editor ! WAYNE WASHINGTON Assistant Sports Editor JIM STUCKEY | Photography Editor { BRIAN SAULS j Assistant Photography Editor IJ TEDDY LEPP l' I ^ Letters Policy: Th* Gamtcock Will I17 to print ktter* 1 wordt long. (it*4 editorial* ihouid not mccvd 500 word*. Iltttl. Thi Ourucock will not withhold nimci undtr any Social fkcerttjr Banter. I cock' will keep nt poll in mine le results of a recent opinio d share the results, pus students on various issu< perceived by you and what We discovered that 99.4 pe ock, 62.9 percent three times its read the paper just once belief that we're an importai rn that our fellow students hie comics. It's always nice t obbes. USC articles and US ler hand, world/national nev ading in The Gamecock. Th to keep our focus on qualil ffect USC. eraffe *?7 ? nr?rrpnt r?f age was unbiased, 37.7 percei light it was biased. Those wh necock staff slants its view i 1. Those results suggest we'i we find it. We try to save oi ients said they thought it is in ewspaper. That's no surpris hat 92.5 percent believe info Ve appreciate the trust, to improve, students offer< y would like to pass onto oi i as including more on-goin >ably is a part of another su, n-depth articles) and focusir others, such as including mo inH fiinrl limitations Anr?thf lis us we need to be more pr< re not going to create the coi the news as best we can ar :wise, several readers suggestc or, but we run nearly every le it of our control. But if you' om you. :ent of USC students will 1 SEAT 1 Science Editor JIM NEWMAN Senior Reporter MARY PEARSON Datebook Editor JENNY SHARPE Graphics Editor TROY TAGUE Comics Editor TRACY MIXSON Adviser BILL ROGERS Graduate Assistant KAREN ADDY Acting Director of Student Media/Advertising Manager MARGARET MICHELS Production RICHARD GRIFFIN SON HA Assistant Advertising Manager MELISSA HENDERSON rfc?l??4. I?t(rri tfcoaM be, at nailnii>, 190 lo 34 Wc rtKrvf thf light lo edit klltn for tfyW or poult drcum?(auc?. (y*tt?re nail Isclud* wrllcr'f nam* ? 50 \WCA SIN V > .. t\I TOSACH ! I k\ ^ :? Students at < r, 0_ At universities across the country, students ha been saying they're not putting up with all the gj bage going on at their universities. id In the past year, there have been major stud< ;d demonstrations at the University of Massachuse at Amherst and at the University of North Caroli re at Chapel Hill. But most especially, this attitude was shown the deaf students at Gallaudet University, w 36 rocked the boat for so long they convinc Elizabeth Zinser, the newly appointed president, resign and also forced the resignation Gallaudet's Board of Trustees chairwoman. The students decided Zinser was not represi tative of the students. And they did somethii They protested and marched. They blocked i trances to classroom buildings so no classes coi be held for. an entire week. They won. They managed to convince Zinser that she \ not right for Gallaudet at this time. And they fc ed out the Board chairwoman. Zinser was an eminently qualified Candida with a long distinguished record as an educator a administrator. She most recently served as a v chancellor at UNC. But she wasn't deaf and she was to be presid of a liberal arts university for the deaf. The other candidates were just as qualified Beer ads eqi Ah, America. Ollie North will do time in slammer; televangelists are being exposed; smidgen of our troops are settling in Honduras i Panama. And dogs sell beer. Yes, canines are endorsing ale. It began a couple of years ago in the continu saga of the beer wars. Ad men were scramblinj find a means of frothing up beer sales, and it getting ugly. First it was Alex the golden retriever who able to go to the fridge, grab a can and drin brew. Then a little pedigree pooch made his (actu her) debut, and it's been gangbusters ever sii Spuds Mackenzie (real name Elaine), that bl eye-patched, chubby, little bull terrier came i homes all over America. It was a new twist to an old game. Get a fc legged, ugly creature that will do anything ur sedation or for a treat, surround it with beaut babes who think the beast is cool and have ! throw a wild party that appears a raving succ Then get a voice that means good times and is < known ? Robin Leach. It's pure chemistry. Oh, it was cute at first when he was escorted ii m every hip wingding eagerly awaited and for III received. Spuds, "The original party animal," || heralded as the one who was making those pai LJ sw'n81 Marxist of ft Solidarity, Poland's outlawed labor union le< Lech Walesa, is a diabolical plot by the CIA the pope to undermine Soviet authority in region. The ultimate goal of Solidarity is uuwniau 01 roiana s pro-soviet government the establishment of a U.S.-supported pu] state. Or so says Peter Adams, a former busi writer for The Orlando Sentinel, a paper I woi for as a clerk in the summers of '85 and '86. Du ; my stints at the paper, I met many staff memt but Adams remains the most memorable, becai had never met a real, live communist before. ' As a pro-Soviet Marxist, Adams has sti beliefs, including a wide array of conspi ! theories. His Utopia is a worldwide, Soviet-stylt tion. And once he gets on a roll, Adams espouse Marxist dogma at remarkable veloci his sky-blue eyes darting back and forth as his a wave in the air. But his pet topic is the many devices that "el capitalists" have at their disposal to pacify youth of the West, the group most likely to re\ * Or so says Adams. ? I Ihe Mrst method of controlling the yout * I drugs. Today's drug problem can be trace< I multi-national corporations and government aj i & M? A5 , ?V *** ^ k ^ ^ifl I? Uallaudet deser ive 'r to of f yr t/Jm t -j ?n_ ng Zinser, but they were deaf. And that's what set the en- students off. uld If I had been there, I'd have joined in the protests. Because not only was Zinser not deaf, she also couldn't sign. vas She couldn't speak the language all her students rc- spoke. Not a word, not a letter. The old expression used to be deaf and dumb. But to her students, ite. Zinser was heflrino anH Humh tnd She would not have been able to walk the camice pus and talk to her students one on one without a translator. Only through others could she find out ent what interests and concerns her students had. She couldn't communicate to her students. as And no matter what the size of an institution, late dog's life v the ' ' was H ilieS I a ]>>$' yjjnjr a'?y I \ ice. ' ' ack into In the same ad, he strapped on a guitar and jammed on through the night as a slew of Barbie dolls >ur- fawned over the little critter, hoping that they ider might be his escort home that evening. iful Then Spuds took to the open sea on a cruise ship him of mirth. Scantily clad sun babes prance around ess. the deck tickling and cooing. Finally, Spuds joins well in on a shipwide conga line. The little fellow proves his party mettle again. n to And then there's the recent Spuds ad at home in idly his mansion. More fantastic looking bimbos preen was Spuds and get him ready for a big party that eventies ing. Once again the party is a success and everyone loves the Spudster. :rs different out d by 1 racy > na- cies. So when a high school student lights up a joint can at a Grateful Dead show, he completes a long chain ties, of oppression that began in some rain-drenched irms jungle in South America, where the CIA secretly nai vcsis iiiui ijuttiiit auu cocuinc. ivieanwniie, tne litist government masks this tactic with "Just Say No" the campaigns and anti-drug laws while actually sup/olt. porting drug use, because drugs lull their users into apathy. Or so says Adams. h is Another great capitalist weapon is rock music, 1 to which is an invention of corporations to fool young gen- people into thinking they are being rebellious. In OTH&fcs_ C4USHT..., I ve applause that kind of communication should be of the highest priority. USC is a fine example of how bad this situation can be. I once heard that one of our esteemed trustees laughed about the students here, saying they weren t an important part of the USC. I don't know if it's true, but it doesn't surprise me. The only time we can go to our president and nilACtlAn V**rn i C o t r% * ?? ? vjuvjtiuu mill u Ul a 1/il.aMMl, UIIV.C Ul IWItC it semester. Students constantly complain about the high price of tuition, yet it's going up next year almost certainly. At a "Breakfast with the President" in 1986, James Holderman told a young lady he was opposed to apartheid and would do everything in his power to convince the Educational Foundation to divest. The Board of Directors of the foundation later voted unanimously to continue investing in companies doing business in South Africa. At a rare forum in the business school this past year, Holderman said he and the foundation were waiting to hear what the Rev. Leon Sullivan, whose principles for South African investment the foundation follows, had to say about his principles. Sullivan said his principles were useless. But the foundation hasn't divested. Students have made their concerns known, yet what has happened? Nothing. It's like the president and board can hear, but choosc not to. nth nightlife Ladies and gentlemen, Spuds is a dog. Dogs don't drink beer; dogs don't attract beautiful women; and dogs don't do the conga. But I can appreciate what the beer company has done. It's a great way to have all the elements of a party and getting drunk disguised around a dog. Why else would people eagerly wait on a dog to really get a party cooking? They're drunk. Ynn mioht nnt hauc Irnnwri it hut Anti/>ncor_ Busch is suing a small T-shirt company called Capt. Salt for using a bull terrier with a pirate-like eye patch. They're claiming copyright violations on a breed of dog. It's a perfect case of the big guys against the really little guys and the money Captain Salt Co. will spend on fees alone will set them under quickly. They continue to battle the big corporation, though. That's a little out of hand ? the T-shirt character was created before Spuds attended his first party. Bud is taking Spuds a little bit loo seriously. It's a little fantasy depiction of a canine and doesn't warrant squashing a little company in Florida. Chill out, dudes. Spuds is OK, but as anything else, he's getting old. The dolls are going to push a lot of people over the edge. 1 guess the thing I still like about Spuds is that it proves the old maxim "Every dog has his day." look on life fact, however, they waste their time attending concerts and listening to albums when they could be working for revolution. Rock bands, even the alternative groups that are supposedly politically active, are a means of pacification. Or so says Adams. Television is another source of apathy in the West. Mindless shows such as ALF and Facts of Life clutter the minds of young people, leaving them unable to think about important political matters. Because large corporations control the networks, they are responsible for the inane programs, and corporate executives smile smugly at prime-time schedules, knowing that the masses will tune in physically and turn off mentally. Or so says Adams. All this adds up to a brilliant campaign of capitalist oppression, as the potentially revolutionary masses are kept in check through governments and corporations. Drugs, rock music and television combine to subdue young people, preventing from thinking. Or so says Adams. During my two summers at The Orlando Sentinel, I listened to his ideas with an open mind. Although we disagreed, we ultimately respected each other's views, and we became good friends. If only it could be that easy between the superpowers.