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Viewpoint 2 THE GAMECOCK Friday, April 15, 1988 I' IIM?MIBIM ? Illll I'llWIHI II 1??I III II Wll 1 I ?r~?????M??? Iiiaugurati After year of mistai new S.G. must lear A new Student Government will be i A i .1 /\ new piesiuem, vice presiuer few exceptions, a whole new Student S There's a tremendous sigh of relief now. After Wednesday's meeting, stud< chairman of the Senate Finance Comri the effect of 'I'm done. You won't sec It has been a long year, and the Sen< trying to do many things. This Senate more criticism than any other. But mc tin* sonnfnrs didn't vv;int fo do anvthinp " - o the means they chose to reach their go We hope those who have won Senate the most recent developments in the J from them. Senators have tried to bypass constit tary procedure, and, on one occasion, s did it becasue they didn't know the rule; it because they didn't think the rules u The Senate always has parliam< senators-elect should attend them and what needs to be done. Every senator s a copy of Roberts Rules of Order so the hand when they need to learn the coi > - l :^ A iiuuk IU uigui uiuan, cnu utuait, *;u Also, the S.G. executive candidates mises to the students. Those promises si they should fulfill every promise they m limit themselves to those promises. Is what but.is the students this semester m ty yawn next fall. The Gamecock will work with S.G. us. But the paper's intention will alwa and to make sure, through editorials a doing what its members have promisee Congratulations to all those who wo and to all those who won in the genera We hope you try to do as much as hope you learn the rules a little bit bet Comprom C/i/ /7 /i m /r iiti 11 ^luu^riio win guiri nothing with ticki It's nice to sec a little hustle from Si S.G. President MichacI Hogue has with the Athletic Department and USC man about student ticket allocations tc And the students will make some mi USC students have been allocated 1: lew years, but about 2,500 have be( Athletic Department when they're n< ... l . .. i * ? 1 i *i. siuuems nave 1101 picKcu up more in; game, though, as always, so-ne student Clem.son game. The students will get about 13,000 I next semester. And for those tickets, will give $75,000 to the Intramural provements in fields, additional progi salaries for some intramurals workers. And with the Intramurals Departm< other than student aetivities fees, the a< some of the $50,000 the intramural de other needs. Clubs and activities that ding in the past could be given a bigge now on. We re still not sure right now beez stone, but it seems evident that the d guarantees students the number of ti< will fund our intramurals and will free out other organizations. We're not losing anything, and we t finally bring our intramurals program S.Ci. should make sure, however, i coming to intramurals, the old morn needlessly taken away from the d Department's money will help tremen all. rrit 1 he vjam hriilnr in Chief I'hnt II I I SHREWSBURY IJRIA Managing Minor ASMS SI I I'lll N (.I II I OYl I u 1)1 Cop> Desk Chief Scien ANDY Ml ( II III 11\1 f Assistant Copy Desk Chief Seni< \\ \V\I YAM. MAK News Kditor Date l< >1)1) HIM S 11 Ni> Assistant News Kditor (irap low MORI NO I KO' ( orn I KA< Features hditors (irad ( I AIKI DM ?M NHK<)( K KAKI SI SAN NI SHII I Actir Sports Kdilor Medi W AVM \\ ASH I N( i I ON M..\K Assistant Sports Kdilor Prod 11M Sit < Kl- N R|( ( Adviser HI I I K<)(il KS Assiv Ml* I I *'llfrs F(llic> : "" (>amfcoclt will lr? la prim tollrn r??l?r< word* long I.u??l fdtiorl?l? should not f*cc<d MH) word* \W rrv llfxl Ihf <,amrc?(h will not withhold nim?i nndtr ?o? drrym? ' *>o?l?l s*curll? niimhrf I L ion Kwaf'*"" kes, miscues, n procedures inaugurated Tuesday. fw?S5 it and treasurer. With a JB >c"iuu. flSSSS being breathed out right int Sen. Steve McElveen, littee, said something to me again, thank God.' ite has spent a long time has been the recipient of >st of it was not because ; rather it was because of als. seats have been watching Senate and have learned utional rules, parliamentate law. Sometimes they >, but sometimes they did /ere important. jntary workshops; the I learn how to do hould be required to buy y can have a reference on ..?-?' rrect parliamentary promade a number of prolould be kept. And while ade, they also should not I Q 1 |Lr ? ;sues come and go, and JL illllK ^ ay not even rouse a hear- # ,.v(. got a fricnd And he's the president o if it wants to work with Theatre here at USC. I \ ys be to report the news ,lis latest production, O, nd columns, that S.G. is u Jose BCts r,cal c*citfd , he wants to do with this people involved in theat n the runoffs Thursday, volved before. So out c 1 election this past week. play I saw, only two ar liic r\\A ?./? chance for students tn I I I 1.5 iVVlKUv UlUt ClIIU VY V icr lhan ihcy did. wa'" '? ,bc ,hcalr,c s,udl And they aren t putt q hall like L.ongstreet. The | ~m p.m. Monday throug i 1| Greene Street. You can It's free. And it's fui The group has done a vnur*h 1nQ0 ing for props and other IfllA>\^Ily pockets. The play loo . . Monday night, so it 01 31 QQrGGlTlGtlt polish it up. And it's fi Jose is crazy, hut he tudent Government. drop by. reached an arrangement President James Holder- 1 should like to sa 3 fooiball games. ck/'ar; Jiffa'"y' , Saw (Her) Him Standin oney in the process. very catchy tunc by thc 5,000 tickets for the past Tiff, babe, don't evei in on loan back to the 3t in use. At the most, J~ ~ Aan 12,(XX) tickets to any yy s didn't get tickets to the Although there are tickets to football games wrestling, wrestling reir the Athletic Department fraudulent form ot sr i p>. . . r country. It s properly I Is Department, for im- absllrd.. and |hc'.. Jgl rams and possibly better During my childh< popular among my ik :nt funded by something popular that we built n r- i :tnil rnrQPft rm<> annlIwr cuviues ices iunu can use ? ,, . i r professionals do on teU partment is allocated for somconc go,Wood have received poor fun- a headache from being r portion of the pie from it was all in a day's seriously injured, bee iuse it hasn't been set in everything we saw on t i i . i u. brains further devclope leal, as struck right now, o11 . . . , 1 ' ,b ' all the punishment an( jkets they use right now, What the man on the m up activities funds to help federations advise theii physical maneuvers the nay be getting a chance to thc,r1 messa8c tJoes nc I to the level it should be. !' thavc ,KC' killed attempting wrest that with the new money Many former wrestle ;y is used wisely and not need to keep the trade epartment. The Athletic have said that most of dously, but it won't do it fcssional wrestling mat< of the first things a wri good fall ? one that ecock I Lettei ography Kditor 1.^' 4|_ n saui s I rair tnrc tant Photography Kditor Z Kdli: privacy i MI-WMAN >r Reporter 1 YIM ARSON editor: book Kdilor ' . [his letter is m resp j Y SMARPI- tides in The G amect hies lhe, !'?l>iening of d Y rACiUf- policies. State Rep. ics Kdilor Greenville, suggested V MIXSON night stays in residem unit* Assistant ,hal an "open, p, ( N ^djjy vironment exists at I li Director of Student Come now. Doe: a/'Advertising Manager bcllcvc lhal ba"n'n8 1 OARliT MKHIils ? going to end all se netinn ,b" """erslty? I thin IARl> OKIII-IN why shollld bc 1 just one more way l< .tant Advertising Manager suppress individual ri nr.iNi,?r k?>w.n I think most collet 1 I fll?t thnuld Ik. il i mitlmum. 150 lo mio mature CllOUgll tO m trtr ihr rl|hl l? tdll Itllm fnt il)k ar pnnlblt decisions If they \ U>? Itlltti muil liHlud< ntlKr'i nim? tnd . . I around, they are gon ________J they are banned from t L I I ^ * IT'? NOT THAT I'M PREJVPtCEp.fOO UN if Tncp Tiff? W M. U \/kJV J JL JLJL M. ft named Jose who's crazy. f the Gamecock Workshop ! vent and saw a rehearsal of ' pen Season For Lovebirds. when he talks about what ; theatre. The idea is to get re who have never been in>f about nine people in the Oicpni c theatre majors. So it is a Guilfo} i act, students who don't ents, but like acting. ing on plays in some lofty :ir production will be held 2 j h Wednesday, right on L????. *t avoid it, actually. my and good. lot of work, members pay- song again, essentials right out of their You can't sir iked good in rough form tunes; and you ight to be great when they everything? jnny. 1 like tunny. 's a good guy. You should Also, on These rock 'n the interests of c y this to this supposed new more stupid nai ause 1 heard her doing "I used. g There," which was once a So all you kid : Beatles. wishes, please f< - presume to cover a Beatles 20,000 Cati ling encoura many fans of professional tains the most senseless and i ? >orts entertainment in the t labeled "the theater of the inal sham sport." \ jod, wrestling was very I ighborhood's youth ? so i ?ock wrestling rings, fought just as we saw the so-called oanv rvision. It was great fun un- I Star ly nose from a pile driver or put in a head lock. fun, and luckily no one got | ause we continued to try elevision wrestling until our ft' d and until we realized that really is. Also, j brutality we saw was not with their wrest lat received. Sure, wrestling and maneuver! ' viewers not to attempt the audience. y see wrestlers perform, but It's a lean >t always get across. As a Everything, inc ii seriously injured and even the promoter tc ling stunts. tion and a high :rs ? feeling they no longer usually works. : secrets 01 me ousiness ? An importar what one sees during a pro- hype is the te :h is an illusion and that one berate and beli :stler learns is how to take a wrestler, Scotsi looks more painful than it insulting his op to the edit privacy of the dorm rooms t 'MlVUkJ (o |jve Jjley ^ somewhere else. If it's the t . iiJiHS sion of sexual diseases he's about, let the university \ highly debated condoms fo the cigarette machines. Or v ?onse to the ar- rather keep us all ignoran )ck concerning methods of birth control fo orm visitation tainting our virtuous souls? Mike Fair, Rbanning over- The issue, my friends, is :c halls, claim- but freedom of choice. W romiscuous en- l air think he can decide wha LiSC. for everyone? Who besto\ f. he actually with this great gift? Arc we overnight stays posed to change our lives , xual activity at sonalities to conform to or k not. Besides, moralistic views? canned? Is this [>r authority to If many more of our in ghts? rights are suppressed, will we able to consider ourselves \c students are society? The university can ake their own the students' lives. At what | vant to sleep we become adults ? w rig to do it. If graduate? Students must fig doing so in the tain the right to think for tb A H3&TAHP... 1 W&T GOTO THlUKOFM^Cf iny, band n Fo l)e ^ M( Bit ;n llhi[ ? i y ! again. Mr Hogue' iH again w amendr Durii bill, on pensatc ig covers; you can't sing original and arc need a nose job. Does that cover have go but thei on the I 1 4T\ j i l .1 ii J n- r?* f ..?1, ivi i v t i *aw a uauu cancu nig rig. luir ' roll guys arc getting ridiculous. In coming :ontinuing the trend, here are some power I lies for bands that have yet to be' you wo for the Is out there with guitars and death one lik jel free to use one of these names: themsel itonic Schizophrenics water h ges racist, s - He is r incite stereot racism ' i l\ ^|g~?^iliu u projecl J 1 ' as a s> it is no secret that promoters meet wrestle lers and coach them on what stunts Soviet ? they should do to excite their Som thorou i effort from start to finish. simply luding who wins, is well planned by They i i achieve the highest emotional reac- and ill return profit from the audience. It promo captur U part of wrestling's promotional childrc levision interview, when wrestlers Adu ttle their opponents. A well-known |y js _ nan Roddy Piper, is notorious for relatio ponents with racial and ethnic slurs. In o or hey paid ancj avoid being reduced to 'ill find mindless, acquiescent majority, ransmisworried Uremia P ceep the Accounting sei r sale in r"Mhc Letter ignore ? facts on SRI not sex, hy does it is right To the editor: ved him Bryan Durig and Alston Hodge all sup- their letter published Wednesday, and per- ject to the label of "weap le man's research" for Savannah River PI Laboratory activity. Laborat research focuses on improving the dividual ficiency of the reactors used to m truly be weapons-grade, fissionable mater a free ? ihe cxnlntiuc r??i;nn ~e 1 - v J/V/HK/II VI I I I lit I not lead bombs. The distinction between i point do and weapons research itself is r< hen we though perhaps not very significa ht to re- There is a basic question of etl einselves involved in the university's propo k ? , I &TAMB3S... * ames, S.G. i R "<?R athwish a 1 )rtimer Snerd's Lust Connection todthirsty Hamsters From Hell nerically Silly Name Tied To Some Bloodrsty Monster ed My Fingertips to the Wolverine )k that ought to do it. The Student Senate was up to some games They sustained S.G. President Michael s veto of the finance bill, then brought it up ith a change of about $6,000, removing the ncnts Hogue didn't like. , lg their consideration of the new finance c senator suggested a bill that would com senators wno were elected ims past spring still in the Senate $100. Ten senators would ttcn 100 smackers, just like that. I'm sorry, c isn't one senator who deserves a $100 pat back. Not this semester. ily, it didn't pass, but as a word to the inSenate, it really isn't very nice to use your ^ lo allocate money to give it to yourself. If uld like to establish something of that order next Senate, that wouldn't be bad. But no .cs ii wucii uicmocrs 01 congress give ves a raise, and I don't think it would hold ere on campus either. j exist views, lot alone. Many wrestlers exploit racism to their audience "They exploit ethnic ypes, and b> doing so they trivialize . . . thinking it's chic to call blacks 'boy,'" avid Melt/.er, publisher of a popular wrestlgazine. stling has recently tried to capitalize on ig women through all-women wrestling prowhere women opponents ravage and tear thcr's clothes off in the same brutal fashion men. only does wrestling triviali/.e racism and dewomen, it also trivializes world politics by iing popular wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan 'mbol of the American way, while Russian r Nikolai Volkoff fights in the name of the Union. c people ? ashamed to admit that they ghly enjoy wrestling's absurdity ? say it is a harmless form of sports entertainment. Jeny its negative sociological implications egitimacy as a sport. As a result, wrestling tcrs are further allowed and encouraged to e the minds and money of men, women and n through its circus of freaks. us must recognize wrestling tor what it real - a fraud ? and put it in its proper place in ^ n to other forms of sports entertainment. W ther words, it's trash. a formal agreement with SRP. The SRF> reactors produce materia) for nuclear bombs. wc:innn? r? f rice umimaginable ferocity. There are lior already 50,000 nuclear bombs in the world, some of them with an individual capacity greater than the total explosives used in wars since ^ gunpowder was discovered. Mk Trying to come to terms with the ^ possibility of nuclear war has been found to affect children, even in developing countries that have no nuclear weapons themselves. \ in Whatever advantages the university oh- may feel a formal relationship with ons SRP has to offer, it has a responlant sibility to consider the implications ory of its actions. As an institution that is ef- training the leaders of the next ake generation, USC should align itself ials with the present's most creative lear thinking and not with exhausted this strategics of the past. cal, T nt. Sara Munson lies Graduate student sed School of Public Health