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f I Viewpoint ?? 4 THE GAMHCOCK Monday, April 18, 1988 Meese Attorney eeneral nee< for sake of Justice D< Once again, one of President Reagan's trouble. And once again, Attorney Gener; the thick of it. Mopcp Viae Inno a pnnf rr\i;Arcia! f l?IVVOV IIUvJ IVII^ ISWVrll U Willi V/ VVI OKU 1 James Watt, former Secretary of the Int more problems for Reagan. But there is a great difference between M knew when to leave the government an* Meese, on the other hand, does not and sh titude by remaining in office. Meese has long been a magnet for cri justifiably, sometimes not. His investigat r\rr?vprl tr* n u/actp of th#? onvprnmont'c fir ing Mccse to blistering criticism. And his right-wing values has also drawn frequent But Meese has also been a loyal adviser has done his best to serve him. What concerns and worries so many Am is the incessant flow of ethics problems, appeared before grand juries nearly a dozt independent prosecutor is continuing an inv ble ethics violations, and Meese is also be proposed 51 ouiion Iraqi pipeline and sc investments. Of course, everyone in America is inn< guilty. Whether or not Meese has violated < is irrelevant; the problem is that the Justic< ing trouble functioning because its leader fire. The recent resignation of two top att< ment indicates how crippled the Justice Meese at the helm. For the benefit of the administration an< ment, Meese should not cling to this tenuc lorney general snouia step aovvn ana let ju Concert CPU deserves praise that provided necessi After a semester of disappointments and apathy, Carolina Program Union finally sc< presented a reggae concert as part of Sprin success, it had its problems, but overall, it r sunny Saturday in the outdoors. After CPU's musical chairs fiasco, and d at events, things were not looking good tha would go well. The weather even was predi rain held off; the skies were clear blue; and t themselves out. It was one spring that peop pleasant. One of the problems the concert had was t the groups slated to play, showed up late am tractual conflicts arose. That left CPU wit sitting around with nothing to do. It didn't people enjoyed throwing frisbees and footb, or just enjoying the weather. After about a two-hour delay, Moja Nya and played beautiful music for three hours It was a day that makes one happy to b< was nice; the people were nice; and the mu Thie U/QC L'inH r\ f mmnt I 1C^ * m.j ttuj niv, iviiiu vyi wv^lll UJV/ llt^UtU was obvious that the people there were glad relax. Exams, term papers, work and oth< life become even more hectic during the semester, and CPU did a good job of break crowa was pieasani, cnnaren were running j happiness, and men and women, scantily d using the day to begin the rites of spring. It was very agreeable. CPU deserves credit for this, as do the s< Nya and the crowds, who were very respec Even with its flaws, this was a gooc repeating for the students and people of US way to curb the doldrums of an April (or a T a free concert. Good job, CPU. d T?tL I he Cjramec Editor in Chief Photograph JEFI SHREWSBURY BRIAN SAL Managing Editor Assistant P STEPHEN GUILFOYLE TEDDY I.EI Copy Desk Chief Science Edi ANDY BECHTEI. JIM NEWM Assistant Copy Desk Chief Senior Rep WAYNE YANG MARY PEA L.lll... - ? I.UIIUI IIUICIMIOK I TODD MINES JENNYSH/ Assistant News Kditor Graphics K TONY MORENO TROY TAG1 Comics Kdi TRACY Mi: Features Editors Graduate A CLAIRE DIEPENBROCK KAREN AD SUSAN NESBITT Acting Dire Sports Kditor Media/Adv WAYNE WASHINGTON MARGARE' Assistant Sports Kditor Production JIM STUCKEY RICHARD < Adviser BII.L ROGERS Assistant A MliUSSA letters Policy: Tht (tarntcock will try to prlnl kllrrt rrcflvrd. I.rtlrrt i wordt long (<ur*l rdllorialt should not tict(d 500 wordi. Wt rr?tr?f Ihf r!j llbrl. Tht (iamtcock will not withhold name* under any drc uimlanrf. I*t Social Sfcurlly number. L Ms closest advisers is in 11 miw il Edwin Meese is in f AWOIOK igure. In fact, only crior, ever attracted [eese and Watt. Watt ~"ijjrjpjqjpj J did so gracefully. ows his stubborn atticism ? sometimes {cyj> (* ne and money, openadherence to condemnation. to the president and w - ' icricans about Mcesc rhe attorney general gl M iV mi times in 1987. An ^H| Km H|S| estigation into possi- Urapi *?j* Jf J!3bJ& >me of his personal cent before proven iny euncai sianuaras ; Department is havis constantly under ^rneys in the depart~Mayor B i the Justice Depart- +J )US position. The at- Here wc go again. Another med istice take its course. ing into politics. Sonny Bono, ex-: lustrious and bizarrely-clad-at-th Cher, is now mayor of Palm Sprin Go aliead, maice my day. Yup, 5 a new groove thing besides I V.llUUI UIHV.U1 , IIIUMII^ a liUIItU c psycho in Airplane and being Che T IT W ^or a 'cw ycars- "cs out f?r a new ?/ Hnt, you know, anyone who c ryy hyp/llf Cher for longer than a month is a < J fZLtiv a pillar perhaps. He deserves som dame who even silenccd late night battles with student Letterman on his home field wh< ared Saturday. They prancing fluids and sky camera, g Fling '88 It was a Now Sonn>' is going to be the bi nade for a beautiful sPrin8s- Hc be?i,ls llis "Babe, 1 ' campaign for the city very soon. The man won by a resounding windling attendance percent margin over his closest co t Saturday's concert Maryanov. It's said that he got the cted as bad. But the ?ut and talking to the people, but he problems worked ?om n,s own viscosiiy ... , Anyone who had to look at all < >le will remember as ,|ia( tjle public hasn't seen would t would expect. He deserves the jot hat Uprising, one of Let's look at Greg Allman, the n i then left when conh about 800 people look good, but most kJUUIIICI II alls, reading, talking ,, , , . ? I ve only got three ol these le after today's that is, so we're got i picked up the slack *n' roll before we exit stage left. I'm really sick of Lewis Grizzai e alive The weather columnist for The Atlanta journal isie was excellent. b?oltd-",y "I""0"' , tU.^ , From Grizzard we always g< ai mis jjuim, anu 11 Southerners great, Yankees vici to have a day to just born of man and women but of ;r annoying facts of bacteria that divided and divid waning days of a separate. ling the tension. The ? s\k "rWhc" Vm0v,codJ i a. . . New York City way back in 1980 around giggling With Gri/.zard books and some columns ressed and tan, were jt gave us a nice peek into Southe was funny listening to him insult According to Gri/.zard, my fam JCUrity people, Moja Yankees. We're damn Yankees. ft because they come down to the tells us. Damn Yankees are woi i event, worthy of stay. C. There is no better And that was cute for a while November) than with wanted to be a journalist, it was g was possible to fit a sense newspapering. But you kind of gel tired of bei and again lor something over wl Yankees who moved here had no _ I ample, I could have stayed in New rock ~~ T &tte I 1/ 9/%S M kJ ly Kditor l holography Kdi.or HOMOSCXUal.' an i annoy many orfer KSON , .d||or , To the editor: To begin with, I don't partialis jlilor tare for homosexuals or t heir sex UE preferences. Specifically, I find it ifMr noying that many a bathroom m <SON go doorless at USC because a cert assistant l() Pcrccnt {''e USC." populat jyy feels a need to be satisfied ii ctor of Student latrine. erlisinit Manner , 1 m su? "',S.ll,a,sNtm"1rc ,0,<l0 " r i.irm it '?e spread of AIDS than does i I MICMLl.S ; , , * >' mandate from God. I tend to bell 'iRIFFIN the "Why did God give them AID idea was started by a satanic d< clvertisinn Manner worshipper, a non-heterosexual * MFNHFRSON a Pcrseci,l,on complex or posstbl television evangelist, but then ihouid b*. ai?midmum, iso to .wo evangelists art t he first two choi thttocdiiifitm(or?i?korpoitihi* aren't they? I*r? mini Includf wriler't namr and A wortl (() ma|e hetCroseXU 1 unless you arc all really insec \ iMorawt WKm w\\M SNfST ono must prep lia star is break- ["""~~~"""""""" """"" ~" spouse of (he ile-Oscars queen ^Hj Jonny has found 4^(5. being noted Todd ippearance as a f-fl r's straight man ilineS an put up with strong person ? 8 v\^ ic recourse. The 3 f barb king David ;re he keeps the ??????????? her on the rebound. His greatest hit g cheese in Palm Angel." It's women like Cher who d< Got You Babe" Bono must be careful, though. H bringing in tourists with an inclu 44 percent to 23 festivals and such may go bad fas mpetition Lloyd shouldn't show Airplane. victory by going Former mayor of Carmcl, < I think lie got it Eastwood tried the same thing for hi: ample, he doubled the tourist po 3f Cher's outfits brought back ice cream on the sidew; )e vicious or so I virtually ousted him. The Carmelites >. tention. So the movie legend stepp lan who married year after realizing the situation. hospitality mor ft this semester, ina try and rock d. Grizzard, the | ,x " -^urisitiuiiun, in ;t this spiel ? ous vermin not Stephen some cancerous ed but did not Guilfoyle T own South from ^ 4 , we found some " 1 , and we thought ^ rn living. And it L????? us. lily and I arc not would have become a bag person i Yankees are bad without my parents and the home th South, Griz/ard And it seems that, thanks to tl rse because they Cirizzard, all the Southern children i know the difference between a Yank ;. As a guy who Yankee and will never stop telling y ood to see that it "If you don't like the way we do i of humor into ready when you are," was another r< from the ranks of the close-minded ng insulted again The first column 1 wrote for this p hich most of the the way Southerners and Yankees ta control. For ex- either was better than the other. 1 ' York City, but I were different, and I had to learn li to the _editor about your own sexual preferences, ^ and you don't have the testicles to JLiCI, punch out a non-heterosexual who - _ has made an overt pass at you, then | 1{*| you really should have no reason to be upset with the non-heterosexuals. To the e Many a male non-heterosexual looks I very ?rly damn good to women and dress even argumen ual better. Females love that combina- Durig an an- tion, but those boys ? as most ter to th nist females sadly find out ? are not real- Both arc ain |y up for the competition. ing depa ion Life without homosexuals would 1 can s i a be quite boring. Indeed, much that is defense ( beautiful in art was made by a non- laboratoi /ith heterosexual. Rid the world of vested ii any homosexuals, and you lose two good with thei eve insults, "fag" and "dyke." Besides, to get in >S" isn't beating up a homosexual proof laborato evil of one's manliness? Of course, AIDS state th /ith ruined that fun ? remember that which, c y a homosexual blood spreads AIDS, jobs. Mc TV not the will of God. He manly, boys, are grad ices spit some tobacco. number i every ye: als: Jeffrey Ham What ure Business graduate gentlcme A >are for tough job '1 Bono is in for a raw deal. When his old show Sonny and Clier begins resyndieation, he'd just better watch out. They don't like straight men in S& ' Palm Springs. B The thing I'm really curious about is what would W lead a man who has obviously fought hard to retgKF main obscure over the past few years to seek political office. Mayor is not that huge of a posiV . tion for a small town such as Palm Springs, but it's W f if still mayor. / H Bono has a booming restaurant, and people have H lj nearly forgotten he was once featured with Cher on a really nutty '70s entertainment hour. Nearly, I say. Why would he want to be mayor unless he's was "I'm No out to clear his name, and what better way than by o that to you. becoming mayor? He was never Sonny Bono, he is Promise of was alwnvs f'hfr\ Inn rlr?o NJfvf \i/*nr mawho nor . ? j ? - -?I' ?~e>- ?"*> /> "' ,"u;uk 1 y j sion of film ryl Dragon of Captain and Tenille will try to break t. At least he from his mold. Yeah, it's about time for the male '70s singers to break away from living under the ITali f., Clint shadows. 5 city. For ex- So I wish Bono all the best. It's tough to get the pulation and people to support a celebrity in the political circus. ilks, and they One may win a political office, but they usually hated the at- don't last very long. Ask yourself, "When was the ed down this last time a celebrity made it big?" Oops. Oh, yeah. 1 e myth than reality : What did I get for my attempt to describe my at y tempted assimilation? "Delta is ready when you are, you damn Yankee, you." Recently, Grizzard described attempts to kill some kind of Southern pestilence in the water. He 0>' said all the money the government is using to get j rid of whatever the pestilence was should be used to W Vt get rid of the Yankees. Why? The only reason I could get out of it is "God doesn't say 'pop'" or something like that. It's one WW./ of Grizzard's old jokes, a real old one. And that's W the main beef I have with this guy. To put me and my family down, he's been usin? ft the same "jokes" for the seven years I have lived in South Carolina. If he were a little bit original, I n a few weeks may not be as fed up as I am. But Grizzard's antiey provide me. Yankee jokes are equivalent to "Why did the le unforgiving chicken cross the road? To get to the other side." n Spartanburg Well, I say let the chicken cross the road, as long ec and a damn as he doesn't cross the Mason-Dixon line because ou about it. no Yankees arc allowed. t here, Delta is People wonder why I still say I'm from New ;pcated refrain York City, seven years after the fact. It's mainly Southerners. because of the wonderful welcome Grizzard and aper compared others of his bigoted ilk have given us once we got Ik. I didn't say here. jum ^aiu nicy Southern hospitality isn't as widespread as iOw to adjust. legend has it. ||jim fl/ritorg l*le laboratory is merely a sup!,% ! W 1 ^ port function and does not perform nuclear weapons research. It i sources wouldn't take the layman on the street any time to realize that as long ditor: as the main function of that strongly disagree with the laboratory is to provide support for ts presented by Bryan R. the ongoing process of manufacturd Alston Hodsze in their le?- in., ? ? ... ..lfS innuLicm weapons, mai 11 c editor of this past week. (SRP laboratory) is certainly in the of the mechanical engineer- business of manufacturing and prortment at USC. ducing those nuclear weapons. ee the rationale behind their Another issue raised in their letter )f the Savannah River Plant is that of "oil reserve depletion." ry in which they have a That statement is totally unfounded, iterest. 1 would also agree and 1 would like to know if these ir plea to the administration gentlemen are referring to the world volved in operating the SRP oil reserve, which is certainly very ry if only they would clearly plentiful, or if they arc referring to eir reasons behind that, the U.S. oil reserve, which 1 am quite .f I- it * ^ >i tuiiisc, I* uiai oi saving sure is far from being depleted. >st of the employees at SRP It would be in the best interest of uatcs of USC, and a good the public to have these gentlemen of our graduates secure jobs quote exactly what their sources of jr at the plant. information are. I don't buy from these Solomon A. Kzembakwe n is the blind argument that Graduate student A