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12.8 pei President's pa but full-formi Sometimes just thinking abo Students, after paying a 9.8 j percent housing increase ? ii Gov. Carroll Campbell ? we aian t understand now bad the The State Budget and Contrc member, tentatively awarded L a 12.8 percent pay increase Tui The members on the Budget man had done great things fo right. He has done great things Carolina. The private endowment has i enrollment standards are on th ; competitive academically with research grants are on the rise, the King of Siam used to say. But never, ever in that long say what he has done for the stu the families, tax-paying familii more to send their children to 1 Think hard. Oh yeah, there ai and brightest students who com intern program for others. But what about the student w way from the bottom of the soc die income family that looks r: almost exactly what it makes, a lie to qualify for financial aid? At USC, there are also a fev the university: For example, the teaching a ment had to threaten a strike a needed pay increase. But the enough. And those TAs haven't even a cost of livine increase 7 f-y ^ ' . students need to earn a living. For example, the faculty men are not competitive with the So For example, the workers, t custodial workers, the secretary received a fair pay increase in y For example, the students anc pay almost the entire bill for the We can't find fault with th< * ? f reasoning for approving the pay Holderman, but also for other j But we wonder, why is it so ea these rather large salary increase heads return to ask for more n fight to get funding? Why don't as adequately funded as the stat these expensive pats on the bad Why do these people in gov always take care of themselves fi the general public with tax and Someone needs to sit these be straighten them out about a few Sooner or later, the taxpayers these antics that they won't allc then, our bills will get more and If you are already strapped ou and you know you can't afford is already beginning to say is nec know you won't tolerate it. Dor You don't have to, you know TPL P i he (jrai Best Non-daily Collegiate New. Society of Professional Editor in Chief STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Managing Editor SON HA Copy Desk Chief WAYNE YANG News Editor HAL MILLARD Assistant News Editor STEVE PRADARELLI MARY PEARSON Features Editor SUSAN NESBITT Assistant Features Editor TOM JOYNER Sports Editor KEVIN ADAMS Assistant Sports Editor CHRIS SILVESTRI Datebook Editor JENNY SHARPE Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to prinl tellers re words long. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. V libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any ci ) L cent y increase nice, ila funding nicer ut it makes you sick, percent tuition increase and a 6.5 lfrMCPC cmnarpntU; Kir ivi vujvj M|ypui viiiij v/ppv/jvu vjy :re shown how Campbell really increases were for students. )1 Board, of which Campbell is a fSC President James Holderman esday. and Control Board said Holderr the university. And they were for USC and the state of South risen incredibly. Enrollment and e rise, making USC much more the best schools. Research and Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, as list of accomplishments do they idents, and what he has done for ss, who have to pay more and :his university. re more scholarships for the best e to USC. There's a doozy of an 'hose family is trying to fight its ial ladder? What about the midicher on paper, but is spending nd their children almost have to f areas that haven't grown with ssistants in the English departfew years back to get a muchincrease at that time was not gotten a pay increase since. Not ">1 1 .A I A- 1 i ney are aiso siuuenis, out even nbers who still say their salaries utheastern norm, he staff of the university, the ;s and all the rest who have not ears. 1 the families who are having to excesses as well as the successes, i Budget and Control Board's increase, which was not just for state agency heads, isy for the members to hand out s? And then, when those agency noney, why is it always such a they wait until all programs are e can afford and then hand out c? ernment and in state agencies rst, then turn around and screw tuition increases? >zos down once and for all and 1 r things. s< are going to be so fed up with ^ )w them to continue. But until I more expensive. t by this year's tuition increase, F the one that the administration w essary, let your state legislators ^ 1't put up with this anymore. gl th n< ? X ^ Tfitrs rr DwtM/eort ^ . V\W iHor/MYOTlKSYOV i ,, L ? ?:/"\\s * c< 7^ / \V<3& u 4 mecock I r spaper, Southeastern Region Journalists, 1987-88 "f( B1 D kl\lmt.nhl<ai L' <11. L, / \ a uuiugia|iuj uuiiuis vw BRIAN SAULS da TEDDY LEPP fi? Graphics Editor sw MICHAEL SHARP W Comics Editor gr< TRACY MIXSON th( hu Adviser we PAT MCNEELY de Graduate Assistant PHILLIP MCKENZIE "I Director of Student Media lik ED BONZA ha Advertising Manager Ca MARGARET MICHELS mi Production of LAURA DAY dei RAY BURGOS ha Assistant Advertising Manager (be BARBARA BROWN ha' lad reived. I .filers should be, at a maximum, 250 to 300 ?e reserve the right to edit letters for slvle or possible 0 rcumstanee. ??????__l Sui Jm jsdKm ut ll^J^CkbyWrare Avoid joinin: A friend of mine handed me a flyer Thursday as was on my way to work. He pointed out ?mething intended to slur me, that I hadn't notici, that I refused to notice. Because, with or ithout that slur, I was incensed. It says: IMPORTANT RALLY ON FRIDAY IN RONT OF RUSSELL HOUSE, I P.M. Just ithin the short time that school has been in, five udents have had their world abruptly halted. Two f/?uic jjmmcmw uj uriu iriret rnuie siuueni uy ms. In these incidents, the victims were white and \e assailants black. Which one of use will be the ?xt victim. How long will we sit by letting these dnous acts occur." Blacked out, but still legible, another part said, The Citadel event that got the ire of the blacks up ) much compares palely with these atrocious 'CtS. " First of all, these facts are not facts. They are ossly distorted lies intended to create fear of and itred for the black community in Columbia and use. One girl was raped, according to Columbia )lice reports. Not two. Three young men have been shot, according to slumbia and University Police reports, but one of Letters to the Blue-blazers' . , . ball and gc lot Gestapos > the editor: I am writing in response to "Blueazered Gestapos" letter. I witness- Bvll' an event that marred last Satur- , y's football game as well. Near the servi :ld in section 18 an individual ung at a beach ball and fell down. To the edit hen he fell he knocked-down a It is ups< oup of ladies seated below. One of read daily s ladies cut her leg and another campus. It rt her elbow. All of the individuals have to wc ;re dazed. Did you notice this inci- on and net nt, Mr. James W. Johnson? and small g Mr. Johnson, I am one of those women w? Hue-Blazer Gestapos" you would Five Point e to see executed during the travel in gr lftime festivities at the East even then, irolina game. 1 am in fact a com- safe, ssioned police officer for the state We have South Carolina; I am also a stu- problem ar nt at USC. I like to have fun, and I possible me ve never been a hall monitor safer. The 5 :lieve it or not). 1 like to see others in the eve ve fun as well, but when those university r lies were injured the "fun" had to Five Point p. shuttle coul Vlr. Johnson, realize that tervals fro netimes your actions affect others. a.m. on Th ERjP WWWEVER m\ lWET? ?1 ? x < ^ I The^w&r Walker. g meeting of p ? 1^^. I ? the three was a black teenager. And it doesn't matter what the race of the person committing the crime is, and it doesn't matter what the race of the person being victimized is. Crime is crime: black, white or yellow ? or orange, for that matter. This flyer is disgusting and can only be the work of people with such small, petty minds that they instantly distort the truth to make it fit their warped, prejudiced view of the world. Because they fear blacks, they hope to make this rash of crimes into a race war. Why don't they just come out and be truthful k editor ? _ on, if you still do not get day, which is the prime ti than you can take your nightlife of Columbia. ) home. A good spot to meet in ] might be the corner of Gr Leon Ratliff and Harden Street. The Criminal Justice senior fairly well lit and open, within safe walking distarn Zack's, Rockafellas' z vw* ?. popular night spots, the j * then make four stops on c< ice neeaea between Capstone and Hall, one in front of Pet or: - Greene Street, one on the itting, to say the least, to Sumter Street and Devim about violence on this front of the Towers and is not only women who parking lot of Bates W ?rry about walking alone stops would serve all of th tr campus, it is also men dorms and most of the me roups. It is ridiculous that We are not expecting the liking across campus to to pay for such a shuttle. / s on weekends have to 10 or 25 cents per ride woi oups of six or more and, gas, upkeep and drivers' ] do not feel completely would be an initial expendi university to get such a sat and contemplated this started, but we believe it w id finally came up with a pay for itself. On such a :thod of making Carolina pus, drivers, as well as p shuttlecocks are not in use should not be hard to find :ning. Why doesn't the The shuttle service cou un a shuttle to and from used for dorm to dorm anc s on the weekend? The dorm travel on Friday anc Id be run on half-hour in- when APO is not available m 9:30 p.m. until 2:30 ly, people would also use ursday, Friday and Satur- transport back from bars r K /gr : : seudo-Klan and show us their bedsheets and kerosene for the cross burning? It's completely and utterly shocking to me to lid pay for writers are from? Being from an area Day. There doesn't mean you embody its spirit, turebythe Lately they're making a point to t program classify themselves in terms of 'ould soon geographic location. Yeah, guys, largecam- why don't we just promote >assengers, secularism? If you don't like I. Guilfoyle and his editorials, say so. I Id also be do. Frequently! If your reason is I library to because he's from New York, I truly 1 Saturday hope ignorance is bliss for your sake. . Hopefulthis as a Susan Dunbar ather than International Studies sophomore e women's U1 I CglUlUUlMll n's dorms. : university To the editor: ^ charee of Who rarec wh*?rf? l#??pr tind tnat at this university, a place where students should be learning how to accept and live with all kinds of people, ideas and religions, we have a pseudo-Ku Klux Klan spouting this kind of hateful garbage. If this event does come off, and you see someone standing in front of the Russell House trying to say how we should respond to camp ?s crime, do stop and make sure you take a long hard look at them. Listen to them, but don't believe a word of their hateful garbage. Watch them, but remember to insert with your mind's eye their real uniforms ? white bedsheets or swastikas. Don't get close enough so that they'll thinkyou're with them. But stay close enough so that you can hear every word they say. Listen to it. Listen to it and know it for what it is ? the ignorant babblings of people too frightened by how different a person is to accept him as an equal. Know it for what it really is ? not the just concerns of honest people frightened by crime, but the pure, unadulterated hate of racists. , And reject it. Reject them. me for the drinking and driving themselves home. Five Points We believe that this would be a eene Street successful venture by the university, corner is For no more than the price of a soda, as well as a person could obtain a safe ride on :e of Crazy the weekend, md other bus could Jill Coleman impus: one Chemistry freshman Columbia Heather Motto igru along Biology junior : corner of \ ine'Tn',.!" Reader tired est. These o !