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The USC Addition of definitive article shows unity of 9 campuses? USC, sorry, The USC will now promote unity among the nine systems by adding "The," the definitive article, before its older, more common name, USC. Unity among the nine system campuses is a good goal. If you aren't aware, the university has other campuses in other cities in the state ? USC-Aiken, USC-Beaufort, Coastal Carolina in Horry County, USC-Lancaster, USC-Salkehatchie, USCSpartanburg, USC-Sumter, USC-Union. And Columbia, of course. And that makes nine campuses. A system that the university has chosen to symbolically unify under the name "The USC." The word "the," one of the nicest of the many words in the dictionary, has no definitions really but a hundred or so applications. It is used to show that something is definite, that something is unique. It's a busy little word and now the university wants to add to the long list by also making it a symbollic word that stresses unity. What would serve better to unify these campuses is a definite role for each of them to take in the university's and the state's goals. Each should have a part in USC President James Holderman's "2001" plan. And each should take part not only according to what the ctoto noo/Jr Kut t ??,U ^4- ? !? - ? J *- - * J 1 - - 1 jiulw 11W.U0 uui a^vuiuuig iu vviidl CctCll 1I1U1V1UUU1 CUinpUS 311(1 the surrounding area either offers or needs. USC-Union is a beautiful little campus, nestled in one of South Carolina's quaintest little cities. It is also one of the counties with the highest illiteracy rates in the state, and South Carolina is a state where illiteracy is definitely a problem. Maybe it's time for The USC's School of Education to start a major illiteracy program, designed to analyze and fight the problems in our education systems, i And maybe Union is the best setting for such a project, not only because of a high adult illiteracy rate but also because of the community's attitude. The business community has already taken an active part in education on the elementary to high school levels. The county citizens are actively involved in programs to keep students in school. And they want the university system to take more of an active role in USC-Union. One of the "2001" plan's goals is to affiliate USC with a national research laboratory, and it looks like the Savannah River Plant's laboratory will be that national lab. If the university decides to enter into a consortium with Clemson and the Medical University of South Carolina, maybe The USC should consider USC-Aiken as the best place for professors to teach classes while they conduct research. It's the closest campus to the plant, so maybe the College of Science and Mathematics should expand at the Aiken facility. USC-Spartanburg and Coastal Carolina are the two biggest campuses in the system besides the Columbia campus. Coastal ~ ~ *U~ * C -L -? T . 1 naa uccuinc me cciuci iur inusi 01 s marine oioiogy research because, as the name describes, it is on South Carolina's coast. Spartanburg, in the midst of incredible growth right now in the business sector, also houses the second biggest campus in the system. It has most of the same programs offered in Columbia, and some who have come to The USC-Columbia from The USC-Spartanburg have actually said they thought the Spartanburg programs were tougher. Maybe The USC should expand USC-Spartanburg's role as an undergraduate school. There are so many things that can be done, other than the cute gesture of the name, to really make USC into The USC. If you're from South Carolina and have ideas about the role of the university, make them known either to the university or The Gamecock. We'll be taking a long look at the university system, from the view of the university, as well as from the student's view, and also from the \iew of the state legislators who enacted the system into law. The USC system is a big, important tool for growth of many kinds in the state ? economic growth as well as increased literacy, et cetera. That won't change no matter what it's called. rpi g~\ | Ihe Gamecock Best Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region Society of Professional Journalists, 1987 88 Editor in Chief Photography Editors STEPHEN GUILFOYLE BRIAN SAULS Managing Editor TEDDY LEPP SON HA Graphics Editor Copy Desk Chief MICHAEL SHARP WAYNE YANG Comics Editor News Editor TRACY MIXSON HAL MILLARD Assistant News Editor Adviser SICVt fKAUAKtLLl KA1 MClNfcfcLY MARY PEARSON Graduate Assistant Features Editor PHILLIP MCKENZIE SUSAN NESBITT Director of Student Media Assistant Features Editor ED BONZA TOM JOYNER Advertising Manager Sports Editor MARGARET MICHELS KEVIN ADAMS Production Assistant Sports Editor LAURA DAY CHRIS SILVESTRI RAY BURGOS Datebook Editor Assistant Advertising Manager JENNY SHARPE BARBARA BROWN Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try In prim letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum. 254) to 34)0 words long. 4?uest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters tor style or possible libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. Columbia pr James Dickey once said that he lived in Colum bia because of its culture. He said it has a certaii intellectual atmosphere that he likes. Dickey alsc said it is in a central location, but why repeat th< obvious? When most people first arrive here, they scoff a this, idea. In the beginning, there is nothing tc dissuade you from the idea that Columbia i< anything different than a South Carolina town ? much like most "Southern" towns. Columbit looks at first like a conservative black hole ol mainstream culture and ideas. But it's much, much more. Columbia is really a fascinating place. It has ar assortment of DeoDle and cultures that most Nor thern outsiders probably wouldn't accept. Its cultural diversity may be due to the university's presence, but it goes beyond that. Columbia is centrally located in the state, and there is no other big city near. Because of that, many different types of people settle here. Charlotte is a city trying to become Atlanta; it's mostly concerned with money and expansion. Charleston is an old city with old money and ver> set in its ways. And Atlanta is just a Northern cit> with a Southern twist. It's metropolitan and has no identity. But Columbia has no axe to grind. It doesn't try to be anything different and because of that attracts several different cultures. What you have in Columbia is a combination of old money, yuppies and a subculture of antecedents to conservative views. Letters to thy Racism still ???: exists at USC should I c anything To the editor: friendship It still goes on, it still goes on, it still goes on. This past Tuesday an incident took place in Capstone that really made lV/llf me realize that racism is still here and here to stay. . My suitemate decided to change XV|31( rooms with a girl on a higher floor * because she wanted to be with a good friend. Well, the girl who would be To the edi switching with her did not have any I never < problems with the switch as long as of the edi her roommate and her suitemates The Gatm were white. She was, unfortunately, tims (i.e. not told that her suitemates were issue) hit! black; she was lied to. following Sept. 13 approaches and the move postpone \ between the two girls began. My upgrade t roommate and I were out most of the and car day. About 7 p.m., I finally got in bodyguarc my room to change before attending plans of k my last meeting of the day. A girl then I wc (the new suitemate) sees me key into overwheln my room and the explosion took cur in the 1 place. ly membe Later, I was told that she could not knows, live next door to blacks and her Mr. Gui paicnib Lciiiit up liuiii iiuuui an uuui ncipcu ui from Columbia to pick their rape back daughter up and to take her home. the victim Many people say that blacks have quated an nothing to fight for because racism is women sta dead or "it's only with the older fear of \ generation!" "Racism is here, and Because, ' it's alive and kicking!" they're rap My only problem with the entire Mr. Guilf< f \ r l /:r>0 ullrT p?^ -? omotes differe Shrewsbury jjj i Because of Columbia's deep-set conservativism > and its "spawn-the-yuppies" culture, you get this ; backlash of people stuck in the middle who revolt against the mainline. They are the kind of people I WI1U llolCll IU JdZ,Z. dllU U1UCS Willie 111UM 11MCI1 LU country and pop. They wear jeans and black Tshirts while others wear khakis, ties and golf hats, i They talk about politics and philosophy while the rest talk about money. These people, the '80s version of hippies, don't care about causes, and they don't care about i money. They aren't out to change the world. All they want to do is be something different in an age and place of consistency. They're good people who just want to be left alone. Most of these alternative-lifestyle people are Southern, but they look like Greenwich Villagers. They don't listen to different music because it's radical or a fad. They listen to alternative selec^ editor vas: so many rapes go unrej pven a chance to prove that day? It all comes down to e, warm girl who likes peo- you, lawyers, policemen ar was my roommate. But nalists, who force the >r any black have to prove countlessly relive the exi to anyone? Trust and the while giving them th< is earned! says, "You wanted it, di Unless attitudes like yoi Pam Hoyles we can ignore the possi decrease in crime nrial chnwc 0h>by the way>how JlMvJ T ^ male UNC students' fau m were robbed? Are men cai sexism eve? safe in pairs? to should lock themselves rooms, too. Heaven knc itor: rate, Five Points will ha :ease to be amazed by some down, torials that get printed in ecock. Your views of vie- Kathei "Crime" in the Sept. 12 Enj s all new lows. Maybe, your sage advice, I should i*i ivi ?1 vriting this letter until I can V^IUIIv IVIJ he security on my house # _ , hire several large lTllSilllinPlXl Is, and cancel any future ;aving my home. But even mldn't be safe, since an To the editor: ling majority ui iapeb oc- in me ivionaay, sept. 1^ lome, perpetrated by fami- The Gamecock was rs or someone the victim misunderstanding of an in happened Friday, Sept. S ilfoyle's unsigned editorial that an unknown black 'op-kick attitudes about proached me with two several years. Your idea of which I indulged. A1 as "asking for it" is anti- reported it to the police t d incorrect. Why should was totally wrong! I woi y locked in their rooms for state that I am not that k; valking down the hall? son. Also, I would like to < 'Gosh, it's their fault if I was intoxicated and t ?ed not the rapist's." Why, reason why 1 was vomit Dyle, do you suppose that sorry that people were n &<a t&IAOt&TRATORS, ^ wvno Hoiies, \ RjIWUttfc BfeWlMGS,' m 6mm., rt> i?. uot s& AJK (MRfe OF THlSff ^ w CPS nt lifestyles tions because it's a part of their own style. They aren't hippies. They aren't part of a movement. They are what they want to be. Most people in the mainstream think them pretentious because they are labelled as statement makers. The "consistents" think these "alternatives" dress and do different things because they are stuck in the '60s and are trying to be different for difference's sake. They are labeled freaks because they are different. But that's the exact point. These people are normal in their own way. Normalcy is in the way you look at it. Some people think you have to wear the right clothes and say the right things to be normal, and if they believe that then they are normal to their own minds. What you believe is right for you is what's right. Conformity is normal for conformists, and rebellion is normal for rebels. Whv nnt n tno nn n*?r?r?l*? u/hn arp ' "J ~ v" "1AV^ ??i.v?vin. Columbia spawns this kind of anti-conservative because of its location and diversity. The university and Five Points both have something to do with it. Because you can hear different types of music at any given time all over Five Points and you can discuss views at the university, you get people who want to stay here to be themselves. There is not one group in Columbia, not one music and not one philosophy because it is removed from bigger cities where people get lost. It is small enough to feel like home, but it is big enough to foster differences. It's a good place, full of good people. 1,1 sorted each thinking wrong of me. I hope that people like this answers any Questions that and jour- anyone has, because this has cleaned victim to my conscience, perience all : smile that Karen R. Davis dn't you?" ars change, ibiu?y or a jy|osj letters was it the , , 1 It that they tOO CHtlCal no longer laybe they ? in their To the editor: ws, at this The Gamecock is a valuable asset ve to close to the students of our fine university. I would like to take the time to express all my thanks to the many in ine Gilbert dividuals involved in its production ?lish junior and distribution every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The newspaper is free and can be 'Ull found at many locations around _ campus. Not only does the paper keep us aware of newsworthy events at USC but also statewide and nationally. The newspaper should also be commended for its helpful adverl edition of tisements for money-making oppora total tunities as well as sales and direction cident that toward entertainment. ?. It stated The problem arises when we have male ap- fellow students who overlook all of green pills the good and go to great extremes to though I harp on the very little bad. his way, it Hopefully, in the future, when aid like to these persons need to comment, they ind of per- can do it in a positive and helpful :larify that way rather than being harsh and hat is the hurtful. ing. I am Barry G. Mixon aisled into International Studies senior