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Violence Arrested athletes should b< suspended until trial is ove It's not just a case of "boys will be boys." Three USC football players were arrested Sunday nigl Police reports said the three were charged with harassing young man and woman, spitting on them, pushing the girl to t ground and threatening to rape her, according to Columb Police records. One of the players is on the scout team, but the other tv played in Saturday's humiliating loss to Georgia Tech Atlanta. The players appeared to be drunk, and they used fc language to the police officers and even caused a ruckus in t jail cell, where they were held until released. They are charged with disorderly conduct and pub drunkeness. And what does our fine, upstanding athletic department < about that? They are suspended ? for one game. That's an obscenity. We're not talking about players getting drunk and having t< much fun after a bad game. We're talking about violence against another person. We' talking about a threatened rape. And they're suspended for one game? That just won't do. These allegations are so serious that o game is not enough. It's just another black eye for our footb; program that we don't need. As long as these three are on our football team, they a representing the students of USC. But this is not the kind representation we need or want. It's humiliating and embarras - x.i i x. ^ r t tcti ~ l xi x mg 10 ine siuuenis 01 anu iu meir leammaies. We don't need this. The athletic department should reconsider its decision ai suspend the three until they are through with whatever kind trial they get. Then, if they are found innocent, there will be i black mark against the university and the students. Keep them on suspension. But we don't need as our representatives these three who a basically charged with being thugs. They aren't the role mod< we need. They aren't representative of the students. fill SHUCKS, SANPY, SEEMS LIKE YOU'p JUST CALL IN C.I. 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Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to 300 words long. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or possible libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any ciicumstance. Columnist ? jji MM m Tm he > * HL I lie *Jjjf i ,,'iy 1 Hr^M )o i s ?* fyfl V tie ? in M^H^nhI^V i jn? V id - :? ^MHB?~ ^r-~?S>?,*JBl of 10 USC Homecoming Queen Nanette G President James Holderman after her cc State football game. re She's bright, that's annarent hv ev jls her membership in a number of le1 honor societies ? Omicron Delta at Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Alpha Phi pr wm Sigma Criminal Justice Honor Socie- ca ? ty, Golden Key and Mortar Board. se She will soon graduate with an undergraduate degree in criminal justice, but she's not done yet. She sa plans to attend law school after that, w; and also squeeze in time during law ju school to get a juris doctorate and a masters of business administration. he She's confident and she gets what m< she wants, she says. She's got the an LSAT in December, the GMAT in m January coming tip. She's no slouch. She's also an excellent speaker ? fe< basically because she's confident and mi bright. of She wanted to be homecoming pa queen, she said. Her sorority sisters qu did nominate her, but she had already decided to run. tai wc The process, was "stressful and als tedious," yet also "interesting." She de was asked questions about current be Letters to t Label libel sli - an cruel, Ignorant ? sia To the editor: bit As much as I am opposed to editorials, I feel that I must speak my an piece. There is a lot of tension on arr campus, ranging from racism to closet cases. When does it end? It seems that the world and its societies are based on labels. Good or bad, intentional or unintentional, labels are just words; yet they can hurt just the same. "Nigger, commie, a geek, cripple, faggot," and the list |j goes on. Such words are cruel and P unjustifiable; however, the victims fl can be just as guilty and insensitive as " the people who talk about them. Labels are based on ignorance, or B should I say lack of education. Peo- Tc pie who do not know or understand a certain culture or group tend to tax become labelers. dii Okay, suppose I make a hasty (T generalization, saying that all frater- H( nities and sororities are racists and do yo not promote integration in any of ba their activities. Could this be true of since most greek organizations are zal not integrated and seem to be less Ch unified and more exclusionistic? Or could I just be ignorant, uneducated "r of the many contributions by greek ha organizations? an< My apologies for such an organiza- tru tion, for I have plenty of friends who be! are greeks (uh oh, I used a label). My ofl point is that people should look at evi the human/individual element of a wo person and not base that person by wo race, religion or background. At the Le same time, people who are being ph labeled ("niggers, greeks, fags") yoi should not make federal cases about wo their identities. the Me, I am black. I do not feel the ph need to justify this because it is ap- the parent. Yet I also do not stoop to so- lat< meone's level if I am called a "nigger" because if I were to look it up, I res would find the definition, besides the ty, spotlight ?k File Pho. iraham is shown here with US( ironation at the USC-Appalachia ents both on the national and loca yels. She was asked and talkei >out the nuclear freeze and th oblems with violence and crime oi mpus at the beginning of th mster. When her name was called, sh id she was "completely elated. I ts a feeling I'll never forget. It' st the most wonderful feeling." Her family was there, includini r most special relative ? "M; ather just cried and cried and crie< d cried. She's my inspiration an< y motivation." The elation didn't fade, but othe slings were added onto that mo snt when later that week a chargi racism was brought against th? per for not covering her ade ately. "I wanted coverage. It is impor it to me myself and the students. >uldn't call it a racial issue but i io could have been covered more ii pth. The paper could have run j tter picture," she said. he editor mg version, to be "a dirty person.' In conclusion, I listen to almosi ything as far as music is concernec ed Zeppelin, U2, Anita Baker I noticed in Sting's song, "Rus ns," he says: "We share the sam( )logy, regardless of ideology." Who am I? I am a friend, a studeni d an American, but most of all, 1 1 me. The rest are just labels. Peace. Reginald Smith advertising/public relation! sophomore Ilind faith istorts movie > the editor: I'd like to wrap up The Last Temp ion debate, if I may, by respon ig to the letter by Serena Holme; he Gamecock, Oct. 12). Ms )lmes, I appreciate the criticisn u offer, but I find fault with youi sic understanding of the purpose novels (and films), like Kazarit kis's The Last Temptation Oj irist. You areue that "evidence.' esearch" and "compiled data' ve confirmed the existence of Goc d his son, Jesus Christ. If this were le, thousands of dreamy-eyec lievers would be lining up to jump f high buildings. There is no such dence. And, even if there were, ii mid not be the sort of thing which iuld "convert" someone like C. S. wis, who was a philologist and s ilosopher, not a scientist. Were a familiar with Lewis' work, you uld know that he struggled with : same questions about the actual ysical nature of Christ that baffled : earliest Greek Christians and, er, Nikos Kazantzakis. Vour basic failure, like that of the t of the fundamentalist communito appreciate the message of this s homecomii Nanette Graham came up to the office J Gamecock. Graham is 21, a criminal justice senior I She's also USC's homecoming queen. And, as happens about every two or three years, the homecoming queen kind of got lost in the shuffle Stephf because of a home- ^ % coming controversy Guilfo> that arosp. hut rpallv ' I had nothing to do with the person who won. In 1986, when Kim jv. Mangum was selected homecoming queen, L??? The Gamecock found out that she was n students who voted. Sometime before tha that included but wasn't dependent on the \ And the girl who was elected by the m; , wasn't crowned the queen that year becau< !"f Students were upset. The Gamecock was < to return to the way it was before. And, caught up in the shuffle was Kim any of the others for homecoming queen. B ^ were interested in recapturing their vote, against Mangum, but she got caught up in Well, if one thing's true, it's that histor something similar happened. Nanette Graham was elected homeconi Gamecock didn't run a story on her and di? An irate letter writer accused The Gamecc exclude Graham. That charge was false, but other pec homecoming queen still should have been g than she was given. People might accuse me of giving in to jf have now met with Nanette three times, intelligent person who would deserve a wo wasn't homecoming queen. And, to my surprise, she is trying to ma '? kind of institution. She wants to be a repres C model for them. n So, USC students, prepare to meet yc Graham. il "I did feel slighted." Pre d she e She really didn't want to talk stuc n about the racial issue though, be- invi e cause she feels about most people in clas society that "we are at the point now to t when we are intelligent enough to be S e above such things." cor< t "I should be judged on my charac- S.C s ter and my credentials rather than my kno race." hav I y Soon after, in both a letter and a " i column in The Gamecock, a charge just J of sexism was brought against the cate entire idea of a homecoming queen hon or a miss homecoming. But she said of p r that did not bother her as much. A lot of people were writing in who B s wanted coverage or who were inter- porl t ested enough in the process to call it inte sexist. "That showed this position is willi a major issue to the students of this thej university." beir I stud t She wants to represent the stu- L 1 dents, she says. She was invited to hoit i attend a meeting of the Board of surp Trustees by Student Government got ' novel (made more available to the that t general public by the film) stems so 1 from an utter ignorance of the basic esqt , philosophical dilemmas with which pret such a novel deals. The Bible does its ; not tell us about the relationship bet- autl ween spirit and flesh in terms we can are t truly understand; it is a matter of abu [ discussion, study, thought and tion prayer. This is what you probably do dan in church, and it is also what writers min do with their books and their pens. ada] i It is obvious to any scholar that the Nar, i action in The Last Temptation, par- som ; ticularly the dream sequence, does 14th not follow exactly that in the mor Gospels. Kazantzakis' Christ exhibits idea human frailties; he is not obviously a theii human incarnation of God. But how T could anyone, including you, im- the : agine or comprehend the personality or the outward appearance of such a "phenomenon?" Would a man/god be bathed in light? Would he be of superhuman strength or amazingly attractive? Or would he look like a VJ > normal man and just move and say things differently? And how, I ask i you, could the sacrifice of such a being save the entire human race? ; We don't quite know. We must I J have faith. But true belief is faith to ai f mixed with at least an attempt to Gan understand. If belief is to have any by K ' meaning in our lives, it must be ac- soro ' companied by reason, for we are I do I reasonable beings. Blindly following forti : the scriptures without understanding like 1 them or their purpose is silly. Claim- the < ) ing to understand them absolutely is noth i lying or foolhardiness. What we ing ; t humans must do is try to understand grou i all possible angles of scriptural inter- only pretation. If we find fault with one anal i interpretation, then we may criticize to id : it intelligently. The Last Temptation up c i is not an attempt to rewrite the clear i Gospels or to say that Christ the man "ger I was something he wasn't. Kazant- tify I zakis was formulating an argument calle as to the nature of spirituality. I woul would fault it at certain points, but it clear would be unfair to reject it without honest consideration and worse to urge others to do so. It appears to me ig queen rfonday to rap with the guy in The From Florence. ;n - / ot elected by the majority of the t, a selection process was started student election. ijority of the students who voted se of the new system. upset. People called for the system Mangum, as good a candidate as ut The Gamecock and the students 100 percent. They had nothing the controversy. y repeats itself, and this semester ling queen by the students. The In't run a photo until Wednesday. )ck of making a racist decision to iple still wrote in and said the ;iven something more in the paper pressure, but I would disagree. I and I think she's an interesting, rd or two somewhere even if she ke homecoming queen a different entative of the students and a role tur homecoming queen, Nanette sident James Franklin. She thinks can be seen as a role model for lents on campus. She has been ted to talk also to a high school s and will represent the university hem. he will attend the homecoming ^nations at Benedict College and . State College, and if she had w it was last weekend, she would e gone up to Clemson Saturday. I want students to know it's not a beauty contest .... I dedid a lot of time to becoming lecoming queen, and it takes a lot >erserverance." eing homecoming queen is imtant to Nanette. She is intelligent, resting, bright and confident and ing to speak for the students if ' want her to, and capable of ig a good representative of the lents. ate as it is, USC, this is your lecoming queen. Some may be irised to hear it, but I'm glad I the chance to meet her. , i the fundamentalist community is attached to its "tunnelvisionle" method of scriptural interation that it is afraid that some of constituents might question its tority in scriptural matters if they exposed to the Greek philosophy ndantly applied in Last Tempta. It makes me wonder if funlentalist leaders encouraged their ions not to see the recent film ptation of Umberto Eco's The ne of the Rose, which concerns e ancient Greek texts hidden by i century leaders of a Catholic lastery, who thought that certain s might damage the blind faith of r community of believers, he search for truth never involves suppression of ideas. James S. Lewis SCC English senior rreek basher ate, not Katie am writing this letter in response aother editorial in Monday's The lecock. The article was written [ate Moore and was an attack on rities and fraternities. Although n't exactly share her views, unanately I share her name. I would to clarify the fact that I am not Dne who wrote the letter. I have ling to do with this. After receivi call from what I suspect was a p of fraternity brothers, who not gave me their "crude and unfair ysis" of myself, but who failed entify themselves before hanging >n me, I decided it was time to my name. I only wish the itlemen" had bothered to identhemselves so that I could have d them back to correct them. I Id just like my name to be ed! Katie Moore marketing junior