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Forum Students,faculty have chance to learn much at PBS seminar A group of prestigious thinkers and doers of American government will be on campus Friday to discuss the Constitution, the Congress and where both are going. It's a program sponsored by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and it's called "Congress Into The 21st Century." The forum will be taped by S.C. Educational Television and aired later on PBS. Edwin Newman will moderate a program with the likes of former Chief Justice Warren Burger, Congressman Butler Derrick, D-S.C., former U.S. Secretary of Labor William Brock and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. And, unlike the Firing Line debate that was held at the same site, Longstreet Theatre, this program is open to anyone who wants to attend. What a marvelous educational opportunity for many here at the university. Teachers can come and listen to the words of some dedicated constitutional scholars. Students can also come and see these people firsthand for themselves. The forum will try to answer the question "Would the framers approve of what the Congress has become?" Intended to be definitely two differing organisms, the Senate was originally intended to give to the Congress an elite, established group that did not change that often ? it was to be the stability of the group. The House of Representatives was to be the more democratic arm, with the members and the ideas they would vote on changing with the leadership every two years. Another question the forum will consider is the powerful Congressional bureaucracy that has developed ? is it what the Founding Fathers would have wanted? And it will specifically address the War Powers Act and ...L V ~ - wiieuicr 11 gives congress 100 mucn ot a role In foreign policy, or too little. It will be a forum of questions and answers, with audience members being allowed to get involved and ask questions as well. It is the most marvelous educational opportunity the university has offered students in the last five years. Pamela Robinson is coordinating the program for the School of Law, and she is probably most harried right now trying to get this to work and come off to perfection. But she and all the others involved with this program should be proud of themselves for getting this type of program to USC. Also, The Gamecock thanks them in the name of all the students and faculty who will be given the opportunity to watch, question and learn at this program. : STEROL RUNNER ?3^ rp| I 1 he (jramecoek ?? i #es/ Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region 1 Society of Professional Journalists, 1987-88 Editor in Chief Datebook Editor STEPHEN GUILFOYLE JENNY SHARPE 1 Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor WAYNE YANG MICHAEL SHARP Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics Editor f KATHY BLACKWELL TRACY MIXSON \ News Editor Adviser HAL MILLARD PAT MCNEELY Assistant News Editors Graduate Assistant ^ STEVE PRADARELLI PHILLIP MCRF.N71F 1 MARY PEARSON Director of Student Media Features Editor ED BONZA r SUSAN NESBITT Advertising Manager t Assistant Features Editor MARGARET MICHELS TOMMY JOYNER Production Manager Spors Editor LAURA DAY y KEVIN ADAMS Assistant Production Manager s Assistant Sports Editor RAY BURGOS a CHRIS SILVESTRI Assistant Advertising Manager n Photography Editors BARBARA BROWN A BRIAN SAULS fl TEDDY LEPP n y Letters Policy; The Gamecock will try to print letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to 300 t( 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 circumstance. P -1? ' g sir * YEAH, 1 USED "TO BE FA'S LOCOMOTIVE... ABLE TO LI FOUNt Jailbird jourr Your columnist is back from the stir, the pen, up the river, the lockup. If you are waxing puzzled right now, let me explain. I was caught and put in jail. The Chi Omega/Kappa Alpha Jail-a-thon, that is. Somewhere out there is a nameless person, who, in the name of The Gamecock staff, decided it would be funny to put me, your friendly neighborhood columnist, into the stir. "The charge?" you might ask. Horror of horrors, I was charged with ultraliberalism. Me, of all people, charged with ultraliberalism. Moi? Mis? ("That's silly," he says to himself before continuing on.) In addition to being taken away, hauled like a common criminal (Were I a criminal, I would be a most uncommon one, something like Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor, I should imagine.) before a self-proclaimed kangaroo court. They probably should have called it a crocodile court, judging from the Izods all o'er the place. Not only was I hauled before this judge, but, (I'm still shaking because of it) I was found guilty. Then, they put me in the cell, and the sound of the cell door clanging behind me sounded like the clap of doom ? actually, it was a wooden frame door, and it sounded more like the scratch of doom, but that's beside the point. I eyed my cellmates cautiously. What kind of heinous crimes had they committed? What could they do here? Thoughts like "Stone walls and bars do not a prison make" and "Don't bend over for the soap" ruled my thoughts. I kind of slithered to the picnic table in the midst of the cell and asked the guy who was yelling frantically for someone, anyone, to bail him out, "What ya' in for?." (I'm also a sportswriter and cliches are the trade.) He said this was his fourth time he had been in i Letters to the ' Greek wrong , , people. Than about greeks To the editor: Mr. (Mac) Nowell (Pi Kappa Phi J president), since you want to propagate your wonder-filled greek . system in all its glory, I thought I night point out some of its weaker joints. First, you totally missed Ms. Kate) Moore's point. Instead of a To the editor: eal apology, you obscured the issue We feel it m vith elitist greek trash. Then you to the letter ir vent on to advertise the system. day, Oct. 24, Since I live and work in Five U., there woi 3oints, I have the privilege of observ- consistently pi ng your greek social life in action. Years from n fou and your "brothers" don't seem syndicated (re o be happy unless you reach the started in joint of alcohol poisoning; you in- newspaper), ai imidate (through numbers) others; ing up the Pi ou urinate, and, or, puke behind the mentary, his ci learest dumpster; and you become foolish, rue rednecks. I won't even touch the racial subset because we all know that what ou said was a crock. I will, however, ay that if you weren't so insecure bout your system you wouldn't have En lade a public attack on Ms. Moore, md if you could have made "real" riends outside of the womb, you fjCflC) light have had some objectivity in our obviously "enlightened" life. f O TIC? To end this diatribe, I would like O ) say that no single greek incororates all the above attributes, but a To the editor: roup of greeks, whether they be in Crime has t 22^ lfc==su ITER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET. EAP TALL BUILDINGS IN A SIN > OUT ABOUTTHE STEROIDS m a -m - m. taiist seeks hit the stir Tuesday. His name was Lewis Collins, a hotel restaurant and tourism senior, and he was charged first with being cocky. Then the girls managing the bail section had sworn another warrant out because he "looked so cute." A third charge was blank, and his fourth, most heinous offense was "looking so fine." He had to come up with $10 bond each time. And did. But hardened criminals like him should not be out walking the streets. I stood out in the front of the cell where people could see me, and I could see them, and maybe talk them into freeing up some cash for the guy in The Gamecock. No such luck. Your fearless columnist had no fans present that day. Someone wanted to talk to me, though. He identified himself as Tommy Loeber. USC soccer player extraordinaire, and said the soccer team wanted a write-up in the column. I said, "Free up some cash and we'll talk." I got no pride, as I used to tell my friends back on Purdy Street in The Bronx. He said, "I don't have any money." He had suddenly become just a soccer player oreditor 00 or not, are still close sant and unnerving proble ally awkward, insecure around campus. Recentl; k you, and good day. crease in reported cri stimulated even greater fea J. K. York iety, and many people ar English senior that no one seems to anything about "it." liL^o Mike Genova has been w CI IIKC butt off for several years U--- inform and enlighten especially women, of the * ^ dangers on and around Mike Genova has always hi tive audience ? his lectur ust be said, in response ceptional ? but now he's i 1 The Gamecock Mon- mand that he's having to if it weren't for Ratt lectures in advance. At a t rid be little reason to no one seems to be doing ick up The Gamecock. Mike has been here all aloi ow, when Ratt U. is I was lucky enough to p member, Doonesbury in two of Mike's lectures a the Yale college like to commend Mike ad Robb Lane is pick- dedicated assistants for t llitzer Prize for com- tinued care and concern foi ritics of today will feel being of USC students. Heath* Katherine Gilbert Patterson residei English junior advertisi Armida Gilbert T fane C glish graduate student Uuv ImIIo ij va helps class at Tec hf 01*1 TUP1 To the editor: 111. vl 1I11V j went tQ a football g; weekend fully expecting my get whipped badly; howe ilways been an inces- won. I would be lying if 7feATl4HTA CONSTITUTION IP ' " 1 - " " " J u SS? leous revenge dinaire, and I said, "Get out of my face shorty. You know what I'm in for? Reaching through chicken wire and killing a guy when I had my wide brim hat on, and I've got it on, and you look just like that guy. Hahahaha. . . " Well, that may be a slight exaggeration on my part. I may have really said, "What would you want me to say?" "Something like that we're the only USC team that hasn't choked yet. That's good," he said. I thought, "I could never print something like that in the paper in these troubled times in the Lala Land that is USC athletics." "Sorry," I said. "No way." Wanting to get out, I figured, because no one had come to get me from the staff, I could probably plead for some kind of bond arrangement, promise to do some kind of community service or some such thing. Or I could probably stage a mass breakout, but I didn't know these other criminals from Adam, and they hadn't offered to help me out. So I decided it would be most effective to abuse my position as USC's numero uno media mogul. "Let me out or you'll never hear the end of it, I promise you," I said. "I want out, and I want out now," I said. "I are the media. Do you hear me?" Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. In an effort to shut me up, they gave me a personal recognizance bond and let me go. Actually it was a pledge card, and I agreed to pay my $10 bond, plus a little more, from the bottom of the news guy's heart, to help out Jerry's Kids. The arrest was all in fun, as was this column, so don't take it personally y'all. I'm not really angry at anyone. Except the nameless guy who put me in the stir to begin with. When I get my hands on him, he'll know the pen is mightier than the arrest warrant. :m on and didn't enjoy the game. In the four y, an in- years that I have been at Tech, that imes has was the finest display of football I r and anx- have ever seen by my team, e angered It was also the finest display by be doing visiting fans that I have seen in a while. In the past few weeks, we have orking his had to put up with the obnoxious helping to rednecks from Clemson and some students, truly nasty jerks fron N.C. State. It potential was a pleasant chance to have the campus. USC fans attending, id a recep- Your people were gracious and es are ex- polite toward us after what had to n such de- have been a very difficult game to schedule watch. If we had beaten Clemson, we ime when would have had to shoot them all to anything, save the campus (might not be a bad ig. idea anyway, but I deviate). larticinatp PAOfli ? ,J 1 K??v -wvmwii \j ut; iviuiiisun Luuiu nave nd would blamed the loss on a bad day, bad and his calls, the weather, etc.; instead, heir con- coach Morrison credited us with hav the well- ing outplayed USC and playing 60 minutes of good football. That was more kind of him, and we were im:r Gurney pressed; it shows the mark of a truly lit adviser upstanding coach, ng junior Thank you for being a cut above other schools. I can only hope that our tans reflect as well on us next 110 W year. hHave you thought of trying plastic explosives on that stupid rock that the Clemson players fondle before their games? Just an idea. ime this W. 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