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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
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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.
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words long. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or possible
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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
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Greek wrong
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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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. Andrew Robinson
team to Adam Felder
:ver, we The Technique
I said I Georgia Tech's student newspaper
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