The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 02, 1988, Page 3, Image 3
Last time
'The Gamecock'urges students
one last time to get out and vote
The Gamecock can't "enter into partisan politics" of any
kind. So say the bylaws of the Board of Student Publications,
the university committee that chooses editors and managers for
all of Student Media ? The Gamecock, Garnet and Black, Portfolio
Magazine and WUSC-FM.
Entering into partisan politics is pompous but clear language.
Ti _ _ _ J ^ r? 1 i r? is i
ii means no endorsements 01 any Kind or any political process ?
from as high as this wonderful presidential election of which we
are right now in the final throes, to as low as Student Government
election ? are we allowed to make.
But we have tried to be impartial in our news coverage for this
election special. If you see a story on Massachussetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis' South Carolina campaign chairman, former
S.C. Gov. Dick Riley, it is balanced by a story on Vice President
George Bush's campaign manager, former USC student Lee Atwater,
of almost equal length.
People who read The Gamecock regularly are probably
laughing up their sleeves right now. "We know it's a damn
liberal publication. The cartoons slam Bush and President
Ronald Reagan all the time. The editorials always criticize the
president's programs."
Well, The Gamecock may as well take this time to explain
those cartoons. The paper only has a small amount of money for
editorial cartoons, and unfortunately for campus Republicans,
the three we get, Jeff McNelly of The Chicago Tribune, Herb
Blocker (Herblock) of The Washington Post and Doug Marlette
of The Atlanta Constitution more often are Bush bashers than
Dukakis disclaimers. We get these through two press syndicates,
not directly from the papers.
Trust us. We didn't call up and say, "Give us the ones who'll
make Bush look like a weenie," or "Please, no one who'll make
fun of our icon, Dukakis." First, he's not our icon.
And second, they probably would have laughed at us. Out
loud.
So the cartoons are out of our control. If you have a problem
with those, you'll have to call the Tribune, the Post or the
Constitution.
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normally criticize specific programs.
Columns are the opinions of the columnist, even if the columnist
is an editor. Those do not represent the view of this staff or
this paper.
Finally, what we have endorsed, and what we continue to endorse,
is the political process. Everyone at this university ?
students, faculty, administration and staff, from university
President James Holderman to groundskeepers ? should go out
and express their opinion in this election.
It's too important not to do so.
If you feel the Democratic and Republican candidates don't
meet your needs, two other candidates for president are on the
South Carolina ballot: Ron Paul of the Libertarian Party and
Lenora Fulani of the United Citizens Party, whatever that is.
But vote.
Again, it's too important not to do so.
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Many of you have seen the picture and are
already asking, "Why is Stephen Guilfoyle, The
Gamecock's resident comedian, writing a column
in this most serious of election issues?"
Well, in the opinion of this comedian, this election
is a better joke than any I'll ever write.
First, we have Vice President George Bush who,
more than halfway through the campaign,
discovered he was a "man" because he believed in
forcing people to say the Pledge of Allegiance in
this most free of societies, of course being
oblivious ? as most Republicans are ? to the
coercion implied in the bill Massachussetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis vetoed.
Were he a boxer, his nickname would be George
"Rabbit Punch" Bush, because of his utterly
disgusting exploitation of the Willie Horton
tragedy for political gain. Horton is the murderer
who raped a Maryland woman while out of jail
because of a Massacusetts furlough program.
But the Young Democrats shouldn't be hooting
and hollering in delighted glee ? their candidate is
no diamond to Bush's coal. Both are of the soft
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are.
This is America's future we are talking about,
yet they're naive enough to think people won't
believe what they see and hear on TV from the
Republicans if it isn't really true. Dukakis took
months to start responding to Bush's numerous
charges. But how were we to find out about the lies
Irritating rattl
It was a dark and stormy morning, the kind of
Monday morning when you want to stay very
asleep in bed, where it is very safe, very warm and
very dry.
But to do this, it needs to be very quiet.
Residence hall quiet hours are supposed to last
from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m., right? No one is supposed
to blast Dokken at mind-altering volumes or
scream at the top of their lungs so we poor, overworked
students can study or sleep, right?
Wrong. Well, a qualified wrong. Agreeably, at a
little after 7 a.m. Monday no one was blasting
Dokken. Nor was anyone screaming at the top of
their lungs. But someone was cleaning the leaves
off USC President James Holderman's parking
lot.
The word "leaves" usually brings with it
peaceful connotations of autumn, squirrels, football
and jumping into big piles of aromatic, brightly
colored raked leaves. A soft breeze blows; a bird
chirps; but basically "leaves" is a pretty quiet
word.
But Monday morning, the screaming, dull roar
of a street sweeper and a gasoline-powered leaf
blower trying in unison to remove the wet leaves
off Holderman's parking lot brought to mind less
placid thoughts. Whoever said hell hath no fury
like a woman scorned was obviously never a college
student awakened three hours before he has to get
up.
Monday morning, the list of options was pretty
belligerent:
Explode the gas tank on the leaf blower with
Letters to the
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they just not use them?
Dukakis would be a Southpaw like Rocky, in the
first, only good Rocky movie. He waits, take
punch after punch without a response, waiting for
that one opening so he can slide through.
The worse part of the campaign were those
things they called debates. I think former Chief
Justice Warren Burger summed this up best when
he said "As ill-prepared and badly spoken both
candidates were, they were more prepared and better
spoken than the journalists who were asking the
questions."
Those weren't questions; they were sheep doodoo,
and if the questions were that bad, how could
the candidates give decent answers?
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"Please be quiet, sir, I am trying to slumber," and z
throw a very large brick at the moron.
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dry bed (not recommended), put on a bathrobe and j
flip-flops and trudge out into the chilling drizzle z
and personally beat the living tar out of the guy. s
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above, scream and make obscene gestures from
your bedroom window while plotting the overthrow
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you, to be a reasonable, if not meek, punishment t
fot waking you up three hours before your first f
class.
You should at least ask yourself a few questions.
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lot doesn't have any leaves on it intrinsically more f.
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based upon one's race, to those still trying to
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self seem guilty of the decision.
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no way I can justify the subs
Deborah Burkhard campaigns that have domii
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that a "none of the above
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; not vote. Mr. Sarlitto, you
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e had the editorial sup- viously a very difficult ch
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approach left was the didn't vote for him" for
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The only decent moment in the debates came
when Bernard Shaw, the CNN anchorman told the
audience to withhold its applause. The other two
anchors begged and pleaded with the audience ?
Bernie said, "Look, I'm only going to say this
once. . . ." He looked ready to take off the coat
and tie, pull out a tire iron and starting whooping
some butt.
The debates might have been more of a challenge
if Barbara Walters (Baba Wawa) came on and asked
both, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree
would you be?"
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our wonderful American flag," and Dukakis
would say "My parents were immigrants . . .
Etc., etc., etc.
And now it's time to discuss the bad sitcom of
the election ? "That Libertarian."
Has anybody ever seen Ron Paul? If his son
didn't come to USC last month, I would seriously
doubt the man's existence ? maybe "The Invisible
Man" is a better name for the Paul show, but according
to "Doonesbury," Bush has that one locked
up.
The Democrats played this kind of election year
joke on us when they nominated Fritz Mondale to
run against Reagan last time around. Now the
Republicans and Democrats have both gotten into
the joke.
But it isn't funny this time around.
I wonder if Pat Paulson is on the ballot.
gin morning
What idiot feels it necessary for these employees
:o get up before dawn in order to get to work and
spend two hours blowing leaves around? Does this
same idiot believe that if the leaves aren't blown
Dff the parking lot until later, say 10 a.m. when
quiet hours end, it would cause too much noise too
ate and present an image not conducive to The
Florseshoe environment when people come to
vork? How about the students? We live there, in
hose residence halls all the time. Shouldn't we be
'ranted the same courtesy that anyone would be in
heir own home?
This is far from an isolated event. Ask any on:ampus
student. I bet any one of them can tell you
tories about lawn ipowers, garbage trucks,
naintenance carts and leaf blowers rattling around
it all sorts of ungodly hours of the morning.
I challenge Jim Cooper, director of USC
grounds, to take the residents into consideration
ind help keep the university quiet hours qutet. Just
witch some of the less noisy jobs with the lawn
nowers and leaf blowers until 10 a.m.
If not, well, there's always one more option:
Show up at Mr. Cooper's home at 5:30 a.m.
>n a Sunday morning and mow his lawn and blow
he leaves outside his bedroom window around for
fee. It'll be no problem, really.
Just returning the favor.
Ed Chambliss, a member of The Gamecock's
production staff and former columnist, ended his
wo-year sabbatical to write this because he was
ust so ticked off Monday morning.
ock, Oct. I submit to you that there are diftellectual
ferences between the candidates, difithy.
Not ferences which myself, Mr. Yoder,
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ouraging this forum (as you pointed out). If
navigate you need help clarifying the distincn
smoke tions between the candidates, I sug3
make a gest you refer to sources that are not
dominated by the shallow campaign
it there is rhetoric found on commercial televitanceless
sion and local newspapers. Good
lated re- sources include The Christian Science
i sure bet Monitor, The New York Times (back
" choice issues of both are available in the
it on the library), the MacNeil/Lehrer Hour
not ra- on public television, and "All Things
cause we Considered on public radio,
one can- I also submit that despite the seeme
should ingly poor quality of the candidates,
may not the even poorer quality of the canlat
is ob- didates and the even poorer qualilty
oice for of their campaigns, there is still an
tempting important decision to be made. Let
herefore us not succumb to Mr. Sarlitto's fee'
fault I k'e attemPt t0 endorse apathy,
the next Hartwell Hooper
geography graduate student