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Profit ?\> , n Broadcast this weekend marks third telecast for Gamecocks ' * ' T>!_ ! 1 1 -1 . - - - i ms weeKena, tne university gets to once again showcase itself , Y .to a national television audience, and, as the host team, we get .' the bigger part of the television purse. Two years ago, the Athletic Department had about $500,000 - 1 left over from television revenues, and former Athletic Director ; : Bob Marcum donated the money to the university libraries, ; .;which needed it desperately, because funding for the libraries, which was once among the highest in the nation, is now in the lower half of the lists. ' Do you know what television games are to the university and ' the Athletic Department? Profit, pure profit. The game would , go on anyway, with or without the cameras, but they pay us to ,.. televise the games. And they showcase some of the best signs of the university across the nation. It's definitely monetary profit, but we profit in other ways. * It's a profit of advertising and public relations. It's a profit in that students who may have never heard of the University of South Carolina may decide to consider it. We sometimes get better students because of television games. We definitely get athletes from across the country who can't make it into their states' big schools. They see the Gamecocks on / television and they like us. Players like David Taylor, a defensive end from up north. He , wanted to play at Linebacker U., Penn State, but he came here instead, in Dart because of a fame he saw on the television The only way we lose is if we lose big, and the last big loss we had on television was our disappointing loss to Navy in 1984. Well, we've already had two televised broadcasts ? the Georgia game was broadcast by TBS and also aired over a syndication network. That broadcast made $50,000 for the university. The two games aired by ESPN ? the North Carolina State game last Saturday and the Florida State game this coming weekend ? earn us $287,000 each. That's a nice little $624,000 we didn't have five weeks ago. And, depending on the outcome of this weekend's game, there might be a couple of games in our future. The Athletic Department loses nothing when they turn on the cameras. And it gains a lot. And the university in general gains when the athletic director is in a generous mood. We don't know what the status was of that television money after Marcum was fired. Some sources told newspapers that that kind of money, and who controlled it, was a source of contention between the administration and Marcum. But if some of it was shunted our way, we won't mind. It could do a lot of good over there, we know, but it can serve both the student-athletes and "regular" students if at least some of it were donated in the same way Marcum donated money to the library. It will serve the university's only real mission ? education. ? fl'fAVL -/fit 7Vt HAfiVAtV ivP&bitbiT % mi " ' ?~+ > f :: The Gamecock Ztes* Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region Society of Professional Journalists, 1987-88 Editor in Chief Datebook Editor stephen guilfoyle jenny sharpe Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor wayne yang michael sharp Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics Editor kathy blackwell tracy mixson News Editor Adviser hal millard pat mcneely Assistant News Editor Graduate Assistant mary pearson phillip mckenzie kelly c. thomas Director of Student Media Features Editor ed bonza susan nesbitt Advertising Manager Assistant Features Editor margaret michels tom joyner Production Manager Sports Editor laura day kevin adams Assistant Production Manager Assistant Sports Editor ray burgos chris silvestri Assistant Advertising Manager Photography Editors barbara brown ^ brian sauls m teddy lepp ? , Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print letters received. 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 circumstance. . I ^ THe AftAhtfA CPHSVflfflOfJ Continue tradi Well. I'm onino to Ho mu "x/oir-o in tV><? wilderness" thing and try to do what I did last year at the Clemson game. I would really like to see black at Saturday's game. Loads of it. From sea to shining sea, from the West Upper to the non-visiting sections of the East Upper. You know, a black mass sprinkled with some of the red and yellow/gold of the Seminoles is just what we need. But just a few sprinkles. USC fans, students and non-students, went all out in black only once before. I mean, once where it was really kind of intimidating. It was in 1984 for a televised football game. Seems the then-undefeated Gamecocks, coming out of nowhere to become something of a national sensation that year, were going to take on some boys from Tallahassee. Yup, you guessed, it was the Florida State game, one of the biggest wins in USC history. It, and the earlier defeat of Georgia that same season, signaled to the nation that the Gamecocks were a force to be reckoned with. j And we did it on TV, just like this weekend, so i it's kind of like a tradition, don't you think? < Back then, we had a neat system on offense ? use Allen Mitchell at quarterback until he got tired, i hurt or screwed up, then put in USC's sparkplug j ? Mike Hold. Hold was an exciting quarterback. < Letters to the ( . ' Union does ~noZ - without makin super work -f of people goi To the editor: feelings now, < Let s stop tnrowmg knives at each that they can s other for just one issue of this Being gay is publication, shall we? I think it's even what I d time to recognize a part of USC that were to live m provides an invaluable service to the heterosexual, university. Therefore, I'd like to hypocrite. I d thank the Carolina Program Union feel attracted (CPU) for the last four years of fine straight person alternative concerts. I have seen dishonest to tr bands such as Lone Justice, Living anything else. Colour, Guadalcanal Diary, Let's aren't afraid o Active, The Godfathers and The Call I feel a need that I would not have been able to see think we've < otherwise. My only recommendation that is wonder would be to have more, if possible. that the best y At any rate, the concerts I have seen and the best yc in the Russell House will be my others for bei fondest memories of Carolina. than expecting you. So while W. Scott Starnes harassment an graphic design tinue to take tl graduate student lesbians and g; fight to get 01 Man thanks of AIDS (acqu supporters for our self re To the editor: won. I'd like to offer mv thanks to those who've spoken up in support of fairness for lesbians and gay men I and, for that matter, to those who have written in opposition. No words 1 of mine could have offered better il- M JTO I lustrations of the ignorance and # _ _ bigotry gays are subjected to. SICK U To those who ask why we feel a 9 need to talk about being gay, I can answer only for myself. When I come To the editor: out to my friends, it's because I really I am writing want them to know who I am. If a on Robert Chu friend is a friend, I figure I should be last Friday in 7 able to share my feelings instead of First of all, I hiding in fear. And I've found that sick and disgusl once I let go of the fear, my straight this. I am ama; friends will ultimately agree and sup- time, appalled port me. like this in the Before I could acknowledge my like most anti-? feelings to myself, I felt totally alone adequate and iri in the world. Not one song, not one paw I?? M ? J. PanfovtK Quayle tion ? wear b 7 i ^ we Stephen . /0< Guilfovle " f/ w * r T ^ * ????_______?i lo He played exciting, risky football, and he got excited by the plays himself. E: And maybe you didn't notice the way the gt Gamecocks played against N.C. State last he weekend, but they're all getting excited these days. Sc They play professionally most of the time, without too much emotion. But Saturday, they were all w fired up, it seemed. Even Todd Ellis, the most professional of all our th players, started using his fingers to shoot at the pi N.C. State sideline. "I guess I just got excited," he n< said Monday in the Gambrell Hall Lobby. r( And there's nothing wrong with that. I would rather watch an excited team play than a profes- ir sional team play on any Friday, Saturday, Sunday 3r Monday night. And these guys are both. editor HI ne sentence about life, order to make his case seem liness could I hear Mr. Church says that "a won g a mental translation bad already about being r is doesn't apply to me. . think she would feel worse if : it." There are plenty was added on top of that." H ng through the same it sound as if the woman as ind they need to know the rape and has cause to f? ;urvive. about it! He now is trying to not what I believe or woman, who has already i o; it's who I am. If I enough, have a baby that v. y life pretending to be ceived out of disgust, fil I would only be a hatred. A child, Mr. Church, lon't choose who I'll be conceived out of love. It to any more than a not be the unfortunate result does, and I would be sick-minded male forcing hin y to make myself feel to another human being's Real men and women Have you thought of the righ f the truth. mother? I and other womi to speak up because I sure, would not want to carry iiscovered something a physical remembrance of ! ful, true and good ? atrocity for nine months ai ou can be is yourself, have to live with it for the res >u can do is to respect lives! ng themselves rather them to be just like Secondly, Mr. Church stai : we must fight the there are many people who d violence that con- adopt an AIDS child. Face ieir toll in the lives of reality, Mr. Church! There ay men, and we must that many people around thi ir government to res- to watch an innocent child die man compassion and and very painful death. Eve people continue to die Mr. Church, the man who w ired immune deficien- children to be born, said tl 3ne by one we're fin- would not adopt one. The p o longer have to fight with anti-abortionists in mos ispect. We've already is that thev don't nractice wh preach, and Robert Church another prime example. Wayne Johnson Why don't you and your >ublic health graduate come off of your high pedest practice what you preach? It o 9 a 11 lot better if you stopped tellinf IXC ItllJK what to do and merely did it y< isgusting TSSSI, about the article Dorms still rch, which appeared need sprayi :ed I felt when I read ted and, at the same To the editor: that we have people Once and for all, to educ world. Mr. Church, minds of those ignorant to t ibortionists, uses in- issues that lie within the w elevant arguments in Douglas, I would like to i record straight. Jack to game But we can add some excitement ourselves, if we re to wear black. All over. Think of the wave. ;re it all black, what would they say on evision. "The fans are starting the wave, here, and it )ks like a black tidal wave all over the stadium, s, these fans are certainly a big part of this me." "You're right, Kevin. I talked to Coach Bobby )wden and he said he hates to play in Williamsice. Tl.ey try to prepare for the noise level, but said 'Even playing Spinal Tap on level 11 on the idium's loudspeakers is useless.'' These are some ud, rowdy, actively involved fans." And it's all true. They can't prepare for us. ipecially the student sections. I once talked to a ly who played for Georgia a few years back, and : said he hated Williams-Brice, but especially the >uth Stands, where the students and the band are. Get with the program guys. Wear black. You on't regret it. Oh, my prediction ? USC, by two points. I'm Linking that Bobby Bowaen win iwice uy a iwu aint conversion and fail both times. Or, with the ew rule, we'll deflect a field goal attempt and sturn it for two points. And win. And everyone be aware ? Coach Bowden is golg for the win, anyway he can. It should be a good game. It should be an exciting game. O. - ' ' . correct. After reading the rebuttal afforded lan feels us by my R. A., I have decided to proaped. I vide all with a full, detailed account murder of my initial intentions and the e makes several instances that spearheaded iked for my "assault" (as some have put it) el guilty on the university housing system, make a The rebuttal stated clearly that the suffered individual had not seen a roach in the ras con- hall over the course of the entire th and semester. This statement creates a , should strong conflict of beliefs, as my should friend down the hall feeds roaches of some from both the water fountain and the iself in- bathroom to his pet turtle on a fairly body. regular basis. In addition, the shoeit of the throwing expertise of another friend m, I'm foiled a grey mouse's feeble attempt around at making a dash for a stale such an doughnut resting in the hall, id then I never intended to embarrass t of our anyone by writing the editorial, and I find it absurd that anyone would take what was written in the context that tes that he chose to take it. I have no qualms would with the individual who wrote the up to response, but do not feel the word are not "ignorant" is the proper way to init want directly chastise someone for getting i a slow something done that should've been ;n you, taken care of in the first place, ants all I don't feel that I or any other stulat you dent should have to ask anyone to exiroblem terminate our respective rooms. Our t cases, responsibilities lie in the classroom, lat they and the rest is commonplace and is just should be attended to without question. However, I must say that the friends housing department did handle the als and situation Droficientlv. as mv room 'd be a was exterminated within two days of ?others my complaints. iurself. I would like to thank the housing Joseph department for being both courteous eshmen ancj pr0mpt in responding to my article; they are certainly to be commended. Unfortunately, my room is not the only one that needs extermination, and I'm beginning to |1Q wonder what each individual in this ? dormitory is going to have to do to get accomplished what I did. I would like to put this entire ordeal to rest, ate the once and for all. Again, thank you he real for your time and attention, alls of ;et the Monty Seth Warner journalism sophomore