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Bush New administration to face many challenges, problems Today America gets a new president ? and a new start. When George Bush takes the oath of office, he will become the 41st person to become president. Bush will swear to uphold the Constitution and serve his country. He will have a difficult job over the next four years, and he must be ready to accept the challenges. Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Bush emphasized his experience in government, asserting that his many years of tAiiUlin f-ann'na Utm tVio run fK/s KronT?Tc puunc 3c1 v inaut 111111 lilt man iu 1 an liiv lavvuu v t ui antii. x xv. now has the chance to back up those claims by providing sound leadership. Bush's No. 1 priority is the federal budget and the tremendous deficit facing this country. He has advocated a "flexible freeze" ? a plan that calls for increases only in the case of inflation or other rises in the cost of living. Although this ma> alleviate the problem, it probably will not solve it. Bush and Congress must cooperate to trim the deficit. Programs in all areas of government must be scrutinized and evaluated. Special-interest groups, both conservative and liberal, must be kept in cheek if progress is to be made on the budget crisis. Bush and the D mocrats inCongressshould pledge to work together and reach compromises on spending issues such as Social Security, foreign aid and defense. If they do not compromise, this nation will continue its spiral into the red. In foreign affairs, the new president needs to follow up on the progress made between the United States and the Soviet Union, In late 1987, the two superpowers agreed to dismantle an entire class of nuclear weapons in Europe, but the negotiations should not end there. Bush must keep channels open with the Soviets and work with them on arms control. Bush must also deal with the complicated problems of the Middle East and Central America. Both of these regions require sprinns examination: their nroblems are not easilv solved. Bush can inject a new life into American policy toward these areas and possibly lessen tension. He cannot afford to rest on the laurels of Ronald Reagan, and he must act quickly to assert his own presidency. At the same time, he must set a tone of compromise and cooperation in dealing with Congress. Otherwise, he will not make America a "kinder, gentler" nation, but a weaker, poorer one. "WHILE JUNIOR IS W0RK1N6 ON HIS COLLEGE ENTRANCE APPLICATIONS, YOU ANPI CAN WORK ON OUR APPLICATIONS FOR SECONPJOBT The Gamecock Best Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region Society of Professional Journalists, 1987-88 Editor in Chief Datebook Editor ANDY BECHTEL JAN PHILLIPS Managing Editor Graphics Editor JELL SHREW SBURY MICHAEL SHARP r?P> ,,l sk ( . 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CeK&nVJlON , J I REAGAN ! 1 : , ; ||U SLEPT HERE \ 11 :lPP^, W \ iWwi i j5 i \ : Koger Arts C Now that the damn thing is finally open, can we please have an end to the pretentiousness of all the people putting on hoity-toity airs for the first time in their lives? I'm just sick to death of hearing about the Koger Arts Center. I really am. It's open; let's forget about it. It's sad, really sad, the way people have been acting, especially up at The State newspaper. I think their "Cultural Affairs Editor" has been salivating non-stop because the Koger Center is just the right kind of bfell. Riftg it, and he'll put Pavlov's hounds to shame. In Saturday's newspaper, he wrote an article about the right way to dress and how to be there precisely on time and how you can't do this and you can't do that and "Isn't wonderful that being a cultural affairs editor isn't a joke anymore?" There's a long list of things "to do" and "to be" when one goes to such a place. I hate posh things, and I hate regal company. Anywhere you go where you have to put on airs and act as something you probably aren't isn't a place for me to go. The funny thing is that everyone's thinking that "Boom, we're on the cultural map now." The earth shook, and we've made it. It's quite amusing. Why? Because to even think Hype, hysteri What is the Super Bowl? Is it a new container advertised on late-night television that comes equipped with ginsu knives? Is it a top-notch brand of commode? Or is it an all-star bowling event? No, it's none of the above. It's football plain and simple. It's not just your basic football, though. It supposedly pits the two best teams from a field of 28. There are a slew of funny things about this ultimate game. First, the winner is declared world champion. World champions? Oh, sure, there isn't a football team in Paraguay or Botswana, but I'm sure they don't care. Football is as about American as things come, but calling the winner the world champion is ?1 a bit vain. Canada has a league, and the English are m slowly catching the fever of this little sport from the colonies. Second, the final week before the big game is a veritable feeding frenzy of presspersons everywhere. The Associated Press usually corners .J the market on the teams' match-up, but it's the unassociated press that gets personal. Sports editors scramble for interesting sidelights on both players and fans. Insight, insight, insight. Letters to the 4Stew dents' i,Ai 'sPect y?u misunderstand .1 hr,j have been your bram To the editor: reality rhe I am somehow reminded of two ole fight verb, rich ladies leading bums in a prayer the way to before a flophouse dinner. As lichur- to legalize choor stew dents, please take note. the proble Your concern with facade and population human decency runs very, very are oth shallow. You like the plezunt phenomena 'merican experience. And you have discuss the clearly lived all your lives in the Addictic South. seen the pr Now I suppose you would interpret the legaliz that as an insult. Don't. But I know gibberish that you want to. Similarly, I was dividual n J misunderstood. I have worked in car- well as cu \ p^BI i'11111' enter breeds 1 fw ^ 1 Steohen 1" VEJ* Guilfoyle there is a map snows you care too much about what other people think. It really bothers me that people think there are places you can go and be in the thick of "culture." Such thinking is a sham. Culture is what you make of it; it exists in every town in a million forms. And the professional wrestling matches and other things of that ilk are a part of the same culture that was shown off at the Koger Center. Culture is one thing in each town. It has various, unique parts. The Vienna Bpys Choir has been here before; the Koger Center happens to offer better ia characterize Who cares what they eat, where their favorite cities are and what books they've read after they've won their conference championships? The worst of all the hype is saved for the pregame shows on just about every network on television. Who cares if you're not showing the game? CBS is the network not to watch if you want to avoid the silly stuff. Brent Musberger and his team of experts hold nothing sacred in their search for the most off-beat stories. Then there's the matter of money in the Super editor i ? id there was a holocaust at point, but youz stew der t Greek one, but I don't attempt to grasp social stew dents to know that. "gone with the wind." ved in many places, and I in Africa. But concerning Spirt ding my protest a "racist Graji toric," get serious. I will illy anybody that suggests T^Ql^l^fipcC solve the drug problem is 111 IVllV&d ? orr?r*ti/-? cuKctonTViot UM1VVUV JUUJIUUVVO. X 11UI . 1 # :m.is }? ce?ain studying i is is reality. Perhaps there O er aspects of this on, but I am not going to To the editor: m here. Why did USC go to all >n is a moral horror. I have and expense last semestt oblem firsthand. To cloak ing street lights in the stu< ation question in flowery lot facing Pendleton Stre is a transgression of in- I have an 8 a.m. class i norals, social morals, as Wednesday and Friday, ltural ones. That was my good parking place, I lik THTVirfr retentiousness acoustics than The Township. Not only have the things, especially in, but not' limited to, The State, been pretentious and hoity toitv, they ve been very condescending. ine problem was that if you could afford to pay the mega-" bucks they charged for the tickets to the events down there, then you probably were the type who could afford a tuxedo or a fancy-schmancy evening gown. So you don't have to be told to leave your sweatshirts at home. There was even a special graphic showing the do's and don't's, which was the most condescending thing of all. It showed, in the "don't" section, a true redneck type, with a guy holding a football pennant as well as a beer can. He was wearing a T-shirt, but it wasn't the same size as his beer gut, and you could see his belly button. That's downright insulting, prejudiced and stereotypical. I'm no redneck. I've been to Broadway musicals, concerts and other such stuff. But I don't have my nose so far up in the air that I had to tell othersi who were also going how they should dress. So now that the damn thing is over, can we go' back to living a regular old nice life here in Cola town? I mean, the earth didn't shake ? it's not that big a deal. ! Super Bowl Bowl. Football is a lucrative business. Oddsmaker^., in Las Vegas are looking to see about $5 billion bet C on this thing legally and illegally. That comes to $20 for every person in the United States. Forget >. about the deficit, disease research and the starving >+ masses- there's a game to be played. And lest we forget the advertisers for this three- < hour extravaganza. Millions will be spent by companies for seconds of material. This year it's even a ? little more haywire than usual. * Diet Coke will show a three-dimensional com- I* mercial at halftime, and the company has stocked J* stores with 3-D glasses. But the big daddy of them * * all will be a computerized battle between Bud and Bud Light. Yes, beer bottles will battle it out before jv _ _ 1 .! "11 * .L_. .. .Ill 1 LI., 1 .?! *? an auuience 01 minions inai win piuuauiy uc iaMiig a bathroom break or out getting more chips when it ? airs at halftime. Interesting? Yes. Z* Ludicrous? Yes. All told, the funniest thing about the Super Bowl Jw is that it's planned months in advance. They never know who might show up, but in most respects it doesn't matter. The Super Bowl is the Super Bowl 1* is the Super Bowl, and the game, well, that's just Z* 1 D* its and your good hour of studying, reading the < realities are paper or whatever before class. Ha, what a joke! Ever since this semester Z* began, it has been too dark and rainy >s Papleacos to sit in the car and read anything. at stew dent On Jan. 9, I decided they'd pro- *Z bablv turn the liehts on at 7 a.m. No _ lights. At 7:30, no lights. Same thing LUIIS for Jan. 11 and Jan. 13. I can sit in ** # my car and look across Pendleton ||tr|p Street to what we refer to as the teachers' parking lot. It's so lit up that it looks like a street in downtown ** Las Vegas! K that trouble I've called several different places, ** ;r of install- and they've promised to look into the Jent parking matter, but still no lights. :et Garage? Any suggestions? on Monday, so to get a Elizabeth G. Ham>?*? e to get in a History junior