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Criteria Raising admissions standards would be beneficial to university University officials are considering raising the standards for admission, and USC would benefit from such a move. According to the proposal, the entering freshmen in the fall of 1990 would have to have at least a "C" average in four units of English, two units of laboratory science and two units of other subjects. Two years of a foreign language and a score of at least 1,000 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test would also be required. Math courses and English classes would have to be geared toward college preparation. This proposal is not a radical upgrade from the current standards. For example, this past year's freshmen needed a 900 on the SAT to be accepted by the university. Of those freshmen, only about 4 percent would not have reached the proposed criteria. An increase in admissions standards would help make USC a better university. By requiring college-preparatory classes, USC could cut the number of remedial courses needed for freshmen. USC spends much of its time and resources teaching subjects that should be taught in high school. One recent study reported that 46 percent of freshmen in the state's colleges needed some type of remedial work; an increase in standards would alert high school students that they need to work hard on their studies to get into USC. Still, the new admission standard would remain flexible. Students who scored less than 1,000 on the SAT could make up for that by having exceptionally high grades or ranking in the upper part of their classes. This flexibility provides an option for the students who are not good test takers or had a few tough classes that lowered their grades. USC's Faculty Senate, which will make the final decision on the new standards, has returned the proposal to the admissions committee for a few minor alterations. Once those changes are made, the Faculty Senate should act by implementing the new standards. By doing so, they will be making a statement that USC is committed to becoming better and better until it ranks as one of the best state universities in the country. "YOUR HONOR, THE PEFENSE WANTS 40,000 PASES OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS* ?i 9ea7<'=te^3^^e:f< 11 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 JEEP SHREWSBURY MICHAEL SHARP Copy Desk Chief Comjcs Edj|or KATHY BLACKWELL TRACY MIXSON Assistant Copy Desk Chief Graduate Assistant CARYNCRABB KUdCKl 3 1 E VfclNiUIN News Editor Adyis(,r MARY PEARSON PAT MCNEELY Assistant News Editors Director of Student Media KELLY C. THOMAS ED BONZA SUSAN NESBITT Advertising Manager Features Editor MARGARET MICHELS TODD HINES Production Manager Assistant Features Editor LAURA DAY TOMMY JOYNER Assistant Production Manager Sports Editor RAY BURGOS KEV IN ADAMS Assistant Advertising Manager Assistant Sports Editor BARBARA BROWN CHRIS SILVESTRI Photography Editor TEDDY LEPP Letters Policy: The Gamecock will lr> lo prinl till Idler-, rccciird. I,cttcr> sht)it 1(1 be. af a maximum. 25?i in 300 words long. (?uesf editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for stvle or possible libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under an> circumstance. ONE NATION, UNDEP A Television sh "I got 13 channels of #$%& on the TV to cho from." ? Pink Floyd Have you noticed what's happening in Tel< sion Land lately? It's growing up and at a blaz rate. Those plastic people are becoming a bit m realistic. The deal is that the three major networks can longer afford the editing board that used to p off the rough edges of everything. Networks now doing their own paring, which leads to $o livelier entertainment. TV characters are now expressing expleti that would curl Tonto's feather. Unfortunate even with columnist's license, 1 am unable pollute these last vestiges of decency in Amerk media with the kind of words that are now go around like a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 in a h t school parking lot. Trust me, it doesn't take rocket scientist to figure them out. For instance, the characters on Moonlighting fast becoming purveyors of the expletive explosie I n tVlA cViAU/'c firrt raocAn - ^ mv onv^w o mot avaaun L/avt wai icuuitu IU ing Maddie a "meany" and Maddie would ri back that Dave was just a big "dummy." It lose little something unless you're seven years o Them's fightin' words at that age. But now Dave, without batting an eye, C? Maddie a !#$%&, and Maddie breezily calls Dav = #$&!*%. That's real. When someone you wc with says something snide you don't huff up a say, "You, you. . . dummy!" You attack th heritage or call them something socially disgustir something that carries a little weight. Letters to tl USC's blacks or1:" sell-centered To the editor: Blacks are in the beginning of a celebration of what is at least supposed to be a celebration. Organizations _ _ of the university are sponsoring f|Q| events celebrating the history of blacks in America. But the attendance at these events has been less To the than favorable. 1 was about f Blacks have done many miraculous The Ga things in history. Many people 1 am believe that the civil rights era began took no in the 1960s. There were many people NASA, fighting for civil rights 100 years negativ* before then. Ida Wells Barnett, a have ta black woman, was arguing against Cha/len lynchings during the 1800s. Dr. forgottc Daniel Hale Williams, a black man, NASA 1 performed the first successful open- sions ar heart surgery. Dr. Charles Drew, a Space black man, gave the world plasma. business He bled to death being transported to possible a "black" hospital because he was further refused treatment at a "white" pened ti hospital. our mis How can blacks be unconcerned, I thin considering the state of affairs today? take toAffirmative action cases are being NASA Ai;nrtiirnoH t hp ot/proop tnoAmo Af A morip' v?ci iui iivUf uiv nivuiiiv ui rvuiti ilc black families is 78 percent lower they th than that of white families. A former think I Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan pointed is winning primaries in Louisiana. to the g One of the issues of his platform is NASA welfare reform to reduce the number Americt of black births. Perhaps USC is representative of society as a whole in that blacks are only concerned with I, me and mine. A There is so much fighting among themselves that they forget about everyone advancing as a whole. V2 I I encourage everyone to learn more J about Afro-American history. There are classes given and books written To the t on the subject. To not do so would be This HHHit i SIEGE, INDEFENSIBLE, WITIvK-47'S FOR ALL." tows stretching hi ine th" 17 i S f i i j to I?____...?..--J ed :an wa ing Hjkewise-when you bang your shin on a coffee nat igh tabj[e yoit don't stop and search for a word that or ; a wdfl't offend anyone before you crumble in pain. the You say what's on the tip of your tongue. "Gosh bee are golly" is not there. There are little words far more the 3n. menacing and far more expressive of the pain such hoi all- as "!#$ &%$*" or simply wh fie Lest we forget movies "edited for television." F s a Those words flashed on the screen used to be a red see Id. flag for me. I'd turn the channel in a skinny minute ual knowing that most of the funniest lines were in a rep ills pile on the cutting floor. But now at least entire tall e a scenes are not zapped because someone says cha >rk "#$%<?." It's still a bit annoying when mid- tan nd sentence Dirty Harry becomes momentarily muted ess< eir and calls someone an "$#%hole." Harry wouldn't per lg, just call someone a hole and then give them one yot through their head. He's made of coarser stuff. can ? _ I le eauor an important part of history. Smith's letter to the editor (" lat important? tion must be kept legal," Mo I'd like to give her and others li Edwin J. Wilson something to think about. Graduate student I would like to make it pe Phi Beta Sigma fraternity clear that I am strongly pro-c but that's where the question ~ nrtntir*i7 in- Is it a choice to kill or not~t dLv I think not ? the choice came # the women took the risk of bee nC nation pregnant. The choice is no there; there is a living human inside her instantly, no mattei editor: science says. How can anyoi really glad to see the column that when egg meets sperm tl 4ASA in the Jan. 27 issue of not life? Do we just wait until mecock. bigger, then it is life? grateful that someone finally Let me give you a scenario tc tice of the positive aspects of about. A pregnant woman I am really fed up with the down the street and passes a b? ; attitude that Americans her way. The bank is being rc ken toward NASA since the As she passes, the robber rui ger tragedy. People have shooting; he shoots the woman :n that before the Challenger, stomach and kills the child. C had 25 successful shuttle mis- be tried for murder? You id two since that time. believe it! The same woman k avnlrtrotinn IC o HonnorAiir /j Anm 11-> A rtruat or?/J U AO/^C ft - v./\piwi cliiwii id a. vucwigv. i uua uuwii li iv. oti v.v.1 anu nt.avj3 iv >. NASA has done everything abortion clinic, goes inside an< : to protect the shuttles from the child. Can she be trie catastrophes. Whatever hap- murder? No. Any way you lool o the saying, "we learn from it's murder. So we should mal takes"? choice of who is allowed to mi ik our society has learned to How can we? o many things for granted, And what if she is raped? A included. When most should not be forced not to live ins hear the word "NASA," murdered) because the father ink of space exploration. I mitted a crime. What if they the column about NASA birth control, and it didn't 1 out that there is much more Then there are support group overnment agency than that. clinics, and there are so many f has benefitted us as in this world who would love t( ins more than we realize. the chance to have a child an< not anrl wonlr) aHont Megan Lynch There is no reason a person s Undeclared freshman murder a child because she d want the child, is afraid to te y* parents or is afraid of what i UrilUn IlUl will think. There is no reason # # an innocent child, and there l/j rhnirP choice of who should be allows Susan DeP editor: Graduate si is in response to Karen Student Personnel Se _ """* THE AUA*JTA co*jsmu jpjST ^ LIBERTY AND mits of taste Not only is it in the words, but changes are tak; place in the themes on TV. There's one show it's fast becoming a favorite of TV viewers ? trried With Children. Those writers don't mess >und. They go straight for the jugular, and it's en where a lot of pent up laughter is stored. The )gram totters on a line between lewd and pansy, : place where many normal shows lie. Few dare live on this line. And people are not stupid. The pq arp not PYnlirit hut pvprunno ? ??wv W.V V.VIJVIIV M1V/W3 VYIiai y are getting at except maybe my sister, -urthermore, there's a lot more skin on TV. Not )ugh to lose advertising, but more than there usto be. Shows are unabashedly showing people ndering around in their tighty whities. This is ural. People aren't always dressed'for breakfast walking around the house fully clothed. Here networks have imposed a little self-restraint :ause I have yet to see anyone "buck nekkid" as y say in McCormick County. Try watching 24 jrs of BBC programs, and you'll understand at 1 mean. finally, some may claim there are more bedroom nes lately. TV should never be a viaduct for sexeducation, but it should in the least attempt to resent one of our national pastimes. I'm not cing ABC's Monday Night Orgies, but the bed imber shouldn't be avoided exclusively. Import stuff goes on in there that sometimes is even ;ntial to the plot. I think in actuality what's hapling lately is longer bedroom scenes. Besides, if 1're not partial to scantily clad people in bed you always turn the $#& % *!# channel. ? || % f ' * V '>s 1 - 1 s tZ-y ? $ lb' - / H ||raj| < - ^ nday>" Group lacks facts on SRP :hoice, To the editor: comes We had to laugh when we read a 0 Kin: recent nyer rrom ureenpeace that : when was asking for people to come listen oming and testify against the Savannah longer River Plant and its evils to the enbeing vironment. All anyone ever hears - what from Greenpeace and the media is le say biased accusations about the dangers lere is SRP represents to the environment, it gets If Greenpeace members would only take the time to examine the en1 think vironment surrounding SRP, they walks would find that wildlife thrives in its ink on forests and streams. Its heated ponds )bbed. (not radioactive) make it possible for is out fish and reptiles to breed year round, in the The bald eagle, our national symbol !an he of freedom, roams SRP's forests free better of any danger from chemicals or walks radiation. ?r the Greenpeacers just cannot accept d kills the fact that they get more radiation d for from watching The Little Rascals < at it, than they would receive from any <e it a SRP radioactive "leak." We took arder? the time to examine the facts before we attacked a nuclear facility ? we . child wish Greenpeace would only do the (to be same. Greenpeace should stick to com- saving the whales instead of getting ' used involved in false accusations aeainst work? SRP. is and We are not asking for anyone to people take our word for it ? we are only ) have asking these people to examine our i can- proof as well as our facts about SRP. We are tired of hearing lies from hould liberal, hackeysack, communist hipoesn't pies who pollute our beautiful USC ;11 her campus. Greenpeace is applauded for others not wanting one new production to kill reactor at SRP ? we need five of is no them to do the job right, ed to. David S. Petersen History senior tfarco udent Billy Mikelonis rvices Geography junior