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Coach Gamecock fans will remember Morrison's success, personality Coach Joe Morrison, who died late Sunday night after suffering a heart attack, will be remembered as "the man in black" who brought USC's football program to the national spotlight. He will be sorely missed. When Morrison came to USC after the 1982 season, the Gamecock football program was wallowing in mediocrity. The team had won just four games that season, and hopes were not high for the 1983 campaign. But Morrison showed the skeptics that he was up to the task by winning five contests that season, including a triumph over Southern Cal. In 1984, he exceeded every possible expectation, leading the Gamecocks to a 10-2 record, a victory over Clemson in Death Valley and a trip to the Gator Bowl. The Gamecocks were ranked as high as No. 2 during the season. A number of magazines named him coach of the year. It was also in that magical season that Morrison brought his unique personality to the program. He quietly paced the sidelines during games, and he seemed to be unaffected by triumphs and defeats. Most importantly, the coach got the fans involved in Gamecock football again, building pride in the team. The next two seasons were bumpy for Morrison's team, and he was widely criticized for his low-key methods. Still, Morrison weathered the two rocky seasons and brought the Gamecocks back in 1987, when the team went 8-4, convincingly beat Clemson and once again went to the Gator Bowl. In 1988, the Gamecocks got off to a 6-0 start, but finished at 8-4 with a loss to Indiana in the Liberty Bowl. During his six years at USC, Morrison compiled a 39-28-2 record, and USC appeared regularly in the Top 20. More importantly, he injected a sense of pride and excitement into the (""fnnthall nrnoram Hp weathprpH rnntroversv after controversy, keeping his focus on the performance of the team. Morrison also brought his distinct personality to USC; he was the special kind of coach who could rally players and fans alike with his unique style. His loss is a sad one for the university, Columbia and fans of Gamecock football across the country. JOE FASTBUCK, (Sun pealer: ^? I believe irv the right i to make all the money I can. by ~ selling assault weapons to an,y. one T Want to> it's a free country, and if policemen and schoolchildren M dorit like people using my guns, ; theyare free to stay home. \ LER, (?K47.s, (JZU, EVFRynM<s) *?^%u/o/r sales, fastacr/ofi/ kt/s lAJAiTiPj/Zi rrnrt if rw, The Gamecock flesf 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 JEFF SHREWSBURY MICHAEL SHARP Copy Desk Chief Comics Edjtor KATHY BLACKWELL TRACY MIXSON Assistant Copy Desk Chief Graduate Assistant CARYN CRABB ROBERT STEVENSON News Editor Advi??r MARY PEARSON pAT MCNEELY Assistant News Editors Djrector of Studenf Medja KELLY C. THOMAS ED BONZA SUSAN NESBITT Advertising Manager features Editor MARGARET MICHELS TODD HINLS Production Manager Assistant Features Editor ! ^jjRA qAy TOMMY JOYNER Assistant Production Manager SP?rts El|itor RAY BURGOS KEVIN ADAMS Assistant Advertising Manager Assistant Sports Editor BARBARA BROWN CHRIS S1LVESTRI Photography Editor TEDDY LEPP Letters Policy: The (lamecock will lr> lo print nil Idlers rnriird. t ellers should he. ul n maximum, isn hi 3(H) words long. (?uest editorials should not exceed 5(H) words. We resene the right to edit letters for stxle or possible libel. The (iamecock will not withhold names under an> circumstance. / Smell of electi r . u e ...u^ ~~ r i ui muse ui )uu wiiu cue ui5ajjjj\jiincu iu iiiiu out I haven't been smuggled out of the country by a bunch of Kurdish bandits and shot in front of a Soviet firing squad in northeastern Afghanistan, well, sorry to disappoint you. Actually, I'm a bit disappointed, because that sounds like an Indiana Jones kind of way to go. Exciting ? you know what I mean? Anyway, I've got a couple of things on my mind before I plunge on into the topic de jour. I'd like to thank the guys in the Navy ROTC band for being kind enough to wake me up at 7 a.m. Thursday. What was wrong with me, wasting such valuable time in the sack when 1 could have been watching your little impromptu parade. 1 would have waved a flag or held a banner. And to the guy who was playing the trumpet, i don't quit your day job unless someone wants you i to do imitations of pregnant mooses on your i magical horn, magical because it made me want to disappear. Anyway, it's the spring semester, the posters are ] going up, and that special smell is in the air. Yup, i it's time for student politics. In days of old, when guys like Donald Segretti i went to Southern Cal., they used to do all kinds of < political espionage, but they had a different name for it. but it's not suitable for this newspaper. Letters to the ~m- . . . and increasin Letter writers ?? a o r a r\ t missing facts they thought t do, surely th To the editor: Clearly, an err In response to the letter from ec* on c'eaninf David Petersen and Billy Mikelonis made> not ere ("Group lacks facts on SRP"), let |^e me say that ignorance such as theirs liberal, hack; should be ignored. It certainly should p'e to ?PP0S not be spoken to directly. But 1 can't Glenn, for ? resjst these folks yo What people hear from our beautiful Greenpeace are not "biased accusa- recently initial tions," but concern. Believe me, make if even 1 thanks to the attention this concern ^ou see nc has produced, people have examined "ot the Savannah River Plant. SRP is not "tl'e sac^' ?r safe. The Department of Energy has correctly. Oh identified at least 168 waste sites more radiat within the boundaries of the plant. Rascals, wfr The U.S. Accounting Office with television estimated the cost of cleaning up the ^a^e UP> ?uy sites at $10 billion. Nothing that is "free of any danger" costs $10 billion to clean up. There are 34 million gallons of Member high-level radioactive nuclear waste stored in the steel tanks underground at SRP. Some of these tanks are ? cracked and leaking. Hundreds of i lOpi thousands of curies of radioactive _ gases are released into the atmosphere each year. SRP releases more radiation than any nuclear facility in the country. To the editor: Yes, DOE is the only self-regulated 1 found the nuclear facilitv. This effectively gives ing the bill pre it license to do as it wants. This by Sen. Sam results in gross mismanagement, the McCurdy qui kind that results in more than 30 ac- this bill is the cidents in the same amount of years, I've ever hear< the sort of accidents you don't hear rumor of Co about until much later. Thanks to pay the reser pressure from groups such as drills). Greenpeace, an independent, How about overseeing group may soon come to give students be. military a $25 These are the facts. SRP is no their service." wildlife refuge. SRP makes tritium Well, when and plutonium used in nuclear vice? After t\ warheads to kill people in the most Six years? Mc terrible way known to man. The em- contracts you phasis at the plant has always been something !ik< on production rather than safety. the Navy, I j Currently, there is enough tritium with contrac and plutonium for decades without would have losing our ability to destroy the world obligated tim< more times than you would think would see an] necessary. The continued production those contraci of these killing machines only gives "complete," ' economic incentive to use them. We tion of Obi can't talk about nuclear disarmament discharged ai \ ons permeate If you don't know who Segretti is, he was disbarred and did time for sabotaging the Democratic campaigns during the '72 race. He was a part of the real reason there was a coverup at Watergate. And I like to think that the Segrettis of the futures are right here at this USC, pulling down posters and messing up the plans of the other candidates. * I do wonder about things like this now, because I notice things, such as how one candidate had the entire coliseum plastered with posters. Two days later, they were gone. Same for another. editor g production at the your time and you maj thanks for wasting a ly, Petersen and your life. So what if > not know all the facts tioned in Wolbania an hey did. Now that they hours a day, six days ; ey will see the light. the work of three peop lphasis should be plac- failed to meet your EO I up the mess we have Here's another one: ating more. Let us do help reinvigorate citizei ig. You needn't be a force the notion that y-sack, communist hip- not free." Makes y< e SRP; take Sen. John American realizing that :xample. Incidentally, you're going to get an e u accuse of "polluting spend time with the mi USC campus" have to the new laws your go ed a recycling drive to passed, nore beautiful. Finally, the governr >w, don't you? We're has enough programs just because we kick a financial aid in return ow our hair and vote service. See your local r yeah, if we can "get list, ion watching Little / not load the missiles Ed s so they'd kill better? I s. Vincent Craig Wright JlTlDOStCr English senior of Greenpeace. SAGE ? Q JjQp nCPrl hill To the editor: LrlSVvl Mill That guy who's supp< in that article in Friday' s no sense ?recock, fe's! You ve got to believe it you. It's the Manipul back. He's following mi Jan. 30 article concern- believe me. )posed for financial aid Every time I try to Nunn and Rep. Dave ference ? just try to d( te interesting. In fact, ? he won't leave me most ridiculous thing believe me, just this c J of (that is, next to the want to go back to that ngress not wanting to got to see through tl i/o fnrnnc ii/aob an/J lt'c nAt trill VV. IV-/1 11IUVI\V1 J u J tivt ?.? W. I only wanted to be I this line: . . would but I should have kno\ who served in the never be free. Never. ,000 grant at the end of is the end of their ser- Physics/m vo years? Four years? Candidate for S >re?! Also, imagine the would have to sign for A ? this. With 11 years in xm.rilA.Iv f-fJ lm somewhat familiar # - -? ts. Believe me, you misleauin to complete that : in service before you / of that money. Yep, To the editor: ts have words such as In reference to Fri "fulfill" ar.d "Expira- "Student Senate says f( igated Service." Get be beneficial," it shot fter halfway through that at no time this yea CousmmoK, J! js campus air And it is the time when, if you live in a dorm with thin walls, you can hear the noisy people putting up posters in your dorm in the wee hours of the night. And soon there will be debates where the catchy slogans will be put to the test. And in this age of Lee Atwater, it is interesting to note that two of the candidates have professional posters going up. One has two colors on glossy, thick stock paper. Another has a nice photo on with one color on equally nice paper. These are better posters than some I've seen in "real" elections. And the rest of the candidates are putting up posters that are in tune with this past year's standards. In other words, some candidates are willing to pay for better quality ads, and it shows. Lastly, we here at The Gamecock are not allowed to make endorsements, but I'll put this on the record. I'll vote for the candidate who says he or she is against a tuition increase and an activity fee increase, and, if we want Russell House renovated, that candidate will go to the administration and ask USC President James Holderman for the funds. A few years back, his kitchen was renovated at a cost of about $70,000. If he's got that kind of bread on hand for a kitchen, he can also free up some bucks for the students. ' get a hearty dent Senate made recommendations few years of concerning a student activity fee in'ou were sta- crease. The article contained d worked 18 favorable statements made by one i week doing senator, but failed to point out that Je? You have the legislation regarding a fee inS! crease proposal will not be con"... would sidered by the Senate as a whole until iship and en- the meeting today, democracy is This issue is central to the concerns )u feel real of manv student senators and the only way deserves lengthy, deliberate conducation is to sideration. Further, it is our hope litary, thanks that The Gamecock assigns similar vernment has weight and coverage to this issu.. Journalistic errors such as those nent already made this past Friday might be that provide, avoided if consistent and careful for military reporting are provided by The ecruiter for a Gamecock for Student Senate activities. ward K. Neff Berkeley Grier [JSC alumnus Chairman of Athletics Committee m Harry Turner nilOjC Chairman of Judiciary Committee Column right Medio I* me ?|bOUt SafetV s issue of The * in imposter! le. I'm telling To the editor: ator ? he's This letter is in regard to Amy e ? you must Loomis' column on sexual harassment. I think she is absolutely correct make a dif- in her assessment that men don't ) a little good understand how threatening "just alone! Please standing around" at night can be. rnce. I don't When 1 came to USC, I thought I place. You've could be just as headstrong and bold tat perverted as ever. 1 thought that if 1 walked e! authoritatively, 1 would be safe, con[he president, trary to what all the rape seminars vn better. I'll say. It angers me that I must call not one, but at least two females to be D. J. .lensen safe on camDus or one male. The ath freshman escort services are good about being i.G. president available, but the fact is that having to call a man for protection from the -pOO gara8e t0 lhe dorm refutes everything II ICC we women of the '80s have been told about self-reliance, irjf Security has been increased, accorO ding to Student Government, but the danger is still there. It is my hope that some administration will find safety day's article at the top of its list of priorities. ;e increase to jId be noted Beth Fischer r has the Stu- Journalism freshman