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wusc Students should offer support to station 'sfund-raising effort WUSC-FM, the university's student-run radio station, is holding its annual fund-raising event this weekend, and students owe it to themselves to listen and help the station by pledging a few dollars. The event, known as "Moolah for Music," offers listeners the unique opportunity to hear almost anything thev want in ex change for a small donation. For two days, WUSC breaks away from its alternative format and plays what listeners pay for, no matter what the genre. During "Moolah for Music," the station also gives away thousands of dollars in prizes, including albums, posters, pizzas and hotel accomodations. During past fund-raising campaigns, the station has played Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" backward, various hit singles by Madonna and just about everything else imaginable within the regulations of the Federal Communications Commis- ' sion. All these bizarre requests make the weekend of "Moolah for Music" one of the most interesting times to listen to the \ radio. More importantly, it gives WUSC a chance to raise some v money. L Because the station does not broadcast commercials, it must ? rely on funding from the university. But because the station \ must meet certain revenue requirements every year, that is usually not enough. WUSC needs the support of students during "Moolah for Music" to help the station in its quest to upgrade equipment and provide quality broadcasts. Throughout the year, WUSC offers a remarkably wide range of music. The station plays reggae, rap, classical, acoustic, heavy metal and hardcore among other genres. WUSC attempts to appeal to every possible taste and provides an excellent service to USC and the community in the process. No other radio station in the Columbia area can claim such diversity, and the university should be proud to have WUSC. USC students, especially those who have never given the sta- ( tion a chance, should tune in to WUSC this weekend to hear j some fun, intriguing radio. They would also be contributing to a f worthy cause by making a donation. With student help, WUSC can get better and better, and that quality will reflect on the en- J tire university, including its students. v 1 c c "y/u- v/s^wiw ;; ai?a9 ,/Vf> 0 ri ? R 11 The Gamecock ^ .b p ir Best Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region ti Society of Professional Journalists, 1987-88 d Editor in Chief Datebook Editor fv ANDY BECHTEL JAN PHILLIPS Managing Editor Graphics Editor ai JEFF SHREWSBURY MICHAEL SHARP p Copy Desk Chief Comics EdUor ? KA I HY BLACK WELL TRACY MIXSON w Assistant Copy Desk Chief Graduate Assistant ai CARYN CRABB ncvnrnt ctf T/rvrorvxi IxWDJCIx 1 OILVCINDUIN \r, News Editor Adviser MARY PEARSON PAT M~MPPI v 0 Assistant News Fditnrs PAT MCNEELY q Assistant News Editors Director of Student Media r KELLY C. THOMAS Pr, Drk ' " c,,uuc,u C SUSAN NESBITT ? . . . M tr Features Editor Advertising Manager R rODD HINES MARGARET MICHELS p< Production Manager f Assistant Features Editor LAURA DAY 7h TOMMY JOYNER Assjstan| produ(;(jon M lh Sports Editor RAY BURGOS ,r KEVIN ADAMS A . A. ... A(f tc . . . a Assistant Advertising Manager w Assistant Sports Editor BARBARA BROWN Z CHRIS SILVESTRI tr Photography Editor 01 TEDDY LEPP us Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be. at a maximum. 250 to SC 300 words long. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit tellers for style or possible libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. w i'yinilllmil |i m room i " TODAV, THE WORLPFalse loyalty Joseph Sobran and I are usually fundamental! opposed on every issue. So it shocked me yesterlay to read something by him that I actually igreed with. But we can all occasionally learn rom our foes. Right? For those of you scratching your heads and vondering who Sobran may be, he is a synlicated political columnist who wears his conservatism proudly. He is a Republican in the most w*?rt u>ncp Politics aside, however, the man can write. He :an turn a phrase with the best of them, but it ust so happens that about 90 percent of the ihrases he turns, I disagree with. I respect his raftsmanship, but I dislike his products. In his Thursday column, Sobran brings up a ;ood point about principles in conservatism tolay. He argues that conservatives, whom he isually falls in behind, have been blinded by Republican party principle in regards to former 'resident Reagan and the Oliver North trial. North's attorneys are trying to call Reagan to he stand to testify about what he knows, or emembers, about the Iran-Contra affair. Obiously, this has caused a great deal of uproar in he various camps of the conservative right wing Sobran argues that conservatives have been ilinded by their complete and stubborn support >f the party. Sobran said it doesn't matter if Reagan has to estify or not because conservatives are willing to tardon him solely on principle. "If he's one of is, then he didn't do anything wrong, and even """ 1 Letters to th Rockafellas' A rotten at retains policy * " listen to t to take oi the editor: you. Plea 1 am writing in reponse to David powers tl ;veninars leuer 01 Marcn zz regar- underage ing Rockafellas' change in admis- fines an< ion policy. I am disappointed that those wh< "he Gamecock, a publication I have One no /orked for, advertised in and en- was flatt Dyed over the past seven years would Rockafell rint the irate ramblings of an ill- town." I lformed student without first check- know exa tg all the facts. once agai Oventhal's long day of carousing future, if n St. Patrick's Day must have blur- problem 1 ed his mind with delusions. drinking :ockafellas' did not get busted by you write te ABC at any time during that Gamecoci eekend, contrary to Oventhal's elief. Regarding the change in our age olicy, Oventhal was correct, partial- Pr r. Since December, ABC has been articularly active in Five Points, try- C r*l-| tg to enforce drinking laws. This ac- kJvll on has resulted in the eminent , emise of Crazy Zack's and the 13OS] ossible closing of other area bars. In * te light of this effort by ABC and te fact that a record number of To the ed gents were assigned to patrol Five Nowth oints on St. Patrick's Day, the I feel thai lanagement at Rockafellas' felt it USC on tl as in the best interest of the club doing, id its future not to allow those I had lv Dunger than 21 in during the week after an e f the celebration. It might interest some disc 'venthal to know tht all his peers at and I dec arolina are not as honest and created rr usting as he is. When ABC did visit gram. (Th ockafellas' in December, they pop- We are ;d six people for underage drinking. sue our d veryone was a USC student; four of while rea lem had fake IDs. filmmaki It was-adeeision-none of us_wanted creative ) make, but until we could come up ington, w ith the best possible system for con- had assur oiling underage drinking, it was our would ht ily choice. scheduling Fortunately, that week is behind and I'm >, and thanks to added security per- departmer >nnel and new security measures, we The m< ill resume admitting those 18 and brought i der. We have been advised against Benson. J ?TOMORROW, THE DISTRICT 1 1 " miners support y ' ^ I* I* if he did, we don't want to hear about it," is what conservatives are claiming, Sobran says. This is a role reversal, Sobran said. He states that the Democrats and "liberals" of the past administratiqns such as Franklin Roosevelt's and John F. Kennedy's were the ones who blindly accepted whatever the president did, and it was the conservatives who controlled the legislature. KTs%?.f rniic io frua i^iv^vY, iiv, dap, nit id nut. Sobran's point in this column was to show that politics can dilute one's sense of right and wrong. He says some people who may have fundamental objections to some of the things North and maybe Reagan might have done are willing to overlook those acts for the sake of party principle. Sobran eloquently explained why this phenomenon occurs. "One of the dangers of e editor ose who believe we are only class thoroughly and think r trouble, but we all felt so should be proud to have so >out banning those of you knowledgeable and sincere ; r just want to come out and teach filmmaking and pro he music that we are willing school and state. As an ann ar chances and place trust in WSCQ radio, I know that n se work with us on this. The pie would love for Benson, tat be are no longer taking Karla Devito, and daughter drinking lightly. Heavy Columbia for as long as th? d criminal charges await Continue the good work, j ii y 10 ueai uie system. >te to my friend, Oventhal. I Cindy ered that you considered Media arts gradual las' to be "the place in hope now that now you />1q ctly where we stand you will X 4*1 HkCl vld n think highly of us. In the you or anyone else has a lG9,ffl Ol9.VG with the laws governing the / age in this state, I suggest your congressman, not The To the editor: k. Martha Parker will nevei again as a Lady Gamecock, Derek Chiarenza players have ever meant as USC class of 1987 their programs as Parker i incipal owner, Rockafellas' Carolina. Parker won so many hoi f-vfvl flAjnfi s^e lost count after her so vrvll UUill^ season, but being the class ? . .-m that she is, she put those hon 1X1^0 tniI12S in order to concentrate on he O team win. A true team play many amateur and pro itor: athletes can make that clain at the school year is ending, t I must write to commend During her four years 1 lie many positive things it is helped the talented Lady Gt to three Metro Conferenc esitated returning to school pionships and NCAA toi ight-year absence, but after appearances and an overall i .1 ?1 0->.* 1/411 ussion, my nusoana, jonn, o-> wins anu hi losses, ided to enroll in the newly When I came to Carolina lasters of media arts pro- nothing about women's ba lis despite my pregnancy!) But as a member of the W' so glad we decided to pur- sports staff, I have had the egrees. We are having fun of watching Parker and t living a solid education in Gamecocks the past four ng, screenwriting and Those who never saw Par thinking. Cholton Bras- missed a real treat! ho heads the department, I would just like to say a ed us that the department "thank you" to Parker for 1 dp accomodate us with outstanding athlete and pers< I, especially with the baby, You have given me a tremen pleased to say that the preciation for Lady Gi it has been very flexible. basketball. :dia arts department also is in contact with Robby Ste ohn and I have enjoyed his Journalis OF COUMB/A L." ers of North becoming a movement is that you tend to forget your principles when you sniff the chance of gaining power. Instead of being guided by your principles, you tend to be led by comrades who are intent on political victory. He is saying this type of blind trust is dangerous and wrong, and I agree. We don't know what part Reagan played in < the affair or what crimes North may have committed, and we may never find out. But the people who are rallying to North and Reagan's support seem to be doing so out of some sort of twisted sense of loyalty to the GOP as well as a sort of Pollyanna dream for the government. The people who refuse to accept the fact that Reagan may have lied and North transcended the Constitution are doing so because they are afraid and horrified these things might be happening in a party they once felt could do no wrong. These supporters, not so much-out of ignorance really, but more out of desperation for a cleaner government, reject the facts even when overwhelmed. They are turning a cheek to the truth and blindly following in the hopes that the problems will go away. There are problems in our system and in every system for that matter, but we have laws, and we have ways of policing ourselves. We need to clean up our act through hard work and practical I solutions. Ignoring the problem and hoping it will go away has never worked and will never work. It will only succeed in making the problem worse. J . meonfas Blacks robbed is he is to 0*1 j i mote the oi identities ouncer at lany peohis wife, To the editor: to stay in This letter is to all white students at ey'd like. USC who do not understand how of- \t , USC! fensive it is to me and other AfricanAmerican students to be taken for Dean Ott granted, denied and robbed of our te student culture. I am mainly speaking of the r African medallions that many African-American students have been wearing proudly over the past jJ* year. These medallions have many meanings that go far deeper than its physical appearance. These ; medallions represent our blackness ; r suit up and struggle that all blacks are going Kut fatu tKrr\iirrK u/ArlHu/iHA* tbp\7 ronrnran , uui ItW UUUU511 T?ui luniuv, inv; iv^it^Ul much to African-Americans' past in this neant to hypocritical country and how we are in search of our true identity, tors that However, to my surprise, I have phomore seen some white students wearing y athlete these pendants. 1 am not sure of the ors aside ramifications behind their acts, but I lping the take it to be mockery. I do not think er. How many white students understand fessional African-Americans or their true i? history ? especially on this campus. The question I ask is what involvelere, she ment white people have with Africa unecocks for the enslavement or repression of e cham- other human beings, lrnament We African-Americans are the onrecord of ly group of people who have no culture ? have no past, although we i, I knew are attempting to unite as one! Yet isketball. we cannot unite as long as someone USC-FM infiltrates what is ours. Africa is privilege ours! It is the closest and only thing he Lady we have left to claim. White people seasons. have taken everything good from ker play Africa and African-Americans and have tainted it and exploited it to great big their benefit. They have incorporated Deing the everything we have originated, Dnsheis. everything from inventions to art. dous ap- Now it's the medallions. Maybe we imecock should bring back the afros and dashikis and see what happens. Stephen Driffin ve Gwyn English senior m senior Phi Beta Sigma fraternity