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i Ethics Proposals of President Bush deserve support from Congress President George Bush is finally getting around to taking action on the issue of ethics in government. The president has made a strong statement this week, calling for a series of changes in ethics regulations. Congress would be wise to enact Bush's proposals, which include all three branches of government. During his campaign, Bush promised to work toward eliminating the ethics problems that plagued the administration of Ronald Reagan during his eight years in office. But by nominating John Tower to lead the Department of Defense, the president almost immediately found himself with difficulties like those that Reagan faced. It appeared that Bush's promise of cleaner government was going to fall by tte wayside. But with a series of proposals this week, the president showed that he is indeed concerned about tightening regulations regarding ethics. Perhaps the best suggestion Bush has made is the elimination of campaign contributions by political action committees. These special-interest groups possess remarkable power in Congress; in 1988, they contributed more than $150 million to candidates. These lobbyist organizations should be kept in check, because too often they are too influencial on Congress, which is suppos 1 1 i.' ^ i.1 1 _ ^ r A. 1 T T I pi._x '1 eu 10 dc representing ine people or ine unneu aiares, nor special interest groups. By banning such contributions, the government will free itself from the grip of the lobbyists and concentrate on the will of the people. Bush also wants to allow independent counsels to investigate allegations of ethical problems in other areas of government besides the executive branch. Congress should play by the same rules that apply to the president, and letting independent counsels look into possible improprieties would ensure that. "A practice is either ethical or it is not," the president said. These proposals should be adopted as soon as possible. This decade has been plagued with ethical problems in the federal government, and by enacting Bush's proposals, Congress can make the 1990s a cleaner, more responsible era. "RI6HT WITH VOU, JUP6E* m 1M?- r' \ ^ iWge* \ -" \ 1 1 V* l 1 ^ \ \ 11 ' \ m WMiW& 1 *" A ** w mew m. mm. mr .? Z?es/ Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region Society of Professional Journalists, 1987-88 Editor in Chief Photography Editor ANDY BECHTEL TEDDY LEPP Managing Editor Datebook Editor JEFF SHREWSBURY JAN PHILLIPS Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor KATHY BLACKWELL MICHAEL SHARP Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics Editor CARYN CRABB i K/\V_ i iviiAauni News Editor Graduate Assistant MARY PEARSON ROBERT STEVENSON Assistant News Editors Adviser KELLY C. THOMAS PAT MCNEELY SUSAN NESBITT Director of Student Media Features Editor ED BONZA TODD HINES Advertising Manager Assistant Features Editor MARGARET MICHELS TOMMY JOYNER Production Manager Sports Editor LAURA DAY KEVIN ADAMS Assistant Production Manager I Assistant Sports Editor RAY BURGOS CHRIS SILVESTRI Assistant Advertising Manager BARBARA BROWN Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try lo print all teller* received. Letter* should be. al a maximum. 251110 300 words long. Guest editorial* should not exceed 500 word*. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or ' possible libel. The Gamecock will nol withhold names under any circumstance. r-f m "NEVERMIND HIS BATTING AVE Parental gu If I were Sally Mclnerney's child, I'd run away. I'd run far and fast to save myself the troul rvf hQ\/inrr f r? t/?1I hfr tn Iff mf livf mv r>wn lifp Because if her thinking continues the way it's ing now, I foresee big problems for her 3-year old daughter. Mclnerney, in a column in Wednesday's issi of The State, lauded Mike Fair for "thinking a father" and calling for the end of overnight visitation. Using her young daughter as the basis for argument, she wrote: "... I do want her to h a chance to grow up, and I want the process p ded with some basic ground rules, some sensit policies that she will inevitably work at getting around, roll her eyes about, but be protected "If that means rules at the University of So Carolina need to be changed so overnight don visitation between opposite sexes is banned ? least in dorms where younger students live ? be it." So in other words, she'd make everyone be home by 10 p.m. and unescorted just to make sure her daughter was doing what momma wa Thanks for the help, but no thanks. She goes on later to write, "She needs parameters now, and she will need them when she's 19. "And more than anything else, she needs tii to grow up. "Time to to walk down the dorm hallway ii her slip, a towel wrapped around her wet hair Time to run to the pay phone in her underpan Time for an overnight visitor to be something truly wonderful, and not a late-night fling in t top bunk of a dumpy dorm room." Letters ?cj ti Rebel flag not .<>j , Kppoiic worth praise ^ stead < To the editor: we're I am writing in response to Robert anothe Wilkinson's letter (April 7), which the hyj defends the Confederate flag and the *n ev? soldiers who fought under it. need t The Confederates deserve no we ar honor or praise because they are should traitors and conspirators against our unitinj country. They were illegal soldiers insteac fighting under an illegal flag. ing ou doing. The Confederate flag is not a sym- I bol of honor or bravery, but it is a solvinj sickening representation of ignorance with vi and mental poverty. The ideology of fightin the Confederate states-was based on out ^ the deprivation of a race's freedom. Must Who the hell cares how many South We ht Carolinians avoided, served or were arts ar killed in battle? They were all fools, model representing a sick and illogical manki ideology. on s^< and ki Wilkinson seems to be a die-hard Our Southerner in that he has a typical d?es r unforgiving attachment to the Civil our fis War Pennlp mncf realise that the Our r war is long gone and the Confederate hypoci soldiers have lost. All of these glory- either grabbing "good ole boys" need to The cl wake up and see what the Confederate flag really symbolizes, the shameful, and sadly enough, continuing legacy of Southern ignorance and narrow-mindedness. Sheldon Bing Edwards Journalism freshman -m ? . lac Society must * To the end hypocrisy J;;n censor: To the editor: Where For the past few weeks, there has sorshij been some animosity between the is bej blacks and the whites on campus. But percei\ it's not only between these two races, sorshif but also blacks within our own race. be son RAGE-HOW MANY WPS HAS HE idance must t 8? Jeff iave >ad )le ; I feel compelled to respond to this column by. because it is the typical response expressed by uth parents, adults and citizens who really don't m know what is going on in dorms these days. It at obvious by Mclnerney's column and the comso ments of Fair and parents around the state th< they are getting a twisted view of dorm living. They are thinking and reacting to what they ai being told by people who know even less than nts. they dcr. When do you suppose was the last time Fail Mclnerney spent any time on a dorm floor am really saw how things are? Probably the late '( would be my guess, me So, how can they go ahead and say that residents of dorms are doing nothing more tha n having sex 24 hours a day? That's like me mal ing rules and commenting on what it's like to its. a mother. With her column, Mclnerney is basically say he ing, as are all these people calling for these changes, that they don't trust their sons or he editor : : " . . quite stupid and also ignorant cerning advertising, ich out against whites simply I couldn't help bui e of their skin. But I also find ads on the back surd that we as African- Gamecock, one for cans are fighting ourselves. In- the other for "essay of trying to help each other, What message is the ] constantly stabbing one accepting these ads' :r in the back. It's time to stop open in your vapid 1 pocrisy! Instead of trying to be all those who advoct :ryone's social activities, we university's honor 0 start concentrating on what suiting to the studer e doing for ourselves. We the vehicles for expn be more concerned about promotion of ch ? with our brothers and sisters because it needs, or 1 of worrying about who's go- to accept, revenue fr t with whom and what they're When I was an un< daily student newspa >o think that we need to stop announced a policy t o moiAritv r*f nnr nrnhlpmQ cnr*h aHs Was that i iolence. Instead of arguing and Was it censorship w ig, why not talk the situation lege papers across th ke intelligent human beings? ed to distribute the our fate always be physical? saturated Miller Beer ive written books, performed sert? No. Didn't son id also provided philosophical Gamecock claim it s for the betterment of here only because nd. Nevertheless, we still insist failure in communic jwing ignorance with fighting a misguided attempt lling one another. No. It was the respc future as African-Americans an editor practicin lot consist of the strength of nalistic ethics. O its, but instead the strength of Gamecock has nor ninds. Please stop all the Perhaps some proce risy and animosity because it's created to review, non-violence or non-existence. ostensibly exists, t loice is yours. Peace. advertising policy fo: Contrary to Looi Ricky C. Kerns nion, advertising Political science freshman available to anyone v who has the money t nor should it be. newspapers do not M-lllvVvrVlV advertising. When w _ # _ # you saw cigarette ad June ethics Would m came , ? tising that was libelous? Is that whai editor: press is all about? sgard to Monday's column by Loomis, in all her i Loomis: She wouldn't know it is. No serious ship if it swam up and bit her. obligated to accept ai she got any suggestion of cen- tisers. A reasonable ) out of John Birgeson's letter articulated, would nc fond me. Loomis fails to The lack of any cohe 'e any distinction between cen- cerning advertising ir > and what could and should is not the attitude of le kind of ethical policy con- cientious, free press; 2SoUTOf*^!" >nd someday daughters ? that they didn't raise them right. flf Mclnerney, Fair or all these others were good parents, they would teach their children, when they are children, what is right and what is 4 j wrong. And they would teach them how to make responsible decisions, based on what is good and 1 appropriate for them. I If they can't make decisions when they are 19, they sure as hell can't make decisions when they are 35 or 50 or whenever. Mclnerney, a usually savvy columnist, doesn't know the way life is on campus. She may have known when there were pay telephones on the ?J halls and men and women weren't allowed to hold hands in public, but she and others are simply out of touch now. The reason Fair is getting any kind of support from parents is because they believe it when he : is tells them about the rampant sex in the dorms. The fact is people who live in dorms do more it than just have sex in their rooms. They make decisions; they discuss ideas; they think about the re future, and they wonder how their children will turn out and what college will be like for them. If people like this had their way, our children or would be coddled and manipulated until they d were 35. 50s, I for one do not plan to mislead my children and control the way they view life. I plan to teach them a basic set of right and wrong and in help them to understand they have to make their It- own choices in life. be Mclnerney said she wants to have "control" and she wants "the school she attends to have some control." But if she can't teach her child to do the right thing, no outside institution can do it for her. of a newsprint prostitute. t notice the two page of The Wally Dunn "term papers," Third-year law student rs and reports." ?aIs'advertising Debate COmeS ite violating this much too late code? It's in- Totheeditor; its w en one o This is the time of the year when tsston a ows e students are signing up for some s'mP'y form of on-campus housing. All in y c ooses students signing up to live in the om any source. -r , . f ^ , j , Towers area are being forced to sign ergra uate,t e a contract that is obscure as far as the per at my sc oo visitation policy is concerned. The o not running visitation policy for the 1989-90 year censors lp. o. should have been finalized before hen several col- istration b e country refus- it .g a catch.22 in the sense that sexist, a co o - students who sign up for housing spring break in- t. t. qnop rtf hauinn on olr^oHv/ neone from The unstable policy change, or they take was is ributed tbe ^ Qn iosjng their deposit should ation" Was'that they cha"ge thdr minds' The t0tal ,. . charge is going up $40 per person in atJenS,0rS iPf any of the Towers buildings. That is msi e c oice o a tQtaj about $64,000 a semester, g sound jour- and fQr what? bviously, I he We wil, be paying ?.Daddy" Fair 'j ? itS ijWu' t0 treat us l^e children, take away : ure s ou e Qur rjgbts as aduits to make our own or since none decisions and to dictate and impose o esta is an bjs Qwn morajjty on everyone else. r t e paper. Because Fair seems to think that after mis naive opi- a certajn bour pe0pie 0f the opposite is not a ways sex cannot just be frjends. There will / any "iessaSe be an unfortunate result of more o promu gate it, students spending time in their cars Some major Qr Qn thg street$ ,ate at ni ht accept liquor Haying a narrow-minded attitude 'as the as* and mandating a stricter visitation Is on television. . j. wiU nQt place usc in a better accept adver- light. It will only make the onslanderous or campUS> paying students more detert freedom O t e minpH tr> nrnvp th*?ir inHf?rif?nHf?nrp ac adults by bypassing regulations. Fair laivete, sugges s should seriously consider the old saynewspaper is j "where there's a will, there's a ty and all adver- way ,, policy, clearly YOU can't change human nature. >t be censorship. :rent policy con- Melissa Way i The Gamecock Accounting freshman a healthy, cons- Denise Wicks it's the mindset Marine science freshman