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I Safety r ^ Campus group helping form si Women Students' Services has campus organization ought to folic The women's group has begun for Safety." It is a program desigi rape and get students involved w on campus and off. It is mostly a cries, but it is a campaign with a p The five points of the campaig alone, never leaving with someoni . , your friends, having a designated have had too much to drink. These points will be on posters tents (the triangle table decoration will be distributed in bars in Five buted on campus as well. This may not seem like a lot, bi * nizations are tired of violence and against students. And it is a good i But there is a lot left to do. This program is really geared men as well. It centers on Five Pc students go when they go off cami Every student organization shou in this new awareness campaign, with tips, programs and services t( area. Every student and campus org: cacy group to work with others to spread the word that USC students But most importantly, Student C President Marie-Louise Ramsdale coordinate a campus-wide effort t( develop these campaigns and prog: And they ought to do it soon. Apart, the programs can help a 1 Together, a campus-wide progra "WHAT ARE WE Bll npi : 1 he vjai * Editor in Chief ^ WAYNE WASHINGTON - Managing Editor ? HAL MILLARD Copy Desk Chief ? KATHY BLACKWELL :J Assistant Copy Desk Chief y ROBYN THOMPSON News Editor '*<. KELLY THOMAS *'* Assistant News Editors ? D. R. HAYNES > JEFF WILSON P^.nlixn F !P~ I7 Jl. , V_UI Uima unc iLUIlor rZ ROBERT TIIOMAS K Assistant Carolina Life Editor S LYNN GIBSON ^ Sports Editor CHRIS SILVESTRI >. J} Assistant Sports Editor ? BRANT LONG Jy Photography Editor S TEDDY LEPP J Letters Policy: 77te Gamecock will try lo print all letters .*< 300 words long. The writer should include full name, profet resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phc editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the ri| Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance ! ???? s should begin ifety programs o +V* nt a?rarrr 1 aiaii^u a v^aiiipaigii uiai y )W. a campaign called "Five Points tied to increase awareness about ith protecting themselves better campaign of words and rallying rofound message. ;n include: never walking home 2 you just met, keeping track of driver and finding a ride if you ; and cocktail napkins and table s one sees in the cafeterias) that Points. They will also be distiilt it shows that people and orga1 criminal acts being perpetrated start. toward women, but it includes f lints because that is where many * )US. ild be lined up and ready to help 1 Students should be bombarded bra ) help them combat crime in our stul any anization should form an advo- thtj develop new ideas and ways to pre know what to do to stay safe. tur? jovernment leaders such as S.G. coc ought to form a task force to loa< 3 bring organizations together to sho rams. ture pro ittle. Pie( mi could help a lot. f?} ligh pict S IS Par V FOR THIS ONE?11 ?c bra ? resp T we j ing. que* Roc T the thei] pie S dree mor watt TV zens stai blac call< tneeock c?? ^ZZSZSZZSZZZ by ; Assistant Photography Editor JULIE BOUCHILLON are Viewpoint Editor on^ JEFF SHREWSBURY &am Datebook Editor JAN PHILLIPS not 1 Comics/Graphics Editor ROB LANE E Graduate Assistant P?rt KRISTIN FRANCIS Quai Gamecock Adviser t^ial ERIK COLLINS ano Director of Student Media race ED BONZA was Production Manager LAURAS. DAY he < Assistant Production Manager P'a^ RAY BURGOS bacl Advertising Manager MARGARET MICHELS evei Assistant Advertising Manager JEFFREY B. THOMPSON P011 Ir i received. Letters should hp at a mnvimnm tn CVC] >sional title if an employee with USC or Columbia ShOl >ne number are required with all letters sent. Guest and jht to edit letters for style or possible libel. The blat posi l^jOjjllliiCa^Tribuiie. 'he worst of tim haven't decided if I ved Hugo or if I ^ pided Hugo ? but way, I was out in was out under the t - I> V text of taking pic- ? is for The Game- f k. I did have a \30)/ led camera that I t picture after pic; with. The only mm blem was the eye;e had fogged up, Stephen : wasn't sure if the it was good or if the CjUlIIOyle ures were focused. io it goes. 4y fellow reporter Hal Millard and I went to olina Coliseum, where the Red Cross had up a shelter. )ne person in particular was definitely out ring the storm. [pr nanriA u/ac Taitv T onn-otr\n orirl oha in o amaxaan/ TTUJ ivuj cuiu onv^ 10 a (iratory therapist "he wind wasn't kicking up too high when got there around 2:30 a.m., but it was pourPeople were huddled underneath the mar3 outside the entrance to the Elephant im. Terry was there. enry showed us an Elephant Room without lines of students waiting to pay fees or get r loans, but full of cots, mattresses and peotrying to sleep. he showed us a coliseum floor where hunts of more cots and mattresses supported e sleeping people, save for a few who :hed or listened to the occasional portable flickering in the dimly lit Frank McGuire tia, or to a small radio whispering details of storm's passage. lie showed us the lounee where the Red ss had set up an infirmary. People who had aries of heart or respiratory problems were t close to the small supply of medicine. Letters to the e< of 111 fiQO fied people >3till lidj positions. ice problem Someone painted on tl ^ Russell Hoi 0 the editor: M' ht p is quite obvious that our state ^. 'ac been the victim of many racial aSre? W1th v blems over the past few S00? stalem iths. The situation with not al- c uman n ing blacks to swim in a citi- r ?' swimming pool and the reirant that refused to serve :ks were disgusting and un- Admii ;d for. wasfpi hen there is the problem in way with the quarterbacks, black quarterback is replaced T? ^ 1 white one and many people ?ur "e )me upset. These people that a^?in\ j upset over this probably not school decic r have little knowledge of the e NADA e of football, but are also try- Great idea. to solve a problem that does u*> ^ plastic 1 PYi<jt was a great realized the 1 very position on a team is im- landmark an ant whether it is cornerback or t0 st0P* terback. It is highly doubtful Now ^ a person was moved to off ^ houS( ther position because of his painted to it ;; he was moved because he a compiete eimn1\7 nnt oc itaaH r\f o nnor_ ouufij ..v/u aj 6wu " Hutu someone hac ack or because his coach felt one sman fa< ;ould help the team more by invested the nng "full time " defensive ejse j j,n0N c. What the bottom line is is an(j more i for a team to be successful, vinyi siding, yone must be unified and the nlavers should be in the nosi- Prr r "/ r xxv/^aw, * s that they are best at. you are listei 1 life, for blacks, whites and rasie my tuiti ryone else to get along, we Especially v lid be unified as a human race andy wastes not worry about how many when classe :ks or whites occupy certain because of 1 tions as long as the most quali- it's nothing i ? ? Ship Deserting Sinking Rats. es brings out the There were also four or five pregnant women, 1 two of whom were about nine months pregnant. ( Someone said "Well, if the kids come tonight, the mothers will have a name for them." And I said, "Let's just hope they aren't girls." j Older people were in the infirmary, too. ( An old woman asked me about the storm. I said there was a lot of rain. She then asked if I ] was working for a paper. I told her I was working for The Gamecock, and she smiled. , She told me she was once a theater and speech student at USC, and smiled again, asking me if I liked the theater. We talked for a few moments before she drifted off back to sleep. 1 As I walked further into the room, another woman, this time about middle-aged, asked me about the storm. ! I took out my inhaler while I talked to her. 1 "You shouldn't be out in this storm if you ! have asthma, young man," the woman said in a motherly tone. I "I'll be all right, but thanks," I said. Then we went back up front with Terry. She i started standing outside the door ? as the < winds picked up viciously, blowing the rain 1 down in sheets along Park Street She would ! run out to cover people with a blanket when j they came in. Since I was standing around inside taking I pictures, I lent her my raincoat. It was like a j tent on her, but that worked out. She was able , to wrap up the children that she brought in from outside, keeping them dry. She was able to mostly cover up people with it as they ran in. On two out of three runs, she brought back ' the cutest youngsters, who were smiling as if Hugo was nothing but a silly name. Terry was there from around 3 a.m., when we got back to the Elephant Room door, to around 4:30 a.m., when Hal and I left The rain had stopped a bit, so I really didn't need my coat to get to the car. I let her keep it because the radio reported that the worst Columbia would get > would be hitting in about a half an hour and iitor occupy these certain raise this year. Well, geez, serve it I guess. David C at USC has spray Advertisin he sidewalk in front of use, "Stand Up, You T&qi*i*O^C* lpfi :e." I certainly don't Dalld 3 ICU andalism, but that is a i i * | ent if it is speaking of IllIQ TO1S13.K ice as a whole. Randolph Gore y0 editor: riminal justice senior Th^s ls jn response to Barra's letter (The Gar nictmtinn Sept.ll) concerning the ii nisirauui occurring in Conway. The rl mnnpv of ^ letter was 10 corr( U IlltJllCj statments from various p articles. Ms. Barra's leti tor: held a few misstatemei university blew it faiied to mention some v area of $20,000. The ponant facts, led to vinyl side the building this summer. pjrst 0f all, yes it is t No maintenance, just football means teamwork, versus the elements.. It impossible for a team to idea until somebody unity when one of the house was a historical ? * , , . , piayers nas neen wrongea. d work on the house the facts not appearin/in cle was that where the ne siding is being ripped terback was qualified bee, s, and it has to be re- played J. V. quarterback s original color. What years, Carlos Hunt therefo , idiotic move. All have been overqualified 1 1 to do was check that bas been a member of ;t and they could have s^y ^or two years, money in something v people have better Secondly the referral to I mportant ideas than H. H. Singleton as a rousing middle school t was made solely because h jsident Holderman, if willing to stand for the n ninrt r1r\n,t mran t n / t A a. _ C i_ 1 I 1 1 ? mug uvjii i v*vti ujr i*J II1CI11 UI DiatKS, dllU IS I1UI ion and housing again. immature opinion, but als< vhen your staff blat- that certain members of tf our money in a time ety are still unwilling to ac s are being dropped fact that freedom of speec ack of funds. I know tended to everyone. Sing to you, you still got a the spokesman for the pla; best in people hat thousands more people had been ordered to evacuate to the coliseum. She is ? genuine hero. And everyone else who volunteered was. She didn't.care about tierself Thursday night, but just helped and kept an helping. I think it's hard to notice heroism on a horrible night like Thursday. You're surrounded by it and it becomes the norm. An old friend of mine, Jimmy Jacobs, was ilso volunteering. He has had EMS training. He helped an old man with a broken collarbone out af a car and into a wheelchair. There was no way to get the man out of the vehicle without hurting him, but he just took the pain, Jimmy said. When Jimmy went to put the man's legs in the wheelchair's stirrups, he asked, "Where ire your legs?" The old man chuckled despite his pain and told Jimmy he didn't have any. . Members of Chi Psi fraternity were out help ing, and one member assured me they were th< anly fraternity that volunteered to help. Some had driven a family to a hospital from the coliseum. Others were helping Terry get people in ?rom the rain. When I went back to the coliseum Friday afsrnoon, the sky was cloudy, but not dangerous. [ found two more friends. Red had stood in a /cry long line to donate blood earlier in the lay. Kathy said she was working with the children in the coliseum ? "doing a Mr. Ro ^ers, sne saia. I loved the movie Starman. ? This is not a Agression. In it, Jeff Bridges, the alien, says that he oves the human race despite the way we so jettily squabble among each other, among naions, etc ... Because, despite all that, he said, mmans " are at your best when times are vorst." Which is proven right by people like these. Mil you de- cause they came to him after deciding to boycott the practices. He venthal is also the president of the Conway g senior chapter of the NAACP as well as a respectful teacher and resident of t"PF* Conway. Singleton did help to bring about justice at Conway High School "three" years ago es when a group of black cheerleaders were racially discriminated against ? not merely complaining Marne about not making the sqaud. necock In reference to Singleton's susncidents pension, with or without pay is not rtumrtcf* the issue. The true issue is that ?JU1 [AJjt # jet mis- ^ere were no grounds for this sus>revious pension. The district suspended ler also Singleton because he exercised his its and 10 ^ree speech and also beery im- cause h*s race ? anc* that *s a violation of his First and 14th Amendment rights. This informarue that hon was ^ ^rom Previous arbut it is tide as well, display Concerning the 1983 replaceleading ment R?bbie Squatriglia by One of Lauren Reddick, the situation was the arti- entirely different Lauren was sta w quar- tistically proven the better player, ause he therefore the replacement was in for two the best interest of the team. Due re must to the fact that Conway has yet to because w^n a game, the replacement of the var- Carlos was obviously not in the best interest of the team. Yes, it is true that biased, incorr>aw rert anH mn?t imnnrtanflv inrom rabble- plete information in a newspaper eacher" letter does not solve the racial e is un- problems of Conway; it only adds nistreat- more confusion to the situation, only an I, as a resident of Conway, can ) shows only hope that the situation is soon lis soci- corrected before it becomes larger cept the and more complex than the resih is ex- dents are prepared to face, leton is Saundra Rhodes yers be- criminal justice junior