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Emergenc USC acted fast in hel refugees from Hugo's In time of crisis, it's nice to know thei people who have the power and the inte USC's administration, coliseum, police an nel should all be commended for the wori past weekend's devastating storm. They are the heroes of Hugo. Dennis Pruitt, vice president for Studei mobilized almost instantly as news came than anyone had thought. They scurried ai shelters, getting cpmmunications together flux of refugees that came hours later. The coliseum floor, the P.E. center, the sell House Ballroom were all readied fo from the storm. Hotel rooms for hundred booked solid, so this was the last chance fc And USC, reacting quickly and rightly, dents and the public as well. As the storm chased people to shelters, seum staff and the American Red Cross we All in all about-1,000 people found cots or couches to sleep on and food and blan USC. It was a weekend these people will m chased from their homes that may have to to gather their families and head north where to go. It could have been a night would remember being scared and lost, bi in giving them a safe place to stay. Most of the people have staggered bad group and salvage what they could, but tl students staying in the old roost today. It these people are warm and fed. A university has to serve its communi above and beyond the call of duty and dese Classes Because of Hugo's wi Monday should've bet Hugo brought almost total destruction tc Carolina. It wiped out Charleston and the i pie who fled their homes have wandered t like they could have never imagined. And among these people are the familie students. At this time, they need their famil their homes, salvage and rebuild. It is a tim families, and they need the help of their cl had to be in class Monday. Because of Hugo's terrible destruction, a ing to take to get some areas back to norm were critical. Families had to move fast to s With that in mind, USC made one small should have cancelled classes for at least dents whose families are in trouble could be The. rpasnn TTS2f Hirln't wac nrnhshlv 1 back the schedule of classes during the se catastrophe that South Carolina has never s that requires sacrifices on everyone's part. USC should have sacrificed one day so help get their lives in order would not be class. nr*i 1 he (jame< Editor in Chief Assista WAYNE WASHINGTON JULIE E Managing Editor Viewpc HAL MILLARD JEFF SE Copy Desk Chief Datebo KATHY BLACKWELL JAN PH Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics ROBYN THOMPSON R0B L/ News Editor GraduJ KELLY THOMAS KRISTI! Assistant News Editors Gamec D. R. HAYNES ERIK C JEFF WILSON p.. , Directc Carolina Life Editor gj) rqj ROBERT THOMAS n . Produc Assistant Carolina Life Editor LAURA LYNN GIBSON . , . Assista Sports Editor RAY B1 CHRIS SILVESTRI Adyert Assistant Sports Editor MARGj* BRANT LONG Assista Photography Editor JEFFRE TEDDY LEPP Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Lei 300 words long. The writer should include full name, professional title if resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone number ai editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit le Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. y pin\ Ipfg *e are thinking, reacting fffiwwWI lligence to help others. mmBm i d other support person- jvK| : they put in during this nt Aiiairs, got ms stall ; that Hugo was worse nound campus arranging I JlpSjjl and readying for the inold Roost and the Rusr those seeking shelter s of miles around were | ir many. 1 opened its doors to stuPruitt's staff, the coli;nt to work. or bed rolls, or comers kets from the people at A sver forget. They were I sen destroyed, they had a ? not really knowing " or weekend when they it USC acted heroically i k to their homes to re- mh tere are still about 130 iW is to USC's credit that ty, but USC has gone rves a Medal 01 Honor. IX^ The footage from evening news programs helped me see the picT11 h tures of devastated Charleston. But it ^H /iff wasn't until I went ^ r I UJJ home this past , weekend that I actually i the lowlands of South got the picture, surrounding areas. Peo- I told everyone that ack to find devastation my trip home had a simple purpose; I s of thousands of USC wanted to get my sister ies together to work on out of Charleston, e of dire need for these However, deep down, I hildren, some of whom *?!* t*1^e was some" thing the television , . . . cameras couldn't tell ?d the months it is go- me lha[ couW. ial, these first few days j was right. ave what they could. Trees all along the road mistake. The university stricken city became a dai Monday so these stu- of brown. Fall is here, but i at home to help. nify end of summer. Ii because it would push Charleston as we know it. mester, but this was a Just outside of Summer , ' _ . a crawl. It picked up agau een before. It is a time t0 get a giimp^ 0f what l the area. that students having to penalized for missing ! 'f^j SG workir Kk nn vicifQtir I \ To the editor: Jltw 'A ) Allow me to act as an f i tion source for the studei k /![ the big V ? visitation. fr' /. : ;/[/JoMr I am and have been a m : immm of Campus Ecology C< /'/ yfpj jygUKSSImj since the beginning, in th 1988. I served with the ] ^ and present, Student Go1 presidents, die Residence | sociation president and se COCK sident advisers. We as a g ^! as individuals met all y with student organizatioi nt Photography Editor representatives and indivi iouchillon dents who were concerned >int Editor changing visitation policie irewsbury Louise Ramsdale organi: ok Editor tion drives, letter writi illips paigns and phone camp: /Graphics Editor students. All of the cc ine members spoke with ad ite Assistant tors, legislators, board i st fKancis and media folks in an ai ock Adviser represent student opinion; ollins ing all this in mind, w ^ ?f ctuHont Moriio Question the validitv of M <iZA Shepherd's argument in ition Manager Sept. 18 issue of the G s. day that S.G. has done nothinj nt Production Manager itation.) Obviously we v jrgos busy, ising Manager We were also very suc< ^ret michels our endeavors! Please t nt Advertising Manager that Rep. Mike Fair set hi: y B. thompson ridding USC of ALL opp visitation. We students nu Iters should be, at a maximum, 250 to S3VC all but tWO rCSiden an employee with USC or Columbia BelieVC me, all Of US, e re required with all letters sen,. Cues, Rflmsdale fOUght dl itters for style or possible libel. The _ , , for every student and r ' haU. hits on first trip ba I looked through dead trees and smashc signs through the second-story window ol motel. I could see the sky. That room, tha tire structure, had lost its roof. A My sister had told me that our apartmei *2? undamaged, but I wondered how that cou with all the destruction in the area. As I turned to the exit where, just a mil< so UP roa(^> my family lives, I saw a lii PpaddSpiy cars. The line stretched up the interstate's < | pass, past the exit that led back to the intei past the road that leads to the local mall, o V back and back as far as I could see. This v H VMM highway traffic ? it was a gasoline line. Wavne Someone let me cut through so I could j / the road that led to our apartment. I saw th Washington business, no anything, escaped without dar ??????J Windows were smashed. Poles several feel ound were snapped like toothpicks. Electri nnUc loonArl in fhn m-nimH if tVimr mara }A;iVO IV/OIlUi HI UIV^ giuuiiu JLL UI^JT WUV 1 leading into the in the ground at all ? as if the ground hac ker and darker shade turned to mud. The wind, an unhappy remi ; this brown didn't sig- of the demon that destroyed the city, rustle t represents the end of dead, dry leaves. I discovered that most of the residents v ville, traffic slowed to cars were still driveable must have been in l soon, but I was able gasoline line. Roads were barren, iurricane Hugo did to Finally, I got to our apartment. My siste right. No damage. But the huge billboard, to the editor | q We could have saved Douglas there are still am O and Burney as well, if only there to the pro scout had been MORE student participa- he'd be a definii /ll tion. Students have a right to be round draft pick angry at the loss of the two resi- credit to USC, th< dence halls. But their energy of and 2001. So ne informa- that anger should be directed at the lish a personal ai its about correct targets and used to achieve cal approach by a goal rationally. illogical conclusi* member The student struggle over visitaammittee tion policies at USC is not at its Internatioi le fall of e?d. If every student, though, does 3ast two, not find out through S.G. how he/ ? SklCTfl IV /ernment she can make a difference, an end ^ 8 Hall As- to the effective student struggle ffl A sveral re- may be emminent. UI1 UlC roup and Participate. Be heard. Make ear long changes. To the editor: pic r?r\rm VIolinn I"la?r>c Qitm Mqit ihp I1J) UV1III 1TAVI1I1U A/arU XVXtAl*. UIV dual stu- International studies junior as USC itself. Bu [ with the Sign Man is th jmjj; New song was ng cam- nil TTlllC board strapped tc ligns for wlulvIV U1I jng pamphlets a tmmittee verses and din ministra- To the editor: redemption. I gue members This is in response to L. Smith's enough to offer ' ttempt to ignorant attack on Todd Ellis and to students, facull 5. (Keep- his proposal for a revision of the tion. Kind of lik e should fight song to include a cheer be- dent Evangelist. r. Darren cause Ellis is graduating. Let me dered how he, a the the educate your ignorant mind on demonstrate on amecock some facts: He has had to adjust to while students g for vis- three different offenses in the past where they can 'ere very four years; the offensive line these ions. Different se past two seasons has lacked the "chosen," I guess :essful in depth needed to protect him; USC Sign Man and >e aware has never run the veer which is are dangerous be s goals at best suited to his unique abilities tuate ignorance. osite sex which he ran in high school; he signs, and his p. inaged to was selected as co-captain on a anyone who TR ice halls, vote by his teammates; and he was God will lead a ( specially the number one recruiting prospect if bad things hap] illigently in 1985. And as a small reminder, strong enough. esidence Todd Ellis may break the all-time should clue him XT/~? A A : 1 Tf 1: career passsing recuru. 11 ui me jcaus icu. ^ A NEW LOW, PAN.., J^OOTIN^ I; ck to Charleston id whose light had illuminated oilr apartment late : a t en- at night, had been blown over our roof. It lay face down in the driveway. The steel beams nt was that had held it up were twisted around and Id be against each other. I checked on the neighbors and told them how glad I was that they are alive. They told 5 or me my sister was at a friend's house a mile or te of two away. over- I got back into the car and drove on. More state, damage. Street lights hung low, their colorless n eyes staring into mine. /asn't The closer I got to my sister's friend's house, the louder the sound of chainsaws got. I ima;et to gined that I was at a dirtbike race. The sound lat no had become constant, nage. It took me a while to reach the house. Trees L ar- crisscrossed the road. Relief workers with hard city white hats and chainsaws stood in the road o+;i1 ...U U A- 1 1 a auu wucic uic uccs wcicn i. wiic man louitcu ai me I and tried to smile. inder I weaved the car up to the house and got my >d sister. She told me she's fine and glad it's over. But as I turned the car around and saw again /hose the bewildered faces of the workers and resithat dents struggling to pull trees out of their homes and their lives back together, I told my sister r was this: It will be a long time before this is truly over. \ / doubts, just talk Man didn't give himself a s who have said pamphlet. te first or second But Friend of Sign Man is much . Todd Ellis is a worse than Sign Man in that 5 game of football Friend of Sign Man chooses a xt time you pub- topic that in itself breeds hysteria, itack, take a logi- AIDS. backing up your Friend of Sign Man's billboard 3ns- reads: "There is a cure for Michael Waters AIDS. . .You don't have to be the rial studies junior way you are # In a world desperate for answers Tori" icj about the cause, prevention and cure of AIDS; in a 'time where IfinCP those afflicted with AIDS are IUUoC targets of abuse and ignorance, Friend of Sign Man wants us to believe the cure for AIDS is a institution as old strong belief in God. t he has a friend. Does this strike anyone else as le gentleman who insane? of Russell House I approached Friend of Sign lh a biblical bill- Man and asked him what his sign ) his chest, offer- meant. I honestly thought I was inontaining twisted terpreting it incorrectly. He TOLD actions on self- me that anyone who believes in jss he feels expert God will be cured of AIDS. 'How To" advice Completely, ty and administra- I asked him what would make :e the USC Resi- him think that way. He said that he I've often won- was cured of AIDS through his benon-student, can lief in God. i USC grounds, Ahh, now we have a personal are restricted in endorsement What he meant was: voice their opin- faith in God helped him through a ts of rules for the terrible time. What he's saying is that everyone with AIDS is [ others like him damned. cause they perpe- Friend of Sign Man is perpetuatIn essence, his ing ignorance and hatred by isolat-' imphlets say that ing a section of society and blamULY believes in ing them for the disease that af;harmed life. And fects the world. And the USC pen, the faith isn't Administration lets him continue, Maybe someone week after week, in about the kind Heidi Rodermund Good thing Sign History graduate student