The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 27, 1989, Page 3, Image 3
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.
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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