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Finances USC should not spend more if it has no money for classes With students scraping to find loans, tuition being raised virt ally every year to make up for lack of funding from the state L gislature and some 35 classes being cancelled because the US administration says it doesn't have any money, President Jam Holderman and the rest of the decision makers at USC should r be talking about buying a piece of property for another spoi arena or a motor pool area. The board and administration have just this weekend got a j ahead from the S.C. Commission on Higher Education to proce with trying to purchase a four-acres of land directly across t street from the coliseum on Blossom and Assembly streets (whe Gibbes automobile dealership is). Reports say the university is tr ing to buy the land for "motor pool activities," a sports arena possibly parking ? for either students or faculty (there has be no definite say on that.) The property is supposed to cost $1,742,400. USC would ha to pay a down payment of about $600,000. Where is that money going to come from if USC says it is 1 nancially strapped? Where is the money from the tuition hike g ing to this year? And where is USC getting the money to pay gu like Henry Kissinger for talking for an hour? (Kissinger got som thing like $25,000 for his little trip. That's not including the b for his stay in the best room at Embassy Suites.) If USC is so strapped for cash and has fo continue duping tl students out of more money just to have th',ir classes cancelled o from under them, then maybe it's time f omebody explained tl rules of economics to Holderman and tie rest of the Board i Trustees. If you say you don't have money, and you even cancel classi tnat people nave already paid lor and wore entitled too; if yc stuff three girls in a study room and say "this is the dorm roo you paid thousands of dollars for," if you keep raising tuition help make up the difference; and if you refuse to accept mone; making ventures like a Rolling Stones concert, you shouldn't I talking about spending a dime ? much less $1.7 million. *THEM JAPANESE DON'T WANNA PLAY ON A LEVEL FIELD' * *???% eutetMAv&r OlTHfr. Loon rofr o<srKT? . The.Gliilllci. :;1 Editor in Chief Assistant Photography Editor WAYNE WASHINGTON JULIE BOUCHILLON Managing Editor Viewpoint Editor HAL MILLARD * JEFF SHREWSBURY Copy Desk Chief Datebook Editor KATHY BLACKWELL JAN PHILLIPS Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics/Graphics Editor ROBYN THOMPSON ROB LANE News Editor Graduate Assistant KELLY C. THOMAS KRISTIN FRANCIS Assistant News Editors Gamecock Adviser D. R. HAYNES ERIK COLLINS JEFF WILSON Director of Student Media Carolina Life Editor ED boNZA robert thomas Production Manager Assistant Carolina Life Editor LAURA S. DAY LYNN GIBSON Assistant Production Manager Sports Editor ray BURGOS chris s elvestri Assistant Advertising Manager Assistant Sports Editor JEFFREY B. THOMPSON BRANT LONG Photography Editor TEDDY LEPP Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 254 to 300 words long. The writer should include full name, professional title if an employee with USC or Columbia resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone nuiqber are required with all letters sent. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or possible libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. ^^1 IIP I AIR Dingle is 1 ill Ladies and gentle- film i men, put your hands | or an ut together now for the Aii ie latest and greatest lr his n( of craze to hit USC since * )u nuts in 1987. Please ' clum] m join me in welcoming ^?| . 4^#** of hi< the newest, most excit- J| he pr ing sensation at w K Jm , Williams-Brice Sta- _^S|| four I 50 dium that will in all carrie likelihood become the t j?i* j)jng] newest tennis shoe J en BU marketing concept. Shrewsbury it>sn Ladies and gentle- I?????I Dii men watch, kids of all will 5 ages listen, and Clemson fans beware and guys please welcome: throu " AIR DINGLE! Ar Mike Dingle, the 6-3, 235-pound junior tail- JUM back with about 4.4 speed in the 40-yard dash ready and a nose for the goalline, has started some- ders I p- thing at USC. He started something that hasn't impo: Sf been seen here since 1984's "Black Magic" In ff season. tingly He has started to show USC how to score. that 1: When Air Dingle starts for the goalline, he misse $ may not outrun his defenders, and he may not W1 ^ make a move that will make every highlight of op r A KoKa IC O Kol ? rv uciuv a uai s; could remember, I made >_ have been an astute ob *B|F verse ^ server of "coolness." ^Th || teased kid, the one ^ p who got beat up at re- MLXgiB p me play; so I watched J the cool guy who ^ becar ^ walked cool (I always Wayne ? thought one leg was Washinotnn ^ t shorter than the other) VVasJlingtOIl dame and talked cool wasn't ?f a * so cool. good Cool guys invariably talked about girls or I ^ women. The tags they have put on women have televi always fascinated me. They've always reminded &1 me of that cartoon of Darwinism that shows a serve figure that's short and crouched monkey-like. In brou? the cartoon, the figure would become taller and "fo ? taller and more and more uncrouched until three ** eventually the figure would become a man. I The USC does have a heart Librar" % To the editor: ? r< /\U ?*| Recently, scores of South Car- vJUIIU olinians who fled the Lowcountry when Hurricane Hugo struck were To the editor: given refuge inside Carolina I am compellei Coliseum. the noise level in I believe using the USC arena as to study on the a shelter goes completely against main level of Tho its primary purpose: hosting ba- fortunately most sketball games. forget that this toe Of course, graduation ceremo- brary. They con nies, concerts, banquets/speakers talking away, pl< and other types of events are al- couches complefc lowed ? as long as they are not their noise. This deemed obscene or offensive. But cially bad on Su a haven for a hurricane? Next swarms of study thing you know, USC will have a upon this area, conscience attack and open up the rooms on the oth< place to the homeless! meeting rooms If Lowcountry residents want to House for those \ hide from a Category 4 hurricane The library is foi in a complex designed for sports, who have to stud; let them flee to Clemson or sewhere, but all t Raleigh. are in smoke-fill I think it's time we had a defini- smoking students tive policy on this. What do you comfortable place rfl ^WE IS VERYHI6H lg? IN FIBER... axiing towa in the state, but he'll get there ? one way other, he'll get there. * Dingle is a kamikaze runningback with )se sighted in on the endzone. ngle is the classic grunt ? the kind of r who isn't pretty or particulary adept, but its the job done. He usually has a lot of ps of dirt in his facemask and sticking out 5 ears, and his uniform is rarely clean, but oduces. only his second year, Dingle already has touchdowns rushing and 359 yards on 79 ;s. That's the same number of touchdowns le had all last year. t it's not so much what Air Dingle gets ? lore HOW he gets it. ngle has become known as the guy who acrifice his body for that extra yard. Other run around defensive players. Dingle runs gh them. id when he can't run through them, he PS over them. On several occasions alr this season, Dingle has leaped over defenfor a first down, that extra yard or more rtantly ? touchdowns, becoming Airborne, Dingle has unwitr brought something to Gamecock football ias been suspiciously absent and terribly :d. ten USC has gotten within the 20-yard line ponents in the past, they have had trouble )e, unless sh ie way women have been labeled always j me think that this cartoon should be reid just for cool guys. irough my observations, I have discovered women labeling has been around a lot lontian cool guys. t's start at the start. In the years up to the s, women were called "broads." Most of /omen I know would not like being called e from side to side." That's how The 'ican Heritage Dictionary defines broad, t the '40s faded into the '50s, and broad ne "dame." This label change represents rst and last improvement in what women been called. One dictionary definition of a is "a title of a woman, equivalent to that might" Still, dame just doesn't sound ave learned of broads and dames through ision, old movies and sitcoms. ivasn t until tne /us mat 1 was aoie to odthis phenomenon firsthand. The '70s ;ht in disco, John Travolta and the label " We could have done without any of the agine: you're a sophisticated woman in the tor >tees? Mike Fair? know that gossip is mc Patrick Jean than my homework, bi nalism graduate help me pass my classes Amy-Dai y noise Government and e< xious TO1 , u Black, wh d to write about just hums the library. I like ** couches on the Totheeditor. mas Cooper. Un- Hats off Randy Cl people seem to w such w0'nde > is part of the h- (m Wed te in the doors ^holehearted| , rp down on the focus Qn ^ A^enca uimi-uu* - whit^ Wack) ac Whi pro em is espe- certajniy nothing wrong n y evc?"? " Proud of your race, it i: T^re^are study have clubs- contcsts an 11 teis that exclude other vt levels, or even t ? , , .. in the Russell c?nf<- ^olarshtp or vho have to talk. wh,tes on ' ,an?ers community. Vice ve r quiet for those c j \ y! I would go el- *' ,8" he other caches same thlngs for blaaks' ed closets. Non- man sald so wel1' Can deserve a quiet, and emphasizing our < 5 to study too! I help us at a time when DUllllICa UCUilUC U1LLUCS. For those of you who don't know it, cool people reduced some of the most elegant, attractive women to female dogs in heat at this time. I've even heard women use that term for other women. But most of the time, they really wanted the term to mean a female dog in heat Now, the cool term for women is "babe." I never understood this need to call females something other than girls or women. Why do cool people do this? If I could answer that, I guess that would make me cool. No thanks, I'll pass. 1.1,! 111 I.I IIIII III II III IIIU U.. . ... ; :Vt ' i .v. mil in I Mir : - , ? i re exciting work as one?" it it won't At a time in history where racial tensions should be healing, many re Holland people seem intent on ripping conomics wounds open. Prime examples are senior the incident involving a "whites # only" bar in North Augusta and rap groups such as Public Enemy and N.W.A. (which, believe it or ||-|C not, stands for "Niggers with Attiwhose lvrics are. PYtrpmpJv racial. Public Enemy's song, 'Tight the Power" includes in its lapman for lyrics: "Elvis was a hero to most, :rful letter but he never meant *** to me. A Oct. 4)! I straight out racist the sucker was vq need to ? simple and plain - *** him and ins and not John Wayne. .. you find nothing le there is but rednecks for hundreds of with being years." s absurd to id newslet jf we genuinely want to have a races. a united States of America, we must c jj 1S take a stand for unity by not en1 e ac dorsing businesses, musicians, etc., rsa, as a who only want to promote racism. ? s^f. e Let's all become members of the s National Association for the Adpromoting imnoAmont nf Unmon I? a1 otirvnc Tauvviiivui ui xiuiiiau iwiaiiwuj. iifferences Beth Clayton we need to Interdisciplinary studies senior rd take off getting in the endzone. USC has always had good kickers, but that's because they've needed them to be there because the offense had trouble punching .the ball in. But with Dingle, now there is an undercurrent of confidence that no matter how tough the other team is, no matter how big their defenders are, no matter how well Harold Green is playing that day, if USC gets to within the 1- or 2-yard lines, Dingle will score. And not only will he score, but he'll fire up those powerful Air Dingle leg engines and shoot off over the defensive surge like an F-14 off the deck of an air craft carrier. And that is something very special USC has not had in a while. Dingle was in the late former head coach's doghouse most of the time last season because they said he "freelanced" too much. He was the guy who blocked for Harold. He and Keith Bing were the guys who got in there, but were never seen. Now, even though Harold is having a great season, Dingle has carved out a niche for himself. He has made himself necessary to head coach Sparky Woods. When it comes to gettiitg a first down, or moving the ball over to the center of the field for a better angle on the field goal, or going over the top for a touchdown, Woods doesn't look at Harold. He looks for Air Dingle.; ie is a chick mirror, but a four-legged animal related to dogs and wolves to others. Wouldn't exactly make me happy. Women went from hunters to the hunted from the '70s to the early '80s. Foxes eat rabbits, and women became bunnies in the early '80s. Cool guys would say to themselves, "Man, that bunny is fine!" At Easter time, I couldn't tell whether or not cool people were talking about a Hersey's chocolate bunny or Peter Cottontail. In the mid-'80s, the labeling became vicious.