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Mistake USC's administration, Dixon should have courted Stones If it's not bad enough that Gemson is a perrenial powerhouse in football, has a national championship under its belt and is always ranked higher than USC ? now the Tigers have the Rolling Stones to hold over our heads. Yesterday, "Gemson announced the Rolling Stones would be playing a concert in Death Valley on Nov. 26. This comes just two months after USC's athletic department denied a request for the Stones to play Williams-Brice Stadium. Athletic Director King Dixon said the stadium shouldn't be used for anything but football and the timing was wrong ? as the Sept. 30 date would have come right in the middle of football season (when the team was out of town). USC ignored all the prestige that would have rained over Columbia with the greatest rock'n'roll band playing here, the esti mated $250,000 that could have been used to supplement a budget President James Holdeiman says is strapped, the amount of money the city could have grabbed because of it and the excitement and publicity that would have been generated. USC could have been the school to collect the brass ring for having a band like that play. USC could have been the center of conversation in the rock world. And USC could have boasted that Clcmson never gets anything like USC does. But no. Dixon and Holdeiman, for whatever reason, decided they didn't want that rowdy band to play here because they feared it would open the door to tractor pulls or something like that. The cold facts are that USC and the students could have benefited tremendously from the money and publicity. They could have said "look how progressive we are that we can have an event like this." They could have made use of a beautiful stadium that would be unused otherwise. And they could have boasted over Clemson, which is as important to Gamecocks as breathing. USC messed up. The administration and athletic department had a chance for glory and gold, but blew it. USC sent a big, juicy present to the enemy and hurt its students in the process. "THEY PUTME/N HERE SEVEN YEARS A60 FOR CRITICIZING BREZHNEV^ PREDICTING THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR SAKHAR0V llV AN ELECTION. AND WlANPVtolllDTEAM UP WITH SOtlMOST The Gamecock Editor in Chief Assistant Photography Editor WAYNE WASHINGTON JULIE BOUCHILLON Managing Editor Viewpoint Editor T-TAT \rn t ann n'im crmmtrcntrnv jcrr aniuinoDUK.1 Copy Desk Chief Datebook Editor kathy black well jan phillips Assistant Copy Desk Chief Coinics/Graphics Editor robyn thompson rob lane News Editor Graduate Assistant kelly c. thomas kristin francis Assistant News Editor Gamecock Adviser jeff wilson erik collins Carolina Life Editor Director of Student Media robert thomas ed rqnza Assistant Carolina Life Editor Production Manager lynn gibson laura s. day Sports Editor Assistant Production Manager chris silvestri ray burgos Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Advertising Manager brant long jeffrey b. thompson Photography Editor teddy lepp Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print *11 letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to 1 300 words long. The writer should include full name, professional title if an employee with USC or Columbia I resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. Guest I editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or possible libel. The I Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. I | TOKERS C ; '-$1 I " /i ' x' ''xiv k//' T" ^ Former A.D. ] Yes, Bob Marcum, you should have been this past summer at a ence put cm by local ^As th server, I was assigned Wavne to cover the reception. f I had no idea Marcum Washington would be there. The Barons were still in the organizational phase of their existence, and I had a hunch that Marcum's presence at the reception might have been more than a social call. If that turned out to be the case, I had more than just a reception story. So, I approached him. "Excuse me, Mr. Marcum," I said. "My nam? is Wayne Washington. I'm a senior at the University of South Carolina, and I'm a reporter foi The Charlotte Observer. I didn't expect to see Letters to the < Blacks need ?ldt! i a a a co-foui own identity *(>?*? ^ Thepc To the editor f1001*01 I am writing in reference to the :ovc 10 letter Randy Chapman wrote in the harmon) Wednesday, Oct 4 issue. Randy, I Pas*?. must commend you for being sin- P aiT cere. I also must tell you that you ! are sincerely wrong. You ask why beautitu there should be Black News, BET C0I"P ?n and NAACP. . .well, here's your vas; cl answer. . "f*Al For too long my African- ^ 1 c? American brothers and sisters have """ walked these lands stricken with iniquity, without an identity. I stress African-American because it gives our people an identity, a JjQ sense of our culture. In order to know where you are going, you Ftp 1*1 must know whence you've come. UC1I So, for all people to come together as one entity, the individual units To the must be in tact. These sources and This It others give us a chance to see the one, bui array of accomplishments within Wayne A our culture. It is g< You ask why? Why is there usu- tening t< ally only one chapter relating to hiding b African-Americans, usually on book. I a slavery, in the "American" history may be a books? Why were so many ideas the Bib! and concepts stolen from our peo- men whc pic? Why don't most people know On lh< that Beethoven was black? Why is espcciall the color black associated with rent, I ai hatred, hostility, evil and harm? people i On the other hand, white is asso- from the ciated with pure, clean, divine, judgmer etc .... I think it is you that times, pc needs to put things in proper literally, perspective. Stop j Yes, today we have the you don' NAACP. We have had the you to in NAACP for 80 years. Today, we I am 1 also have tne KIGC and skinheads, decision. )F THE M/CRLD,! L ?i? Vfarcum obsessI you here." Sp^way^-te^d^'otte Motor j c?chail. Tfow are uSJgj ^u!o? P his I votes. Sp? '"te a Politician, campaigning for - I point 01 judging people, wno is gay now uian ui y those who may be diffe- fore this "Coming Out m really sick and tired of even bet that they have using the Bible to hide Blue Jeans day again tl ir prejudices and to place they REALLY wanted it on others. Too many one to know who the; *>ple take the Bible far too they were REALLY pro they are, they would j judging other people that other clothing. Almost e t know. Who the heck are campus wears blue jeans idge anyone? wear something like bri leteroscxual and that is my bell-bouom pants and { , If someone chooses to be shirts with a barber-sh "Just fine," I said, deciding to probe. "I was wondering, Mr. Marcum, what your connection to the Barons is. Why are you here?" "Oh no, no connection," he said quickly. "I just came out because I got an invitation, and I wanted to show my support" With that answer, I was satisfied. Even if there was a connection of some sort, I wasn't going to find out what it was this night. But 1 wanted to explain this brief encounter with Marcum to make a point: USC's former I athletic director has always been, and apparently will always be, a businessman first. Marcum appeared cool, unapproachable and insincere. Did the athletes who played for coaches who worked under him get the same impression? And why, why was it so hard for USC's players to stay on the right side of the i law? My opinion, based in part on my meeting r with Marcum and on the stories I wrote as the sports editor of The Gamecock, is that USC's editor nil mi ni I II II I Hill III inn II Ml III nun II Ml Mill? in by the way, if you were to homosexual, then that is I i NAAWP, you would be sion. It is up to the ii ider ? one already exists non-ignorant people to s te of Washington. the ignorance and prej >int of this letter is not to others in this world. We ; ur ideology down, I would this planet, and if we are see this world in perfect further, or expand on on r. You can't forget the then we need to stop past is why we are in the others and concentrate c lent we are today. What I ourselves better peoi see is one big spectrum of whole. 1 colors, all living and For the good of humar aenting each other. Our being anti-human and sta tic existence is what could positive and lunctional p nerica the beautiful coun- HUMAN RACE (that >uld be. You're welcome, people of different colors k; you. nationalities, different Willie Lewis and even those with diff Political science junior ual preferences). Too bad ignorance isn not hide ?? ind Bible Gays must :ttcr'is addressed to every- What they t especially sophomore Laron. To the editor: suing to be a real pain lis- This year, as last, th< 3 "Bible belting" pjeople Lesbian Student Assoc iehind the words in that sisted on having a "Cc im not doubting that there Day." And yet again it v i god, but words written in Is it really coming out il e were those of ordinary leave a WHOLE name? ) had spiritual feelings. one on campus has any " - " * t - - ~? I ^ ed with profit athletic department became obsessed with turning a profit. Businessmen can better afford to be consumed with profit; athletic directors should care about players, coaches, fans, and yes, a stable, money-making department. I believe Marcum did play a significant role in pushing USC sports to prominence. But it was a no-holds-baried, reckless push. I believe Marcum did want a drug-free program. But people in hell want cold water. Want isn't work. And it takes work and caring to have a clean department. In part, I believe Marcum was a scapegoat when USC officials finally decided to clean up the department's mess. The athletic director's duties are many. It would be impossible for that person to know the drug problems of a particular athlete. Coaches, however, should. Thus, Morrison, too, should have been shown the door. While it was Marcum's job to help the department make money, it was also his responsibility to oversee coaches. The latter, as the steroids trials showed, is where Marcum failed miserably. And so, yes, Mr. Marcum, you should have been fired. their deci- tie. Then we would know who ltclligent, they are for sure, top all of As you may have gathered, I reudices of ally dislike homosexuals, but it all live on burns me up when they claim to be to go any of the Christian faith as some of ir dreams, them did in the personals. In the i judging Holy Bible it is plainly stated in in making Romans 1:26 & 27 that homosexu)le, as a als cannot be Christians: 26 ? For this cause God gave ikind, stop them up into vile affections: for irt being a even their women did change the >art of the natural use into that which against includes nature: ,, different 27 ? And likewise also the rc lgions meri) leaving the natural use of the erent sex- womarlt burned in their lust one . f . toward another; men with men MT I h working that which is unseemly, c. a.e and receiving in themselves that >ry junior recompense of the error which was - met. ] QO When the Pope came to the United States, he made an appearance nny in San Francisco and was approached by a large group of gays A ir*C u/Ka qcItaH him if thpu TTIU1 / miu uoivvu lUlll *JL UIVJ could be saved. He refused them 5 Gay and saying that what they did was nation in- against the will of God. So, God >ming Out did NOT "make you gay" at all, he /as a farce, made you straight and you went ' you don't against his will. I mean, no better idea I leave you with another quote ey did be- from the Bible and the knowledge Day." I'll that I am heterosexual and proud planned a of it (my ENTIRE name will aptis year. If pear at the bottom of this letter): for every- Romans 1:32 ? Who knowing y were, if the judgment of God, that they ud of what pick some which commit such things are veryone on worthy of death, not only do the >. Let them same, but have pleasure in them ght orange that do them, green plaid Samuel Edward Dunham op striped Art studio sophomore