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Oops Tennessee weapons plant needs better way of moving Tritium The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is responsible for the production and development of nuclear weapons and is one of the most secure government installations in the nation, lost threequarters of a shipment of Tritium, the most crucial ingredient in nuclear weapons. They LOST a part of a shipment of Tritium. And if that isn't bad enough, the shipment was lost ON the base itself ? between two hiiilriincTQ "*"0"* No one knows exactly how much of the shipment was lost or where it went, but the fact remains that the key ingredient to making a nuclear explosive was misplaced, or stolen. If it was misplaced, it shows the ineptitude of the planning and handling of this sensitive material. If it was stolen, which is the scariest of the two scenarios, it shows just how vulnerable the United State's military and security installations are. And if it was stolen, imagine the consequences of allowing radioactive, explosive material to fall into terrorists' hands on U.S. soil. The possibilities are frightening. Regardless of how it was lost or where it is, this should send a big message to the people in charge of national security that something needs to be done. The laboratory needs to revamp its handling methods and security when moving this material. It is an inconceivable blunder to let this stuff out of sight. It should be treated like a president. If the U.S. is going to continue to make this substance and continue to use it, it should not continue to lose it. The consequences are too great. item: as. officials helpiN6 advise USSR. OH economic pr081ems \ I k t? fttwR The Gamecock Editor in Chief Assistant Photography Editor WAYNE WASHINGTON JULIE BOUCHILLON Managing Editor Viewpoint Editor HAL MILLARD JEFF SHREWSBURY Copy Desk Chief Datebook Editor KATHY BLACK WELL JAN PHILLIPS Assistant Copy Desk Chief Coinics/Graphics Editor ROBYN THOMPSON ROB LANE keii y r ?tu Graduate Assistant THOMAS KRISTIN FRANCIS Assistant News Editor Gamecock Adviser kcoll,ns ROBERT raOMeads"?r EdToTzA StUden' L^cTbsos0""3 Ufe EdUor Production Matter S orts Editor S- DAY rm>tc on \7uctdt Assistant Production Manager CHRIS SILVESTOI_ 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, >t a maximum, 250 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 number 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. V. It's sweet whi There are certain special times in life when it becomes easier to lean back into your a. soft easy chair and smile, confident there is justice in the world. * IS* ? ^ All too often, we s If Americans, and huk} mans in general, are ^ bombarded with news I of the bad and the gM ? ugly, and we tend to ? forget the good. We hear about murders and Jeff suicides and murder- Shrewsbury suicides and bank rob- snrewsuury beries and tax evaders and injustice. We hear all about the guys who embezzled a $1 million from the children's fund and skipped off to Rio. We hear all about spoiled athletes getting out of a rape charge. And we see celebrities maneuver their way out of an assault and battery charge because they are 'THEM." We are so innundated with what's wrong with our society that we forget the system does Letters to the < I s Gays can be ^><1 j a I could. ^ Christian too odeachf If you To the editor: reject me Mr. Aaron's comments in The ^ ^ avc Gamecock on Oct. 13 about gay tCCm]W' | men and lesbians illustrates why w' s,Ll. con lool C coming out is so important, and so difficult. If you've never experienced that kick-in-the-skull sensa- a tion of being hated for who you really as i are by someone who doesn't know Afraid the you, let me tell you it does hurt. found out Please don't add insult by claiming began to that your quote about putting me family die to death isn't hateful. fact Many lesbians and gay men continued -* '-? < - 1 fr*r \i;hr* I cncrisn meir religious neniagc, anu * there are as many of us in the lead- some of ership of every faith. Growing up hope that gay in an often hostile world, one w'" som spiritual lesson we learn is to love same, and accept people as God made them, instead of trying to remake them in our own image. Painfully, your passage of murdcr is there in Leviticus. And it's not the only such reference. But ? these words reflect the prejudices ui uicii auuiui^, incir cultures unu ? their translators. They are not the words of a God of love. If we im- To the perfect human beings can be pa- I am v. tient and open with people we dis- Jensen's aeree with, even with ncoDle who cane Hus say we should be put to death be- statement cause it's in the Bible, surely an to be moi all-loving and all-capable God can have beci manage to be half as kind as we seen the can. by this m Being gay is not what I believe really di or what I do. It's who I am. I have problems in no sense chosen to feel what I state are feel, any more than you choose are withe an A morinon 111 tit niiivi ivaii j u work. And it's those times when the system c works that we feel good about the place we live t and the whole scheme of things. It's an im- 1 mensely satisfying feeling for the common Joe s to hear about the rich celebrities being punished just like the regular people. There is rightness in the world, but we sel- t dom hear of that When we do, we smile. Case in point: Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jim t Bakker. This week, these two entirely different people were in entirely similar situations. Both are f celebrities and have been, or are, on the top of i the world. And they both committed crimes. I Both deny it, but both were convicted. e Zsa Zsa, as we know, slapped a police officer i in California when he tried to write her a ticket And Bakker, well, he used his status as a so- c called giver of salvation to make himself a 5 modem-day Caligula ? wallowing in his own c lavish vice. t Well, this week they were both convicted and sentenced to do time. Zsa Zsa got three days at f a shelter for homeless women and Bakker got a 45 years and a half million dollar fine. li Because of the mind set we have about the c way the system works and how the rich and t< shameless seem to always get away with "mur- ji iditor want to be attracted to. everything they had. Tho [ wouldn't now change if state's harder-hit areas 'ou might as well put me standing in lines to rece or having brown eyes. and other supplies that w say your God is going to fully keep coming in froi then that's the way it the state and around the c< to be. No matter who I realize that there are ma i to please the Almighty, problems in the world, a 1 be gay. I don't think I concerned about them, 1 3od by lying. are still countless probli t my childhood in fear. South Carolina must at God and people were Hugo's aftermath. Unfoi nean as you say they are. those who had very littl jy would hurt me if they storm are suffering t who I was. Only after I and we cannot just forg come out to friends and l^cm now Hugo has g i I finally discover that in ?f excitement is begi are not hateful; they have d'e d?wn> so now *s the 1 to love and accept me continue our efforts and V am even if it was new to *nS whatever we can to h them at first. I can only wh? arc sthl in need anc Mr. Aaron and his God f?r many' ma?y mon|hs t0 eday be able to do the Stephanie Myrick-P Philosopl Wayne Johnson Af*fiplpc or Public health graduate UvICa Ctl 50 was not misinform r h 1 n wn To ^editor: Two articles have rec< peared in The Gamecock editor: ing black students and S( siting in response to Dan olina College; the first, letter concerning Hurri- College Wants to Increa jo. I take offense to his Enrollment," has led to se about "making Hugo out fortunate misconception re than he was" because I could prove detrimental n to the coast, and I have efforts which had been s damage that was caused in attracting black stu lassive storm. It would be SCC. fficult to exaggerate the First of all, the "very el that many areas of the white image" of SCC was still facing. Many people ion expressed by many t )ut homes, and some lost dents who resist invito BaypP ) Pigs / * * *. Bay<? Chickens 2" istice prevails ler," normally we would have expected these wo to get out of their predicaments. We would tave expected they would have maybe gotten a ;lap on the wrist. But they didn't They got spanked on their K)ttoms. Bakker's sting will last longer, but they were ?th deservedly sweet When the world watched as Bakker was led rom the courthouse in shackles, it finally hits is ? there is justice in the world sometimes. 3akker took the trust and money of the believ;rs and squandered them on himself and now he s paying for it Zsa Zsa only hurt herself, and the cop of :ourse, but she thought she was above the law. ihe figured she was Zsa Zsa and could do any lamn thing she wanted. Well, she was wrong, oo. America's system works more often than it ails, but we hear more about the failures and re used to it It is weeks like this when these itlle wrongs are righted that we sink deeper in ?ur favorite chair and feel so much more consnt about life because there is at least a little ustice in the world. se in the apply to the Honors College, not are still an opinion of Ms. Harrison, as the ive food article suggested. It typifies our ill hope- struggle to overcome a stereotype m across which inhibits many fine black stu3untry. I dents from engaging in an educany other tional opportunity which would be nd I am very profitable to them. >ut there In no way has the USC Admis^ms that sions Office lowered its standards face in of admission to SCC for any rtunately, group; however, it would be foole before ish to ignore the statistical cvihe most, dence that blacks regularly pcr;et about form at a higher academic level ;one. All than their SAT scores usually indimning to cate (jBlack Issues in Higher Edu; time to cation, Chronicle of Higher Edu:eep do- cation). Consequently, when cxaelp those mining the credentials of various 1 will be underprivileged groups (Blacks, i come. Hispanics, Native Americans, the endarvis poor), we pay greater attention to ly junior the candidates actual academic record than to standardized test scores. e The relevant point is black students seem more likely to be r_: a _cc i? .i nr\a oat1 iiigiucutu uu uy uic xz.ww oni standard for SCC than white students. There are other criteria mtly ap- which are also considered when concern- students apply to SCC (high school )uth Car- record, class rank/size, grade point "Honors average, AP/collcgc prep courses se Black taken, and ? especially ? motiveral un- vation). ALL applicants are judged is which on such criteria, not only black to recent students, uccessful dents to We appreciate The Gamecock's interest in SCC and our work for itist, lily- the entire USC community, an onin- Reenea R. Harrison, Coordina >lack stu- tor for Academic Affairs,SCC ttions to William A. Mould, Master, SCC