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Viewpoint Monday, November 13,1989 THE GAMECOCK 3 Inspirat Bush should take Gorbachev, E. Irony is a funny thing. All over Eastern Europe, the j apart. There have been massive ion by ethnic groups such as the Poland, once ruled by an iron Solidarity labor party, thanks to ; tion by Nobel Peace Prize-winne The Soviet Union, which forn referred to caustically as the "E to modernize and accept, at lei hppn a \17r*p>fll1 foilnro And now there is the wonder days that have transpired in East After weeks of letting selectee the country through awkward rc newly restructured East German stroyed the infamous Berlin Wa directly to the West. It is a taste of freedom and d millions of East Berliners took t with the West Berliners they've doubtedly, it is the sweetest mor days when Hitler temporarily bi strophic economic ruin and broi peoples. But ironically, as the once opp Block revel in new found freed leaps backward. The American government, led spired George Bush, has been be; communists. While Eastern Eurc beautiful revolutionary vortex of tents dwell on silliness. Bush's biggest claims to fam statesmanship have been vetoing rape and incest victims, the capita fits the rich) and protecting the fla The flag, a piece of material, woman's womb and more sacri which Bush must think is just a pi While Eastern Europe strives travels across America spouting j country whose people have forge founded on rights and freedoms e oy a nag. So, Mr. Bush, look to the peo] your inspiration. Freedom bums been lost in this country. pftSTp I WESTtV.^ T> II li .L - tm - | The Gai Editor in Chief wayne washington Managing Editor hal millard Copy Desk Chief kathy blackwell Assistant Copy Desk Chief robyn thompson News Editor kelly c. thomas Assistant News Editor jeff wilson Carolina Life Editor robert thomas Assistant Carolina Life Editor lynn gibson Sports Editor chris silvestri Assistant Sports Editor brant long Photography Editor teddy lepp Letters Policy: The amecock will try to print all letters 300 words long. The writer should include full name, profes resident, or year and major if a student. An address and pho editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the rig Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. tion | ' notice of what urope are doing grim veil of communism is falling demonstrations in the Soviet UnEstonians who wish to be free, fist, is now run by the democratic years of hard work and determinar Lech Walesa. r? u T-? ioi picsiucm is.unaiu K.eagan once vil Empire," is trying desperately ast in part, that communism has fill, heady events of the past few Germany. 1 numbers of East Germans leave iutes through Czechoslavakia, the government has symbolically deill letting East Germans emigrate emocracy and hope so great that -s 0 the streets in celebration along so long been detached from. Unnent in Germany since the heady ought Germany back from catalght pride back to the Germanic ressed peoples of the Communist * *om, America keeps taking giant 1 by the woefully weak and uninat in the freedom business by the gptf )pe is being sucked up into the freedom, Bush and his incompee in an embarrassing afront to 4 federal funding of abortion for f r|i 1 gains tax (that ultimately bene- vf J ? has become more sacred than a While I \ 2d than the U.S. Constitution, dressed this ece of paper. noticed just for fundamental change, Bush hair 1 have goofy Boy Scout rhetoric for a head- To? r That c hp itten that the United States was endowed by the constitution not 0f die'day^ that Friday : pie of the communist world for pajd m within them. Apparently it has haircut. Take a pe barbershop < ven Friday, you'll see w people, getti jp* hair shaped ? But every egfe hack to how over the yea if When I w Columbus, C neighborhoo i\Ur| r^f=- the time. An one ever tolc * jk?~ would do the L'| ? Bozo's ha; ' to twist my 1 But dad had WTj a ^-zzr^ euts, so I mu Bozo's fav ^ | that, got me 1 r Let All of the j in speculation 3'X)llt ^ ^nCV lion in South necock f""S ^? election of a ernment, to th< Assistant Photography Editor prison of the 1 julie bouchillon ist African Na Viewpoint Editor nal a change i jeff shrewsbury cal transition Datebook Editor apartheid socie JAN phillips On Oct. 1' Comics/Graphics Editor Stated its wil rob lane peace talks wil Graduate Assistant uons, inciuain KRISTIN FRANCIS not resort to tl Gamecock Adviser a negotiating ERIK COLLINS ment has also Director of Student Media some of the A EDBONZA as lifting the Production Manager emergency and LAURA s. DAY political prisor Assistant Production Manager government w; RAY BURGOS good-faith ne; Assistant Advertising Manager black majority. JEFFREY B. THOMPSON On the sam ernment annou plans, ANC 1 they wanted received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to moderate bla sional title if an employee with USC or Columbia Chief Buthele: ne number are required with all letters sent. Guest ANC OVCr ;ht to edit letters for style or possible libel. The T~ , If a rapprocl among SouLh . iffure styling c; vas getting | ?r? ,, , ^ I week- The Irirh xl the rules that same hairc d getting a That duty we ;ek into any V neighborhood c Dn any gi- A wlHHKP! on weekdays w There Wayne paper bag in hi: all-to-wall XI7 . . , like sniffing a s ng tfieir Washington On Saturday UP Just lined up on the My older bro time I go into a barbershop, I think r??t thPV v getting my hair cut has changed WClU rs' . _ , . . Mom, one of as around five, my family lived in . j. )hio. My dad, like other dads in the oy A , ,"ne d, clipped our hair himself most of r3! 6 ?U e, d if he didn't, his friend Bozo (no Jake was Just ab 1 me why they called him that) i honors. But Mom pul] nds were like steel grips. He used the porch, whisp lead too far around too quickly. some money, an said only babies cried during hair- When I saw n mea my snittles. uneven and spot! orite hairstyle, if you could call it home, eased in school the following Just as the kid _ ters to the editor rp pnmina time when the government i AfVlPil South Africa sooner than ? /\.1I IC<t the "pundits" thought possibl But some in the Demo Party here want to throw ga mndits who engaged onto the South African fii or wishful thinking starting up talk about sani itable bloody revolu- again. H.R. 21, sponsored bj Africa must reevalu- R0n Dellumus, D-Calif., wou ies. Recent develop- 0ff an economic relations be country, from the the U.S. and South Africa, ( reform-minded gov- jng tens of thousands of bla< 5 recent release from unemployment in a misguid< leaders of the terror- tempt to punish South A1 tional Congress, sig- whites at a time when there ai n the tone of politi- precedented moves to heal away from a post- nation's rarial wnnnHc 'ty. The new sanctions legislat 7, the government foolish, counterproductive an lingness for direct timed. For the sake of all 1 h all black organiza- Africans who are striving for ] g the ANC, that do ? both black and white ireats of violence as should be defeated, ploy. The governshown movement on Michael 1 NC's demands, such USC Alur 5-year-old state of I releasing remaining Ofllv ters. Apparently, the VJMlJ UUU judge others e day that the gov- To the Editor: need its negotiation In response to the recent k eaders hinted that concerning "Coming Out D to mend ties with homosexuality and Christiani cks such as Zulu have a different slant to te, who broke with picture, its use of violence. Actually, it's the big pici lement is nearing The issue here is that there sh .Africa's blacks at a be no issue at all. What does i an be a 'hail : said my head, bald on the sides schooHtid 1 top, looked like a bird's nest. week. Th )uld wear a hat to school because Pick Up' tg to mistake my head for their hair was ] Birds n the early '70s. Now, they call When 1 ut, the Bozo special, a fade. course, th mily moved to South Carolina in of my hai no longer my hair specialist Having snt to my grandfather's friend, my hair ji ike was notorious for being the got it cut, Irunk. He'd stumble around town finger in i ith tattered clothes and a brown pay $3.50 s hand. Smelling his breath was itraight shot of ammonia. Getting and more afternoons, my brothers and I Sometii back porch to get our hair cut. jn j^ini thers took their cuts like men. went rtside before I could assess the cut a biac] those mothers who amazed us . ^en n ! with the styles of the day, knew the > porch with a frown on her face. p r'H out to put the clipper to my , Besides, know not I haircuts. led him over to the comer of "How w tered a little to him, slipped him an(j jjq m d he left. ly brothers' hair, which was fiancee w< ty, I knew why Mom sent Jake voice. I'd say, Is in Columbus did, the end of tha s open ally matter? Why do we insist on ?me to separating love and acceptance? iny of Why do we judge? Why do we e. label, criticize, alienate and argue era tic when it doesn't make a difference? isoline God doesn't consider our judg*e, by ments of others before making ctions ones of his own, so why do we do r Rep. it. We have no business inserting Id cut our unwanted judgments because tween they only cause trouble and don't loom- rightly show the full scope of ;ks to God's love, acceptance and for2d at- giveness. However, I'm not find"rican ing fault in anyone for what re un- they've done. Both Christian and their homosexuals have done what they - thought was right. Who's to blame ion is either? d iii_ Practicing homosexuality might South be a sin; it might not be. That ^eace should not be an issue. The Bible _ it calls us neither to label nor to judge. It calls us to love and to love alone. God loves everyone Reed just the way they are. Do we have nnus the right to do anything else? IH Elizabeth Fox Journalism sophomore 5 No one should iters burn U.S. flag ay." ty, I To the Editor: the This is in response to the editorial "Flag Burning" in the Oct. 30 Lure. issue of The Gamecock. You menould tioned that some Vietnam Veterans t re- were protesting the new law ban it? a vmw pB &x>v ujimg we ^ PECTINATION -. J I ^ y ry' ordeal Is teased my brothers the following ey took to calling my brothers 'Bird because they said it looked like their picked apart by a bird, riust absolutely fascinate children. [ turned 16,1 got my first job. Of at meant I'd have to take over the care r. wavy hair was the big thing then, and ist wouldn't cooperate. Whenever I it just stood up like I had plugged my i socket More teasing, and I had to this hair of mine cut has gotten more expensive over the past few years, nes, though, money is no object, lesota one summer, my buddy and I ing for someone, anyone, who could Lr ' o iv d nail. iy buddy's hair got buzzed up, I ralue of a good, albeit an expensive I've been engaged long enough to ;o complain about the price of ould you like to pay $35 for a perm ore to get it washed and set?" my Duld ask me in her "I'm annoyed" "I wouldn't." And that would be the t. 1 ning flag burning. They are darn angry, you said, that our country is telling tnem how to be patriots. Well, just for the record, there are a few Vietnam Veterans who are darn angry that anyone ever had the 'right' to burn our nation's flag. In fact, my dad served in Vietnam, and he knows a lot of soldiers who feel this way. You admit in your article that the flag is a symbol for what we believe in. You say that the new law puts the symbol above our beliefs. I disagree. I think the law treats the symbol exactly like the principles the flag stands for. If you burn the American flag, you ova dimuinrr rltonl Aooura iiM?k fU/* uiv juv/rvni^ uiopvajuiv/ Willi Ul^ principles the flag represents. I guess it's all a matter of how much you respect that "piece of cloth." As far as the freedom to express yourself, I'm all for it Hold up a sign telling us what you don't agree with. Yell it out so that we can hear it. If you want attention, you don't get it by slapping someone in the face. That's exactly what you do to millions of Americans when you burn the symbol of our country. Finally, you refer to flag burning as a "heinous act" and mention the "ignorant people" involved in the act. Do we need to allow ignorant people to commit heinous acts to keep our country free? I hope not. Carl Humphries Psychology junior