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. Viewpoint Wednesday, November 15,1989 the gamecock 3 Blood Carolina-Clemsc good way to hell It's November. It's getting c over, and the ClSmson game is only one thing ? the annual Car The American Red Cross is h gives the two schools something drive calls on the students of eac number of pints is tallied and school with the most donated pii real winners are the people of So Blood saves lives. Last year the drive collected al about five pints to save a life aftc could have saved about 280 peop That is a wonderous and won Clemson and the Red Cross shou It's a good thing that these twc each other can cooperate on a pr The football rivalry gets intense, line, but in the blood contest 1 shared. The country needs blood. The every student, faculty member a little. The drive continues today a Let's show Clemson we can c< but let's show the people of thi them than any old football game. So, let's get out there and win day the gipper might need some t "MY APPROACH TO C RACED /Ul A QIC i/rwur v/n r\ uii MkMSdt rrit 'w%. lhe Ga ^? Editor in Chief WAYNE WASHINGTON Managing Editor HAL MILLARD Copy Desk Chief kathy black well 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 Gamecock will try to print all letti 300 words long. The writer should include full name, prol resident, or year and major if a student. An address and p editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstam m blood drive and have fun older. Football season is almost this weekend. All these point to olina-Clemson blood drive, olding its annual blood drive that else to compete over. The blood h school to donate blood, and the compared to each school. The its is declared the winner, but the uth Carolina. bout 1,400 pints of blood. It takes jr an auto accident, so this contest le last year. derful thing. The people at USC, ild receive a big pat on the backs. ) schools that are so opposed to oject like this and do some good. State bragging rights are on the here is no bragging that is not state needs blood, and it's up to nd USC staff member to give a ind Friday. in beat them off the field as well, 2 state that we care more about one for the gipper because some >lood. 0N6RESS HAS BEEN 'ARTISAN EFFORT' mecock Assistant Photography Editor JULIE BOUCIIILLON Viewpoint Editor JEFF SHREWSBURY Datebook Editor JAN PHILLIPS Coinics/Graphics Editor ROB LANE Graduate Assistant KRISTIN FRANCIS Gamecock Adviser ERIK COLLINS Director of Student Media ED BONZA Production Manager LAURA S. DAY Assistant Production Manager ( RAY BURGOS Assistant Advertising Manager , JEFFREY B. THOMPSON ] :rs received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to 'essional title if an employee with USC or Columbia hone number are required with all letters sent. Guest right to edit letters for style or possible libel. The ce. . ? V - ^ |j " I'VE SMOKED ALU Achoo! It's tha You can always tell our when it's November ^ because the leaves are B virtually gone, fallen | l| sc^ei gently to the brown \ ?00< grass, football teams com talk about bowl games, /. JS thick-brained politi- . iilP^t . * j .u . .a | bloc cians extend their arms tKm victory and every zard third person Kleenex attached ^ to their nose. T ?? cf te Because, you see, ing I November officially Shrewsbury ease begins the cold and flu L__hear season. The month for 2 should be renamed Fluvember. A About this time every year, the resistance relat cells that battle viruses in our bodies suddenly mod pack up the cytoplasm and all the little neucleo- help; pods and head down the bloodstream for their for a annual vacation. And thus, (I love the word tanc< "thus") the nasty little virus cells move in and at th raid the resistance refrigerators for a couple of Sc days. a col And it's those midnight raids in the resis- M tance fridge that causes our noses to run and Tyle Letters to the edi Homosexuals '' shouldn't fear everyday becau: accepted Jesus To the editor: hearts as persi I wish to offer some encourage- masterment to the homosexuals and lesbians who may have been fright- Electrical e ened by recent letters to the editor. No one has ever gone to hell be- 1 c cause ne or sne was a nomosexual i " oi or a lesbian. Matthew 12:31 states, i 'Therefore I say to you, any sin miSUIlCl and blasphemy shall be forgiven; but blasphemy against the Holy To ^ ^ Spmt shall not be forgiven. u h ^ Now, if you are a homosexual or a lesbian and you ask Jesus to , J , , J . _ ? * i f tt n pletely misunder; ake control of your life. He wiU ? > in Qcl want you to make changes m your ' f ' h life, just as He does for anyone . ... who is saved. But He will be there anyone to help you every step of the way. or co"vicllons* Corinthians 10:13 states, "no temp- am a. ?UtT^ tation has overtaken you but such my . as is common to man; and God is Christ in my faithful, who will not allow you to * W1^ be tempted beyond what you are letter and w able, but the temptation will pro- remembered: vide the way of escape also, that "For the goo you may be able to endure it" stop being anti-hi Let me reiterate; no one ever ing a positive ai went to hell because he or she was of the Human R a homosexual gi iesbian, just as no people of differei aav r icc Ann if aw uir U/ r\\H\s i i it crazy F heads to ache. 's nature's way, I suppose, ut I swear I thought I learned in third race class that nature's way always ha 1 reason behind it For the life of me, gh, I can't figure out what possible g es from colds and flu. It doesn't cleai * body. It doesn't cause you to shed " d" or anything like that. It doesn't do I but make sleeping torture, breathing and Kleenex stocks rise, olds are one of life's little kicks in th< [y mother always told me they're life' illing you to slow down ? that you'r xx) much. But we have stress-related i s for that, don't we? A good stress-re t attack will slow the best of people d i while. nd at least there are drugs that cure st ed diseases. Colds' and flu have elude em medicine since time began. Aspir s you temporarily, it closes the refrigc i while, but it just doesn't bring Mr. F ; and Mrs. Cytoplasm back from theii e beach. ), the age-old question of what to do i Id has cropped up again, others say soup and sleep. Doctors sa nol. Grandmothers say orange juice, 1 tor to heaven simply ities, religi >f being a heter- preferences.)" die and go to hell If this is still se they have not We are all h Christ into their tiny earth and onal savior and understand and Humankind wi Mark King survive if we d ngineering senior prejudices and other. We neet . . better people. itlCr 11131 was maccept each otl I pr?tnnH sitive direction: LCI calling and the I certainly h< away all of th< apparent in recent people think at people have com- happier people stood what I was work together. . 25 letter, lad NOTHING to s religious feelings For the record, I P0OD1C caring member of * indeed accept God fin rvi*r heart UU F1 1 the essence of my To ^ editor hat should be j have notice pus many peop d of humankind, pro-choice conl uman and start be- to clarify what tid functional part out. Pro-choice ace (that includes whether or not it colors, national- wrong; it is noi 3 1 I ' NEVER HURT Me.'" luvember again and television. I like grandmothers best. But the point is, everybody has their own way to cure -grade the common cold. And, by God, they're going s a to tell you about it. It's like hiccups. How many different ways ood have you heard to cure hiccups? Probably as use many as you have for colds, bad The best way that, incidently, four out of evi any- ery five columnists recommend, is sleep, sleep, ; a ha- big puffy blankets wrapped around your feet, sleep, orange juice, sleep and comic books. ; butt. Hey, it works for me. s way The worst possible thing to do is to come to e do- work or go to school. You should be a slug on dis- your couch or in your bed for at least two days lated before you consider leaving to be around other lown people with vactioning resistance. I recommend a two-day R-and-R period ? Rest and ress- Ridiculously-Boring-Day s-of-TV - Watchingd And-Comic-Book- Reading, in I further recommend doing nothing ? abso- > irator lutely nothing for as long as your brain has the \ tesis- woozies. If I had my way there would be a pror week vision in the Constitution that says every person has the right to do nothing ? ABSOLUTELY about NOTHING ? for as long as it takes to shed a cold. .y Who says nothing good can come out of a loney cold? ? I. I ons and sexual ing the disgrace of burning the American flag; and it isn't an ar-1 not clear, try this: gument dealing with our morality I uman beings on this in our dorm rooms after dark. ? we need to try to Pro-choice is exactly what it states. * care for each other. CHOICE. II never be able to In America we supposedly have? lo not stop the blind the freedom of choice. Our na-1 the judging of each tional anthem states "let freedom I i to make ourselves ring." Is this the way our govern-1 ment really works? Maybe we 2 ir point We need to should change our national anthem * ler and move in po- to "Yankee Doodle Dandy." s and stop the name A few exclusive individuals are , finger pointing. making important decisions for all * 3pe this letter clears of us. We choose them to do this. ; e debris and makes Are they representing us? If we J out being better and don't make it known we want our ? 5. Work it out and freedom, it will gradually disap-; pear. This is already starting to * Amy McCaleb happen. History junior We have the freedom of speech, * - the freedom of the press and the ;; UHClC<cir freedom of expression. Isn't the burning of the American flag ex- ? UrhoiPP pressing one's self? Pro-choice isn't a debate of right * and wrong, it's an issue of choice. \ d that around cam- 0ur morals shouldn,t be inflicted [ le have the issue of on other PeoPle any more than Fused. I would like dieir morals should be inflicted on it is really all ab- us- We should be able to choose is not a debate on w*lat s f?r us. abortion is right or Noelle VanDoren l an issue concern- Education junior