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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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'
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