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Viewpoint 4 the gamecock Wednesday, November 29,1989 Money Coaches bring are they worth Sports is big business. Every money that flows into universi and tournament games is stavi o o< game can score a million for a s nament game on TV can bring ticket sales, and TV rights ant make more money on a single s department makes in a year. But to get to these bowl game versity has to have one thing ? school must have the best playei must have a good coach. And n< must have good credit, because _ r 01 money. This week it was revealed he basketball and football coaches dizzying. USC Basketball coach Georj tween $188,000 and $213,000. $75,000-$ 100,000 in TV and rad of two cars at $30,000 and a bo the NCAA tournament last seaso This does not even inclu endorsements. Clemson's coach, Cliff Ellis speaking engagements, makes ab This is a lot of money to be p of a university which is exactly \ It wouldn't be exagerating to j with three books under his belt in would hardly make half of salary. How does that make teachers, T tlrck tKn\/'ro rmttin rr oKofta/I 1VA/1 . lulivv UIVJT IV/ ?V/Lllil? dliailVU The coaches are not the ones < at, because, after all, who's goir or athletic director, "no, I don't t grand for coaching 12 games a y worth it." No one would turn the money But, universities are going to 1 where. Money is the driving for< not. One of the big problems wit] so enticing that universities will i win more games, to go to more b The buck has to stop somewhei University presidents and athle phasis on school, not money. T They are supposed to be educato port groups for these athletes tryii If they're more worried about games they have to win to pick hind excelling is obscured. Keep the salaries down. A coa a university president or a depart at a university. When money becomes the m sports, the whole point of compet THE WALL AT fPFMTASOrt | f Vh fugs'? MCkjXocic. mt The Cja 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 Editors 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 to 300 words long. The writer should Include full nam? bla resident, or year and major If a student. An addre: Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reser Gamecock will not withhold names under any clrcumsta n money, but he big bucks? body knows that. The amount of ties from regular season, playoff ; gering. Any given football bowl ;chool. An NCAA basketball tourabout a quarter of that. Between 1 paraphernalia, a university can iports team than its entire biology s, and tournament games, the uni a guuu icrnii. rtiiu IU uc guuu, uic rs. And to have the best players it 3 wad ays, to have a good coach, it it's going to be shelling out a lot >w much USC and Clemson head make per year. The amounts are ge Felton makes somewhere beThat includes his $77,000 salary, lio shows he gets paid for, the use inus he got for taking his team to . n of $6,416.67. de speaking engagements or , not including endorsements or out $265,000 a year. aying any faculty or staff member vhat these coaches are. say that a 30-year GINT professor and maybe a Nobel Prize thrown a basketball or football coach's professors and department heads ., no doubt. ^ myone should be shaking a finger ^ ig to say to a university president hink I want two free cars and 100 ] ear. That's just too much. I'm not am lop down, and probably shouldn't. thr lave to start drawing a line some- sat ;e behind all sports, "amateur" or Fir h collegiate sports is the money is ern do anything to get good teams, to 7^ owls. lhc, re tic directors should place an em- ^ hese coaches are here to teach. ten, rs. They are supposed to be sup- ^ ig to get through school. i their big payoff and how many ing up their bonuses, the motive be- can teni ch should never make more than wal ment head of any of the colleges ^ be < ost important aspect of amateur ^ ition is lost. F the : HOME maJ squi SUIT Eas SPMPlNGft S ' 1 R </t% I i ? Vi 11 me the Mmmmmmmm?mmmmmmmmm- left mecock ? zzs2zz?-2 e vici Assistant Photography Editor Qr JULIE BOUCHILLON ?' Viewpoint Editor an(j JEFF SHREWSBURY ^ Datebook Editor aue JAN PHILLIPS Jjoi] Comics/Graphics Editor n ROBB LANE .. _ , thei Graduate Assistant KRISTIN FRANCIS Gamecock Adviser I7DTV nr\I T TKTC DfOl wn> Director of Student Media ED BONZA miS Production Manager an^ LAURA S. DAY aCtl org Assistant Production Manager RAY BURGOS S0V DC3J Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager , JEFFREY B. THOMPSON lUal pun letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 nici i, professional title If an employee with USC or Colum- jpg is and phone number are required with all letters sent. r ve the right to edit letters for style or possible libel. Tht yea; SUSJ ^IgMCItic^ne i itudents, Amerk Every day, it seems, the mover )ther startling deve- the Berlin tment is revealed ?A, m0St ln ough the miracle of the world' ellite television. 1 ? These p st, Hungary's gov- I fg students ai ment resigns. Then K 11111158 WC st Germany opens peace and wall. And now, MmliaV< lions hold victory But they h ns up in Chechoslo- jAJBjHH and move ? arms ex- support, ded, calling for HHHHHI a P' srty. fpff " " ^ office i rhe world is chang- , cause he's , and we as Ameri- Shrewsbury He has gi s have become con- has gone o t to sit passively and As shou ch. America has grown fat and lethargic ? If Bush : ling on its success and relative stability. behind wl v, when the time has come for the world to Prague, 01 dynamic and hunger for change, American people nee ms unconcerned and removed. He shoulc 'or example, who are the people influencing marching i changes in Eastern Europe? Who are the air ? arm ority of the ones who were gunned down or is too muc ashed by tanks in Tiananmen Square this choice to n inner.' wno are tne ones mat are causing Imagine t to meet West? be for the tudents. That's who. American tudents ? just like us. walking ii tudents, and the young, are the ones leading crowds. Letters to the editor [ CJ cKinulrl Please, I am askin ' SlllJIlICI help in protecting our \ m * As James Oliver Cu 01P tfie Dear "The greatest thrill of * not in killing, but in let "o the editor: _ .. "! , r r ash ion mercnand close my eyes for a moment I when I awake all I see before a i l a. are mutilated bears. There is I5t0p 311 I od everywhere, but this is not J 1 4 sad part ? a mother's cub is S til DICE 101 behind to fight the wilderness * ie. I can't believe what I see, To the editor: then I realize it is just a dream. This letter is in res] in real life, it is no dream. lee Keith Salisbury's ] ivery day hundreds of bears are ter responding to Laui ously mudered and their vital Nov. 3 letter concern ans are taken from them. Hun- Dunham's letter of Oct shoot the bears, chop them up carload of other redui leave them for dead. that have filled this s fou may be asking the same past month: stions I did ? why are they Why don't you pc ng this? hobby? Tiey want the bear parts to sell M01 n to the highest bidder, so they Jourm umu licit. 1k.T# 'here are supposed to be laws J\| IC3F32Ui tccting this kind of thing, that's _ , f we have the Wildlife Com- Wn^t it Si sion. But still, this goes on way, and to think that there are To the editor: lally seasons when such acts Many of the politica allowed and encouraged. If the The Gamecock are ernment says it's OK to kill trenchant. The one pul rs, then people are going to be 10, however, perpetut re willing to do so. We need ous misconceptions at s that will enable the bear to caraguan government m this earth without fear. The has suffered eight year: ishment for this crime is so le- terror at the hands c it that it's worth the risk of be- U.S.-funded "contras." caught. Most people convicted The cartoon shows this crime spend only 2 to 4 President Daniel Ori rs in prison, which is mostly next to Fidel Castro ar tended time. dent of Romania undei I Lnr ;a should prai: nents in the streets of Prague and over Amerk Wall. Students and the young ? each gov cir eariy zus are the ones altering counterpi s destiny. nee(j tQ r eople are the same age as most of the is going < t USC. These people want the same university American students want. They want in the co freedom. port 0f tf 5 it They're going to get it, it seems. we have ave to fight for it. They have to unite young fac together, and they need our help and would m Presiden ty that George Bush is the president weekly pi it this amazing time in history, bejust likely enough to squander this. \ye as ven his obligatory consent for what hour, a < n, but he should be doing more. campuses Id all of us. efforts w really wanted to show the world he is we are ^ hat is going on, he would go to East Berlin or somewhere where , We re d support and walk with the students. .. 1 be in the midst of the millions ? 1S . _ - 1 n the cold, holding a "V" sign in the "jsing sij extended. Or at the very least, if that dents in J h, he could send a delegation of his ence, an< larch in his place. dteir mar how satisfying and moving it would tec0 people in Prague or China to see the degree an President or an American delegation as letting n the streets among the chanting risking th ing is a v> ig for your "Hardcore Communist's League." vildlife. Neither Ortega nor his party are irwood said, communist in any manner. They the hunt is have consistently advocated and ting live." upheld a mixed economy on the ulia Mettles model of France, Sweden ana ising senior other Western nations. The Nicaraguan government is a parliamenhpcp tary in which the majority party is v Ortega's or "Sandinista's." Oppos"fprC ltl0n Parties vote in parliament. tCI o Freedom of speech and press is guaranteed by the Nicaraguan ? T constitution. x>nse to JuSfov. 20 let- . . a Lindsay's Thc 000381011 of the cartoon is ing Samuel 0rtega's recent decision to end the 25 and the cease-fire. The cease-fire had been idant letters Ortega's unilateral promise; the pace in the contras never agreed to it. After numerous violations, the governsople get a ment had to resume action when 18 soldiers were killed by contras nica Collins in countryside, ilism senior *n 1978, after the overthrow of the atrocious tyrant, Somoza, the a not vast majority under international aupci vision eiecieu wncga iu iprnc office. ^ A former contra officer who left in disgust, Edgar Chamorro, says 1 cartoons in the contras are composed of young witty and men kidnapped by the CIA and jlished Nov. forced into service at gunpoint. He ites danger- also says the contras have no cohe>out the Ni- rent political program and all their Nicaragua statements are pre-written by the s of war and CIA- 11 would be a good idea to >f CIA and have someone like Chamarro at USC to speak to dispel some mis; Nicaragua conceptions about what is going on tega seated in Nicaragua, id the presi- Amitai Avi-ram r the banner Assistant English professor se changes ;ans, from the president to congress to emor, right down to us, the American arts of those hungering for change, aise a victory sign in support for what 1 on. Students here at USC and at every rt high school and elementary school untry should hold celebrations in sup le people of the world who want what . If those students see others, with :es like theirs, saying "way to go," that ean so much more to them than our t merely nodding approval at his ess conference. students should take a moment, an, lay to march in our cities or on our; ; to say to our fellow students whose ill make a difference in our lives, that ihind them 100 percent. over here in America, where everyrunning pretty smoothly, and we are ;ht of the rest of the world. The stu^merica had their day to make a differi they did. Now, others are making k, and we should not allow ourselves e fat and self-centered. That business id BMW is not as important right now ; the students of the world who are leir lives know that what they are do'onderful thing. -- I riiniPA ic nnf v/iivivv mo nvi ! clear subject To the editor: In response to S. Noelle Van Doren's Nov. 15 letter, I would like to comment on choice. People are not unclear on choice. Making choices is important for our growth and well-being as well as that of society, but choice is not the same as unbridled self-interest. 1 Am I free to lie, cheat, steal, drive while I'm drunk or strangle you till you die? Would you like for me to intentionally pull the plug on your respirator because it is an inconvenience for me. to mv _ ? r~j for or give you care until you are well? Innocent people like you need protection from those who would exert their will at your peril. This is one of the purposes of law. An innocent human child, conceived through no fault of his or her own, certainly deserves legal safeguards from the choice that kills. But protecting the child is not enough. Pro-life agencies and support groups reach out today to the woman who chooses life ? even when not convenient. Pro-life people extend a loving hand to the women who suffer as a result of unplanned pregnancies as well as abortions. This is their choice, and mine. Julie Dever -; Psychology sophomore