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Campbell shou
requiring const
Gov. Carroll Campbell war
he had his way, he would elii
almost impossible, he is going
In an interview, Campbell
parental consent for minors to
tions when a fetus can survive
Campbell said the legislati
grant permission in some <
parents.
So, what Campbell is sayii
decision for the mother, and i
go through a pregnancy, she \
a permission slip to do so ? i
the last people she would wan
This idea is a dangerous oi
discovers she is pregnant and
of two things if, like a lot oj
ultra-strict and unsympatheti<
they want. She will either fir
ally and possibly risk her lif
cover of night. Either way tl
upsetting than it should have i
woman, much less having to 1
alienating her family because
No one other than the worn
thing this intimate.
An abortion is a highly p
man's decision about what t
would inhibit and frighten th
decision about nerseii ana (
opposed.
Because the woman is und
own moral foothold in the la
women who aren't able to he!
emor's office should not be 1
would affect women's lives tl
cause he wouldn't let his di
wouldn't get one anyway,
daughter making decisions lik
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Idn't support bill
mt for abortion
its to restrict abortion in the state. If
ninate it entirely, but because that is
; to chip away as much as he can.
said he will push for laws requiring
have abortions and to prohibit abor:
outside the womb,
on would also likely let the courts
;ases, such as those with abusive
ng is that abortion is not a personal
f a young girl decided she could not
vould have to ask her parents to sign
even though her parents are probably
it to know.
tie. And a costly one. If a girl of 16
opts for an abortion, she will do one
f teens in the world, her parents are
: to their children's lives and what
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1U auillwuiiw iw auuiuun liit/ge,
or she will go out of state under
tie experience will be entirely more
to be. Abortions are bad enough on a
eel like a criminal and having to risk
of it.
an should have to know about someersonal
thing. It should be the woo
do with her body. Anything that
e woman from making an informed
choosing a viable option should be
erage, Campbell is trying to gain his
w under the guise that he is helping Ip
themselves. But a man in the govnaking
broad decisions like this that
tiat he knows nothing about. Just be- 1
lughter have one, doesn't mean she j
And wouldn't he rather have his .
e that?
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Ircumstance.
f 1HW tT| o_,
NOW ?ET h=PSi4
^ THE HOOK'.'. j||m
[ wouldn't trade i
I am from the North, This has be
raised in the midst of a joy and happin
sprawling urban center influence of th
blown as Detroit, but I | fj or "That's a ri<
have been in the South ( ^ mm \ the North. Wh
now for almost nine ?P riot in the Soul
years, and to be quite add levity to
honest, I wouldn't go ^ ^ anything that <
hack for all the money book,
in Ted Turner's bank # "Yond<
enjoy the I'll have to i
South. I like the pace was a little ske
people have. I like the T ?? alls at Umbo's
:ommitment to family . I figured, "Oh,
and the hunger for his- Shrewsbury But "Yonder"
tory. The South reeks viable measuri
with nostalgia. Every HHHHHHIHH horse in hands.
where you turn, there is some famous battle site why can't you
"\i* aIH viamf* nrhara caitia nraciHonf liiroH ar I?art der?" To me. a
J1 U1U UU111V VTUV1V OW11IV/ pV/OlUUll 11VWVJ. \Jl A Wit '
Sumter or whatever. The point is, the South is ^east one l^110^
set in its ways, and I like those ways. The out there in the
South does its own thing. 0301 see ll> th<
With that in mind, one of the more charming colorful,
ispects of the South lies in its language. A lot ^ ??jf
las been written, some good, most bad, about is ^ h(
be way Southerners speak and how their accent Thseems
to distort words. But I think that is what . .. '
,s wonderful about it In no state in the South . f
ire you required to actually fulfill the syntacti- w ? ?r .m(j'
:al regulations that you are in the North. And y .a
he expressions that seem to dominate the South ?!Ve s
nake it a much more interesting and colorful 11, you A
3lace. 111 the bo>
For example: ? Fixin.
"That's a hoot!" This means
Letters to the editor
Wh v wnrrv 11118 ?verP?PuIated and *h<
11 j Tt Ul 1 j bers need to be controll
dhnut Daoi*9 country isn't filled with
dUOUX Dcdr hunters roaming the wi
America to just slaughter 1
To the editor: of bcar a day- Poaching <
I congratulate Monica Collins cur' but 111 a n)ore mhior i
br finally telling it like it really is. y?u Portjaycd ^ t0 f>eidiots
are running rampant on our Instead of worrying abo
;ampus. Not only did Collins talk most non-existent probh
he truth, but a classically stupid should focus on the e
letter was only inches away from slaughters in Africa and
lers. Where did Julia Nettles get struction of countless sp
tier bear slaughter statistics? Was it P^anfs and animals in th
from the movie "The Bear" or American rain forests. As
whatever it was called? The last Collins said, just stop all tJ
quote surely was. letters and get a hobby,
I love animals just as much as David 0
the next person, and I do all I can AHvprtfcim
for animal rights, but come on. 1
Bear poaching isn't one of the
bear's biggest problems. It's not MxfJ HoPSJI
even close. Their biggest problem
is overdevelopment of their breed- fthnili
ing grounds and migratory routes. ^
Last Christmas, a bear "popped"
into my bedroom window and To the editor:
scared the crap out of me and then I'd like to take a minut<
tore apart a neighbor's barn, but I marize the university ad
didn't see my neighbors gathering tion's official policy rega
up death squads to murder and student body here at US
rape the whole bear population of making policy decisions
Southern Vermont. I live in an ing the student body, ref
area of the country with a large administrative motto, "Lei
bear population and never have I cake."
seen "hundreds of bears viciously If you don't believe th
murdered and their vital organs ta- the way the board and ad
ken from them." lion handles decisions, the
Almost all states have bear hunt- why juniors are the last st
ing seasons, and it is not the gov- register for classes this ser
emmcnt condoning death-hunts for I was told that the rei
bears. Just like doer, bear are get- because freshmen had tr<
the South for
come my favorite expression of uP?n. ant* ^c
ess. No longer am I bound by the ^'s 1S so mu
le '70s by having to say, "Cool" 8?.10 l'ic st0
Dt," which is quite appropriate for 'l's a ,ot mc
len was the last time you saw a couch am
h. This expression can be used to 11 wasn 1 ^ia
an already funny situation, and ^er an(*
^ ^ * HC* ))) #
:an do that is hunky-dory in my Ilxin 10 S
come right <
Jr " store, you hi
idmit, when I first heard this I store. Th
ptical of the gentlemen in over- that kind of 1
Filling Station in Salisbury, N.C.
great, they actually say this." "Rec
should not be overlooked as a To confirr
ng device. If you can measure a be doing sor
, or someone's weight in stones, <Ti .? i
measure distance by a "Yon- ?r . t :
j r l _ . ... fixin to d<
ina i nave aiscussea mis wiin at
'ledgeable physicist, "Yonder" is t0 j>ct ai(
} distance near the horizon. If you 10 tic st0'
in it is past a "Yonder." Simple, t0 anything.
To me, it
you can mak
i waitin' on me, you backin' up!" of meanings
oot. Where did this come from? the North,
omewhere, sometime, some nut ting it right,
vife and said, "You don't have to dictionary th;
because I am already ahead of what it mean
:er when he was talking with the why worn
"Yeah, see, I told her real loud cry in' out lot
vaitin' on me, yoU backin' up!" i reckon w
rs were real impressed. don't undersi
from around
preparing for, about to embark mind.
"ir num- gistering last semester. Hey, who
ed. Our didn't? There are some 200 secsadistic
tions of ENGL 102 and one secoods
of tion of ENGL 465. You know how
lundreds quickly those 200 sections go ?
does oc- you better let the freshmen register
vay than first
Hell, it's the new reward sysut
an al- tern. The more hours you've accu;m,
you mulated and the better your GPA,
lephant the worse the appointment time
the de- you get. They always save the best
ecies of for last. I'll just kick back and
e South think about all those second
Monica semester sophomores scheduling
hese stu- and filling up those classes I need
to take next semester. I couldn't
have asked for a better Christmas
venthal present.
g senior an(j don't bother to try and
get an override either. You've got
- Ji. a better shot at getting a little sex
* l in the Towers.
The univeristy's class registra[
US tion program stunk to begin with.
Now it's even worse. They say
tnat me new pnone registration
? t will change things ? somehow I
ministra- doubt tbat- That's all right, I didn't
rdine the want t0 graduate on time anyway.
C* when * thought I'd spend my time taking
concern- Masses 1 don't need and thinking
er to the ^ow 1 could have gone to a real
l 'em eat university.
So all you freshmen with
at this is "dream" schedules ? congratulaI
. tions. And to the rest of the stun
tell me c*cnt ? eat u^' tbcre s an
udents to endless supply of cake around
nester? hcre' , ? ,
.son was , Jar".es Palmer
Journalism junior
anything
jginning to do. . . whatever. But
ich more fun to say. "I'm fixin' to
re." How clever. This implies that
ire difficult to actually get up from
d go to the store than it really is. If
t hard to pry yourself away from
Zagnuts you wouldn't have to be
o. You would just go. You don't
out and say you're going to the
nt you might be "fixin"' to go to
at's the South in a nutshell. I like
azy-fair attitude.
kon."
n or announce that you have or will
nething shortly. It's very much like
f a little more tenuous. If you're
3 something you're eventually go>und
to it. If you say, "I reckon I'll
e," you're not committing yourself
You might go or you might not.
is a sign of higher intelligence if
e something new and colorful out
and phrases that already exist In
reryone is too concerned with getr
. .1 r? ... .1 . - i -t
in me aourn, 11 migni noi oe in me
at way, but everybody understands
s.
y about rules? This is the South for
id.
e can do what we want, and if they
and or laugh at us, then they ain't
here, and we don't pay them no
Athletic dept.
is a big joke
To the editor:
The financial woes of the athletic
department would make a cat
laugh. With that in mind and if the
athletic department really needs to
boost its television revenues, I
have a few suggestions. Why not
televise, a la the Watergate and
Iran Contra hearings, a few of the
myriad investigations that swirl around
that region of campus? Or,
why not produce for syndication a
T.V. sitcom soap opera, "Lawsuits
Loved and Lost?" In truth, I suggest
that we all ignore USC sports
for about two years. Those who
enjoy intercollegiate sports com
petition would be free to attend the
games without embarrassment, and
the local press and news media
would be free to discover some
worthwhile accomplishments of
the USC community. For example,
the recent "Sigmund Freud Antiquities"
exhibitions at McKissick
Museum was a triumph. Try to imagine
Thomas Cooper and South
Carolina Libraries, McKissick, The
Archeaology Institute or USC
Dance Company with a $2.5 million
reserve fund.
Alexander Moore
Assistant editor
The Papers of John C. Calhoun