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' Viewpoint f: 1 ?? ? 4 The Gamecock Wednesday, January 17, 1990 Save it Recycling saves r energy and may si Officials from the state's govern tal groups met this past Wednesd mandatory recycling as a way to 1 of gart>age disposal. The proposed state legislation, cling of 25 percent of all waste. c< waste sent to landfills by as much ; The state's landfills are quickl; garbage. As landfills become full move closer to residential areas, cs being unsightly and causing unplea An equally important argument vast annual depletion of our natun interest in recycling. The S.C. Wildlife and Marine I goal to recycle 20 tons of white < one department did that, up to 20 saved. Almost all kinds of paper computer paper, cardboard and te paper used to wrap and package th< Paper is not the only recyclable and glass, among other things, are recycle these substances is much 1 duce them originally. For example from recycled aluminum takes or needed to make it originally. One half the energy and one-half the w; wood pulp, and causes 74 percent to saving 17 pulp trees. But people should not have to recycic. nvery aay, more lorests used, more resources become scan used as landfills for solid wastes; seconds to separate garbage into material. At this rate, whole town landfills ? full of recyclable matt the time to separate and drop off at *WT THEY'RE CtRTfi A LOT \tf, V f x BSmAp, I p( The Gai Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief jeff wilson, News Editor kel1 Scott pruden, Carolina Life Editor TEDDY lepp, Photo Editor rob robb lane, Graph Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor Elizabeth lynch Assistant Carolina Life Editor Deborah Ryan Assistant Photo Editor Kristin Francis Graduate Assistant Ed Bonza Director of Student Media Ray Burgos Assistant Production Manager Jeffrey b. Thompson Assistant Advertsing Manager Lllll Policy: The Gamecock will try to pi be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. Tl (essional title if a (JSC employee or South ( a student. An address and phone number Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters space limitations. The newspaper wil circumstance. I esources, oon be the law iment, industry and environmenay to discuss the possibility of lelp solve the growing problem which might require the recy- | 3uld reduce the amount of solid ill as 30 percent. W y being filled to capacity with , garbage dumping sites could u tusing health hazards, as well as j ISOlll UUUI5. for recycling, however, is the S il resources caused by a lack of JS Resources Department has set a it sffice paper a year. If just that ^ ) acres of S.C. forest could be rfi can be recycled ? newspaper, ? lephone books; as well as the z products we use every day. w ; substance, though. Aluminum N also recyclable; and the cost to R ower than that required to pro!, making a new aluminum can A lly five percent of the energy vj ton of recycled paper uses one- 4 ater needed to make paper from J less air pollution ? in addition :? wait for a law to tell them to are cut down, more energy is :er and more land is dug to be when it takes only a matter of ^ l recyclable and non-recyclable s couia oecome large, treeless ter that no one bothers to take a recycling station. jt', \|NLY MAKIhl^YOU beinj ARMER" ust ^ Nc \\ \3\\ N \V 1 \\ more N\' Vj \j V w,h,i \^A ^ ^ grapl ... And Iffflfff1 3 I ] I j III' |j | t ' t0 he I I I i M' I! ] I J ' versi ^yi Mij]\ onRui ifj "* [if f11 ' / i B? A, ot "ro H.?mL WhJba" Toth letter regar I use necock Diu mind midd KATHY BLACKWELL no g; Managing Editor rest c vulne LY C. THOMAS, Viewpoint Editor JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor alone YN THOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief look i Tli icslComics Editor , tee, i versil LUCY SOTO olhcr Assistant News Editor make BRANT LONG ble. ' 4 ccicMwI Cn/oWc Jislitfir <Ka o< uiv^ ai Sharon Williamson the p Assistant Copy Desk Chief safe. ? Tw Erik Collins stalle Faculty Adviser recti) Laura S. Day thre/ Production Manager SUSpil be Renee Atkinson pmnh Advertising Manager ^ Carolyn Griffin Business Manager rint all letters received. Letters should travel he writer must include full name, pro- at nig Carolina resident, or year and major if catioi are required with all letters sent. The travel for style, possible libel or in case of at nj I not withhold names under any ? Ah distill Cfr^TriW.. 001 goal getting lost i s a brand new year, a brand new decade, jjjSfllllk JSC is that much closer to its 2001 goal of I a world-class state university. And as ?W. ? V , we're starting things off with a bang. s made Playboy magazine. _ Scott >, not the way I wanted us to make it, with \ ips a few scantily clad ladies featured in a ^ s of the Metro Conference" spread. The conservative elements here on campus d have been able to smell a Playboy photo- bIurb olher than our potential ler as soon as he rolled into the city limits. Metro Conference lord knows what would have happened to cn what'c iPfy? whv thp fah if he ever did make it onto campus. 2k. Dr. Ho 5 would have discovered one of the richest in big leUers on the top of ^ sits of collegiate feminine loveliness, only black and white photos of the P promptly tarred and feathered by the uni- an(j thoughtful, one laughing ar ty's Ignorance is Bliss Committee and put tening intenlly l0 a poinled ques e first plane back to Chicago. ever star interviewer Hef happei it now the ladies are saying, "What a per- terrogate Mr. 2001 himself. The He just wants to see that girl he sat next to veal Holderman's good humo ussell House last night without her clothes ideas about higher education USC. What a coup for ol' Caroli So what's the problem? id of course, I would strongly disagree. ru tell you ^ probiem. would have been great if one of our basketplayers had made the annual Playboy all- The problem is that instead o team, but no. We couldn't even get a little thing worthwhile, something a i mnnmm ? jpi for students to tell operational ser- will h Gii I I Inn it vices where lights are out and throug )Tyr CrVITV^Q where they are needed. that is i iiC lZL/I I Un Every fall, "Safety Week" fea- his etc tures safety information from van- the Bit ous groups on- and off-campus. has pu SC can 7t t)0 During this time, safety whistles man. r are given out to be put on keyc- society fp f" "17 lif Anio hains in case of emergencies. and wl APO and the university police ways urge students to call them if they materi, e editor: need a ride at night. Students are never I m writing in response to the not charged ? they are only asked with n written by Terry Wessinger to have patience until their ride stands ding the lack of safety on arrives. Street, 's campus {The Gamecock, More security has been placed ambitii 11). in the garages. This has greatly re- he wai idents like Terry must keep in dnced the amount of vandalism balcon that this campus is in the and theft of cars. a?d w le of a large city. There are Various groups sponsor activi- am ^ ates to separate us from the ties to promote safety such as asked 1 if the city ? which makes us "self-defense" classes. RHA made world! rable at any time during the these classes available in Novem- Wlu USC is never going to be a ber and only two students took ad- inS 10 a where students can walk vantage of them. answer at night without having to If students have any ideas about eterna, over their shoulders. how to make USC even safer, I been o e university's safety commit- suggest they contact an organiza- gives : Jtudent Government, the uni- tion like Student Government, the receiv y police, administrators and university police or the university throug groups have worked hard to safety committee instead of com- f?r it i this campus as safe as possi- .plaining to The Gamecock. They sub of rerry has forgotten about all would appreciate your input. cording eps that have been taken over pro mi ^ - . Z"1 1 1-! ^-11 1' asi year to make this campus v_amey ur^uowsKi Journalism junior his sor 'enty-four call boxes were in- ^e> d so people can phone di- ^0( ! to the police if they feel V^Ill lallCIIlllj see, al! .toned or sec something can Jle|p man tter lighting has also been asized. The "Lightways Map" To the editor: distributed to students and I found the front page article in to make everyone aware of the first issue of The Gamecock safest and most heavily ("Decade might bring shocking ed areas to walk on campus new lifestyles") really interesting, ;ht. It includes the call box lo- a little scary, but interesting. It UC is and tips on safe campus said, with new discoveries and re? like NEVER walk alone sources, there is no limit to what To the ht. man will be able to do. Certainly Hah ;o, lighting cards have been man will continue to develop in By opi buted to the residence halls every area of his life, but one thing all ra< n maze of ridicule this school is slowly but surely getting, they had a little mention about how King Dixon banned the Rolling Stones from Williams-Brice Stadium because that would eventually lead to further decadence like tractor pulls. rRUDEN I got pretty ticked. Then, just to rub salt in my wounds, they mentioned the fact that the marching band isn't allowed to play "Louie Louie" at football games because of God knows whatever reason ranking in the ^ey're giving this week. After that I was really mad. led Playboy in- And it wasn't because they said those nasty lderman's name things about us. If I was a Playboy editor look?age, with three i?g for some humorous stuff to stick in my colrez, one serious umn. I'd think that was great. It's just the sort id the other lis- ?f thing they love to print because it shows tion from what- what ignorant hillbillies the Southern establishis to pick to in- ment is made up of. story would re- What really made me mad is that those things r, good sense, were said at all. and goals for If Dr. Holderman ever hopes to be taken serina ously as a great educator and administrator, he's going to have to take strong measures to see that we don't make fools of ourselves, so that being ridiculed in the national press won't even f printing some- be a small worry. Then we'll really be on the bout how great road to greatness. old true as it always has strated his commitment to ending hout the generations, and apartheid. As a result of his initiathe question of controlling tive, people of all races are entitled rnity or his mortality. Even to legally live together for the first )le in Ecclesiastes says God time in four decades of strict resiit eternity in the hearts of dential segregation. "Jo matter how developed a Clearly, this move by the govis, questions of who am I ernment is just the beginning; a tat am I doing here will al- political testing of the waters that surface. Especially in a ^ warmiy received by the alistic society, as one can international community and the :>e fully satisfied or fulfilled majority of South Africans. Soon loney. Hollywood under- after Planning Minister Hernus it well; in the movie Wall Kriel announced that the governafter Budd Fox, the young ment was "gjvjng pCOpie an opdus broker, got everyt ing tion," the white city managers of ited, he walked out to tic Capetown voted overwhelmingly iy overloo ing an ^ j*n (26-2) to have the entire city dechispered to lmse , o jare(j iegajjy apartheid-free. It is These are rea ques ions important to note that Capetown is k rAol rw?nnln in a upru rnol ' not a small, isolated town; but, inA . stead, the second largest city in e many Americans are turn- c ,u a r .u .u ? t 3 _ , ; South Africa with a thriving popuEastern religions for their , ? e A u ir ? , , , , y ! : lation of over one and a half mil; and working hard for their lion ,c< I life, Christianity having Truly these are items of historic n ^reat ^or so change in South Africa. The gova different answer One ernment and people of South Afcs eternal ^ grace rica have shown that they are dedifaith, not by yourselves, cate(j t0 creating a peaceful, demos a gift of God, not as a re- cratic, post-apartheid society. The works. (Ephesians 2:8) Ac- transition will not be easy, but I to the Bible, God himself wjlj1 president DeKlerk's leadersed eternal life, (John ship, it will be successful. 3) and this life is found in i. He who has the son has James n : who does not have the son gox 12354 i docs not have life. You Columbia, S.C. [ one has to do is acknowlis helplessness without God Pll ri c hQVFC :eive the gift of salvation. Meng Yee football spirit Business senior To the editor: 1/^1 pi*It- ?y|iic;f 1 see i? your recent edition of -I-V"d IIIU.jfie Gamecock that USC is acquirarmlQiirWl ing not one' but TWO pizza Hut dU|JldlllltU restaurants. What will they be called ? "Hut one, Hut two?" editor: (Tell me this town isn't football 5 off to President DeKlerk! crazy0 ening select tracts of land to William F. Willoughby ;es, he has clearly demon- Pathology professor and chairman