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Viewpoint Wednesday, January 31,1990 The Gamecock 3 Budget Bush's 1991 little more than C President Bush has just released budget amounts to $1.23 trillion, U.S. save, be more productive and tive world. It doesn't increase ? nearly $16 billion in specific tax ii service and user fees. The budget increases spending portation, agriculture, education, e it cuts Pentagon spending and clos military bases). It depletes fundi relief. But where is there any provis federal deficit? The budget does meet the Grai duction target ? that promises a does so by drastically increasing local and long-distance phone cal taxes (8 to 10 percent). The 1991 budget proposal wc venues and $1.23 trillion in spend still be more than $63 billion. Is t! ever trying to lower the deficit? If edge in the competitive world, go their maturity and ability to handle How much does the average P balance his checkbook? How man; into with that man? How often w his business? Not very. The Bush proposal is little m strategies handed to the U.S. in worded and given a new name. It's kind of like calling your mr ''WHAT AH IRRESPOHSIBll WIH6 TO SAVE M iip << The Ga Robert d. Thomas Editor-in-Chief jeff wilson, News Editor R< scott pruden, Carolina Life Ec teddy lepp, Photo Editor K robb Lane, Gi Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor 1^1 T7 A T>T?nPT? T t/XTCTT ; Assistant Carolina Life Editor ; Deborah Ryan I Assistant Photo Editor v Kristin Francis Graduate Assistant ' ED BONZA 1 Director of Student Media i Ray Burgos I Assistant Production Manager Jeffrey B. Thompson Assistant Advertsing Manager -Letters Policy: The Gamecock will tq be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words lo fessional title if a USC employee or S< a student. An address and phone nur Gamecock reserves the right to edit I I space limitations. The newspape I circumstance. m ]et proposal rOP re-hash i his budget plans for 1991. The and, Bush said, will help the keep an "edge" in the competi;eneral taxes but would create lcreases and almost $6 billion in for, among other things, transnvironment and defense (though es or realigns more than 70 U.S. ing for things such as disaster ion for lowering the enormous nm-Rudman-Hollings deficit re- J i balanced budget by 1993, but /A specific taxes, such as those on 1//J [Is (3 percent) and airline ticket /[XMI iuld create $1.17 trillion in re- MlMMk ing. Therefore, the deficit would he U.S. government planning on the U.S. really wants to keep an rfMww, vemment officials need to show i a budget. American trust a man who can't y financial ventures will he enter ould he trust him to watch over -wHe ore than all of the Republican the past decade ? merely reExperienc itt Phydo. often brings than we w( life is reall; idealistic vi : THIH6 TOVO WHEH WE'RE moHELemciTrr ing? ^ things have of weeks, it rf Well, it d | ) \ wanting \ I | (J day, I saw i ^ - ards me. M JL^r*h for him an through. iJT?5 "v <V At this i STV/' \\ V\ \\ N mixed expr jf~. a smile, sail SOCIAL V\ ^-pj way. SECURITY |& Hoping I litU 77ie Game correct mi: the Sports me sp student off that the sp 180 degr budgets to g in error, b imecock ^ budgets th KATHY BLACKWELL '"udT'clS Managing Editor maybe th would hav OBYN THOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief In the iitor JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor Club Coui JELLY C. THOMAS, Viewpoint Editor increased raphics/Comics Editor an imPrm senators ? deeper an Lucy Soto they woul Assistant News Editor cess spor Brant Long monies is Assistant Sports Editor process, g Sharon Williamson portunity i Assistant Copy Desk Chief ? Also, il Erik Collins computer Faculty Adviser questions Lauras.Day tureiy. h Production Manager who State* renlla Advertising Manager carolyn griffin ^ four Business Manager $25Q has t to print all letters received. Letters should above adt ng. The writer must include full name, pro- was inde< auth Carolina resident, or year and major if somebod; nber are required with all letters sent. The digging ' etters for style, possible libel or in case of . t will not withhold names under any were sub not revise Ute^Tri bene m x SuppT Iping handicapp :e brings knowledge, and knowledge ^ i a much grayer view of the world * >uld like to see. Sometimes, when r Sl y groovy, I tend to have a sort of M5"* ew of things and am often caught P rw y reality. Maybe my parents were the rose-colored glasses. ? realizations have a habit of shatter- M le world at these times and, since r" *8 * *.**?*?*> been really groovy the last couple was bound to happen. on crutches. Again, I id. and was met with th into the Russell House the other the guy in the wheelc a guy in a wheelchair coming tow- The other inciden y first instinct was to stop and wait and flew into my coi d hold the door open as he went hit with a realization. These people lite xiint, he looked up at me with a and surprised about ession of thanks and incredulity and taking time to help tl d "Thank you," and continued on his I heard thing's-groovy/utopu hadn't offended him, I went on, and through the chasms c it was soon stashed away in some sound here) there it \ artment of my mind. But not for I guess I had tho the handicapped ? /ay to class in the Humanities build- pure courtesy. I gu d to see if anyone was behind me (so people realized hou li the door fly back into someone's can be to get througl jaw a guy coming towards the door without the ability 1 TERS TO THE EDITC ? m 1 . ill 1?? Mmmm 9mmW 1 1 ^ or ^orm before aPProvcd Vk/ JU11UIU J Maybe in the future people v rCSpOIlSG not ^ so quick to criticize a p * cess they are not familiar with,' a we can all woik together to sei . . ? ,, the students we claim to represe ise to articles and letters T , T, ... u u . , Lynn and I hope that we have be >r in previous editions ot /. . , ; ix able to represent the much i cock, we would like to , . , . . 4 c .. ? sunderslood ideas about ^ SP? oris Club0 Council is of 17 clubs with five Sports Club Councl1 Pres'dl leers. It has been quoted v Jn" . ,e , . , Equestrian Club Presidt >orts clubs have taken a M ee turn in presenting , Senate Finance. That is r^nnV-lTlol/pp ecause if either the jour- IIHUVCl ^TToT" doesn't refun< at the sports clubs have they would have seen To the editor: r itemized budgets and The shuttering shock of inj e 180 degree changes ^ce. ^es' a babbling fool. An e been in their thinking. considerate ingrate to say the most very least. Universal is same sense, the Sports word, the first word in dread ncil believes the idea of service. Copies, the last wo MUUC11L yai u^ipauwn u equaling uie lasi unic auyuno v 'ement. However, if the a conscience should go to the tsking for this had dug called worldly reprint shop of I d reviewed all the facts, versal Copies (located at Coll d have seen that the pro- and Main streets), t clubs use to allocate indeed a very equitable Upon one cheery noon-timt living each club fair op- entered Universal Copies to ret in receiving said monies. a printed book I had purchased day before. After request t is unfortunate that the monetary refund for the materiz that has raised so many Was told in monotone manner was purchased prema- the owner that I could not retun owever, if the senator He stated the reasons of: He d in Monday's letter that too many already, the professor iter was not approved by dered a certain number and lministrators had probed could not accept them back, to this matter, he would would have to throw the b id that any purchase over away and he would have to eat to be approved by the After I turned away to walk ninistration, and that this the intellect said, "better you I ed the case. In the end, me." I uttered the same and c y must have done such mented on his cranial area. I 1 and probing into these thus vowed to never return to ! >cause the budgets that a poorly-managed and rudely mitted in October were place again. I know of others :d or changed in any way have had similar occurences t * yWsr* ^y and Demand. ed is not ha legs. I guess commonplac I guess I \ KPI 1 V C* handi !p do need our THOMAS we (or they) Granted, 1 headed hand body for tryi by myself. . held the door back for him you're not c e same type of reaction as am," as I he :hair gave me. ity of those t instantly unstashed itself crutches or isciousness. And, lo! I was deaf or eve their ankle ; rally WERE both pleased little help or the fact that someone was Don't we tern. looking dov the every- They won't i-shattering bomb whizzing their indepe )f my mind, and (explosion Most like vas. "Thank you ught people always helped bewildered ; not out of pity, but out of Take son ess I had always thought ery now ane r awkward and difficult it you get. Tl h a manually operated door one step cle d use both arms and both into my hea 2B in as well. Hereby, I request all students and professors not to patronrill ize this "establishment." I have ro- written this in self restraint and in md a calm but aggressive manner, rve Peace. nt. Jeff Gaines sen Marketing senior le2 Legal drugs could do good mt To the editor: If alcohol is abused, it can contribute to or plain-out cause sickiness and mental psychosis. Same story is true with marijuana. If too much alcohol is consumed us. in too short a time, it can be lethal, in- Not true with marijuana, ut- If tobacco is smoked all day evthe ery day for years on end, it can Iful cause various illnesses. Same with ird, marijuana. /ith If used in moderation, alcohol, so tobacco and marijuana can be very Jni- enjoyable for those who choose to ege use them. Why is marijuana illegal? If it was legal, the government could j, I tax it and feed the poor (as if the ffnvp.mmp.nt was concerned about -Ulll the the poor. They would probably ing build bombs with the money). If il, I marijuana was legal, it would put by virtually every marijuana dealer in i it the country out of business. It had would take a big bite out of crime, or- Didn't illegal liquor disappear he when prohibition was repealed? he America is choking on its phoook ney morality. It's time to give up it. the Cleaver family mentality and out, try reality for a change, both sothan cially and politically, omiave P.S. Everybody start recycling such now or our planet is going to turn -run into a giant garbage heap. It is a who beautiful planet, you know, here Mike Fair, quit worrying about jjl^ rd to do : I thought what I was doing was e. vas wrong. caDDcd. while they are not helpless, help every now and then, whether want to admit it or not. [here will always be a few strongicapped people who will chastise a tng to help, ("I can do it just as well Just because I'm handicapped and loesn't make you any better than I ard it put one- time). But the major; in wheelchairs, or walking with canes or walkers, or the blind or n those who have merely twisted and have to limp are grateful for a ice in a while. >rry ? they won't think you are m on them or making fun of them, see you as someone who threatens ndence or invades their territory, ly, they will give you a very polite, i," along with a half-thankful, halfsmile. le time to help the handicapped ev1 then ? or, better yet, every chance ten, maybe, the real world can be user to my rosy little land that pops d when things are going groovy. our sex lives and get a 5-cent deposit on bottles and cans so people won't throw them out their car windows. P.S.S. Everybody listen to Jane's Addiction. Dan Jones Media' arts senior Registration still difficult To the editor: After attending USC part-time for 10 years, I am happily closing in on summer graduation. Although I hope to never have -to endure another spring or fall walk-in registration, I would like * - ? ? * ? ?~aUah# tKn lO niUKC a 1CW ICIUOIM auuui Uiv system. It is incredible to me that the registration experience in spring 1990 was just as awful as it was for me as a freshman in fall 1980. In a decade, the university has grown in stature, wealth and size, but, for reasons that elude me, registration remains basically the same: terminally long lines staffed by surly workers. TIPS gave me hope. But I registered by telephone only to discover that I had to wait an hour in line and go through the scanner to get a bill anyway. What, really, is the USE? Students ? supposedly the most important element of a university ? appear to be nothing more than an annoyance to the workers who staff registration in tne mepnani Room and on the concourse. And because they wield the power, we students must meekly put up with their rudeness and impatience. It is my sincere hope that some of these problems are resolved in the NEXT decade, although I am skeptical, given the "progress" made in the '80s. Jennifer Nicholson Journalism senior