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Educate
Bush's new budge
could hurt higher
President Bush's 1991 budget p
hundreds of thousands of college stu
they need to gainHheir post-secondai
Slashes in government funding
Grants, Perkins Student Loans and
could leave as many as 300,000
education scene. Some college offi<
pients will be affected as well.
The proposed $24.6 billion Dep
would shift about $500 million fr
nrnrtromc tn -.1
j/iugioiiii} LU owtUHUtliy CU1U C1CI1ICI1
education programs, one of the large
the 'Trio" programs, through which
disadvantaged students; and Pell Gi
to add 169,000 less-than-half-time s
1991-92 academic year.
In addition, there is a proposed $'
teed Student Loan programs. This c
not eliminate any of the loans, as i
cline in interest rates. College officii
will be hurt if interest rates don't d
dents along with it.
Many educators even used the
Bush's committment to education.
Now Bush, of all people, should
tion to anyone wanting to succeed in
It is almost impossible to get a de
promotion right out of high school,
lest Companies, want to see that colle
the competence of the applicant.
i- ?ii j
rcupic wiui cunege aegrees ? rej
? are more likely to get a job than t
a fact.
There is a positive side, though. T1
It has yet to go through Congress citizens
can help.
Write to your Congressmen ? yc
your state senators. Tell them how
would be. Tell them about the detrim
the future of the U.S. Let them know
And maybe, this gross mistake cai
into action.
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Robert D. Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
JEFF WILSON, News Editor ROBYN
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teddy lepp, Photo Editor kelly
robb lane, Graphics.
Lynn Gibson
Assistant News Editor
Elizabeth Lynch
Assistant Carolina Life Editor
Deborah Ryan
Assistant Photo Editor
Kristin Francis
Graduate Assistant
ed bonza
D irector of Student Media
ray burgos
Assistant Production Manager
Jeffrey B. Thompson
Assistant Advertsing Manager
Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print
be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The '
fessional title if a USC employee or South Can
a student. An address and phone number are
Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters foi
space limitations. The newspaper will n
circumstance.
t proposal
education
roposal, if passed, will leave
idents without the financial aid
ry education.
[ of State Student Incentive
College Work-Study awards
students out of the higher
;ials fear that Pell Grant reci?artment
of Education budget /^J
om post-secondary education 'IM
tary education. Among higher au
;st increases would be given to
i institutions recruit and retain SB
rant funds would be increased vN
tudents to the program for the
730 million cut in the Guaran:ut,
administrators said, would ijK
t is based on an expected de- S
lis said, however, the program
lecrease, and hundreds of stubudget
proposal to question m
realize the importance educathe
business world today.
jcent job with possibilities for
Employers, even at the smalige
degree ? or they question
*ardless of their field of study
hose without a degree . . . it's
TO in J
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>ur district representative and ^^1
unfair the proposed budget
ental impact it would have on
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Production Manager cess body
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RENEEATKINSON of soci {
Advertising Manager move or gi1
Carolyn Griffin order to bei
Business Manager ope> where
all letters received. Letters should
writer must include full name, pro- able tor a
olina resident, or year and major if hair,
required with all letters sent. The jn closin
r style, possible libel or in case of AND worn
ot withhold names under any
another on
nationality,
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lior Challenge picks
j her face on the screen, and you think ^|^fc ^
f that she looks vaguely familiar. Her ^HpnjjBj^
1 is one of begging and pleading, with fPJ^|
tained tears leaving black trails down
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a i-ouv nuuiuci superimposed ai me OUUI I KKUI
the screen, and the woman keeps re- / * y
over and over, asking for you to
id in your donation for this worthy ^
At that point I threw the letter aw
^ \ maybe we did have some wild times
lecking account is empty, but you feel Mane-Louise, but obviously I wasn't
sing drawn by her plea in the name of ested. That's a hint to stop writing m<
rthy cause. You just can't bring your- ters. My girlfriend can get prett]
te the check. sometimes.
3 USC's Senior Challenge isn't that Then Monday night, as I was rel;
>r cryin' out loud, gang. Lay off. doing some studying, my good bu
the last week and a half, I, and I'm (who?) over at the Senior Challenge
r of my senior brothers and sisters, ters gave me a buzz and said Scott, c
ved a cordial little note from our be- do you think you could find it in you
dent Government president recalling make a donation in excess of $100 t
inderful, exciting and educational ex- loved alma mater?
we've had together at USC. I said you must be calling from
inately, I didn't know what Marie- Hospital Senior Challenge if you thin!
imsdale looked like until about four that kind of cash, brother.
50, so I don't know how we could So he proceeded to run down a list
t all those great times together with- amounts I could pledge, all the way
nowing. I guess she just wasn't that what he thought would be a very re
'ex) bad. amount. He seemed pretty. appalled
|frin pAnl J diting people with their abilities, Casualties is
Lmfl CUUlil determination and predictable fi
., accomplishments. as well as it
J F tlieF Evelyne Steck For Bowden
Foreign languages graduate getting the C
or so deserves i:
nite to congratulate col- PrQlCPfl ITIIWIP die samc
yLoomis on her editor- * raiSCQ mOVIC Platoon Anc
Feb. 2 edition of The rrr*r*rl sphemy- In te
. Even though it was IlOt Mat gOOCl ten. atmospl
h a humorous angle, it ~se' F atoon
?ht on a situation where To the editor: te ir
frequently degraded. For the most part, I enjoy David At the te '
;orial could have gone Bowden's movie reviews in The . ..
>ugh. Patronizing names Gamecock and his stories about the ? .*j^rs ?(
y, sugar, etc ... ) are film industry. However, I find it ir- ?". *
y way women are being ritating that he so persistently and _ _,, W1
Mr place." Women are stubbornly praises and defends one sen ,constanl
I into a lower position of 1989's most disappointing mo- watc > impatu
in the workplace and vies, Casualties of War. movie (and m.
ir appearance. He seems shocked that this film ^enf^s were 2
' workplace: I read re- will most probably (hopefully) get - ? tllm simP
t the average woman no major Oscar nominations. Pf;ered nolhl
cents to every dollar a "How can this be?," he whines to before;.
While this is an im- readers. Bowden lauds everything Most great
from 10 years ago (as about this film and sings praises really m
icle), it is still an insuf- about the acting of Sean Penn, scenes or lin
i to women s equality, which was no better than the per- your mind lor
st be paid a dollar for a formances he's given in his last the film. This
rth of work. few films. Penn's co-star, Michael sualties ofWa
their appearance (one J. Fox, on the other hand, deliv- able thing abc
it of many): A woman ered a finer performance in last felt when it wa
to remove certain "ex- summer's bore, showing that he
hair in order to be con- can play more than the little Me
ictive. This is symbolic angelic boy next door.
orcing a woman to re- But Casualties of War gives the
vc up part of herself in movie-going public nothing new. It
ong to society. In Eur- deals with the kidnapping and rape r] jpf Qf
women enjoy a greater of a Vietnamese girl. However, we
ality, it is more accept- already saw this in Platoon ? and
woman to have body in only five minutes. We got the To the editor:
point. Casualties of War tries to Your news !
g, we must all (men beat you in the head with it. the Jan. 26 ec
en) stop judging one Why Bowden has felt compelled U.S. Senate's
sex, age, appearance, to defend this film (in no fewer dent Bush's
race, etc. and start ere- than three columns) is beyond me. would have al
wrong pockets
turned down that last one, but there was just no
way.
I hung up, but realized I probably should've
given this guy a good verbal thrashing. It seems
that the Senior Challenge folks have it in their
DEN greedy little heads that everyone at USC is out
scooting around in BMWs and sporting Polo
wardrobes, so they'll surely have enough dough
to fork over for Carolina.
ay. Heck, Well, wake up gang. Seniors are dirt poor,
; together, and worse than that, they're more than likely in
too inter- debt as well.
j love let- I'm sure if you look up "college senior" in
y jealous the dictionary there'll be a picture of me getting
muscled up by someone named Vito, saying
axing and that whether or not I retain some of my most
ddy J. J. treasured body parts depends on how soon I re
headquar- pay my mamtoid debts to the Carolina phone
>r buddy, cops.
r heart to So let's put this in perspective for our money
o the be- grubbing leader. Wait until we make some money,
sweetie. We are the future big income
the State group, but we've got to graduate first for that to
:I've got do anybody any good. After I get my own car,
a place of my own and maybe some pissant
of other little job on a community newspaper, then
down to Marie-Louise, you can send me all the love letiasonable
ters you want. Just don't make 'em too steamy,
when I Can't forget about the jealous girlfriend.
simply a slow, dull, dents studying in the U.S. to relm.
It was lucky to do main here indefinitely, neglected to
did in the box office, include a very important statement
to gripe about it not from the president.
)scar consideration it
> to imply that it is in Bush said flatly that as long as
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1 that would be bla- fearing persecution back home for
rms of script, charac- participating in pro-democracy dehere
and everything monstrations here would be sent
is a far superior film, back against his or her will.
War should not even _ T .
i the same breath But 1 "ie inclusion of that
nning of Ihe summer, duote would have rendered Ron
)r Casualties looked ?akfr a biased news reP?n (read
iwever, while seeing the lead Paragraph) ? noi to menfriends,
I found my- uon ^ editorial ~ P?mllcsstly
glancing at my Bush said the real showdown
;ntly waiting for this was not over foreign students- *"
y misery) to end. My foreign policy and who
ilso disappointed that sho"ld dlccale " ~ President
lydidnotdehver.lt ?the Congress,
ng we hadn t seen The president should, without a
doubt. If Congress got its two
films contain some- cents in on every facet of foreign
emorable ? special policy, Noriega probably still
>s that stand out in would be running Panama, the
ig after you've seen Sandinistas probably would have
was absent in Ca- expanded beyond Nicaragua and
r Thp mnct mAm/vr Eastern Eurnnf*. nrnhfihlv still
x??v IIIVJl IilVUlV/i ~ r " r>ut
it was the joy I would be dreaming of democracy,
is over. Yes, Bush's friendly overtures
Jeff Miller toward China so soon after that
dia arts sophomore country's crackdown on prodemocracy
demonstators have been
ShOUld unfortunate. But he has declared
that the Chinese students here will
p flollPV not ^)ecorne Paw05 ^ a diplomatic
^ chess game. Congress should trust
him ? and not try to usurp his
chief executive authority,
story and editorial in The Gamecock should trust him,
iition, regarding the too ? and not put an ideological
upholding of Presi- slant in the news section,
veto of a bill that Patrick Jean
[lowed Chinese stu- Journalism alumnus