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VIEWPOINT Friday, February 16,1990 * The Gamecock 3 Rights Student Senate mc in recognizing ho The Student Senate last wee equal opportunity clause so that This is the first such policy i mosexuals at USC. By including homosexuals i simply gives them the same rigl In a country supposedly built vidual liberties, it is a tragedy 1 nation evident in the United St; of ideas and expression is so v; tragedy that our freedoms of ir tain majorities. The Senate should be applai feared and least understood min "By bringin this out into dis aware of what their (homose? bad," said Manish Shrivastava, tee member. "We are trying to c what's right and what's wrong.' The Student Senate did wha Holderman and the Board of T prove the resolution. M A V > KMT ur jjj^ A The Gc Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief Jeff Wilson, News Editor ] scott pruden, Carolina Life E teddy lepp, Photo Editor Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor Elizabeth Lynch Assistant Carolina Life Editor Deborah Ryan Assistant Photo Editor Renee Meyeb Kristin Francis Graduate Assistant ed bonza Director of Student Media Ray Burgos Assistant Production Manager Jeffrey B. Thompson Assistant Adverlsing Manager Letters Policy: The Gamecock will tr be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words Ic fessional title if a USC employee or S a student. An address and phone nu Gamecock reserves the right to edit space limitations. The newspap* circumstance. I#pp ide right decision mosexual rights . ;k passed a resolution revising its m / would include homosexuals. If/j regarding the discrimination of ho- ^ n the equal opportunity clause, it its as other minorities. f on the ideals of freedom and indi- y hat there is still so much discrimi- f A ites. In a world where the freedom m l J alued by so many countries, it is a B[| linorities are being limited by cer- 1 I jded for standing up for the most iw. ority ? homosexuals. /J I cussion, it will make people more if ;uals) situation is; and it's pretty jm I a Senate Minority Affairs Commit- mm lo the right thing. It's a question of ' /' > * t's right. Now it's up to President , 'rustees to do what's right and apLI6HT ?/9 South Carol their tail ends. Not when t imecock "ssr license tag. ? I was riding Kathy Blackwell when 1 first ^ Managing Editor "Alaska" or, g< iOBYN THOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief I spotted a fun :ditor JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor Carolina ROBB LANE, Graphics/Comics Editor Now, I've li1 wasn't sure w! that tree limb. Lucy Soto the executive Assistant News Editor ment? Joe Ride brant Long our own Caroli Assistant Sports Editor jt wasn't a tTO Sharon Williamson our state flov Assistant Copy Desk Chief what's the prot First of all, I *> Darkroom Technician yellow and bro And the real Erik Collins slate leg155131" Faculty Adviser back and a lig LAURA S. DAY Production Manager I figured Joe RENEE ATKINSON he did cos Advertising Manager jhe highwa Carolyn Griffin new license pi Business Manager house. It has a icy, he told m colors. y to print all letters received. Letters should , T >ng. The writer must include full name, pro- ?kay. 1 ;outh Carolina resident, or year and major if money. mber are required with all letters sent. The But there is I letters for style, possible libel or in case of when he 3r will not withhold names under any ' . . your own joke can hardb m ^1JU horace, - W YOU PET "?T~ iU' P?o? A mve Hunting iu icai 11 tie editorial cartoon in The State rsday, you might have giggled. ows a Frankenstein-like laborat- Intist yelling "It's alive." "It" is a STEPHEN Hitler/Frankenstein-like creature ' s) p.... rrvyi F reunification written on it. Its ?? OUILrUYLC n a Nazi-like "Sieg heil" salute. m ~ State cartoonist Robert Arial ]imff/ f something to fear from a reuni- i ? another nationalist movement ^orld War in or something. umnist Jimmy Breslin told himself. So next to the cartoon said "The to France, just to make sure. He went t nuscular nation of 78 million in town just miles from the German b rope does not exactly excite the town where, when Germans got agj tattled Nazi Germany" in World they always attacked first. Breslin went and talked to the lib that town, whose parents were killed alls came tumbling down before Germans invaded in World War II. the prospect of a reunified Ger- Her reaction? It is so beautiful thai : mentioned, I read some com- Germanys are getting back together. Ii ing Englishmen who served in German families were split up by the similar to our American Legion. ing of Germany, which the United Sta hat, once reunified, Germany land, France and the Soviet Union for an assault almost immediately. Germany after the war (but it was i revel in war. They make it look tended to be permanent). Those xiividec in. could now live as one. Families shoul n't captured during World War forced to split up, the librarian said, ' Europe became a Nazi play- came from a family broken up at gur should find out first what other Nazi stormtroopers. To her, East and V : to think about reunification. many are families that need to ? s what New York Newsday col- together. nse plates are ugly, b inians are a little upset about ^ hey're walking or sitting, but ffPHIHHl S.C. is up in arms about the new Jf 9 HE*p ? " Brant Loni with a friend down the interstate w the lovely new creation. I was ither autos, occasionally hoping mjm ike excitement of finding an i>lly-gee Beav, a "Hawaii," when ^ ? - . . rami Jor,'* ny looking tag 1 had never seen awil?10,11 auuiuillfi UPhark, the plate said "South 1 &ot y?u now> Joered here all of ray life, but I still Joe had a"?tder s Ple re*Pons< hat kind of bird was sitting on da "Wf about U I was dehghted when 1 talked to sa,d ^reh S?> director of the highway depart- a'staat d'rcctor/tde M?tor Vehlcle? :outte. He told me the bird was the department, conce.ved na wren and that, to my suprise, tw? and a ha'f/? ttoee ^ a??- 31 e limb it was resting on, it was aul*d d'fferem s0"ces,on 1,01 /er, the yellow jessamine. So, looked designmg the plate. >lem? I guess the tail wasn't up on those le said the wren on our plate was tures. But this does prove that the bi wn. "And?" I asked. plate is a Carolina wren ... or tha Carolina wren, according to the some books. iq. Manual, is a rufous-red on its Joe and his staff probably think the; ;hter color on its underparts. As now. 3 say, "kinda makes you say, The most common complaint I've t!."' out the plates isn't that the bird is might know the answer . . . and that the color is off, but that they are ;t was the problem, he told me. ugly. y department tried to keep the Georgia's new plates are a lov< ate endeavor low-budget and in- color, with a cute peach in place of Iso always been this state's pol- Georgia, while ours are yellow, green ic, to keep the plate only three a chair, kids, brown. I put the question to Joe. guess it does save the tax payers "People were 5:1 in favor of the d said. "Now, reading the paper, it's not another complaint. The tail of the I'll accept that answer, j is excited, stands erect (insert Since it is my column, I guess it': here). But on the plate, the bird's my thoughts (music please, Sammy). i be seen . .. and what can be First, with DUI cases running ra I |F ^ < -rrlo-r/i^r - ii I ^ om reunification Brcslin found a French Jewish doctor who was put in a concentration camp after the Ger n man invasion. The doctor's reaction was the same. You see, the doctor and the librarian and all the others Breslin talked to did not make the - mistake that the English veterans and The State's cartoonist made. The doctor and the librarian, who have real reason to be afraid, are not because they did not make the mistake of thinking that all Germans he went ar^ still Nazi Germans. 0 a little The national socialism movement bred by order, a Adolf Hitler and his cronies created a hysteria ^ressive, and paranoia that had no other outlet but war and mass extermination of all those opposed to rarian of it. when the If you fear the Germans, it is because you are mistaking them for Nazis. They are not Nazis : the two anymore. ndividual They fear the beasts that Adolf Hitler tricked partition- them into becoming, so much so that a few tes, Eng- years back, a concert by the group Kiss was ced upon cancelled because the double-S at the end of the lever in- group's name looked like the symbol of the 1 families German S.S., the dreaded security police force Id not be headed by Heinrich Himmler that was directly and she responsible for running the concentration and lpoint by extermination camps. Vest Ger- This is a new world. Peace and goodwill on ;et back earth are becoming more than slogans on Christmas cards. ut they're ours over the country, why worry about license plates? (Joe snuck in a thought here). "We're proud of our state," he said. And a license plate shows that. O.K., maybe it does, but when some drunk G scum hits me and my wife one day, I'm going to take that cutesy, "proud o' my state," license plate and put it right in this guy's . . . (more reader participation ? insert another one of your own words here). I do see Joe's point, though. As I travel life's highways and byways, it would be nice to hear someone say, "That car's a piece of crap, but . , ain't his license plate pretty?" * T wi sh I think it was a simple case of not knowing te tai, e ajj facts even p^s were not ourner, as- supposed to be an Audobon-type portrait There Division at should be no blame on the highway department [ this idea Qr ^ ^esjgner 0f the plate. So Georgia's id he con- hcense piate js prettier than ours ? we beat V the bird them ta f00lball And it did save us money. So the colors are ; two pic- oti. As someone said, the palmetto tree isn t ird on the blue, as on our previous plates showed. Those it it is in weren't too bad. Yet, I am still taken aback by cries of "it's y have me ugty" and "h looks like something from the '70s." heard ab- The highway department has recently won wrong, or numerous awards for its "Highways or Diejust plain ways" campaign and for the "Adopt-aHighway" program. Why leap on them about fly peach license plates? the 4o' in Shoot, half the students at USC have personand, grab alized plates. You can choose your poison then. Either the bird and flower or a lovely coastal scene plate, that, boys and girls, rivals esign," he Georgia's. pretty." So the colors are off, the tail isn't erect (I didn't say a word), and it's ugly, it is your s time for plate. Support it, care for it and fly it proudly. If you want a comment on how good your plate mpant all looks, drive to Alaska.