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VIEWPOINT Wednesday, March 7, 1990 The Gamecock 3 Confident Gov. Campbell he about being re-ele He sits in his office, perched anc Carroll Campbell, the esteemed waiting there, waiting for someo South Carolina's political game of He seems to be smiling in aim He's so confident because he kn< he knows that he's got nothing to v He's doesn't have any oppositioi O rrn. x m' + _t it r\ o * aens. meo iviucneii, u-ureenvi Charleston, are his only announci he's confident. Mitchell is a black senator who two reasons ? he's had enough o the recent election of David Dinki Douglas Wilder as governor of V they have a changed. Campbell smiles because he kn City or Virginia. Mitchell hasn't gc Passailaigue is no better. He is Partywise, he is an outsider. He h than a full term, and he intends tc means he is going to appeal to th< mill worker. It sounds great. But the fact that Mitchell and I considerable experience who wil against because of his skin color, a who will pick up the racist/preju cause one thing. A split in the part} ination will face the imoossible ta fast enough to take on Campbell. Add the fact that Campbell is < ered one of two "Heroes of Hugo,' at least four more years of Repub office. Campbell says he likes being gc will believe him, because it's true. In fact, Campbell will probably ? ing to get a fellow GOP member el Right now, the situation in tha Campbell's. Lt. Gov. Nick Theodc facing no announced opposition fo tion. But two Republicans have all run for the GOP nomination, seekii Campbell holds all the cards, ai full house. He's got reason to smile VJUUU JUI Ramsdale serves obtains most cam\ Student Government President ft last day in office today as Stephen this afternoon. Ramsdale did an exceptional job unexpectional leaders. She accomplished many tasks: re parking lot from parking officials faculty lot, helping to have a $3 mi placed on the university's master ] students and S.G. well. But, two things are synonymoii safety and call boxes. Ramsdale's administration worke pus safety through implementing a indicating the best lit walkways on Although USC still needs more versity is aeiiniteiy sater because 01 You have served USC well, Ram The Gai Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief Jeff Wilson, News Editor Rob SCOTT PRUDEN, Carolina Life Editor TEDDY LEPP, Photo Editor RO Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor Elizabeth Lynch Assistant Carolina Life Editor Deborah Ryan Assistant Photo Editor Renee Meyer Darkroom Technician Kristin Francis Graduate Assistant ED BONZA Director of Student Media RAY BURGOS Assistant Production Manager Jeffrey B. Thompson Assistant Advertising Manager Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to p be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. 1 fessional title if a USC employee or South a student. An address and phone number Gamecock reserves the right to edit letter space limitations. The newspaper wi circumstance. m r MMo is jew worries 7cted to office 1 confident, just waiting. 1 governor of this state, is just ne to come knock him off in \ King of Capitol Hill. ost all recent photographs. dws the people of this state, and & ] vorry about. \ d i. Not real opposition. T-ko v4 ille, and Ernie Passailaigue, Ded opponents. And that's why decided to run for governor for f Carroll CamDbell and he took ns as mayor of New York and irginia as a sign that the times \ ^ ows this state is no New York jw/ilmk )t a chance against Campbell. a Democrat basically in name, as only been a senator for less ? run a populist campaign. That 5 little man, the farmer and the 3assailaigue ? a black man of 11 be discounted and/or voted w ind an inexperienced white man diced white vote ? will only \ ^3 /. Whoever wins the party nom- ^ sk of reuniting a divided party ^ i popular governor and consid' and South Carolina is looking lican control of the governor's ivernor of this state, and people spend much of this election tryected lieutenant governor. M ^ t office is much the same, as IV1 ire is a popular official who is r the Democratic Party nomina- a letter in ready announced they intend to tion because lg to unseat Theodore. what some f( id he's got an aces over kings Myself bein| eral organiza And what pear, but the knator Joe W dUJgllldllllg ticians have open-minded students well, son lsn'lany 7 The letter new governi in Nicaragi darie-Louise Ramsdale has her NBC's Toda Benjamin will be inauguarated the presidei what? > in an office that often attracts The letter not want to .. r 4 A of the world covering a portion of a student real contribu who wanted to turn it into a And on tb illion 500 space parking garage Wilson se< ?lan for 1991 and representing ion that foi promoted to is with Ramsdale, and that is Joe. That mi ilk, but the i ;d tirelessly at improving camill boxes and publishing a map campus. Lfc I safety improvements, the uni7 Ramsdale. o sdaie. Senal over necock the Senate KATHY BLACKWELL ^c'fuemple Managing Editor menian peop bedfellows a yn thompson, Copy Desk Chief pla,cef In ia ' and denounc JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor government LANE, Graphics/Comics Editor mented a gei took the livei nians are per Lucy soto Sens. Kerry, /Assistant News Editor Kan., and He Brant Long promising wi Assistant Sports Editor that nothing Sharon Williamson from geuin? Assistant Copy Desk Chief passed, Geo Kathy Heberger wilh sen nu Assistant to the Editors *0 Oppose measure. ^ ^ The arguir Erik Collins nowiedging Faculty Adviser fold (with ea* laura s. Day of the other Production Manager Turkey, a Nv RENEE ATKINSON poses the res Advertising Manager that the Unit* Carolyn Griffin interests in Business Manager Balkans that if Turkey we of course, th >rint all letters received. Letters should ken to oppos 'he writer must include full name, pro- Africa that Carolina resident, or year and major if pT . are required with all letters sent. The . s for style, possible libel or in case of against impc II not withhold names under any munists. Mr. would presui the \|ChiCa#Tnkune dia won't make yesterday's State caught my atten- jtk it was yet another diatribe against PP Wk 3lks like to call the "liberal" media. ** y I a member of this monolithic lib- * tion, I read on. , *T" Qp. to my wondering eyes should ap- ^ name of South Carolina State Seilson signed at the bottom of this fejt of opinion. South Carolina policing history of always remaining P*ace 's 10 ma^e dihul any subject, and Sen. Wil- godhood. fferent. The closest anyon John F. Kennedy, par complains that when the news of many people to excel, nents being democratically elected was cut short and he la and Lithuania was broadcast, the potential many p y Show "failed to mention or credit strated. But everyone it who made this possible." Say He fooled around wit U.S. deeper in the quii continued, "The liberal media do but ignored the racial I hail Ronald Reagan, but the people So, here we are we and history will forever cherish his but his blind minions tion to world peace." sound like everything at lofty note, the letter ended. vicinity of the Reaga ems to have the mistaken impress- man's personal doing, mer President Reagan has been Buuzzzzzz. That's i demi-god status. Well wake up, joining us. We have av be the case with vou and vour nrizes for von. nain reason the press exists in the If I attributed the s j""*! ! ? j l which, while having little practical It IlgfllS or even moral effect, is certainly rp I less costly politically. Presumably X urkey outrages committed prior to the " Napoleonic Wars may also be safely condemned, battle is shaping up in other line of argument holds , concerning what diat the incident in question is inonce described as deed jn question. Senator Byrd, ;d genocide of the Ar- D-W.Va., wearing his ignorance as ?le, which is getting a badge, feels that historians alone nd integrities all mis- should judge history; he has his vor of acknowledging doubts that the whole affair ? de :ing that the Turkish Spjte personal testimony from surplanned and imple- vivors, Turkish government melocidal campaign that mos at t^e time, eyewitness reports > of 1.5 million Arme- American officials, and physisonalities as varied as caj evidence attesting to the pre, D-Maine, Dole, R- meditated extermination of an en1ms, R-N.C. Although tire population ? ever took place, lile running for office Qne may WOnder what hope exwould prevent him jsts f0r the United States to oppose thic VAft; rri cl Q tirvn - ? .wjr present numan rights atrocities, rge Bush has joined such as our military allies currently and otheiJ carry out in El Salvador and Israel, this unprudent we as a natjon cannot even recognize and condemn a sevenicnt against even ack- decade-old abuse by a country we the massacre is two- were tjien at waf Qf cef_ ^ being contradictory ^ senators fear tjiat ^ next \ -rr?n n PTl \S 1 at nowledged genocide to be the one i t-3 y' y ?P" the United States (successfully) ,unn carried out against the North *i L?aScStrateg'S A Aan natives? the Middle East and John Hanson would be jeopardized uSC exchange student re so insulted. Thts is. at Univ. of Mass. ie same argument tae sanctions for South I"l?lT*fiP idealistic ally of the *VCCp |J<1.1 HVo in a titanic struggle MpRrVftp ivenshed black com- UII j'fj.t Bush and Mr. Nunn mably condemn only To the editor: ;s of our "enemies" While the members of McBryde ^ f YOU L AWt I Reagan a tionary f , one Am not Ron buddy v DTT PRUDEN evil emp and fins Whether viet citi; sure no president achieves pjanet ^ be inspir e has come to that was tly because he inspired so So fr< , and also because his life seems t< wasn't allowed to fulfill the Ami eople thought he demon- who orij knows he wasn't perfect, a few th h women, submerged the But n :ksand of Vietnam and all volution turmoil of the early '60s. who just ill out of the Reagan era, of oppre still insist on making it who dot good that happened in the "Tear d n presidency was the the guessing So be! ncorrect, Joe. Thanks for dia for r< some lovely consolation (or anyo pie, not udden upsurge of revolu- ones wh< rraieriiny yuaarangie arc oeinj congratulated for their "boh move" against common alcoho containers, I would like to call at tention to some hidden problem: with the new policy. First of all, the new rule change almost nothing; fraternities havi been moving their parties off cam pus more and more in recent years By doing this, they can avoid thi university's strict regulations fo on-campus drinking. The new rule therefore, will not decrease thi amount of alcohol consumed b; fraternity members or their guests Nor will it make them any mor respectable in the eyes of thi Dublic. In fact, it is the eenera public that loses out this time. When fraternities take their par ties off campus, their member must somehow get back horm once the party is over. More thai likely, they will drive. Since ther are no regulations to limit wha they drink, they will drive witl more alcohol in their bodies thai is safe. How can the rest of the ci tizens of Columbia protect them selves from these drunk drivers? Of course, we have all heard o the policy of collecting car keys a the beginning of the evening an< doling them out once some unde termined level of sobriety i; achieved. Nevertheless, a tired semi-sober person at 4 a.m. is jus as dangerous on the road as i drunk person at 1 a.m. Granted fraternity members and their guest will not be the only drunk driver: on the road ? many other peopl< will be just as irresponsible. Bu \ pst \ demi-god eelings in the communist world to anyerican, it would be Thomas Jefferson, aid Reagan. Sure, Reagan got buddyvith Gorbachev, but that was only a te after he called the Soviet Union an lire. This was the man who suggested inced a weapons system in space, offensive or defensive, tjf J was a Sosen hearing about lasers orbiting the lanks to the United States, 1 wouldn't ed. I'd be terrified. "Vm thot r> /\f ? ??> \1 fll 1 * ? j 111 uiai yvniu ui view, W11MJ1I S lUgIC 3 be a bit skewed. Would he attribute srican Revolution only to the Greeks, finally proposed the idea of democracy ousand years ago? I doubt it. ither than attribute the Eastern Bloc rcto the common sense of the people, . might have been a bit tired of 40 years ;ssion, Wilson chooses to laud Reagan, Idered around West Germany and said own the wall," all the while never that it would actually happen, fore you start flogging the "liberal" mejfusing to acknowlege Ronald Reagan's ne's) divinity, remember that the peothe high-placed individuals, are the 3 truly make history. , I let's not allow the fraternities to i make us think they're going to 1 wear halos from now-on just because they have a new drinking s policy or just because they do a few community service projects every semester. They will go off s campus, they will drink alcohol s and they will endanger many lives by getting behind the wheel of a car drunk. a u r I put it to you, the whole greek community, to give the rest of us a e guarantee that this trend will not ..o i />?'o i: y uatMUb uu an ui us. i-n 3 11315 of designated drivers before the e weekend starts, and let's find a e way to hold those drivers to their 1 promise. Let's see you not only collect car keys, but also provide hotel rooms free of charge to those s who are not sober or alert enough e to drive home. Let's see selfa discipline off campus as well as e on, especially when there are no t University Police to keep you in ti control. Let's see the end of the at[i titude that community service can redeem you from thoughtless behavior. The best sevice you can render your community is to show f you care not only about your own t image, but also about the lives of i the people who dwell around you and who must deal with the repers cussions of your actions. t If you are unable to do these i things, then please, bring the parties back on campus and keep s them isolated in the Quad. We'll s all be much safer that way. i Susan Fisher t International studies senior