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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
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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