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I Viewpoint Wednesday, March 21,1990 The Gamecock 3 Play b Baseball no\ a constant it For some, the NCA March Madness, is not i to pass the time until tl Baseball. This year, the real IV was called a player loc teams, unable to reach a players, closed them out Well, a resolution wa: is going to happen. The Die hards are breathin Baseball is nnt inst a were quiet disheartening said the owners have g; and he was sick of gettir He said he had no pro No baseball? For a wh That was when the die ball is too important to It's the national pastime. To W. P. Kinsella, tl Joe, which became one c of Dreams, baseball is / very real religion. Through more than a I war, movements galore, wanted change, baseball said. America maybe coi try before World War I bombs and the later butc there to remind Americ world. Baseball hasn't chan: either. They are still ther cal accomplishment, the ] players of today who en< to take the field and pla; passed on from father tc passed to Kinsella, as fat] Aaron, the original home Tom Seaver or Nolan Ryj rrum me impossiDie n: given shame of the Chic< to old Abner Doubleday, ball is a part of American know that the season wil of it. So get ready, in less major league ball park, bi most vital of American ca "Play ball." "THIS PEM0CKA1 The ( Robert D. Thomai Editor-in-Chief Jeff Wilson, news edut Scott Pruden, caroiiru TEDDY LEPP, Photo Edito Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor I?. ELIZABETH JLYNCH 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 Manage Letters Policy: The Gamecoc be, at maximum, 250 to 300 \? fessional title if a USC employ a student. An address and ph Gamecock reserves the right I space limitations. The nev circumstance. tall t just a game, but n American cultur A basketball tournament, the sc even a mild obsession. It's just soi le one, the only, the REAL sport larch Madness began in February :kout. The owners of America's 1 i labor agreement with America's I of spring practice, s reached just under the wire, and season will start on schedule, g collective cliches of relief, sport. Comments made during the The owner of the Kansas City iven and given and given to the ] ig nothing in return, blem with shutting down the seasoi lole year? ; hard fans were beginning to panic mis country to oe considered a bi le author who wrote the novel S >f this year's Oscar nominated film; America's mythology, almost a mil rnndred years in this country, years unprecedented and sometimes ev has been a constant for Americ; aid consider itself an innocent as < I, but after the savagery of two thery of Vietnam, only baseball ha ans that there is still innocence ged. And most of the players h e, most of them, to take joy in the pure fun of the game. And years a; lured the lockout waiting for the t y ball will be part of the heritage i son, as the tales of Shoeless Joe tiers now tell tales of the Babe and i run king and his successor, or t< in or Satchel Paige, the greatest pit se of the Miracle Mets to the almo igo Black Sox scandal, all the wa; who started it all way back when, life, heritage and history. So it's g 1 start on time to continue that vit ; than a month you'll be able to he; ly a brow and a hot dog and wait f tils. r PAREpTD CRITICIZE SEN? OUT THE PIT HULLS" jamecoct s kathy blackw Managing Editor or robyn thompson, Copy Desl I Life Editor jeff nichols, Sports r robb lane, Graphics/Comics lucys Assistant News Brant I Assistant Sports, Sharon Williais Assistant Copy Desk Kathy Hebei A ccivtnnt frt tU/> I Erik Col Faculty At laura S. Production Ma renee atkp Advertising Ma Carolyn Gri r Business Ma k will try to print all letters received. Letters rords long. The writer must include full nami ee or South Carolina resident, or year and n one number are required with all letters ser to edit letters for style, possible libel or in c vspaper will not withhold names unde JMjZjJM Cbica^Iri bwe. I'M This is a Japanese ^ pD6lTL blossom of c on wintry wi iSfiL W fa 1*1 down go )-called 1?# nething begins. , and it baseball laseball This is a Japanes< nothing car ad. lockout Royals players, b.? Music's pol jsiness. * The year is 1990. My parents are 47 hoeless which means they were teenagers and s, Field adults way back in the embryotic days i nor but radio station music programmers like either oldies or Classic Rock. I will agr full of most l^at' yes' s some ^arn g??d And despite the fact that my dad pla> n ophone (one of the world's sexiest instr ms' in a rock'n'roll band, and my mom listei l coun- lot Nat King c0ie ^ Johnny Mathis atomic my sister and I were probably conceived is been my knowlege, neither one of my parents in the come a raging sociopath. No, they weren't Woodstock hippies t aven't around stoned and naked in the mud up physi- York, but they weren't exactly what yoi go, the frumps, either. chance And that's why 1 can t understand w that is P60?^ my parents' age are getting in roar over the music people are listening t ? ere days. I Wank Let me rephrase that. People have lies of been in an uproar over what other folk; chers. to. Mozart was a bawdy guy who tended >st for- around a bit. He also wrote some stuff tl y back a bit hot for its time. , base- Jazz was considered the most decaden ood to *n 1116 universe when it began. If it was al Dart World War II and the threat of Hitler a , P f Japanese to distract people, I'm sure man II h 31 stuffy folks wou^ have raised all hell abi or that ban(j musjC ^ jitterbug. And of < let's not forget all the troubles everyoi with the Beatles and Elvis and the E Stones. Action by office ^ \ neglects safety wh ? wh \ To the editor: sue Y On March 7, The Horseshoe slij: . Area Office of USC replaced all of eac ? the locks for the rooms of the sec- pro i, ond floor of Preston dormitory. In the j so doing, they neglected to notify his I the residents of Preston in any inf< manner, thereby causing great per- wa: sonal inconvenience as well as a be threat to each individual's property. Because in the process of removing the locks, the maintenance personnel had no means to either lock or protect the rooms in ques tion, any vandal or thief could have entered the unsecured rooms jy ^ tf\ \l7rAolz ha\/A^ inoi/lo rrvrvmn rw ivy TT1VIUV uuvwv llioiuv U1V IUVJ1IIO UI to steal the contents. Because the To entire hall was subject to the same t negligence, any student who re- a " ELL turned from classes early was wil aware that the other rooms were exp unsecured as well. Luckily, there in s were no incidents of theft or van- \ c Chief dalism, but that in no way com- tall Editor pensates for the area office's blat- Zeii Editor ant disregard for security, their stil breaching of the Residence Hall mal Contract and the outstanding in- "kir joto convenience suffered by every re- c Editor sident on Preston's second floor. Ant yONG ^e Housing Contract, which eve Editor every on-campus student was prac- ove 1SON dcally coerced into signing, clearly Xei Chief states that the students will be not- Coc RGER in cases such as these. In sec- exa< Editors don 3.7, it states "The University Ans aerees to flnH shall- Prnvirlp rpa sonable notice to the Student of all ing LINS rules, regulations and other re- t iviser quirements applicable to the resi- Firs DAY dent hall." Certainly no notice at the nager all cannot possibly serve as "rea- boo 4SON sonable notice." The contract goes friei nager even further, stating that the uni- of t FFIN versity would indeed be liable for pap< nager any theft or vandahsm that may hav( have taken place in this incident: the In section 3.5, "The University take should agrees to and shall: Assume liabil- Si e, pro- ity for damages to the Student's sity fiajor if personal property caused by em- Xer< gSe ployees of the University in the Unn< (r any performance of the duties within rese the scope of their employment." Uni Can USC afford to take such risks wou Japanese Minimalism.: This is a 2oo year-old ^ hrysantheimim JajVlTlGSG nd finqprs I. ^ boom tree. J _J *u 3 This is Japanej trad ^ Coftcess itical messages be! ?"^3 ' mudf ' V ^SCOTT PRUDEN b ied to a o ; (music Most people that take up these crusades have f( [ by), to failed to learn about some basic components of e: has be- their stereo systems, those being the tuner, volume knob and the off switch. tf ripping b! in New Instead, they prefer to run around screaming w l'd call about suicides caused by Ozzy Osboume re- ^ cords, Satanic messages, sexual perversity and w hy lots let s not forget assaults against those in power. ^ (Uhese Let s also not for&et that a11 sPeech> but 111 mostly political speech, is quite solidly pro, tected by the First Amendment. And a good , f deal of the music being made today deals with 5 ^ eij one political issue or another. Could it be that 0 00 many of the loudmouths shouting about all the la was sex vi0ience in songs are also worried about listeners starting to think about the political ta , statements that are being made by the artists? in t for tnd the And what are the artists saying? If it's Public dz y more Enemy, the message is don't let anyone kick d< out big you around because of the color of your skin. m :ourse, John Lennon proposed that everyone forget ar ha/1 thfiir riiffprpnrpc and hp nipp tr> r?np annfhAr ? - ? V..WU M,.v* i/v 111VV vvr X/1IV U11VU1V1 Lolling John Cougar Mellancamp says don't bow to au- w, thority. XTC says don't believe everything the ai en they claim the need to raise sity Systematically J/nder Lion every year? Copying, rhe point is that in an area Third, and most importan: ere campus crime is a problem, as much paper and fluidi y would the area office take here: poisonous chemica h a huge risk? A simple Oyer needed. Since we are all so >ped under the door, informing up on being cool to nature h resident of the lock-changing seems like we could save a cedure and advising him to take trees and hydrocarbons by i necessary precautions to secure it possible to reduce, possessions would suffice. Not If you are reading this, M arming the residents of Preston jamin, you "environmental 5 gross negligence which should dent" you, give ole Doc Jim explained, if not reprimanded. And Doc, if you are readir Jay Cain then just do it ? take the international studies junior 0ff the machines (but be si plastic gets recycled), i E. Alan erox can DC Philosophy graduate s lore efficient . . the editor: COIlSerVatlVl! lie 1990s, we are told, will be Hnmiri?)tAC T T kinder, gentler" decade. Greed dAFlllllldlCj U 1 be replaced by compassion, T th , loitation by cooperation, etc. - , u a ^ Sc0 um vice by v?ue. den's reiteration (March 7) Veil, I think that most of th.s minK nf m? : about some new 1990s ? ^, r c. . . ? T t . , . . * . editor of The State where I geist is just that. But there are c y. a . ? . , recognition of President Re SOmCr,Mm8lWr d? l? contribution to world peace, re our hide part of the world a Eyen lho h Mr ?"udei ider, gentler place. nol w|* me l welc0 rase ,n point: (in your best uberal jm of view since , iy Rooney voice) Have you 1%0s ^whcn , was in col] rr theCfonlXanroPfla^ ha? enjoyed promoting p, _ tu sive conservatism against t rvr9 u.,C 'nCS m "J"3* trenched liberal establishmer iper? Have you ever wondered , . . u f - . ;tly what controls they cover?" ." , ,a'ue ? J"? ] , , J minds of the American pet wer: among other things, those enrouraired rnnser tic plates prevent you from us- am ,very encoded conset the "reduction" button. conU"ues t0, thrlvfe a? >lbc his is bad for three reasons. ainla,n,s "s enfeebled e t, it makes for longer lines at T.hf. real beneficiaries ai Xerox machines. Now, some bhddren and *?anS ^ ks and journals are "user- ^ wh,? can ob,serve a. idly " in dial you can copy two democratic revolution i heir pages onto one piece of lon8est sustained period o ;r. But some are not - you nomic 8rowth ln U S hlstOT> i to copy one page at a time on t normal setting. Surprise! It e a s twice as long this way. t a scond, to the extent the univer- l_/0HrV VIC til makes some cash off of their ~ # }x machines, they make some Q| ITllSQUOtC pessary bucks off of student * arch. How crass. Perhaps the To the editor: versity of South Carolina The minimum any studi Id be better named the f/niver- candidate for Student Govei a 9 ion hind uproar reachers tell you, because no one really knows le truth about the universe. Notice a theme? Right This is exactly the ind of thing the establishment doesn't want ou to hear. And each one has been picked on y various members of the Ignorance is Bliss ommittee. Lennon was even given a hard time bout becoming an American citizen by our wn moral guardian, Strom Thurmond. Thanks >r protecting the morals of America from an ic-Beatle, Strom. If the population actually begins to think, lose in high places could be in a world of troule. So if the public stays stupid and sticks with hat's got a good beat and is easy to dance to, lere's a readily pliable base for a politician to ork with. Milli Vanilli, the music of the masis, is also the music of the Masters, because it spires nothing but motion. And besides being paranoid, it's just plain 3sey to tell me what I can and can't listen to. I want to listen to profanity, sexual allusion an alternative point of view on my stereo, at's my biz. If I don't want my kids to hear it, at's my biz, too. No loudmouth with an attide and a bad haircut is going to tell me anying, especially what to listen to. So assert your right to listen to whatever you irn well please. If someone in authority 3esn't like that very much because it underines good old American values, crank it up id show them what it means to be American. The Romanians couldn't listen to what they anted, and look what happened to the folks in ithority. mining omce can nope ior is mat me Gamecock will accurately reflect t, twice the views and works of those i (read whom they report Unfortunately, Is) are this is sometimes not the case, hyped- For example, Wednesday, Feb. now, it 28, the day before the Student i lot of Government run-off election, I making picked up a copy of J he Gamecock and to my amazement read r. Ben^ the headline, "Leary makes tuition, presii greeks priority." Only upon reada call. hig the article did I find buried in ig this, the article a series of misquotes plastic which severely altered what I said, ire the Monday, Feb. 26, I was asked by a reporter from The Gamecock etiIIav why I was speaking to student or tudent ganizations. I replied, "to bring more students into the electoral process." The Feb. 28 The Gamecock article inaccurately reported sm my reply as "to stress the imporStance of greek input in the elec toral process." The statement I made, and the statement attributed to me were obviously dramatically tt Pru- different of the j am confident that the people to the wh0 heard me speak during my urged campaign knew that my campaign pagan's was one focused on issues such as: tuition, advisement and campus i does safety. These issues are ones that me his affect every student on campus, he late not just certain groups. I tried to Lege. I reach as many students as I could rogres- through the various student organihe en- zations and through personal con-tact. Unfortunately, I had to rely ts and on the hope that The Gamecock ople, I would report accuratelv what I said vatism for those with whom I did not ralism have a chance to speak. litism. re my I have devoted three years in >ple of Student Government, serving for world the betterment of the Carolina n the community. I have long believed f eco- one of the assets of Carolina is the cultural diversity of the student Yilson body. enator I only regret that at a critical time in my campaign, The Game11 cock chose to so inaccurately reflect my belief in the diversity of ko the Carolina community. John Leary Former S. G. vice president ;nt or English and political science junment nior