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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
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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.
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SEN? OUT THE PIT HULLS"
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Managing Editor
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Assistant News
Brant I
Assistant Sports,
Sharon Williais
Assistant Copy Desk
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Faculty At
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k will try to print all letters received. Letters
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ee or South Carolina resident, or year and n
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to edit letters for style, possible libel or in c
vspaper will not withhold names unde
JMjZjJM Cbica^Iri bwe.
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This is a
Japanese
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on wintry wi
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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
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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
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3 This is
Japanej
trad
^ Coftcess
itical messages be!
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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
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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