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VIEWPOINT Friday, March 23, 1990 The Gamecock 3 Money University should resources improvi Funding any more multi-million should be an impossibility for USC money it has in its already crunc higher salaries, ensure that core c schedule and provide funding for a been receiving scant funding. Modem culture and athletic cei community with cultural opportunii Koger Center ran up an approxim; year, and yet President Holdermar mai uic ujnvcisiiy is pitpcu&u iu land and millions of dollars" towan This new center aims to make so domestic violence, child care prob and homelessness (causes more w< athletic center), but it is unfair an< out of USC academics for this kind The purpose of a university is they can go out into the world wit cial problems, construct these huge and hopefully make the world beai ity. After students have every co have salaries equal to the significai they are doing, then it is appropri these centers. Any money USC receives shoulc fore it goes to supplementary pro cates progress and it's great for UJ munity so extensively, but when hi to let students slip past the plate wi WIMS0ME,! The Gai Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief Jeff Wilson, news editor roi scott pruden, Carolinti Life Edito teddy lepp, Photo Editor r< 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 be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long, fessional title if a USC employee or Soutl a student. An address and phone numb< Gamecock reserves the right to edit lett< space limitations. The newspaper v circumstance. HHgp spend funds, ng academics dollar centers is a mistake and a . The university should use any :hed budget to pay professors JBtw&zk urriculum courses stay on the icademic departments that have iters provide students and the :ies, but enough is enough. The ately $300,000 deficit this past | 1 said in Thursday's The State "dedicate a substantial tract of 1 a familv values center. ime real contributions to ending ^ lems, illiteracy, unemployment *2^ irthwhile than a sparkling new d unsensible to channel money u ^ of high expense project. to educate its students so that ^ \ h the knowledge to correct so- ' U ; facilities with engineering skiii Litiful with artwork and cre^tivurse they need and professors ice and excitement of the work Itt&l ate for budget money to go to I go directly into academics bejects. Expansion usually indiSC improve the Columbia comome base is neglected, it's easy thout scoring. LOSE SOME CoIu; ^ "If God had int< have made us the : f Twenty years z surprising. But tf This was 1990, ar A room at the Richk \ - was more, pf _ "Yeah, the bird jr w we do. You don't jL I kept walking, tors were supposec in South Carolina, are desensitized tc whining about rac this is a justifiab tions in which ra the catchall for si they are unhappy ILETTI ? C nnmic uuuiiiikJ criti( D19 9^ /"^L^jt^osrAC To the editor: H^^?On reading the of Portfolio maj a unable to skip to | ries and poems v. f\"\ />- fy 17" subjected to the L Jl X \~r V7 aV. of Amy Loomis again published a sitting haggardly KATHY BLACKWELL heveled desk on Managing Editor the sign "No M< ond This Point." .YN THOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief ^ anything <r JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor her, but, being 3BB LANE, Graphics/Comics Editor mood' ^hi,S in Portfolio and 7 has expounded Lucy Soto women should /Assistant News Editor nated against me Brant Long of scx- this is ar Assistant Sports Editor we Whole~Hearte( Sharon Williamson must ask'is k n( Assistant Copy Desk Chief ^er ^urn ar?un( Kathy Heberger asainst men> esp( Assistant to the Editors publication. We ! ing the purpose equal rights. We erik collins in an issue of the Faculty Adviser to the examinatii laura S. Day tion against min< Production Manager present this blata RENEE ATKINSON crimination and p - - - * * Thic inHipotAc Advertising manager ** * * Carolyn Griffin l? rd mcn- wh: Business Manager these antagonist she jilted? Does ~ ~~ does not get th ' print all letters received. Letters should men she deserve The writer must include full name, pro- lieve that she is h Carolina resident, or year and major if jiave SQ 3r are required with all letters sent, lhe . , ?rs for style, possible libel or in case of other people out vill not withhold names under any rough. Certainly naive as to belie only one to feel pTheOdopc mnist addresses pi jnded for us to mix, he would same color." igo, this wouldn't have been PlJMP* lis wasn't twenty years ago. m MICAH id it was being said in a jury ? uid County Courthouse. There s even have better sense than Guest C see them mixing together." and tried to catch a glimpse unfortunate, because it clouds I urely they weren't jurors. Jur- obscures the real problem. I to be impartial, fair and cer- The problem is that racism < Yet what they were saying in fact doing just fine. Day ir pulled directly from a Klan the land of the free and the he cist jurors? Could that be pos- people are being judged by tl id age? skin. At Ivy League UMass, ; iear more and more about rac- out and black students ran for 1 the public and private sector home town, a friend was hit o1 r*?-ti f _t j c 11 o tn/a K\/ firmr Kapouca hp u/ac rooioan neiu 01 a smaii iuwn ? ? ??" wvwmw We hear about it so much we wrong section of town. It comi ) it. "Oh no, not someone else white and black, young and old ism in an editorial. When are I was in a coffee shop one d off their soapbox." At times, fast with a few friends. An e: le response. There are situa- walked in, and the waitress as cism becomes the scapegoat, wanted. He hesitated for a m me people to point to when asked for a cup of coffee. Thf with a situation. And this is as she took his order and beg; ERSTOTHE EDITOR x just that everyone else has the de- closi ODJcCl cency to keep it to themselves and Thor 9 not gain hold of the media of a quan :ism major state university and use it as and I her own personal psychiatrist M couch. The picture is not only of- Gain fpncivp tn mpn hilt it is a sp.lf nitv- Dart I HUM 1UUUI1I. 155UC ~ -- ? i j r *azine, we were ing tribute to how hard she be- This the articles, sto- lieves her life is. She is certainly slavi 'ithout first being not mandated by our student activ- mair whining neurosis ity fee to whine in the editor's She has once notes about the difficulties of pro- ^en> picture of herself ducing a magazine. If it's too h?n behind her dis- tough for her why doesn't she just it UF which is posted quit, no one on campus would anYr jn Allowed Bey- probably miss her. Matter of fact wanl We were just go- why don't we put up a petition to f?ug eyes and skip, as determine who would actually too!) lat has to do with miss her and her pathetic column. Dl in a thoughtful Hank Emery poop 1 previous articles Political science freshman shou Tze Gamecock she Chris Flynn it or on the idea that Business freshman cont not be discrimi- Wade Craft not < rely on the basis Business freshman of tl 1 idea with which Scott Crum over ^ ^ *? 1 ^ 1 ? rlnfn lly agree. Jtsut we criminal justice u cMnnan u^v. )t hypocritical for Carl Maas calle i and discriminate Biology freshman doe: jcially in a school Matthew Delk unde see this as defeat- Business freshman A ! of fighting for ry* . . anyt feel it ironic that P '<12 1101 lUSt the ( Portfolio devoted _ thinl on of discrimina- SlaVerV SYIIlbOl ticed jrities, she would * * Italit nt symbol of dis- To the editor: ish 1 irejudice. I am writing this in response to of th obvious antipathy Jeff Gaines' "essay" which ap- look y does she harbor peared in February's issue of Port- paye ic feelings. Was folio. Mr. Gaines, do you really acts she feel that she believe what you wrote? Do you fly tl e attention from honestly believe that the Confed>s? Does she be- erate flag flies over the capital be- S< the only one to cause it is soley a reminder of entit icult? There are ". . . slavery and secession?" In youi there that have it that case, why don't we ask the ning she can not be so Virginia government to change ve that she is the from an historic landmark to an Hot these feelings, it's apartment complex? How about i' Lenin. j$S5; roblem of racism when he asked her if he should wait outside. He hadn't forgotten the days of White Only restaurants, and he still didn't feel comfortable PORTER eating inside. It was sad to me, almost pathetic that he still felt that way. Didn't he realize that society had changed? . i . I knew it had, and in fact I was sure it had OlumniSl until I walked by that jury room. There, in that den of justice people were basically rehashing :he real issue and ideas that had been around for years. Blacks were blacks and whites were whites and never loes exist, and is the two shall meet. Sort of like South Africa, i and day out in Maybe they weren't jurors. Maybe they were ime of the brave, just some workers from the courthouse having a tie color of their lively discussion on the merits of segregation, a race riot broke i worked the rest of the day without mentiontheir lives. In my jng what I heard to anyone, but I truly hoped rer the head with that it wasn't a jury in that room meteing out white and in the some twisted form of frontier justice. What I es from all sides, heard shocked me, and it made me realize a few I- things. It made me realize that we shouldn't just lay having break- rou 0ur eyes and say "It's just someone else Iderly black man whining about racism." And it made me realize ked him what he that those who cry racism solely because things oment, and then don't go their way detract from the real issue. 5 waitress smiled But most of all, walking by that jury room, I an to walk away realized that we have a long way to go. I ng Monticello, the home of 'T'cifxp PQIKP^ nas Jefferson, since the slave 1 dJJC VdUoCo ters are a big part of the estate * a therefore of the tour? man's arrest y point is a simple one, Mr. the editor: les, the Confederate flag is a Scott Pruden's editorial was exof South Carolina's history, cedent, but I'd like to add a few history is not based soley on Words to reflect recent news. ;iy, as a inauti ui iai;i, mc ? so cranjc Up an(j show them 1 reason South Carolina sec- what it means to be an American," I was because the North was just don't sell it. Last week a ing the South fair representa- 19-year-old record store employee in Congress (this is true, look was arrested for selling one of >!). Slavery was not profitable those "objectionable" cassettes in nore and most slaves did not Florida. He now faces up to five t to be free (a lot of them years in jail and $5,000 in fines. Is ht for the South, look that up me^ or js there something wrong ' with this picture? o you honestly believe that the Chris Carey tie of this state, or any other, Accounting junior Id forget their heritage? Like not Mr. Gaines, that flag will TP A f V? o |-| 1^ o inue to fly to remind everyone M CM & 3nly of the secession, but also qn j-ii a| ayin tie incredible odds thp South Slltvlvll lo came in taking so long to be To the editor: ated. It is a symbol of what is I wish to express my heart-felt (l "Southern Pride" and THAT appreciation to those Chemistry sn't have a single, racist 112 students to whom I was honirtone! ored to be a teaching assistant durs for Southerners not saying ing the fall semester of 1989. hing about hate groups using Thank you for thinking so highly Confederate flag, did you ever of me and my efforts in serving c that no one has really no- you as a TA. I read your coml? Being Roman Catholic with ments on the TA evaluation forms, in, Austrian, German, and Pol- and they were very heart-warming. )lood, I too am hated by most You may also want to know that lese groups (don't believe me? you rated me among the top TA's it up!), but I have never in chemistry, and for this I am :d enough attention to their grateful. of stupidity to notice that they I hope each of you had a wonhe Confederate flag. derful Spring Break and that your classes are coming along well this 3, Mr. Gaines, while you are semester. Keep in mind that whatled to your opinion, please do ever endeavor you are engaged in, research before you start run- if someone else can do it, given ; off with your pen. reasonable time and opportunity, Catherine A. Trybula you can do it too! el, restaurant and tourism Wilmot B. Valhmu junior Former chemistry TA