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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.
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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 :
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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
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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
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*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.
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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