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4 The Gamecock Monday, March 26, 1990
Ambival<
Recent incidents i
of students to re-ev
Sometimes it seems as thougl
'60s and '70s never happened.
Two stories in last Friday's (
the results of the civil rights mc
equal rights.
A female graduate student is
damages from USC and a male
assing her. She alleges he made
duce her and ridiculed her when
There is no excuse, no reasoi
of supposed equality of the sexe
ing and insulting to most intel
nately, sexual harassment is bed
campuses across the country.
Also in Friday's edition wer
relations in South Carolina. The
ing. More than 80 percent of t
between blacks and whites we
whites questioned agreed.
Racial tension on campus has
the past few years. Racial slurs
recent Student Government presi
tension does not seem to be subs
Most of the fury, attention an<
mens movements generated die
they were close to reaching thet
lence toward these issues has o
campus.
Everyone should take a minu
get rid of any prejudices that i
realizing it. Everyone should st
before the important movement
retrograde.
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i for sexual harassment. In a time
is, this type ot incident is lnlunatligent
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Mike Fair legislai
His conservative, overbearing hand has
plagued USC students for almost two years.
And yet this bastion of morality, who flunked M *p I
out of USC and let everyone believe otherwise, jl& #
is at it once again. . ~T
Mike Fair has proposed a policy that would ^
require a disclaimer on advertisements for 1H
adult-oriented entertainment on university cam- _H
puses. If the Board of Trustees says "yes," But how
promoters will be responsible for making sure encourages
advertisements include the legend "some mater- who judges
ial may be unsuitable for minors, parental gui- mitting suic
dance suggested," according to USC Times, a agin& this fc
publication of University Relations. encourages'
We should be used to warning labels by now anyway?
? they are on everything from cigarettes to as- It's all w
pirin. So what's the big deal? shelter and ]
The university (or shall we say people like ready laws
Mike Fair) will decide what they feel may need us. Movies ;
ad disclaimers. The ads are to include the why should
legend if the entertainment encourages young that is all
people (that's us) to engage in (1) violence, (2) appropriate?
suicide, (3)illicit sex, (4)occultic practices or (5) Fair has r
alcohol or drug abuse. is of rock b?
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i i rip-off - it's a disgrace. (
(irads deserve is supposed to be a t
family and friends can
ninra the final day of our long
mUlC lltKcla lege career and share in
ness of seeing us gradi
face it, our family ar
To the editor: aren't coming to see Bu
I think seniors graduating in coming to see us. Hov
May should be outraged over the cause 0f president Hi
ticket situation for graduation. I'm wh0 wants to sieze the c
honored that President Bush is go- for g00(i publicity for t
ing to be the speaker at graduation. s}ty) the graduating se
However, that is not reason thejr families are beir
enough to only be allotted three jipped by the establishm
tickets for graduation. My parents i think the families wh<
have invested over $29,000 for my vested heavily in our cc
education at USC (not counting ali cations should take prii
of the hidden expenses) and pUbiicity.
they're outraged, too. As it stands, L(
my brother, stepparents, and Journali
grandmother, who are family and
have also contributed to my education
in some form or another,
won't even be able to attend my Roger woi
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per graduating senior, the Coli- f~|-p
seum will only be about half filled. 3 <
So, who's going to be taking up
the other half? I suspect it will be To the editor:
the family and friends of President As a graduate stude
Holderman, the USC Board ofi School of Music and a
Trustees and other political people tern at the Koger Cent
such as Gov. Carroll Campbell, Arts, it was extremely
Sen. Strom Thurmond and who to read of Michael Munj
knows how many others. THAT'S ence to the university's
NOT RIGHT! Who's graduating the arts as "subsidizing (
here anyhow? Is it President Bush the March 21 issue of
or USC seniors? Is it Holderman newspaper.
or us? Is it the political friends of Consideration for the
both presidents, or is it the Class an issue, though any ai
of 1990? Who struggled for all this ? in its initial stage:
time to graduate? We seniors did! accrue extreme costs, n<
The ticket situation is more than a operation, but in the acq
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do you judge if the entertainment
us to engage in these things? And
this? If a film shows someone comide
does that mean that it's encour>ehavior?
How do they define what
? And what exactly is illicit sex,
'ell and dandy that USC wants to
Drotect its students, but there are al
and other rating systems that affect
are rated G, PG, PG-13, R, etc., so
USC bother to add to something
eady established and deemed
lever failed to mention how fond he
mds and their concerts (To all those
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3raduation a consistent body of pal
ime when can only be obtained tl
come see presentation of artists an<
, hard col- ing groups of internatior
the happi- whose prices, unfortunat
iate. Let's to those of real estate, c
id friends rise.
sh; they're Most disturbing, how
vever, be- Mungo's obvious refusal
alderman, palpable facts, which r<
ipportunity blame of the deficit
he univer- shoulders of the Kogi
niors and programmers and the ci
ig royally able arts patrons. Preside
ent, again. man's explanation that <
a have in- of the amount could be
illege edu- to intra-universtiy usage
over have had no effect on c<
chairman's desire to d
>ri Knapp Iocal artistic groups and <
sro senior cultural education.
Hopefully Mungo doe
resent the views of otl
^ l_ members, for it should
'XllV tent of the University
# Carolina to encourage nc
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and cultural growth as w<
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deficit is To the editor:
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s ? will Pruden's March 21 colur
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Amy fans out there, this is a little sarcasm
within sarcasm). And his proposal no doubt is
partly aimed at these rockers, whom he feels
should be censored in some way. But there is
already a trend in the music industry to label
some records in the same way that movies are
rated. If this is done, USC's rating system will
again be a waste 01 time. Why put the legend
on a Guns 'n Roses promotion if their album
may already be subject to censors (remember
Tipper Gore?).
South Carolina has obscenity laws. Even if
they may be vague, that are supposed to cover
these kinds of things. If Fair has a problem with
these obscenity laws not being stringent
enough, then he should try and change them in
his capacity as a member of our Legislature ?
and not in his capacity as a member of USC's
Board of Trustees.
Doesn't the board have anything better to do
than to start legislating morality for its
students?
rons. This of defenses of the human right to
irough the rock'n'roll. Though in agreement
i perform- with his general sentiment, I find
lal renown myself at odds with the packaging,
ely similar First, it seems to me that Pruden is
ontinue to beating the rotting corpse of a >
dead horse with his defense of;
'ever, was rock. Second, I find the doctrinaire ;
I to accept extent of his devotion to oft- >
imove the wanting rock lyrics rather;from
the frightening. er
Center Rock'n'roll isn't being"
ity's valu- oppressed into extinction, and still 1nt
Holder- such paranoid delusions of ruler- '?
?2 percent wielding nuns persist in minds like \
attributed Pruden's. I suppose every rebel Z
seems to craves an oppressor, just as every
timing the rat craves cheese. Natural enough!ismember
? so why do I protest? Well, Ij?
discourage fancy a little rebellion myself, but 3
I eventually get tired of boring old <s
not rep- farts with bad haircuts. I find a?
her board dogmatist of Pruden's caliber a>
tha in. much more. satiefVinr*
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of South cheese.
>t only in- Freedom of choice? What I
>ut artistic wouldn't do for a little freedom *
ill. from choice every now and then. "
How is it that one can crusade so T
hen Cook dilligently for freedom, and still be e
student so reminiscent of an inquistitor as J
pedagogy Pruden? I guess some of us are *
born to be self-righteous, regard- !
j less of religion.
riOt I remember the words of Johrt <
Lennon (with a few neccessar^!
adaptations): you may say-y-ay aj I
bit lazy, but I'm not the only one
? I hope someday-y-ay you'll join
us (i.e., Mozart, Devo, Spinozaj'
e to Scot an(j myself), and we can all-a-all *
nn in The \ay back in the sun.
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