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Viewpoint 4 The Gamecock Wednesday, March 28, 1990 Hizzone Columbia mayor with Campbell's Columbia's mayoral electior that was virtually ignored the has become front page news. Incumbent Mayor T. Pattor zoner" in local media, nas dr cause of Columbia's controvei ound the Columbiana Mall ii from folks across the county side Columbia. Including the c It is an interesting campaigr tively seeking and getting the Campbell, a staunch Republic* last week partially because oi But it is also an anti-endorsem Adams' most serious comp< the former Richland County C Coble was an integral part o Gov. Mike Daniels, who ran a Also, Adams intends to bre attack Coble for being too Democrat. There may be some issue Safety, a big issue here on c itself as well. USC is like a itself. The majority of stude might find it interesting that c out 70 officers to the force ov if he wins. Hizzoner himself ; umbia both say Columbia has Another candidate would s< of the mayoral race. Temple L build a convention center on " ree River is thought to be an i want to build a new coliseui Carolina, even though its mosi comes close to averaging sellc Ligon is the A1 Haig of Col big words that leave even the scholars reaching for their Am There is another candidate DrtnTnAr* r\f fUa -*T\ r* C\ D O f 13 0111 rauiicn ui nit/ latt. i m 1 aui tinely gets a few thousand vol pretends to himself that he is chance of winning. Rick Baty given little or no chance by o but remember, they're the san would beat Trumdn in 1948. This is just a review of the right now, because The Garj USC students aren't eligible t< that shouldn't stop them from ing campaign unfolds. It's be ing, and, if those who just lik will probably get dirty as ele dents and Columbians alike called "Hizzoner" for the next The Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief Jeff Wilson, News Editor R scott pruden, Carolina Life Et teddy lepp, Photo Editor 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 tr^ be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words lo fessional title if a USC employee or S< a student. An address and phone nur Gamecock reserves the right to edit I space limitations. The newspape circumstance. r w 's race heats up endorsement J I, a low turnout, low-key affair a last time ? four years ago ? 1 Adams, lampooned as "Hiz- j awn a lot of fire recently be-sial annexation of the land ar- ! 1 Lexington County, not only J line, but also from people in- I >ther three mayoral candidates. i with Arlamc a Dpmnnrat ar- ffl ; endorsement of Gov. Carroll in. The endorsement was given M f Campbell's belief in Adams. ent. Cj ^tition comes from Bob Coble, jK 'ouncil member and milk king. f| { the campaign of former Lt. gainst Campbell in 1986. 3 ak out ads that will reportedly much like a national, liberal s the students are interested. ( ampus, is an issue in the city microcosm of the community 1 nts live off campus, so they an( me candidate wants to add aber his four year administration, and the chief of police of Col- ^ enough officers as it is. an, sem to be the Alexander Haig Th dgon, the man whose dream to the The Bridge" across the Conga- doi mpossible dream by those who? n for the University of South < t active event, basketball, never me >ut attendance. ha^ 'umbia politics because he uses most seasoned of reporters and ha^ erican Heritage Dictionary y0, who would seem to be the Pat the sen is the comedian who rou- lur :es for president each year, and ^ a serious candidate who has a T _ . do , an ex-USC campus radical, is aft ther pundits in the local media, Crc te people who said that Dewey wl political situation in Columbia necock knows the majority of o vote in Richland County. But ? watching as this most interest und to get even more interest- H e to watch politics are lucky, it ction day draws near, and stu- II will discover who gets to be four years. To to| imecock ~ go Kathy Blackwell an Managing Editor m, fe< OBYN THOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief iitor JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor be ROBB LANE, Graphics/Comics Editor W( Lucy Soto all Msislant News Editor hi Brant Long ra< Assistant Sports Editor Sharon Williamson Assistant Copy Desk Chief Kathy Heberger t Assistant to the Editors Erik Collins Faculty Adviser Laura S. Day tc Production Manager Renee Atkinson Advertising Manager un Carolyn Griffin at Business Manager s ^ ?? w; f to print all letters received. Letters should ng. The writer must include full name, pro- c,: auth Carolina resident, or year and major if I < nber are required with all letters sent, lhe to etters for style, possible libel or in case of os r will not withhold names under any )prah does nothing Ml those guys out there who have lots of fele friends have heard the same thing over ^Hp mk 1 over again. T IP# Men are all slugs. Slimy, slithering, icky, il-leaving bits of low animal life. They do ' * y little other than help propogate the race, * m j women don't even need them to do that. ey say uiey nxe you ana iney uon t can you, y stand you up, they forget birthdays, they n*t deserve to live. Men Who Beat W< Sound familiar? Widows, Yard work Husbands Snore, Hu 3f course, I also hear the same thing from ]yjore jjian Qnce ^ n, and in both cases, it's from people who on the stuff rt recently been snubbed or dumped. I had j friend who took to writing a lengthy man- If I had a nickel fc 3to against women simply because he was say "Yeah, I heard a dng such bad luck with the ladies. Maybe Enjoy Looking at W 1 found one under your windshield wiper and I'd be optioning Dor >ught it was the work of some woman-hating tan Island, latic. That lunatic is in law school now. One day, I'm sure rhe ladies have it easy. When women get to stand up in the audie ling nasty toward the guys, all they have to that a national spern is sit back and flip on the TV. Oprah and the that all men be rourn ernoon sit-on-the-couch-and-eat-bon-bons camps somewhere in >wd are glad to parade around loads of men Since Geraldo is s 10'11 gladly admit they're complete jerks. he'd wholeheartedly ___||| iHk **>*. aawm . LETTERS T( * 1H P ?1 ^ leave ours alone' Have a little fai ^ IvtC<lo jn our parents and this wonderl 1 rnt\t>ni*4 state undersupported institutii iCCCI SUppOll that students of THE USC knc the difference between what is rc the editor: and what is fantasy. If you canr It is not often that students get trust the music, trust us and knc solved in local city politics. This we are not going to jump off I ar, however, Rick Baty's call for top of the Coliseum after seei major recycling program in the GNR or Motley Crue in conce y should spark student support We have all their albums and > his campaign. are still alive. Many student groups are already If you really want to help t 'are and acting on recycling and students of USC, why not work lated environmental issues. A lowering the price of concert tic ning of USC with the broader ets for students ($22.50 for Aerc dumbia community on the recy- mith ? give me a break!) inste ng issue will not only serve to of adding a disclaimer to the b< hance all efforts to improve our torn of tickets? (Isn't it about tir * ' ' * 1 1 * ' "11 -T tr\/\lr fAf ?-* 1 K1 1 " mmunuy s neaun, out n win 01- ?mi surncunc iuuiv i^uumuhi a rare opportunity for the uni- for something in this world?) i rsity and the community to work even better, how about teaching ?ether for the common good. Re- time management class? I'd like cling goes well beyond the im- know how my roommate xliate (and significant) effects of weekends went; and maybe, ji iproving our environment. It maybe it will keep you out of c es toward improving the stan- business. That is, of course, if y rd of living of all Columbians; have the time, d in so doing, it can have tre- Becky Huntl mdous economic and social ef- Journalism juni cts. Improving USC's environent makes it a better place to y *4-4arn, and it makes Columbia a .L/SWSUll StOT1 tter place to live. # * , , ? irresponsible Baty s mayoral platform is well * arth taking seriously, and I urge To the editor: i students to consider supporting It seems that The Gamecock 1 m in the forthcoming mayoral forgotten a small, but import. :e. detail of the U. S. Constitutic Stanton Green people are innocent until prov Anthropology department guilty. The Gamecock's covera of the female graduate studen l\lil* nrnhoo in sexual harassment lawsuit has be JJrODCS in irresponsible, bordering on depl TU/\ ?-?1 A nnKlicb/iH An t A pp % auic. 1 lie ailieie (JUUIUIU/U un i irivate attairs day>March 23 was s? ionsa clearly biased toward the plain' ) the editor: that 1 found myse,f forgetting j I fail to see how a state rep- hadn 1 already been to trial a sentative, a member of the Board won l^c casc- Umil she has, Trustees of a major southeastern defendant must be presumed ini iversity, who is talcing one class ccnt' no matter what outcome 7 said university finds the time to Gamecock stall is rooting lor. ick his nose where it's not To make matters worse, in ted, and therefore does not be- JJ1P.11 n 10 n published cin it ng. I personally am taking five Viewpoint page on March 26 isses and working two jobs; and ?rs 10 f115 lawsul1 and us Jo not even have the time to talk , ^-evaluate our attitudes bcca. my roommates, let alone prop- lhcrc 15 nT? reason xual ,? , ,. assment. In a time of suppoi e the university add a disclaimer . y . . ? / . . equality of the sexes, this type the bottom of concert tickets! . 1., \ . . e . . , J.1 incident is infuriating and insi Mike Fair ? get a life ? and ing. . Yes, it can be infuriati \ ATmeAVp&ztf I / MILLION,INCLVPIM TUB 5?fZVAft}T$. ? \t TF to help mal the back Wome ?? ing out i tim*? tr* i UIIIV IVJ J other lad 3con Pruden c?vers a Jerks ant low "Ter where in and men )men and Love It, Football ^nd y Widows, Women Whose sbands Who Demand Sex Month ? women seem to anyway. joy domj Thing >r every time I heard a lady talking a bout that on the Men Who The w omen edition of 'Oprah,'" tually ge laid Trump out of Manhat- men. Me and the s an angered housewife will mitting i nee of Geraldo and suggest But e^ a bank be established, and and girls led up and put in detention rate tabl< New Mexico. someon* ;uch a good feminist male, knocks tl agree, patting himself on cycle bej ?M?t? ith but let's wait until a court of kn Eul tells us that harassment really di an occur (or not) before we write ed )w torials about the effect of the a ^al leged incident on society. One lot again, this "Viewpoint" was )w biased statement which can onl he serve to damage the "women' ng struggle for equal rights" that Th rt. uamecock so valiantly tries t ve support. What has been published so ft he has been damaging enough. I at however, The Gamecock goes an :k- further, this could become )S- showtrial; and if the USC con ad munity shows a clear prejudice, Dl- may be a mrnrail (which means n ne verdict will be given and we' ity never hear about it again). Even Or the situation does not reach sue a extremes, the verdict hande to down, whether "guilty" or "n( s' guilty," may not be worth th ist paper it's written on, given the ci ,ur cumstances of the trial. I certain! ou hope The Gamecock will let justic run its course ? alone ? an ey have a media field day only whe or the timing is appropriate. Susanne Fishi International studies senk y Seniors should 1 A. 1 as oe outraged int To the editor: in: Lori Knapp's letter to the edit< en on March 26, 1990 is totally co ige rect. Graduating seniors should 1 t's outraged by the treatment we a :en receiving from the university. IV or- parents too have poured sort ri- $30,000 into THE USC over tl nd last four years. My college gradu tiff tion, for them, (and many other p ;he rents like them no doubt) is som nd thing they've planned for ar Ihc looked forward to since they g lo- married. Now, they must tell the "he parents that as it stands right no^ they won't get to see their on an grandson graduate, he In effect, Dr. Holderman h; re- told his customers (make no mi to take this university is a busine jse first) they are sacrificial lambs f iar- political brown-nosing. South Cz ;ed olina's registered voters shou of watch to see who attends and kei alt- this in mind during the next ele ng, tion when these political animt e dilemma as he was loaded onto the cattle car. n's magazines don't help either. Hangn the line at Food Lion I always take read the covers of Cosmopolitan and lies magazines. The bold titles on the lways declare "Why Men are Such 1 What You Can Do About It" just bc1 New Sexy Looks for Spring." Somethere is a mystifying bit of girl logic, still haven't figured it out. es, men have the same kind of rituals. drunk and say we don't need women They're useless, because they don't enl the things we manly men like to do. s like sitting around, getting drunk, hnnt hnw wp. dnn't nppH wnmpn orst part is, the conversation will event around to how much we do need won desperately need curves and soft skin :mell of perfume. We just don't like adt to the women who have ticked us off. /entually, all of the disenchanted boys end up in the same bar, sitting at sepals, bemoaning their terrible fates, when i of the opposite sex appears and hem silly again. Then the whole terrible ?ins once more. Q rl v tell you your interests come first, d As for the concern for security, I i- fail to see how South Carolina I- could be seen as a hot bed for tcre rorism. After all, past Presidents a have spoken outdoors in much y more densely populated areas such s as THE OTHER USC, Harvard, \e Yale, Howard University and o others. I have decided, and hope other ir cpninrc u/ill fnllnw suit, to voice f, my disgust with this affair in two iy ways. First here in The Gamecock, a and second by not contributing to l- "The USC Annual Fund;" thus reit nigging on my pledge to the 1990 \o Senior Challenge. 11 David M. Abner if " Journalism senior h 1 Camp needs = more publicity iy To the editor: ;e A friend and I took a trip this, id past weekend to Bell Camp, and I ;n was amazed to see that there were only five people there on a beauti>r ful, warm Saturday. I couldn't be>r lieve it! There are so many activities in I which one may participate, and these range from tennis to canoeing. If a charge exists, it is minimal. For example, a fishing boat may be rented an entire day for fivp Hollars. ar When I returned, I called a r- bunch of friends to tell them about )e Bell Camp, and one told me that re the university wishes to sell it be[y cause there aren't enough students ie that visit. I think that's ridiculous! ie It's a great place to go, and I bea lieve that the university is partly to; a- blame for the low turnout. If they; e- would put a little more effort into id promoting Bell Camp, there would ot more than likely be an increase in; ur the amount of students that go. iv, The only time I was ever informed; ly of its existence was in a brochure I received at Orientation, and many; as of my friends still don't know anyS thing about it. This is my arguss ment, and not that the property or may or may not be for sale. How ir- can the university expect Bell Id Camp to be a thriving location if; cp no students are aware of it? c- Kelly Bailey lis Accounting/Spanish freshman