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Viewpoint Monday, April 2,1990 The Gamecock 3 Victory Pro-Choice wins of strict abortion The Pro-Choice movement woi week when the governor of Idah the nation's most restrictive aborti The women of Idaho will lucki fr?r whntpvpr rpacnn iv/? TTi.wwf w * vuov/ll, Uivjf UVV1UV J an abortion. Gov. Cecil Andrus, who has he the legislation as part of his bid because the nation's pro-choice n boycott of Idaho potatoes, a mo> into the state's economy. Andrus denied he was giving he vetoed the legislation on the i him the bill would probably not h< Right. It is a shame that, in the land brave, people's rights and freedon the people, vote into office to pn freedoms. Instead, they must be leaving people with the freedom decisions. So many politicians seem to b< WDlllfl rp.strir.t ttlP frpprtrwic r?f ft who are greater cowards than the women the right to make their o^ dies are the politicians who would The women who have faced at who support them are the heroes, courage to face the responsibilities The victory in Idaho is an impo gained. It will hopefully set the p gislation, which will recognize all man and woman. 'TALK <0?)> I The Gai Robert d. Thomas Editor-in-Chief Jeff Wilson, News Editor Roe SCOTT PRUDEN, Carolina Life Edito TEDDY LEPP, Photo Editor RC Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor Elizabeth Lynch Assistant Carolina Life Editor Deborah Ryan Assistant Photo Editor r? . , iviEYER 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 j be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long." fessional title if a USC employee or South a student. An address and phone numbei Gamecock reserves the right to edit letter space limitations. The newspaper w circumstance. m one with veto regulations : V i an astounding victory this past ^ o vetoed what would have been jj|| | on legislation. M I ly not have to go out of state if, jd | it is in their best interest to have \ * ia an anti-abortion stand, vetoed % | f| , for a fourth term in office, and I -t 1 lovement threatened to call for a I J JF /e that would have severely cut I Essss into economic pressure but said ? idvice of legal experts who told Did up in a court of law. of the free and the home of the ^ is are not protected by those we, frX SDtect those very same rights and I economically blackmailed into to choose and make their own 3 willing to give into those that jri i leir neighbors. The only people / r ' Bible thumpers who would deny vn choices concerning their bocave into them. ^ onion and the men and women ^ k They are the ones who have the that freedom so often entails. It's never too rtant one despite the way it was old-fashioned stei recedent for further abortion le- are the cornerst< I of the freedoms of our fellow American as appl These, hopeful 1990. But Saturd And boy, do they As part of my JUT VISJOM projects, we hel Riverfront Park ii Hliililii! ''Ill !!' !' :r thing. |'iii ;i |l H, : j My special assi ;; /: i 1, j balloons. It wa; |f U j t j {\i UM ' *' I wouldn't mind. 1 Tjj11[\ j | H : - little kids, "Do y( 1 ii 1 ! they said yes so 11 'ysl U | + : :'l: iU" ;1 : ! over 50 cents. jTj j j jji - i ! Getting their a "Sjilfifiiii ;V. ' was the easy par j f ft ^ i; ^ i die controversial 1 V ! f I>1:; j child wanted was ^ Ta \ A ^ : Balloons, like i zjA. 'fycs li ' colors, you kno\ \ green and pink. jJ\ was early in ~~ that I approachet ^I/v^ ^? *Jfl ) tW? ^ a l)C Cif 11 Student tanning to warn other stu Safe. Each issue c carries a Tan Sa which guarantees months ago the f-jr great tan or your r Dt9^y^=rf^TF^L^>$29.95. Three fri up this offer and pointed. One per her money baci owner and the mai _ ^ r^+l-r- oId owner) called mCCOCK zicmx" belligerent. After I Gamecock had an Kathy Blackwell "great tans at a ,, . csj.Yst>. month unlimited, Managing Editor : was no satisfactK this ad. iyn thompson, Copy Desk Chief . , . . . ' J Another girl, wl r JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor fied, was yelled i )BB LANE, Graphics/Comics Editor and manager, a complaint with ?? thorities, she recei T nrv C1 /\ta fund Thp. first H I oui v ~ Assistant News Editor Tan Safe, the mai Brant Long in the ^ booth v Assistant Sports Editor and a chair. It loo Sharon Williamson a c0uple of times< Assistant Copy Desk Chief die bulbs were bu KATHY HEBERGER only thing they to! Assistant to the Editors didn t matter bee enough light in t wasn't so bad, t LRIK COLLINS there everyone car Faculty Adviser 0f trouble with a laura s. day ever, i was upset Production Manager apologized to me RENEE ATKINSON am in college doe Advertising Manager my money is not < Carolyn Griffin one else s- T> ais Business Manager treated as any oth< last day I was tl was to be the nex print all letters received. Letters should but they made me Fhe writer must include full name, pro- fused to CO aeair Carolina resident, or year and major if , ,, .,r , are required with all letters sent. The booth with a tape "s for style, possible libel or in case of pte told me that ill not withhold names under any place me in the b( The other custom ously, new custom WW AWT THE WEO miWB fim stereotypes flo; early to start installing good jJfetP* eotypes in your children. They | | 3ne of American society, as <?* f e pie. * ly, were ways of the past, not ay I saw that they still exist. 4 , fraternity's community service j^L&|pgrw -M ped out with River Fest at ^ ? n Columbia. It was an all-day balloon, and like n give his children wh gnment for the day was to sell His first daughter s a task I thought I really second daughter wa riow bard could it be to ask there was one child >u want a balloon?" Naturally, wanted. leir moms or dads had to hand i could tell it w; young man, who \ ttention and the parent's cash make. I remember a] t. Finding out which color of 0f which balloon I w tielium-filled flying objects the But alas a decisi< the hard part. loon like his big sisti most things, come in different His father, in his v. Red, blue, yellow, white, thorative voice said, want no pink balloor the my balloon selling career yellow, white or a gr 1 a man with three children, If the child wante >y. His children each wanted a one, I thought. Righi LETTERS T< . -fVniH-o were a^ placed in the bett< , T3.LlirS booths. They were on a plan th I included "7 visits for $10." So, F SalOn was stuck iu the booth where tl ' earphones did not work, the ft did not work and two more bull were out AGAIN. They knew al lis letter in order out the earphones because somi idents about Tan one had tried to tape it bac )f The Gamecock together. I also complained aboi fe advertisement the fan because it was so hot that a great tan. Two had to use the emergency stop : y guaranteed a order to not faint from the extren money back for heat. I was only in the booth f< ends and I took about seven minutes which is oh were very disap- half of the time period for a stan< son tried to get up booth. And as for the tw ; and both the bulbs, the lady said, "It doesn nager (who is the matter because you get enough e: her at her dorm posure anyways." The people They were very the desk only agreed with me al this incident, The out the problems, but NEVER ap< i ad which read, logized for the inconvenience < Great Price, One offered me one day without the 5 $24.95." There charge. I know that they knew al an guarantee on out the fan because a friend < mine complained about it beir too hot three weeks prior to th 10 was not satis- incident. Students be aware of th it by the owner fan <jafe inning salon. They w: too. Upon filing sucker you into paying by beir the proper au- reaj njce> then ^ey don't care al ived a partial re- out ^ customers later. You wi ay I went in to flushing your money down tl natrpr nlar.ed me j_?:_ r?_. ?o-- i ? uiaui. r?y me way, my tan is gun fith a tape player too> aiong with my m0ney. Yc ked magnificent, don't always get what you buy. , I told them that Stephanie Moski rned out and the Hotel, restaurant and tourisi Id me was that it sophomoi ;ause there was hough, because Writer can't i have a little bit > . . business. How- relate to issue because no one . Just because I To the editor: >s not mean that i would like to make a commer is good as some- about the letter in the (Feb. 2? o, expect to be issue of The Gamecock. Being thj jr customer. The I have experienced a great deal c tere (actually it the white environment and th t to the last day, black environment, I feel I ca so irate that I re- make an accredited objection t 1) I requested a this letter. I have come to the cor player. The peo- elusion that on both sides there ai they could only those who are ignorant and thos X)th in the back. who are intellectuals. I'm not saj lers were, obvi- jng the person who wrote this le ers because they ter is either, but I am saying sh *i POTT CATCH WHAT I The 1 PA IM6H POWER-ROL at in^i^er more ir matter t could h plained ROBERT THOMAS ?el a i ultimati I real ciated > with bo nost fathers, he wanted to Now, ai uiey wanted. uui wanted a blue balloon. His than wl inted a pink balloon. Then have a 1 left to select which color he But, i the ball as a hard decision for the problem vas about 3 years old, to I m 5 il too well the hard decision ti?ns ^ 'anted when I was young. maybe 1 an. He wanted a pink bal- father v sr. Park in extremely embarrassed, au- * ^so "No, you don't. You don't ua* ster< l. You can have a red, blue, matter, een one." won't tr d a pink balloon, give him which n I now in the boy's life, it is balloons 3 THE EDITO - sr wrote in haste. How dare she sa at the bl^ck man can't say this or d I this. She has no idea of the blac ie* man's struggle or his oppressioi in .9hf?. is winHnw shnnnincr trvina t ds dictate the prices! Well, let her li: b- ten for once and obtain a little ir e- formation. For over 300 years, m :k people (African and Africar ut American) have been oppresse I physically and mentally, and no1 in this country owes us for their mi! ie judgment. They thought we wer ar inferior, dumb and animalistic. Ot ly viously, they never expected i- black man to create something a 'O ingenius as the traffic light, or t 't discover a medical breakthroug n- like blood plasma. My ancestor at built this country with their bar b- hands, and I am here to take wha > they weren't given. "Americ Dr (you) may hate me, and I wil >1 greet her (you) with such; Americ b- (you) may try to hold me dowr 3f but I will break free of her (your ig mental and physical chains is America (you) may not pity me is and I will not pity her (you); but ill will take what the Red, White, an ig Blue (you) owe(s) me by An b- Means Necessary!" I don't expec ill you or anyone other than a well ie educated black man to relate to m : _ * _ r ..i i t. i e, puim 01 view, oeeause n is t >u Black Thing and you wouldn' understand, js Jason B. Abrahan tn Hotel, restaurant and tourisn re freshmai Bill promotes ; atheistic twist it To the editor: ?) The Hawkins-Downey, ABC it Childcare bill just introduced ii >f Congress concerns me. Why die e the Democrats keep Republican: n and pro-family groups from seeing o this bill prior to introducing it' l- With a projected 23 billion dolla; e cost, it's socialism and humanisn ;e combined. r- Why does such humanistic edu t- cation have no real answers for us*i ie Humanism is just atheism with i Cftg CC&PSPZIP Wlt/TSZfOR J ..l.l II n I -~ . >- ..- ;>*' ij!lx I. ent colors nportant for him to have a balloon, no he color, than to be told which color he ave. The father should have at least exto him why he thought he should not pink balloon rather than dictate an im. ize the father's logic: pink is often assovith girls and blue is often associated ys. I have one question for the father: if ft want your son to have a pink balloon ly is it all right for your daughter to )lue one? Stereotypes, that wasn't the only time I encountered oon color problem during the day. The i came up a couple more times. >ure more of these balloon-color ques'ill rnmp nn in that rhild'c liff? hut he will be more understanding than his vas on that overcast day at Riverfront 1990. i hope this won't start a life full of sexiotypes, any kind of stereotypes for that in that child's life to come. If so, he uly be able to enjoy society's diversity, nakes it more colorful than the array of ; he saw Saturday. y coat of paint. Atheism says: io "There is no God." Humanism k says: "Man can solve his own i. problems." Humanism claims that :o our human capacities and potential 5- are sufficient without God. Thus, l- humanism is practical atheism. Huy manism is merely atheism with a i- "positive" twist, d Humanistic atheism is selling tv tragedy. Atheistic schooling re> places time tested, absolute truth e with "do-your-own-thing" permis) siveness. Permissiveness breeds a wild, antisocial behavior, excesses, is contempt for authority and crime. 0 It undermines traditional values in h classroom and home. s Continued atheistic schooling e can bring about an America of it fear, corruption, perversion and a further violence. Such atheistic 11 schooling is expensive and impraca tical to society. At the very least, i, traditional values are more practi') cal and economical. ; Attempts at atheistic schooling have clearly failed in Russia, East1 em Europe and the U. S. Removd ing the Bible, prayer, and absolutes y from public schooling has not :t brought the Camelot that was advertised. At least in Eastern Eury ope and Russia, the population and ^ some leaders and thinkers will adt mit it. Let families, not government, i raise their children. Why extend i known failures to younger child ren? Let education first clean up the mess it's already made. This Democratic ABC bill would license child care in the home, if you can believe it That's flagrant socialism. It emphasizes constructing many government day care facilities rather than offering tax credits to families. Tax credits - give each family the option of 1 choosing a child care center from i the private sector. And should not 5 tax credits be offered equally to I those who prefer to stay home and tend their own children? r Freedom exists where parents 1 have the right to raise their children with the values they cherish. Fred Kerr ' International student volunteer t worker