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' 4 '' Viewpoint ??? ????? ??? Wednesday, April 4, 1990 The Gamecock 3 AIDS Teen-ager's battle w echoes unneeded dis< It is a disease that is plaguing Americ has caused thousands of deaths, and now old Ryan White's life short. The teen-age AIDS patient has captu cans, who do not completely understani ~ ? j: f: i;f Udiamg uic uiscasc live ytaia agu, 111 White. White, who was diagnosed with the encountered discrimination from his o\ hid., residents should have immediately than devote their time and efforts to ba public schools. At the time, the residents thought A through casual, not sexual, contact. The 1 White gained the admiration of thpu; AIDS discrimination and his speaking disease. So much attention has been drav became the subject of a television movie pie magazine. President Bush, who wanted to visit hospital Tuesday but could not, has procl a "wartime footing" to find a cure f< pledged his support to end discrimina AIDS. People like White. "We're in a fight against a disease, r And we won't tolerate discrimination," speech to the National Leadership Coali dent also called upon Congress to pass mination against people with the disease. Bush is also seeking $3.5 billion to fi cation and research. Hopefully, the mc little too late. W PEOPLE SAY I HA >f9 The Gam Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief jeff wilson, News Editor robyn t scott pruden, Carolina Life Editor j] teddy lepp, Photo Editor robb l ; Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor Elizabeth Lynch Assistant Caroli/ia 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 Letter* Policy: The Gamecock will try to print i be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The v, fessional title if a (JSC employee or South Caro a student An address and phone number are i Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for space limitations. The newspaper will nc circumstance. I ith disease crimination :a and the entire world. It AIDS is cutting 18-yearired the hearts of Amerid the disease. Since cone has not been easy for disease when he was 13, vn community. Kokomo, \ tried to help White rather irring him from attending IDS could be transmitted 'act is it cannot. sands in his fight against o internationally about the ? vn to the teen-ager that he and a cover story of Peo- ? White in his Indianapolis # I aimed the government on ' i>r AIDS. Bush has also tion against people with Lot a fight against people. Bush said last week in a Wm ^ J tion on AIDS. The presilegislation barring discri- lt>s time because, or and AIDS treatment, edu- through it >ney raised won't be too boofy), anc Paul McCa In fact, i considered tVE NO VISION" rkof?"L< of those ke and a left-1 finish the s drop out ol somewhere tribute gro make a dec j|re|- until it get was invent AI1U1 Ignoran These are t_. able words 9<3<^?jC.R-?.LW. when I re< ter to the ( much hatr - be compac ^ ^ 1 _ I'll never i CCOCK I could trj V V fold and di "Do the a KATHY BLACKWELL wi!U? thi" ManagingEditor "nt al^d ?1 your point 'HOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief The point ? ter to shov EFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor letter has ,ANE, Graphics/Comics Editor that. I'm j point perfc Lucy Soto years old Assistant News Editor other bla< Brant long thing. So Assistant Sports Editor Stop cry in Sharon Williamson ing the w Assistant Copy Desk Chief bles. The Kathy HEBERGER black man Assistant to the Editors himself. J< > M. C. Har Erik Collins no means Faculty Adviser an ^,rC LAURAS. DAY I?a'm a m? Production Manager sympalhiz RENEE ATKINSON men and v Advertising Manager ing the '6 Carolyn Griffin tudes of i Business Manager into slave) or 1960. ' change, ui ill letters received. Letters should races rriter must include full name, pro- ^ ' lina resident, or year and major if eaucauon required with all letters sent, lhe bow old style, possible libel or in case of Eighteen it withhold names under any You woul it physica vou in the [ P Ijj^ itles wanna-bt for me to get a haircut. I can tell jUfak le, I can't fix it by running my hands JHp flj (that just makes it really big and 1 two, I'm starting to look a lot like rtney circa 1964. ** J-> if it was 1964, I would probably be extremely hip if I simply woke up, / ^ the ol' mon tOD. sane a couDle of m A >ve Me Do" and hit the street. Some en Beatle boots that zip up the inside landed Hoffner bass would probably caps. Of con cene. Then I could just go ahead and a baseball ce f college, safe in the knowledge that ited to lookii in the world, there was a Beatles ing the Denn up that I could hook up with and My siste ent living. length, styl riend is at the point right now where conditioner seem to be at one time or another, able. Right n the "I'm letting my hair grow out" Australia (di involves putting her hair up in clips Koala snot, i s long enough so she can say "My like grape so long. I think I need to get it cut That mad< ' >-><-" > * sister is st dutiful boyfriends, say "No, no Welch's int< ike it long. And besides, you worked your hair? 1 grow it out," to which they respond Some yahoo it cut or permed and then deciding out and is n like it and they'll have to start grow- ring Neehi igain. I guess they eventually realize pump spray lite a luxury to be able to go out in tralian Hair ( minimal attention to the coif. Considerir vinced that's why the baseball cap market, sorrn ?a wt i_? j u 4^ J^ u. .eu. women wnu uuu i warn. to uu one 01 uie oc use clips, and men put on baseball old standby 1 so Proudly possess appe V1 till ill limited. Education should i j to solve problems, not ere vs natrea Your letter simply arous and a great deal of other or: emotions, much like you t. Ridiculous. Stupid, skinhead or klansman di just a few of the print- not a good thing, Mr. At : that came to my mind is a racist thing, and tha id Jason Abraham's let- thing you would de editor (April 2). How so understand, ed and ignorance could C :ted into one individual, Journalism so inderstand. I mean, sure, i. I could wear a blind- ^ _ ress up in shirts that read Colors, ere vhite thing" or "It's a ig, you couldn't afford must cooue feel disgustingly ignor- * y. Now I can relate to To the editor: of view, Mr. Abraham. I am responding to a is, I didn't write this let- appeared in the April 2 < v your foolishness. Your The Gamecock. The lettei already taken care of ence would have been mi ust writing to make one tive if it had been pub a :i rv?.. nyiii ruuis v&y uccauac ictly clear. I'm white, 20 definite joke. The writer < and I owe you or any America (owe's) him an :k man absolutely no- will take what is rightful! you're black. So what! obviously needs to open g and whining and blam- to the society around him hite man for your trou- ize that nothing comes only thing keeping the anymore. The white mai i down is the black man black man need to woi ssse Jackson has said it. together to make Americ nmer has said it. I am by place for all to live. I ar a racist, but I am sick puting the fact that bla< of taking the heat for have been oppressed f< I didn't do just because time (that would be foe mber of the white race. I now is the time to quell I e greatly for the black of racism instead of adc vomen who suffered dur- fuel to the fire. The reasc 0s, as well as the multi- problem stays in the fo slacks who were forced everyone's mind is becai ry. Yet, this is not 1690 like you won't admit thai This is 1990, a time for lem begins with you an nity, and progression for fuse to work to make it a You talk strongly about Instead of making your and experience, but just sary comments about th< are you, Mr. Abraham? other people, why don't ( or nineteen years old? at yourself and ask what dn't know oppression, be done to help bring an c 1 or mental, if it slapped issue. America is not a \ : face. The education vou fion bv anv means, but ; . : says 'Lov< pri: i 191 p 1 ma, out Scon Pruden yoi B- , we all cha irse, when you look ridiculous with II < tp on, your choices are severly lim- got lg like a goober with a hat or sport- sch lis the Menace look without a hat. r has experimented with every to e, body wave, perm, shampoo- old combo and styling product avail- lik< iow, she uses some hair goop out of hai stilled from something exotic like ke< io doubt), and it smells remarkably sta da. ' - ] 5 me think to myself, what if my hat anding there actually spraying bli i her new do? Ever eel Coke in wc Tie stuff is like five-minute epoxy. car i down in the Outback found that dis ow making big bucks by transfer- sa\ from the deposit bottles to fancy thr bottles that say "All Natural Aus- on< 3oop." thr lg some of the hair products on the wa etimes I think grape soda would be ] itter alternatives. Pomade is an age- ag< for elderly men, and I'm really sur- we r I J vj I riLl CUI I ars quite by all colors and creeds, it 1 be used able to maintain its position ;ate them, status in the world. So plea ed hatred fore you start to publicly negative your opinion, make sure tf r average have done something to bel oes. It is place we live in. Like it or i >raham. It have to live together on this t's some- so make the effort to try a finitely along with all people no what their skin color. So orey Ray place blacks and whites in iphomore groups, try and work to joi together. David Ai ;eds Sports administration fre rate Jeans expre "f gay prevalei : of referore effec- To the editor: lished on in the March 30 issue it was a Gamecock, Cliff Springs w states that to protest the GLSA's d that he Jeans" Day as a "pathetic j ly his. He attention." Springs obv his eyes missed the point of "Blue and real- Day altogether. Although I for free a member of the GLSA, I h i and the ways understood this activit rk harder a way to make the simpl* a a better that homosexuality is ever) n not ais- Gay men and women < :k people simply be picked out of a )r a long separated from the rest of ! )lish), but or held up as some sort of lie flames pie. Springs suggests that ling more obvious clothing selection >n that the better emphasize the point refront of contrary, it would complet lse people feat the purpose. A "Plaid : the prob- Day would do nothing mo d you re- isolate homosexuals and iny better! them to the discrimination t unneces- attempting to overcome. ' faults of I can see Springs' poin [you) look the lack of promotion I have you GLSA's event and, to an ',nd to the his confusion over the selet )erfect na- blue jeans. What enrages m with work his corresoondence is the $* 2 My Do' >ed that it's lasted this long. Sometime about 13, some woman should have said to her n, "Herbert, go in there and wash that crap of your hair. From the look of that oilslick, i'd think someone sank a German U-boat on it head." \nd that's yet another indicator of how much pay attention to history. Despite the fact that over America there are oil-soaked easy tirs from the pompadours of post World War dads and granddads, 50 years later we still the Jheri Curl. Never have so few high iooI kids made so many chalkboards so oily, rhen again, things could always regress back the days of the beehive. If it was up to the lady hairdressers still in business in places 5 Cowpens, the nation would be one huge rspray plant created for the sole purpose of iping the hair of a select group of women eked to an appropriate height. [ had a reading teacher in eighth grade who 1 a beehive so tall she had a little red light nking at the top so low flying aircraft mldn't get stuck. Of course, the hairstyle ne in handy for her, since it served as a great cipline tool. During a Fight in the hall, I once v this woman pull a billy club and at least ee tear gas grenades from her hair, beat down 5 combatant and immobilize the other with ee shiruken stars, also from her hair (Nijitsu s her hobby). No one ever made fun of that woman's hair lin, aiil of course, we all suddenly read very 11. \ will be prejudice that pervades it. In an of top age when America has finally tase, be- ken strides to overcome the discrivoice mination of minorities, it is frightlat you ening to find an attitude like tter the Springs'. Unfounded homophobia lot, we still has the ability to make holierplanet than-thou heterosexuals call homd get mosexuality "repulsive" withoui matter explanation (obviously in the bei don't lief that they do not need one) to two view a group's fight for rights a* n them "constant whining," and cause panic over whether or not wha nthony one is wearing may possibly make shman him look like he supports the liber ation of a group of human beings Yes, Springs, I will call you "ho ice mophobic" and "narrow-minded.' I will also say that you are hope 1PP lessly bogged down in Bible-Bel morality and a way of thinking that could only be described a: Neanderthal. Bruce j^, The Media arts junta rote in ,2 to Abortion takes Team" infants' rights am not tave al- To the editor! y to be ^ April 2 column, "Victory, i point ta^ces a stereotyped view on choio where. while ignoring the victims of th -annnt choices involved. In round num crowd, '3ers? 1-5 million (unborn infants society, P61" y^1" *n the U. S. will neve exam- live to see the light of day. Noni a more ?f them had any choice in th< would matter. On the Could you try, for just one mi ely de- nute> to put yourself in the place o Pants" the ones who were far alonj re than enough to feel what was happeninj subject (including over 15,000 beyond th< hey are 20th week)? Then do it again afte finding out the details about hov t about abortions are performed. Then as) for the yourself: what percentage woult extent, have chosen the way their mother :tion of did? ie about Peter J. Nyiko blatant Math professoi