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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
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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
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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
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Assistant Advertising Manager
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fessional title if a (JSC employee or South Caro
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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
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point perfc
Lucy Soto years old
Assistant News Editor other bla<
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Assistant Sports Editor Stop cry in
Sharon Williamson ing the w
Assistant Copy Desk Chief bles. The
Kathy HEBERGER black man
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Production Manager sympalhiz
RENEE ATKINSON men and v
Advertising Manager ing the '6
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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
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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
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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
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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