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V ; Viewpoint The Gamecock 3 Honor Carolinian Creed insi to work toward being The community of scholars at the is dedicated to personal and acad join the community obligates each i behavior. As a Carolinian ... I will practic grity; I will respect the dignity of t riohtc nrt/1 nr/inorfu nf tUs>rr I n t v?r?v* ^/? i/y i/ifl&r j; I rr striving to learn from differences in will demonstrate concern for their ft t itions which support their work and Allegiance to these ideals requirt and discourage behaviors which thrt every individual deserves. The Carolinian Creed, produced I through the USC Division of Studen Carolinians. In fact, the code should USC. USC Vice President of Student / creed was developed in response to of insensitivity across the nation's ca With reported cases of date rape, 1 pd hazing, the creed is to make stud Oations to the larger community they After much research, a social co< five-item list of positive actions men follow. This is a refreshing deviation and "don'ts" that we face every day. It really calls us to do nothing mo ing to be ?informed, tolerant indivi minds to different experiences and p common sense. The Board of Trustees approved tl traduced the creed by saying, "It's i <ach people how to treat one anothe "cans to be a Carolinian." I ' t The Gair Robert d. Thomas Editor-in-Chief JEFF WILSON, News Editor ROBYN "tCC PRUDEN, Carolina Life Editor , TEDDY LEPP, Photo Editor ROBB Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor elizabeth lynch Assistant Carolina Life Editor Deborah Ryan Assistant Photo Editor Renee Meyer Darkroom Technician Kristin Francis Graduate Assistant "j#d bonza director of Student Media Ray Burgos Assistant Production Manager Jeffrey b. Thompson Assistant Advertising Manager Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print > be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The v\ fessional title if a USC 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 no jrcumstance. I ? pit's students J ' biter people 1 Univsity of South Carolina % emic cellence. Choosing to nembeto a code of civilized 5 e persoil and academic inte- ^ ill perscs; I will respect the ill disctarge bigotry, while people, 'eas and opinions; 1 elings an their need for con- I ' developrmt. each C'olinian to refrain ?j >aten the fedom and respect jffl by faculty, taff and students H t Affairs, is honor code for- H be a celebrion of values for ^ffiars DenniPruitt said the I an increase j various forms fl mpuses. M acial discrimiuion incidents H ents more awa of their obli- M live in. J] ie crystalized iat is a short nbers of a comiunity should t from the thick ode of rules nr re than be what v arp cmv. duals who have <aened their ^ eople. It should e a part of ^ he creed Thursda) Pruitt in- mo"' i tool Carolinians an use to 1S ' even r and show the wod what it It wasn SlNTHENIfiiT mL Bi ident tion. succ< i?ave M9O1*?4?SZ3&Cj0CK that a 3enci iecock OLtiu Kathy Blackwell of n. Managing Editor into ( . skinl thompson, Copy Desk Chief n^. | Jeff Nichols, Spons Editor cics i LANE, Graphics/Comics Editor sensa the f ???????????? 1 hpnvi 1AJCY SOTo a Pro Assistant News Editor probl Brant Long undei Assistant Sports Editor an^ I Sharon Williamson Assistant Copy Desk Chief 7 Kathy Heberger |j*g : Assistant to the Editors work histoi Erik Collins could Faculty Adviser the sp Laura S. Day done Production Manager have ] renee atkinson racial Advertising Manager st"J <3 Carolyn Griffin ?ir Business Manager them ( " ~ more, ill letters received. Letters should pressi rriter must include full name, pro- more lina resident, or year and major if trends required with all letters sent, 7he , style, possible libel or in case of wncn t withhold names under any than a haircu I True lyft W Vl JRw /fj/f his semester n< >ring commencement is now less than a jtkrWf h away, but the ticket distribution method f " scorning one of the most controversial pi ^ ts at USC this semester. just wouldn't be springtime at USC if there /-^L i t some kind of problem. I'm sure every I remembers last year's spring fever, Rep. ; Fair. it, now comes an extraordinary event: Pres- HKlsCL. George Bush speaking at USC's graduaUSC tried to get him last year, but did not cenler did jed. of havinj 5C President James Holderman does de- Tenn., to. : a round of applause for getting Bush to ^ we' :. Clap. Clap. longer for >t only is Bush coming to graduation, so is K?ger Ce 'ife Barbara ? she might even be more po- door to th< than he is ? along with Andrew Lloyd Michael tier, pne of today's greatest composers. Disney, at 3yd Webber composed the hit Broadway ,is,e :al Cats, which is also on the road touring Previou: id the country. If you've kept with the al*end con in The Gamecock, then you know the because of :al had days reserved for it to come to the Debra Alle r Center for the Arts in January, but the With al LETTEI Lrinc' orfiplo deeply roolcd in workil IVIIIi3 <fll ues and beliefs. Orgar . , education are the keys *t accurate Nazism; not articles th nrnmrvfp if 5 editor: s is in regard to the article The police have no iheads spread violent mes- interviewees have no (Monday, April 9). First let article itself has no aui te that in no way are we de- tunately, under your o ng or supporting ihe Nazi jey Wg do not have th ead movement. However, we remaining anonymous. d that the article in concern ensationalized and Filled with English iracies. The title and opening Melinda raph, for instance, would Englisl the average person believe 11 skinheads use mindless vi- y e to perpetuate their ideas. l^ciZlSluXlC trticle makes no mention of tied to mi icist "skins" who in larger ciuch as Boston and D.C. far To th? p/lirnr mber the Nazis. The article A recent article in the impression that a group cock entitled "Mike Fa izis have suddenly stormed morality once again" ill Columbia when in actuality widespread assumptio: eads (both racist and non- ally, legislation shou i have existed in the Caroli- from any moral contenl >r quite some time now. Arti- be possible for techni iuch as this continue media tions, but when it c< .onalism giving attention to choice of lifestyles and stzi movement. We are not ery piece of legislati that the Nazi movement is mately the reflection of bkm. In fact, it is a serious morality. By punishing eir; one that should not be steal, we reflect the m restimated by sensationalist stealing is wrong. The < innformed media attention, capital punishment is a tween two different moi lanecock showed an appall- tives, each wishing to 1 ickof journalistic ethics in own interpretation of hey did not do their home jujuiivauuii ui HUIIJUSU on the extensive skinhead execution. If a policy di y aid ideology which we opposed to Mike Fair'! not have possibly covered in were implemented, it ace llloted to us. If they had be the legislation of mc their homework, they would would just be a differer realized that skinheads of all To say that Mike Fair is and tthnic backgrounds are his morality is an acci [uite ictive and don't need ment; to say that he is ll well-being endangered be- legislating morality is a misinformed public has rate one. The debate, tl :onfused with N^zis. Further- who is legislating mo The Gtmecock gave the im- who isn't, but which n on thai skins are nothing we wish to legislate. Th than kids following fashion tion is not a defense of J and a certain kind of music position; it is an attemj in fact 1 takes much more some accuracy to this l pair of Docs and a short that we are all prone t to make you a skinhead, which we all succoml skinheads have an idealogy time or other ? slogans )t without c ?* r ) , * tf s J ROBERT THOMAS ? h 1; n't want to pay the financial penalities - - * c I the show move from Nashville, ^ lacksonville, Fla. ^ 1,1 guess we will have to wait a little some cats to prowl around inside the S] nter. But, its composer will be next S| i center on May 12. e I Eisner, the chief executive officer of n id actress and opera singer Kitty Car- t|. will also be there. sly, actress Helen Hayes was to also w lmencement, but she had to cancel 0| health problems, USC spokeswoman fi :n said Thursday. h 1 these important people at com- al 1 ?? 3S TO THE EDITOl lg class val- easily adopted because the \ iirnti /\n nn/1 /?/%/%/! Un* Ui U.. * t u.auuu anu guuu, uui which, uy LII< to fighting simplicity, actually obscuri at indirectly bate and prevent us from to a more critical asscssme deeper issues and moti reports. The underlying the debate, v names. The the debate might be. thor. Unfor- T< ditorial pol- Government g e luxury of aura Kelley HomOSCXUl i Buchanan mentally ill ti freshman To the editor: j|| In the April 4th issue Gamecock, a letter from Lane attacking Cliff Sprin DraiS tained this phrase: "(u)nl homophobia still has the al make holier-than-thou hete The Game- als call homosexuality 're ir legislates without explanation (obvic lusirates tne tne Denei tnat they do n< n that ide- one . . Well, here you j Id be free Lane. L That may Regardless of DSM-I cal regula- mosexuality is a mental omes to a which has its roots in a values, ev- seated insecurity, a practic on is ulti- of self esteem, and/or an someone's rejection paranoia. As for those who siveness, all mental illness orality that ture some sort of sympton debate over behaviorial component that debate be- repulsive to established s *al perspec- norms. Homosexual behavic legislate its pulsive but not so the horn the moral person; they be but only n fication for ill. ametrically The difficulty I have w 5 proposals mosexuals is that they will would still mit they have a problem. A irality ? it denial is a feature of this pa u morality, mental illness. This impet legislating addressing and treatment irate state- problem. Further, not only le only one mosexuality a mental illnes an inaccu- is a potentially contagious lien, is not illness. In pursuing their m rality and ill activities, homosexuals lorality do be discrete and private. Hom is observa- als should not be teachers dike Fair's cially in a high school. ?t to bring Am I homophobic? Yes. temptation homophobia unfounded? N< to and to both objective and reasonabl ) at some Wes W which are Third-year law s x- *4??-1? :ontroversy nencement, it creates problems with security nd seating, and the two have a direct relationhip with one another. The USC Student Affairs office has received ?n average 130 calls a week about the ticket alucations, Assistant to the Vice President Jim )oran said. People have also complained to the newsaper, and I am sure they have also complained u Student Government. The newspaper has ven had students request that a whole page be evoted to letters about the three-guest ticket mit. I told one student making the request the imple truth. There aren't enough letters on the abject to fill a page. And even if we did have nough to fill a page, to be fair, which is our ewspaper's mission, we would have to give le administration a page to give there side. After commencement is over, I feel everyone ill be more or less satisfied and will forget' abut all the pre-event controversy. And, hopellly when I am graduated next May, I won't ave all these problems to worry x>ut. . . which three people would I invite? 3 lsZ"y Abortion coming not heroism nt of the vations To the editor: /hatever In response to the "Victory" article in the April 2 issue it was any Bell stated that women who have had raduafe abortions are "heroes" and that they have the courage to face the nlc responsibilities that freedom entaUs ^ I had two abortions 11 years ago when I was 18 years old. I've never felt like a "hero" for killing of The my Unbom children. All I've ever i Bruce fejt was guilt, anger, depression, gs con- confusion and the list goes on. A ounded "Hero" would have had the baby bility to and given it up for adoption to a jrosexu- couple who cannot have children, pulsive' a "Hero" would have given that nisly in child a chance to make his/her ot need 0wn choices in their lifetime. A go, Mr. "Hero" is admired by people for his/her achievements. Is killing an II, ho- unborn child an hemic et/ent? T illness, think not t deep,al lack Instead of having the "courage intense to face my responsibility" I simply repul- eliminated the problem. Post Abor;es fea- tion Syndrome is real. I have latic or talked and counseled with USC will be students who have had abortions ;ocietal and are struggling because of their >r is re- decision to abort. Physical probosexual lems can also occur. I had a tubal lentally pregnancy five years after my abortions, which was caused from ith ho- "scar tissue" from my abortions, not ad- one year later I had a miscarriage damant at three months, another result rticular from my past abortions. So please les the don't try and mislead women that of the abortion is not harmful, because it 1S ho- is for a majority of women, s ? it mental Women who have had abortions lentally need to start speaking up and writshould ing editorials like this. It just might losexu- make the public wake up and take - espe- notice. Most women want to hide the fact that they've had an aborts my tion, or want to just forget about it. X it is You can't ever forget killing your e. child. . Bales Mrs. Lawrie Sikkema tudent Open Arms volunteer