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Earth Da
This week offers sti
to join fight to save
With all the hoopla and fanfare si
if Earth Day was a brand new coi
marks its 20th anniversary. This yea
16-22) and Earth Day (April 22) a
biggest events of the decade. This
decade has just begun.
Much of the attention given to E
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come one of the hottest issues arc
factors, including the Exxon oil spill
fully aware of the damage hur
environment.
Also, because President Bush is
condition of the planet than Reagan
has become a greater political issue.
It's about time.
Although all the publicity and 1
Earth Day is worthy of all the attent
For years, young people, criticiz
sacrifices and their seemingly lac
other than themselves, have compla
fight for, nothing like Vietnam was
What could be more important tf
no real sacrifices for those involved
mental legislation, but our environir
nothing about it.
At USC this week, there are man
or at least become more aware of t
ing. Mortar Board's Environmental
Allied for a Greener Earth (SAGE)
in honor of Earth Day.
Also, various groups will be oul
Russell House today to promote a1
global warming, overpopulation and
day, Delta Upsilon fraternity is sj
drive in the Russell House parking
the State House Sunday ? Earth D;
tal action.
These are just some of the acti
honor of Earth Day, so everyone \
become more aware and become i
different environmental issues facinj
The result of an analysis by the 1
another incentive for everyone at U
Week. Out of the 50 states, South
overall efforts to protect the environ
This is our new decade, and this
USC join 2,000 campuses nation
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"WHY PIPNT WE THINK
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Robert D. Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
jeff wilson, News Editor rob
scott pruden, Carolina. Life Editor
teddy lepp, Photo Editor ro
Lynn Gibson
Assistant News Editor
Elizabeth Lynch
Assistant Carolina Life Editor
Deborah Ryan
Assistant Photo Editor
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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
be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long,
fessional title if a USC employee or South
a student. An address and phone numbe
Gamecock reserves the right to edit lette
space limitations. The newspaper \a
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ion it is receiving.
ed for their inability to make
k of concern about anything
ined that they had no cause to
to the youth of the '60s.
lan our planet? Sure, there are
I in fighting for more environtent
will be sacrificed if we do A 1
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he problems our planet is fact
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are sponsoring several events . , e?is a
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wareness of such problems as jness an(j j
I solid waste management. Fri- wasting of
jonsoring a campus recycling There's i
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No one is
down youi
print ail letters received. Letters should While
The writer must include full name, pro- ^ave aj)ar
i Carolina resident, or year and major if
r are required with all letters sent, lhe !, 'owar
rs for style, possible libel or in case of McKay h;
'ill not withhold names under any his own
moscxual
opinion,
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mik
ittle ditty abt
ir once told The Gamecock that the
iture is in the full blown business of ?
morality everyday.
have been to the State House and
iiave seen the state legislature in bus- ?
for the most part, that business is the
taxpayers' time and money. **
one guy up there, Rep. Alex Harvin, ]
ou live in his county, will get your
resolution praising you for your high It is a ca
or your attainment of centenarian There is
resolutions are not trivial to the indi- issues, v
olved, but are frivolous and waste ^at f?r
tate level. aII been
're's all the work that legislators put people,
changing regulations for Coon dog . A few
ison, fishing season and all the like. Slte sex>
' Girl Scout cookies is considered ev- agree. T1
r exemption from the state sales tax. ^ 'cgisia
ike this*jnake up the majority of the y Again,
s "productivity''. Thirigs like this are jFaif. a si
ped, t&fthere Sfe thdibiahds of pro$-' enacted i
tiese. ' to fnfom
one of these things is a moral issue. warning
islature does legislate morals. But encourag
ss, it has to be a consensus. We have practices
st killing. Almost everyone, except parents f
ree that killing is wrong and laws When
ire necessary. This is a moral issue, nouncem
ilso a consensus moral issue. It is saw one
that the minorities ? the Democrats send me
publicans, agree upon, as well as the she also
at ignores elections. that didr
5 laws against drunk driving for the didn't lifc
>n. It's an issue of right and wrong would b<
bout everyone agrees upon. People thing els
lrive when they're drunk. That is not That's u
Vlike Fair's morals or anyone else's, was 19.
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wrifprc gitimatc minority bee
L'l hi ltd o ity is "someone wh(
1 nated (against) on
lOphODlC color, erred or sex."
trary, a minority is a
tor: according to Webst
;h I thought my views from the major
made infinitely clear in population."
4 letter to the editor, it Mr. McKay also
t both Cliff Springs and mosexuality as "pervi
ng newcomer Gorden I would like to remin
ill fail to get the point, that crimes such as ii
McKay has gone on to have been found to b
e extremely ignorant as- ingly heterosexual '
and ridiculous accusa- one takes this as carl
'ding homosexuality as a proval for anti-heterc
mination. And accc
ings still seems to think American Medical A:
; Jeans" Day is in some American Psychiatrii
xl to Gay Pride Day or and the American ]
doming Out Week (two Association, homose
t we will surely bicker a perversion. The ]
e future). As you stated, and Lesbian Task fc
printed in The Gamecock more than happy to
1 students to wear blue facts for you. As for
f you're straight or think Mr. McKay w
> show you care.'" The to know that such a
never to isolate U.S.C.'s chaic and probably <
homosexual population mon as sex with sh
; you to play "who is ho- being "the most disg
and who is not." Rather animal cruelty knowi
how your support for the I somehow think i
group of human beings, slaughter of animal
do not support the rights the plight of the w
articular minority, then little above cruelty tc
: is somewhat legitimate. No one is trying t<
seems to be little reason a heterosexual shouh
constant whining," some- with "Blue Jeans
attributed to homosexu- McKay. I also think
I the rights they deserve, likely that homosexu
> forcing homosexuality going to leave so tl
" throat. afflicted with dreadfi
Mr. Springs seems to mophobia will be oh
idoned his extreme ma- seems that those of
d homosexuals, Gorden from this illness wil
as written in to present to find a way to con
warped view of ho- elusion McKay, som
"freaks." In McKay's the word "normal"
omosexuals are not a le- be used in quotes. Ii
HIPPIE EAST WON
mt legislati
|T^ Stephen
- Guilfoyle
ise of consensus morals in our society,
never opposition to consensus moral
/hich shows you that Fair hasn't had
any of his proposals, because they've
opposed by significant numbers of
students agree with him about oppoovernight
visitation. Thousands dis
lere is no consensus, so he had no right
te morality.
, with his latest little; crusade, Mike
illy man at the best of times, now has
? policy that wiH retire the university
n promoters of concerts to include a
on advertisements if the entertainment
es violence, suicide, illicit sex, occult
or alcohol abuse. It is a warning for
or their minor children.
I was growing up, there were anents
on television shows. If my mother
of these warning labels, she would
to my room or change the channel. But
would find out what shows were about
ft have labels beforehand, and if she
:e it or didn't think I was ready for it, I
5 spending my nights watching somee
or listening to the radio in my room,
'hy I didn't see Helter Skelter until I
:RS TO THE EDIT'
ause a minor- would be appropriate
) is discrimi- minded heterosexua
the basis of yourself to take such
On the con- to heart
GROUP that
er's, "differs Media
ity of the
presents ho- til GO
srted" or sick,
d Mr. McKay IlOl COFFG
icest and rape
e overwhelm- To the editor:
vices, yet no I must respond to
te blanche ap- the April 13th issue of
>sexual discri- cock from Wes W.
>rding to the mosexuality is not a m
ssociation, the homophobia is. Mpst I
c Association I have met are very
Psychological who and what they ar
Yiialitv is not who are homophobic
Vational Gay secure with their own
>rce would be ality, that lash out on
uphold these never asked to be th
"gerbiling," I are, that have a mental
ill be relieved may be a third year
practice is ar- Mr. Bales, but you 1
ibout as com- where unless you opei
eep. As for it I never asked to be j
usting form of never asked to be stra
i to mankind," ing you are, it jusl
the senseless That's the way it is.
s for fur and Furthermore, I am \
hales ranks a and have never beer
i a rodent. ll*e degree of having
3 "dictate how So your reasoning is I
i dress or act" sonal opinion. If we a
;" Day, Mr. part of our society a
it highly un- mental illness, then v
ials are simply that claim on fact Sc
lat Americans seem to be lacking,
jl cases of ho- You say, "not c
i-so-content. It mosexuality a mental
you suffering is a potentially conta
11 simply have illness." This is the
ibat it. In con- thing I have ever hear
eone once said ment only enhances >
should always ties about yourself. ]
a the future, it are people, human be
?Y TUNE;'
ing morality
Guys like Mike Fair are exasperating. Mike
Fair, though a Republican, has mastered the
same skill that former U.S. House of Representatives
Speaker Tip O'Neil made famous. 'The
reputation of power is power." That was the
O'Neil doctrine. Fair proves it The only people 1
he truly represents are a bunch of religious conservatives
in a small corner of Greenville
County, yet he has convinced those on the
Board of Trustees, that he is a powerful man. If
they think he is, they, not he, make it true.
In the legislature, Mike Fair's proposals are
shot down left and right all the time. He wanted
to eliminate Happy Hour in South Carolina a
year or so ago, and we still have it. But the
board, thinking he is more powerful than he is,
uaves in again auu again 10 nun as uc legislates
morality without consensus again and again.
The board refused to consider his proposed
rule for a long time, because, the members said,
the state already has a harmful to minors act
that covers these things. But he forced it, and
they caved in again, just as they did on visitation.
Granted, it will be three years before Mike
Fair's victory is complete, but in three years,
Mike Fair will be laughing at the students here
who will be crying back, their rights denied.
Warning labels mean the people who promote
them are interfering in the family. If you
don't want your children to watch a play that
"promotes" anything in Fair's list, it should not
be the job of a government agency, namely
USC, to "inform" advertisers. That is a parent's
responsibility.
And it brings us one step closer to censor- i
ship. Because while Fair's new rule says
"promote" those things in his list, he really
means "mention" those things.
OR
for narrow- caring ones. We are not sick or
Is such as immoral. We cry, we laugh, we
wise advice feel and we hurt. We do not seek
victims to recruit or infect. Wake
Bruce Lane up, open your mind, this is the
i arts junior 90s. It may not be the gay 90s,
grant you, but who says it is the
straight 90s?
L j Drew M. Bolin
A History freshman
ct
Students need
Lhe letter in .
The Game- tO ODCn IllindS
Bales. Ho- 1
ental illness, To the editor:
homosexuals d0 we all feel better now that
secure with we've gotten it off our chests?
e! It is they Let's see ? all whites are racist,
and are in- au blacks are racist, all homosexuheterosexu
ajs oniy have sex in the missionary
people who position with their spouses. Have I
e way they left anyone out?
illness. You Never before in mv life have I
law student, read more narrow-minded, bigoted,
will get no- ignorant generalizations than I
1 your mind, have in The Gamecock letters in
gay and you the past weeks. Doesn't anyone
light, assum- See individuals anymore? Doesn't
: happened, anyone look at anything other than
color or sexual orientation? Silly
good looking me ? i had this strange notion
i rejected to that people come to college for an
a fear of it. education ? not just from books
)ased on per- but from people and new ideas as
re to attack a well. Apparently it only serves to
nd claim its solidify hatred and bitterness tow/e
must base ard others.
imething you I was taught that people are free
to do whatever they like unless it
>nly is ho- hurts someone else. I guess all
illness ? it these years I should have been trygious
mental ing to take away people's individumost
absurd ality and personal freedoms. Whatd.
This state- ever happened to live and let live?.
'our insecuri- Alive and well at Carolina I see.
Homosexuals Marie Loughmiller
>ings, loving, Journalism senior