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VIEWPOINT Friday, April 20, 1990 The Gamecock 3 Drinking Reasons against nt should be as easy Students should be concerned ab holic Beverage Commission and U! student input. Under the plan, students who \ underage drinking) will be reportec cmH Slafftv nffirp for nffpncoc on or UliU VI.J v***vv ivi VllVlikTVU V/U \/l tains the information. will be used widespread the underage drinking pr If that was the only purpose, then ever, there is no need for names if a] bers. But that's not all they want. Law Enforcement and Safety isn't their fact files ? they're going to Affairs, the office that deals with dis university rules as defined by the handbook. The Student Affairs office maint; how to use the information, but it w students who have a problem and re] hoi and Drug Abuse Program. They've go( to be kidding. The only problem with underage you're over 21 and you have a beer, drinking problem. If you're under ! may or may not be an alcoholic. Bi you got busted by ABC. Student Affairs shouldn't have to lining these students ? they shouldn Don't be pacified by the fact the] power over off-campus misdemeano agreement with ABC before either. The days of in loco parentis are g ness if its students drink off campus, others in physical danger by their acl * Think long and hard about the ii Would people tolerate their employ with local police departments? ino one nas yei asicea oiuaeni uo information, or even if the informati elected these people to represent yoi get involved. Student Affairs justifies possibl clause in the Carolina Community, just as responsible for their action: campus. But a slightly older document read self-evident: that all men are created Yes, USC. Even students. flppw The Gar Robert d. Thomas Editor-in-Chief JEFF WILSON, News Editor ROBY SCOTT PRUDEN, Carolina Life Editor TEDDY LEPP, Photo Editor ROE Lynn Gibson Assistant News Editor Elizabeth Lynch Assistant Carolina 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 Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to pr be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. Tl fessional title if a USC employee or South C a student. An add.ess and phone number i Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters space limitations. The newspaper will circumstance. I ?w agreement as ABCs ( out an "agreement" (he AlcoSC recently made ? without riolate ABC laws (primarily, I to USC's Law Enforcement off campus. The office mainto get a better idea of how oblem is. s would be no problem. HowII the university wants is num going to keep those names to forward the names to Student ;ciplining students who violate Carolina Community student ains they haven't yet decided ould be beneficial in targeting ferring them to the USC Alco1 drinking is that it's illegal. If that alone doesn't constitute a 21 and you have a beer, you at if you are, it's not because decide anything about discipi't even consider it. 1 / never used their disciplinary rs before; they never made an one. It is none of USC's busi, as long as they're not putting / Lions. P implications of this little pact. a er having such an agreement E vernment what to do with the on should be used at all. You v jr interests ? make sure they r( P e disciplinary action with a which states that students are E s off campus as they are on n h Is: "We hold these truths to be r< equal..." tl u y c A h g necock * v KATHY BLACKWELL I Managing Editor t< . " s N THOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief 6 JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor SB LANE, GraphicslComics Editor . n i LUCY SOTO Assistant News Editor 0 Branv Long s Assistant Sports Editor P Sharon Williamson " Assistant Copy Desk Chief ^ Kathy Heberger Assistant to the Editors p 6 Erik Collins p Faculty Adviser g Laura S. Day a Production Manager c< RENEE ATKINSON # Advertising Manager 'c Carolyn Griffin Business Manager ai 1C ~~ ir int all letters received. Letters should le writer must include full name, pro- , Carolina resident, or year and major if ? are required with all letters sent. 7he ' for style, possible libel or in case of ri i not withhold names under any * d U piM. d U.S. government ta We in the press tend to harp on the First Amendment a lot, but mostly for our own evil ? BP ? urposeof wanting to keep the public informed |IF # % T bout alrthe nastiness that goes on in the world. 4 ?r iut there's one aspect of the most revered \ amendment that the press often ignores. ^ m Let us not forget that the freedom to worship wKSKBMttKi /hoever or whatever we like is one of the main masons this continent got populated in the first experience. Catl lace. Both are the twi The only problem was that once the white, States, and no 01 uro-cnnstians landed at Plymouth, they com- revivals or the n lenced to beating their philosophies into the Prohibition, wher eads, regardless of what physical injury might Native Americ ssult, of the native population. gious practices And so the tradition continues. prayer and a bit i On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled include prayer, i iat Native Americans are no longer allowed to peyote to induce se peyote in their religious rites. For those of member his destii ou unfamiliar with peyote, it's an illegal hallu- In his dissent, inagen that comes from cactus plants. Native that America's pi jnericans have been using it for God knows Native Americai ow long to induce visions during their reli- court to "an unful ious ceremonies. So what's new' And there's the operative word. Visions. Recently, I dor lost religions, regardless of their overall philo- any mass killings aphies, rely on the idea of receiving visions or I don't think the witnessing miracles from some divine source, problem, and I'n .vangelical Christians rely on the born again first on anyone' 'Iv' jjj.'' ' ^ 1.111 j. I 11I I j 111 .1 I I I I I I I . fill! LETTERS tr*niiVtlp ! wa^ ^as - AJI v M UUUIvtj ton building and replace it w | j rea* American hero and a sy JiagUe U of South Carolina such as Lt. Charles Bolden. After all, 'o the editor: Bolden did grow up in Colu Once again troubled times have and his smallest accomplish efallen THE USC (a.k.a. THE in life makes our dear Mr. Ro Iniversity of Steroids and Co- whole football career look n aine). Last Saturday THE USC's cule. If we did this, at leas Mmer football hero, George Ro- kids in our community could ers, fumbled once more but this someone of substance to loo nic 11 nas scriuus implications iur to ana aamire. ie university. Mr. Rogers was ar- William B. Hoi ssted for possession of cocaine Business ji /ith intent to distribute and simple Michael S. Alexa ossession of marijuana. The con- Chemistry ji equences of his actions are going 3 be devastating, not only to him- ^ . _? . j elf and the university but to 1111(1 veryone in South Carolina. . # , topics lgnorai First of all this incident is gomg * ~ 0 worsen USC's already bad ame. This is the last thing THE To the editor: JSC needs after last year's article I would first like to applau* 1 Sports Illustrated and the arrest efforts of Ms. Loughmiller or f Tim High for possession of mu- ing to bring this campus bac hrooms among other things, sho- reality. I myself am fed up lifting, etc. (sure Tim was found looking at the editor's page ot guilty, but on a technicality), seeing articles on the folio econdly, this gives the state of items: Blue Jean Day, homo: outh Carolina as well as our edu- als, homophobics and racis ation system a big black eye, es- think this student body has ecially after the recent report on beating a dead horse on t 0 Minutes. Our dear Mr. Rogers' issues. I hope that souk icture is painted all over the doesn't judge me as a homos< looker T Washington hnilriintr heranse T wear hi hp. ip^ns T long with a list of his finest ac- pray to God that someone do omplishments as way of saying consider me a fraternity mei tanks to him from all of us. But because I wear Duck Head ] ;ts be honest, he has done nothing and a white baseball hat. Hov )r us, nothing for the university out we say everyone who v nd most importantly in my opin- tie-dye takes drugs and follow >n, nothing for the young people Grateful Dead around? These i this state who look up to him. torial wars are pointless, anc should stop right now. I say it is time for THE USC to nally do something decent and When I left the North to a ght for a change. Let's kick our college people told me th ear Mr. Rogers off of THE should watch out for racism fSC's payroll and when we have ignorant people. I did not heec one that let's wash his ugly mug warning, and after reading and ilia ...BRPCCX kes drug w; list. T1 artifici; Blac tive A Scon Pruden lfha; , , foster, || ble ant | - drugs.' not go lolics have transubstantiation. their s 0 leading faiths in the United purpos le has tried to outlaw religious And te of communion (even during that if 1 alcohol was illegal). Amerii ans simply go about their reli- have tc a bit differently. Instead of worsli of sacrimental wine, tribal rites smoke fasting and small amounts of drug tl the visions that show a tribe itual u] ny. In o Justice Harry Blackmun wrote into c< romise of religious freedom to brothei is had been reduced by the white i Ifilled and hollow promise." World, ? no par 1't seem to recall hearing about cupyin by people tripping on peyote. denied re is a huge peyote addiction lar life 1 sure that the drug is not the their n s recreational pharmaceutical Hey TQ THE EDITOR; hing- Gamecock articles I see once ag 'ith a my peers were correct. Yes, U mbol has shown me that people are Col. norant, and topics that are stric Col. opinion should be kept in 01 mbia mind, not in the school paper, ment igers' I feel that such mundane top linis- should be dropped, they are < t the news. How many months ago v have it that these topics even came up k up feel this letter itself is munda but it had to be written, and, ii lland makes people mad, that's all inior better. Because if you're mad n nder it only goes to show how ignor inior you really are. If we are going discuss something why don't talk about that idiot who dove i S the reflection pond two wet ago? it .. John D. Stov Hotel, restaurant and touri freshm ABC shouldn' wirt report to USC and wing To the editor: sexu- I'm writing in response tc T A . . . Al. - . I ? i". 1 tairly new subject mai nas b( been coming up lately, the reporting hese underage drinking and alcohol v jone lations to the university by jxual ABC. also esn't This is absurd. I happen to tnber one of the unlucky 48 people v pants were caught by the ABC, April ' ab- at the Stadium Place. /ears This was obviously not a sch s the event, so what right does the 11 edt- versity have knowing what I did 1 we did not do? This sounds li another lesson of morality be forced on the students, ttend A misdemeanor of this nati lat I has no relevance on what I am I and ing to accomplish here at U! 1 this My tuition money should be sp The to build better learning facilit Tm) If ar too far iey'd much prefer something potent and al like LSD. :kmun was sure to point out that the Naimerican Church "exemplifies values . drug laws are presumably intended to ' and "is far removed from die irresponsi1 unrestricted recreational use of unlawful ' In other words, Native Americans are ing around getting stoned on peyote in pare time and saying it's for religious es. then, of course, there's the argument the Supreme Court allows the Native can church to use peyote, then they'd ) allow some '60s throwback religion that ins a lock of Jimi Hendrix's hair to , snort, shoot, freebase or eat whatever ley claim gives them the maximum spirplift. ther words, the court does not even take onsideration that our Native American rs and sisters were here long before the man iced his first wild turkey in the New , or that they were nearly slaughtered for ticular reason other than they were ocg real estate. So now that they've been their land, their economy and their secustyle, let's make the final blow and yank ;ligion right out from under their feet , it would only be par for the course. ain not to make me feel as though I SC live in a jail. I can understand a feig lony having an affect on my edu:tly cation, but what relevance to my ties learning will this offense be? NONE. Scott Pettit ,jcs Undeclared freshman vas Letter writers should shut up the To the editor: ow At first it was rather interesting, ant all of the heated debates about hoto mosexuality and racism, but we enough is enough, nto To the homosexuals ? shut up. jks Blue Jeans Day has accomplished just what you should have exrcll pected. That is, insecure hetersm osexuals lashing out at the whole 'an idea, and homosexuals defending their beliefs. Did you actually ex4 pect 100 percent acceptance? ^ To the homophobics ? shut up. There have always been homosexuals on this planet, and there always will be. It's a fact of life that you must learn to live with. > a You will accomplish nothing with ren your tirades. of To the racially (un)aware ? io- shut up. If you really want racism the to end, emphasizing the differences between the races instead of the similarities is definitely the wrong be way to go about it. Identifying /ho with your heritage is one thing, but I 5, self-segregation is another. Why don't you all just sit back, ool have a beer and direct your enerini gies elsewhere. Perhaps toward 1 or saving our planet from the big ike companies that constantly rape our ing environment or do something to improve our education system, ure And now, we will shut up. try- Joseph Hidy SC. English senior ent Matthew Miller ies, HRTA senior