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" 'Tl?- ^???????? I i?i??^ ? VIEWPOINT Monday. April 23, 1990 The Gamecock 3 Change Board members of a new directior With the General Assembly's ( the USC Board of Trustees, somi the state's lawmakers are giving rection at USC. Although two of the new mem president of the alumni associatic life to the board. And all three ne day they are eager and excited ab their July meeting. Two of the new members, Do Mack Whittle of Greenville, said ting a student voting member on have wanted for the past several y All three new members want tl tion and have a better image witl sity's image in the press is not al but the press only portrays the re improve itself rather than the pres: Whittle's dislike of cutbacks th of excellence is extremely comm< "fiscal accountability and respon: and USC administration. The 1980s were defmetly a pro] but during that time USC also go cial dealings such as high, lurac people. These dealing only made 1 question the university's financial When the three new members j< will no doubt be a change in the change should be welcomed by th< olinians because it will help the i] all areas in the coming years. "EARTH PAYS- GLOBAL ' 'V "' i'.-^': * ?>.. '* ^ w*4dsir.i~ *$ ' ! *'. i'\r~. The Ga |J Annnnr r\ Ttrrvi * i r i u. i nuiviAa Editor-in-Chief JEFF WILSON, News Editor Ro SCOTT PRUDEN, Carolina Life Edit TEDDY LEPP, Photo Editor R 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 tc be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long fessional title if a USC employee or Soul a student. An address and phone numb Gamecock reserves the right to edit lett space limitations. The newspaper i circumstance. light be signals i for university ilection of three new members to 5 South Carolina lawmakers say a signal for change and new dibers have served on the board as >n, they will still help bring new wly elected members said Thursout joining the other members at nald Bailey of Mt. Pleasant and they are willing to examine putthe board, which student leaders ears. le university to strive for perfeci the press. It is true the univerways presented in the best light, al USC, and the university must s doing it for the university, at would affect students' pursuit ;ndable. Instead, he favors more sibility" on behalf of the board gessive period for the university, t a lot of attention for its finantive salaries for highly notable South Carolinians and legislators affairs. Din the board this summer, there consciousness of that body. A ; board, students and South Cariniversity continue to prosper in , WARMIN6?HAH!" ; " .V ; ; . - mecock Kathy Blackwell Managing Editor byn thompson, co/t? Desk Chief or jeff nichols, Sports Editor obb lane, Graphics/Comics Editor Lucy Soto Assistant News Editor Brant Long Assistant Snorts R/iitnr Sharon Williamson Assistant Copy Desk Chief Kathy Heberger Assistant to the Editors Erik Collins Faculty Adviser Laura S. Day Production Manager renee atkinson Advertising Manager Carolyn Griffin Business Manager > print all letters received. Letters should The writer must include full name, proh Carolina resident, or year and major if er are required with all letters sent. Ihe ers for style', possible libel or in case of will not withhold names under any 11040 (5 rxk xm jmunet l - yuwt**.I'Wft o* X?J III NameJe^f}#a^ |j CMy.16?r>.R30loCrv*,s^t?ftt^MoiJ ffeQUeCTfcpey V A. 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It is in this bastion of righteousness that t university says students are expected to beha just as responsibly off campus as on campi This is one of the rationales behind the n< agreement between USC and the Alcoholic E verage Commission. As you are all aware now, students who are convicted of undera drinking or possessing fake IDs off campus w now be reported to USC. But students are assured that it is to HE1 them, not hurt them. Poppycock. If you are not a minor and end up in j? they don't even notify your parents. So w should USC know? Perhaps they want to use the information make those who have been convicted atte some kind of treatment. This is a noble sen ment, but the road to hell is paved with go intentions. ABC Enforcement Chief Joseph Dorton tc the Associated Press that many students cc victed often pay a fine, but do not learn frc the offense. "I'd like to see us give that underage pers some benefit from experience rather than teac ing them how not to get caught," he said. I'm so sure. i i Alumna tired sn of gay debate " opposit To the editor: Do you This letter is being written in re- you co gard to the "Homosexuals mentally fend ofl ill" letter in the April 13th issue of My c The Gamecock. Excuse me, but I plies to have had quite enough of this silly of the "homosexual" debate. I have read mosexu very few letters that have exhibited seated any amount of rational thinking, or rejectioi simple common sense. What I pruport: have seen is a remarkable amount be- afrai of fear and hatred directed towards more af the gay community. As for the I, per most recent letter, it contains some pie as of the most ludicrous reasoning educate that I have ever encountered. same pi "Regardless of DSM-III, homosexuality is a mental illness, which has its roots in a deepseated insecurity, a practical lack of self-esteem, and/or and intense C!f|f rejection paranoia." Mr. Bales, are you a psychiatrist? No. You have stated that you are a third-year law UI If student. Where do you get off calling homosexuality a disease ? a To the < mental illness? Where are your sta- From tistics, your research data? Please, Gamecc I would be very interested ypon have re what you base this theory. into ju: I am not a homosexual. How- student ever, I happen to know many who Perse are. In fact, I have met homosexu- to learn als who are more secure in their actually identity, have more self-esteem "wantec and have more self-confidence 2) Mik( than many heterosexuals that I sity a ' know. moral p In fact, let's just drop this whole 3) horn name-calling act right now. "Ho- therefor mosexual" and "heterosexual" are recognit just defintions of a person's sexual I had preference, not a defintion of a ing peo person. "Homosexual" has been backgro turned into an epithet, a curse and of high an offensive label. People are all foster t the same, no matter what their sex- undersu ual preference. pie. Un Mr. Bales, I pose this for you to this hap think on: What is homophobia? 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I ~~i _7L .j ArTV* w j fubxs ro kx* k g ?H ion Awn> Lxrry swxatN J- J ut.S5 nvw 6?xy. ruF>3i*st>cAn--5, mtw PLE 1 10 ^ ??X*EL Q O* P?f H ot'Joi of 6DO*MG ") ] J ! SSifJA1? 2s Ti' xi stashed in that jar underfhe. <jarwe? H. suptxac^- 13 f?/>* ? ^ I '5 ****** ?r> H is IFJ THE FXCE^FUja ? [ J J"f-S LJNO [ J^tj: r X y C* WWK?*^i6ol5UMEq3T0F<we?TV W e basic rights a I r|W?L '" i*1) he m-T I AMY LOOMIS js. WHK iw JSMMMMMfc ie. Perhaps they just want numbers to find out J how big of a deal it is. Fine. Then you don't |jj need names. In either case, the university's arm is overextended. p That's not the worst of it. There's more. The infamous war on drugs is showing itself in the Board of Trustees latest ludicrous policy. .. The university can suspend alleged drug . ' offenders, hy Vice President of Student Affairs Dennis to Pruitt told The Gamecock ("Board adopts 'real nd world' approach to drugs," April 11), "The alti leged action, the burden of proof is shifted to od the student to demonstrate why the university should not take immediate action." >ld m- So, in other words, ALLEGED offenders will >m have to prove their innocence. Why is it that, when you are a student, you suddenly fall under on a different set of rules than the rest of the nail tion? Isn't "innocent until proven quilty" a phrase that has been etched in our brains since we were elementary school children. Haven't LETTERS TO THF EDITf wmm y m wmm. n m w : 9 W 19 1 <m* W !? e of your same sex is at- Cfii rl prftfC t to you. So what? Does at- kJlUllCIIlo equal violauon? Are you pvPPll tered when someone of the 3lv/|J CACvU e sex is attracted to you? To lhe fear their advances, or are i am writing this lette nfident of your ability to tempt to save a man's : their affection? state of South Carolina lear sir, the same logic ap- ing to kill Ronald Wc an attraction from someone Friday, April 27. Capil same sex. In fact, if "ho- ment is a passionate issu als" suffer from "a deep- . side of the fence, but h insecurity" and "an intese not be based on emotion n paranoia" as your theory facl> And the fact is, c 3, well, then you should not ishment accomplishes o d of them, because they're revenge, raid of you. We, as Americans, gi sonally, am afraid that peo- cepting the death penalt narrow-mined and pseudo- to rid ourselves of pcop d as yourself exist on the sick instead of dealing anet as I do. sickness in our culture.' States is the only west Dorene M. Boltz cratic civilization that sti GINT alumna its citizens, having in thi such methods as sawin dpflf" hoflv half, beheading them, k them, crushing them v am irrnnrcint lying lhem 10 anlhills > 11 Igll"! dill them alive and almost possible with the excepti editor: ing them in oil. i a recent reading of The The common miscon )ck letters to the editor, I the death penalty is that reived frightening insight tcrrent to crime. The cri st now ignorant tne uul; states witnout tne acatn body can be. no higher per capita t nally, I find it astonishing with the death penalty, that certain USC students tensive study from l1 / believe: 1) blacks had which closely rcsembl I" to be slaves in the South; collected again in 1983, i Fair is doing the univer- West Virginia, Oregon i 'service" by imposing his abolitionist states of the hilosophy upon others; and alty, had lower homicide osexuals are "freaks" and, Virginia, Washington, e, are unworthy of minority mont, states that retaint ion. of the death penalty. 1 often hoped that, by unit- study conducted in New pie of diverse interests and tween 1904-1963, there ' unds, one of the purposes eragc of two additional er education would be to per month, for the mon olerance, knowledge and ing an execution, suggt inding among various peo- the execution incited i fortunately, I do not Find lence. Justice Dcpartme pening at USC: the Univer- show that of the number he Socially Comatose. convicted of murder ben Tara Phillips and 1985, 0.016 pcrccn Theater and speech junior the death penally and on ?89 JT77 ~ ~ RA IRS OSC~ NoW [Jcur^S ?"LV nn Ql to 0* S ?Jr ??~)j , L, HHl WARE D^5~ , jr | |F MO.Fu.f irs ^ne Mo J rintftjtation E Vfes? ?*> _j5cheduteL F No? arts EJflWt tMAf**. ( L I _ |n / cwta rtfcag fc CF PCXES w I * ' 1 KW ww*' ?4iiJL EAntRmocg ^ O %,k m Grass Cfotxxfnji ^BW1 LESS GRATIS 0cws f^ , pO MtfN?J6 Jk W 4 tr-jx: j- i * ^5. IbVl ineg^swi?lfinn). . y < % j ynffl is>n wis *{ 9 ^5^. TKmk of| ntriflhfefl ??. . bcWen ImTS U riscefl^ 7/HStruiflwK^H r j it university we been told that it's beliefs like these that define America? An administrative type (who shall remain nameless) brought up one good point in defense of university thinking. "What if you're an R.A. and there's someone on your hall who you know is smoking pot and annoying others who live with him, but he hasn't ever been caught with it? He shouldn't be allowed to remain living there," he said. However, he agreed that this could also be a dangerous thing if there are no "checks and balances." What if an R.A. just doesn't like somebody and decides to get them kicked out, ALLEGING that he/she has a drug problem. Granted, this is a worst-case scenario, and I seriously doubt that most R.A.s would ever do that, but it still makes the policy vulnerable. It's not just the trustees who have clouded thinking. The Student Senate endorsed the proposal, but with an amendment. The amendment involved a clause, which starts, "Because the HicfriKiitiAn r\f illorrol n '*'? * uiouiuuuv/ii \ji iiiv^oi uiuga 10 a uuuii diiu UiUr ger to the health and safety of the community, when reasonable cause exists,' the University will immediately suspend alleged offenders prior to a hearing, in accordance with Summary Suspenion policies as published in the Carolina Community." Please note the words, "prior to a hearing." The message here is that to be a student is to be a SUBcitizen ? one that is guilty until proven innocent. )R r?r||-| ' cent of those were actually killed. Lit 11 por premeditating murderers, these A .... Tirifl are hardly threatening odds, e cially for those who are not black, poor, victims of child abuse, lacksr in an at- ing education, mentally ill or from ; life. The a small community. When a black is prepar- man has a four times greater )omer this chance of getting the death penalty tal punish- for killing a white man than that le on either white man does for killing him, iws should how can this be justice? t instead of Another argument for the death apital pun- penalty is that killing is cheaper, ne goal ? the most uninformed argument. The Miami Herald estimated Florrow up ac- ida taxpayers spent over S57 mily as a way lion on executions since 1973, or le who are $3,178,623 per killing. The cost of I with the life imprisonment would have figrhe United urcd at $515,964 and could have em, demo- saved the state $2.66 million per ill executes case. In fact, Arkansas in 1971, e past used commuted 15 sentences to save ig them in $15 million. This may be hard to drowning believe but some death penalty /ith rocks, transcripts run 50,000 pages and ;, burying involve 1,000 hours of lawyers' every way hmCj not to mention court costs of on of boil- Up to $4,000 per day. The cost of 2,000 inmates presently on death ception of row around the country has exit ic o An i-j c-^ u:it:? u ?. ?o u ?ju- ceeucu >3^. uiiuun wiuwn cuuiu ime rate in have given $10,000 to relatives of penalty is each of the 222,000 victims of han states homicide over those 10 years, or In an ex- employed 4,000 police officers. 920-1974, Humans are not infallible. Innocd figures cent people have been put to death, states like people in the wrong place at the tnd Maine, wrong time ? people, who could death pen- have been let out of jail but cannot ; rates than be brought back from the dead. It and Ver- all comes down to one brutal term id the use in light of all the facts ? human [n another revenge, in the most premeditated ' York be- way. I am not asking you to forwas an av- give guilty killers but to be objechomicides tivc when the true facts are given, th follow- I am asking you to call Gov. Caristing that roll Campbell and stop this atrocity more vio- from happening in our city The :nt figures execution is scheduled for 1 a.m. of people Friday morning. Please ac' veen 1975 quickly. A human life is at stake;, t received Shannon Baxtt ly 1.5 per- Chemical engineering juni<