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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.
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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
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Lucy Soto
Assistant News Editor
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Assistant to the Editors
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> print all letters received. Letters should
The writer must include full name, proh
Carolina resident, or year and major if
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Students los
The Carolina Community student poli
manual has been getting a lot of attention late
In this publication, the university has ration
ized its decisions concerning students and th
alcohol and drug use.
It is in this bastion of righteousness that t
university says students are expected to beha
just as responsibly off campus as on campi
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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.
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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
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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? I sity of t
say that it is fear. It is the simple,
unfounded and irrational fear that
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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."
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>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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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r?r||-| ' cent of those were actually killed.
Lit 11 por premeditating murderers, these
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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
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?. ?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
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