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Viewpoint I ' ' '4 The Gamecock Friday, April 27, 1990 Justice4 ; Woomer heads t death penality a At 1 a.m. this morning, cc 'might or might not have be electric chair. Woomer is convicted of ha\ and having seriously injured tw women, two of whom he brutal If he is executed, the familie of the people in South Carolim ' also believe Woomer got what 1 Capital punishment has beco state and in the rest of the cour 'even more so in recent years. k There is a definite sway in tates concerning capital punis beginning to favor the death p United States have continually ,the death penalty have been v jfavor of it. Despite the ever-growing ni death penalty, the question rem* Many argue that an eye shot for a tooth. If not that, then the 'the victim to feel something ha J3ut at least something that will i easier. : They also argue that capital pairing potential murderers thin t Opponents of capital punishrr uncivilized, accomplishes neith A i : * j - * 1 uiu uuugs sueieiy uown 10 me i ? But something has to be done I In modem times, where crim punishment has been a contini ^ame arguments. In fact, the Ui he Western world that allows c< Maybe these countries know jve know something they don't. ] The question remains: what a .nit murder, often brutally and m , There is the choice of either heir lives or putting them to dea This is a question each persoi nore and more people across 1 vith crime and looking to the ( iroblem. C0OLIN6 TIip fia Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief feff wilson, News Editor RO jcott pruden, Carolina Life Editi teddy lepp, Photo Editor R ,ynn Gibson ssistant News Editor :lizabeth Lynch ssistant Carolina Life Editor ieborah Ryan ssistant Photo Editor *enee Meyer darkroom Technician Kristin Francis 'raduate Assistant :d bonza Erector of Student Media tay Burgos ssistant Production Manager effrey B. Thompson ssistant Advertising Manager etters Policy: The Gamecock will try to e, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. )ssional title if a USC employee or Soutf student. An add, ess and phone numbe Jamecock reserves the right to edit lette pace limitations. The newspaper u rcumstance. > IW0( I CViicagpTribune o electric chair; lebate splits S.C. mvicted murderer Rusty Woomer en executed in South Carolina's dng killed three South Carolinians o others. Three of his victims were ly raped. s will feel justice was done. Many \ who favor the death penality will tie deserved. me a very sensitive subject in this ltry over the past few decades, and the public opinion in the United hment. More and more people are pnaltv Rpffnt plp^tinnc o/rncc thf> wiiuxkj. AWVV1II WVVliV/llO ttVlV/OO U1V shown that candidates supporting winning races against those not in imber of people who support the tins as to whether it is right, lid be paid for an eye and a tooth execution will allow the family of s been done ? maybe not justice, allow their loved one to rest a little punishment serves as a deterrent, k twice before killing someone. lent argue that retributive justice is jr er justice nor acts as a deterrent f evel of the killers. , right? The question is what. *Y2?!tjiA3aa?5i^ e levels continue to climb, capital ious source of debate with these nieu states is me only country in ipital punishment. 1*?Y"1 Oi something that we don't. Maybe XjLI. JI1.1.C' re we to do with those who com- 9?: 111 1111 and ill-bred students , f u f reflect. Stop laughin locking them away for the rest of or moving Hey*f y '"1- thing for a minute ? i must answer for themselves, but totally stepped beyo the country are becoming fed up we immoral young i leath penalty as a solution to the control, not only ha> opinions on (gasp!) j us have now steppec of decency and (shcx TPEMP parking areas! I can'; turned out like this. I (OK ? so I'm be maybe a tad juvenil / fight fire with fire / Bics-) ? OK ? here's the tight (-and rishtlyso ^? \J in lots specifically s< ticked, too. But let's C5 (Before I start, mj wis Vf\ car, nor do I drive, sc ^ CS) ^'^\j objective in this matt. First. I myself ha XCf) d\&tr\K 1 mshing onto campu J J / \ ^saA/v^ without checking th k MJJOU they just forgot the; V 4 r y^jTff iV*Vv lots?), and rush into Kj)' they were late for c ^J " members return to th. meters not 100 yard: empty spaces, find a Pizza wil "" * child abi nr% o c* c\ r* \r To the editor: There is a great pr Columbia area that 1 KATHY BLACKWELL receiving the attentio Managing Editor serves. It is a silent tr; which the victims he _ and, the abusers, as byn thompson, Copy Desk Chief comro| are free t0 v ir JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor tion on innocent live obb lane, Graphics/Comics Editor lem 1S chlld abuse- ?t it is not as lofty and some of the other pi lljcy Soto *ems advocates endles /\ssistant News Editor ou^ *n die media. An( BRANT LONG "a* to our 'iv| Assistant Sports Editor sludents some of tl Sharon Williamson !"'p?rtahnl ,1s' w. Assistant Copy Desk Chief batlle ,about in lbe c?' KATHY HEBERGER Assistant to the Editors unlike all those controversial topics, t ining aDOUi wmcn ERIK Collins agree. And unlike all Faculty Adviser trating dilemmas that laura s. Day in the discussion of al Production Manager things, this is a pro RENEE ATKINSON whlch we can eas,1>' d< Advertising Manager This Saturday a 1 Carolyn Griffin w?rfns fPPj? are J Business Manager ?ul ?? Pa!. "SC 'n tl Book of World Recort, ing the world's longe: print all letters received. Letters should in process help The writer must include full name, pro- abused children at Ui i Carolina resident, or year and major if Palmetto Place in Colu 'r a.re with all tellers sent. 7/te A|, ^ everyone h irs for style, possible libel or in case of , fTo^t trill not withhold names under any come down to LSC F on Saturday April 28 anc* ^ p. m. and down aged mmi i [I gates would be < ie for all of us thoughtless ; to stop for a moment and ^ g and talking, stop walking r ML ou can handle it, stop brea- ^ Wm - this is important. We have S Hrf 1/ r i i y nd our limits. Not only are shildren who have no self/e we deigned to voice our <4*f ? x)litical matters ? some of >'?***? "A I so low as to drop all hint ;k! horror!) park in faculty and let it fall to the ground. Th t believe our generation has gined scenarios. These are real, 'm so ashamed. penings here at THE USC. ing dramatic, sarcastic and Now, let's look at the options e about this, but we must we can put armed gates on facu ? even if it is only with of about $10,000. Problem s( won't park there anymore and f deal. The faculty are up- their coveted lots all to them: ) that students are parking while we're at it, why don't w< a aside for faculty. I'd be $10,000 or so (since the unive be reasonable. * doesn't suffer from a lack of ight I say I neither own a armed gates on the student lots ) I can be considered fairly faculty and staff who don't nee sr.) because they will have their c ive seen faculty members That's just what this country i s, parking in student lots 'Keep Out' signs and a greate eir faculty lot (or maybe word 'MINE.' Sounds good to m / had their own precious (And, by the way, you can't the nearest building where only park in student lots because :lass. I have seen facultv thp famitv w t ?\ j niv xuvuitj1 iv/l. ? IV1IVJ w UtllCl eir cars parked by parking Or, we can save our $(many s from a faculty lot with simply spend a couple of weeks i ticket on their windshield of the offending students towed BP LETTERS TO THl IK 1 for charity. It's an easy way to do and ab neiD something to help the community April 2 and, an easy way to be a part of a sonals ii JSC world record setting event. Ape So instead of sitting down on sonal! I Saturday and writing more boring was wri oblem in the letters about Blue Jeans day, and son care las not been instead of just doing a lot of talk- Who ca n that it de- ing, why don't we show that this I'm sur agedy, one in generation isn't apathetic as we go though ive no voice on down to the P.E. field and do "dear." serting total something that could really help If you vork destruc- people. don't S? s. The prob- Ken O'Brien personal n the surface Math/Education senior spread g dramatic as thing I'> essing prob- /^JiiQlifv JlPffPI* like it if sly argue ab- vUdlllj UCllCl Debbie t l it is not as To yo >s as college 1U1 WI UllllllO l universit le other very hich people y0 ^ e(jitor; umns of this j am writing concerning the tor section. April 23 column by Amy Loomis. passionately quaijty Gf Work produced by his is some- Loomis has certainly improved, we can all ancj j COmmend her for addressing mis those Irus sucj1 a reievant issue for the stu- * C(j*me a^ut dents of USC. I hope the points To the e 1 05C<h ^ she has brought up are taken to Coach m about ^eart tjie administration, and a cer tean ) something soiution is found soon. from his lot of hard slanlial ^oing to set Nick Leoncavallo die jette le Guinness Office Information Systems Ju- luck." G is by build- nior pany, jc st pizza and other Be lucd way's Personals not p? ^'io do is gossip forum '.E. Field A (Nigeria between 1 To the editor! against ^ a few slices I was shocked at the immaturity tional co A 1 expensive misiaKe culty lots. When students have to shell out $35 to $40 each time they park in faculty lots, they will soon become as conditioned to not parking there as Pavlov's dogs did to salivating at the THOMAS sound of the bell. And I'm sure the fair and obI nUMAO jective faculty won't mind having THEIR cars towed from student lots as well. AND, since cars are towed for the university by City Garage at the OWNERS' expense, and therefore costs the university absolutely nothing (as in zero, ese are not ima- zilch, naught ? and I know this because garage , bona fide hap- dispatcher Diane Rice told me so), it would be less expensive to the university, and students available. First, might actually get away with not having their Ity lots at a cost parking fees raised again next year. I would in)lved. Students clude faculty in this, but they don't pay parking acuity can have fees and, as Parking Committee Chairman Peter selves. Hey Becker put it, "There is no need to change (that s spend another fact)." irsity obviously money) to put It is students' parking fees and tuitions that to keep out the are raised because of ideas like this. Student d to park there parking lots are in need of paving and repairs, iwn gated lots, and students' classes have had to be cancelled needs ? more the last several years because of lack of fundr sense of the ing. Do we really need to spend $10,000 to c. Keep a icw irresponsioie Kias out or raculty tell me faculty students are in lots? I say tow the suckers and let the individuals feel the financial pinch ? not the rest of the thousand) and university. And if the faculty still want armed having the cars gates, let them start paying for that privilege ? out of the fa- and not use student money. = EDITOR surdity of Ken Fowler's curious to see this undeniable ta5th letter concerning per- lent. Okoro was told no try-out and a The Gamecock. directed down bureaucracy lane, rsonal is just that ? per- Anthony Onwuegbuzi, a black t wasn't written to you. It Englishman of Nigerian descent, tten to show that one per- has played for his English univerd about another's birthday. sity (Kent) and been on soccer res if you didn't like it? tours to the Soviet Union and the e she was touched even United States. He was also a teamit said "to" instead of mate of Grant's on the city of Columbia champions, the Nix. The i can't say something nice, unbiased would therefore agree ly anything at all. Using that he has performed at the s to get your enemies and European-university level and had ossip is the most immature plenty of experience with the tz ever heard. Would you American game. He was given no someone wrote, "Ken got try-out and told that his status as a o test positive?" I doubt it. graduate student would present unu Ken, grow up. This is a defined "difficulties." y, not kindergarten. From the perspective of skill, it Lynda Olszowv ts not possible to rationally deny English freshman these men a try at the USC squad. What then, is the explanation? 'PP1* POUPll Would the three not fit into the Ltl tuavil overly structured Berson strategy 111 rl CTCkC cl^ 111 11131 ctlokes individuality and stems J Ltvl^dj olVIlI j^e f]ow of creativity? Or is it normal to make access to a simple i?n c u ttcp ^ try-out an adventure in red-tape? i Berson of the USC soc- J F l dropped Bernard Grant since this letter speaks of squad, ignoring his sub- 5iack men> 0ne each from the Carcredentials as outlined in ib5ean> Africa and the United r "Soccer victory merely Kingdom, it touches the rightly rant is now in fine com sensitive issue of racism. It does lining the ranks o wo not seek t0 accuse but rather hopes rson rejectees capa e for courtesy of a response from or the schoo . Coach Berson. What motivated s Emeka 0 or0- 1 him to give the run-around to these oaches, w en players, and why did he not even ho represente is na ion ju(jge pr0ven skill and talent for ) and scored a hat-trick 1 5 F Vest Germany in interna- " Rawdon Adams mpetition, would be quite Economics alumni, 1989