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Recap -o This past long way to gc During the 1989-90 schc new decade, moving towar university hopes to becom higher education in the nati It was a year of transitio pulled back. The school se< and its. future. If this past school year i its head out of the sand a .. national prominence and re: Thirty-five classes were lack of funding, tuition wa again next year, and issues gap between the students ? was widened by such unive Stones to play at Williair . brought the school some n : with the Alcoholic Bevera dents convicted of underag hi university. However, this year alsc come together during a tir the state, but not its spirit university faculty and staff volunteered their time to 1 seum. Also, for months aft* to the Charleston area and help residents put their live: Student Government wer Headed by President Marii John. Leary, S.G. became a more parking spaces for sti out of opposite-sex, overni Trustees member Rep. Mi paign, which included cal lighting, was one of the r rate in 10 years. Students also worked tov group making up the cast only American university College/University Theatre ary. USC's many philanth Cares, Amnesty Internation; nities and sororities, contini help others in need. The university also sco shouldn't go without notice program was once again na Bush, First Lady Barbara Webber will all speak durin helping the school gain natic In many ways, this year ! the university must solve1 in f to USC's students, student 1 several years to work toge them. The new Student Go ; Benjamin and Vice Presidei fight. ? Solutions to this year's j made a firm commitment 1 facing students, including hi : students. Williams-Brice Si that the upper decks will hi events ? though it's too 1 whom students love to ha Trustees. The university needs to back over this year to see v We may never reach Preside improve. The G Robert D. Thomas Editor-in-Chief Jeff Wilson, news enuor scott pruden, Carolina Life teddy lepp, Photo Editor 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 i? Letters Policy: The Gamecock will : be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words : fessicnal title if a USC employee or ; a student. An add. ess and phone i Gamecock reserves the right to ed space limitations. The newspa circumstance. I r proves USC has i toward 200 goal >ol year, THE USC crossed over into a d its goal year of 2001 ? the year the e one of the top 10 public systems ol on. n, a year of moving forward and being jmed to be in a tug-of-war with its past s any indication, USC will have to get nd work much harder if its dreams ol spect are to come true in 11 years, cancelled during the fall because ol s raised and will most likely be raised such as parking and visitation created a md many university officials. The gap rsity moves as not allowing the Rolling ls-Brice Stadium, (which would have luch-needed dollars) and its agreement ge Commission to have names of stu;e drinking off-campus turned in to the > saw the students and the university ne of crisis. Hurricane Hugo trampled , as evident by the many students and who donated money and food and who tielp those seeking shelter at the colizr the storm, hundreds of students went I other areas hit hard by the storm to s and homes back together, it to work in a fight for students' rights. s-Louise Ramsdale and Vice President force to be reckoned with as it secured idents and continued to fight the phase ght visitation as proposed by Board of ke Fair, R-Greenville. Its safety camil box installation and better campus easons 1989 saw USC's lowest crime yard positive changes. The USC theater and crew of The Fantasticks were the Af fU A Tnt AM A1 giuujj iu pciiuim ai uic uuciiicuiuiidi Festival in the Soviet Union in Januropic organizations, such as Carolina al and others, along with many fraterlally donated their time and money to red a few big coups this year that . Its Masters in International Business med top in the nation. Also President Bush and composer Andrew Lloyd g the May graduation commencement, rnal attention. helped to define the specific problems order to be a top-notch school. It is up leaders and school officials of the next ther to overcome the obstacles facing vemment, including President Stephen tit Todd Weiss, have already begun to iroblems are being sought. Weiss has to helping ease the parking problems elping to secure spaces for commuting tadium is undergoing "construction so ave more support in order to hold big late for the Stones. Also, Mike Fair, ite, has resigned from the Board of use the power of hindsight and look vhat went wrong and what went right. ;nt Holderman's 2001 goal, but we can amecock KATHY BLACKWELL Managing Editor . ROBYN THOMPSON, Copy Desk Chief ' Editor JEFF NICHOLS, Sports Editor Rorr I.amf arnnYiirslC.nm.irs F.dilnr Lucy Soto Assistan t News Editor Brant Long Assistant Sports Editor 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 \ I try to print ail letters received. Letters should long. The writer must include full name, pro South Carolina resident, or year and major if number are required with all letters sent, lhe lit letters for style, possible libel or in case of per will not withhold names under any 1 *t x iiv v/uiuy ivvix TBmmm TRAPE A6REEMEMT "WE'RE HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM INPECJ O C/ Execution get! It was a story that took on not only state, but ICglVJlldl dliu 114UUU41 11UCICM. The story was the execution pf ?Q{iyjcle$ murderer Ronald "Rusty" Woomer, the third person to be executed in South Carolina's electric chair since 1977 when the state reinstated the death penalty. The story is also the most unusual that I've covered for The Gamecock in my year and a half with the newspaper. It was unusual because it dealt with a life, and it was not only controversial to students but to the state as well. Betsy Nolen, news director of WUSC-FM, and I left campus shortly after midnight Friday to go cover the execution. We never had been to cover an execution, and I think we went out of curiosity more than anything else. When we arrived at Broad River Correctional Institute, our press passes allowed us to drive past the hundreds of protesters and supporters of the death penality. Many of the faces in the crowd were USC students. Excitement was written on my face when I i arrived at the place where the press would be briefed throughout the night on Woomer's status in a nearby building. It wasn't excitement because of Woomer but because I would be mrn-. imagBL Homosexuality medical issue gX' ^ ^ , in a concei To the editor: While them , I would like to reply to some re- disposition cent letters mentioning my name. ipj h fmn The 1973 decision to take ho.. _ , not want hon mosexuality out of the Diagnostic ^ , and Statistical Manual of Mental of autho7ty tv a .u a 4. c mosexuals ca Disorders was the product of coer- . , , j ciate nor resp cion and argumentum ad miseri- Often an cordiam. It was a decision lacking in informed medical science. I . doubt that the majority of Ameri- reS<^r , ?? can psychiatrists now or ever sup- mmded. hoi ported this decision. If the Ameri- ^ou disagree can Psychiatric Association re- are moved schizophrenia from ^ an DSM-III, I would still believe it to a^e<rment *s be a mental illness. A group of ??1<V ! men cannot change early facts (eg. care Pro gravity, the sun rises in the east, psychiatrist, homosexuality is a mental illness), psychiatrist tc Homosexuals have never passed ^ a "J60131 1 beyond an infantile level of psy- those letters i , , , "rtaaH hnrsft cnosexuai development. In and of itself, homosexuality manY letters is nothing to be ashamed of ? it is f^e moral asl a medical problem. Homosexuals ^ ^ew ^ave are not immoral. However, ho- cal aspects, mosexuals should be willing to admit they have a mental illness and should seek medical attention for it. Persistent proclamation of a X 1ZZ3. mere alternative lifestyle propagates harm to homosexuals them- COIlll** selves and to society as a whole. It is sad to see homosexuals continue To the editor: to perpetrate this grand illusion On Saturd upon themselves. olina studer A reply to my original letter longest (mc stated that I was merely expressing (Domino's), < an insecurity over my own heter- and paid on "WE HAVE TO P01 REAL LETTERS 4 J I' HI6HEI? # S' f WTCS ffl R4 " 1R MIilLASS J, - Wf ^?? 'CX $ less-than-idt s|> ROBERT THOMAS covering a news event alongside the people thai I have idealized since I was young. However, the way the professional press operates is not always something I would want tc idealize. For instance, after I walked into the press briefing room with my press kit full of death penality descriptions, Woomer's historical data and his prison picture, there were danishes and soft drinks waiting for the press. It hardly seemed the time to eat, drink and be merry. And what about the reporter from The State, whose cellular phone went dead and in turn had to use tne pay pnone in the briefing room. When the media was told Woomer died at 1:12 a.m., she shouted "go" into the phone and hung it up. I guess the motion was set for her to start her HERS TO THE EDIT a very predictable re- hefty slice of philanth ever, the basis for my metto Place ? a shelf ia' (as gay rights and neglected children e English), is founded Did these student: n for my children. Domino's owner, Ton may be a genetic pre- has given six digits < , homosexuality is based income to ; 1 homosexuals. I do causes? Did they se losexuals in a position connection between 3ver my children. Ho- longest pizza (Domim innot relate to, appre- of the world s saddest lect this concern. abused and neglected d predictably, ho- often unwanted childn id their sympathizers less circumstances? le phrase "narrow- Hello. Pizza Hut? them, it is simply if the anchovies. . . . with my position, you K inded. That there may Educati ive basis for the dissuperfluous. This is At* Oc irther, I am a health v T I lit I onal but I am not a i i a Tk One need not be a UaCK lO 1 ) know homosexuality ? , Uness. I can relate to To'he editor: *ho maintain this is a 7u,n| issue" but while so edltonaI in FndaS's have concentrated ? ?.<"* J" y. , Topics ignorant," t pects of homosexual- s^ell focused on the medi- Finu , would like , Wes W Bales totally <?ree with MrV Tfcj 5 v f cerning the issue of Third Year Law Day h60m0sexuals, h nvpnf and racism- Bul his' C VClii ignorance and racism ? . is another issue that JJQICtOry hearing about. He str " article, "topics that opinion should be kc ay (April 28), Car- mind, not in th its ate the world's newspaper." )st charred) pizza Is his contradiction drank ice cold Coke, ignorance? ly $2 a piece for a m leave that que ".vmwm;, r-\yj\ it \j\j} | w\J T? WE FOUHPT SOME WE STILL 6ETTIH6 THR006H" V ftt ores i ~~<5R 5* KMAIL 5s ;al coverage coverage and The State's presses to be held for her story. The broadcast media made its* presence known at the execution, and the dozen or. so satellite trucks and news vans outside demonstrated that. Tasteless is the correct word to describe one Columbia television station's weeklong promotion on "execution updates" throughout Thursday night. L The television station's reporter did live rerpotes from the press briefing room, and it was ironic that another reporter tried to make her > laugh and mess up while she was doing the reports. ; I am not trying to ridicule the media, which t politicians and administrators do so well. What i Tarn trying to say is that I would do things difl ferentlv ? T would hnnp. morp nrofessionallv But covering this story gave me another look at the so-called news professionals who I hope to join in their ranks in a year. Covering this and other stories for The Gamecock has given me more experience in this field than any class could ever do. And being editor of the newspaper this semester was an experience that I have enjoyed and will not forget. OR ropy for Pal- swered, but if Mr. Stowell doesn't er for abused like the way things are in the QrMitK tKon T' m C11T*P. OflP rvf rvnr WJV/ULU, U1VU JL III ^ v vi UUI 5 knqjv that "racist, ignorant" airline pilots can i Monaghan, fly him back to his unbiased, intel}f his pizza- ligent Utopia of the North, anti-choice Gene Noles e the ironic Business administration junior the world's %L-Z Death penalty ignores facts Yeah. Hold To the editor: I am writing in concern to your athy K Fox editorial on the death penalty in on graduate ^ United States. You're article epitomizes the state of most of the American people ? uninformed or in go apathetic. ? Your article mentions or quesJdons certain ideas floating around our society. Ideas are good. Facts are what counts, though. >onse to the An eye for an eye is always The Game- yelled in favor for capital punish ident hinds ment. This means a punishment >y John D. must fit the crime. So if you wanted to punish Woomer, for into say that I stance, justly you would have to S to well con- rape him twice, and then beat him, : Blue Jean shoot him, let him suffer for omophobics awhile, and then kill him. Killing 'opinion" of him by electrocution is letting him in the South off easily then. Who would carry I'm tired of out the "just" execution mentioned essed in his above, especially when the state is are strictly now too chicken to put the responjpt in one's sibility on one person for an exe school ecution. Who would have the "guts" or better yet the brutality to evidence of do that? (I'm not sure I want to stion unan- See Death page 5