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Access Many USC buildings cannot accommodate wheelchair-bound USC has made an effort to make the campus more easily accessible to handicaDDed students, and should ho rnmmondod for thpir work. However, several campus buildings remain that are unequipped for accommodating wheelchairs. Sloan College, Hamilton College, LeConte and numerous other buildings lack ramps, elevators and/or doors that are automatic or open into the building. Some lack wide hallways that will allow for handicapped students to move easily and without obstruction. Some are so poorly equipped as to be too much of a hassle for these students. The Health Sciences building has a very narrow entrance ramp that until recently was nothing more than splintering wood on blocks. It is still difficult to maneuver a wheelchair on it. In addition, the door to the building opens out over the top of the ramp, making it doubly difficult to get inside. Even dormitories are difficult for handicapped students. While special rooms are set aside for students in wheelchairs, wheelchair-bound students are still limited as to who they can visit because many dorms are not easily accessible to them. These dorms include Columbia Hall, Preston, Maxcy, Wade Hampton, Sims, McClintock and most of the fraternity halls. The monetary cost for building ramps and making buildings accessible with automatic doors is relatively small when compared to the loss to the student who may not be able to participate in various activities because he is in a wheelchair and simply cannot get there. * SOMEDAY OUR SHIP WILL COME IN' M'D SETTLE FOR THE BREAD TRUCK' Jj| /, MOSCOW ^? f ?? ^pll ^ -jd&UM&sr &i770fr? ixnjif ro<r-o&r*w (Herblock is on vacation) The Gamecock * News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 Jeff Wilson Sharon Willamson Editor in Chief Managing Editor/Copy Desk Chief Lynn Gibson Elizabeth Lynch News Editor Carolina Life Editor Dougaube Renee Meyer Sports Editor Photography Editor Kelly C. Thomas Viewpoints Editor Elizabeth Fox Sherri Tillman Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor David Bowden Kathy Heberger Assistant Carolina Life Editor AssiJtccu Carolina Life Editor Brant Long Julie bouchillon Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Photography Editor Octavia Wright Assistant to the Editors Kristin Francis Erik Collins Graduate Assistant Faculty Adviser Ed Bonza Laura S. Day Director of Student Media Production Manager Ray Burgos Renee Gibson Assistant Production Manager Advertising Manager Kyle Berry Carolyn Griffin Assistant Advertising Manager Business Manager Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The writer must include full name, professional title if a USC employee or South Carolina resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for style, possible libel or in case of space limitations. The newspaper will not withhold names under any j circumstance. 1 | i Ethics are ne< Picture this: it's Sunday morning, and you've just gotten out of bed. You stumble to the kitchen, pour a bowl of Rice Krispies and sit down to read the morning paper. Pulling out the Metro section of The State, you begin to read about a South Carolina woman who was attacked and killed by seven dogs. Unfortunately for you and your appetite, the article goes into graphic detail. According to the article, Patricia Ann Roberts had 11 dogs, seven of which were malnourished and emaciated. After Roberts had a seizure that j caused some sort of injury, the dogs smelled | blood and their "survival instinct took over," , Colleton County Sheriff Eddie Chasteen said, j "Food presented itself, and the dogs took ad- | vantage of it," he said. Reports did not indicate ] if Roberts was conscious at the time of the attack. ; Now, it is pretty clear to the reasonable per- j son what happened when the dogs attacked. But i a State reporter chose to give vivid descriptions ] of what Colleton County Coroner Robert Bryan i called "one of the most sickening sights he has ] encountered in 33 years of investigating < deaths." The reporting of Roberts' mutilated body is ] MMVMHPPHM ?|M^\ mil i 1 | r? LETTERS TO THE MM feMt R m WKmM VkT I V/ III lawn Hunters are anngd~! 'e murderers TRULY love To the editor: I find it ironic that on the same day (Sept. 14) Columnist Dennis art educat Shealy was painting hunters as unselfish, law-abiding folk, The State newspaper was running an article I about the indictment of six South # Carolina hunters and the convic- is a n tion of five for illegally transporting fox into this state for breeding To the editor: and hunting. Dishonesty is not new This letter among hunters, in fact, "one in Sept. 17 let five hunters violates a game law" ("Lot switch and 85 percent of hunters in a re- While I undi cent Wisconsin study admitted to of on-campus violating game laws in that state. safe parking In any case, Shealy's article halls, I feel o does nothing to dispel the "myth" a few import* that hunters are heartless, selfish signated "CS' folk. Perhaps because it is no Commuter myth. Call me close minded, but I virtually all fail to see the compassion of any USC compris man or woman who deliberately this universi walks into the woods, sees a beaut- body. The v* iful animal and kills it. For what? students mus Food? Fun? Sport? Why can't hun- this campus o ters get their food in a supermarket these students like everyone else? And, if killing and find no an animal is fun, then I'm living in park, attenc an asylum run by the insane. TEACHING Finally, where is the challenge of TAs) beco in a "sport" that allows one animal year there we to carry high-powered rifles, commuter stui scopes, scents and other bags of almost unanii tricks, and the other to be armed tion to the po with nothing but the desire to live student parkii a natural life? If hunters truly tions. On-cam loved nature they would not kill it aged by what ? you don't kill that which you a larger nu love. In my opinion, real men spaces, were don't hunt. their vehicles Furthermore, I think it is high of leaving th time that decent people begin to Dad) and to d expose hunters for what they really ferent places are: murderers. Hunters call it than walk. 1 "harvesting" ? I call it murder, commuters They call animals "manageable re- squeezed ever sources" ? I call them sentient previous years beings who feel pain, loneliness Because thi and love. They say continue the in the heart o ftjjfj * * tnjE&fc RK^KU :essity for go< ^^^^haron^/Villiamson in violation of journalism's "Rice Krispie Rule," which says delicate story material in a morning edition should be handled carefully if the average reader might be sickened. If a coroner with 33 years of experience says this case is "about the worst" he has ever seen, perhaps the average reader will be a bit disgusted by reading the picture-perfect description. Furthermore, the graphic details lean toward i reversion to the cheaply sensational yellow journalism of the 1890s. Although the information is not inaccurate per se, it is handled carelessly without concern for the victim's family ind friends or for the audience. If it is true that listory is cyclical, neglectful handling of delisate material will lead to exaggerations and lies. The media has an obligation to tell the truth, t>ut the issue is how much of the truth they CHITHD EDITOR ;ay let's abolish hunt- which, unfortunately, h ur wildlife and public most feeble of mass hands of people who terns, it is next to imj nature. commuting students I Catherine Frish buses into campus. Norris claims that ion graduate student parking) is too expense lege student's budget.' . muting students quite 3firkini? that is precisely the soi O commuters were forced year because there wer CV/CMHj nated spaces in which park each morning, is in reference to the On-campus student ter of Cassy Norris tbey bve on camPus> is a big problem"). able to do without an srstand the problems @ did so as an under^ students in obtaining four years) than are th< near their residence n?t iiye on campus, ompelled to point out campus students confu int reasons why a de- SIRE to have a car at c ' lot is necessary. the NECESSITY of h students (including This is not to say tl graduate students) at campus students need c e a large segment of say> however, that if s ty's overall student must sacrifice for the g ist majority of these of the entire student t drive to and from campus students are n a daily basis. When position to do so than c< arrive at this campus 1 truly sympathize w spaces in which to concern about the saf ling classes (even ^ents (particularly fema classes, for hundreds who must walk across mes impossible. Last night. I have long felt re, no "CS" lots and must be done to imprc dents I talked to were safety (more lighting, nous in their objec- *n car^ an(^ more C0I licy of combining all beats on campus). T1 ig into "S" designa- however, does not lie ir pus students, encour- thousands of commuter they perceived to be All of these factors mber of available should make it apparen more likely to bring muters have suffered to campus (instead tionately in the past yet tern with Mom and crunch, and any call tc rive to and from dif- the extremely modes on campus rather made to benefit a large "he result was that students would be gro; felt themselves Combining all student i more tightly than in 1989-90 was unquesi fiasco that the parking is campus is located tion would, I feel certt f a metropolitan area soon forget. This year, c mow I'jH Rl/klMGOUT OF PARKIN* J W i )d journalism should report. The most reasonable option is an ethical principle called the Golden Mean, which states that moral excellence is located between excess and deficiency. Yes, the Roberts article should have been published, but the gory details should have been left out Although there is no uniform code of ethics for the journalism industry, self-regulation is crucial to a newspaper's credibility. By publishing the article as it was, The State has given its mark of approval to the publishing of graphic details of a death, thus telling other media that it is all right to follow suit. If the media does not act as its own watchdog, the government might be compelled to step in and regulate. And regulation, also known as censorship, is something that Americans are famous for despising. We citizens should catch things like this before they get out of control. Journalists should not abuse their free-speech rights, and non-journalism citizens should use theirs more frequently. If The State hears professional and community protest, they will realize that a newspaper with sensational tendencies will not be supported by a respectable audience, and the media will think twice in future situations. | I ias only the hand, the parking administration transit sys- has, by designating new "CS" lots, possible for eliminated a serious barrier to our to ride the actually attending and teaching classes on campus. "$120 (for Guy Litton 'Q for a col- English graduate student ' We comColor issues to pay last t no desig- raise questions they might To the editor: s, because I've been doing a lot of thinking are better lately like how hard this upcoming automobile exam will be or how I'm going to ;raduate for survive the rest of the week on Dse who do $10. But one of the things that I Many on- can't quite figure out is why peose the DE- pie see color. I don't mean color :ollege with as in color TV or the rainbow but laving one. as in skin color. I might be yellow lat no on- and the guys next to me might be :ars. It is to black or white but so what? Aren't lome group we basically the same? I'm not goreater good ing to prove it by pulling some body, on- passages out of the Bible but inin a better stead refer to one of my favorite 3mmuters. movies, "Do the Right Thing." For ith Norris's those of you who saw it (go see it ety of stu- if you haven't), remember how the le students) Italian dude hated blacks but said campus at that his favorite movie star was that more Eddie Murphy, favorite music ar>ve campus tist was Prince, and favorite athlete fewer cods was n0> n?t Bo, but Michael Jor )S walking dan? Well, this proves my point, le solution, Just because we are different in i penalizing co'or and interests, we should see students. as something unique and share it with others. combined reason j?m saying this is to t mat com- let yQU for a moment dispropor- whether or not it is ^ Fm not ir s P^ng trying to start up any heated dis) role back putes (wj1jci1 eventually become c nge^. part of the soaps in the editorial minority ot sectjon)5 but i am open for your at>s y un au\ By the way> isn>t -t funny par ing in j10w pe0pie think that my favorite tionably a act0r's got to be Bruce Lee? administra- Johnny Vo un, just as in the other biology/pre-med junior