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Timing v USC officials should consider students when scheduling game This year's homecoming theme is "Carolina on My Mind," but because of scheduling problems, Carolina will not be on the minds ot many use stuaenis. This year's homecoming, which is on Oct. 13, is the Saturday before fall break. Many students might want to take the long weekend to go home, some for the first time since the semester u started. Some might want to have one more weekend get-away before the cold weather sets in. Regardless of what they plan to do with the time, many students won't be on campus. The Homecoming Commission has changed the homecoming dance from Saturday night to Friday so students can leave after the game. But there are many students that don't attend the homecoming dance anyway, and because of the homecoming scheduling, the number of students at the dance will probably be less this year. The homecoming game is also going to be broadcast live on the Gamecock Sports Network (WIS TV-10). It will not look good for the university if the stands are partially empty during a televised game. Homecoming is also a time for alumni to come back and relive j their college days. But with many of the students gone for the weekend, the campus will probably not be full of activities, which is not a good image for the university. There are also some people that are not necessarily interested in the homecoming game, but who go to homecoming to see the pomp and pageantry. They go to see who will be crowned homecoming queen. But because the queen will be crowned at Cockfest this year, there won't be the need for the pageant crowd to come to the game. It is too late to change this year's homecoming, but in the future, USC officials should be more conscious of students when they make decisions about scheduling. The Oiler ? |||f. ths lawmaker. ?|pi ||g| skoal ji|^ ontJcx tows fwt-ptfp*?6* The Gamecock t 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 S herri Tillman Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor David Bowden Kathy Heberger Assistant Carolina T ifo VJim* Assistant Carolina f .ifo Fslitnr Brant Long Julie Bouchillon Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Photography Editor Sara Verne Octavia Wright Assistant Copy Desk Chief Assistant to the Editors kristin francis erik collins I 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 loffgl 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 I 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 circumstance. -i Work to help Over 2,000 candlelight vigils were held Sunday night in more than 75 countries to inform the world of the plight of millions of homeless, neglected and malnourished children around the world. The vigils were just one event in many planned for the week of Sept. 23, which has been designated World Children's Week. The week precedes the Sept. 29 kick-off of the United Nations World Summit for Children. The summit will be attended by about 80 world leaders (including President Bush), and will address problems facing children in the world today, as well as the issue of children as a growing constituency in the world. The Christian Science Monitor listed the following statistics about children (Sept. 20): About 40,000 children under the age of five die every day throughout the world from malnutrition and disease. Nearly 100 million school-age children worldwide have never attended school. In developing countries, only 50 percent of the children have access to clean drinking water, and 40 percent of them are malnourished. In New York city, two out of every five children grow up poor, and one in five children in the United States live in below-poverty-level households. Finland ranks first as the nation with the lowest infant mortality rate, the United States ranks 20th. One in four homeless persons in the United States and Great Britain is a child, and the number of homeless people in these countries has doubled since 1980. In Canada, one in six children do not have enough to eat. LETTERS TO THE : Hunters care about nature ld Zl To the editor: wary too p I would like to write a response When was tl to the ridiculous and pathetic at- a tree f?r ft tempt by Catherine Frish to make trophy buc. hunters look like heartless murder- probably h ers (Gamecock letter to the editor, much more Sept. 19). First of all, you are right *ual kill. I ? some hunters are dishonest. So understand; are some politicians , sports play- could, ers, businessmen and people from b is very all walks of life. Because of your comfortable ignorance of hunting, you are dis- ment on pe< honest in writing what you have. you don't u This country was founded and "animal lov settled by men who hunted. They ago when t didn't eat death dogs from the most counti Circle-K. Hunting evolved from a cated huntei necessity into a way of life. It is nel restock our heritage. areas and kt In your letter, you never say you condition. T are a vegetarian, so I assume you this count] eat meat. Do you buy your meat Christophe; 1 I (like everyone else) at the super- I1C1C> dUU 1 market or do you let Buger King ^ave always kill it and cook it for you? we ^idn 1 J1 I ask all readers which is more onmental b; cruel, if indeed either is: 1) raising t^ie co?l an animal in a pen and fattening it ^ y?u lr up for the express purpose of would kmr slaughter for food or 2) managing realize l^at a population of deer in their na- wildlife are tural environment and harvesting now thank mature, healthy adults in three to sportsmen five years. Deer die of old age and tlie'r way < are killed by the few natural preda- y?u: Catheri tors left. A cow's only predator is straight bef man, and they have no chance of letter to the getting away. P'c an(l hun If you have never hunted before, how do you know it isn't sporting? When was the last time you got up ^ist ^fwKTO K i IHE'PI? ^N. 1 ' BELEAVtt sptiuQ mFIRSr children; thej jCSJF Kelly c. Thomas It is also believed that about 40,000 children in the United States die each year from malnutrition. These are very alarming statistics. Even more alarming is the fact that it doesn't stop there, and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight. The United Nations is meeting to gain more support for the Convention on the Rights of the Child ? a bill that states that all children under 18 have the right to protection against all forms of abuse, the right to a decent education and the right to proper health care. It also states that children under the age of 15 are not to be drafted into the military of any country, and that children are not to be viewed as the property of their parents ? that each child has the right to a name and the right to be seen as a person in and of themselves. The problems facing children are many and varied. And they are not isolated, bleeding-heari stories. Mistreated and malnourished children are not just found-in other countries. They are not just found in other countries and in the major cities of the United States. They are found in every town, every city, everywhere in the world. The idea behind World Children's Week is not to blame children's parents, or their society EDITOR i. and sat in the salt Q A 3-degree weather and /\II lLd i flight of ducks that * . ? ir come or were too 11111*1 t)V j itch into the decoys? he last lime you sat up Tolheeditor. jr.hours waiting for a letter is in k to come out? You ? iaven t. There is so ? , c ... , , . . Gamecock, Sept. 14), to hunting than the ac- . , , . , . ? tics play no role wi don t expect you to , , , . .. F ^ J dela s pnonties. The oniy an ouiooorsman ^ ^ a humb,e man . . in equal rights for all easy for you u> sit in a has stoQd ^ Qn h, house and pass judg- Mandela has insi: uple and a way of life ^ thc govcmment nderstand. Where were wi ^ ens like you 50 years vio]ence ,eadi t0 here were no deer m over 3(x) ,e Ma es ? ,' M,?/ ments do have a basi rs and wildlife person- when ABCs anc ;ed K um a n 0 ner innings announcer f Ae herds in healthy Minis(er DeK]erk , here are more deer in |ed d Mandela.s ai ry today than when the ro|e ,a d b ? r Columbus set foot gers in insligati? S a 1' H?n,te;s amongst the blacks, i cared about wildlife; The ANC is fou 'St Jump on the envir- inci les of unit a indwaeon because its *, can pcopic. iviuicuvc ig to do. zation has democrat uly loved nature, you which advocate the w enough about it to under a system of i most species of hunted frage based on the pr doing quite well right person, one vote, s to the responsible who want to preserve The Inkhata Zulus rf life. My advice to hand, have caused no ine, is to get your facts lence among its pe ore you write another Buthelezi who create editor and offend peo- used to distance him liliate yourself. organization made s< on the blacks. Buthi Gene Simmons support of the police ory/S.C. studies junior to establish law VERY LIMITED-SHE'LL. * SONTIME-AROUND fe WEEKINOCTOERw? ''re people too or their government. It is simply to show people how rampant the problems are and try to find ways to help ? everywhere. The U.N. summit will attempt to find ways to motivate people locally. ' There are opportunities for the average, everyday person to help underprivileged children There are shelter*; fnr hnmp.1e.ss ne.rsons. children's hospitals, the Red Cross and other organizations that are always willing to accept volunteers to help with the abundance of poor, undernourished, abused and neglected children in every city. There are certain hospitals in the country that have volunteer "cuddlers" ? people designated to cuddle infants born addicted to crack or other drugs. There are programs where people can give support to babies born with AIDS or other diseases and syndromes. The problem is due, in part, to how people see children and the role of children in the world. Too often, people see children as objects or things but not necessarily as people like themselves. It's the same thing that creates a lot of animal abuse. Children and animals are enjoyed for their antics and are recognized as needing a certain amount of care, but it just I doesn't dawn on people that they are living cre: atures ? living beings that need all of the same i attention and deserve all of the same respect as adult human beings. unecK out me events ptannea in your area rui I World Children's Week. See what you can do to help. There is no greater happiness than the overi whelming joy you get from helping a child and seeing just how grateful they are that you care. I nfif whenever violence occurred. Mo* reover, it has been proven that the A police provided the Inkhata with r\l^l ammunition to fight the blacks. It has also been indicated sevresponse to era^ t*mes ^at Buthelezi supports Africa" (The South African government. His Power poli- homeland is a policy structure th Mr Man- created by the South African Deputy Presi- government. who believes Buthelezi has not done anything mankind and significanl> either for the black ls ^ouhn s' people. He opposed sanctions \e ,a n? which have been a strong weapon i,u e "g against the South African governc fnrsf ment. I wonder where Buthelezi the death or , . ir._, . . ? ndela's state- was dunn8 'heh 1976 ,uP 'nS' c a* on Sent when many hlSh scho01 Children horman Petei *ere tohrtured- and 1r?rced.? 1 thai Prime flee their country- What dld lad arknow Buthelezi do about the State of tcusations of Emergency? How about the thouhp riahr win sands of children who were de,g violence ^ in jaU without trial? Instead, Buthelezi's organization nded on t e bas negotiations by atmongst ri- the ANC. It is my personal r, e organi wjsb that Buthelezi stops fighting ic principles, , _ right to vote i<J1 ^"jyvui auu ^A1I"'5 *" > iniversa] suf- bul concentra'es hls.,ener8> on eU: inciple of one m,nat'.?8 the evl1 sys"=m of * apartheid. on the other If South Africa is freed this inthing but vio- stant' 1 wiU ** 8Iad to go and vote ople. Gatsha ^or one man that was wiUinS 10 d the Inkhata sacrifice his life so that I may be self when the recognized as a citizen of my jveral attacks country ? Nelson Mandela, elezi had the ? who refused Funeka Yazim Mbulawa and order internations studies graduate