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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.
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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
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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;
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(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
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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
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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
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f Ae herds in healthy Minis(er DeK]erk ,
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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
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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
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''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.
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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