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All-American leaves USC to play overseas From Staff Reports Beth Hunt, All-American forward for the USC basketball team, has decided to forgo her senior season of competition to pursue a career in professional basketball overseas, according to an announcement made by the Athletic Department Thursday. Hunt was a two-year starter for USC, where she had 1,340 career rino : pvniiid, wiuv^ii iau\5 lici uiiiui in amuui uisuuiy. nci jll.d Muting average is the best in the schcx)l and Metro Conference history. She averaged 9.7 rebounds a game for her career. Hunt was one of the 12 finalists for the 1990 U.S. National Team. She had been selected to a number of pre-season All-America squads. She was the 1989-1990 Women's Metro Conference Player of the Year, while leading her team in scoring with a 22.7 average. Hunt led the Gamecocks to the final 16 of the NCAA Tournament last season. "Beth Hunt has certainly played a key role in the success of our women's basketball program over the past two years," Athletic Director King Dixon said. "We were counting on her heavily and are disappointed that she has decided to forgo the completion of her college education and her final year of eligibility," he said. USC head coach Nancy Wilson must search to replace Hunt with preseason practice slated to begin in less than two weeks. "Beth's decision comes as a complete surprise to me and could not come at a more inopportune time," Wilson said. "Many of our plans have been built around her as well as the schedule that would challenge a player of that caliber. "I in no way agree with Beth's decision. ' In my opinion, it is not in her best interests, personally, nor do I consider it a positive precedent for women's basketball. "As a coaching staff, we now turn our full attention to the players in our program who have honored their committment. We have confidence in them.. 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The Cardinals The Gamecocks, 6-2-2, have were 8-11-2 last year and are led won one match in their last three, by Coach Colin Lindores. The dropping a 2-1 decision to South match is at 8 p.m. Alabama, defeating Erskine 4-0 USC has never met either and tying Wake Forest 0-0 in team, double overtime. USC meets San Francisco Sa- USC's next home match will turday in a 6 p.m. match at Stan- be against the sixth-ranked ford University's Maloney Field. Clemson Tigers on October 14 at The Dons, ranked 18th in the The Graveyard. Soccer AmericaTop Twenty Record Pvs. 1. UCLA 8-0-3 #2 2. Evansville 9-0-2 #3 3. N.C. State 9-1-0 #4 4. Santa Clara 5-1-3 #1 5. Fresno State 9-1-1 #5 6. Clemson 8-2-0 #6 7. SMU 9-1-0 #8 8. Indiana 6-2-1 #9 , 9. Virginia 6-2-2 #13 10. St. Louis 7-2-1 #12 11. North Carolina 7-3-0 #7 12. Rutgers 6-1-2 #11 13. Washington 8-0-2 #14 14. South Carolina 6-2-2 #15 I 15. Columbia 6-0-0 #18 , 16. Air Force 7-1-1 #10 17. Portland 5-3-1 ? 18. San Francisco 7-2-2 ? I 19. Adelphi / 7-3-0 ? , 20. American 10-2-0 #19 , Dear Organization Leach If you can read this you can read ~^e Garnet & Blacl _ classroom. To more thorc PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE year, the staff of the 1991 zation. I I This year your organizatic For a $10 fee, your group's be taken between 6 and 9 vember 12 through the 161 I i you to schedule your orga 111 If your organization is inten F GAMING [ v " * and return the form below 1990-1991 Garnet & Blac OFF Yes, our organize Garnet & Blac G IN STORE NTENDO? & NEW COMICS - Organization Name (Please Prii OFF Organization Type ITOCK Number of Active Members (For p Y 11 A.M. Contact Person/Title i ? ? Contact's Phone Number (include this location only) 787-8044 I Please return this form to: C Equal access latest sports < The latest controversy in the :ver-changing world of sports conerns the question of whether or lot women sportswriters should be illowed in the locker room. Of course, some people would )hrase the question differently by isking if women sportswriters hould be allowed equal access, )ut I don't really think this is the ssue at hand. This whole controversy started >ept. 17 when New England Patiot tight end Zeke Mowatt and ither Patriot players were accused >y Boston Herald reporter Lisa 01;on of exposing themselves and naking suggestive remarks in the ocker room after a game. Olson ;aid the remarks were "nothing ess than mind rape." According to in Associated Press story, Mowatt claimed that he said to Olson, 'You are not writing. You are ooking." Mowatt was fined S2,000 and apologized, but he delied making lewd gestures or comments. Women reporters should be gi/en every opportunity to cover any >tory, not just sports, with the >ame rights that a male reporter would have. With one exception. Women, reporters or not, should lot be allowed in a male locker -oom. And that's my opinion. I'm not going to discuss rights ir whether women's rights are vioated by disallowing them access because relieve it or not... 1 m not i sexist. The whole locker room situation s a center where machismo runs ampant, men parade around freely i la natural, and cockiness is the lorm. A typical game day includes a ot of mental preparation, getting notivated, putting on the game 'ace and, in a lot of cases, going )ut and trying to literally beat the lell out of an opponent. The athletes don't leave their *ame face on the field. They carry it with them into the locker room, [f the team pulled out a victory, ben usually there will be a lot of nacho celebration going on. If the earn lost and the coach literally 3lessed the team out, then it won't re a very pleasant situation. Now sure, women should have he right to decide if they want to expose themselves to the male vulgarities that go on in locker rooms, 3ut should the male athlete change tiis entire mental approach to a *ame situation because a women -eporter will be present? To expect this would be to ask the athlete to change an approach hat has been going on as long as ?ames have been played. Many athletes trade verbal barbs refore and during the game doing whatever is possible to obtain that rental edge and to psyche out the er: c will cover all aspects of student )ughly and concisely portray stud< yearbook have a new option whicl)n may be a part of the Garnet & ; portrait will be included in the yea p.m. during the weeks of October th. Once your form has been rece nization's group sitting. ssted in being included in the 1991 . For more information, feel free 1 Return your form by October 12, 1990 ;k Yearbook Student Orgs ation is interested in being includei k. Please contact us at the numbe rit Clearly) I jortrait purposes) alternative numbers if you wish) iffice of Student Media, 313 Russell Hi for women controversy ^ Doug Aube opponent. This cockiness continues after the game. Consider an example: Tommy Tank and his teamates have just beaten the Desert Marauders by a score of 49-3. Tank (6-foot-6-inch, 319 pounds) plays defensive end and had 17 solo tackles, five sacks and made the hit that put the Marauder's quarterback out for the season. Tank enters the locker room, sweaty and dirty. Blood and other nasty body fluids have stained his tattered jersey, and his emotional state is sky high from his dominant performance. His teammates all come over and "high fives" are traded. He enters the shower, gets cleaned up, dons a towel and grabs a bouqet of flowers for the female reporter waiting for him at his locker. Now sure this is pushing things to the extreme. But the point is that the player fresh off an exhilirating performance is still going to have the adrenaline pumping, and his attitude and body language are going to be filled with overconfidence. Shame on him if he were to do or say anything that a woman might find offensive but that would be OK to a male. I'm not going to play judge and tiir-w A ronortor'c mK 10 tA rpnAft jui J. n ivpviiv/1 o juu w iv ivpvii. the facts and at present time, there aren't enough of those to decide right and wrong in the OlsonMowatt situation. But as long as women are allowed in the locker room, situations similar to this will happen. According to the same AP story that covered the Olson-Mowatt situation, Detroit Tigers pitcher Jack Morris told a woman reporter earlier this year, "I don't talk to people when I'm naked, especially women, unless they're on top of me or I'm on top of them." Sure you say this is a very sexist remark and Morris probably shouldn't have said it, and I don't condone this behavior but the fact remains that these types of things go on. I know some women who are planning for careers in journalism, and they say if a team's locker room happens to be her beat then she has every right to be there and that it is just as much a professional situation as being a woman doctor with a male patient. Bo Schembechler, the president of the Tigers, said in the AP story, See Pep Talk page 9 life inside and outside the =nt groups for this coming i may interest your organiBlack with a group sitting, irbook. Group Portraits will 29 - November 2, and Noived, we will be contacting uarnei & mac*, complete ;o call us at 777-3888. anization Portrait Info GC/90 d in the 1991 >r below. Date juse, Box 85131