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Sex i It may be fun, exciting,loving, but it does have its down-side \ Sex is a big issue at USC and at other colleges and universities across the country. The big problem is that many students like sex, but not so many like the responsibility that should accompany the act. The number of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies < ujivov n^uiW/d aic- puuiii5HV/U ui VJLil^/i Wldt/ IU MUUCllLJi, UlC message just doesn't seem to get through. During the past few years, national emphasis has been put on | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, but that is not the only I thing you can catch from having careless, unprotected sex. You fl can get venereal warts, syphillis, herpes, gonorrhea, pubic lice, H chlamydia and several other conditions, as well as less- J threatening, but just as uncomfortable, yeast infections. (Which, I by the way, can be carried by both men and women and can affect men, especially if contracted through the mouth). People don't seem to be as worried as they should be about these things. There should be no sexual encounter that doesn't in- Q elude the use of a condom, regardless of the inconvenience, unless the couple wants a pregnancy to occur. Otherwise, there is a I chance that pregnancy or any number of STDs could occur. Birth control pills don't stop sexually transmitted diseases. D Some people claim they're not worried because they know their partner's history. Do they expect the partner to say, "Oh, yeah. H There was this one party, and I was really drunk, and I can't re- D member who it was, but ...?" Not likely. 9 Pregnancies and STDs are not only inconvenient, painful and 9 uncomfortable, they are also costly. Treatment and prescriptions I are not cheap and add up to much more than the price of a con- 1 dom or two and some spermicide. B Take precautions and ensure your safety in these matters. U 'WHEW/ ^ GCX)P THINQ 1 MADE H, THE EN^NE:&^ ^ jmr " 4.V S3SS72^T~ 'j&tBMm '7^~^ ~l* " ~ '"*- -. ?^\^ | res---. ^ ^~^???8>^?ww., ^ ...\ i U 1 ..- ' *"" ^ 31 _ ..^ i.^H.'?V<C^.-J- v:.tv..t*yf>^.^r^>V;ra,!^g^^->v^>yyr.'. -w**- . - I***? ** ^ &it&*AFpr ? <*"rto<Y. tour rbJT p/rrAT^ it l\ tf * 11 The Gamecock i d< cl News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 Jeff Wilson Sharon Willamson Editor in Chief Managing Editor/Copy Desk Chief L Lynn Gibson Elizabeth Lynch . / News Editor Carolina Life Editor * DougAube Renee Meyer * Sports Editor Photography Editor * Kelly C. 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An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. The f( / 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. al reported to the Student Health Center alone should be enough to ! scare students into taking precautions. But, no matter how often I I 1 1 Female sport; Some of the sportsmen and sports writers of le world need to be dealt a swift kick in the ght end. What do I mean? I mean some of these "propionate" feel it necessary to differentiate beween male and female sportswriters and 'hether they should be allowed to do their job y interviewing in the locker room. There is fO good reason (or excuse) why a woman fiould not be allowed in the locker room to talk ) team members before or after a game ? ased solely on the fact that she is female. I do agree with one point these people are dvocating ? there should be separate press/ jam meetings set aside where all reporters nale as well as female) could talk to the team tembers without 1) the team members (and leir wives and girlfriends) being worried about smale press people seeing them au natural, ?. u~: :- j -i . UU z,) icilldlO lcpuncis UCillg wumcu auuui aving crude sexual slurs directed at them. The problem is not that the team players say rude things. Everyone knows the crass lanuage of locker-room talk, and reporters expect and are not offended by it. The problem is lat women are still seen as inferior, as less tan professionals in. their fields, as less deservtg of respect and courtesy and as less human tan men in many areas. The problem is that ten get angry or frustrated or don't feel in conol of a situation and they feel the need to aminate ? and if a woman appears to be the osest object to vent all those feelings on, so LETTERS TO THE Constitution JCwX! i*i Clause of th nisapplied Stated in Evi cation, amoi , ... to violate o the editor: . A recent pamphlet put out by ' ie university sparked a passionate sa 1S 1C ' ^ onstitutional challenge which in irn sparked a subsequent chal- ^ ^ c Pnr^ nge to the challenge (this seems ernmen ac jmmon enough in The Came- "either adva T. . ... . inn: and (3) ick). it is not witnout reluctance ~ iat I must enter the public arena must not ^0: id offer my two cents on these ernment e vo letters by Messieurs Shaffer religion. Jept.26) and Cox (Oct. 1), for it Gillette ould seem that the only thing ^Url slaj^ iat is not Constitutional around 'au^e r ;re is the analyses within their W?11C'1 wouk Ucrs liefs as such Mr. Smalls, a professor at The semination t SC School of Law, has a funda- observance lental rule of legal analysis that I or wou|d di link bears repeating here. "Before one re'igi?n 3u think great thoughts, consult suc^ acts ar le rules." Where Constitutional [n term lalysis is involved, for better or ta^ a^ms (err >r worse, the justices of the Su- fore'. when 1 reme Court make the rules. It is particular r< pparent that Mr. Cox and Mr. the governm chaeffer did not consult the rules. a compelling ^ ,0''' ^writers not ii KELLY C. THOMAS I ( be it. The problem is that women reporters are i expected to put up with taunts and come-ons ] and sexual insinuations made by team members ] ? things a male reporter would never be expected to put up with. < i ( The other problem is many women profes- i sionals allow this to happen. They think they're : "not causing a fuss" or "ignoring it," but when it comes down to it, they're letting it pass, giv- ; ing people the go-ahead to do the same thing at some other time. ; i For those who don't know, there are few or , no press meetings or conferences for most na- ] tional sports. This is supposedly due to lack of | meeting space and time. So the only way for a ] reporter to get a good story, one with team in- ( put and feeling, is to get in the locker room either before or after a game to talk to the players. For years, women were denied this access to the team, and were unable to get the full coverage achieved by their male peers. : EDITOR or whether a state ac- interest served by the go >s tne tstaDiisnmeni acuon. ie First Amendment is T , . rc D j r 17. I do not offer my pers< irson v. Board of Edu- , _ t . on whether the university ig others. In order not . . . . , , ? \ ;u? violates either the Esta the Establishment ? . , Clause of the Free Exerci i requirements must be c ., ?. . * j x .? _ . of the First Amendment; ) the government acive a secular purpose; .... , ? # ,u criticisms and passions v lary effect of the gov- .... ,F.. . , ? u .u * guidelines delineated ion must be one that ? , ? c .. c . . .... ,. rules of the Supreme < mces or inhibits relig- f ... . ., ... fore concluding that univ the government action . tt . ? ? . & tions are obnoxiously ster an excessive gov- _ _. . . , J ?,it. of the First Amendmen mtanglement with . _ . ? tions. Doing so is not o . v. United States, the dalcd in ?rder l? ^ake a J that the . e Exercise ftutl0 1 atta^' bu/ 11 al I reflate relieious3^ (Sma"ism #2> that?perv interfere with the his- letters <? the editor thrice - ? -- And Cox, your hereof, or impede the odd > rh of religious practices ?urinalysis0 is flawed on scriminate in favor o ^ would ignore the effe< i over another, where , entirely> lhe Fc t not otherwise justtfi- Amendment. without b< s of valid governnten- ^ pQjn^ suffice it to sa; lphasis added). There- p^st Amendment is mad he burden placed on a a^je to ^ 5^^ by t eligion is significant, teenth Amendment. And 1 lent must demonstrate tinguishing the University y or overriding public Carolina from the U.S. yt-Vifr, , 1 ivV-B '* I"' mi v .Dili ^ " 4 1 -*~V ^"V 1 Tr- 5 1 11 IU lUUK . And, believe it or not, most female sportswri-fl inters are women who are truly interested in'- ,r sports writing, and are not just out to "look," as1' Mew England Patriot tight end Zeke Mowatt ac-; :used one female reporter of doing ? implying she wasn't in sportswriting for professional reasons. Would he say the same thing to a male', reporter? When I asked a Gamecock sportswri-, * ter this question, he said no they wouldn't be-. :ause there would be no need to say that to, a .; male reporter. All I have to say then is be cafeful guys, you never know who might be a. - . homosexual. - We've all heard said of controversial TV. ,< shows, "If you don't want to see it, turn the . channel." Well, the same applies here ? men, if you don't want it seen, don't show it. The TV show is there whether you like it or not, and women reporters are in the locker room whether you like it or not. As long as there are no press-team meetings and as long as the only way to get a good story is to be in the locker room, women sportswriters will have to be allowed equal access to the locker rooms. It's not exactly the choicest place to conduct an interview, believe me,-but if it's necessary, it's necessary. And if ever someone decides that team-press meetings are prudent,, and women are no longer allowed to meet with the players in the locker room, that access will also have to be denied to male sportswriters. Fair's fair guys ? in love and war ... and sports. ivernment seems easy enough (although I have never attempted to park on Capitol Hill), separating USC from ^nal view South Carolina lawmaking bopamphlet dies is a horse of a different color. Mishment j am not indifferent to the wellsc Clause written paragraph explaining what I would could be termed a compelling state couch his interest served by the pamphlet, within the ^ut t0 say ^at Mr. Shaffer's com^by the plaint is based upon a misunder^ourt be- standing of the First Amendment ersity ac- because it applies only to Congress violative js simply and fundamentally t protec- incorrect, nly man^alid con- I think this forum for comment so serves supplied by The Gamecock has thinking" become a vastly underused tool for : : J 1 *1 aaes tne expressing lueas anu uiuugius un weekly. relevant issues supported by facts analysis and rational arguments framed mes with within the rules applicable to the ly in that subject matter. While "free form zt, if not thinking" is unquestionably not lurteenth without merit, it is better suited to ^laboring barroom conversations about the f that the latest Amy Loomis column on frog le applic- licking than the constitutionality of he Four- the actions of the University of vhile dis- South Carolina. * - of South Kevin Bell Congress 2nd year law ?4 ident