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Israel Some peace may be achieved by returning land to Palestine israei nas euimnuea a long ana nonorea iraaiuon in me Miaaie East: they are slaughtering civilians. On Monday, Israeli police used live ammunition on Palestinian protesters, killing at least nineteen. Israel is the United States' best buddy in the Middle East, so we give them large amounts of military and economic assistance. It is nice to see that we are assisting Israel in an effort to systematically exterminate a minority population in their country with our tax dollars. What is amazing is that Israel was founded by the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. It is grim irony that Israeli troops are participating in their own little genocide. The modern state of Israel is a betrayal and an embarrassment to the brave Jewish settlers who escaped Nazi persecution. Does kicking the Palestinians off their land after World War II somehow make up for their tragedy? The Palestinians have a good gripe. They were chased out of their own country by Jewish settlers. They were forced into refugee camps by their Arab "brothers" where they live in squalor to this day. Some Palestinians had the misfortune to move to the West Bank of the Jordan River. Israel took the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. They have been trying to kick the Palestinians out ever since (again) to make room for Israeli settlers. Lately, the Palestinians have been fighting back. Largely, this consists of throwing rocks at settlers and organizing strikes to hurt the Israeli economy. This "infitadeh" (uprising) has taken the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of Palestinians, mainly youths. Nineteen more names can be added to this bloody toll. With all the media focus on Iraq, we sometimes fail to see other problems boiling under the surface. While a religious dispute in Jerusalem nominally caused the fighting Monday, the true cause is the oppression of the Palestinians. Israel has a right to exist. Jews have a right to a homeland. The problem is, so do the Palestinians. As long as the ruling government of Israel treats the Palestinians as insects to be crushed, there will be more terrorism, more bloodshed directed at Israel. Israel should do the only logical thing: stay out of the West Bank and allow it to become a Palestinian homeland. All Palestinians wouldn't fit there, but it would be a symbolic gesture of reconciliation that might be the only way to achieve peace in at least one part of the Middle East. J Slifecr ? Si pM '1C W" u ^ The Gamecock i 4 News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 J Jeff Wilson Sharon Willamson Editor in Chief Managing Editor/Copy Desk Chief Lynn Gibson Elizabeth Lynch News Editor Carolina Life Editor Doug Aijrf. Rfnf.f mfvfp Sports Editor Photography Editor Kelly C. 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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 circumstance. "THIftSS MUST ? firs TAlKI il if I o 19 Student activi Student leadership and student activism, on the whole, is lacking in today's society. Students are too complacent at times, and sometimes too damn apathetic. What can we do to cure this epidemic that is destroying the essential communal fibers binding our campus community? Student leaders must become more vocal in expressing the needs of their constituents, the administrators, the faculty, the City Council, and their peers. We must be able to recognize the needs that are not verbally expressed to us daily. We must e be intuitive, creative and able to be pro-active t( rather than reactive at all times. A true student c leader has the ability to see what our campus p needs, and then do something about it. c USC needs a mechanism or event in order to vent the intolerance of racism. A statement by tll tho untuArcthr or*H ito ehiHnnf nnnAnm/* U1V UIUIVIOUJ U11U 1IO jiuuwn ivauus uppvjilllg all forms of racism is necessary before USC has the potential to become a sweltering bed of hatred. The appreciation of cultural diversity is o a must. We must learn to appreciate one ii | p ar. I 1 Im T* A A. iA the CSCI 1C 1A article is wwch ms. & # # concerned, tb misleading noticeable H ence more del _ gument. Th To the editor: American TA I am,concerned about the im- ^ non_Ame pression created by the article 2 93 1 called 1 Teaching assistant problems result Gamecock on m language tests, by Shelley Ma- ber 27 t0 rci gee, which appeared in the Oc- \yhen there tober 3 Gamecock. Ms. Magee called Ms M; contacted me about the story she mPQ<!!lap fr> had planned and I gave her the afternoon names and phone numbers of sev- sapp Thp era! people at USC with whom I ^ thought she should speak, mclud- sume(j lha[ N ing Bill Tetz, Associate Director of , . the English Program for Interna- ?" tionalists and Coordinator for the pursue plc slor English for Foreign Students testing program, and Betsy Barefoot, There are tv who, with Richard Lawhorn, runs with which 11; a training program for Teaching 1) The implicj Assistants. ter Science w< We discussed the evaluation CSCI 101 a process that we go through in the scored only 2 Department of Computer Science Spoken Eng before assigning a graduate assis- should have a tant a teaching position. After this wish to poin conversation, I checked on the per- teaching low formance of our TAs as measured Science cour oy uie spring semester iwu stu- least a 5 on dent evaluations. The results of English, overall performance of the Ameri- 2) That the p can TAs was 2.95 (out of 4.00); foreign-born the average rating for non- where the sta American TAs was 2.94. If one better than pn narrows these evaluation figures to she thoroughl BE WORSE THAU Vl N5 UP BIPARTISAN 11 sm, input lac iO1 STEPHEN " A' BENJAMIN iaiTiftl Guest columnist 11111111 Jl xm&msm another regardless of race, creed, color or religion. I urge student support on this matter. Protecting and encouraging the fate of our nvironment is an area in which students need j oecome more acuve. Kecycnng snouia oeome a personal hobby for every USC student. Recycling should also become an institutional ommittment by the university. The university is making sleady strides in lis area, and I encourage organizational and dividual support in this effort. The student vote, which has been heralded as ne of the most potentially powerful bloc votes 1 the nation, must be used. A student who is an EDITOR H-102 classes with Magee would have dise /lagee seemed most the Ohio State progra e difference is more scribes in the article is owever, this differ- the program run by Bet< initely refutes her ar- and Richard Lawhom. h e CSCI 101-102 ing Assistants are given s averaged 2.84 and lectures and then they n rican TAs averaged presentation that is vide he staff office at The criticized by an experie Thursday, Septem- faculty member. This ] ay this information, an excellent one of w was no answer, I should be proud. How< igee's home and left Ms. Magee's article on r her to call. Later impression that it does , I left another mes- exist. Gamecock. When re not returned, I as- After going through t Is. Magee had fol- s^y program the new g T sistants in Cnmniifpx 5?r uit- it>aua uiai i imu "" 1 " v"" had decided not to als0 8lve Presentations y further. Director of Undergrade our Director of Gradut vo points in the story an(j our CSCI 101-102 ike exception: tor. These presentations ition that in Compu- evaluate and select the 1 i have TAs teaching dates for teaching positic nd 102 who have or 3 on the Test of I share Ms. Magee' lish, where a TA that the students at US( 5 or 6. In response, I the oppurtunity for a g< t out that all TAs tion. I believe that the t er level Computer whose native language ii ses have scored at ish is not detrimental tc the Test of Spoken in the Department of Science. irogram for training TAs at Ohio State, Manton M. te law exists, is far Ac )grams at USC. Had Department of C< y investigated, Ms. IE TH0U6HT MP/\6AIM* A ! ^ king at USC eligible voter, but not a registered voter, should have no complaints about the world surrounding him. Almost every decision that affects us is in one way or another shaped by the vote of our elected representatives. Student Government, Students for a Better Carolina and the NAACP registered more than 800 people so they can have the opportunity to vote in upcoming elections. But if these newly registered voters do not exercise their constitutional priviledge on election day, all complaints about the system, tuition and the increasing cost of education are fruitless. I issue a challenge to all students ? a challenge to become involved in the decisionmaking process of the university. If you believe something more needs to be done, or if you believe something about our Carolina community tiaaH c tn Ka <*???<? *-- - ? * 1?* nvvuo iu uv bnaii^bu, cuixic uy mc duiaeni Government Office, Russell House room 112, and say, "Steve, Todd, Debra, I want" to help." Peace. "The deat Sports events ;y Barefoot 'only a game' few Teacha series of To the editor: lust give a I am writing in response to otaped and Kelly C. Thomas' editorial on Oc;nced USC tober 8. Ms. Thomas states that irogram is women are not in locker rooms to hich USC "look," and undoubtedly this is -ver, from true, but this misses the point. If a e gets the man were to try to gain admittance ; not even to a women's locker room, he might get arrested, regardless of the reason he was trying to get in. his univer- women have free access to male locker rooms for business purlence must p0SeS) then wjly not jet jn other 6women. And, if you cannot keep ite Studies, members of the opposite sex out of r h 1CS l?cker rooms, then what is the pur- . Coordina- pQSe segregatjng them in the are used to firstplace? est can jj. were an athlete, and I was a sports reporter, I'm sure you s concern would not want me interviewing : be given you right after you stePPed oul of iod edura shower. And no, Ms. Thomas, tse of TAs you don'1 "just not show iL" In 5 not En el conclusion, they should either get ) that coal every?ne (male or female) out of C the locker rooms or open every^ thing to everyone. Personally, I'm in favor of die former. After all, Matthews how important are post-game interting Chair views? It's only a game, isn't it? o m p u t e r James R. Hoadley Science CESP junior