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Israel
Some peace may be achieved
by returning land to Palestine
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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.
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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
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all forms of racism is necessary before USC has
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Teaching assistant problems result Gamecock on
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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
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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
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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
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initely refutes her ar- and Richard Lawhom. h
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rican TAs averaged presentation that is vide
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Thursday, Septem- faculty member. This ]
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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
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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<
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ses have scored at ish is not detrimental tc
the Test of Spoken in the Department of
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TAs at Ohio State, Manton M.
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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
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Government Office, Russell House room 112,
and say, "Steve, Todd, Debra, I want" to help."
Peace.
"The deat Sports events
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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