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Cutback
Students to get shortchanged
in resident adviser hiring freeze
The Office of Resident Student Development will not be
placing resident advisers that graduate or quit next semester.
Resident Student Development Director Jim McMahon sai
budget misforecast caused the problem because at the begini
of the year, RSD overestimated its allocated funds and unden
mated its expenditures.
Dennis Pruitt, Student Affairs Vice-President said the prob
was not a budget misforecast but rather a preparation for a \
bad scenario.
"Student Affairs are allocated money from the university e\
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year, we ieei inai a university cutback is possible, and we nee<
prepare for a cutback in all departments," Pruitt said.
Whatever the reason for the decision not to hire new resic
advisers, the students who live and work in the dormitories
going to get shortchanged.
The resident advisers and resident hall directors will all havt
work harder to take up the slack for the vacant RA's. It's goinj
mean extra work for the same pay.
Students that live in some dormitories might be more inclii
to take chances and break dorm rules if they know they do
have a RA that lives directly on the hall with them.
An RA plans activities for that floor's residents to interact,
to know one another, relax and have fun. This interaction is c
of the benefits of living on campus. An RA can also prove to b
close, reliable friend in a time of need. However, whether it be
reasons of misforecast or preparation, many students are not lik
to have access to this individual attention with next semeste
hiring freeze.
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its overworked, underpayed resident advisers that will have to
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USC trying't
This past weekend, I attended the NAACP
national conference, "Stop the Madness: Ending
Campus Racism." It was amazing to listen to
students from across the country share there exTVriPnPPC
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talked about things that I have never experienced
and never hope to experience.
Students at Trinity College in Hartford,
Conn., found billard balls thrown through windows
of the black culture center. White fraternity
members from the University of Mississippi
were stripped, covered with racial slurs
and dropped off at nearby Rust College, a predominately
black school. Students have formed
the White Student Union at the University of
Florida with the purpose of ending affirmative
action practices.
" When I heard the students, mainly from
northern schools, talk about their overt encounwm
ters with racism, I felt good to be at USC. It
made me see how good we have it.
But then I thought about it Granted, there
might not be racism to the point of confrontation
and extreme violence, but there is still
9 racism.
One of the section editors for the paper told
me that a friend of hers thought we were cover^
ing too many minority issues. During the Stu"
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I write this letter to Darrin Wil- Reagan an
cox to inform him of the great lions on <
domestic policy wimp, George raised am
Bush. In the Nov. 7 issue of The blame Con
[ Gamecock, Wilcox made inaccu- That's the
; rate assumptions about the presi- '80, Reags
dent and his policies. Quayle '88
First, Bush sent a secret envoy Finally,1
to China to try and ease the Chin- million dol
ese that we didn't support the stu- abia on ou
dent democracy movement. He ing volleyl
sent National Security Advisor and grumt
Brent Schocraft while thousands of do. Wilcox
students were killed. America's
Wilcox also says that Bush was ests? Oil? >
an influence in the revolution in of its oil fr
Eastern Europe. Bush didn't do Africa,
anything Margaret Thatcher or Wilcox s
Francois Mitterand did do. It is can nor die
true that most of the Eastern Bloc monogramr
countries looked to the United believe thai
J States for help, but Bush didn't do No New
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dent Government elections an unknown person
painted on the Pickens Street Bridge and by the
library, "Don't let 15 percent minority rule."
After some crime incidents occurred during my
freshman year, handwritten flyers circulated around
campus calling for a rally of white students
in front of the Russell House. Many students
gathered, but it was more out of curiosity
than anything else. Even the students who put
up the signs never showed up, or at least didn't
make there presence known.
Even Homecoming has offered its share of
racial tension. When black women have been
crowned Homecoming queen in the past few
years, people in the stadium booed. This year
there were no black women in the five finalists,
and some students complained. At first glance,
these incidents make USC seem just as bad off
when it comes to dealing with racism as other
1 EDITOR 3
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;elf. Congress approved Mind George Bush,
aid. lived in North Carolina
the great budget deficit have voted for Jesse He!
o-doo economics and Byroi
ics, the federal deficit political science i
more than $3 trillion.
d Bush have spent bil- T pffpf* Wf
defense and have not
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gress or the Democrats. Ilvfl LPItV i/J
fault of Reagan/Bush jo the editor:
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ui/Dusii oh ana ousn/ on the subject of Let
son's asinine letter that i
while we spend nearly a the Oct. 29 Gamecoci
lars a day in Saudi Ar- there is one thing more
r troops, they are play- to be said. Johnson, i
ball, cleaning weapons purported in his lettei
ding about nothing to AIDS virus was willfuli
said they are defending liberately created by a
interests. What inter- of Western nations, inc
America gets 60 percent United States, as a tool 1
om South America and biochemical warfare aj
black race.
aid he's not a Republi- This letter was skillfu
1 he write his letter on dited by Shepard McAni
ned stationery, but I do Nov. 7 issue, but in the
t Wilcox voted for Mr. truth and fairness, one i
Taxes/I Changed My must be cleared up. The
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schools that have gotten national attention, but
it is not
What makes USC different from those other
schools is its ability to take proactive measures.
Even though someone wrote racial remarks on
campus during the Student Government elections,
USC students overlooked the statements
and elected a black student as student government
president. Homecoming has been causing
controversy, and now Student Government has
established a committee to make changes in the
Homecoming process.
On Friday, Delta Upsilon, a predominately
white fraternity, and Alpha Phi Alpha, a predominately
black fraternity, will work together
with Game Ball Run.
On Thursday, our school will sponsor a
"Rally Against Racism." At this rally, which
will be in front of the Russell House at 12:30
p.m., Interim President Arthur Smith and many
student leaders will speak out against racism
and reaffirm USC's commitment to addressing
racial issues.
Granted, USC is not perfect, and nothing that
is done to curb racial tensions will ever change
the minds and attitudes of everyone. But at least
USC is trying, and that's a start.
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If Wilcox letter in question was signed "Leon
he. would T Tnhnsnn Tr astrnnhuci^c
[ms. junior."
i C. James In the first place, no astrophys?ophomore
ics major exists at this university.
Furthermore, the physics departjfpp
ment at USC is a very small,
close-knit community, where
f everyone is well-known by every11S
body else. Not only has no one in
this department ever heard of
)n J John- J?hnson before, but a little re- ?
mneared in search through our records indik
we feel cated that he has never even taken
that needs a Physics course of any kind here,
emember Many students, staff and faculty
r that the members are concerned that Johnly
and de- son indeed, such a person exconspiracy
*sts)1S tarnishing the image of our
luding the department, we hereby wish to
for waging forcefully disassociate ourselves
gainst the completely and wholly from Johnson's
paranoid and ill-founded 1
lly discre- ravings.
nch in the Barry Johnson
interest of physics graduate
more item Michael Mayers
infamous physics senior