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Thanks Homeless must not be forgotten its students enjoy holiday season ? This week most students will be leaving USC and heading Ijome for Thanksgiving. For some students, this will be the first tjme they have gone home since the semester started. * Some students see the holiday as an opportunity to spend time with family and friends they haven't seen in months. Others view Thanksgiving as a chance to get some needed rest before final examinations begin. Some see this as a time to have one last getavray before the year ends. y But this year, probably more so than ever before, the USC community should give thanks during the holiday and remember those less fortunate, particularly the homeless. The word "homeless" has taken on many meanings this year. There are people who wander the streets searching for food, work and money. These people walk the streets of Columbia and other metropolitan cities with shopping bags and shopping carts carrying all their belongings. The American society has become so numb to their presence that most people don't even think about these people until Thanksgiving and Christmas. *The homeless also includes servicemen in the Middle East, ijiey too are homeless in a sense because they are separated from ld|ved ones. They must spend this holiday in the desert heat with tl$i threat of war looming in the air. This Thanksgiving, don't fcjirget to send a soldier a card, letter or care package. No matter h?w people feel about the American presence in the Persian Gulf,, servicemen are there now, and we shouldn't forget them. mie homeless also includes people that had a home, but because o? unfortunate circumstances, have lost them, such as the students wjose house burned down on Greene Street. While Thanksgiving will come and go, these students will still have to worry about wfcere they will stay, and how thev will reDlace there belongings . O?O" w&en the holiday is over. ^Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for all that we have. It should also be a time to remember and help the homeless. T 'WHEW! NOW ITS BACK TO WORK COLLECTING MONET FOR MV NEXT ELECTION CAMPAI6N" I ,-^=r ' <pi Y&r | [Gi /\ s / < i o ? -* f The Gamecock si 5 News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 3 I Jeff Wilson Sharon Willamson Editor in Chief Managing Editor/Copy Desk Chief Lynn Gibson Elizabeth Lynch News Editor Carolina Life Editor dougaube renee meyer Sports Editor Photography Editor Elizabeth fox Sherri Tillman Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor David Bowden Kathy Heberger Assistant Carolina Life Editor Assistant Carolina Life Editor Brant Long Julie Bouchillon Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Photography Editor Sara Verne Octavia Wright Assistant Copy Desk Chief Assistant to the Editors Kristin Francis Erik Collins Graduate Assistant Faculty Adviser Ed Bonza Laura S. Day Director of Student Media Production Manager Ray Burgos Renee Gibson Assistant Production Manager Advertising Manager Kyle Berry Carolyn Griffin Assistant Advertising Manager Business Manager Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The writer must include full name, professional title if a USC employee or South Carolina resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. 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. ' tiY'r ? |i-*^WPfAiaf?^!:Tl t __rti^^^r . University rh 'Tis the season to save money. With rising energy costs, increasing housing and health service costs and traveling and giftbuying expenses, students are feeling tightening reigns around every corner. For many students, it will be increasingly difficult to afford academic expenses. But the university is telling us if we conserve and save here and there, it won't be so bad. But let's take a closer look. The university is giving 27 top administrators raises averaging 4.51 percent as of Friday, the day after the 4.8 percent housing increase was recommended. The university is talking out of both sides of ifs' mnnth savino ctnHpnts tr? rnncprup k\/ using energy more sparingly but is in turn giving 27 raises, five of which push executives over the $100,000 mark. The university is acting as a contradicting parent, saying "do as I say, not as I do." Granted, these raises are modest compared to the Holderman Era. And they're also modest i LETTERS TO Th iiiiinrtri'f--.s..-.<-i%iiviv^-ilVi-.iiiiYir?i' iiir-- .. ir?ViVi . . viviv.i i . ..miir .. ? . Student has : parking vision SlE gent regul; To the editor: fines. It's 9 p.m. at Thomas Cooper finer iea^' Library. I have been left empty, ture officii spirtually, by the nightly rituals in- mobility, volved with parking at USC. I'm not sure if the stress of circling assorted parking lots for 30 minutes, or the mongoloid, in the yellow T) i Volkswagen, that cut to my left to JDlllS steal a coveted parking space has driven me to this desperate outcry. VOt0 Whatever the case, the heartbreak of this situation has left me a bitter To the edit husk of the once optimistic For thos student/motor-vehicle-operator I voting, th once was. tively cert , r . there and This emptiness has left me with elected re many unanswered questions. Can I . f look forward to a really "good It,s parking day?" Have I been forsa- lions C( ken hv Si Prfpr Rerker natrnn saint of student parking? If I even- advanrc tually pay enough fines, will USC wercn't ce produce more parking spaces? lQ pe Have I, unwittingly, played into the . wi) the hands of a vicious and unjust lQ wakc u parking system? Shattered and find t t spent, I must retire and continue postponed my effort at a later date. por a ' It's 9 a.m. at Thomas Cooper Bu| , Library. Over the course of a rest- cruciai sl< less night's sleep, I was visited by COnsolidati visions (half reality and half night- economy a mare) and have risen a changed syslcm man. Throughout most of these ^old cicctj( dreams, I am being chased around for a never-ending Russell House sion parking lot by an unnaturally intel- cjcar stCp , ligent campus policeman. After cesses in seemingly hours of pursuit, I run slowed doi out of gas. The officer leaves his WOrse t vehicle. As he approaches, I rec- ljie pCOple ognize him. He is Jimmy Holder- Qjd SyS man. He is waving a piece of alrcady has paper in his hand. Closer. Closer, havp thp , he comes. Through my tears of vote next s] shame, I see that it is not a ticket, As an e\ but a discretionary fund budget for thati tl that falls short of decent standards unrest, whe befitting such an icon of virtue. right to se After hours of thought and de- thing but a liberation, my position on the jn what ma parking dilemma has evolved to jar terms as the following: we students are liv- America ing under the misconception that a routine elet parking problem exists at USC. It ter that the is wrong for us to question the periods of .* ' r\N[.'? . "~| mJlj^lL1^ *f '.* J L * a Nttfc ietoric contra< ^^^SHARON WILLIAMSON compared to Clemson's 5.8 percent average executive raise. But despite the past and despite what everyone else is doing, the USC raises for 1990-91 are contradictory. The fat cats are getting fatter while many students will find it next to impossible to afford an education. Energy costs are expected to rise by about 10 percent, according to Vice President of BusiA n:~u?A \\r?TT. ~ j J- J *I_; - ncs5 midiib Riniaiu wciiz,. nc auueu uiai uiis could be reduced to 8.5 percent if students use energy more sparingly. Wertz got a raise of $2,772, effective last Friday. Vice President for Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt recommended the health fee increase and IE EDITOR ?. ,: id benevolence of those Let's make a better i tnd enforcing parking right to vote. finally, students as a Katerina K nld embrace more strin- c/o Dr. ations and higher park- USC College of J It will surely result in jrship by affording fu- wX7 lis with higher financial VVTltCFS MattKang qJ* jncpricjf English junior "WCIIWl . To the editor: rOf?jo nilfc Th's is in response tc >*** *** lace's letter of Oct. 12 ? L^l J Burkholder's letter of N On IIOIII I would first like to s; is an excellent bass ] or: Scott an excellent di ;e who don't believe in know because I have pi ere is one thing posi- phone in the same band ain: the candidates are two fine musicians fo some, of them will be three years, gardless of whether we Furthermore, I would >L that these two dudes are d to know when elec- great guys. But even t Dming and the exact dav are mv fellow musician1 oing to be held months importantly my friern But imagine that you publicly refute your letu rtain when they are go- of their insensitivity and held; and you awaited tial danger such bias th anticipation, suddenly pose, p one morning only to Although, Tim, you st hat the elections were letter that you "would li . some questions to both ?ung democracy such as are sexually promiscuoi elections are indeed, a homosexual community ep for promoting and I fail to see where th ing a new free-market necessarily related), yoi nd a liberalized political hardly constitute a seric it when the decision to to comprehend human ens this fall was resche- beyond your own etl pring next year, a deci- understanding. After all, by Parliament, it is a your "questions" rhetc that transformation pro- you truly written an ob the country will be tcr, or have you merel vn and ? from bad to your Judeo-Christian mo he odds will be against question form? Did I i , whose patience with you several days before tern will wear out, as it your letter that if you ;, long before they will interested in objectivel -i fr h t to P.XP.rriSP. fhp.ir oKnnt tKo rrnr /.nmmnnll -0 ? - ?? UlA/Ul UIV VV/U111IU1UI pring. a GLSA meeting and tal 'en worse compensation people there? Did you le country is rife with me that you were not in ;re people exercise their doing this? Have I made lf-expression in every- And, Scott, you ar i civilized manner, i.e., guilty of rhetorical "qui y be described in popu- But, whereas Tim's lettei street fights. intelligently assert h ns might be tired of Christian morals on the ;tion days, but it's bet- munity, your letter wa y have them at regular more than a mere mock time than not at all. human condition of a ^?y I j? _ iicts actions also said 77i? Gamecock exaggerated the effect of the hiring freeze on resident advisers. But it just doesn't make sense that cutbacks are being made that affect student life, while somehow the university can afford to give 27 raises. By the way, Pruitt got a raise of $4,254. Interim President Arthur Smith said unexpected energy costs will affect the university by at least half a million dollars. nrr i i-- i j ? - ii everyixxiy wouia give a luue on in a university like this, we could save half a million dollars without anybody noticing," Smith said two weeks ago. Smith got a $5,046 raise. The economy is looking pretty grim and doesn't look promising in the near future. People across the country are being laid off, and people entering the job market are having little luck finding jobs. Everyone is feeling the pinch, and even the university administrators are saying we need to conserve. What they didn't tell us is that the "we" is being defined as students. I ise of our class of people. And, I know that you and Tim collaborated on this .aloyanova "project." You are quite good Kent Sidel friends, and Tim had reached his lournalism "two-letter limit" for the semester. And this saddens me. | ^ It saddens me for four reasons. Illty It saddens me that my friends have # # intentionally poked fun at a minor1"V|^V ity class. It saddens me that human J beings derive pleasure from gibing their fellow man and his surround> Tim Mai- *nS personal circumstances of exisand Scott fence. It saddens me that there are ov. 5. people who are suffering emotionly that Tim a^y because of your reiffarks. flayer and Emotional pain, stress, and presrummer. I sure can be, as I'm sure everyone j vk/il 1 9btpp hppqiicp r\f nprcanal py. ayeu saxo- w w with these perience at some time or another, >r the past very painful (even more painful than physical pain in many ways), like to say ^ saddens me that such attitudes, ; in general particularly when arrested through hough you a large medium like a newspaper s and more (?r other media types), might enIs, I must courage further derisiye remarks ;rs because anc* attitudes contributing to the al1 the poten- ready incredibly heavy emotional ed letters weight of societal mockery and contempt for gays and lesbians, ate in your whh the potential to grow beyond ike to pose *he realm of emotional abuse to inthose who clu(le physical abuse as well. Gay, us and the minority, or for that matter human (though bashings have never been limited e two are 10 more words or attitudes, ir inquiries Finally, I would like to say that >us attempt as musicians you have the special sexuality opportunity to spread joy and haptnocentric pmess through a unique medium, are not all ^ou know the feeling of elation ?ric? Have that comes from performing for an jective let- audience, especially a receptive audience. You know how the audi ral code in ence smiles, grooves and snaps not say to their fingers 10 the rhythms of a you wrote vibrating atmosphere, and the genwere truly eral feeling of good will that eny learning sucs ^rom this special rapport bey to go to tween musician, listener, back to k with the musician, back to listener. Come not say to on' dudes, lcl's go do what we do terested in best ? make music. And leave all my point? the cruel comments and attitudes e equally behind. estioning." And f?r any other dudes who r sought to whail an axe, you can jam with us, is Judeo- too. And for those of you who USC com- don't play anything, well, you can is nothing Jarn with us spiritually. Peace, ery on the Jack Pettit minority music performance senior