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Thanks
Homeless must not be forgotten
its students enjoy holiday season
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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
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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.
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'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
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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
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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
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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(
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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
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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
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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
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tnd enforcing parking right to vote.
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. To the editor:
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>*** *** lace's letter of Oct. 12
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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