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Tough n ill ilV/t l/V But conflict is not only a concern in the form of war. Crime and drugs are on the increase. In the news, we read about students dealing with vandalism, increases in attacks and racially motivated confrontations. We see more students being involved with drug problems, and sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise at America's colleges and universities. College used to be thought of as a haven of higher education, not affected by the ills of society. But that is simply not true. For some students, this is the end of the education road: graduation approaches. Students that once looked forward to graduation with eager anticipation are now concerned. With recession becoming a daily reality, some students grapple with the fact that the job market is not standing to attention or waiting with open arms to greet them. For the students that return to classes next year, increases in housing costs and inevitable increases in tuition are waiting in the wings. Housing and tuition costs are always increasing; but this year, financial aid is being cut. More students will need to get i/VKc to finon^o tBnir a/Ihpotmn I^iit Q11CP tVlO ir\K morl-At ic in JV/l/O IV/ 1111UUW U1V/11 CUUVailUU. l/UI L/vvwu^v U1V JUU 111U1IVV/1 1.3 ill turmoil, some students can't get jobs and therefore can't go to g A school. JQ It's tough to be a student. ^C^SH0P (5^99 To ] ^?m?^mwmm m^ The Gamecock ? no! News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 j>ul bin i ^ Jeff Wilson Sharon Willamson 0} Editor in Chief Managing Editor I Copy Desk Chief ^ an Lynn Gibson Elizabeth Lynch mi] News Editor Carolina Life Editor DOUGAUBE RENEE MEYER wh Sports Editor Photography Editor we tha Elizabeth Fox Sherri Tillman on( Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor (? david bowden kathy heberger prc Assistant Carolina Life Editor Assistant Carolina Life Editor cai Brant Long Julie Bouchillon kn< Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Photography Editor me Sara Verne Octavia Wright sid Assistant Copy Desk Chief Assistant to the Editbrs wi jjej Kristin Francis ERIK Collins anc Graduate Assistant Faculty Adviser ulti Ed Bonza Laura S. Day wil Director of Student Media Production Manager * Ray Burgos renee Gibson tak ' * - " ' . . . . . , mf assistant rroauLuun inu.,Advertising Manager ? Kyle berry Carolyn Griffin sai Assistant Advertising Manager Business Manager in wil 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, pro- me fessional title if a USC employee or South Carolina resident, or year and major if aJi> 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 y space limitations. The newspaper will not withhold names under any ; a" circumstance. wo Economics, crimes, war possibility makes being a student difficult It's tough to be a student. Students are approaching finals, and some are caught up in shopping for the holidays with what little money they might have. For some students, the semester has already ended. They are now in the Persian Gulf... waiting, as we are all waiting, to see what will happen, to see if there will be war. This generation of college students is too young to really remember Vietnam. For most of us, it is history ? history that we hnnp will nnt Kr? Editor reflecl When Robert Gonzales founded The Game :k on Jan. 30, 1908, he had specific goals fo newspaper. Gonzales wrote in his first editorial, 77i< mecock "will cause everybody to realiz< ire fully what University life should mean." ieve the purpose of this newspaper has no tnged in its 82-year history, although then ; many people at USC that might not agree. 'The editor in chief will deal with collegi iditions fairly and squarely as he sees them s paper was not established to further the in ests of any organization, but the interests o (university), Gonzales wrote. Those word: ght as well have been mine because that i: w I have approached this job this semester. Many editors have come and gone sinc< nzales. I am only a small link in the chain 1 now my term has come to an end. My term did not begin amid fanfare oi 3pla. It began as orchestrated chaos and end: same way. I have never worked as hard as /e this semester. No one told me that beinj tor was going to mean being a leader, a mo ator, a disciplinarian, a counselor, a diploma! ambassador and a fighter. [ came to the job a little too naive and a lo ) idealistic. I thought that I could make a sig icant change in the USC community witl s newspaper. Obviously, that did not happen ;tead. I had to settle for a few small victorie a few good stories, a nice photograph o LETTERS TO Tl r-^-.r.t.iYnrn" i iTiYirrrnrrrri-iTiYiwiiivriTrriiytiYir-iyv.iriYiYin'TriYt actions might S ffect group p" Gas the editor: ~ _ [ am responding in reference to ' letter on Friday. I recently ked to the President of Delta To the ed silon. I was informed that the I woul ty that I was thrown out of was tunity to t a fraternitv snonsomd nariv. rwim-fcc - " -J -I I J > t the party was thrown by a gas tax t ich of guys who were members Saturday, the fraternity. , to help c 3eople must understand that if and aid f y are affiliated with a group or lands pn organization, then their actions also cone ?ht reflect on that group. Also, "soak th people who were at that party many mei o didn't do or say anything wealthy < re just as guilty. I understand luxury c; t the Delta Upsilon fraternity is Lincoln a J of the only white fraternities supposed! sororities) who are trying to tax. >mote good race relations on What t npus. But, they still should the burdc jw inc views ot all 01 meir ably be s mbers, and take that into con- ger exter eration before letting them in. working ly don't they have any mixers are the it ween black and white sororities drive old 1 fraternities. That could be the and pick mate test of whether people are they neet ling to change. cause the; >o next semester during rush, ones. Foi e time to look at your new full-sized mbers and see if they are all the tion work ne. Some diversity might help liver only your organization, and letting As the people with backwards views tering inti 1 hurt it, as with Delta Upsilon. prices ha wasn't them, but one of their per gallor mbers who tried to keep racism it is unb /e. would chi \lso the stepshows are open to pose a $0 students, white and black. I American nder if some of the "other" par- What i ; arc. I've been to a few Kappa from the :s on good, bad ! JEFF WILSON | ; i i " t g|( * j i 5 P two, and a couple of well-written columns and T ^ editorials. h People only see the words that are printed on c these pages. They never see the stories behind ii f the stories, the things I will never forget. I can- d s not forget the look on the student's face when I ti s told him we couldn't do a story about his fiancee breaking up with him. fi i I will never forget the woman who called and w , just wanted to talk to someone because she n might not be able to come back to school be- w r cause she can't afford it. She didn't want an ars tide written, she just didn't know who else to ji I talk to. So she called me, and I listened. After a I half hour of her shedding tears, she thanked me - for listening and hung up. She never called a :, backed. I hope she's still here. o I never thought I would have to explain to Is t people, who I thought knew me, my reasons for tl doing something like running a color picture of g n?? ? .u? "it'.. i uic nuuictuiuiug queen 111 uic it ^ i. never been done before. Why do it now when a ^ s white girl won?" someone said. "You couldn't h r have put more color in that picture even if you hfjlDlTOR Iv '" arties, and I wish the thing, Americans will be v, re like it. financially, as they will h Robert T. Davis -money to spend on luxui itical science sophomore like food, housing and coll 1J -fov ^on ^or c^'^enOllllc fears of a recession will forced, and resultant actio s recession as delaying major purcha lay offs will worsen the litor: bad situation of the econorr d like to take this oppor- Ei thank the members of MIBS graduate for the $0.05 per gallon hat went into effect last ^ The gas tax is supposed Irroup WOI :orrect the budget deficit # ( edcral highway and wet- JJPJIinSt 1*301 eservation programs. It O urs with the class warfare t . .. . nr~ ~ J * _ __ e ricn pmiosophy ot uic cuuor: mbers of Congress in that We are writing in resp irivers of 'gas guzzling' the Dec. 7 letter to the edi ars like V-8 Mercedes, Mr. Robert T. Davis. In th nd Cadillac products will we feel that Mr. Davis ly bear the burden of the valid point about race r among blacks and whites hey goii'i realize is that USC campus. Obviously I :n of this tax will prob- problem that should concer houldered to a much lar- and the editorial outlet is a it by already overtaxed able vessel from which t( class Americans. These late thought and change, lasses of Americans who fore, we feel that Mr. Dav er, less economical cars cern for the relationships un trnr>lrc p'uhor thf?. rncp.s and his atfp.mnt i wuviw Viuivi UVV/UUOV/ ? r i them for work or be- ing out certain problems a 1 can't afford to buy new conceptions between t example, typical older praiseworthy. On the oih< picks used by construe- we do challenge his judj ers and farmers often de- using the actions of Delta 13-15 MPG in town. fraternity to illustrate his p economy seems to be en- In the letter, Mr. Davis a a recession and as gas Delta Upsilon "party" that ve risen $0.30 or more thrown out of as an exa i over this time last year, racism on USC's campus, clievable that Congress record, the incident he is oose such a time to im- to was a private party ar .05 per gallon gas tax on Delta Upsilon sponsored c s. happened over a year ago effects can we expect host has since graduated, now rroc tax? For one is perfect, and Delta Upsil y ts ifi^ n i oi semester -ied," another person told me. I ran the picture of the Homecoming queen ecause I wanted to. The decision was made /eeks before the five finalists were selected nd before the controversy over the lack of miority representation on the court surfaced, and wasn't going to go back on my decision. Peole didn't see me upset about the controversy, "hey didn't see the frustration on my face or ear the outrage in my voice when I was told I ouldn't sit in on a meeting with the Homecomlg commission and some minority students to iscuss the situation. All they saw was the pic ire in the paper. This semster I have been called everything om a conservative to a bleeding-heart liberal. I 'ill never forget the woman who told me my ewspaper was a rag. Or hearing professors 'ho haven't read the paper in five years call it The Gamecrock" or "The Lamecock." But I ist smile and keep going. Many nights I have stayed awake worrying bout tbis newspaper. I rearranged my life around this paper, and sometimes I wonder why. Jo one really cares about what we write or how ic paper looks. But I guess I do. That has to be ood enough. Gonzales didn't know what he was creating 'hen he founded The Gamecock, but I'm glad e did. t*% n :?>? i 1 in a uiiuMicii, 11 5 uccu icai. m?mm. h wse off exception to that rule. Since that ave less time, Delta Upsilon has made y items strong efforts to improve race relalege tui- tions on this campus. be^eim Delta Upsilon initiated the first >ns such large-scale interracial Greek" phif i n ti/\Ar Un tk a scs and iai,?i?upy uy uuing ui& 1 gameball run for Multiple Sclero^ sis with Alpha Phi Alpha. Hie fact ric Lien ^al a "white" and a "black" fraterstudent nity anc* the P?ssible significance of the event was not lost or ignored by either fraternity. The event was extremely successful. Not only did the two fraternities nin the gameball to Clemson, but ism we also participated in two different social events in attempts to get to know each other better. To )onse to culminate the week, the two fratertor from nities put on a Joinl stePshow> fea" at letter turing teams from both Delta Upsimade a lon and A1Pha Phi A,Phaelations Mr. Davis> y?u *** "S^t abon the out *be problems that do exist, and this is a y?u are equally correct in that we n us all should all wake up and make posireason dve efforts at improvement. You ) stimu- are incorrect, however, -in your There- broad portrayal of Delta Upsilon as 'is' con- a racist fraternity. We wish you between would bave taken the time to exalt point- m'ne &ood efforts Delta md mjs. Upsilon had made in this area behem is fore you Painled us as a "racist" it hand fraternity. We apologize for the in"ment is c^ent y?u made mention of in Unsilon your Ielter> bul in n0 way does it Jj reflect the overall attitude of Delta :ctesa Upsilon. he was Ray E. Jones "IP10 President, Delta Upsilon For the referring Gary H. Johnson 'vent^In Second Vice President 'xt^ ^ Bryan Vacchio Nobody * on is n0 Social Chairman