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Spending USC's bureau in Washington subjected to undue criticism Much has been said about the office that the university maintains in Washington, the office that costs $400,000 a year. It has been said that no other university in the Carolinas has an office in Washington. imDlvine that it is an unnecessarv w ^ c - - ? J extravagance. However, if it is true that this Washington office helped garner over $37 million in federal research grants last year for the university, then maybe other Carolina universities should have Washington offices, too. Since when is an organization's promotion of its own interests so controversial? Even the $400,000 budget is justifiable if it nets multi-million dollar returns. USC is simply providing for itself in the nation's capital. It is also true that no other university in the Carolinas has the No. 1 international business program in the nation. USC is on the cutting edge with many innovations. If USC hopes to compete with more famous universities for research money, it must make the same commitments as" those schools. Harvard has a Washington office, and, perchance to dream, USC could one day be a comparable institution of higher learning if it makes the effort. What is particularly strange about the criticism for the office in 4i i_ ? r * woMimgiun ii> uic nypucnsy. wcuncsuay s LrurnecuLK xaii a liuiu page story from the Associated Press about the controversy, quoting three South Carolina state legislators as saying that USC should disband the office. House Speaker Pro Tem David Beasley said, "It's shocking and appalling in terms of what they're spending up there (in the Washington office)." Beasley should be well acquainted with the shocking and appalling with his long experience in the state Legislature. The last people in the world that should be talking about controversies should be our state legislators. The State House is hardly a bastion of integrity from which to condemn the university's spending practices, especially when legislators were so recently caught talking bribes. People in a glass House should not throw stones. L ^ ^3^ //; OK. WHO UE.FT THE FAUCET RUNNING? The Gamecock News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 Kathy Blackwell robyn Thompson Editor z'/z Chief Managing Editor jennifer jabl.onski david bowden Copy Desk Chief Viewpoint Editor Lucy Soto Kathy Heberger News Editor Carolina Life Editor Steve Johnson Renee Meyer Sports Editor Photography Editor Aaron Sheinin Tige Watts Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor octavia wright patrick vlllegas Assistant Carolina Life Editor Assistant Sports Editor Chris Silvestri Julie Bouchillon Assistant Copy Desk Chief Assistant Photography Editor Eric Glenn Darkroom Lab Technician ed bonza erik collins Director of Student Media Faculty Adviser Laura S. Day ray Burgos Production Manager Assistant Production Manager Renee Gibson Kyle Berry Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager Carolyn Griffin 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. CPS n^i. i _i aaian lai Satan and I were sitting h; Goatfeathers, one of his favo: Columbia area (something ha the name, I guess). We were di rent nastiness in the Middle looking for some alternative co situation. So as not to scare the local Satan-shy anyway since so i hang out there, Lucifer had ( street persona. So rather than horns and a pointy tail, he strol short, stooped fellow with a p black beard and longish hair compensate for a receding hair lit up a Benson & Hedges cig? seated by our Scandanavian-loc "So, Luce," I said, "What dc all this war business in the Mid He sat back, took a drag 01 blew little horned smoke r; couldn't be better. Arabs hating ing Arabs, the U.S. looking doesn't know what to do. Mak< with pride." "So you're in favor of Bu asked, "Of course! Death, destructic through the streets, that's the are made of. Someone might this entire thing together m seeming to wish that he had. "So you really didn't have with this?" I I""TT pj" n c LEL I 1 Ciiv. Racism mak< society worsi To the editor: I was astounded to read highly racist, misinformed miemiiHaH lattor nf Cntroc Pon llllO^UiUVU lVUV/i v/l U|/UUJ x up cos in The Gamecock, Jan. 23. Papleacos seems partial to "fa taken out of context and forti with conclusions that are not < untenable but highly offensive. The general tone of the le and the attitude of the writer be deplored, especially in this and age. However, I will con myself to a refutation of the i cific arguments, if they can be termed, that he has made. The NAACP is an inter-re organization that has fought continues to fight for the poli equality, economic developn and social integration of Afri American people. These goals as American as the apple pie. The "party line" that Mr. pleacos is refering to is an fathomable mystery to all who acquainted with the work of organization, of which he sure) not one. His pathetic attempt villifv rpnntahnn nf nnn r\f * A"" j v**v iv^uiauvii ui vtiv v/a greatest leaders of mod America are certainly beneath < tempt. Shall we tear up the De ration of Independence becaus was penned by a slaveholder? (Papleacos') efforts to denig the cultures and civilizations of whole world only reflects the 1 flaw of "western civilization" intolerance and racism. Most ri thinking individuals in the V have long condemned this after nightmare of the Nazi holoca which was based on the claim Iks war and j aving a drink at ite places in the ving to do with p|w* scussing the cur- ** , SCO East, and I was \ r' > t ? 41 - s, who are a bit nany politicians changed into his "Not in the literal sem walk in bearing ^ leSs of the waitress wl led in as a rather ordered a Harp, which ot belly, a bushy veiIed inside joke. "But I in the back to die separate parties invob rline in front. He can remember. Who do irette as we were Saddam that Kuwait used >king hostess. mean, really. The guy gre > you think about bes not very well versed die East?" cient Mesopotamia." a his smoke and "Besides," he continue ings. "Business ttbe drink the waitress I Jews, Jews hat- 'America had been way l I bad 'cause it ^old War stuff blew over *s my heart glow my main outlets for nev "After all that went up sh's actions?" I had to find something foi pissed at. Luckily Mapp >n, blood running Crew came along. I was in stuff nightmares a second or two," he said, think I had put from his beer as he eye yself," he said, more. "This is going to get /ol anything to do w*th not wanting anyone t ing compelled to show ol ! TO THE EDITOF 1 i - racial superiority. 2S As for the conditions of AfricanAmerican people, Mr. Papleacos 0 should refrain from coming up with his half-baked and nonsensical ideas hefnre taking at least two to three courses in American histhe tory and sociology. It is not an and age-old question of inheritance and l^ea" environment, but a problem with < historical roots and one which has < cts personification in contemporary fied patterns of institutionalized racism. i )nly ] It is also a question of economic : tter and social justice that affects the 6an entire American society. Blaming ray the victim for a problem will ine neither make it disappear or justify ] the inequalities that persist today. It is up to the moral courage, foresight and patriotism of the 1 icia! American people to rectify these 1 ancj wrongs and not to the ignorant and J 11 callous ravings of a few who seek 1 116111 to deny the existence of any probcan" lem and thereby only compound it. ( arc Manisha Sinha 1 History graduate student 1 Paun~ ' arc Column must mis sy;? be humorous ! the ( ern To the editor: :on- Recently, several key issues ?la- have been discussed in The ;e it Gamecock: 1. John Palms will be our new president. Tate- 2. We are at war with Iraq (the the positives and/or negatives are an :atal entirely different letter). ? 3. Students can hang flags outght side dorm rooms (provided they /est don't burn them). < the 4. Spiros Papleacos should stick iust, to writing for class or get an un- < s of listed phone-number. _ 1 peace in jingoisl i| down tl People tt Pruden- ca?0,1 _ cops an I con ing que ji of folks ning o >e," he said, admiring commei io took our orders. He A sh I think was another "Same < 've been working on He lean /ed for longer than I sure no you think reminded like wa to belong to Iraq? I running w up in the gutter, so cerned, in th#? histnrv nf an- "If C cided t d, taking a sip from would t had just brought, stead, o :oo unified since that to do t . Heck, that was one ways to / business. muddle in smoke, I actually Most of r Jesse Helms to get job." ilethorp and 2 Live I was a tight bind there for on the taking a long draught rememb d the waitress once snapped then mo Iks all confused, what "Hey 0 actually die but be- some m f that ballsy, macho, Larry F1 v . ; Nobody has stepped forward speak out on what now must the most important issue concei ing our well being as students a Americans: That Humor Column Is this guy for real? Brian Shi ton does for humor what Jim Ba ker does for religion. I often wo der if Shelton carries around I own laugh track on tape with hii 1 thought we got rid of lousy c< umnists when, the fat guy with t N.Y. Mets cap graduated a year so ago. I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Somebody needs to apologi to Traci Rufty for putting her pi ture on the same page with tl "column." 2. You might consider replacii the "column" with the advertis ments for plasma donations lock-itch infections, iney wou nake better use of the space. 3. If the "column" must sta ;an you print it on softer paper ; Nt can take it in the bathroom ai ;et the best use out of it? If somebody on the staff agre ivith me, if I may use Arth Smith's words in his letter to FS1 'Please consider this letter as n 'ormal application to be considen i candidate for the positic )f" . .. Humor Columnist. Eddie Netzlc Retailing juni< Intramurals require safety ro the editor: Intramural sports are a relaxin intertaining break from academ work. They should be fun, clea efficient and above all safe. I am first semester graduate student wl exclusive ic war monger streak that runs right ieir backs. Just take a look at the news, fighting in the streets like it was Chi968. All I need to do now is rile up the d it'll be just like the good of days." sidered this and then put another pressstion to the Prince of Darkness. "A lot ; have been saying that this is the beginf the end, Biblically speaking. Any it?" ladow crossed the Evil One's face, old question," he said, shaking his head, led forward and looked around to make one was listening. "Look, kid. I don't r any more than the next guy, but I'm a business, you see? As far as I'm conall war is Armageddon, ieorge Bush and Saddam Hussein deo kiss and make up tomorrow, that ake a lot of the heat off of me. But inur friend upstairs has commissioned me he dirty work, and there aren't many argue with a supreme being. So I just through and put on the 'bad guy' face. r the time, I'd be glad to be out of this , to say the least, surprised at his candor subject. But it didn't take him long to er his role as tempter and tormenter. He I his fingers to call the waitress, and tioned for her to sit next to him. , sweetheart. Ever think about doing odeling? You know, I'm good pals with int..." y i :11nunn11 i to has played IM ball at two other be universities. The program at USC m. is the best I have ever played in, nd but the tragic event that occurred on Jan. 28 was inexcusable. I had arrived early for my 7:30 si- game and was watching the game ik- preceding mine which involved a >n- team trom tne z.ts i tratemity. Une lis of the ZBT players was going in m. for a breakaway layup when a dI- trailing defender reached in to he block the shot. or It was a clean play. Unfortunately, his momentum carried him and the ZBT player into the wall. The ZBT player hit his head ze against the concrete while the delc" fender's body crashed into it, causes ing a horrible collision. The injury to the ZBT player ^8 was serious, and he was on the e_ floor for a good twenty minutes or before the paramedics took him Id away on a stretcher. No blame is i 1 * J I. lO De laiu un uic piaycis, DUl Uie y, use department which runs the so intramural program has much to id answer for. First, why were there no mats up against die walls? This simple es deterrent would surely have reur duced the impact, and subsequently the severity of the injury. ly Second, while I did not have a watch on, it took an inordinate >n amount of time to get an EMT on the scene. One should be posted in the immediate playing area during 3r all games. I do not wish to detract from the otherwise outstanding quality of the IM program at USC, but events r such as last night are inexcusable. A few simple, preventative measures will make the games and everyone's involvement in them l'gj more enjoyable. Best wishes to the ZBT player l0) and his family. ! a Martin A. Davis Jr. tio History graduate student