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Success
Coastal Carolina team better
than some without fan pressure
The Coastal Carolina College Chanticleers made the NCAA
men's basketball playoffs Wednesday night, the first time in the
school's history.
Coastal Carolina is one of the branch campuses in the US C system
and has about 4,300 students. Coastal has no real athletic stadium.
To see Coastal basketball games, one has to sit on bleachers
in the P.E. center.
The University of South Carolina, on the other hand, has the
12,400 seat Carolina Coliseum and boasts one of the best-funded
athletic programs in the entire country. Clemson, similarly, has a
huge program in all sports, and its Littlejohn Coliseum seats
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NCAA playoffs.
This is not meant to demean either team. USC and Clemson are
both in tough basketball conferences and had difficult schedules.
The point is, Coastal Carolina did more with less. Coastal has only
been a Division I basketball program since 1986 and has a miniscule
sports budget compared to the giants of South Carolina
sports: USC and Clemson.
Yet the Chanticleers are in the Big Dance. To other small
schools that don't emphasize athletics, Coastal is an example of
what can be done with determined effort. Rich alumni are not
needed, just hard work. Even if Coastal is eliminated in the first
round (a distinct probability), the Chanticleers can be proud of
their undisputed mark as the best basketball team in South
Carolina.
Possibly the main reason Coastal won is that no one expected,
or more to the point demanded, them to. The players and staff
could concentrate on school and the game without worrying about
not being "good enough."
No Coastal fans were going to call for Coach Russ Bergman's
head on a platter if he didn't take his team to the tournament. No
Chant fans complained about all the money "wasted" on the team.
Instead of throwing good money after bad on more recruiting,
more everything, in a continuous effort to be Number One, maybe
USC and Clemson (and big sports programs in general) could
leam from Coastal. It is no dishonor to play hard and not succeed.
Without the pressure to win at all costs (which is particularly
strong among USC fans), maybe, just maybe, the Gamecocks and
Tigers can have better teams. Give the players a break.
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There is a growing movement i
to protect animals from slaughter
scientific experimentation. Whil
good in principal, it is really a t
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subjects. Any reputable scientist u
further research on drugs and pi
will help mankind. True, some
rabbits die as a result, but that is
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hundred rabbits die so that a hur
avoid getting cancer. I really dor
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nasty, cruel
To the editor:
While listening to a discussioi
about animal research on WVO(
this past Friday morning, I wa
quite amused at a caller who iden
tified himself as an internationa
student at the USC School of Me
dicine. To avoid him embarrass
ment, I will call him Mr. R.
Mr. R snidely intimated tha
since insects and bacteria wer
also lifeforms, they should be gi
ven rights according to the anima
rights ethic. At present, there is n
way of telling yet whether or nc
insects or bacteria are sender
beings.
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mammals, and probably all verte
brates, feel pain and pleasure i
ways very similar to us. Therefor<
1 it is ridiculous to argue about th
possible rights of cockroache;
etc., when we have not even e>
tended consideration to anima
species very close to our own.
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not so. naive as to think that con
puter simulations alone can or wi
replace animal research. Enormoi
medical progress has been mad
using in vitro (test tube) researcl
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penicillin, and the development (
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psychotic drugs, have all bee
made without the use of animal
The list goes on, but space proh
bits me from mentioning them.
Finally, it is sad, but insightfu
commentary on the Medics
School when its students sa;
"Animal research is just as impo
tant as breathing." To whom? Pe<
pie who are sadists or making m<
ney from the exploitation of an
mals, perhaps, but not to me n<
the hundreds of thousands of an
mal rights advocates in th
country.
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the mentality of our future docto
and/or researchers. Thus, my ai
vice to Mr. R and other medic;
students of his ilk, as well as th
faculty who teach such twiste
thoughts: take some long course
on compassion, ethics and mor;
responsibility. Obviously, all th;
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souls.
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r Albert Schweitzer who passion>
ately declared that a species willing
to be "saved" through vivisection
would not be worth saving.
Patricia McKnight
Elementary education freshman
\ U.S. still has
;; role as leader
To the editor:
The war in the Persian Gulf at
I long last resounded with the bells
e of victory ringing for the coalition
h forces headed by the USA. the
d causes of the gulf war, although
0 detrimental in one way to the envi)l
ronment and the innocent civilians
II of the countries involved, scored
no doubt positive political results
H for the coalition member-states,
' and most of all for the USA.
n The impeccable strategic and
tactical skills of Gen. Schwarze
kopf, the excellent negotiating talent
combined with the firmness of
moral purpose of Dick Cheney and
d the unwavering stand of Colin
Powell in coordinating the multie
national forces of the coalition
. . . that was proof not only
11 of technical superiority, but also
IS enhanced the political justification
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ui uus war.
I1* Once again, the USA reinstated
'c its position as a leading world
h power, scoring a political victory
that will most certainly assure
,n George Bush's re-election for a
second term in office. With this
political gain at hand, there is yet
i- another crucial step to be taken in
n the hereafter of the war ? this is
s. the time of George Bush's unique
i- chance to set the pillars of the
New World Order.
il? It is important to re-establish ne*1
gotiations with the old powers in
Europe and possibly some of the
r_ Arab allies in the Persian Gulf in
> order to embark on this new and
grandiose venture at the end of the
i" 20th Century, the New World Or
3r der, as a step toward security and
cooperation in the world,
is Katerina Kaloyanova
Journalism graduate student
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il I would like to say congratulait
tions to Aaron Sheinin for his colir
umn on James Holderman. Excuse
the cliche, but you hit the money
n right on the nose. I find it utterly
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what? An Excalibur figurine to
Bill Cosby for speaking at the
1986 commencement?
Well, I was at that commencement
to see my brother graduate
from law school, and I don't think
Cosby's 15 to 20 minute speech
was worth a $3,000 gift. And what
about this trip to'Hawaii for three
weeks with his entire family? It is
the biggest joke in the world; however,
the joke is really on us ? the
students.
If we do riot stand up and do
something, like having the university
press charges, then we have
failed as students. We need to
press the issue in order to not have
this kind of thing happen again.
Maybe (we should) have a better
way of Checks and Balances at
this USC. We pay so much money
to USC, and for what? ? I ask
again. Certainly not for a president
that cares about the students. It is a
shame our money is being pissed
away in the wind.
Stephanie Moskos
Retailing/Fashion merchandising
junior
Soldier writes
about support
To the editor:
I am very glad to hear that so
many students are strongly expressing
and debating their views
on the war in the Persian Gulf.
Some have taken the time to write
me and express their views. I
would like to reply en masse to the
Carolina student body. (This letter
was written Feb. 7, but was only
received Wednesday, ed.)
I am glad that so many of you
value peace so highly. If the whole
world felt and acted like you, we
would not need armies. But that's
not the case, at least not yet. Our
lives would be greatly different if
Americans had not formed armies
and fought for our independence
from the British. History tells us
that many people attempted many
political and peaceful ways before
we went to war against King
George III.
Life in the second half of the
20th Century could have been very
different if the U.S. had not gone
to war against the Axis powers in
World War II. If you want to
maintain your peace-at-all-costs
viewpoint, then consider for a nio.
ment what life would be like under
rule by Nazi Germany.
Many Americans were strongly
opposed to war and wanted to remain
isolated from it. I am not
saying Iraq is an exact copy of
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ease deserve to be applauded. Poras
sadists who like to hurt animals
> them and their noble profession.
>rons who say "meat is murder," I
; eaten by a tiger or other large car
e who would have humans no lonare
going against nature, plain and
r do humans have canines in their
ey didn't evolve from meat-eating
don't see lions eating granola trail
ights." That is one of those ridicullike
"limited war" or "lifeless
my book, when animals start walkn
their hind legs and inventing the
em have freedom of speech. Until
good food.
Nazi Germany, I am saying that
after all other peaceful attempts to
solve an international dispute or
crisis have failed, then war is
sometimes the only alternative.
Have . we done all we can do
peacefully to restore the legitimate
Kuwaiti government to power? I
say yes, we have. Can we allow a
dictator like Saddam Hussein to
continue his international terrorism?
No, we can't. I also understand
that this is a debatable topic
and since we live in America, we
are entitled to our own opinion. In
support of my opinion, I note these
facts:
1. After months of the embargo
and weeks of war, there is still
plenty of food for sale in the
streets of Baghdad as reported by
the news media allowed to broadcast
from Iraq.
2. Hussein has repeatedly
claimed that Kuwait is now a province
of Iraq. The Iraqi government
does not even refer to Kuwait
as Kuwait any more. They
have given it their own name.
3. Hussein has repeatedly called
for world-wide terrorism.
4. Iraq has repeatedly attempted
to bring Israel into the war and escalate
the conflict
5. The barbaric treatment of coalition
POWs by the Iraqi armed
forces.
6. Iraq went to war less than
two years after Hussein came to
power and has been at war with at
least one of his neighbors constantly
for the past 10 years.
7. The dumping of oil by Iraq in
the Persian Gulf.
We are now at war, and that
means men and women will be
killed. Let us remember what President
Lincoln said to the public about
the soldiers that died in the ,
battle of Gettysburg:
"The world will little note nor
long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they
did here. It is for us the living
rather to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining
before us ? that from these honored
dead we take increased devo
nun iu uic cau^c iui which uicy
gave the last full measure of devotion
? that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died
in vain, that this nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of
freedom, and that government of
the people, by the people, for the
people shall not perish from the
earth' " Jim Knight
Operation Desert Shield