New blood
President Palms starting well
in his leadership initiatives
USC President John Palms can hardly lose. Palms is alread;
being viewed by some as the F.W. De Klerk of South Carolin
just because he isn't James Holderman. Let us hope he doesn'
become USC's Gorbachev.
Palms seems to be starting well. It is nice to hear that he i
looking into the USC practice of not identifying students who ge
scholarships. Holderman handed out scholarships without checkinj
the financial or academic records of the recipients. Scholasti
merit or monetary need should fit into the scholarship decision
making process. That is why they call them "scholarships" in th
first place.
If Palms does decide to release the names of recipients to th
public, it is a step toward preventing the corruption of doling oil
money to preferred students. Palms also said donors would nc
receive gifts. Palms hinted that he might rid the school of som
administrators from the Holderman era as well, saying, "I ca
make adjustments as I see fit."
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said Holderman's spending practices were exaggerated. Furthei
more, Palms said the press neglected the good points of USC ani
accentuated the bad.
John Palms has the entire campus pulling for him to improv
the image of the university. In that regard, Palms would have
hard time doing wrong right now. Let's hope he continues what h
has started.
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circumstance.
Sexually frank
e I'm really forced to wonder sometimes how
n society came up with such a screwed-up value
system. I was trying to figure out when society
it decided sex was a disgusting and heinous
crime.
d It seems like sex gets blamed for everything.
My favorite lately is the idea that pornography
e is responsible for the behavior of the nation's
sex offenders. Somehow I was unable to accept
the notion that if the average American watches
e a porno-flick, he suddenly gets the irresistable
impulse to go next door and flash the neighbors,
and inevitably goes on to become a marauding
rapist
In fact, I was so convinced of this I decided
to write a paper about it for one of my classes,
and I unearthed some information that confirmed
my theory.
It might be of some interest that pornography
a is not the culprit responsible for creating sex ofP
fenders. The only thing that can be traced to
their behavior is a predetermination to violence
and a lousy childhood. But if one thing in the
media could influence people's attitudes about
' Insider explaii
The Board of Publications and Communica-,
tions' selection process for the editors of Student
Media was yesterday, and I thought you
might like to know how they are selected since
they serve this campus.
The positions to be filled included Game
cock, Portfolio and Garnet and Black editors as
well as Station Manager for WUSC. All of the
candidates considered had turned in applications
j this past month and were then interviewed by
| the Board of Pubs.
? The Board of Pubs consists of numerous fate,
culty, administrators and students, who are ap^
pointed by the Student Government president.
? The current student position holders in Student c
? Media also attend regular board meetings to i
f give progress reports. Wednesday's meeting i
was attended by Franklin Ashley, Ed Bonza,
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643 manusd
To the editor: In additic
This letter is in response to Tige between the
' Watts' article in the April 10 edi- of the New
tion of The Gamecock. manusc
Mr. Watts, the Bible is the most only appn
historically reliable piece of an- whereas the
cient literature in existence today, is over 500 )
Many misinformed people say, The inten
ine tsiDie is 11111 ui euinrauicuuns mmcs uuw 1
and has been mistranslated time af- tencies there
ter time," but these statements usu- script Only
ally come from ignorant people Testament t
who have hardly read the Bible or 764 lines 0
studied the historical evidence for tioned. This
the scriptures. Iliad's text
To say the Bible is a "dubious" pared to \f.
or "unreliable" book is an intellec- New Testam
tually foolish thing to say. The his- discrepancie
torical reliablity of the Scripture ters such as 1
can be tested by the same criteria gven ^ ?c
which all historical documents are 0f tjiese qU
tosted J , the Bible, "1
C.Sanders Introduction to Re- or morai pr,
search in English Literary History perverted or
lists three basic principles in deter- Warfield
mining a manuscript's reliablity: '
l)the biographical test, 2)the inter- ^ .
nal evidence test and 3)the external 8raPhy 1S 1
evidence test. When one examines test. This e.
the Bible against these three tests, ?U. f 1
it becomes clear that it is the most ^ "lston'
reliable piece of ancient literature chaeology. twe
have. ^ test, the
The biographical evidence test co^or
determines how reliable are the co- f 0 e*tra"
pies of Scripture we have in regard suds tan 1
to the number of manuscripts and estamen
the time interval between the origi- jenaeus (
nal and existent copies. Mr. Watts,
did you know there are over 5,300 ^
known Greek manuscripts of the As for ai
New Testament, and 10,000 in the supporting
Latin Vulgate? Watts, refer
Add this to the 9,300 other early ces: Willia
versions, and you have over Warwick N
24,000 ancient manuscripts con- Rowley.
^ taining portions of the New Testa- If a perso
; material no
Shelley Magei
sex offenses, violence would have to get
blame.
Now, these studies I read hardly stated I
everyone who watched a slasher movie was
ing to go out and chop off a head or two, eitl
However, when men were polled after seein
violent movie, a much higher percentage
them admitted they would consider committ
a rape if they knew they wouldn't get cau
than did similar groups of men who saw mo>
depicting graphic sex.
For people who are informed about rape, i
should make sense. After all, rape is a crime
violence, not a crime of passion. It seems
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Jerry Brewer, Carol Degnan, Ronald Farr
Patty Tomanio, Robert Wilcox and Kather
Smoak. Also present were Kathy Blackwc
editor of The Gamecock', Winifred Rogers, e
tor of the Garnet and Black', Yon Res*
WUSC station manager, and myself as editor
Portfolio (see, I'm not just a liberal-comn
columnist).
What the board did was review the canc
lates' applications for experience, grades ei
rhen each applicant was given a form
nterview.
Then the applicants are decided on for tl
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stence today. No other the Bible is an j
f antiquity approaches ment," then he mus
rs. The closest compar- the rest of anciei
ner's Iliad with only from which we fo
ripts. . To quote John War
in, the interval of time ery, "To be skeptic
j original manuscripts tant text of the I
Testament and the ear- books is to allow
:ripts we have today is antiquity to slip ini
Dximately 25 years, no documents of th
time span of the Iliad are as well atteste
fears. cally as the New T<
nal evidence test exanany
internal inconsis- My P?int is this:
are in a given manu- ticle was an ign<
40 lines of the New piece of propaga
ire in doubt, whereas shred of evidence l
f the Iliad are ques- the future, Mr. V
means 5 percent of the better to formulai
is questionable, com- from facts inste
I of 1 percent of the heresy,
ent (and most of these
s are mechanical matspelling
and style).
>u removed all 40 lines NohnHl
estionable lines from
lot one article of faith CC1 "17
ecept would be either
lost," said Benjamin
To the editor:
principle of Historio- . Yuck! Pooey! H
he external evidence finish vomiting be
^amines the evidence ^ sickeni
he Scriptures such as laught of judgme
sal documents and ar- homosexuality rec
^gain, when put under in The Gamecock.
Bible comes out with sume, even though
s. The following is a resents a small sc
town, it does tO SO!
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portions of the New sent l^c v0ices ?f
Eusebius (130 A.D.), stU(^enls acr?s
JO A.D.), Clement of _ ,
A.D.) and Ignatius ? In u.m^ia'
(\ from Marie Herndc
lace who are sittir
rchaeological evidence cozy little sinles
the Scriptures, Mr. sumed heterosexi
to the following sour- sake I hope so), f
m F. Albright, John they can separate
lontgomery and H.H. from their wills a
pointing their Chu
n says, "I don't believe at homosexuals, te
t a problem
more likely to breed violence than sex is. Of
course, when you combine violence with pornography
obviously it then becomes something
p else, but sex in general is getting a really bad
name, and it's innocent of charges.
Mnw I'm finallv at th#? nart u/hprp T nnlain a
little better my statement that society really has
? its values screwed up. Could someone please
find for me the rationale behind rating a movie
the X automatically if it shows a man's penis or a
woman's vulva, when a psychopath can run arthat
ound the screen skinning people alive and eatgo
ing their intestines and die movie only gets
ier. rated R.
g a Personally if I was a parent, I would be a lot
of more concerned by my child seeing a kill-aminute
movie than I would be by him/her seeght
ing a natural life function,
ries Beyond that, a parent needs to take responsibility
for educating their child about sex. When
this sex is treated as something bad and dirty, child'
?f ren are much more likely to grow up with the
1 t0 wrong ideas about it, and that's where problems
' is begin. Not at the movies.
ction nrocess
r
\ " . . _ .
positions. This year it was easy because there
was just one applicant for each position except
Portfolio. Sorta made things easy.
This, however, was a source of disappointment
for the board. All of the applicants were
qualified, but it would be nice to think that with
J the number of journalism and English majors,
ar, or students from any other college for that matine
ter, more would be interested in these major
college publications.
di- The board hopes to raise more student inter;h,
est in these activities in the future. And believe
of me Student Media can always use one more
tiie person no matter which area it is.
Well, that's it pretty much for the selection
li_ process and the board (which does a lot more,
tc but that's not important for this), so if you have
al any problems with Student Media, I guess
you'll just have to come up and make a
ie difference.
iccurate docu- 5^ why? Because it is a sin, they
it also throw out say.
nt manuscripts Forget the millions of sins that
rmulate history, had to take place in order for Mr.
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wick jvionigom- Herndon and Mr. Mallace to share
;al of the resul- their judgments. Forget about our
?Iew Testament slaughtering of Indians in order to
all of classical find this new world. Forget about
to obscurity, for the millions of lives we wasted in
e ancient period order to stay here. Hell, forget abid
bibliographi- out that cockroach you smashed
sstament." this morning. Instead, let's get upset
about homosexuality.
Tige Watts' ar- t0 Mr. Herndon, Mr. Mallace
urantly written an(j anyone else who shares their
nda without a opinion, I say: you can twist and
o back it up. In stretch the Bible all you want, but
/atts would do didn't write it Human beings
te his opinions ? wonderful yet eternally imperad
of foolish feet and subjective beings ? interpreted
God's word (if you believe
Pete Kelly in (j0d) and passed this book
English senior down for hundreds of years.
We've got a case of hearsay that
r r?Ofl just won't quit
But I'm not angry at God, and
r i._ *'m not ^dng 10 discuss religion.
ID dvl I'm not saying the Bible is wrong
cm- homosexuality is not a sin. I'm
saying no one really KNOWS. A
old on, I have to human being's sexuality is a lot
fore I write this, more complex than conveniently
ed by the ons- tucking one's Bible under one's
mts concerning arm and making a simple end-all:ently
published be-all judgment. Having one's beI
can only as- liefs is one thing, but telling other
your paper rep- people HOW to live because of
hool in a small those beliefs, is quite another,
me degree repre- We all have every right as indisome
young col- viduals to try and make other peos
the nation. pie happy. We all have every right
as individuals to explore things
5 have to hear it that make us feel good about
>n and Tim Mai- ourselves and feel good about the
ig pretty in their world around us. Mr. Hemdon and
s world of as- Mr. Mallace, stop making people
lality (for their feel bad about themselves because
eeling good that you're hung up on people's differtheir
emotions ences and you don't understand,
nd all the while You have no right to do that,
rch Lady fingers Jimmy Flannery
lling them not to English administration assistant