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Gambling South Carolina finally changes old-fashioned ban on gambling The South Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously decided that video poker games are a legal form of gambling in the state. This means players of these games can receive money for good scores. This is South Carolina's first small step towards an intelligent gambling policy. Gambling has long been illegal in this state. Whether or not one feels it is moral, it is rather strange for the state government to malff it a rrimp a rvrsnn tn nut hic/hp?r mnnpu at riclr Rv that iAAMAVV x k U VI 1111V 1U1 U VX-r v? V 1110/11V1 111V/I1V^ Ul X XU*V. logic, South Carolina might as well ban stock brokers. Legalizing gambling in any form is a monumental achievement for S.C. Hopefully, this will open the door to casinos and a state lottery. The Bible thumpers will protest video poker games foi awhile, but it will pass. The state is finally moving forward on a issue it has long avoided. Taxes on video poker machines should go into state education, just like lottery earnings in other states. Legal gambling will give the state another source of revenue besides raising our taxes. People can choose not to gamble; they cannot choose not to pay theii taxes without legal trouble. Peihaps the day is not too far off when slot machines sit in the Russell House arcade. They will be a good way to make extra money for the university. As a result of the extra money, USC students might not have tuition raised every year. Gambling will benefit South Carolina as a whole. It will only hurt those who waste their money gambling, and that should be everyone's free choice. MORE PEATH PEti&VES TOi - OUR CUSTOMERS (tyl HMP OUT LOTS OF MEM =HI I ? i I JL j ui?) : KDKIB? 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Letters should be, at maximum 25C> 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. Dorm associat ; The meaning of a student organization is to r i he nin hv and for students. There are manv of ! these organizations on campus, and they cater to the needs of a good many facets of the USC community. The Residence Hall Association _ , serves the resident student community. The RHA's job is to voice the opinions of students _ on campus. If you live within the residence hall, you are ha a a member of the RHA. The halls may send as fa / many students as they feel necessary or wish to, co ^ but as a governing body, each of the 19 halls on campus have two votes in the RHA Senate. Se- CQ nators and representatives are to report back and discuss issues with their hall governments. Regional and state conferences, including the 9* South Atlantic Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls (SAACURH) and the Resi- co I dence Hall Association or south Carolina | (RHASC), help the RHAs, RAs and student ni jf leaders in the South to create a network. This re network allows us to see how others handle si- D< , tuations and deal with issues in resident student tre life. co We attend seminars on campus and residence Ai i President full ? I'm back. The last time I wrote a column, I set a record for hate mail, just beating out that guest column $ by Adolf Hitler. Well that's OK and I am still around even ? though I've been labeled everything from an a | atheist to a "tool of satan." Thanks for the let- ? | ters and keep them coming in. They're being | put to good use wallpapering Universal Studios ^ in Florida. fa " On to this column's point, though. Let's face it * it, George Bush has diarrhea of the mouth when r it comes to domestic issues. d( I share a common belief among my col- Sl] % leagues when it is said Bush could beat God in nc the 1992 presidential election. Right now, Bush is coming off one of the most decisive war vie- jn | tones ever. Sp R Well, war's fine and dandy when it comes to ? international topics. But what about when we V talk domestic issues. le Well, Bush talks and talks and talks . . . and talks about domestic issues. Is there any action, nc though? NO! M I was reading U.S. News and World Report ^ on the great throne and I saw an article on how ar | Chief of Staff John Sununu plans to run the m | Bush campaign. In the article, he listed "the big w four" domestic issues. Let's examine these four d( a little closer. oi Education. Bush launched an "excellence" agenda this week based on testing. Sometimes I us wonder what the vice president does when he is A in office. Wasn't it back in 1983 or 1984 when or 1 LETTERS TO Tt "W* T 1 * cut from the KH spending and cable sur 1 fact that the misunderstood unanimously To the editor: would have li I am responding to Gordon 0f fjnai exan Mantler s article that criticizes surveys were RHA spending. During my inter- <>q why woul view with Gordon, I repeated money to this i throughout that the RHA budgets . " were unanimously approved by the " . ?!.rtg'h. Senate, including the RHA official , ' who criticized the spending in the ? .s u ^ . article their y However, Gordon did not report encouragc mo t this because it would have discre- v0 vc , oK_llt dited his article; thus he would not cern^ have a story. In addition, Gordon sPend lts resou failed to mention why the $900 was cut from the housing and campus concerns budget. Since Gordon did not listen to USC c my explanation in the interview, I will repeat what was said. We cut JiQVP H $600 from campus safety programs *WVv |J because they had budgeted in the cost of special guests who do not To the editor: charge for their services since they This letter s were university employees. ing change. I m Second, the remaining $400 was mosexuality, B Scots Coed ion serves th< / RHA EXECUTIVE BOARD Guest Column 11 programming, financial planning, fundising, motivation, residence hall issues, linOAlinrr onH lAoHArohin frnolc Ac enmn mn; utiijviiug, uiiu ivuuv/ioiup ^ucuo. rw OVSIHVS iiicij nember, a November '90 issue of The Gameck did an article on the RHA sponsoring the "lACURH '90 Conference here at the USC on Dtober 26-28. Approximately 1,000 students om seven states attended this leadership inference. This year's End of the Year Banquet recogzes the outstanding group of volunteers and sidence hall staff we have in Resident Student jvelopment here on campus. This year's en>e is chicken and seafood fettucini, and this i ntract has been set for two and a half weeks. 1 t no time was a steak and shrimp dinner i of it in dome tige Watts i , Nation at Risk" was released? In that report, ey found it was not necessarily the student's ult for the low standard of education. Instead, was the faulty teachers we had. , George, we know what the problem is. We ] >n't need to do anymore testing. Testing is ( pposed to be a vehicle to find our problems, >t to solve them. How about putting more emtasis on teacher recruitment. Instead of spend- i g $30 zillion on making tests, we should 1 lend the money on improving teacher salaries, t Energy. Bush must be as stupid as the fish i i caught in Florida is. Didn't the gulf war ( ach us anything else other than that we can ? ck anybody's ass because we have great tech- ( )logy? Bush says we should be less reliable on t [iddle East oil and look for new sources. Oh, at's good! Let's start to really mess up nature id start drilling in Alaska. Whatever force ade this world made it such an organized ay. I'm sorry George, but I do like the outers without seeing baby seals slicked up with 1. Let's also not conserve, OK? If we want to ;e all the oil or gas in the world, let's do so. fter all, we're ass-kicking Americans. Come i, develop into a sensible primate. I also adIE EDITOR Earth Day program ferences, the gulf war veys because of the Holderman. It addresses i Earth Day program that affects a large portio too close to the end students ? On-campus hi nd the RHA senate The thread of USC bu felt this program has ensnared us once ag ttle support because the age old question: is. Also, the cable housing fees constantly previous completed when the quality of livi d we budget more tions are going down? effort, Gordon? If y0u are fortunate c I would like to say get to live NEAR the dori as always been open choice, your troubles mi mcerns about how over. What happens wh lould be spent, and I thing in your room break re people to get in- not work? You report it u A if they are con- and it gets fixed, right how RHA should necessarily so! rces. Thank you. This semester alone, i Jody Wallace mate an(j j jiave pjace(j RHA Treasurer cajjs for repajrs ft took mately 4 weeks for the lock to be repaired, t IIto weeks for the closet dc irnhlpmc piaceu on iracK. uniy " weeks for the window lat stream is blowing over i each night. hould be a refresh- As a result 6 trips to t is not about ho- center ensued. As of tot iblical quotes or re- 11, the thermostat contra r ? i students planned or even considered. The price of this meal is $13.15 per person. If you multiply this number by the 300 expected to attend, you will see this leaves little for decorations, printing and awards for leaders and miscellaneous charges such as posters and a sound system. We do not feel this is an outrageous or even unusual cost for a banquet of this size. The budget was brought in front of the Senate and voted upon unaminously according to responses from hall governments. Each senator and any person attending RHA meetings sit on one or more banquet committees ? either programming, RSVP or decorations. The Residence Hall Association meetings are ' open to all resident students. All are invited to voice their opinions on issues brought up in front of the council. The meetings this semester.are on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Russell House room 203. The meetings for next semester will . be posted in both the Mortar Board and The ' Gamecock in the fall. If you are interested in -- Deing a senator in your nail, cau your kmu or the RHA office (Baker lobby) at 777-0088. stic policy mire the lack of encouragement of a simple task of recycling. It's remotely connected but it still has the same implications. We can look for more landfill space, but let's be sensible and take the most feasible approach. Transportation. It strikes me how Republi-. cans have no idea just how big some numbers are. Reagan said 3 trillion wasn't big. Now it seems, 250 million isn't big to George. Bush has focused on roads and bridges and not mass transit. Real good, George. After all, I guess it's ' better to serve the individual than the community. Crime. I tell you, if we had a smarter presdent I would mistake him for Einstein. Bush is eaning to tougher punishments and longer senences. Isn't prison for rehabilitation? Then why s there no emphasis on rehab programs instead )f punishment? Also, is it my imagination or iren't they letting prisoners out because of jvercrowding? And Bush wants longer sen ences, you've got to be kidding me. I imagine 99 percent of the voters are going to vote for Bush. But I just can't bring myself to support someone who doesn't know squat about domestic affairs. It's all right to know and focus on international issues, but in this world we all have to watch out for numero uno. And I would rather have a president who was more concerned about programs affecting us than programs affecting Israelis, Iraqi Kurds or ' Mozambiquis. * or James ulates our air conditioning and heat something *s st^ broken. Mind you, this was n of USC reported in early October. What's ousing ^ resident to do? ireaucracy Now, if you're one of the fortuain. I ask nate ^ew wbo reside in problemWhy are ^ree rooms, you may run into a going up difference of opinion with your ng condi- room or suitemate. We found ourselves in this situation also. It h to began when we were verbally m of your abused by our RHD for something not be we no contro' overThen we attended a ran session. some- r 7 s or docs aSainst our tetter judgement, with , , , our suitemates, the RA and the ? T'ain't ^D. accomplished nothing. The situation has since escalated. I've tried to reach the appropriate iiy room- people, but my calls have not been I over 14 returned, approxi- Where do you turn for help bathroom when ^ in charge are noUmost 3 where to be found? Where do you )or to be g0 wjien in charge cannot 5 short help? ch; the jet Finally, whv don't we have clas our heads ses jn woodworking and simple repairs? I'm sure I can fix that therthe health mostat before they will! lay, April Sara DuLynn Gerald 1 that reg- English junior