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2_ Law Bush presidency has sealed fate of American judiciary President Bush has exercised his executive power to appoint S preme Court iustices to suit his own f^r K^?t~r. _ - J ? ? fMVkJj XVI UVllV/1 U1 WU1J The Supreme Court is more one-sided ideologically than at ai time in recent memory. An unfortunate side effect may be that t] high court will side against the majority of public opinion on wide variety of human rights issues. For example, poll after poll shows that a wide majority < Americans support the legality of abortion. However, the conse vative voices in the Supreme Court now have the votes to overtu Roe vs. Wade. This would make the states responsible for abo tion and would surely mean abortion- delegalization in mar states. The situation in America would be similar to the pre-Civil W days, with the nation divided between "free," pro-choice states ar "slave," anti-abortion states. Particularly in the South, the pr< choice forces would be outnumbered. Southern women needin abortions would have no recourse other than to move or get risky "back-alley" abortion. lie net effect would be that although abortion is a majorii opinion nationally, residents of some states would be denied th; choice. That is only one way in which a conservative Suprem Court is detrimental to the United States. It is the president's perogative to choose justices, but the opir ion of the American people should be taken into account. Hope fully the Court will be responsive to the beliefs of the country an not support laws that are antithetical to the values on which th country is based. I an a News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 David Bowden Editor in Chief Tige Watts Aaron Sheinin News Editor Carolina Life Editor Rich Taylor Daniel Barabas Sports Editor Graphics Editor Julie Bouchillon Photo Editor jennifer j ablonski Copy Desk Chief Ed Bonza Erik Collins Director of Student Media Faculty Adviser Laura S.Day Ray Burgos Production Manager Assistant Production Manager Renee Gibson Carolyn Griffin Advertising Manager Business Manager letters Policy: The Gamecock wil try to print al letters received. Letters should be. at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The writer must include ful 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 aU letters sent. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for style, possible ibel or in case of space limitations. The newspaper will not withhold names under any circumstance. KiAVlF ||^|QMCk?ag?Tribun?. r * ( MWf&x>P M&HW-'t 5EAT tub ?mimr U- rj/iA-T/O APBOIMT nrv 1 w r\i ?f - f" American lWhen I think about American 'd ... barf. What a waste our "land of the fr e come. According to the First Amei basically have the right to expressing cal speech. Too bad, we don't use it. The two parties in our system stin short-sighted, bigoted Republicans in and weak, spineless Democrats in th< Starting off with the party I hate n blicans are awful. Ronald Reagan < Bush are proof of that While Rea; office, we borrowed so much mon now have to give up our country to Need proof? Look at the percentage owned buildings, land and companie: I will give Reagan credit, though. )ally good actor. He made us believe control for eight years. Let's give h orary Academy Award. Bush is just about as dumb. Her who would send half a million brav Saudi Arabia to fight for Kuwaiti ci jected to ruthless men, yet, he woi poop for Croatians and Slovenians independence. It makes me wonder why we foi Persian Gulf War. Every day and e makes me think the war was nothing a political move for Bush. ^ _______ t f?npTni7i>C[ "I LjEj I 1 JtLIvo Club great for beating heat To the editor: It has come to my attention recently that The Gamecock has lapsed into the summertime blueS with the question of what there is to do in Columbia. Most recently ? Paula Cobb's "From the Hip" columm suggested such activities as I golf, baseball, bowing, fishing, wa. ter sports and watching television, as well as a remark suggesting that you and your significant other learn the Figure 4 ? which I'm assuming to be a dance. With the exception perhaps of water sports, this outlook is pretty bleak. This being my first summer in Columbia, I would go stark ravJ ing mad if these were my only options. Frankly, I can't imagine that S any of these activities, plus others such as sleeping in and watching movies (suggested in past issues of The Gamecock) would amuse anybody for the whole summer. Fortunately I have a remedy for these summertime blues that I would like to share with Miss Cobbs, the Gamecock staff and the rest of USC. Contrary to appearance, not all student organizations die during the summer. The USC Mountaineering and Whitewater Club is one of these. We are pretty informal during the summer, but we do exist and meet weekly, more for socialization than for business. Through the club you can go camping, backpacking, kayaking, rock climbinff. canneina and white - 07 ~ O ? " water rafting. We take off for the cool environment of the mountains chi many hot weekends. If you can't get away on weekends, we still have many things to do in town. When the moon is full, we take canoes down the Congaree for a fun evening on the river. During the day or after work, we sometimes head out for an exciting Whitewater trip on the Saluda River. On Wednesday nights, we head over to one of our coaches' house to climb on an artificial rock wall, plan trips, socialize and relax at these weekly meetings. (j()(jk -BUT T??fiNlT?tY $0>MEO>ME WHO WL . ,jpEFENP THE GAINS'k have mape in civil r RIGHTS - GAINS THA HAVE MAPE VS> MORt OgMAVgE -fcPLBgAMT A^A AH^ANC WATIOA rr.^i, UCV< oolitics nn R politics, I ee" has be- . , Tige ldment, we 1 our politi- ^ k. We have *4mJXi Mt8BBt&&SB? jftMrrer -* one corner ppwBWlit ^ other one. nore, Repu- Since the war, no one ta ind George dent's domestic policy, or i gan was in 0f jf Kuwaitis wanted inde ey that we ai-e ^ey stip under a monan pay for it Why didn't we do some of foreign- when Chinese students wen 5 today. aren't we helping Croatian He's a re- their fight for independen< ^ he was in back Lithuania, Latvia, Geo im an hon- tried to secede from the Sov Why aren't the Democra e is a guy these questions? e troops to The Democrats, I'm sorr itizens sub- a uttle bit better. They have i't do jack Weak presidential candidates who want ting tired of that. The Democrats need to light in the dishing out the hits. I wish -very folly, all the times I've heard peq ; more than thing the Democrats ar< House." I think I could eras* TO THE EDITOl Membership for the whole sum- hi mer is only $10, which permits ac- ol cess to our extensive line of equip- cl ment^which includes boats, tents, th climbing gear and more. Your ban- bi dits also include expert instruction fc in any of the aforementioned w sports by experienced club mem- n< bers as well as discounts from a local outdoor stores. Most impor- ri tant, however, is the fact that the M club opens up many opportunities w for you to challenge yourself and HI meet interesting people. di For more information about the ri Mountaineering and Whitewater W Club, as well as other active sports Je clubs, please contact Campus Re ^cation in tsiaii f.t,. center ai pi 777-5261. I know that there are h< other student organizations plan- sii ning activities as fun as ours this va summer, so track them down! In- W stead of rotting in front of the TV ot this summer, come out and try an exciting new sport or just escape ne the heat with us! in Stephanie B. Simonson ne Marine geology junior in he Writer needs m intelligence % To the editor: mi Millions of U.S. troops died in an battle to preserve the freedom W which allows whiny brats like Mr. sh Tige Watts to sound-off in his col- th: umn "This coming July Fourth na means nothing to me." to Ac a nrr*ff? eeinnol urritor T tif> *>W M ^/1 VIVJtJIUllUl nlllVl) uv should refrain from acknowledging in such a weak editorial from a rank na amateur, but my duty as a Carolina bu student, a South Carolinian and an rai American compels me to reply. di: Mr. Watts most likely does not understand words like "duty." de But there is a lot Mr. Watts does cri not understand. Reading his col- ta: umn, I do not think Mr. Watts jol understands anything about the le: principles and concepts of politics th< in the U.S., and he does not under- pr stand the words he uses: the word R( "liberal," for instance. thi Our forefathers were "liberal" pr because they wanted to change inj from a monarchist government to the democracy and freedoms we ab i [ QQCOC : A CP V _ ri'p ?\ >w at all ti ?? My reme candidate?! WATTS ferable. Jes bone but i president? This part try to be J1 years ago. character. A ilks about the Presi- in^ 13X68 0 rather the lack there dale)! Even spendence, then why up in convei :hist's rule? Back to tl thing two years ago seeing 88-y< e being killed? Why was flipping s and Slovenians in of days age :e? Why didn't we time to see rgia, etc., when they bill. Paraph] iet Union? these restrici ts pressing Bush for their job. If do what the] y to admit, are only I wonder had six consecutive in Cayce or ! and people are get- say) the Wc King's heac stand up and start Southwest v I had a quarter for and a cub sc pie say, "It's a good You kno1 in't in the White some great 5 the national debt. videotape. T R - i ii we today (freedom of worship, F speech ...). They did not want lange for change's sake. Once eir ideals and government system scame an establishment, the rnnding fathers' philosophies ere considered conservative, as }w. If President Jefferson could )me back, he would slap unpatotic and ungrateful wimps like It. Watts around. Jefferson also ould be considered a populist, bertarian conservative (sorry, I tdn't mean to send Mr. Watts inning to the dictionary). Mr. ^atts, you're no Thomas fferson. Mr. Watts feels he needs to be otected from government. Again, i shows his failure to grasp inpie political concepts, ^.onseritives are against big government here did Mr. Watts get any idea herwise? In any case, government is pessary. In Governor Campbell's augural address, he explained the led for government: "the overridg purpose for government is to ilp people help themselves ... to ;gresslvely create opportuni... to discourage independent inative and discourage debilitating pendency." From ignorance, Mr. Watts oves to character assassinations, id he calls the Republicans in the hite House "stupid." While owing off his penchant for using is two-syllable word indiscrimitely, he turns a blind eye to hisry. The last Democratic presiint, while certainly a noble and tP.lliffP.nt man Kalna/1 ctAAf ttiA UVl^/W JkVVl MIV tion to massive inflation rates, lilt a huge, ineffective bureauczy in Washington and was very sliked by the American public. The last two Republican presints brought down inflation, insased the GNP, lowered adjusted ices and increased the number of bs for Americans, among countss other achievements. In turn, zy are two of the most popular esidents in history. In one year, ?gan got 8 million letters from e public, more than any other esident, and Bush's approval ratg hovers near 90 percent. Mr. Watts does not have a clue out the subjects he tries so limp Wednesday, July 10> (Fl (WW 1 m wmL. . ime low dy for their problem ? get a strong 3ne who has a spine would be prese Jackson has a very strong backs he capable of being the 42nd y needs to stop getting people who TC, the style that went out over 25 Look for freshness, charisma and Jid for JFK's sake, don't have raisn your platform (e.g. Walter Monthough it's a constant, don't bring it rsation. he Republicans, I'm getting tired of sar old senators talking nonsense. I ; through the cable stations a couple > and I stopped at C-Span just in Strom Thurmond support the crime asing him, "We need to get rid of tions limiting policemen from doing they suspect a crime, they should / feel is best." if Strom has ever been pulled over if he saw (as Dave Bowden might >rld Cup Soccer game with Rodney 1. Let's not foreet the euv in the _ c:' o ? /ho was tag-teamed by a policeman out. tv, American politics would make footage for the blooper and follies oo bad, we have to put up with it wristedly to cover. The ignorance, poor writing style and complete cynicism that come from his benumbed little brain are an embarrassment to the paper and to the university. He wants to speak for Jefferson, a conservative model, and yet he knows nothing about ; Jefferson. As founder of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jeffer son very much believed in education. Mr. Watts, get yourself one. tuiwara L. Ingram Ad/PR senior New justice is step forward To the editor: The 1960s brought the most dra- ? matic advances in civil rights since the Reconstruction. No one can deny the significance or the morality of ending legal segregation, the American apartheid. 1991 will set the tone for the future of civil rights in the United States with the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court During the 1970s and 1980s, the notion that affirmative action programs could be effective took hold. Such programs were implemented on a large scale. Unfortunately, not only were these programs largely uneffective, but they helped to 1 rlimatA Q Am p wuiscai ui& latiai v/v>?v whites who are resentful of minorities feel that affirmative acfion and set-aside programs squeeze them out of opportunities they would otherwise have had, while some minorities are beginning to wonder if they are deserving of the progress they make, or if they are being moved along by the system. That every person in America deserves an equal opprtunity is obvious, but Judge Thomas presents a different way of achieving this laudable goal than those who attack him: ensure equality by aggressively prosecuting individual cases of discrimination, and preserve harmony by setting no group above another. The 1990s can be the decade that civil rights are extended to all Americans, forever. Think about it ...... Michael Barton International studies senior