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Secession Coastal Carolina has reason to leave the USC system Fort Sumter revisited. In the time-honored spirit of South Carolinian independence, USC's Coastal Carolina branch is thinking nf spri???ir>n i? thp sprnnH hiaopct ramnns in thp TT5IP system, behind only USC-Columbia, and is the fastest growing of any system campus. Sitting only ten miles from the Grand Strand, it is easy to figure out why Coastal is becoming so popular. But why secede from the USC system? At first glance; Coastal would seem to be shooting itself in the foot by leaving the aegis of the mother campus. However, USC-Columbia's poor treatment of Coastal ? and the other regional campuses ? has long been a subject of controversy, and if President Palms doesn't change that attitude soon, Coastal may soon leave the fold. USC-Columbia treats the regional campuses more like colonies than smaller partners. To use the USC name and utilize USC services, all system schools have to pay user's fees. The regional campuses have little control over how this "tribute" is spent. Faculty salaries at system schools lag behing those at the main campus. In addition, new buildings and structural improvements are hard to come by through the USC bureaucracy. io aaa insult to injury, u^u-uoiumoia snows its contempt ior the system campus curriculum by making it very difficult for students to transfer credits from a regional campus to USC- " Columbia. If USC is truly one big system, why do classes at the regional campuses not count equally? The main campus administration stonewalls any attempts by the other USC schools to improve themselves. Coastal has been ag- s gressively expanding, despite Columbia's road-blocks. For exam- ^ pie, USC-Columbia tried hard to keep Coastal from adding a graduate degree program. Columbia has not fully supported this ini- ai tiative; however, Coastal will try to offer master's degrees starting le in 1993. Coastal Carolina is a good school, and judging by last year's ^ season, has a better basketball team than USC-Columbia. If Presi- a dent Palms doesn't get rid of the master-slave mentality his pre- 01 decessor had for the system colleges, other schools may follow the c, lead of USC-Florence (which is now Francis Marion College) and get out. pi ' P" (XHJ&Z t MPE&TAMP <tZVR EN6U?>^, W = 1 i hz.pf2&>\penr... ivo ?*ip iou to make. i hi > 1./1TW itzoaci j f a i . -st Peace m M.i^e*st. is BGAMECOTK1 I! News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 David Bowden e] Editor in Chief ci fa Tige Watts Aaron Sheinin v* t\lmA>c J?/1it/->r f~*/ir/i/iH/i J if* Vs1its-,w St Rich Taylor Daniel Barabas m Sports Editor Graphics Editor si Julie Bouchillon Photo Editor ol Jennifer Jablonski at Copy Desk Chief c* as Q Laura S.Day Ray Burgos ri Production Manager Assistant Production Manager si Renee a. Gibson Carolyn Griffin n( Advertising Manager Business Manager tu Erik Collins s} tii Faculty Adviser ^ nc Letters Policy: The Gamecock wW 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 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 p] not withhold names under any circumstance. T1 mike J| Xq NO MONEY-. P Nf THEV P)P <5IV^ f/| A FEW <3F THE Iffl 1 MA6IC PEAN ijwm 5eople don't A great tragedy took place Friday night in arasota, Fla. Pee Wee Herman was arrested for idecent exposure of a sexual organ. An even greater tragedy took place Saturday id Sunday. Pee Wee Herman's arrest was the ad story for many newspapers. How can a man who's been arrested for getng it on with his hand make the front page of newspaper while the mutilation of 14 bodies ily gets page eight coverage? I guess that's the way we press operate. But m we really blame the press? The functions of the press is to inform the ublic and make some money. We give the iiblic the news they want to hear. I'm sorry to say that Pee Wee playing with is pee wee is more important than the crumling of the Communist Party in the Soviet Un>n. At least it is to the average Joe. With thp invpntinnc nf TV and radir* mnrp ^ople want to be entertained. That's logical, ut along with their desire for entertainment 3mes their apathy towards "real news." How many times has the President come on V for an address during "The Cosby Show" id you've shaken your fist at him? No one cares anymore about news. Only 57% F the population reads a newspaper everyday, f that total, almost 85% of them are above the of 35. tank scandal The controversy over the Bank of Credit and ommerce International (BCCI) has been called e biggest scandal in American history since ew Coke. BCCI tried to take over First merican Bank in Washington in a veil of seccy. BCCI launders money for some of the ost crooked people in the world, and First merican knew it. So did high-ranking officials the Carter administration. Obviously, this news is music to the ears of ongressmen, reporters and Republicans. Conessmen will be shooting themselves over who :ads the Select Congressional Sub-Committee 1 "Launder-gate," or whatever other idiotic ime they give to this fiasco. Reporters all see llitzers and book-deals dancing before their res. Republicans are just glad this scandal >esn't affect them much, for once. There is a lot of blame to go around, how LETTERS TO 1 Abortion right S" v . . is not froze nust be kept ^y, * abortion r: . not worry 3 the editor: turned if The recent letter to the editor . . titled "New nominee good mice" of 8-17-91 by Rick O'Neil tiled on a number of accounts. . . fhat Mr. O'Neil does not under- S1 ua on' 2 and, or neglects to articulate, is 2 at the appointment of Judge Tho- "' . as puts much more at stake than . P irvival of Roe v Wade. the deter. rights. What concerns me more, how- It is the rer, is Mr. O'Neil's invalidation tution and r Roe v Wade on the basis that sions, hov jortion rights are not found expli- that could tly in the Constitution. I have to mass opini isume that, as a law student, Mr. abortion a 'Neil knows that a number of one of th( ghts that most Americans con- that cannoi der Constitutionally protected are when the >t stated explicitly in the Consti- sees fit. ition. The Constitution itself ates in the Ninth Amendment at just because the Constitution is enumerated certain rights, does ? )t mean others should be denied. A.133.1 For example, the right to choose * spouse is not stated explicitly, Oil IV it has been deemed a right to be J rotected by the Constitution. To the edit< herefore, I can only conclude that Mr. Johi [r. O'Neil is using his legal edu- 17 letter ci care about 're M'-' TlGE WATTS f 1 Newspapers aren't the only ones hurting. If CBS, NBC, and ABC did not have news services, people really wouldn't care. Maybe FOX would be wise not to invest into a network news show. The lack of interest has made newspapers pander to "sensational" news. No one cares about how many first place awards the USC ac<->ruinrinfT firm hi)? won Rut rvnnlp cum wonlH like to know how much money Holderman spent for his intern's bathrobes. Yesterday's lead story in The State was about ] Di and Charles' 10th wedding anniversary. { Who gives a flying $%&! if they've been mar- ] ried 10 years. Where was the story about Yelt- . sin being invited to the Moscow Summit? I guess it wasn't important enough. When the "Justify My Love" video was the t leading story on Nightline, more people i watched that show than ever before. And then < good for explo: Davip bowden ' 1 ever. The CIA was involved with BCCI, which puts that agency in some dubious company. < BCCI was the bank of choice for a who's who \ of creeps, including Saddam Hussein, Ferdinand Marcos, Manuel Noriega, Abu Nidal, the Colombian drug cartel and, for all we know, that \ guy from Milwaukee. 1 Knowing the federal government, the tax- ( payers will end up paying for a Special Prose- \ cutor who will investigate BCCI for years and j HE EDITOR istort reality to meet his for lifting sanctions agaii Constitution, like life, Africa, notes that "De B n in time. said that even after aparth O'Neil's argument that is not going to be a 'one-r ights advocates should vote democracy. While if Roe v Wade is over- that South Africa "is stil a "wide majority of country, unfree and undei support abortion . -by modern Western stai c and insulting. It mini- am skeptical that a one-m; 5 gravity of the current sive), one-vote policy w< ind the battles that will damentally change : rery state throughout the injustice, e appeals to the idea of on as a proper forum for For his part, Nelson nination of individual while urging just such a repeatedly emphasizes th function of the Consti- majority rule would not 1 I Supreme Court deci- "dictatorship of the m /ever, to protect rights Mandela hopes to reas be put in jeopardy by white countrymen that th ion. The right to choose as individuals and as s a right to privacy is would be safeguarded, )se rights. It is a right through constitutional che< t be called into question the overbearing will of I sentiment of the times majority ? a clear refer* South Africa would not b Evelyn Louise Allen Northern Ireland (prior t Public health student dissolution of the Stormo ment) or Israel. . White South Africai rtneia wot p?*nt i?111686 nations as 1 of majority rule compli Problem vorced from any no 1"^ democracy ? where fun or: human and civil rights are ti Babalola, in his July large segment of the p( iticizing President Bush that fails to meet religiou al' news to further show how bad it was, they had a fiveminute follow-up on developments in the Gulf. Thus, Madonna being Madonna was more important than the Gulf. Sin and sex are two definites to selling newspapers. People can't get enough of it (obviously . Pee Wee can't either). Along with apathy to news comes apathy to political ideas. Political correctness is a hot topic nationwide on college campuses. The Gamecock has run only one column about the topic and then no letters to the editors were written in response. The Gamecock has, however, run numerous letters to the editors about religion, homosexuality, and animal rights with more stacked up r _ i r! n _ - 4^ +W/% LOr a ooniire. oo, are you saying iu uic press that animal rights are more important than political correctness? Even USC President John Palms was amazed his campus is not hot on the topic of political correctness. He's said people have asked him how we're reacting to it but he can't tell them anything. Granted different topics have different imporance to different people. But shouldn't univerjal topics also have universal importance to everyone? itative news finally bring up charges on two low-ranking officials for jay-walking. We can all thank the Gods that no grand-standing Lieutenant Colonel has come out of the wood-work to cry on TV. Unfortunately, many careers will be destroyed and reputations sullied in this mess. So vhat? We don't know these guys! And anyway, jheir ruined, wretched lives make good copy, ralking about BCCI has killed a great deal of space for journalists around the country, including myself. This is a juicy story, and I'm sure we will all )e sick of it in the coming months. Let's just lope we don't find out profits from BCCI iidn't get diverted to any Central American re)el groups or used to hire Cubans to break into mybody's campaign headquarters. That's blase. mmmmmmmmrnimmmmmi ' Bin H | %' %v ss-:-v | - i . n n 1111111 t t i - '" i ist South cial criteria. In fact, the racist erk has Zionist and Apartheid legal struceid, there tures are closely modeled on Britnan, one- ish 'security' laws for Northern i I agree Ireland. 1 a racist The empowered whites of South mocratic" Africa suffer from a "siege" menndards, I tality, i.e., they feel surrounded by an (inclu- hordes of uncivilized blacks who auld fun- wmilri run riot if nnt viailantlv societal suppressed. Similar rationale guides Ulster Protestants (engulfed in a sea of Catholic inquisitioners), Mandela, Israeli Jews (besieged by unl change, washed Arab masses) and even at black- Americans (the Communist conspi3ecome a racy!) in supporting brutal and milajority." itant policies. Overcoming the sure his fears underlying repressive actions eir rights is beyond the scope of sanctions or a group force (as was used against Iraq), largely hut requires consistent confidencecks, from building measures, the black South Africa is slowly moving ;nce tnat in tne direction ot democracy. Litte another ing sanctions now may indeed hino British der further reform, but both blacks nt parlia- and whites must eventually agree on how to live together constructs often tively and peacefully through politexamples ical and economic power-sharing, etely di- And since majority rule is no guartion of antee of democracy, South Afridamental cans must struggle with whether denied a democracy always entails one ipulation man-one vote, s and ra- John R. Hanson