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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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.
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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