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Homecoming Events surrounding this activity just not worth money and effort Finally, after a week of really exciting homecoming events that made our cup runneth over with that old-time Carolina spirit, it must be said that Homecoming Week is nothing but a waste of money. The absence of the Homecoming Queen, the fraternity boycott of floats, the rain-filled day that drowned out the organizational carnival, the sparse student attendance at the Homecoming game and that video dance party capped off a boring week that made studying for mid-terms seem exciting. Sure, the Comedy night was impressive and the .magic show was stunning, but the overall week was a complete dud. First of all, the removal of the traditional Homecoming Queen from the week's activities was like removing the Midway from the State Fair. Who cares what controversy it brings? One of the only reasons Homecoming Week is created is to finish with the crown ing ot a queen. Without it, there is nothing to look forward to end the week with. And replacing the queen by presenting silver bowls at halftime really united the campus together. It is surprising that the crowd at Williams-Brice Stadium didn't hold hands together in unison. Secondly, the washed-out carnival last Wednesday that was moved to the Russell House ballroom was almost as thrilling as watching grass grow. The three floats that did enter the float competition really made the Carolina community proud. Lastly, the Saturday dance party that brought a mere 400 students to the Coliseum to eat crackers and cheese didn't bring in the sizable crowd it could have. After all, there are 25,000 students in this university. All in all, the $14,000 budget allotted to Homecoming activites could easily be used to fill in the endless amount of dirt patches around the campus. The money being used to help bring the Carolina Community together is just not worthy of our time. Of course, the students that prepared, participated and worked hard on the events should be commended, and the students that enjoyed some of the activites should be happy. The old saying "Make the best of a bad situation" certainly applies here. But it seems such a pity that the best part of Homecoming Week is the end of it. | PRESS BUTTON TO | m view -me. b-2. I 'STEALTH" BOMBER. I t \ , \ / NOW PRESS THE BUTTON \ ' J ALAIN FOR A REAL CUMPSCl OF HOW THE BOMBER A i..~? ACTUALLY APPEARS 8?^ ^ FORE THE SENATE ARMEB / Hf/iliI ' . _ ^SERVICES COMMITTEE..^ J/M HA HA AS >00 CAN SEC, \ ! I] APPEARS ON THE SCREEN I 1 1THIS IS TO MAKE A POINT X/ ' NXV^a k~-g0'JT" "mC RCW&cg3 r [H,np MfVlia VK eS ^ 1 GAMECOCK News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 . Chris Silvestri Editor in Chief David bowden Brant Long ! 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An address I 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 1 not withhold names under any circumstance. h * [ (sHrcc/TN I / 'n MN 3ut I ) dot"-S it ) . lQ1 I i i II AIDS test Would you go to a doctor that with HIV (the AIDS virus). Probably not. Why not? Probabl you're scared. What if that doctor your family physician for the last Would you stop going to him or he Most likely. Dennis Shealy wrote a for The Gamecock urging mandatory ing for all health care workers (Mor 30, 1991). He thinks we have the right to ki doctors and dentists are infected. On the surface, without considerin sequences of such a policy, his posi legitimate ? which is exactly wh like his are so dangerous! Unfortunj Americans don't know many of the HIV/AIDS, but for right now, educa best weapon against the spread of boi HIV-related hysteria. FACT: 191,601 persons in the been diagnosed as having AIDS, anc tive estimates are that at least one m pie are infected with HIV. Among million are people from all walks < eluding doctors, dentists and other ] workers. Yet Dr. David Acer (Kimberly Ber tist) was the first health care worker, years that the virus has been present ii to be "accused" of infecting son patients. Acer was practicing as an HIV po< tist with the full knowledge and conse be AMA and the ADA. These natior nations know that doctor-patient trans : : i Legal abortion helps women To the editor: I am writing once again in response to Brian McCarter's column on abortion. I want to express my appreciation to Mr. McCarter that he upgraded the term proabortion to pro-legal abortion and upgraded people who support a woman s right to choose trom mass murderers of widows and orphans to people who shoot their neighbors for playing the stereo too loud. There were, however, a few points which I think are still worth clarifying. A woman's right to choose sexual freedom or abstinence. I do not support abortion as a method of birth control. However, even the most effective forms of birth control can fail. Does this mean that a woman must abstain from sex because there is a chance she may become pregnant? Would you say . that a man who is fertile and heterosexual must abstain from sex because there is a chance he might impregnate a woman? Somehow I doubt it The simple truth of the matter is that it requires sex between a male and a female to cause pregnancy. ideally, 11 snouia oe tnp responsibility of both parties, but most often the burden and the decision lies on the woman. That decision is hard enough; it shouldn't be illegal too. What so many anti-legal abortionists fail to consider is that a woman faced with an unwanted pregnancy will terminate it. A woman does not ask to become pregnant and then have an abortion. Perhaps she was young and uneducated, perhaps her other birth control failed, perhaps she was raped. Before the 1972 Roe v. Wade decision, rich women bribed American doctors or flew to Europe. That was a small percentage. Millions of women ? married and single ? used coat hangers or knitting needles, douched with gar -.1 1 f...And j-f youif Card _o o_ A "t"W TWd Tues-Uy you o> o \ a?:d t?.cclv<i A stc?t+ o 0 , > 43 \iS cVKxn^-f d evc?y 17.5 r > o /H?$P\Of cootiv c? * o n^N?V;w s ! -vB y/^ |i- 5 ' ollegcg j ' 00 F ToO^H I i _'^P: >easioN$ I j , ing unfair is infected y because Cathy I had been 10 years? r anyway? Guest E n editorial fflV testlday, Sept sur.h a minimal riclr whi are followed, that there now if our danger. The Center for Disea ig the con- have not yet proven the tion seems sion, but have emphasi y columns ment sterilization technii itely, most is entirely possible that facts about fected individual, and in tion is our sterilized instruments or h HIV and if universal precautions transmission would have U.S. have FACT: The risk of < I conserva- sion is minute, even sr lillion peo- patient-doctor transmissi these one if mandatory testing i of life, in- care workers, then they tiealth care mand, and just as unnect ing for potential patients galis' den- already bad enough ? in the 14 ory testing for everyone (i the U.S., FACT: HIV can be t tie of his gnant woman to her un sex or sharing injectior jitive den- someone who is infected nt of both Mr. Shealy wrote, 4T lal organi- that a health care profes mission is job or be forced to wor j-ETTERS TQi soline or ethyl alcohol or took pills. duck-aney aooruon cnnics were a thriving business for med-school dropouts, butchers and veterinarians. Women were tied down and restrained, men often copping a feel or two, using instruments that were rusty or caked with blood. How can you claim to hold life in high regard when you're willing to subject women to that? The luckiest women survived, usually sterile; those not so lucky bled to death in bathrooms, bedrooms and city parks. Unwanted pregnancies and abortion are part of the imperfection of an imperfect world. Illegalizing abortion won't change that. Just because you don't have to look at something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Women who have had abortions know this, but is it that hard a lesson to learn? Darcy Harris English senior Racism hurts all Americans To the editor: Thic 1 ic in rAcnnncA tr? th/? Ainu AVMVI W ui * VJ|/VIIUV IV/ UIV editorials submitted by Robert L. Ellington and Tim Queen. When is our society going to learn that it doesn't matter how racism started or who started it? Who cares? The point is that racism, in fact, does exist and as long as there are people that think like Mr. Queen and Mr. Ellington, it will always exist. Everyone thinks racism is a black and white issue. It's not. Vietnamese despise being called "chinks" just as much as blacks despise being called "nigger" and whites despise the word "honkey." Being racist or prejudice is a matter of personal choice, whether it be about color, religion or even sexual preference. Hey, why don't we have a "Gay Mr. American?" See how stupid that sounds? What the people of this country need to understand is that it is up to our generation to change the if 0 to health a ? expertise if Working out Poland not be a con seropositivity they wouldn' Editorial , ?nceK afai know the fac do, they don' en universal precautions ' ers who are I 5 should have been no practices, be their health se Control investigators housing, fam exact route of transmis- drastic as th zed that Acer's instru- publicly HIV }ues were inadequate. It circumstance: he worked on one in- Shealy als turn used the same un- fee ted should 1 an uninfected patient them as such, had been followed, no mination on occurred. contact with ioctor-patient transmis- sex and shai nailer than the risk of other words, on. your partner is introduced for health don't do dru? have every right to de- tion equipmei jssarily, mandatory test- Health can ! HIV/AIDS hysteria is dents, teachei we don't need mandat- They deserve to make it worse. are not end, ransmitted from a pre- worked in A] born baby and through than a year r i drug equipment with here at USC. surrounding ] m certainly not saying and in colun sional should lose their out the facts, k outside their area of pant AIDS hj THE EDITOR~ way our society is based, and we t can't do that if everyone is arguing t over "who started it." That's not the question. The question is, r "Who's going to finish it?" t Jennifer Rast r Civil engineering sophomore Pirates better than 'Cocks ] 1U U1C CU1LUI. Rich Taylor's October 2 evaluation of the Gamecock football team was generally on target But when Taylor placed the East Carolina football team on the same level with The Citadel, a Division 1-AA school, he made a gross error. Apparently, like other USC fans, Taylor's only knowledge of the Pirates comes from their recent trips to Columbia, where admittedly, they have been repeatedly demolished by the Gamecocks. The games against USC, however, are not indicative of the quality of ECU's program. Over the past four years, ECU has split four games with Virginia Tech, the same team that annually gives the Gamecocks fits. This year's team came within a touchdown and an official's blunder of defeating an Illinois team that crusnea Houston M-iu. ine toilowing game the Pirates defeated Memphis State, which easily handled the USC Trojans. Robert Jones, ECU's star linebacker, in addition to being a preseason Ail-American, is a finalist for both the Butkus and Lombardi trophies. Jones will be a certain a NFL first round draft pick; further- ^ more, tight end Luke Fisher will ^ probably be selected in the initial 11 round. Is there one Gamecock se- ^ nior on this year's squad who has ^ even a remote chance of being v chosen in the first round? c Moreover, quarterback Jeff Blake had a top 10 NCAA rating a even before Saturday's contest. s The 31-20 score was no fluke. It was not lack of execution or men- ^ tal toughness on the part of the Gamecocks. Unlike previous years, BIFF' (collets dude) ly BtN Reep 1^1 workers they prove to be HIV positive." side their area of expertise would sideration, because once their HIV r was announced, chances are that t have any patients left n, the American public does not ts of HIV transmission (or, if they t believe them). Health care workilV positive could easily lose their ostracized in the communities, lose insurance and possibly even their ilies and friends. Unfortunately, as at sounds, many people who are positive find themselves in these 5. o suggested persons who are in. TTV 1 1 --. *1 1 * * we<u on lu uraeeiei mat laenimes . Would you wish the above discrianyone? The only real danger of an HIV infected person is through ing injection drug equipment! In don't have sex (or if you do, know well and use a latex condom) and is (or if you do, don't share injecit). ? workers are people, just like sturs, lawyers, bankers or journalists. "" ? privacy, like everyone, and they * angering their patients. I have [DS education for more 1 iow, in addition to being a^student Daily, I see the ignorance and fear ttIV and AIDS, at work, at school ins like Mr. Shealy's. Please find and don't add to the already ramfsteria. he Pirates were simply the better Qom Chronicle, 2. listen to Rush Limaugh, 3. get a life. William Broome Conservative freshman MUlIt Finally, for Rich Taylor's infornation, the Pirates have won three >owl games. Can USC make a sinilar claim? Greg Massey History graduate student 1 Writer shows his intelligence To the editor: Fire Tige Watts. Everytime "I read one of his articles, I want to vomit. He is a pompous, arrogant md opinionated columnist. That's ill he'll ever be. I don't think he could ever be a reporter. Tige "Besiege" Watts is the biggest rightwing liberal on campus. His view in "Hells' Bells" shows what a close-minded, unself-assured, incompetent person he is. Of course, columnists voice heir opinions in articles, but his is such as Tige would like to think, a rery strong out aiso a more onen;ive opinion. His issue on the defense plan of George Bush just ihows people how naive he really s. Come on Tige, the world is ight around the comer from total ind complete world peace? If hat's correct, I've got some >cean-front property in Arizona I'd ike to sell you. Of course, Tige, or you, I'd sell it cheap. I vouldn't want anybody to think I vas a conservative trying to make ny living off the poor. Mr. Watts, do you actually beieve world peace can be estabished with Hussein, Gorbachev ,nd Khadaffi still in power? Yes, lorbachev. Do you really believe ie is all that good? These past tionths in the Soviet Union have ieen their worst ever. While Gorge's country was crumbling, he yas traveling around the world exepting peace prizes and such. To improve your very opinionted ways, I suggest 3 things: 1. ubscribe to the Conservative