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2 Drugs FDA finally g over testing f The Food and Drug . Wednesday by speeding i treatment of fatal disease ment, AIDS sufferers had cine not approved in Ami the HIV virus. U.S. bureaucratic lethai of many AIDS patients ; Mexico or Canada to get federal government defies have harmful side effects the first place, how harmfi Now die FDA has final ing the amount of time b United States. This shorte for drugs used in the treat cancer. This is intelligent, test drugs that are of less i Amazingly, some Cong Ted Kennedy) complainec they rather have AIDS p; that may or may not have at the door, Teddy, this doing right. As a side note, it is ini improvement the week fol Maybe Magic's brave star ment AIDS policy. iGAM ' News: 777-7726 Chi h David Bowdep Managing Editor/Viewpoir Tige Watts News Editor Aaron Sheinin Sports Editor Patrick Villegas Asst. News Editor amy barcomb Asst. Carolina Life Editor Virginia Marshall Asst. Copy Desk Chief Wayne Williams Comics Editor y Si Renee a. Gibson Asst. Media DirectorIAdverti Stacie Lewis Asst. Advertising Manager Erik Collins Faculty Adviser Laf Asst. C Letters Policy: The Gamecock will ti maximum. 250 to 300 words long. Tt a USC employee or South Carolina i and phone number are required wi to edit letters for style, possible libel not withhold names under any circ ets wise to concerns or AIDS medication Administration ended its foot-draggii ip its process for approving drugs for ti :s such as AIDS. Before this announc I to go to foreign countries to get med erica that would help slow the spread i -gy might have contributed to the deat] who could not afford a jaunt down ; treatments. The reasoning used by tl 5 logic: an improperly-tested drug cou . However, if the drug-taker is dying ul could the drug be? ly caught up with public demand, redu efore a drug is approved for sale in tl tned processing time is only applicab ment of fatal illnesses such as AIDS ar Now more FDA staffers can be used 1 mmediate importance, ressmen (such as the ubiquitous Senat( I about the new FDA guidelines. Woul itients die than allow them a treatmei harmful side effects? Leave the politic is one thing the federal government i eresting that the FDA has initiated thi lowing Magic Johnson's announcemen iH Vl QO <?% /*?? iv* Iiuo uiiV/UVijr Iiau Oil lllipavi ill ^UVCIIJ [ECOCK Advertising: 777-4249 ms sllvestri Editor in Chief Brant Long \t Editor Copy Desk Chief Tracey Davis Carolina Life Editor Teddy Lepp Photography Editor Gordon Mantler Asst. News Editor Rich Taylor Asst. Sports Editor Greg Rickabaugh Asst. Photography Editor Eric Glenn ^VhJ BRITT Darkroom Technician 'aff Cartoonist Laura S.Day sing Manager Production Manager Ray Burgos Asst. Production Manager Carolyn Griffin Business Manager \\ Chapman lassified Manager ry to print all letters received. Letters should be, at ie writer must include full name, professional title if esident, or year and major if a student. An address th all letters sent. The Gamecock reserves the right or in case of space limitations. The newspaper will umstance. View] iUEm Re a ig X he J 11/ i 6 h A I E M to >r id it Fij is t. Ltmmmmmmm?mmmmrnmmmm ? N >. La- L< I Gr *Ue / ' Duke prod With all the hoopla over the Louisiar 7/ natorial race, I'm really not surprised th /- Duke has gone as far he has. f You know what? I hope David Di * the election just to slap every apathetic _ can across the face. We have no one to blame except o jl Duke never should have come this fai 8 in Louisiana have seen his lies bef f they've just turned their back becai I don't care. I wonder if they would ha = back in Berlin, 1939. Humans have this uncanny ability tc much faith in lies and that's what Dav is. He's nothing else but a handsome 1 go ahead and believe he's a "bor | Christian." 1 The day David Duke becomes a 2 Christian is the day when monkeys fly. 3 But look at the other candidate Louisi | Edwin Edwards is not the most moral p / the country. He's been indicted on rack i1 charges. Only in Louisiana, only in America. This is the quality of politics. I or I' 11111 mmmrnmrnmrnmrnirmmmmmmmmmmmm* ?????? ' I | Panhandling S still a crime To the editor: ^ Harassed? Yes, that is what I call the feeling after being asked eight times yesterday, and twice so far today (I am sure I will be asked again) to give change to the Association of Retarded Citizens at the J Russell House courtyard. 1 When I asked a participant if she knew what happened to the money she collected, she replied that it went directly to the charity i organization. When I asked her ^ what they did with it. she said that ~ she did not know, and she never I thought about it. i asked a different participant if t< she knew what panhandling was; she said no. In my frustration I ie told her to "go look it up in a (i dictionary!" lai The university police said the io activities described above were u; legal (let's call it asking for 0f change), and that panhandling was gC not. The difference between pan- ey handling and the asking for change M is that panhandling is done by Sh someone for themselves, and asking for change is done by an orga- se nization chartered by the university Di (in this case). What is going on in in the courtyard is legalized panhan- an dling, legalized by those who br make panhandling illegal for M; others, just because "asking for cai change" makes sense to them. no The word hypocracy comes to foi mind. tal Now, don't get your pantyhose th( up in a wad if you did ask for cai change. Your efforts are admir- brt able, except your choice of action wa is not. If you want to help the re- He tarded, spend a day helping them ] i and their parents. You will gain a lar better understanding of what it is fio poiist: coOK vised A ir>e qpier [ 1 "lerri hUzis, n?/ e.sv robf-Ve. uct of Am la guber- ?? at David fp ? ?? > Ti pp ike wins r? urselves. ^ People , _ _ ore and over 1116 summer 11131 wh jse they P?litics?1 wel1' y?u 1 ve cared n0w is the time to relitics and get back to tl i put too altruism. Our political s; id Duke thing more than a game ie. Sure, viduals who have no sens n-again \ye need to wake up ourselves and who we're reborn can nQ ionger beiieve w proof. ana has. erson in We need to throw oul :eteering and redirect the way our ing people like David Louisiana will only block ice said David Duke will not -ETTERS tH ke to be retarded, a sense of acomplishment and self-worth. I now this because my cousin is seerely retarded, 15-years-old, and ist beginning to speak. I have lived in New York City, fhere the homeless and poor always ask for money in the trans ortation terminals. This is panandling. It is illegal. This type of activity, asking for hange, should be totally exempted om the campus. Leslie J. Finn USC senior Campus cops lot doing job 3 the editor: After reading Richard Conant's tter in Wednesday's Gamecock 1-4), I could do nothing but ugh. It is people like him who ve to paint a false picture of SC being some wonderful haven safety to make himself look od and to pull the wool over the es of the student body. Well, r. Conant, I must agree with Mr. lives. ~ t 1 vii uumciuus uuutsiuns, i nave en university police cars at mkin' Donuts in Cayce, sitting empty parking lots at 12:30 a.m. d driving across the Gervais St. idge towards West Columbia, aybe there is a new extension to mpus across the river that I am t aware of, but I see no reason r our "friendly officers" to be ring university police cars or ;mselves (while on duty) offmpus. So what if they're on *,ak, last time I checked, there is a Dunkin' Donuts in Russell luse. Furthermore, to address the hiity of USC having "friendly ofers," I have (fortunately and sur- I r ricdn History" World War Jl i+ftry Occupied Br mi-? (5 ierican voter his kind. There wil rc \A/attc nin8 for the Senat UL it AI IO We should not stop but we should also through his lies. It's estimated tha of Louisiana will lc _ .. , ? . want that? I think n ien I think of American Du][e has alSQ s cnow' will slash the welfa examine American po- f^ he will cripple ie proper definition of which relies so he* ystem has become no- assistance. Is this th for power-hungry indi- 1 remember wh< ;e of benevolence. asked my teacher 1 and stop and look at P?wer ^nd she had AlAr?tinrr tr\ Wa V6&TS, I lCEITlCd th( VlVVUllg ivy UlilVV. TT V/ hat they say, we need shambles and the ( tional leader. Hitler Duke and Hitler t these power mongers handsome and inspi nation is headed. Hav- in tight races. Hitler Duke as governor of knows by how much ; the progress. Let's not make tl be the only person of duplicate history. THE EDITOR ~ prisingly) dealt with a couple of out ho officers of kind demeanor, but Bill CI more often than not I see them on Mantle some rampant power-trip and have couple not "happily" aided me, a student. to mer And what about efficiency? Two hopeful friends of mine witnessed a female L J< being attacked one night beside sure los Russell House and called the 2. Pa friendly police department By the 3. B time the friendly officer arrived, Debra 1 the guy had dragged the girl off 4. L somewhere and the friendly of- Bentse ficer, who didn't seem too con- can't w cerned, dismissed the attack as 5. Te "domestic violence." guys> le As for the safety programs men- Face tioned by Mr. Conant, while I feel crats c that some of the programs are chance good, I don't think they tell the election whole story and I don't think USC stumble is as safe as he would like us to think. I wonder if Mr. Conant realizes how many people at this uni- n versity abuse their power and dQl choose to be self-serving bureaucrats instead of being concerned II Ot for those they are supposed to serve, the student body, most of To ^ whom are putting paychecks in w their wallets. . . ] So, while Mr. Shives and I are J ^ I11 waiting for our school to be a safe cermng^ place, we will continue to read ab- . 1 * out guys exposing themselves in ofwedi Thomas Cooper Library or the rapes that USC covers up to help ac( enrollment, and we will wear our Nationa IDs around our necks to help the oeiavvai USC friendly officers to happily tions Ql aid us more easily. direct re Brian Poust and a Music education sophomore ^ ^ ditions i '92 Democrats: no possibility Stthe com To the editor: This is in response to the ramblings written by Mr. Mantler ab- Mechs Friday, November 15, 1991 f ft > ^. 07 ? ft ^ I o * apathy 1 be other David Dukes rune and even the presidency, the speech of Duke's ideas, be responsible enough to see t if Duke is elected, the state >se $2 billion. Do the voters ot. aid that if he's elected, he ire budget. By slashing welthe northern part of his state ivily on the government for e man they want? sn I was in third grade. I ?ow Adolf Hitler came into no real answer. Through the 5 German economy was in 3ermans needed an inspirawas that man. are very similar. They are rational and both have been won by only one vote; who i Duke might win. te same mistake. Let's not 1" "i ivi i 11v. i 11 r ' v w either Mario Cuomo or iinton will win in '92. Mr. r, in your haste to choose a of certain losers, you forgot ition the other Democratic Is for '92: jrry "Flake" Brown ? a >er iuI Tsongas ? ditto ob Kerry ? since he lost iVinger, who needs him? ,loyd Bentsen ? Lloyd n! He knows a Democrat in! xl Kennedy ? "It's 2 a.m., it's go have a few drinks." it Mr. Mantler, the Demolon't have a snowball's in Hell of winning the '92 , no matter how bad Bush s. Stephen Edwards History junior iiirrel info : accurate jditor: vould like to express our he recent information connut loss with various memthe squirrel family, re n the "20 Seconds" section lesday's Gamecock. 5 fascinating, it was not ;urate. After contacting the 1 Squirrel Foundation in e and doing a few calculairselves, we have found a lationship between nut loss umber of factors including meter, environmental conind nut properties such as Brinell hardness number >act value. Therefore, by nates, the approximate nut 71.29 percent. Please note action. Spencer Lueders David Owens mical engineering majors