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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.
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' 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
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| 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:
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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.
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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
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World War Jl
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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- .
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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 ^ ^
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'92 Democrats:
no possibility Stthe
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To the editor:
This is in response to the ramblings
written by Mr. Mantler ab- Mechs
Friday, November 15, 1991
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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
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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