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- > OINT VlEWF Foreign / Western countries dc by helping former Sc Enemy ours ? the former Soviet Ur Our fathers and mothers, older siblin every day of their lives, indirectly or n the monster across the ice that wanted I Billions and billions of dollars. Milli tional energy and consciousness. Our people sacrificed inconceivably. In many ways the genocidal com] based. And though we won the C ourselves and our nemesis. Things got chaotic. The Soviet Uni tf>rpH nlacc thic rv*r?11K1 i/"> rrr?inrr th'jt n;o ivivu glUJO) lllio IV/pUUUV O lllt4L vv w A military coup, nuclear weapons all publics and economic catastrophe. Now the huge bear that we tackled a our help to live. The former republics need food and i make it through the rest of winter, am long run to make their economies viabli And the West is going to give it to alone, and several billion to the other i ing in $5 billion for Russia. The mo approved by Congress. True, it seems hypocritical for them cans have feelings of resentment or un standable and justifiable. But help is our only sane choice. Wc countries in building healthy, viable de two-way. The funding, though, should come 1 budget. America has no new money a mammoth Pentagon spending. Consider the implications of the presi At any moment, ethnic tensions coi intolerance. A war of massive proport; could escalate to the nuclear level. The blood shed, lives destroyed and perhaps The former Soviet Union is like an sealed bottle, and when it hits the air react. It is an abyss of instability and chaos We should remember the lessons of many of the 1930s. Cigarette ads bad for children To the editor: This is in response to the argument in favor of cigarette advertising in the Monday, March 30 Cross Fire column. Tige, advertising and responsibility are certainly related, but not the way you see it. The American Medical Association and Surgeon General Antonia Novello earlier this month demanded that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., voluntarily yank the 'spokesperson' (Old Joe, in the Camel advertising campaign) from all advertising and promotions for Camel cigarettes. It comes three months after the Journal of the American Medical Association published several studies claiming Old Joe encourages children to smoke. These studies were scrutinized by a bigger than usual set of panelists of the Journal (which has a 90 percent rate of rejection for research paper submissions). Other re kid Chris Marim ling right be?ng met Union care? first. lion. fgs and friends spent part of ot, fighting the evil empire, to devour us. ons of labor hours. Our na- , J The threat was our focus. A petition was economically old War, we bankrupted on cracked apart like sliatly, that one going this way. over the place, warring reDu nd drove a spear into needs Confi it all. Th medicine in the short run to d adivce and money in the Lai them, $24 billion to Russia chjne epublics. America is pitch- ment ney has been requested or three, a bea to even ask, and if Ameri- thing willingness they are under- Sei latest j should assist the fledgling hims< mocracies. The benefits are not k Be Tom the shrinking military best nd absolutely no need for more rated int situation. prov< lid escalate to the level of year' ions could erupt. That war versa results could be American Suard the environment, too. i unexposed chemical in a no one knows how it will . Thin ice. history. Consider the Ger- D !E AT LAST?wh|f &'W year riwvC aith v * start* 3\ ? \ How 11-1 and 3 But cruit . ^ ; search studies at universities across the country have shown that the Old Joe campaign appeals much more to children than to adults, and encourages smoking among children younger than 18 years old. Even a 7-year-old kid remembered the advertisement with Old Joe. So you think a kid that age should be considered responsible, and largely answerable to her/his actions? Next, you point the finger at parents. The point however, is that the Old Joe campaign is being widely criticized (for targeting children) by the media, health professionals and a government agency. While Dr. Novello cannot forcibly make R.J. Reynolds stop its Old Joe campaign, it is noteworthy that for the first time such a consensus has emerged against a cigarette campaign. It is a complex situation, one without a simplistic explanation. Your didatic shower over responsibility, to parents and individuals, is rather misplaced. Yes, advertisers can make money, but not through subliminal and deceptive advertising that entices not just adults, Question: Do you think 1 Mixon Angie Sh e science major Biology r yeah. We have to stop "Yes I c< the policeman for the too man) world. We have to take to deal \ >f our problems at home giving m tries, ^ ourselves SP* Cross Duke will win I ke, the best team in the Atlantic Coast jrence, and the NCAA, is going to win { AGAIN. c e Blue Devils will look to the leader- )f senior co-captains Christian Laettner a Irian Davis. r ettner is a 6-foot-11 basketball ma- who is now the top NCAA tournascorer of all time. He can shoot the 1 make the easy hook and rebound like s st ... come to think of it, is there any- s that this guy can't do? s mor forward Davis has become Duke's j scoring threat. He has taken it upon y df to assure that the Blue Devils will ^ )se* a sides the two seniors Duke has the supporting cast in the nation. Sopho- 11 guard Grant Hill is the most under- t< Blue Devil. Not only is he athletic, 1 tn by his tremendous dunk in last t< s championship game, but he is also tile, as seen when he played point Is i in nODDy Hurley s absence. 1 Michigan obvi incinnati and the guess who? ' oubt it. diana with Bobby Knight and his bull : )? < X) corny. ' uke with the big baby(faced) Allricans? < Imost, but not quite. ichigan and the Fab 5? < ou bet! 1 lese five young gentlemen, who last were playing for state championships ' eir respective high schools, have really I zd to work like a fine-tuned machine. < ' good are they playing, you ask? Try 1 when all five freshman are starting, riding a seven-game winning streak. ( what can you expect from a dream re- < ing class? hy do I think the Wolverines could and 1 ably should win the NCAA Tourna- : l this weekend? Here are just a few { 1 reasons: t ley have the best backup center in the lA in Eric Riley. The man has played three years and has plenty of ( Make Your Inte The Gamecock is the student nevvsf serve you, the students. If you have topics you iiiuik. uie papci i.mi i tuvt interests known by sending us a leti want to hear from you. Really. but also nascent and impressionabl minds of children. Anupam Tewai Advertising graduate studer Minorities need their own press A To the editor: I would like to make a suggestion t many of the people who are conceme with free expression on campus. Recently there has been difficult with the notion of funding for an ethni minority's club, or association, activi ties. Many of the questions boil dow to semantics and word versions of thi or that statistic. The fact that writer and editors of ethnicity other than th (minority) group represented handl most of the reportage, is a compromis to the pluralized expression of th ethnic minority. Would the Kurds want Saddam ti speak for them at the United Nations Arabs for Israelis? And on and on fo the United States spends t I altnn Aliria Aniline najor Art Design it ?rtainly do. We have "Yes. I dor r domestic problems should be h vith, and instead of countries wt oney to other coun- if not biggei we should help here at home s Fir^ tourney, again And speaking of Hurley, the 6-foot poini ;uard is the general of the Blue Devil powerhouse. Hurley can run the floor and has a l-point shot that Duke can count on. He ilso set the NCAA tournament career assisl ecord with 108 during Duke's victory ovei >eton Hall. Indiana has another Hill to climb. Junior Thomas Hill is Duke's second leading corer with 14.6 points a game, and he tarted in 32 out of 34 games. Duke has overcome many obstacles this eason. When you are the number one team n the nation, everyone wants to beat you. Uthough the defending national champions lave been plagued with injury, they have n In/?rorilKIn QO 1 ii mviwiuiv^ duaduu I^VJIU. When the Duke Blue Devils repeal as the lational champions, they will be the only jam to do so since UCLA's streak from 967-73. This would be the perfect ending 3 an amazing NCAA tournament. Nancy Salomonsky lancy Salomonsky is a sports writer for he Gamecock. ous champs experience. The unselfish play of all the players. I seems that all of them get a bigger thrill ou jf throwing an alley oop pass for a monste slam than receiving one. They hate to lose. The last loss, whicl :ame against their hated rivals, the Ohi( State Buckeyes (sorry we knocked you ou 3f the tournament, yeah right!) came or March 3. Cincinnati will fall just so Michigan car seat another Ohio team. And depending or iie championship game, either Duke or In liana will feel the wrath because of the re /enge factor. Michigan lost a heartbreaker to Duke jarlier in the year, and Indiana finishec ihead of them in the Big Ten Conference. Remember the best team doesn't always tvin, evident with the UNLV Rebels lasi /ear. Justice will be done this year, and the )eople up in Ann Arbor, Mich., will have heir second title in the past four years. Rob Rodusky Rob Rodusky is a sports writer for The jamecock. ... ,i rests Known!!! >aper, which means we want to any suggestions for articles or iring adequately, make your ler or coming by our oil ice. We lc every set of antagonists. Simply p the language representing a minor ri must be controlled by that minori it Language is ideologically motivated ways that are invisible to most peop I Let's not kid ourselves, language difference. 1 1 I request and propose, to whoe\ dishes out the loot, funding for ethi minority newspapers on campus: eve 0 ethnic minority, from Asians to Nati (j Americans. The papers do not have be large, complicated affairs. If a y ethnic minority feels it is being misi c presented by the "Western," for wa i_ of another adjective, press, and its la n guage customs, and we know langua s is not a neutral agon, that ethnic gro c can consolidate its information and ci e lural history through its own unbias e language medium, e e There are ethnic papers representii the myriad ethnic groups of the Unite a States. Why not here? ? Spiros Papleace r English graduate studei oo much money on foreign aid? t Johnny Vo lajor Biology major l't see why we "Yes. I think in a lot of areas lelping out other they do, but there are some len we have big, countries, like in Africa, that r, problems right do need our help. Other couns." tries could probably get themselves together on their own." ~1 A chance to be heard |j Ignored problem comes to surface - Blair Benson and Maeve O'Connor t It's about time. Do you remember the name Bobbi Rossi? She i was a USC student who was raped and murdered on s our campus in the early 1980s. ; How about Judy Stringer? A prominent Columbia businesswoman who survived a rape "just a stone's throw away" from our campus five years ago. ; Just last month a USC student was raped by two students in Preston Hall. The unofficial survey of 600 women conducted by Omicron Delta Kappa indicates that over 100 of them are Slirvivnrc r?f cpviiq! - ? v/i U V/? JV/VUU1 assault at USC. Despite this, the university has failed to fulfill the obvious need for a complete sexual assault policy and procedure. In fact, Vice President of Law Enforcement and Safety Carl Stokes doubts that rape is a serious problem on campus, according to an article in The State. He is right. It is not a "serious" problem, rape is a devastating problem. The ODK Forum entitled "Campus Rape: A University Responsibility?" was originally intended to educate faculty, students, and staff on the role of the university with regard to this issue. What resulted was a different kind of education. Frustrated victims came forward and divulged ^ their accounts of re-victimization by the student health center, the police department and the judicial system of USC. The audience became enraged as they realized the injustice rape victims at USC must face when they report the incidents. After Tuesday night, the university is finally responding to a problem that has been ignored for too long. i In just 48 hours, the university has undergone a metamorphosis. USC President John Palms has initiated a task force to end the negligence and combat this crime at USC. We hope that this is a pro-active ; step and that the university is sincerely concerned 1 and has accepted its responsibility to students. ; All too often, initial ideas and intentions look L good on paper, but never materialize. We cannot let i this happen. Now that the university has recognized ; the problem and is willing to do something about it, let's join their efforts and assure victims of sexual assault are treated with dignity and offenders are : properly punished. ? We know that nothing happens when students are silent. A few students have raised their voices with courage and initiated change. Initiating the change is the first step. Now there must be action. March to the Division or Student Airairs otiice and let them hear your voice. USC has extended an invitation. Let's RSVP. If you or someone you know is a victim of sexual assault, contact the Rape Crisis Network at 252-8393. They are available to help 24 hours a day. 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