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ft VlEWP Medicine m -m -m Modern advances / to make crucial dec Technology has made life a lot easie It's made us able to travel and cor And it's made our lives more pleasural It's also made us live longer, and medical breakthrough took place whei I recipient of an artificial heart. -The implications of modern medic moral questions. We should begin d them now, before the advances are n chaos from being unprepared. rsow is me lime to tninK aoout tnes really want .to live longer? Do we w help of technology? Before, technology has only affectei we're at a crossroads wondering if w< us internally. We're waiting for permission to in 9 But, we're not sure if that's what we w There are more than 5 billion peopU starvation exists in some Thirld World Maybe, Thomas Malthus wasn't wi dieted the world would overpopulate i of starvation. With the advances in m tion may be the Pandora's Box we hi wartleH tn More people will be around. Too m Do we really want to confront this pro! medicine? We're not trying to say we should I with our technological advances. We . the pros and cons of the situation befc need to examine it closely. We need to do our homework. Should we give the OK to Joe Shn buy a new pair of synthetic lungs? Or s nature and live out the consequences? It's a problem. It's a problem we all We have to make the decision. We 1 make a "God-like" decision. Can we afford more people? Jobs ar ^ adding another generation to the Eartl those people. We're already having pro Do we want to burden ourselves even n Do we really want to live longer? BILLIONAIRE BOSS PEROTofTHl ItoNESTW FOURS, X , X dont think r can BUY THE PRESIDENCY., f l ^ J g 1 Taxes must pay for birth control To the editor: This letter is in response to Brian Garland's "Cross Fire" editorial about birth control services at the Thomson Student Health Center (April 15). Did you stop to think that not everyone's mom pays for their education? Some I students work and pay taxes and tuition themselves. Most college students are not "vulnerable children," but mature adults who can make their own decisions without a parent's permission or knowledge. Many of our students have "different values and beliefs" as you stated hut manv are married fnnt "promiscuous"). Also, did you know your taxes support local health departments where birth control pills and condoms are free or very inexpensive? Would you rather vpay thousands in taxes for support of an unwanted child? The state pays for services for "those who choose to have sex" in and out of college. Everyone ^ho pays taxes supports Jhese services. 0INT p, Andri Stavrou Business Adm orce us maior ^ivinri? "0h yes' de,ini to* CAM rape. Sex withou always a rape." ir for all of us. nmunicate faster and easier. ble. it will continue to do so. A 1 Barney Clark was the first ine raise many ethical and ebating and thinking about lade and we're thrown into > le medical advances. Do we ant to live longer with the PlirCll 1 our lives externally. Now, , jne (housa e want technology to affect cramming the st; Brothers Stadium stall new hearts and lungs. the Nintendo M; 'ant. Toyko, Japan. } on inis planet ana massive This is a moden nations. baseball fans and < "ong after all. Mai thus pre- These people a itself and people would die Mariners will be odem medicine, his predic- Wash., and moved tve to open but have never However they v son. Instead, an i , , new buyer would iany people will be around. gUng Mariners. >iem ior tne saKe 01 modern First, the buyer, ese money from 1 or should not go forward Nintendo-America just want people to look at resident for 10 yea ire a decision is made. We Why would a re active in local cor American baseball 10 to go up to Eckerd and nicche and 13 ke lt tc * .... . Second, the Mai we tell him to accept winning seas()n in, How can anyoni have to face. gling ball club, ui have to take the reigns and e hard to get now. Imagine RflCph ? Imagine helping support UdoCUi blems with Social Security. lore? N?l only has th Japan to buy ev< Tower in Atlanta ti E U.S. PRESIDENCY: street, but the littli ?????????? dominated the worl WNOW I CAN And now, Ame BUY THE might be made int 'RESIDENCY. of j?r Iff ?ba: What the hell is An ^investment g I II J W^~ Yy ers ot the addictiv [ /\ /\ the midst of pitchi \ / J the Seattle Marinei > ( worse, Major Lea; Wkf |||&^ taking a look at thi: xK|l ' |WjjiJ i There are seven 3 s*- -#f*. f>5) m baseball should l / vT V) AB American1/ ^ V 1 Leading off, bes \V \ L. do we have left tha 1 Baseball has done American label and [!\ ]t^?V a city cannot financ 1 as that is, the tean /TTS*| another American ( in iiwv ?",?fBuffa,o-Nr a maJor 'ea* ^ #0? ? 1 , r^^il , y?"??Quk p?sor/AL7 j^/^e RA-|d?A0 drop it in a Su( L/ I Now is the time for college students to do the experimenting and soulsearching you discussed, but it is also time to grow up and take responsibility 4-|~| r|j for yourself and your duties to the society in which you live. My taxes go toward many services that I do not use To the ed or necessarily support, but this is all Last we part of growing up in this "melting conversati pot" of cultures that you discussed. males abo They angi Prevention is much less expensive they pres than support and treatment of an un- themselve: wanted child. Instead of complaining you can < about abortion and birth control issues, preference please take time to volunteer with local appearano orphanages if vou do nor atr^Hv the. rv?n?e W J . UIV There are an incredible number of un- about HIV wanted, unloved children who need AIDS i: support and guidance. They have no groups of mothers, and their chances of ever criminate reaching college are very small. The sexual pre Carolina Children's Home (782-1421) geographic and the Epworth Children's Home blame pec (256-7394) are both in the Columbia ness. Accc area. Your time and effort would be easeConti better spent there. American Carolee Ettline of homosc Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism ma- of infectec jor however, i Question: Do you believe marital rape * MtiK ; Darrin Johnson " Mar in ist rat io n International Studies major Pub "Yes. If the person is contely. Rape is victed, they should be pun- be I I consent is ished. I do think that a lot of per? gentlemen would have sex husl with their wives indiscrimi- tage nately if they weren't they punished." fross Fir? tase leads to financial succ inds of sushi-eating fans money to attract fans with new, i ands at beautiful Mario promotions and new player as Ken Griffey, Jr. and organization? iniacs take the field in Finally, one of the future stars ii is Griffey. He will be a free age ri-day nightmare for many years. The starting range for new inalysts. is $7 million. When Griffey becori re concerned the Seattle agent, he could go on the bidding t pulled out of Seattle, as much as $10 million, to Japan. How can a baseball team hold are worrying for no rea- prime players when it doesn't havi influx of money from a ney from ticket sales and outsid greatly benefit the strug- ment to pay for them? The Mariners need a large ai who is backed by Japan- money to help support them finai lis father, is president of the next years. As a country, and has been a Seattle pushed for free trade in the \ rs. doesn't make sense to not allow tl sident of the area, who is ase, financially speaking, nmunity service, pull an For these two reasons alone, w out ot its money-making allow Nintendo-America to buy th i a foreign country? ers. Besides, it's the World Series, riners have had only one Lhe club's history. - Chad Bray s attract fans to a strug- Chad Bray is Sports Editor nless he or she has the Gamecock. all should stay in Amerk ie United States allowed Secondly, let's get this straig irything from the IBM lists a quota of American player o the 7-Eleven across the play in the Japan's baseball leag e country from Asia has players who don't play profession; Id's economic system. United States can't play at will o mica's national pastime why should we let the Japanese o\ ernational by the owners here? seball teams. Another reason the owners shot this country coming to? low this travesty has something t< . , ., . name-calling. Japan has describee roup headed by Che own- M Sla(es a$ J? So w| ;e Nintendo games is in we ,e( ? ake"wa our ing its offer to purchase _ . , llo ? . rs And to mike miners ga 6 ? baseba,,? Can y?u ima* D , ,, . . will happen if the Japanese get he ?ue Baseball is actually American baseball player: s curve thrown by Japan. wj? be tici bef?re al .1 reasons the owners in doublehJers lg I to cep ase a I woe j-or Mariners outfieldt Mitchell. ides baseball, what else The Japanese have no place in . it we can call American? baseball. This is our national pastir ; pretty well under the should always be ours. Besides, I should stay that way. If hell wants sushi instead of a nice p Tally hold a team, as sad dog? i should be relocated to nty. St. Petersburg, Fla., " Sean Ryan are two cities that would Sean Ryan is the Assistant Spoi me team. for The Gamecock. if you have an Issue or question 1 like to see addressed in Cross Fire or (JSC Voices, Please jgestion Box or Call The Gamecock Newsroom at 777-7 kh S transmission via heterose> O f"|1F*0?|t course has dramatically in the United States during th II r\pf|r}lp cade, particularly among ** Heterosexual transmission ac most AIDS cases among adu itor: Anyone can become infc ?k on campus I overheard a the Human Immuneodeficie on between a group of five by practicing behaviors th? ut homosexuality and AIDS. their risk of exposure to H ily disparaged people whom behaviors include sexual i umed to be different from without the use of condoms s. It is naive to assume that micides, intercourse with mu letermine a person's sexual ners, mixing alcohol and o simply from their physical with intercourse and use of 1 e. As a graduate student in wondered how many of the ;e of Health, I have learned I heard talking had practicec infection and AIDS. haiors without realizing their s not a disease of particular fection with a sexually tra persons. AIDS does not dis- disease, based on gender, eithnicity, Get the facts about HIV i fence, marital status, age or You do not have to becom ; region. It does not help to with HIV. The Thomson >ple with AIDS for their ill- Health Center offers AIDS >rding to the Centers for Dis- and HIV testing and counst ol, past HIV infection among can also call national and adults was primarily because lines. jxual intercourse and receipt Briar i blood and blood products, Health Promotion and 1 the number of cases of HIV Doctor should be a punishable crime? I] k Luksic Heidi Ward lie Relations major Philosophy major fes, I do. I think it should "Yes, I definitely do bebecause it infringes on cause it goes against the wotonal rights. I don't think a man's right, whether or not band should take advan- there's a marriage. It's not in ? of his wife just because the wedding vows that the 're married." husband has the right to have sex with his wife." gr Life is a lot easier I with friends' help poo - Shelley Magee CSo Do you ever stop to think about the people in your life? The other day I found myself thinking abnnovative QUt my frjen(jS} about how different they all are. S tO the ^?i? r_: ?ii a.cc u... t i nui uiny uio my menus an uiucicin, UUl l nave a different relationship with all of them. Although we n baseball are tQ ^ and ajj pCOp}e ^ same> pve nt in two realized that I treat all my friends distinctly contracts differem hS Yf And they deserve that. If we don't react to each block tor person in our lives in a way that fits them, we are selling them and ourselves short. 1 onto its But most aiT,azing thing about being human is s the mo- we form attachments to other e invest- people. No matter how many jgj||MteL material things we may have in JKL nount of our ijveS) we cannot really be ^ icially in happy without other people. The | we have world revolves around relationvorld. It ships, around friendship and ;Y le purch- i0Ve. Even around hate. All the things that bring us & ***'* - -- e should great happiness and sadness in e Marin- our jjves come from the people we know. Death, isn t it! love> friendship, hatred and jealousy. They all lead back to our fellow human beings. Every once in a while, we meet another person for The who makes life a better place to be. Some of us are lucky enough to meet a friend who sees the person in us that very few other people bother to dig deep enough to find. And then, that *3. person not only recognizes what we are, but likes us for it. , . It's the kind of friend you can be honest with ... ; tha^can y?u want t0 be honest with. It's a person * a can who you can talk to, or sometimes you don't even ne Ir our J ~ . J * have to talk at all, because they just know. How often do we find someone who knows, who iver understands the things we don't say. Someone who yn Q tpom will always drop what they're doing and come running when you need them. Even when you say you 1 ,not a. don't. Even when there are other people in their life, i h? Ti'1 an(* 'n y?urs' an(* 't s not ^e'r obligation to drop e everything just because there's a kink in your day. y ou ? But that doesn't matter to them. The only thingf lV a/^ that matters is that you are a friend. And they never 5'"e twhal forget it. ' ? ?ur I never forget either. ey Thanks, nd after ^ Kevi^ THIS IS ENTIRELY PIFTEREMT" Lual inter- . creased in , , e past de- ag * *> _ females. ? G 3. 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