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Andrew Hurricane rips thrc uncovers heart of I I don't know if Andrew is a Democ something to say to both presidential c country. Andrew has ravaged southern Florida a ties upside down and showing us how Underneath a thin veneer of order lurks are out of control. We live day to day v ment, at the highest level, able to contain and also give us the safety net for our 1 ment and all its resources can barely man Of all the talk of infrastructure, first Clinton, and finally by George Bush, nor appreciate the ensuing mess and the lad state relief efforts. Workers from SCE&G made it to Floi Federal Emergency Management Ager equipment and the two states' electrical s With electricity down, thousands of about where to go for help. Migrant wc sured homeowners make up a great porti lation. This cross-section of people pr workers are afraid to accept help, and the edge have been irretrievably lost. After days of careful thought, the Mari deployed to build tent cities for the es 20,000 can be housed at a time. In ad there's been confusion over who is runn Army says it's the U.S. transportation ( T PKilan cTkxrc tbaro ic nA cinola Kac i^awiuu say a uiuw 10 nw 011151V i/vra Now we come to FEMA, the hope proved to be nothing more than a federa for minor officials to fatten up before tl tions. FEMA is in competition with the charities are they are losing. Internal defense and investment in doi in the last 15 years, because it has not 1 choice but to make it a priority. We ca we can, as former Hugo victims, by dor anything ? to help the people of Florid* to improve our country's ability to handl Hurricane Andrew is a clear and defii things about the direction in which this c It took a hurricane to uncover the rea show us we are not as powerful as we t against nature and its power. A hurricai but it sure has a funny way of showing u PRO-MIUT/Mr' HECK, OF ' \f *=Course im ^ > A., ,-rt r\! I )1 vVife rKLHYHUIAt^l.. "XBaift Editor in Chief Managing Editor News Editors Viewpoints Editor Features Editor Sports Editors "Photo Editor Graphics Editor Copy Desk Chief Cartoonist Asst. News Editor Asst. Features Editor Asst. Photo Editor Asst. Graphics Editor Student Media Coordinator Production Manager Asst. Production Manager Faculty Advisor Advertising Manager The Gamecock will try to Letters should be 200-250 wo sional title, or year and ma included along with address Gamecock reserves the right t sible libel or space limitation withhold names under any cir< V iijah Flnrirln / |/|/^ W */ X l/V/ f Jnited States rat or a Republican, but he has andidates about the state of the vithout mercy, turning communidelicate society is put together, the unsettling discovery that we vith the perceptions of a governi our hostility toward one another basic survival. The U.S. governage even this. by Tsongas, then by Perot and te of these candidates could fully c of coordination of national and rida before representatives of the tcy (FEMA) only to find their ystems incompatible, homeless people are confused irkers, borderline poor, and ininon of the southern Florida popuovided an easy target. Migrant msands precariously living on the nes, Army and Navy were finally timated 250,000 homeless. Only dition to this limited capability, ing the various relief efforts. The lenartmenL but Florida governor ;s in charge. d-for white knight. FEMA has I appointee weigh station, a place le long road to sub-cabinet posii Red Cross, and local and state nestic security have been lacking >een a priority. Now, we have no n make a fresh start by doing all tating food, clothing, furniture ? i get over this crisis and move on e such emergengies. ling metaphor explaining a lot of ountry is headed, il America. It took a hurricane to hink, and we are still defenseless ne may not have a political bias, s what's wrong with the country. (whatever ) D^( HAPPftfEP " Oto "make k JOVE'NOT c WAR"? J ? Irnrfol 5 V W Vl^ c II Greg Rickabaugh t Patrick Villegas Chad Bray c J.T. Wagenheim Jack Dunn Lee Clontz Nancy Salamonsky Tim Thorsen Stephanie Newlin i Ryan Sims Jay King i n#-*i 11 IAI> k raui uun Melissa Tennen Jennifer Fuller 1 Lea Clayton Kristin Buelman Jim McKellar Laura Day Jim Green Erik Collins Renee Gibson print all letters received, rds. Full name and profesjor if a student, must be ; and phone number. The o edit letters for style, posis. The Gamecock will not :umstances. lewpo "THANKS FOR READING THE FUNN COULD YOU DO THAT FAIRY TALE I'VE 'FAMILY VALUES', SOMETIf Question: Do you thir m !achary Maddox Tonya B Graduate student Graduati .ibrary Science Socioloc I've only been here for "From l wo weeks, and it yes. I've ppears to be accessi- tie ran >le. I've seen one or two Capstoi i wheelchairs, and they got a lot eem to be doing ilright." School spirit Spirit at USC is heading straight for the gut X. The other day I saw USC Athletics Director ling Dixon driving to work in a baby blue ladillac. Now King, I do realize we aren't playlg North Carolina this year, but come on! Baby lue? Whatever happened to the big garnet omber you used to cruise the streets of USC 1? We're in the Southeastern Conference now, nd with that comes better competition and luch better publicity for USC. With affiliation i the SEC, South Carolina should also become lore spirited. How many times have any of you turned on aturday afternoon football and seen half of the tudents from Alabama completely painted in rimson and white? On the same note, how lany USC students don themselves in garnet nd black for football games. I'd probably be ble to count them on one hand. Take a look around on your daily walks to lass. Try and count how many Gamecock hats nd t-shirts you spot. Again, you won't need Pol a. noli re iheL!l.atS pH)J)Cl iy. V i a i proceeded slow to respond i did,, t young mai To the editor: 10 P?^c^On Friday, August 27, I went to reat^s ^is ny Blazer in the parking lot behind Soes out }ark Circle to find that the passen- much tor t; ;er window was broken completely meanl a 'ol )ut. The steering wheel was com- ^his ^0< iletely broken and nearly unnat- devaste ached. compassic I was very upset and angry, cerned citi; While my sister, a friend, and I y?u y?unc three girls) waited for city police o show up, a young man gladly Early chi itayed with us and calmed us lown. This young man stood by us for at least an hour when 911 final- ^eI y showed up. This young man also flagged down and yelled at 2ampus Police to stop; however, Cher ints / IES, MOM- , HEARD ABOUT, J, *E?" J U-Oja. o-\, ^SS?g3j ^irrzyj^s rosr otirKrtMik USC is accessible enough for v k ; y^s* 0 , K m erry David Hiller s student Junior jy Criminal Justice what I can see, "For the most pg i seen lots of lit- campus is access ips. I live in the students. Still ie, and they've are some older bu : over there. that need to be u to make it totally sible." needs some ii J.T. WAGENHEIM News Editor more than one nana to count them. Who can we blame for the school's apathy? The students? The administration? The losing football team? Or what about the tease most of our sports teams give us at the start of their seasons? Take the basketball team the past two years. They were scorching their competition and on the level of nationally-ranked teams. What did they do? They went on losing streaks at the end of the year. No wonder students can't be excited about the "Fighting Gamecocks," because they throw in the towel by the Fifth round. We need something that will get us excited and keep us that way. Could Duke University d, "This is not USC's Umq I j-l-p Ve cannot help you," and on their way. IYllCt?*rir"P^Pl get a chance to thank the HUdl. CJ-M. voVJ 1 because I was talking I hope that young man f0 the editor: letter because our heart j disagree entirely wit to him. Thank you so cie written by Mr. Sikk aking your time, it really life does'nt always m t to us. choice). The only evident ;s show that through all ed by Mr. Sikkema i ition, there are still some unborn child's heart is b mate, caring, and con- 14 days after conceptio zens in this world. Thank hardly enough evidence man! an article justifying "pro Denise Ward article is further weakei Idhood education senior mentioning of, or ta account, the views of ti Rhonda Ward don Mr. Sikkema make: nical engineering senior whatsoever to explain opposition's view is not Nancy Harling as his view, nical engineering junior in the article, Mr. WAIT TILL THE NEXT VOYAGE, HEN I GET A NEW CREW.'' 8fcx~" -? QVtnr. Ltvis retrn,sT*-M disabled students? Amy Taylor Graduate student CLIS HBHBWBBT nflj a irt, the "I wouldn't really know tible to because I'm not one (a , there handicapped student) ? ildings but probably not. I know, pdated for example, tnat you acces- can't get in Sloan." nprovement have won the national basketball championship this past year if they went undefeated the first 15 games, then lost their next eight in a row? No, and we shouldn't carry that mentality when talking about the "Lamecocks." But there is hope. With USC's entrance into the SEC, the recruits will come in (academically eligible or not) and take over and lift us to a new horizon. These new guys need to excite and make us come to the football, basketball and baseball aames to cheer them on. Our coaches must also coach to win, not coach to not lose. Sparky Woods needs a firecracker lit up his butt. He needs to be a motivational father figure, not a caressing mother figure. Williams-Brice stadium should be a homefield advantage for USC, not a home-field disadvantage. And, by golly, administrators should drive garnet cadillacs, live in garnet houses, paint their pets garnet and black, have Gamecock toilet seats and have a tatoo of a gamecock. Does that jive with you, King? 111C& places more emphasis on the rights lliov of the mother. It is impossible to 4- cieciae wnose rignts are more IteCl important. You are making a value judgment, Mr. Sikkema, based on assumptions. The beliefs stated in h the arti- ^our ^cle ^ irrational due to the ema (pro- incredible lack of factual support, ean anti- ^ou cannot expect to persuade the e present- reader on the lone basis that these s that an ^ your ?pini?ns y?ur beliefs, eatino iust so tliey must be right. Your hastily n This is comPosecl ^ticle does not do justo warrant tice 10 case abortion by -life " The "pro-lifers." Next time please be led bv no more trough and include discuskin? into sions tbe different theories set he opposi- forth thus far (utiIitarian, Kant, s no effort Ross' Rawls' etc-) in regard to the why the etbics surrounding abortion. Thank as correct >ou- Gordon sherard Sikkema History senior