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- \ Quayle-hunt Murphy Brown replies to Vice President's attacks Tonight at 9 p.m. the next volley in the war between Hollywood and Washington will be fired. After months of speculation, anticipation and controversy which has made family values a political hot potato(e), Murphy Brown speaks. The cloud of controversy began in May when Vice President ^ ^ J 4 * 1- - "?~,,r?i uan v^uayie saiu iviurpny mown uiucacu uctuiuuimi ianui^ values." What has ensued is one of the most ludicrous issues ever addressed in recent political history. Had Quayle actually watched the show, he would have realized Murphy agonized over her decision to have the baby. At one point, she considered having an abortion but ruled it out. If anything, Mr. Quayle should be proud Murphy Brown respected the child's right to life. She did not take the decision lightly, but gave it serious consideration and decided to do what she felt was morally right. Inside sources reveal that Murphy will name her son Avery, after her mother who passed away last season. Naming one's child after a deceased relative is perhaps the ultimate in family values. It demonstrates the love and respect toward a relative that Mr. Quayle seems to neglect. "Murphygate" even displays the desperation of the Republican party to appease the religious right wing. They wanted to win votes by choosing a show that mocks family values. Had they been intelligent, they would have chosen something like "Married with Children..." which most people find offensive. By using "Married with Children," the Republicans might have received a windfall of votes. Instead, they've received a backlash of apathy. If we look closelv at the actors supporting the president, we will " Jl J. ? find the largest irony in the "family values" issue. Arnold Schwarzeneggar, the Terminator, whose movies consist of violence, violence, and more violence must surely be a target of the VP. Schwarzeneggar's in-laws, the Kennedys, embody clean, wholesome family values. Drugs, rape, murder. The Republicans are counting on Arnie for good moral support??? Maybe there is a "cultural elite" in Hollywood, but are they really to blame for this stupid debate over Murphy? Hollywood isn't about politics, it's about entertainment. Its job is to create a world where we can retreat for a few hours and escape reality. Now, the politicians are trying to say the world Hollywood creates is real, and a deep threat to morality. It's like Jesse Helms run amok. Folks, lighten up. It's TV. If you find TV to be something APailltlUlK Editor in Chief Greg Rickabaugh Managing Editor Patrick Villegas Copy Desk Chief Jay King News Editors Chad Bray J.T. Waaenheim Viewpoints Editor Jack Dunn Features Editor Lee Clontz Sports Editors Nancy Salomonsky Tim Thorsen Photo Editor Stephanie Newlin Graphics Editor Ryan Sims Cartoonist Paul Jon Asst. News Editor Melissa Tennen Asst. Features Editor Jennifer Fuller Asst. Sports Editor Rob Rodusky Asst. Viewpoints Editor C.E. Holman Asst. Photo Editor Lea Clayton Asst. Graphics Editors Kristin Buehlman firpnnrv Perez Asst. Copy Desk Editor Kim Everitt Production Manager Laura Day Asst. Production Manager Jim Green Faculty Advisor Erik Collins Advertising Manager Renee Gibson Student Media Coordinator Jim McKellar Graduate Asst Brian McGuire Darkroom Technicians Erin Galloway Rika Hashimoto The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 words. Full name and Brofessional title, or year and major if a student, must e included along with address and phone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for style, possible libel or space limitations. The Gamecock will not withold names under any circumstances. norrioie, men snut up anu reau a uuuk. Hollywood is a world of fantasy and make-believe. But, come to think of it, isn't Washington? vresipent bush tries to-Give the american people CHAUGB. PI -- A K(WH?P,can A, P/ *fou sme HAVE CHANGE IQ&l?o> ^ ^iewf Question: What otl Valerie Campbell Freshman Computer Science "I'd like to see the whole East Coast Family ? Boyz to Men, Another Bad Creation, MC Brains and Bell Biv Devoe." Talk of di\ Everyone and his brother is claimin believer and advocator of diversity. 1 that's all many of these people do ... t it. There are two-faced students w believe in diversity and don't care abc they are claiming it because they thi what people want to hear. If I hear someone talk about how love everyone and how they are not c anyone, I want to vomit. it mat many people ten mat way Columbia, South Carolina and I wouldn't have half of the hate-related physical assaults students see and exp No one loves everybody. Eve offended by someone or something ai in their lives because everyone has tl to be a racist, sexist, religious bigc basher." Someone who doesn't belong to group or gender doesn't have to t friend, party with me or erroneot racism and sexism to earn my respect Censorship JKL There seems to be an overwhelmii sition to the contents of "Gamecock 1 and a love of censorship. Dr. Palms, student government, an titude of civil-rights-minded stud banding together to support censo "Gamecock Fever" because tbey 1 offensive. To quote some of you liberals 01 you don't like it, don't read it or don There is much worse material oui this minor publication. If "Gamecock Fever" is racist ant then so are shows like "In Living music artists such as rapper Ice-T. "In Living Color" makes fun of white people and the stereotypes i the two races. But no one cried ' when the show first went on the air. son premiere, "In Living Color" will Greeks should not be praised To the editor: This being my fourth year at our university, I find fnyself again being confronted and forced unwillingly to take part in a celebration of mediocrity. To what I am referring? The one-page layout extolling the acad emic capabilities and culpabilities of our highly touted Greek system. Again. The Gamecock has seen lit to print this evidence of student edification, and yet I question its willingness to promote such base learning. When did the university begin to champion mediocrity? The numbers themselves are quite revealing: not one fraternity has an average GPA of over 3.0, and the average of all fraternities was 2.708. With this evidence alone, one must then conclude that the magnanimity of our professors and university officials is quite profound. In allowing them to pass ? they are hallowed Greeks after all; or those whose auto-didactic path leads them to erudition are pursuinn tho u/mnn r.rppl'e Plotn anH 111^ uiv wiv/iiij vjiwvivo a iaiw uuu Aristotle being the foremost leaders of such an ill-led expedition. Hence, it seems that the tin age of classical antiquity is now upon us. No longer an Apollonian joy, no longer the Dionysian orgies; let joint: her acts would you like Mmmm Jason Cox Senior Psychology "I would like to see some kind of outside circus with a lot of flaming hoop action. Body Count and Soundgarden could open up for it." ersity feeds ig to be a alk about ho don't C O L U rut it, but nk ^at s All most students war much they resfcfliffended by So far' many studenls means you have to prete n~r one who you probab then . , Hypocrisy doesn't bring he nation (lie problem w01-$e. verbal and por exampie< \ atten enence. Conference in May wl rybody is Empowering and Educa cnmi' lime ^ u i . ?v? soreu exercises 10 neip le potential ferent ethnic, gender, rel )t or gay- tation viewpoints. I had negative stereo my ethnic people who were there. >e my best 0f these people. There isly dispel thought I knew ? af learned through the met 'Fever' take ng oppodamul C O L U ents are rship of eel h is i? i A parody of the L.A. nob it there "If UP tor ^1C ri"hts ot toe t buy it!" sh ? I there than Of course you won t. Ice-T is apparently ra J offensive, ^ P?llce ?rficers'. But Color" and music under the Sulse 0 ter in a story." hlnrk and If a white artist sai1 surroundine does then that artist w 'RACIST!" a music would r-Rnlr?A mottaf hnu/ On the sea- auciv"' ? ??" """ broadcast a in me sonS is ^ Axl R{ ggggg UJd us instead remember that this age calls for an image of its accelerated grimace, not some antiquated Attic grace. Instead, let us worship the artifice, the mask; for that is what we wear in allowing such banal marks to be held aloft as virtuous. To continue this farce can result onlv in the continued dilution of the purer academic liquour. Such vanity culls echoes. We should rip out these weeds among Pierian roses. Brett Mosley South Carolina Honors College senior Supressing 'Fever' is censorship To the editor: Fascism is alive and well here at USC. It seems that the student government in its infinite wisdom has 1 ~ - 1.1 .1- -. fVv,-, v, r\f ueuueu mai a pajucuim ivum media is not worthy of publication. Since the SGA sees this as "offensive," they seek its eradication. Let's run over to Cooper and burn a few copies of Huckleberry Finn while we're at it. Then, just for kicks, let's confiscate any art at McKissick that we don't like. The point is, any form of censorship is wrong! s to see come to Williar w Catherine Threadgill Junior English "If Sting ever put a tour together again, I'd like to see him play Williams-Brice." ; isolation, pie say I The luaiyaiiaaa M N I S T p?i"tsis with tf cises ] tt from other students is somethir ....... "exercises seem to think diversity ... i . * . J It is i :nd to understand souks .. ly don't understand. d,versu>' us closer, it only makes someonc that we i ded a USC Leadership difterenc hich included Students 1 s ting for Diversity-spon- l'ie enei students understand dif- America ligious and sexual orien- Caucasi; America itv/rv/^c oH/\ut a arnnn r\f through CU'VUl <. &>vrU|./ V,. , I had never known any Ulc same fore, all I knew ? or Our C( >out them was what I ence doc lia or what I heard peo- matter tc is hold of U 1 cor t ? m ? T T C T Whal U M N I S T not : Whe becaust i. Will any ot you stand wilh Uie, people offended by this a more f So, is one man cist toward white people crime -] he gets away with hate "Gamea f "It's a fictional charac- used t0 _ Wanna I ig the same way Ice-T t m ould be labeled a racist all races be stripped from the gut j "fictional" the character "Gamect ose well knows). favor 0f Just because we do not agre with something, we do not try i destroy it. Right-wing extremis do this constantly by trying to cei sor what they believe to be "offei sive." They believe that there is r "value" in such publications ar works of art, therefore, they shou not exist. Just ask Mapplethorpe. The student government is ah using direct coercive tactics t forcing advertisers not to buy spat in Gamecock Fever, a mo\ designed to impose their righteoi views nnon evervbodv. In their zeal to he politically ce reel. Young, Lister, Dell and tl rest of the Hitler Youth have ove looked something quite basic tolerance. Tolerance for that vvi which we don't agree. Wake up Student Government! is un-American to attempt censc ship in any form 01 fashion. We t not destroy soihetiling because v don't agree with it. Hitler tried tli with the Jews. Richard Farm Ad/PR sophomo 'Fever' dead issue To the editor: Why is it that our student new paper continues to focus on ; issue mai iuis uecuiiic eiyMcu cic and settled? ris-Brice Stadium? doesn't mean pretending to understand you don't understand. Instead, it means ihould make an effort to understand our es and similarities. think of it in terms of warfare. When riy sees us, they don't see Africann soldiers, Asian-American soldiers or an-American soldiers. They just see n soldiers. Then they shoot, because die scope of a sniper's rifle, we all are dor. religion, gender, and sexual prefersn't matter to a sniper, so why .should it ?us? SC campus ild care less if "In Living Color" or Iceoff the face of the earth, but 1 support ight to freedom of speech and to say ley want, whether I agree with them or n we begin the suppression of ideas ; they are offensive or we don't agree n, then we are on the road to becoming ascist and racist nation. "Gamecock Fever" in bad taste? Well, 's Clemson joke is another man's hate fhe tactics being carried out against >ck Fever" are the same ones that were pull 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Je" album from the music store racks. "At r\ T fiillii Pn?r\rvrt annol t fir r\f iiui a latiM. 1 iuii) tvjucuuj ui and colors. f you are opposed to the right for 3ck Fever" to be printed, then you are in censorship. :e Gamecock Fever is a "dead-into the-water" issue. Yes. it is offents sive, and yes, we as a student body are opposed to it. But since we have already hammered that point, 10 we should not waste our main K' source of campus news on somelcl thing our student government has taken care of and continues to take >0 care of as we speak. >v . Mr. Miealy has tne constitutional "c light to print what he wants, when he wants as long as he is off campus property. Oh our campus, due ir_ to the solicitation codes, he cannot 1C distribute his publication. Tom r_ Young and his staff have done an _ excellent job of doing everything th they can do to stop Gamecock Fever, but they cannot go any furIt ther than they have. You cannot >r- make Rod Shealy quit publishing Jo his paper completely, ve if The Gamecock is going to lis continue to address this issue, why not emphasize the positive gains leaders like Young, Eric Dell, Ted PplHpr and nlhprc hnvn mnrtp for re our student body and also anything positive that affects us at USC as students, rather than continuing to beat this "dead horse" issue of Gamecock Fever? I feel that The Gamecock could become a real strength on this campus, if it will just emphasize what should be considered important and 'S- newsworthy on a regular basis, an ar Alec B. Mcleod, III Political science junior Brian Smith Junior Sociology "I would like to see a motorcross. And I would like to see the Spin Doctors open up for the motorcross." hypocrisy about them. diversity exercises allowed me to hear ide and try to understand their viewi v . important to note that I didn't .agree teir viewpoints after the diversity exerHowever, I developed respect for them, tg I didn't have before the diversity important for students to realize that