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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
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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
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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
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Hollywood is a world of fantasy and make-believe. But, come
to think of it, isn't Washington?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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luaiyaiiaaa
M N I S T p?i"tsis
with tf
cises ]
tt from other students is somethir
....... "exercises
seem to think diversity ...
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: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
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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
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: 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