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Apology More difference c needed after left-i An apology is in order. Over the past four semesters, U! watch helplessly as the editorial c< one-sided opinions onto the Viewp The Gamecock resolves to make biases of the past and to present < issues. Last year, students watched thei the left, transformed from a respe( thought was a liberal rag. By adc buzz words like "choice," "freed< the left presented their opinions in Gamecock as a vehicle for preac them into the lives of students thri( Abortion was promoted, even contrary were downplayed and sor dismissed as fiction, while believer sion. With the help of slanted stati conservative viewpoints, policies i misrepresented while a more libera Indeed, our paper had been newsletter. There was no balance ings, and the quality of the paper s It was said that you deserved ai for last year's editorial page are no The Gamecock has cleaned horn There is new management, alor sional staff. True, it is impossible ions of everyone every time, but U space for all points of view. The C of the entire student body, rather tl Our goal is to steer this paper b; and leave the far right and left to tl So if you have an issue you wi you have an opinion you would li hnr\u? * VilWw Aftera^atWhatwe>rehere ^jK/WVv ' s. ( ^VTP ^ CONSERVATIVE oooe" tFSaifl Editor in Chief Managing Editor Copy Desk Chief News Editors Viewpoints Editor Features Editor ' Sports Editors Photo Editor f^ranhinc PHitr?r ' IVO Cartoonist Asst. News Editor Asst. Features Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Viewpoints Editor... Asst. Photo Editor Asst. Graphics Editors Asst. Copy Desk Editor i Production Manager 1 Asst. Production Manager Faculty Advisor A *J. .^^4.;^: H4nnoi?iAr MUVtMU&ii iy iviauauci Student Media Coordinate Graduate Asst Darkroom Technicians.... The Gamecock will try to Letters should be 200-250 professional title, or year ar be included along with ad< The Gamecock reserves th I style, possible libel or Gamecock will not with circumstances. \ f opinion wing domination SC students have been forced to intent of The Gamecock spilled oints page. : a clean break with the editorial i more balanced look at today's r newspaper slide hopelessly to ;table publication to what many >rning their views with popular 3m" and "love," proponents of the form of fact, and used The hing their beliefs and injecting :e weekly. praised, while opinions to the netimes rejected. The Bible was s were often the objects of deristics and lopsided opinion polls, and politicians were continually il agenda was painted lily white, transformed into a left-wing and no objectivity in the writuffered as a result, i apology, but those responsible longer with us. >e. ig wiui a competent ana proiesto represent the views and opintis staff promises equal time and 3amecock wants to be the paper tan the radical two percent. t ick onto a more moderate plane, i tie activitists. 1 Duld like to see discussed, or if 1 ike to share, write to us. Let us t 2 for. e / rs ~ l_ . . , I \ (\)?\J Q>0bK4 1 - - GVCN ^(OU / I UeeDltvJG-hePv(Vr?D,y a V P/=\N)TVj-u/At5T&0 / tv ^ DemocaAr^/ / ^v s \\ i \ i Hi ? ? ( Greg Rickabaugh 5 Patrick Villegas ^ Jay King Chad Bray 1 J.T. Wagenheim Jack Dunn Lee Clontz Nancy Salomonsky Tim Thorsen Stephanie Newlin / Ryan Sims Paul Jon Melissa Tennen Jennifer Fuller Rob Rodusky ( C.E. Holman Lea Clayton Kristin Buehlman ^rnMAnf Ha v-u cyui y rci Kim Everitt Laura Day 1 Jim Green Erik Collins Renee Gibson y, Jim McKellar Brian McGuire Erin Galloway Rika Hashimoto i print all letters received. words. Full name and id major if a student, must iress and phone number, le right to edit letters for space limitations. The icld names under any riewp( ^mi UNOVJ. GEORGE CoHTNUtPISTO TRUTH IT THIS CM HOUTE GOING To > ANSWER To 'a/a 1 -7 I i^l Circumstance The young Republicans cheered as he airplane dragged its sign "No Draft dodger For President" over the State louse. To their credit, Bill Clinton and lis 10,000 followers did not dignify this Uwater-esque antic with even an Lcknowledgment. ? None of those cheering youths were old inough to remember Viet nam. They were folowing their mentors, many of whom like Dan ^uayle, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, lewt Gingrich and George Bush Jr. chose not to Ight in the war, and the news media who con inue to challenge Bill Clinton's character on the >asis of his draft status. Let's be honest about he draft once and for all. First, a little historical :ontext. Americans may forever disagree about the nerits of the Viet Nam War. What is clear, lowever, is both Democratic and Republican tdministrations deceived the American public vhile building the war effort. What we see to his day is a division between American citizens ? between (some) Viet Nam War vets and some) Viet Nam War protesters ? is one that vas created by our government and is used by ome politicians to divide Americans for politial purposes. The U.S. government was really fighting two vars ? one with its 19-year-olds in Southeast \.sia, and one against them here. Isn't it about ime we come together to realize it was not the >eople acting out of their convictions ? neither oldier nor protester ? who were the bad guys? Research takes r Within the framework of the university jystem, an often-ignored dichotomy exists. While faculty members are mtrusted by both taxpayers and students vith devoting their full energies to teachng, the lure of career-enhancing research L s compromising the educational possibilities of he witless undergraduate. Although administrators often claim research ind teaching go hand in hand, serious students ;an easily determine what facet of professorship i particular faculty member is interested in. All oo often, the end is to retreat to a library to do esearch. Congressional investigators issued a report Sept. 14 stating the average professor is making >63,000 a year for teaching six to eight hours a veek. At the same time, tuition at public coleges is rising at a rate three times that of inflaion. Students today are essentially paying more ind getting less. This report aptly blames a sysem in which teaching is a distant second to the ntvi i/-* t-xfan i^n V\tr??rx arl < l"\ urtU ? /-?f icauciiiic uuiaintu uuuugn icduaicii. ^ ^T, MMMMH Balfour critical eliminatec n happens 01 ring issue competitk ro the editor: In the Sept. 18 issue of The Gamecock, the headline story quoted Chris Meyers, University j Bookstore manager, as saying It s OtltU (Jostens) been the Cadillac of , rings." Jostens representative Don HOOl Bills said "You can't be the best and still be the cheapest." ^ , t . o ? u . .u f? the ed Last September, prior to the ^ know Follett/University contract granting about ta^ exclusivity for on-campus ring lack ^ . sales, Balfour, Artcarved, and h SQ h Jostens sold rings in the University As Bookstore side-by-side, letting stu- den{ j dents compare quality, price, ser- nQt onl~y vice, etc. Jostens consistently had parking, i prices lower than Balfour and was jn v'ici very competitive with Artcarved Qne re( P"ces. 6;30 a.m. With the granting of exclusivity, gje space rints I I v-/w VrsXXXS ?T THE- fr 4?4IGV : 7 W? 70 J^0-? *T , Ross Pi yl? *s of Viet Nair nuFQT r n t tt \t t c VJ W J-J L/ 1 V. JU u IV! i> 1 L Let's also try to remember what the draft sys tern was like in the '60s. First, it was unfair. ] offered a variety of deferments ? includin those for college students ? which favored th middle class. It offered alternatives, such as th Indiana National Guard, which again were mor accessible to the middle class families. Loce draft boards controlled access to these alterna tives and deferments. It was a citizen's right t inquire about one's draft status and the possibil ity of gaining a particular deferment or alterna tive. Second, the draft was random. Everyone wa assigned a draft number between 1 and 36' based on their birthday. These numbers were lit erally drawn from a fishbowl and were the sam for every eligible male in the country. Eacl local draftboard drafted men to meet their annu al quota in the order of these draft numbers Each draft cohort was eligible for one year. 1 your number was not called during your year c eligibility, you were no longer draftable. Bill Clinton believed the war was wrong. Hi choices of what to do were no different thai most other middle class Americans. He chose t speak out against the war. He chose to finish hi university education and was granted a studen teachers away fr C O L U M N I S r Research is imperative to society, but it mu: not come at the expense of the development c the student. It has been surmised that highe education has become a finishing school for tt ineptitudes of public schooling. Clearly, this an age in which teaching should be perceived ? a worthwhile challenge, and not a hopelej chore. When professors realize the pragmatic func tion of college is to enhance minds, not t impart a deluge ot worldly tacts, the cause c education will advance. Any decent textboo can provide essential facts, and do so econom cally. Education requires interaction ? th Socratic examination of ideas ? to occt between student and professor. In applicatioi this can only happen when universities eradical 1 l-U-U-1 etitive marketplace was student lot on that si< 1 and we all know what Seems like all the res when Cadillac has no and others without )n. "CS" or "GS" stick ddy Roth ? Class of '72 the lot, and everybo L.G. Balfour Co. police won't ticket ai other times, it seems rich kids with the S] have their parents pi Ipilt whinPS whatever for them. : LCllt TTlllllViJ the parking office to if nartinn i paid my 20 bucks f< It Ucti IVlllg It turns out that it to the outgoing use litor: really, on the parkii y'all are probably tired 316 two lots for "Ci :ing about parking or the the BA side of camp but I'm a new student there exists only one. umor me. at the parking office :ommuting business stu- we know. We have ;t the double whammy of signs on one the lack of commuter Universities, like th< >ut also a lack of parking are slow to act, so I inity of the BA building. on that sign in a coup cent morning, I arrived at In addition, since I in order to find not a sin- finished building tha : in the sole commuting they've opened a ne i era forgotten 0 deferment. Upon graduation, he became eligible for the draft, but his draft number, 311, was never called. This was typi, cal as draft boards rarely went higher > T than 200. The character issue is not whether Bill ; Clinton, or anyone for that matter, served '' in the armed forces or fought in the war, but whether one was true to their convictions. ? Governor Clinton's actions were entirely consise tent and entirely appropriate with his stance e against the war. The letter that he wrote to his draftboard that has recently resurfaced in the t_ media was written during the period of his draft 0 eligibility. It was a passionate and eloquent [. statement reflecting strong patriotic convictions i_ that the war was wrong. It did not affect his draft status because his number was not called, s Moral consistency is harder to find among 6 some of Governor Clinton's harshest critics. - Dan Quayle's enlistment in the National Guard, e for example, does not match his apparent fervor h for the war effort. His convictions should have i- IpH him tr\ finht inctPoH hp phnep tr\ Ipt rvthprc I 1VV* mm U/ IIIOIV/UU 11V VllVOV IV IWl UUIVIO >. do the fighting for him. f Even at age 23 Bill Clinton showed the >f integrity and leadership to take a consistent stand on a difficult issue. It's time to stop listens ing to people who want to divide us for their n own political gain and to come together as a o country. Let's be honest about the draft issue s once and for all. it om true calling n lecture halls of 200 or more students. In the meantime, professors shouldn't concern themselves with what their peers think, rather, they should examine how r the minds of their pupils have been enhanced through course participation. Considering the limited practical use of ^ much of their knowledge, professors should be ] content with their fortunes. ^ While medical and engineering research can be profitable to private enterprise, liberal arts research generally is not. The free market places ,s only limited value on another scholarly interpretation of what Chaucer really meant in his Canterbury Tales, for instance. q In essence, liberal arts professors have dis)f covered a means toward using public funds to k support an endeavor that isn't self-supporting, i- While this is no societal scourge, many worthe while endeavors are unmarketable, it is imperair tive that faculty members make students their i, first priority. Anything else would be taking ? advantage of students. de of campus, parking lot. Trouble is, in all this :ident students time thev haven't decided how to the requisite classify this new addition, as it ers had filled links a resident lot with a "CS" dy knows the parking lot. It seems as though the t 7 a.m., or at resident students have taken it over . 'Course, the and since they probably park there x>rts cars can at 10 p.m., it's no wonder that it's ty $5, $10 or filled at 7 a.m. when I arrive. So, 1 went to And to top if all off, I've noticed find out what at least one car with both a resident )r. permit and a commuting student probably went permit, which goes to show that president. But you CAN have your cake and eat it tg map, there too. >" stickers on I know the university is going >us. In reality, through some cutbacks now, so in The nice lady an effort to save the university told me, "Yes, some money on its postage bill, I'd to change the like to do my part, of them." To whom it may concern in the j government, alumni relations office: Don't both'11 check back er to ask for donations after I leave ?le of years. this place. [hey've almost Your friendly whiner, t new garage, Conrad Matt w part of the MEBS