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dismissed as fiction, while believer
sion. With the help of slanted stati
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newsletter. There was no balance
ings, and the quality of the paper s
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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
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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." ^ ,
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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
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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
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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
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>. 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