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V: Missing # Community efforts commendable, other cases need similar support With all the events surrounding Dale Dinwiddie's disappearance, no one can do anything but applaud the efforts by her parents, her fellow students and students from Heathwood Hall, her old high school. The manner in which they have brought the issue of missinn tr, thf> fnrpfrnnt hoc mnrlp nil nf n? nwnrp nf thp nnQ<;i- i llli; pV/l OUllO IV/ HIV/ VllV/lll A 1UU UIMUV Ull V/A WU V* ?? ~ bilities of it happening to each of us. It has been an excellent example of a community coming together to help the Dinwitldie family. Operation Safe Streets was formed to keep this issue always in the minds of students through annual benefits for missing persons. The group was started by those instrumental in organizing and passing out the Dinwiddie fliers and should be a force to keep incidents like this from happening again. The issue of safety at Five Points has also been addressed. It T. has finally occurred to people that the area could be a dangerous place to be late at night. Thousands of people congregate in the ** space of a city block or two each weekend. There may be safety in qj numbers, but numbers can also camouflage the actions of a few. has r Derelicts and vagrants wander in and out of the crowds, and hang dodgi around the streets all night long. People need to be warned about Clinti going out or ending up alone. The numbers didn't help Dinwiddie not g and neither did the police. W There are other occurrences of missing persons that don't answi involve numbers. Numbers aren't involved in their disappearance to yoi and numbers aren't involved in efforts of support to help find Ok them. And the media, in most cases, is not on their side. more There are 597 missing person cases still active in South Eartf Carolina and none of them have gotten the attention of ma8n Dinwiddie's disappearance. In The State, Debra Gutierrez Garnsey he W! compared Dinwiddie's case and its attention to her daughter Jamie ei Gutierrez's disappearance six years ago. She said the same doors ^vie' open to the Dinwiddie family were shut to her. c. Dinwiddie's case has been a high-profile campaign and has got- ^efor ten national exposure on "America's Most Wanted," and it has Mr only been about two weeks. Other families who have had children ,jlc n missing for months could only hope for as much. (he ri There should be just as much compassion and media coverage for all missing persons. Wf pie o View even And ^ al foi ""?aifltco ck = camj. Editor in Chief Greg Rickabaugh Managing Editor Patrick Villegas I Copy Desk Chief Jay King News Editors Chad Bray ^ J.T. Wagenheim I Viewpoints Editor Jack Dunn Features Editor Lee Clontz TJ/ Sports Editors Nancy Salomonsky |J. Tim Thorsen Photo Editor Stephanie Newlin vJ Graphics Editor Ryan Sims Cartoonist Paul Jon To ti Asst. News Editor Melissa Tennen Asst. Features Editor Jennifer Fuller tied Asst. Sports Editor Rob Rodusky 24) i AnM \ f.~.. . A_ I?_i:? C LJnlmnn linHp viewpoints tzuiior v^.c. nuiuiciu Asst. Photo Editor Lea Clayton sure Asst. Graphics Editors Kristin Buehlman 10 a Gregory Perez cnce Asst. Copy Desk Editor Brian Garland iy' 0 Production Manager Laura Day Asst. Production Manager Jim Green , f] Faculty Advisor Erik Collins umn Advertising Manager Renee Gibson FStudent Media Coordinator Jim McKellar exac Graduate Asst Brian McGuire Fein Darkroom Technicians Erin Galloway think Rika Hashimoto "Cei Hj The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. cone Letters should be 200-250 words. Full name and Celtprofessional title, or year and major if a student, must were be included along with address and phone number. antl The Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for t}iat style, possible libel or space limitations. The Ireja Gamecock will not withold names under any on ^ circumstances. whiC iewpo AMERICA'S fMoRlTS PARTVPooPER is Back... ' | ust a few qu nton's private life (questions of infidelity) 10 relevance in his bid for president. His ing the draft has no relevance. But, Mr. ran if these issues are not relevant, why ive the truth in both situations? hile we're on the subject of truth and srs, I have more that needs to be brought ur attention before November, ay, you probably have not read much tit-Is-* /^f ?- .tAnin ?v\krvrvlr UJau inc lint; ui jrwui tunning uiaiw c> uwiv i In the Balance, when you said it was : ificent. But if Gore is serious about what 1 rote, he is the most radical ever nominated ther major party. If, like him, you think a itching transformation of society" and "a iq of the very foundation of our civilizais imperative, will you please give details e November? \ Clinton, about your taxes on the rich: If noney you wanted to take remained with ch almost all of it would be invested (fact). Unsigned edii ill, my name sure has made the newspaper recently. I probably should clear up a couf things about the editorial content of the _ points page. Lpology," the unsigned editorial of last || Jay, was somewhat uncalled for, but in ways it was needed. ' /o of our former staffers mentioned it was ? he opinion of the entire staff. They were it was only the opinion of a few on the Many on the staff felt we should not insult :>ast editors, and the editorial was taking cessary pot shots. Most agreed a different ective was needed besides the liberal side was "rammed" down our throats, as one nt put it. ;uess my emotions from the past year took in presenting the "Apology" editorial. It Id have been a column under my name. But not back down from any points made in the rial. the future, all editorials will be a consensus e staffs opinions. This is the professional to do. This was one of my objections to year's staff, which I was a part of. I was r, ever asked my opinion on the editorial, though I was one of the top section editors, anybody who tells you that it is professionr one person to come in and write the editovith no other input is mistaken. im very upset to hear that in the middle of :ult budget cuts at USC, four organizations d spend $3,000 to bring a single speaker to >us. and then fail to adequately advertise the 2 TP A nr*t This doesn,t % AJlV/jl. llvll via absentee elt warriors %sriZ t either. Also lie editor: Church did I believe you should have reti- Celtic race t C.E. Holman's column (Sept. Catholicism n Viewpoints as "Author mis- past and yc :rstands terrorists." I'm not pagan Druid this letter should be addressed places like naive student of political sci- Islands. , human rights, and Irish histo- Lastly, th r to a bored op ed writer doing the Act ling to get the Letters to the Proclamatior m- cprlinn ninnincr Filhpr wav nf TrplnnH 1* ind the article, rather the col- State govern , rather disturbing. wipe out R rst off, I don't think U2 is 1920 and tl tly an IRA, or even a Sinn Civil War of representative. And I don't ation of the ; the IRA could be equated to eminent is tic warriors." ' is this here* istorically, Ireland has been a support of tl luered land. Those "ancient people liki 5...race of skilled warriors..." Kennedys, a Norsemen who overwhelmed caused the 1 "occupied" a race of peoples ous and wel fled toward the interior of years, and e> nd as the conquerors remained he coast to establish posts on h cities like Dublin now stand. ints lestions for. jSi What makes you think as president you coi spend it more efficiently than the one vv earned itTMr. Clinton, you have tried for years in Arkansas, and your state remains at bottom, the 128 tax and tee hikes endorsed you may have some bearing on your poor she ing. What do you think, Mr. Clinton? Mr. Clinton, in Washington, D.C., the cit health commissioner says school nurses will c pense condoms to students, even if parents wi letters requesting their children not be issi them. Mr. Clinton, who do you support torials to be EDITOR IN CHIEF|[ speaker. What I am talking about is the recent mi culturalism seminar given by Julia Hare, a cl cal psychologist from San Fransico. Less than 200 people showed up. Not eve Datebook request was made. And that's frt How did they expect people to know about event? Carolina Program Union apparently g: iM r r\r\ n j tt?ii a *: j o>i,juu, lvesiuence nan association uuna $500, Student Government Association allocs $500 and the main sponsor, the Association African American Students, gave $1,000. I wouldn't label it a waste if the organizati had adequately advertised the important p gram, but without it students are gypped of U money. And the other question is: In bad econoi times and numerous budget cuts, does U need to spend that much on a single spea with other more important needs at hand? It become a trend by many of these organizati to bring expensive speakers to this campus. It is not needed. Think about the students 1 and foremost. Think about the free midni movies that Carolina Program Union could h shown with the money, think about the li\ conditions that could have been improved RHA and think of the organizations who v i lll'll i legitimize British rule C^tvidllO : land ownership. But i ourselves about the t a sltic past of Ireland JL^lVC"rVl( , the Roman Catholic more to "conquer" the t0 the editor: han ihe British, unless \ was g,ad ,0 re? is pari of the Celtic article jn Sep, ; iu waul IU imiuic uic , A .. " about the araduat practices still seen in f , Innismore of the Aran Somaha and lhe re' to raise money lor e IRA was split over desolate country of 1920 and the struck me funny h 1 of 1916, just as most U2, the band wit Matter of fact the Free was pasted right i ment helped the British easily and soon we epublican rebels after jn 1985 B0p (~ lis all lesulted in the "politically consci< 1923. So. your associ- s|ars incll)ding u2 IRA with the Irish aov- , . ... ?. er 111 order to rais< inappropriate, likewise . . Jitary Irish- American s,arvlnS vlctl,ns he IRA. Ironically, it's ^'lcy bi"cd Live ; jC.E. Holman, the ^"day benefit con nd Bob Jones that have simultaneously i roubles to be as tortur- Philadelphia. Phil ( 1 fueled for the last 20 of "Live Aid," uns /en longer. himself by perfo sides of the ocean Carl Maas an ait>um "We A Psychology senior mil C^ton k commissioner or the parents? Mr. Clinton, do you think the free distribuR -l tion of condoms is a good idea? If so, why? f Because it works? How, when statistics show . an epidemic of teenage pregnancy and sexually v|| communicated diseases, at a time when sex HHi education and free contraception are readily available. Your comments would be appreciat ed. uM Finally, many claim you have an immense 'ho enthusiasm for government, having been in it all 12 of your. life. You have put virtually everything the on y0ur policy agenda. In your view, is there by one human want or difficulty you don't define >vv" as a public policy problem? As all have been told, nothing you have done y s in your private life is of relevance in this caml|s~ paign. We all differ on what is relevant or irrelfhe evant. We all agree the issues are relevant, so it )e(J would be prudent for you to give some answers the before November. i staff opinion In refused a portion of their important funding m needs last year by student government. M Please think again before spending so much * of student fees on a poorly advertised event. Our Letters to the Editor section has a policy of trying to print all letters received. But, as ilti- many may notice, some of your letters are not ini- always getting in. There are a few reasons for this. First, our n a policy says it should be between 200-250 words. -cH Some letters we print are longer than this. We the are not so strict that we have an official word counter to censor all letters containing 251 ave words or more. Letters of decent length will be tec* considered for publication. Also, The Gamecock li?5* UCC11 U5>CU UitUiy U111CS IU IU1I Oil 1JOUC llllU 0 the ground. We don't want to censor anybody, but certain issues could 20 on forever. ons >ro Cases in point: the issue of racism went on ir for almost half of the semester a year ago. We continued to receive letters about Greeks this rnjc semester after a male student stirred up the ket3q tie with a short, well-worded letter. Last year, I had my first complimentary letter about one of has my columns, but it wasn't even considered ons because it went on for three typed pages about the person's own dilemma, first So don't think we are censoring letters or ight printing the ones we like. We even print ones ave that insult the very values we stand for. dng But I will recommend one thing: Write as by short and concise as possible, and we can almost /ere guarantee your letter will be published. whose profits went directly to charI jap The "Feed the World" campaign CUOri of 1985-1986 succeeded in raising a great deal of money, but that is all. At the time, many concertid the tront-page goers referred to "Live Aid" as the '5 S GameCOCk YVr\rvii c tL' nf ?h^> lOSA'c hill ' T VV/UOIWVA v/l UIV * / Oj UUI 1V/V7IV e student from jng hack, that is such a farce. It has :ent local et torts proved to be nothing but a short his war-torn and lived and short-sighted event for However, it opportunistic pop music bands like ow the story on pj2, who bask in the spodight and h a "message," the "cacophony of psychedelic next to it. How excess." The campaign simply has 'orSel- not followed through on its goal of reldot and other providing relief. "Feed the World" ous" pop music js another example of our failure in > banded togeth- the 1980's and 1990's to act on and s money for the continually address serious global of East Africa, issues. <\id ' as a global, As the starving continues in East ceil. It occurred Africa, tell me something. Where n London and are the "politically conscious" rock Collins, the hero stars today? selfishly gave of rming on both David Wick . They even cut History graduate ire the World,"