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Safety Some concerns jo home game weeker Halloween is tomorrow, and Ga Volunteers from Tennesee. The twc end should raise some concerns Halloween activities to follow. We have a lot to celebrate about and a movie (The Program) being 1 all need to be careful. The chaos th win) may result in some criminal ac As the partying shifts back to c; witn a group, mere is no reiiing wi of inebriated college students. For years now, the streets of Five on Halloween night, so those of u have to worry about get hit by ; Columbia has decided to not have tl feels people should not be carrying are hoping that leaving the streets must have forgotten that during a { (after the U2 concert), a college stu< persons driving through the area. With possibly hundreds of peopl for people to engage in illegal activii It now falls on individuals to 1 behavior and look out for the beha> tection will not be there. Have a good time enjoying the ga or lennessee win oe wearing orang all else, be careful. ? Thanks to Charles H. McAfee III f< In Wednesday's edition of The Gamei tnade to Mr. Bradley Bannon 's letter, i were left out, making the paragraph mentioned the right of a woman to have an abortion" was added withou Viewpoints Editor and The Gamecock I "OBJECTS IN MIRROR / THAN 7WEH APPEAR" "(Sail Editor in Chief Managing Editor Copy Desk Chief News Editors Viewpoints Editor Features Editor Sports Editors Photo Editor Graphic Editor Cartoonist Asst. News Editor Asst. Features Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Photo Editor Asst. Graphics Editors Asst. Copy Desk tditor Student Media Coordinator Production Manager Asst. Production Manager.. Faculty Advisor Advertising Manager Graduate Asst Darkroom Technicians The Gamecock will try to print all letters than 250 words. Full name and profession: must be included along with address ai reserves the right to edit letters. The Garni University of South Carolina and is publisl Wednesdays, and Fridays during the fall an< both summer sessions, with the exception c periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Cc Gamecock. The Student Media Departme Gamecock. Change of address forms, subscriptions should be sent to The Gamecock, P.O. E Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Subscription rates are $46 a year. First The Gamecock is a registered student or Carolina and is partially funded by student a V W 4 I* r a Halloween, 7 m id 1 e mecock football is hosting the > events coinciding this week- p, both for the game and the p{ with our recent winning streak Uh limed during halftime, but we 01 at may ensue (especially if we C tivity, so be on the lookout. T ampus and Five Points, travel bat could happen to thousands 01 tc 5 Points have been blocked-off is who celebrate there do not a car. This year, the city of J. te streets blocked off. The city beer from bar to bar, and they open will prevent it. The city h )ast celebration in Five Points A dent was abducted possibly by p & e in costume, the opportunity 0 ty becomes far greater. p be responsible for their own s dor of others. The police proh ime. Wear black since the Vols c e. And after the game, above ^ a ar his help with this editorial. ^ yynm^mm :ock, several editing errors were In the second paragraph, phrases incoherent. When Mr. Bannon choose, the phrase "whether to ^ t approval from the author. The regret the errors. i c j r'rnrltc Greg Rickabaugh Patrick Villegas Jay Wng Chad Bray , J.T. Waqenheim i Jack Dunn ] Lee Clontz j Nancy Salomonsky i Tim Thorsen ( Stephanie Newlin Ryan Sims Paul Jon , Melissa Tennen j Jennifer Fuller Rob Rodusky i Lea Clayton i Kristin Buehlman i Gregory Perez Brian Garland 1 Jim McKellar Laura Day Jim Green ( Erik Collins j Renee Gibson j Brian McGuire < Erin Galloway Rika Hashimoto 1 ] received. Letters should be no more I il title, or year and major if a student, j id phone number. The Gamecock icock is the student newspaper of the I led three times a week on Mondays, 1 spring semesters and weekly during if university holidays and examination those of the editors or author and not >mmunications is the publisher of The nt is the parent organization of The , requests and other correspondence Jox 85131, The University of South class postage paid at Columbia, SC. ganization of the University of South ctivity fees. lewpo Racist' labeling As editor in chief of USC's student newspatr, I serve the student body. I feel like I owe an explanation for the coments made in my Monday column, a column P] at has angered many people. | First, I did not say I supported Keith Billiot's j tter. Second, in the column, I quoted many ctreme opinions of white people on this camjs, not the feelings of the majority of white jople. But the quotes are reality. All the insults in ie world and all the attacks on the writer or iginator will not make the feelings go away, ailing people "racists" will not solve anything, he attitudes of those people must be addressed. Before we can begin to confront the problem f racism, we must confront reality. The reality is both blacks and whites continue /\? /? ? ffv /-vr\ f/A ? ?> > p ) use iicUMi wuius even wneii uiwse leinto ai^ Vfrican-Americans On Oct. 26 an open race relations forum was eld in the Russell House Ballroom. Africanjnericans made up the largest percent of those resent. I know that racism is quite alive, but it eems that only the oppressed have an opinion n the subject. Are there actually some white eople who are afraid of reality? I know that ome white people are afraid of the truth. The truth is something that White America as run from since the founding of this "great" ountry. As an African-American male student, know that I am seen as a threat to many. I see vhite women clutch their purses all the time, nd I've even remarked, "Your purse is too mall." One can walk through the fraternity |uad and see the Confederate flags in the winlows. That flag reminds me that this society is acist, and it reminds me of what happened to ay ancestors. It's very hard to be patriotic in a country in yhich an African-American can be brutalized or illed on video tape and have the offenders go ree. White American truth isn't necessarily African-American truth. How many Black The fact that racism still exists in America hould be no surprise to anyone. America is not he great melting pot people like to think it is. _ rhis country has been separated since day one. Some of the so-called founding fathers of this tation were slave owners. Knowing Thomas efferson, the writer of the Declaration of ndependance was a slave owner, how can we kck nitiianc nf Amari^o r^crxppf Hie n/rvrHe nf lie eiu^eno v/x runvi ivu ivopwi mo ??viwo v/* quality? He wanted indepedence from England, >ut would not grant that same freedom to the >eople who built this country economically. One aspect of race most people do not realize s that all races have evolved from black people. )ver the centuries lighter shades of skin tone leveloped as people moved to cooler regions, biologically, black cannot be derived from vhite, but white can be derived from black, fhis shows the ignorance of racists who tell >lack people to go back to their homeland, Africa, because everyone's ancestral home is tfrica. I do not want to alienate other races in the ssue of racism. Americans have been just as >penly racist to Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Billiot made ^tdm' misjudgement lo the editor: YOU broug Obviously, the young man who problem wrote the letter concerning "the way things really are," (Keith 3illiot), has made a thorough misudgment. My response to Keith J am ||| begins with an observation. As he lescribed the situation in which the roomir ^oung African-Americans could be ^ e(1jt witnessed as behaving like While I a 'Neanderthals," I wondered if this fie(j . was a personal experience, and did and his e? le incite these reactions? In other African-A words, tension towards an individ- angered bv jal yields hostile reactions, and \ get foj-'j from the negative manner in which male jt sc it seems Keith perceives African- moved aw; Americans, he would have made phone book he same, or similar, observation of wiQi me. \N any black person, regardless of nol taow they seemed to behave. For the As a member of two minority roommates :lasses (African-American and plethora of female), I have had several dis- ap 0f our \\ heartening experiences with ence does ] Caucasian-Americans who reacted annoy me as "Neanderthals" and had no the phone regard for me whatsoever, mend evei Fortunately, my intelligence and means of ] Christian upbringing prohibited me placing yoi from making ignorant assumptions, and my ro< so my final statement to Mr. Billiot mend evei is this: if you are so displeased number an< with the overall ignorance of Billiot hims African-Americans, you should will have p suggest to your white leaders of this "free" country to take misused funds and educate us. Give us the equal opportunities you have ints wrong, we must dea forum. S b< iDITOR-IN-CHIEfI always u I \ v A wo * *? have, got still offensive to most people. with one The reality is the Confederate flag still flies whites u over our Statehouse when everyone knows it did not was put there to oppose desegregation. thoughts The reality is some blacks hate the feelings Confederate flag, and some whites hate And ii Malcolm X clothing. were ad( But we should deal with reality. If you feel just one someone is a racist, you can call him a racist, If my but what does it solve? If he is a racist, should spent ha] we not address their attitudes and what is Becau behind their thinking and try to find a solution And il no longer embrace id ?? on camp 3 everybcK .isn't the | violence { felll ! iP ing the COLUMNIST I ?? * out of d f ^ ?&?> - simply s America A couple of weeks ago the Pope honored ply bein Christopher Columbus and credited him with approxi "planting the seeds of Christianity." What about Columb the seeds of slavery, oppression and colonial- liars, ism, which are things that this country would Just 1 later be built upon? underrej In a letter to the editor, it was expressed that Was it there was a fear that African-Americans would truly a i react violently to derogatory statements about oppressi them... is that because you might feel a little would t guilty about some of the united snakes of Native i America that wreaked havoc on our minds and say mori tried to rape an entire race of people of their Prejuc culture? practice Don't judge all by a few. If I did that, then have to from what I've seen, I guess all white students \mericans have you 1< rlHBH Washini F ~ TTT How t ^ in deptl nTOTTVTfTITnTf Eli whi Mil 'vv have ^ C O l^U M N I S T 1 ,r ' j 1 ^ history Asian Americans have been discriminatd accomp against by white America because they are seen Mandel; as threats to their jobs. They are targets because The ( many Asians have been able to live out the for P60! American dream. Many Asians have come to on racis this country without much money and have W5 been able to set up their own businesses. in atten< Although the opportunity is there for everyone, II see some Americans are spiteful toward Asians about because they are successful. Obviou: At the open forum on Monday, the question willing, of having a black history month came up. Some ?PPress< white people argue,"Why isn't there a white his- tal^ tory month?" My rebuttal to that question is that oppressi all through grade school, students in America 'ace lor are taught white European history. We all have trough learned about Christopher Colombus, George er raciaJ Mi ou/homeiand. Yolfask Another forum adore Africa so, and ciipopcfprj ecommend we return. OUggCdtctl ht us here; now remedy st To the editor: Mai Li Munoz The front-page article Psychology freshman Wednesday's (10-28) issue of T Gamecock quotes several sourc as saying that Monday's forum Ill D1111UI race relations could have be l?ltp Call him more effecbve- I therefore sugg( v"aM 1U111? that there be another forum in t or: near future, im perplexed and stupe- With the racism, bigotry, a: temerity of Mr. Billiot segregation that exist on this cai regious attack on the pUS) there is a need for open d merican race, I am cussion more often than just onct the constant harassment year. laving been his room- This time, however, interest :ems, although he has the issues should not be stimulat ay, the number in the by printing potentially offensi still lists him as living materials in The Gamecock, but ^ell, listen up everyone, raising awareness in a matter-t f fact yet, nevertheless, powerl past three days, my manner. This could be a joint effi anH T hivd wpiupH a ctoff onH norin tu,u 1 11UTV M VJ1 Ult iicwipapv^l OU111 unu vaiiv phone calls threatening student groups, for instance, ves. While this belliger- the same time, the organiz< lot frighten me, it does 0f the forum should make sc greatly. Vulgarity over there are no "scheduling conflici proves little. I recom- that supposedly deter majority si ryone resort to other dents from attending and parti protest rather than dis- pating... ir anger toward myself 0pen forum that takes in immates. I also recom- iess emotionally charged envirc yone find the correct ment can address the issues mc 1 get in touch with Mr. profitably and might provi >elf. am quite sure you answers and even solutions, lenty to say. Raimund Schi< ? Linguistics graduate stud? Aaron Brown Psychology senior il with reality ing it? my column, I feel it fulfilled two purest, it brought more people to the econd, it made people aware of other ssides the feelings of blacks who are le majority at race relation forums, man at the forum said white people to change for a change in our relations another to occur. It looked to me like ^ere not willing because many of them even show up. Some of the only expressed from white people were the I quoted in my column, f you listened, the issues I brought out iressed. It was a forum with more than side. column was so bad, tell me why people If of the forum addressing the quotes, se they are reality. : reality is offensive, I apologize. ea of tolerance >us like to get stinking drunk and call ly "dude." Don't tell me that violence answer, if your country was built on and oppression. I don't believe in turnother cheek; after a while I might run heeks and end up with a sore face. I'm tating the truth ? most young Africanns no longer embrace the idea of simg tolerant. We've tolerated enough for mately 500 years, from Christopher us to George Bush, both pirates and ike last year, the white students were presented at the race relations forum, fear, or was it simple aDathv? USC is nicrocosm of our society. The truth is, on fuels this country, and this country >e powerless without it. Just ask any \merican, if you can find one ... need I e? lice exists on both sides but racism is d only by those in power. We don't guess who that is. earned about? ?ton, Napoleon, and Abe Lincoln, many black people did you learn about 1 in grade school? Martin Luther King, tney, and George Washington Carver all en introduced to me, but you cannot tell e are only three important black people istory of the world. This is why a black month is needed, to learn about the ilishments of people such as Nelson a, W.E.B. Dubois, and Malcolm X. apen forum on racism was a great step Die to start seeing different perspectives m. The only problem I have with it was is such a low percentage of white people lance. :ms white people are not willing to talk the problems racism brings about, sly by the turnout, black students are It seems ironic that the race being ;d for over 400 years is more willing to out the problems of racism than the ar. I guess the guilt is a hard thing to many whites, but solving the problems conversation is a better way than anoth[ war. Gamecock biased To the editor: Were Chad Bray and Greg Rickabaugh at the same Gore rally I was last Friday night? From ?f where I was standing (on the stage) fre all I saw were row and rows of es heads. For your information, the on Secret Service estimated at least en 4,000 people in front of McKissick "st Museum, far more than your fighe ure. And if there were 200 College Republicans there, I did not see 31" them. The other 150 of them must is- have been hiding in the trees and * a were not a part of the Klan-like march from the back of the in Horseshoe to the rally site. They e(1 certainly have the right to be there, ve and their visit was not unexpected by (they always come). Time and time again, The Gamecock has proven it is both ort unwilling and unable to live up to ,us its promise to provide "unbiased and professional" coverage of major "i!> news events, this paper has gone as ,r^ far as it can go without breaking its te" own regulations to endorsing tu" George Bush. The students of USC should know their student activity fees are going to pay for a piece of a Republican propaganda. >n)re David Haller President, SC Young Democrats ? More letters on page 3