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y Hospital ' New facility propose rlpnprvp? lift 1p ntfpn \^i/ i r v/ l; i/i The new chairman of the University trustees says he'd like to see a new he serve the university's medical school, ? a moment's consideration. The USC Medical School was ere physicians whose clinical training v Veterans Administration hospital or othi The decision to build a second medi< , at best. To suggest the school ougi construction of a teaching hospital raise mitment of the board's new chairman, streamlined university system. According 10 a repon in ine Mate n already has plenty of hospital beds, mitting process is the state Dep Environmental Control, which doesn't beds in the county for at least five year: Objections have been raised by ho: County and by the South Carolina Hosf Fred Sheheen, the state commission* * the state pays $18 million a year to si at the Medical University of South ( couldn't be expected to bear the burden The Commission for Higher Educati* to endorse the project before it could b( USC President John Palms has pled; the university system he took over lasl some notable progress. Meanwhile, the diminished with the economic down attention should be directed toward soi ing a duplicative program. ? The Char /N F ) "l^r ... AMD ikI A 1 ATrM6i>T?D To tn? CtcQMECOC access, H?*e Age mePfion TUESDAY'S PResnsHVAL CLI CAROLINA. tSail Editor in Chief Managing Editor v. Copy Desk Chief News Editors Viewpoints Editor Features Editor Sports Editors Photo Editor Graphic Editor Cartoonist Asst. 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First clas The Gamecock is a registered student organi Carolina and is partially funded by student activi V al tion of South Carolina board of )spital built in Columbia to lis nronosal doesn't deserve r i ated to train primary care vas to be received at the er community hospitals. :al school was questionable it to be expanded with the ;s questions about the comDr. C. Edward Floyd, to a ewspaper, Richland County The lead agency in the perlartment of Health and see any need for additional s. spital officials in Richland lital Accnriatinn ir of higher education, says ipport the teaching hospital Carolina in Charleston and i of another facility. )n, incidentally, would have i built. ged himself to streamlining ; year, and so far has made university's resources have turn. The new chairman's mething other than expandleston Post and Courier 8v??n aiV? 13% cerot 7% SPftRlrf Ste% CPRt06CJ?t> ! "uRM <5F ?>/?aJT5 KS REcE/UT* rtf?o RESULT'S OF period /a/ 5o\jrti IhJ'H. fCOCR ....Greg Rickabaugh Patrick Villeqas Jay King Chad Bray J.T. Wagenheim Jack Dunn Lee Clontz .Nancy Salomonsky Tim Thorsen Stephanie Newlin Ryan Sims Paul Jon Melissa Tennen Jennifer Fuller Rob Rodusky Lea Clayton ....Kristin Buehlman Gregory Perez Brian Garland Jim McKellar Laura Day Jim Green Erik Collins Renee Gibson Brian McGuire Erin Galloway Rika Hashimoto ived. Letters should be no more le, or year and major if a student, >hone number. The Gamecock k is the student newspaper of the three times a week on Mondays, ing semesters and weekly during iversity holidays and examination te of the editors or author and not unications is the publisher of The , the parent organization of The luests and other correspondence 85131, The University of South is postage paid at Columbia, SC. zation of the University of South ty fees. iewpo Electoral system uncle "Your people, sir, are a beast!" That is what A1 at the framing of the Constitution in 1787 when s president be elected by a direct vote of the people. Hamilton and his supporters felt the Amerii equipped to independently decide who should be p Hamilton's argument was the formation of the oppressive system which even today chooses our m Under the system, each state is given a number < with the more populated states getting the most el< exception of Maine, which lets its two congressio rate votes, the states operate under a "winner ta* The candidate who wins the most popular votes in electoral votes. If someone wins at least 270 electo they become president. This method is unfair because if a candidate doe votes in a state, any popular votes they did wii nonexistent. If one person receives 51 percent and state's electors go to the first candidate. In states h< electors, such as California, a small difference in p candidate to lose the entire race. Under the electoral college system, a candidate the 12 most populated states, get no votes in the become president. This means it is possible for the popular vote to lose a presidential election. Thi times, lastly occurring in the Grover Cleveland/Bi of 1888. Cleveland received 95,000 more popular \ a majority in the college and became president. False results are not the only problem with the Constitution does not bind electors to vote the wt voted. Electors can, if they wish, vote for whome representation of the general population is not guar: The last time Congress considered doing away 1979. This proposal was defeated, largely bee Seventy-three percent of Southern senators in 19 electoral college (including Strom Thurmond and 1 compared to 58 percent of other senators around th< It is time to let go of the past. The electoral col the democratic process and needs to be removed much power and has been proven to give false re the people, is the real beast in this situation. ? Marc LaFountain, Columnist Student govern As president of the student body, I am responding "T5 the information provided by the managing editor in his Nov. 3 editorial. The managing editor mentioned three of the specific I platform goals of my student government | administration and wrote that students have not ( heard "a peep about these goals or their progress." ? Yviiiic una Maiciucm icpics>cnu> uic view ui one person, I would like to provide additional information to give the student body a more informed view of student government's work during the current year. In addition to fulfilling constitutional responsibilities, with regard to my specific platform goals, we have accomplishing the following: We have established ties to the mayor's office and the Columbia City Council and have made proposals concerning pedestrian safety and parking which the city is currently studying. We have added more students to the Parking Appellate Court, so there are more students serving than ever. We have obtained funding from area businesses for student organizations by providing students with the discount cards and books. We have established an active minority affairs cabinet committee in student government. We are currently implementing an information hotline for campus events in order to better serve aiiu lniorm commuung siuaenis. We have voiced student concerns at the General Assembly and formed the South Carolina Coalition of State-Supported Student Body Officers for this purpose. We have held two jneetings with students to Student body TTTk i ing sure n VF responds trough ani of care or n tri wfrtri that or?a1 W WUiUlllllS "7 was also Pat Villegas' To the editor: mer, I sent i I would like to briefly address The Gamecc several points in both Monday's In addition, column by Rochelle Killingbeck Safety Comr and Wednesday's by Pat Villegas. tact a memt First, I would never knowingly staff with tfc lie or misrepresent the facts in Senate legisl order to gain votes. Although I given to a re] found it too expensive to keep the Our studei Thomson Student Health Center are very stuc open extra hours (about $75-100 held two per student per year), 1 was part of Meetings" w the group securing an automatic the students. $500 health insurance policy for two-way stre any fee-paying student. My main more than w: concern was the health of the stu- you have ai dents at USC, and that end is being cerns, pleas served. Ms. Killingbeck is correct come by our that enough research may not have been done prior to election; however, I was not privy to much of the Studeni ints ross l mocratic College serve exander Hamilton said The electoral college is a omeone suggested the country's leader. Most of our other institutio can people were not tary ideas balanced with a kin resident. The result of decidedly American. electoral college, an It was the United States wl ition's leader. ances and we separate our bi of presidential electors specific powers with opposing ^ctoral votes. With the In our form of government, nal districts cast sepa- the separation of the governnr :e all" elector system, separation of those properly i a state takes all of its emotions and whims constantl ral votes in the nation, Let's not fool ourselves. T only elect, supposedly, the bes :s not receive the most for us and for those who do nc i there are treated as Aristotle defined democrac another 49, all of the byproduct of consensus gove iving huge numbers of prevent, ercentages can cause a Minorities which were seei ning need to be protected fron can win a plurality in resentative government comes remaining 38 and still For the same reasons we do national winner of the do not choose our commands: s has happened three college system is a compromi enjamin Harrison race, proportional system of repres 'otes, but Harrison had based on their national ticket'< The electoral college also p electoral college. The eign states in a federal system ty their state residents Presidential candidates in o ver they want to. The in individual states and not ju anteed. done by ignoring a vast majoi with the college was in the larger states, ause of Southerners. The electoral college was f< 79 voted to keep the nature. It is this same distrust ^ritz Hollings). This is branches of government. The 2 nation. last 203 years and so have the lege is a perversion of Tradition may be the main . It gives electors too also the reason we do not ch; suits. The college, not years. for The Gamecock ? Jack Dunn, ment plays crucia hear concerns with another Town Meeting ?^e( scheduled for November 23rd at 7 p.m. in Russell House 303. Our door is always open, and we are accessi- h ble. . ^ Furthermore, we have taken a proactive . approach in other areas of concern to students. in^ These accomplishments include the following: p^ Successfully lobbied for the approval of the ^v? draw schedule for the sale of the bonds for the , . new music building. Pj Studied safety on campus and identified loca- meni tions of seven new call boxes. oLhe Developed communication between schools , in the SEC with the first project being the SEC e, eC Presidential Straw Poll. one Hosted the inaugural SEC Student Body Officers Conference in order to learn ways to yfurther benefit our student body. ^ " Assisted in securing funds for the proposed ^ ^ Welcome Center on campus. ^ Updated and improved the Safety/Lightways pMap on campus. ^ Located more bicycle racks for areas in need s_ . on campus. r Gained a compromise on the ring issue in the w-^ University Bookstore insuring that more than* ^ one company is represented. Provided more representation for graduate prior to taking office (^AnQOrvntivP y main goal was mak- YaUT t Lsr^nausesuoffeirack newspaper K>?ey, and . achieved ^ quite disappointed by article. Over the sum- jQ the ecjitor: information packets to just wkat we needed, an x* with no response. Rush Limbaugh.worship each time I attend a ?rACri. . . A ... nittee meeting, I con- WASP bombar^ us ,W,U! cc ter of The Gamecock vauve rhetonc- CouPle 11,31 ie results. Finally, all character assaults on anyone ation and minutes are docs not tall into the whitet porter in advance. t>?w tie-wearing, silver-spoon it government officers gory and you have USC's Cai lent-oriented. We have Spectator, publicized "Town By the time this is publi ith zero attendance by Mr. Locklair and his out-of-i Communication is a friends will have to go back :et, and we have been the closet for four years. W1 illing to do our part. If surprising to me is Mr. Loc iy questions or con- was actuaiiy abie to find five ,e do not hesitate to iege-age individuals to ech< office opinions of the Pat Robertson; Kelli A Lister Quay^es worldt Body Vice" President The cons,ant character-ba: Fire i s as unique buffer unique institution for the election of our >ns are borrowed from Europe's parliameng-like executive, but the electoral college is tiich first used a system of checks and bal oneKoc nf nr\x rommnnf nllrvr?alir*r? lauvuv/o \ji ?V/ winiiiv^iii aiivA,auii^ l\J Uiv^lil powers in the other branches, another separation is not often mentioned: ?ent and the governed. There is an implied elected and the governed, whose passions, y need to be checked. lie people do not make the decisions. We it and brightest among us to make decisions it even choose these representatives, y as the tyranny of the majority. It is this mment that the electoral college seeks to i as factions of the electorate in the beginn rule of the majority and this is where repinto play. > not make laws by national referendum, we ir-in-chief by direct election. The electoral se between a parliamentary system and the entation whereby parties come into power ; percentages. romotes the power of individual and soverur electoral process are forced to campaign ist gain a popular majority, which could be ritv of smaller states and onlv camnaioninc J J I O o simulated on the basis of distrust of human that has created the institutions of the three electoral college has served us well in the three branches. reason we keep the system, but tradition is ange our form of government every twenty Viewpoints Editor for The Gamecock il role at USC mts by giving them a voice on the student irnment cabinet and in the university gover :e process. is evident that we have been active in repiting and working for the best interest of >lina. Iso, the managing editor indicated that we not communicated our accomplishements :tively. To improve our communication, we provide the Gamecock with a box in the ent Government office, so they know what appening. We value the Gamecock as a munication tool to the student body, and we : they will take advantage of the additional rmation we are providing to them, hermore, we hope they will be more effecin reporting this information to the student f. le managing editor also unjustly criticized ibers of the student government cabinet and r branches of student government. As an ted officer, I will not stand idly by and con: these attacks on members of student govlent. These students are the backbone of snt government. Without them, we could do ially nothing to serve our peers. They are eaders who work hard and maintain a sense itegrity around campus, in the student senate on university boards and commissions, nally, I reiterate that we are here to serve will continue to pursue ways to improve the ent life of all of us here at Carolina, eover, we will continue to communicate students both directly and through the stumedia. ? Tom Young is student body president. of President-elect Clinton was indicative of how out of touch the party has become. Since opening in New Hampshire, the Republican campaign has been based solely on *" the issues of character and trust. How ironic to have George Bush, former director of the CIA, quesother tion the honesty and integrity of ping President-elect Clinton. The extnser chief of the most corrupt and with covert organization in the world who wants to discuss honesty and openiread, ness. The desperation of the cate- Bush/Quayle campaign was an olina insult to our intelligence and a disgrace of the American political sysshed, tern. touch Mr. Locklair, his staff and coninto servative Republicans in general tat is need to wake up, loosen up and, :klair most importantly, pack up! i col- The days of Alex P. Keaton are 3 the finally over! s and Frank J. Marchese shing BAIS junior