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Trust To win voters, candidates must run ethical positive campaigns Tonight marks the start of the 1993 student government campaign. At 6 p.m., all candidates for executive offices and senate can begin the campaign by speaking to groups, hanging posters and talking with individuals. Most students out there feel student government is a waste of time, reflected in the embarrassingly low voter turnout each year. Pathetically, this past year's turnout of about 10 percent was the highest in four years. Student government has the potential to be a great advocate and voice for the students, however, it's hard to do this accurately if onlv 10 Dercent vote. But this is by no means the total fault of the students. Many students see SGA officers' and senators' motives to serve as nothing more than building their resumes. This is not a healthy image, and it should be addressed directly by all of the candidates. Students want to see sincerity, and that seems harder to come by these days. People are tired of seeing officers and senators elected merely to have an office to campaign from for the next year. The sole reason to serve in an office should be to do just that: serve. And any candidates out there who know they are only doing this for their own benefit, and not for the betterment of the Carolina community, should withdraw immediately. The other primary factor in gaining students' trust is to lessen the slick, insincere politicking that has dominated USC's campaigns in the past. If there is anything that turns people off faster, it's insincerity. Inherently, Americans hate politics, and this goes for anything from the presidential race to campus elections. But what is even worse than slick politics is dirty politics. It should not be tolerated by anyone, and, as a newspaper that is here to serve the Carolina community, The Gamecock will do its best to keep the campaigns clean. If candidates believe they must lower themselves to dirty politics, this should be a sure sign of weakness and low self-esteem to voters, not to mention a lack of ethics. In other words, they are not the people we want representing us. Party politics in student government is another trend worth mentioning that has infiltrated itself into an area where it simply does not belong. On the campus level, it is plain stupidity to support candidates just because they are Democrats or Republicans. National politics do not affect parking, advisement or the j homecoming queen. If we had an arms race against Clemson, it might be a little more understandable. h . - i ob nr. Support the candidate who has the best stance on the issues. Reject party politics. Reject dirty politicking. Make the candidates earn your trust and respect. That's the only way we will ever truly solve our problems. Students must show concern over budget During the Christmas holidays, the Charleston Post and Courier quoted USC Provost James Moeser as saying the students didn't really care about the bud- * get crisis at the university. I 'HI As one of thousands of stu- I dents helping to pay his way through this land of higher education, I resented his remark. I PATRICK believed students do care about their school. It was just a case that students were uninformed ^ fac( ^ sniden(s rea|| ^ about the complexiues of USC s care budget crisis. Heck, it seems our attitude is if I suspected that when the stu- we are ive? four dents realized an additional $50 ff0m home (w0 mea|s a was tacked on to their tuition bill d a couple of homework because of a mid-year tuition assignments here or there and free increase,-students would grumble to the football games, we enough to make a bit of a roar ^ink everything is fine. Well, time came and passed, and Sufe (here ^ some s|udems we the students, said nothing who have |egitimate concerns Three weeks later, the USC abQU| ^ ations here at USC, Future Committee invited stu- bu(, be,ieve ^ majori ^ jl)sl dents to discuss some of the prob- fa [ime unti| ^ ^ handed lems they have seen as the only ^ ? payers here at USC. The future wha, ^ we ,0 d()? committee, which has been mak- wh doesn,t studen| rn. ing recommendations to umversi- mem d0 somethin worthwhiIe y President John Palms about and sluden, interest in USC s academic and economic uscFaffairs? -p,,,, have enough future, was to play the Russell . , , ' ? ? 1 J money and clout to change stuHouse Theater for a prime time , , .... . . . ? .... . . F dent attitudes around here, and T 71 f.K creating a new committee to work . /T ameeUng1<* he on the situation seems reasonable, landlord and tenants would be a , ^ ^ rnmenl way s udents could learn more has lhe biIit losmake real about UaC s economic situation, ... . , , I strides, and it would be comwhile dropping in a few good . ,, ,, , t . , , . . . 6 . mendable if they devoted more barbs against the administration Q . ... ? "... , . ? . . , , _ , time to their constituents, instead as to what is needed to be fixed L ? of themselves, here tn these hallowed halls. B Qf c the burden of Well the meeting was a nop. f ,ie$ wi(b $tudenls We alQne About 20 people showed up to mu$t s oursdves from bd represent the views of 26 000. dorman| and we mus, rajse Qur The students roar a tume into jeve| 0f consciousness to benefit a little chirp. piis university. So after months of trying to Do now ? before our make excuses for the student chance slj aw body, I guess I have to settle with Jrvy Class = JS m ' Remembering K Today marks the beginning of Black Various organiza- ,Mt' tions will sponsor |Sf programs and lec- I tures in honor of I ? ^ African-Americans and our culture. I I ask that students and faculty attend at ROCHELLE least one program in KILLINGBECK hopes they will learn about AfricanAmerican history and culture. I also encourage the USC community to review Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream speech. His speech, given 30 years ago at the Lincoln Memorial, has been dramatized by the media. As a result, most Americans are not aware of v , I Cf \'j -5 : t Future Committee the chans XTrpnntinl l\r . 1 i .i , . . J-iaauimaiiy, worthwhile, important versity is President Pi To the editor: There i The Viewpoint statement by Ann President P; Winchell made public a request of the UF that was made of the University there will b Future Committee in several letters of some fac and in several public statements by of others, me. The self-appointed chair of the reduce a bi UFC, Provost Moeser, and appar- cent compc ' - - - - tr\ _ ? ently the other members of the ^ percent committee have failed to seriously of the facul consider the suggestion, except per- This redu haps for Professor Peter Becker, what Prove president of the faculty senate and cally calls an appointed member of the UFC. elimination' In the Jan. 15 general faculty meet- years. This ing, the faculty voted against a res- courses n olution to dissolve the UFC, but majors, mii what was not mentioned by Ms. ed to said c Winchell is a consequence that the able. You ( UFC can have upon the educational Palms wil opportunities for students. courses. I think it is important to remem- I encoui ber that even the UFC will only interested ii offer advice to the provost and take all the president, but the president will to offer ad1 make the final decisions about about the fi changes made in the university. He has not told us what criteria he will use to make these decisions. He Sociolc will, so far as we know, make recommendations to the board of trustees, and, with their approval, NEWSROOM IflW M 777-7726 P.O. BOX 85131 UNIVE i Editor in Chief ? Associate Editors Lee Viewpoint Editor Copy Desk Chief News Editors Jacl Asst. News Editors Lea Clayti Carolina! Editor Asst. Carolina! Editor Sports Editors Nancy Sa Photo Editor Asst. Photo Editor Graphics Editor Asst. Graphics Editor Cartoonist Copy Editors Chr Student Media Coordinator Production Manager Asst. Production Manager Advertising Manager Faculty Adviser Graduate Assistant Darkroom Technicians Erin Gal ihe newlm deviser iSs Tax cur.. PcWTWoRR1 - WE'RE 5usf r=T,^- ;#/ 6orJNA TAKE -Taxes =^f A LITTLE /i ing's 'bounced c the "bounced check" part of the speech, whic is equally important. He began his speech by describing th Emancipation Proclamation, which Abrahar Lincoln signed 100 years ago to end slavery. He said, however, "One-hundred years latei Negro life is sadly crippled by chains of dis crimination." Dr. King then told his audience they wer assembled to cash a check that America ha failed to honor. "America has given Negro people a ba check which has come back marked 'insuffi cient funds,'" he said. "But," he said, "we refuse to believe the ban of justice is bankrupt." He also said the audience was assembled t cash a check for the richness of freedom and th security of justice. He warned that people who feel Negroe need to blow off steam, and would remain cor SEB3SI es will be enacted. Sports staff ai the future of this unito be determined by Ot Tar Heels ^ ilms. is no doubt that if To the ed'tor: alms puts into force any Once again The Ga C's recommendations writers prove their inal e the non-reappointment 8emly analyze their : ulty and the termination article entitled b There is no way to myfry , was factual] udget which is 90 perised of salary funds by claiI^panly in collegi and not reduce the size or was jt l0 denigrate consistently in the tof iction cannot come from year? ?st Moeser rather ironi- anonymous at "the natural process of article claim UNC ha ' during the next three "lofty status" by pi; will mean some or the schedule. Any reportei ow offered and the skills could locate Nc tors and cognates relat- schedule and see that ourses will not be avail- UNC has played five ran only hope President Michigan, Ohio State, 1 not eliminate your Virginia and Seton H whether any of Th rage everyone who is sports writers have se 1 his or her education to ^ tdey ^ad' ^ey W01 opportunities available |he. virtually unanimoi rice lo President Palms eS"!mate, SP??S ana iture of USC. UNC ? playing as w, in the country. Charles Tucker What idiot WOuld Charles tucker that Dean SmUh ^ >2V Associate Professor ? ? , hy rtssu more than any Qthei country. He is the p national championshi] 5aiHcc RSITY OF SOUTH CAROLIN Patrick Villeeas -r, ^ . . Clontz, J T Wagenheim ^ Gamecock i: Gordon Mantler South Carolina and i Brian Garland Wednesdays and Fri. < Dunn, Melissa Tennen weekly during both )n, Rochelle Killingbeck versity holidays and Jennifer Fuller r\ Melinda Waldrop Opinions expres: lomonsky, Tim Thorsen or author and not the Stephanie Newlin The Board of Stu Kelly Johnson publisher of The Gar ^erez parent organization c Chris Muldrovv c j . Paul Jon Change of addr. is Davis, Thorn Harman correspondence shoi Jim McKellar The University of Soi Laura Day Subscription rat Tm Green Columbia, SC. The C KEMk CoMin" ?f the Universi?y of ! Brian McGuire cient activity fees. Iloway, Rika Hashimoto 1T\^ f M iftAf 1 Si 0U6MT V 1: TO TARE [ Jig A UOAP" 111 OFF ^ D THEIR si aa,^s;heck' theory h tent, are in for a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual, e On the other hand, he said Negroes could n gain their rightful place in society without wrongful deeds, r, "Don't distrust all white people," he said, >- because some of them want to see justice as well. e Dr. King told the crowd not to turn back is because they will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and equality like a stream, d And, finally, he told the audience of his i- dream that one day people of different races and religions will join hands as brothers and sisters, k and equality and justice will prevail. Although this speech was delivered in 1963, o it holds true three decades later, e It is important to understand that the true meaning of the "I Have a Dream" speech or s equality and justice in America is just that, a i- dream. ' l"; ' 1 nalvsis *n the NCAA tournament more than J any other coach, has had more playvrong ers in the NBA and has had no NCAA violations. Coach Smith's success is not imecock sports based on the talent he's had, but how rility to intelli- UNC's team concept prepares stuiubject matter, dent athletes for consistent excel1CAA leader a lence. y incorrect as If the point of the article was colht. What was lege parity, then please be more suede? Was it to cinct; but if the point of the article iate basketball, was North Carolina bashing, then a team who is please be a man and say so, or move ) 10 year after to the gossip column where enlightened personal opinions belong. ithor(s) of the is achieved its Beau Seaton aying a weak Law student " with minimal )rth Carolina's SplomaS UmiMUWl S?I8queTstton The Gamecock will Uy to print e Gamecock a11 letters received. Letters en UNC play. should be 200-250 words maxijld agree with mum. 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