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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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and not reduce the size or was jt l0 denigrate
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?st Moeser rather ironi- anonymous at
"the natural process of article claim UNC ha
' during the next three "lofty status" by pi;
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tors and cognates relat- schedule and see that
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in the country.
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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
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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
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