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7^4-5 w% VUllllg 'Motor voter' bill excellent method to allow participation, eliminate waste The bill that would allow Americans to register to vote dui the process of renewing a drivers' license is back in from Congress. Nicknamed the "motor voter" bill, the legislation first appet in 1991 when it was passed resoundingly by Congress, only tc vetoed by then-President Bush. Congress is now trying again with a Democrat in the W House. The first step was made Wednesday when the Ser passed the bill by a vote of 62-37. And again, the vote was mostly along partisan lines with n Republicans voting against it. The politics around this bill is ridiculous. In a country wl voter participation is lower than all Western industrial democrat except for Switzerland, it seems most ploys to increase voter re; tration and thus votine would he nraised here. The "motor voter" bill is an excellent way to get more peopli register, which increases their opportunity, if only slightly, to ca ballot in a future election. In addition to making it easier to participate in our electi process, this type of system would allow the government to c< bine the paperwork from two currently separate departments. This legislation would also eliminate the need for voter regis tion drives, currently a popular way to get people register Unfortunately, there have been problems with these types of dri right here at USC. SGA held periodic drives last year to register students in ti for the November election. But when some 200 of the forms w lost, there were a number of students who were denied their con tutional right to vote. Accidents such as these would be eliminated if citizens w automatically registered when thev get their driver's license. Of course, people without a driver's license can still register old way. But this group only makes up a small minority of the v ing-age population, causing only limited paperwork. The "motor voter" bill provides a win-win situation. We elii nate some of the worst bureaucracy while at the same time all people an easier way to participate in the electoral process. Republicans in the House, where the bill will next appt should think twice before voting against this legislation. The m people involved in the process, the better. And this should be r ognized by both conservatives and liberals. The motor voter bill makes it easier to vote, and that's progn Besides, anything to get the most apathetic voters, the students, participate is worthwhile. The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 words maximum. Full name and professional title or year an< major, if a student, must be included along with an address and phone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit for style, possible lit or space limitations. The Gamecock will not withhold names under tin circumstances. __________________ Taxes not necessary to cut national deficit Well, it should come as no i surprise that Mr. Bill Clinton is I nothing more than an old-time tax-and-spend liberal. His major campaign platform ? the economy, stupid ? and all of the i shallow promises that went along with it have quickly been brushed aside for some good old-fashioned tax-and-spend liberalism. WESLEY His deficit reduction package, which will not cut the deficit in half over four years as . , 44r^ promised, is not based on broad lhe'r P|an- ,falled P""1"* spending cuis, but rather on the Fam,hes Flrst- 18 a 8 ple solu largest hot increase in U.S. his- t,on to f?slmP e- but hlShl> torv. The total tax increase over ex'2s"era e Pro cm\ four years would be $238 bil- f , "7 P"*?* me'n,crease, " lion; so much for the promised federal sf nd,n8 l0Ibe,l led >< middle-class iax relief. 2 year' 1993' 9,3 w .u -7i . f would still provide Congress More than 73 percent of ... tin ? / . 7, ? . .. with $19 billion more than the> Clinton s proposed deficit .. , . ^ J reduction plan" would come ew ,aSh-^ ' V r,if lve~yea] from new or increased taxes. Per,od' lb,s caP ii,-.u a a c . .in spending would save $56? With proposed defense cuts put .... F . . .. e I . . .. X billion, without raising taxes aside, federal domestic spending 7 will increase by $270 billion ^ c over the next four years. 1 he "non pro. It has been shown time and ^ S405 b.ll.on ot the saw time again that the def.cit can- ,nf be u?fd '"J, ,rea. def"c' not be reduced by raising taxes. ^36 billion tor lam, Carter, Reagan and Bush all ly lax r^let 7" al s?meon{ promised to attack the deficit, carfs hbou' lhe middle class yet it continued to rise durintt and 327 b,",on for '"^sunen, their 16 vears in office. " lax_rel,ef 10 businesses. In 1982, 1984, 1987 and lhe Henta?e has 1990, major increases in taxes ProP05^ a 1tf^s,bIe Plan thal were followed by increases in Cl.nton would be wtse to conthe deficit sider. The cause of our federal Clinton,' after receiving great deficil is no1 facl mat hard' criticism for his so-called eco- workm" Ameriams Pa-V 100 few nomic plan, told his critics if ^ ^ cause of dle cleficil i! they did not like his plan, then out-ot-control government they should come up with a bet- sPon<hng. ter one Taxing all of the "nch peoWell The Heritage p,e who make over $30>000 a Foundation, a Washinglon-basSd Jf* ,wdl not reduce our deficit public policy research institute, Umi1 11,6 government realizes has donVjusi thai. ZmUS' ?Ur SP "8 7 If Bill and Hillary Clinton ?h' '' '"vestments - die cannot solve the problem, then def,c" W,U conunue 10 ?rowhow does the Heritage Foundauon propose it be done/ - r t, r* F F for The Gamecock. View nng V Of J? ? hhhh > be Thirty-five years ago, President Ei ^ industrial complex" playing too stror 1 e or else any small cutback could devas late Friday's announcement that the Ch closed has stunned and outraged SoutJ lOSt Ac n rpcnit nf thp Dpfpn cp l^pncirtri 34,000 government jobs and near lere statewide impact of the cutback could ;ies billion. gis- Charlestonians are rightly outragec necessary. 3 t0 Ike's warning has become painfull} ~t a for the nation. In order to cut the d term economic stability, the military cutbacks will save nearly $5.6 billion ^ While the closing will hurt Charle 3m~ six years before the full phase-out i investment, the shipyard could becoi tra- seaports on the East Coast, ed. While this may not create as many ves sibility of being more profitable than t Many have criticized the decision me one because Sen. George Mitchell, ere Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in neighbt ^ Unlike Portsmouth, Charleston has several other safety nets to provide soi Naval Shipyard is the heart and sot ere would guarantee the death of New 1 producing city, the During the recession, New Hampsl rot- state, and it has yet to begin recoverir would be far more destructive to N mi- would be to South Carolina, ow The base closure committee careful ings on local economies, and while it ,ar Charlestonians must realize that the ( or^ nation to worry about. Perhaps next time we should heed cc~ else we run the risk of losing more thz -ss- C.E. Holman , to 1 )d Negative term 'babe' y unnecessary to use To the editor: In his frequent "Top 10" lists, Matt Hanley continues to use the term "babe" in reference to women tof the Carolina community. Women contribute greatly to the enhancement of life at Carolina in student organizations, in the classroom and in the conference room. We do not deserve to be referred to in such a blatantly derogatory manner. If The Gamecock wishes to serve the university community, as is stated in its masthead, sexist language should cease to be a part of the paper. 1 do not tolerate sexism from my peers; nor will I tolerate it from a student newspaper which purports to be the voice of Pnrnlinn T 5 Wendy E. Powell i Political science sophomore 1 Top ten commentary I serious put-down ' To the editor: r In the March 3 edition of The NEWSROOM IT ; 777-7726 P.O. BOX 85131 i-wiivi in \?iuei Associate Editors 1 Viewpoint Editor [ Copy Desk Chief News Editors 1 Asst. News Editors Carolina! Editor i Asst. Carolina! Editor i Sports Editors . Asst. Sports Editor Photo Editor Asst. Photo Editor Graphics Editor 1 Asst. Graphics Editor Cartoonist 1 Copy Editors Student Media Coordinator Production Manager Asst. Production Manager Advertising Manager Faculty Adviser Graduate Assistant Darkroom Technicians point ,_CRO Is closing the Char [ senhower warned of the "mililaryig a role in the national economy, tale local economies. 1 * xt i ol: j _ 1,1 i_ , iai lesion ixavai ompyaru wouiu oe h Carolina. nent's cutbacks, the state will lose ly $1 billion in revenues. The be as much as 70,000 jobs and $3 1. However, the base closings are / true, not only for Charleston, but eficit and ensure America's longbudget needed to be reduced. The a year. ston's economy, they have almost s completed. With proper private ne one of the largest commercial private sector jobs, it has the pos lie Navy. to close Charleston as a political D-Maine, refused to close the iring New Hampshire. ? a bustling tourism industry and me economic stability. Portsmouth il of Portsmouth, and its closure Hampshire's third-largest incomelire suffered more than any other ig. On scale, Portsmouth's closing ew Hampshire than Charleston's ly weighed die effects of the closis sad that Charleston will suffer, :ommittee has the interests of the ! the advice of our presidents, or in just jobs. is a columnist for The Gamecock. PQg Gamecock, a top 10 list concerning th former SGA President Tom Young th was printed and distributed throughout campus. The list contained the top 10 things Tom Young would do in his last week of office. Most of the list was commentary ( or "put downs," to say the least, about Young's progress in office ^ and actions he would take after office. This type of criticism is T expected when a person holds a high office such as SGA president, h( yet, when aimed at a university m organization, it causes controversy. & One top-ranking item was aimed at st; the Kappa Sigma fraternity in par- m ticular. Matt Hanley, the author of the ca list, seemed to feel that Young e-' would have his "Kappa Sig goons" wl beat him up. Whatever Young and I11 Hanley's relationship concerns, 'n these sort of generalizations and ^ derogatory remarks give rise to bad ^ images and breakdowns of the fra- ke ternal system and the student body as a whole. The whole top 10 may have been fa just a joke, but for some of us, it Qc was a serious put-down. In the ve future, we should commend our jj. former student leaders and leave ^ VJJUIIl UNIVERSITY OF SOUTK Patrick Villegas Lee Clontz, J.T. Wagenheim Gordon Mantler Brian Garland w Jack Dunn, Melissa Tennen ei .Lea Clayton, Rochelle Killingbeck we Jennifer Fuller ver; Melinda Waldrop ..Nancy Salomonsky, Tim Thorsen Qr Rob Rodusky Stephanie Nevvlin Kelly Johnson pub Gregory Perez pan Chris Muldrow Paul Jon con Chris Davis, Thorn Harman .Jim McKellar Laura Day Jim Green Cob Renee Gibson Gf tl Erik Collins jpn Brian McGuire ...Erin Galloway, Rika Hashimoto SSFiF leston Naval Base neces CON^^j The Clinton administration, along wi for base closure, has made a terribly round of announced closings. In essence, the United States is prep security it took almost a half century to < This enormous reduction not only af United States and the nation's safety, nations. In my opinion, a much more prudent appropriate. South Carolina, as it now stands in tl to endure one of the largest percentage c We stand to lose as many as 25,000 could double or triple in terms of civili the businesses that will close because c patronage. The Charleston bases seem to have 1 profitability or their importance in the < tary. The Charleston Naval Base has been our national defense, and its workers h prominence for their efficiency. This downsizing is occurring much to needed to decide where the most effectiv We must also consider the instability We must be prepared to deal with interni be cropping up all over the world, by i not cutting our defense too drastically. Many may argue that Clinton has pre and new job training in the places where This will probably work about as well tary plan. It would take an enormous increased taxes to fund this project, not would lake to put it into effect I believe that we should be making it and analyzing each situation specifically We live in an extremely unstable worli ble upcoming international situations wi die same time putting hundreds of thousa Jason Webb Schrader is % ---.ir r. fPv **"* , * *"r - V e controversial remarks to some- park ing less public. lengi and Richie Estes force Chris Warner T Kappa Sigma fraternity entii rem* )n-campus housing ^ n inconvenient joke stude 0 the editor: f?ur 1 recently found a flyer from the on"c )using department shoved under frien y door emblazoned boldly with Can e statement, "Keep life simple, still ay on campus." I find the depart- I ve ent's word choice bitterly ironic. just The "simple" life I've led on myse mpus so far has entailed forced T1 ection from my home ? for taut, hich I pay dearly ? over every ?ds? eak and long weekend, strangely and flated fees for occupation of camI >rm space over breaks, and more live ; reed ejections when noise levels remi am the frat quad or elsewhere depai ep me from sleep or study and try. imerous other inconveniences. It The parking situation is also out- the it geous. Spaces almost constantly seme :cupied by university service smile hides in University Terrace's iveway, a labeled fire zone, block ings up all day, but anyone Icock I CAROLINA COLUM The Gamecock is the student newspe th Carolina and is published three tin dnesdays and Fridays during the fall a ;kly during both summer sessions, w sity holidays and examination periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock uthor and not those of the University c The Board of Student Publications an< lisher of The Gamecock. The Student ] snt organization of The Gamecock. Change of address forms, subscripti espondence should be sent to The Ga University of South Carolina, Columb Subscription rates are $46 a year. Fii iimbia, SC. The Gamecock is a registei le University of South Carolina and is t activity fees. I ?I ssary? JbSI ith the presidential commission unwise decision in their latest iaring to dismantle the military :reate. fects jobs, the economy of the but also the security of many plan of action would be more le proposed closings, will have uts in military personnel, military jobs, and that number an jobs. This is not to mention >f their dependence on military 3een chosen regardless of their overall functioning of the milian extremely important part of ave continuously won national 0 quickly, and more analysis is e cuts should be made. of the world in which we live, ational conflicts, which seem to emaining militarily strong and posed funds for urban renewal these cuts will take place, as his homosexuals in the miliamount of money from your to mention the many years it ruch more reasonable decisions before proceeding, d. Are we willing to face possith a deficient military while at mds of Americans out of work? a columnist for The Gamecock. wswtrph 1 a I w A 1 M w I I IwJ mbhUMUP ed there in the evenfng for any lh nf limp ic nmmntlv lipt-pip/l ? ,w rv"TM; uv"v,vu towed by USC's alert police he university wonders why e floors of campus housing tin empty, when, on the whole, becomes much simpler offpus in a quiet apartment that snts can still call home whether a break or not. After three or moves out of my "convenient" ampus apartment and into ds' houses over vacations (so I have somewhere to sleep and keep my job in Columbia), decided it is much simpler to sign a real lease and save :lf some trouble, te housing department's blafinancially opportunistic meihin which we are fined, ticketed towed merely for living on >us, the same way we would in any other house we pay for, nds me that the housing , rtment is its own little indusserves neither the students nor interests, and, after this ;ster, I'm leaving it with a Catherine Threadgill English junior ? ADVERTISING 777-4249 B I A , SC 29208 iper of the University of nes a week on Mondays, ind spring semesters and ith the exception of uni: are those of the editors >f South Carolina. i Communications is the Media Department is the ons, requests and other mecock, P.O. Box 85131, ia, SC 29208. st class postage paid at red student organization partially funded by stu