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Visitation RHA's new proposal f an excellent, practical Ever since visitation became resi been a center of controversy. Students have never liked it, but bornly stuck with their decision, wl by then-trustee Mike Fair. And in a recent survey, student: taste for the current restrictive polk ation survey, 90 percent of 1,471 s restrictive policy. In response to the current polk plus the survey results, RHA has ] tion policy. The proposal includes overnight "traditional" residence halls, such and more extensive visitation for ha ileges, such as Preston and Capsi some restrictions during the we Wednesday. RHA's proposal is an excellent ( sidered by the administration and say in USC's visitation policy. Most major universities in the S< no restrictions or very limited rest tion. USC's move in the late 198C than forward. Eliminating all visitation restricti idea. Even though college students she students have no consideration for roommates. If there were no restrict entertain their boyfriends or girlfri completely wrecking their roomm; the current policy eliminates these rir?n rlnrinn tha u;ool nr uuiiii^ UIV^ WV/V^iv. kHA's proposed policy will still through Wednesday, which is proba loosens as the weekend nears. And The current visitation policy is "compromise policy" is a good, we tion issue, and should satisfy most ents and administrators. By the time young people have be considered adults. The governn or older as an adult. Why can't the AIDS discussi of disease's se Just when society finally worked things out so that we could come out of the closet and have a little sex every now and again (even if you're not mar ried), two big uglies peek out from under our beds and start nagging at us. Over-population and AIDS have definitely put a damper on things. Hey, no fair! Just when I was beginning to get the hang of it, too. Monday night I listened to Ryan White's mother, Jeanne, tell about her son's five-year battle s with AIDS and the loneliness and 1 illness associated widi the disease. I saw pieces of people's sor- ( rows and frustration stitched into * the panels of the AIDS Memorial ( Quilt. Each panel represents 1 someone who died. That quilt weighs two-and-a-half tons now, and my heart felt about that heavy 1 when I left the program. One speaker urged us to wake * up and stop taking our own safety ^ in the community for granted. 1 AIDS has spread to all communities, she said, whether academic, 1 professional or religious. And it is ( not just a disease of the poor. 1 I tell you, if I hadn't already 1 been a believer, Monday night J would have done it for me. This is the second time within a month * tne subject ot AiDi nas naci sucn a strong impact on me. The first time, I had an interview ' with a doctor who had a burning 1 point to make to the media. He said AIDS can be caused by mos- ? quitoes and fleas; an idea the gov- 1 ernment is hying to cover up. ' What the doctor said seemed 1 pretty preposterous to me, but 1 anytime I hear the words govern- ( ment cover-up, questions start flooding into my mind. So I made ' a few phone calls. The doctor was wrong. It's not ' possible tor the HIV virus to live ' in air very long. But I did find out 1 how it actually is transmitted. { Officials from the Department 1 of Health & Environmental 1 Controls says, "An infected per- 1 son's blood, semen or vaginal flu- ! id must find its way into the 1 blood of the uninfected." In other words, any one of the 1 many possible combinations of bodily contact I can get into with :1 or visitation I solution tricted in the late 1980s, it has the. hoard of trustees has stuh tiich originated from a proposal s once again showed their dis;y. In a Residence Hall Associitudents were in favor of a less ;y's known student opposition proposed a more liberal visitavisitation on the weekends in as Patterson and the Towers, ills already with overnight priv- i tone. The proposal still keeps ;ek, mostly Monday through i >ne and should be closely conall other divisions who have a outh and elsewhere have either i rictions on opposite-sex visita- ] )s was a step backward, rather ons, nowever, is an impractical >uld be considered adults, some ( other people, especially their ions at all, these "adults" could I ends any time they wanted to, i ites' peace and quiet. At least ' kinds of situations from occuri I maintain restrictions Monday bly the peak studying time, but this is the way it should be. simply too restrictive. RHA's < :ll-thought answer to the visitapeople, including students, parmade it to college, they should lent considers anyone 18 years university do the same? on reminder ;vere impact I L___i ANN W I N C H E L L ;omeone else can infect me if hose fluids mix. Many people use the word epilemic to describe the scary num)ers of AIDS victims; some prelictions say it could eventually be K) million world-wide. So, another question I asked DHEC was, "Is this illness being reated the way other epidemics ire?" I found out there is no easy mswer, no matter how frustrated ve get with wanting to do somehing. However, every epidemic has o be treated differently. It all lepends on aspects such as how he disease is transmitted, the lumber of cases and the length of ime it's been around. With an airborne disease, for example, you have to exclude those nfected from other's company. But the government can't reguate our sex partners, thank goodless. So they educate with what budjet they are given, and leave the est of the work to people like (eanne White, who travels all tcross the country, telling people vhat it's like to watch a loved :>ne die and urging teen-agers to 3e careful because they are at the lighest risk. Here's my solution, and don't laugh because this can work. Until we discover a cure, mandate egular examinations for everyone ind issue cards to individuals vith their health status ? "Hey, I'm a card-carrying member of he healthy, and I expect to see your card before you expect anyhing from me." It beats tattooing "Carrier" on he foreheads of the infected. Ann Winchell is a columnist for The Gamecock Viewp _C PRojgggggggyggg As a product of the late twentieth century, I'm not sure what feminism is. The current feminist movement is uncle women should he treated equally or if won undermine men. Is the theme of the current feminist moven "Equality for Emily"? Some issues that the feminist movement is ] Some "feminists" believe women should what? What point will be proven? If a woman is fighting another woman, t behind this viewpoint. However, as W; Africancentric psychologist, said at a black h "If my home is intruded upon, I am going to 1 my wife and children. I'm not going to sen intruder while I stay in the background with tf Afterwards, Noble said if he was injured wrong with his wife protecting the family. Are we facing a male shortage? I'm not s; be allowed in combat. I just don't think it's < for example, were to do battle with a 6' tall, while Joe Blow stood in the background and v If I were to fight another woman, that woul< The modern feminist movement needs to d that definition. We, as women, also need to remember th squal in every respect, and we should not try t If we were intended to be absolutely equal, bear children, nurse them, hold the same am same public restrooms (standing up would t besides, men don't know how to put the toilet I am not sure absolute equality or radical fe to the betterment of women. Is radical femini mine my father, brother, boyfriend or just th that well. Why should I have to undermine an; Should African-, Native-, Latin- and A< white Americans because we want to be eauaJ er? I prefer the latter. Many issues like poverty, poor educatior abortion are positively influenced through the However, radical feminism suggests "Doom Rochelle Killing beck, is an assistant ne Letter writer's response foe vin unhelpful, moralizing out uw To the editor: about I Reginald Anderson's letter to the ^on ^ editor (March 29 issue of The =reat 11 Gamecock), titled "Homosexual ^>out men misinform students," forces me to point out what should be wnelm common knowledge to the entire USC community: HIV, the virus . that causes AIDS, is a virus. Like honal any other virus, it does not discrim- nitude inate on the basis of sexual orienta- sPieatl tion, race, gender or anything else. needle: can Mr. Anderson's attempt to use Anders the trnoedv of AIDS as an excuse exactlv to promote his anti-gay moralizing morali; rests on faulty assumptions. An avoid examination of his statistics reveals crisis, his biases. While it is true in the United A: States that AIDS has, until recently, disproportionately affected gay use men, this is very quickiy changing. The virus has spread outside the than gay community in the last few ^ years. According to a report j^,( released by the National Commission on AIDS in January sen ir^ time 1993, intravenous drug users and ? ? C remii women, especially in our minonty jacjis communities, are the fastest grow- v , ing groups of Americans getting NEWSROOM 777-7726 P.O. BOX 85131 UNI Editor in Chief Associate Editors I....1 Viewpoint Editor \ Copy Desk Chief News Editors Asst. News Editors Lea CI, Carolina' Fr-tit,-,, Asst. Carolina! Editor * Sports Editors Nanc\ Asst. Sports Editor Photo Editor Asst. Photo Editor Graphics Editor Asst. Graphics Editor Cartoonist Copy Editors < Student Media Coordinator Production Manager Asst. Production Manager Advertising Manager Faculty Adviser Graduate Assistant Darkroom Technicians Erin ( >oint :ROSSr day's perceived feminist mov< con^ji I am ashamed to admit that The American I "radical" as "arisii ar as to whether men and ^asic ^ ten should try their best to ', ' . . J I think not. nent "Down with Dudes" or '? a(Mress the oj is futile and is ultin [>ushina are iust too radical. on the problems ha be allowed in combat. For cerned men have sj freedom, time whic he.n ntC^i SCe 1116 rat*onal<; issues of concern tc ade Nobles, a renowned ? oc \yell istory program in February, " . right the intruder and protect Holly Libotr s ai d my wife out to fight the wb? believe that p ic kids." * fore, for radical fen , he wouldn't see anything alteration of patri changes is altering ] aying thai women shouldn'i an() (hjs js en ?oins to do much sood if I, . . 200 pound Terminator-lype. cu" 10 have one s matched oppression in all its i be different. The present femi lefine feminism and stick to or objectionable at end to violence ag at men and women are not These issues are mt ?beu ... , , When women ar( both sexes would be able to . . iount of liquor, and use the 111S not because th( >e difficult for women, and ?* 'ess va^ue- h i-s seat down.) and that degradatio minism is the best approach women. If they, car ism suggesting that I under- of their income on ie men whom I don t know vicious cycle oi y?ne \ . We of the twenty nan-Americans, undermine f . I, or should we work .ogedi- dlfferem from thaI of, and we have ter i, rape, physical abuse and privileges tor grant feminist movement. being held down b; is Day for Dudes." loosen the bonds ot ws editor for The Gamecock lifl?uia?l lis. coronation, ddition, it should be pointed However, after it the United States has only Saturday mornin; I percent of the total 12 mil- recanting his earli [IV cases worldwide. The seems he can do najority of people with HIV, Moreover, he has 7.5 million, live in Sub- and vilified by ra> in Africa, where it over- fans, at least two i lingly affects heterosexual university's board id women. representatives of t S is a national and interna- He has even been I disaster of the highest mag- in front of die presi< :. We know how HIV is Having been and that condoms and sterile Gamecock myself 5 are two of the best ways it years, I felt uplifts be stopped. Reginald announcement last ion's flip letter demonstrates coming to campi ' the kind of unhelpful and would not only e zing response that we must given us an outstar if we are to deal widi this program, but al impacted our cai ways, such as attr Lawrence Glickman and swelling reven ssistant professor of history die coliseum. Yes, my balloon 'brain drain' worse |nismh wlasvptri^kc turnabout. Yet, I ar Cremins' decision did not have a ch? contract. A coach, - editor: ^ ui <1 mcuny iiiciiiuc l it amazing how far public bound but ,acks en ent can swing in so short a or her work is not Last Wednesday, Bobby fine educational ins is was the recipient of acco- Lel us a? place $ from our campus and the pas( week in ^ ] The man could do no wrong. bve tor me \ a is like a king going to his 5arittci VERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLII Patrick Villegas -ee Clontz, J.T. Wagenheim The Gamecock Gordon Mantler S()l|th Carolina and Brian Garland , n , , rN >. , x , Wednesdays and Fr Jack Dunn, Melissa Tennen ayton, Rochelle Killingbeck weekly during both Jennifer Fuller versity holidays and Melinda Waldrop Opinions exprei ' Salomonskv Tim Thorsen .1 . .. j i ur autnor and not tn RobRodusky Stephanie Newlin The Board of _ ti Kellv Johnson publisher of The Ga Gregory I'ere/ parent organization Chris Muldrow Change of addt ..... ? I aul Jon correspondence sho Chris Davis, Thorn Harman _ J.m McKellar The University of So Laura Day Subscription ral Jim Green Columbia, SC. The ( Kenee Gibson 0f University of - -Erik Collins dent activity fees. Brian McGuire r.al1o\vay, Rika Hashimoto BE ement too radical? heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines lg from or going to a root or source; fundamental; ppression of women at any level except the most basic nately a waste of time and energy. Putting a Band-Aid s proven to be a worthless initiative. Women and con>ent the past 12 years protecting women's reproductive h could have been spent addressing a myriad of other > women ? issues which should be of concern to men tide about feminism defined radical feminists as those atriarchy is the source of women's oppression; there ninists, meaningful change can only occur through the archal power structures. Inherent in making these people's basic opinions and assumptions about women, tly where people take issue with feminism. It is diffibeliefs challenged, but it is altogether necessary if forms is to be eradicated. nist plan of action is not a radical one. What is radical out fighting for pay equity, affordable child care, an ainst women or recognition of same-sex partnership? itters of survival. i consistently paid less than men for comparable work, ly have earned less. It is not because women's work is >ecause women themselves are undervalued by society, n is often passed on to the children of these devalued i work at all, they must spend outrageous percentages child care. I cannot understand why the desire to end f oppression is viewed as radical. 'something generation have grown up in a world vastly of our mothers. We have choices they never dreamed ninism to thank for that. It is time we stop taking these ed. There are far too many of our sisters who are still y a system that degrades us all. We need to help them ' oppression. We don't need to make them tighter. Wendy Powell is a guest columnist for The Gamecock POTJMRMffNJf bAUAiiAidLMMaJi , " f our athletics director Mike McGee he announced will bring us a capable head basg that he was ketball coach. It may take a little ier decision, it time, but it will happen, nothing right. Frankly, I am much more conbeen upbraided cerned about the academic "brain zing Gamecock drain" that is taking place, members of the Professor Earl Black's announceof trustees and ment, coming as it did amidst the he news media. Cremins imbroglio, has sent its tanged in effigy shock waves through our faculty, dent's house. Will South Carolina and this unia Fighting versity be able to survive this bomfor the past 20 bardment? I certainly hope so. id by Cremins' Wednesday. His Kenneth Peters is, I believed, Associate professor ventually have College of Applied Professional tding basketball Sciences so positively npus other HBWEVVSSfVJVVVSPB students ues by packing | The Gamecock will try to print | all letters received. Letters of buoyant opti- shouid ^ 200-250 words maxid by Bobby's mum. Full name and profesn happy that he sjonal title or year and major, if ince to sign the a student, must be included an administrator ai0ng with an address and r who is legally phone number. The Gamecock thusiasm tor his reserves the right to edit for an asset to this style, possible libel or space titution. limitations. 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