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Wednesday, March 16, 1994 t5a Servi J.T. Wagenheim, Editor in < Edit Wendy Hudson, Cars* Nancy Saloi . Antitilde SAT changes should he[ but care must be taken Almost everyone, at one time titude Test. The test has beer with factions arguing the tesi college admissions and continual! In an effort to change that, The SAT for the first time Saturday. Th tors, have no antonyms and requir to some of the math problems. In addition, the questions have tested for any racial and gender bi * for opponents of the test in receni The addition of calculators will developed math abilities, but prot cause most of the problems aren'i tors, assuming students have the; will merely reduce careless errors. On the other hand, the new prol in a numerical answer instead of a separate those who know their ma at guessing. These 10 problems wil scores apart from lower ones. Although The College Board ha bias in the SAT, representatives s; equal results to all gender and ethi refreshing to see The College Boai * The reading passages have been more interesting and concentrate A.I _ _1 J f??._ uic passages man me oiu icsi. am stems from the feet that students te ory rather than draw from any tru< The omission of the antonyms a the criticism that the test is being v ably won't be a major factor on the out, can the all-important analog shouldn't forget that the test shou The unfortunate feet is that, des test, it will still probably be a lesscess potential. Colleges seem to ha their reliance on the test for admis The people who tend to do the ^ pared for the test specifically, but telligent. This, indeed, is the sign t Youth must from cigaret During the past ten years, Amer ca has made great strides in the are ' of cigarette smoking. Thanks to pul lie service announcements, educa tional programs in the schools an an overall anti-smoking attitude b tne American people, cigarett smoking is at its lowest level in thre decades. In 1992, only 24 percent c Americans were smokers. Even with all of that success, ther is still a great deal of work left to dc I There are still serious problems wit! teen-age addiction to cigarette smol ing. The Clinton administration an< Surgeon General Joycelyn Elder have taken a fairly tough stand 01 the tobacco industry. Dr. Elders says the average agi when smokers try their first ciga rettes is 14.5 years old and tha more than 70 percent of those wh< become regular cigarette users ac quire the habit by 18. She says mucl of this has to do with the advertisinj and marketing practices of the to bacco industry, i.e. Joe Camel or th< . Marlboro Man. * I believe Dr. Elders is absolutel; correct on this assumption. 1 don' give 100 percent blame to the ciga rette advertising industry ? certain! peer pressure, die entertainment in dustry and most importantly parental example, contribute t< teen-agers trying cigarettes. But think the advertising is a majoi cause, and it needs to be dealt with I find it deeply disturbing that ou government continues to give taj breaks to the tobacco companies fbi advertising. President Bush's sur geon general, ur. iNobeUo, called foi I an end to this practice, but nothing was ever done about it. The feet is, though, that cigarette; contain nicotine, which is an addic tive drug. Albeit, a legal drug, bui nonetheless a drug. Our governmem has an obligation to look out for the welfare of minors. This is where ] claim a legal and justified basis for the banning of all tobacco advertising. As a conservative, I am againsi government interference in the private lives of American citizens as 1 TBaiifeock S Student Media Russell House-USO J.T. Wagenheim Nancy Salomons! Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor Lee Clontz T?ny \antori Viewpoints Editor ^ Sports Editor Carson Henderson Dav^ Mtr^ndre11 Copy Desk Chief ^?'? Edltor Gordon Mantier Cl\ris Muldrow Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor Wendy Hudson N?ra P??1* News Editor AssI New* The Gamecock is the student newspaper of th University of South Carolina and is published Monday Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semes lers, with the exception of university holidays and exan periods. k Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of th 1 editors or author and not those of the University o South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communication is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department o Student Media is its parent organization. iiitcock ig use Since 1908 lief Lee Gontz, Viewpoints Editor rial Board on Henderson, Gordon Mantler, monsky, Tony Santori p reduce biases, to maintain standards or another, has taken the Scholastic Ap1 the focus of significant debate for vears. t is gender or racially biased, overused in y getting easier. College Board is administering the new e test will allow students to use calculae students to enter numerical responses , according to The College Board, been as, which has been a bone of contention t years. certainly help some students with less>ably won't affect scores significantly bet dependent on arithmetic. The calculaability to perform basic math functions, blems where students are required to fill i multiple-choice response will certainly th from those who are merely proficient 1 be the factor that will help set truly high ls never acknowledged racial or gender ay the new test has been shown to give lie groups. While this seems unlikely, it's nd looking into the issue, made, according to The College Board, more on the student's ability to analyze lilarly, the loss of the antonyms section nd to merely commit the words to memi knowledge. ind the addition of the calculators draw watered-down. The calculator issue prob: test, but with the antonyms on the way ?ies be far behind? The College Board Id be difficult, not easy. pite any great strides being made to the than-reliable measure of collegiate sue ive come to this conclusion by reducing sion purposes. best on the test are those who are pre- ?^ not necessarily those who are more in- M >f a flawed test. be protected ? :te advertising 2 wot MptPl con ij ^6^^* f?r_ '' Tommy Touchbeny ^ ?ant( >. COLUMNIST the l h the I much as possible. But there are cer- min i tain instances where the governs ment must step in, and the welfare fron i of children and teen-agers is one of M fhnsp insfanrpt not; e Tobacco advertisements should not be allowed in ballparks or bill- yoiu t boards, in convenience stores and nate > in magazines which are legally sold ^ a - to minors (this would not include ^ ^ i adult magazines). If we are able to 5 reduce the effects of advertising on tion - teenagers, then maybe more teens on a i won't begin the nasty habit of smoking. And if that occurs, most will y never start smoking, as research has leRC t already proven. havi( This, along with education, is the mos) Y only real way to reduce the use of a wou - legal drug like tobacco. Of course, the , most effective way to keep kids from 5 smoking is for parents to lead by exI ample and not smoke themselves. CJll r Cigarette smoking is deceptive by nature. The tobacco companies are |*Ca r trying to sell a product which causc es lung cancer and many other Tot! KonM L? " -? i iivami proDiems. runnermore, as I'm . most smokers will tell you, cigarette ttdisg r smoking is not a glamorous habit. writtt ? Instead, it is a nasty and addictive cizinj habit. A 14-year-old child is not old Chris s enough to understand the reality contr . and consequences of taking that first I am i t puff. He can't psychologically un- worl t derstand the health, social and fi- whetl ; nancial strains he is incurring. dame [ For the common benefit to society I h and the obligation of the government Chris to look out for the welfare of minors, He is t it is time for cigarette advertising to each < be completely removed from the view in His i of children and teen-agers. ws 777 777* Chris CarroH 'ws- Ill-lUb Coordinator of Student Media ivertising: 777-4249 Laura Day VX: 777-6482 Production Manager Columbia, SC 29208 r? AM. 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We must bring xperiment demonstra i1973, a social psychologist named Stanley Mil- I I n published in Harper's magazine an account now-classic series of experiments. flf p 1 the tests, Milgram had solicited pairs of voleers for what they were given to understand 'WfL*' ild be a study of learning and memory. In each \j~~~ * :ance, one of the two was designated the _i _ cher," the other the "learner." The learner was nL-JHEEJ 1 ducted into a room containing a one-way mir- They couldn't have and strapped tightly into a small chair, after In the first experime :h electrodes were placed on the subjects' wrist, the orders of the exp >f this in plain view of the other subject, the during the sessions, a her. peated shocks at 450 \ tie teacher was responsible for reading lists of er had moved beyond pie word pairs to the learner. Both subjects shivering and moanin t told the learner was being tested on the abil- Very few subjects n o remember the second word of a pair under at the upper end of tl negative reinforcement of punishment; when no legal or financial ot learner made an error, the teacher was to ad- their initial agreemen ister each time an electric shock of increasing iment A fellow reseaix isity from a panel with switches clearly labeled cent of his subjects wi 115 to 450 volts. of 450 volts, ilgram was a brilliant experimenter, if perhaps Contrast this with ai a terribly ethical one, and had devised the ex- ducted some 10 year ment so that, in fact, there was only one real Stanley Wnchkin am nteer in each test: the subject who was desig- study, rhesus monkey d the role of teacher. The learner was actually willing to pull a chain ctor who received no shock at all. The point, other monkey whose ilgram's words, was "to see how far a person view to the first throu proceed in a concrete and measurable situa- If the monkeys didn' in which he is ordered to inflict increasing pain After figuring out the < protesting victim." are almost as intellige ifore the experiments, Milgram solicited pre- take long), only 13 pei ons about the outcome from psychiatrists, col- chain. The rest flatly it students, working adults and faculty in the be- stead, oral sciences department at Yale College. Al- One individual wen l to a person, they predicted virtually nobody eating rather than hurt Id obey the experimenter. tus, gender nor kin rels IS ristians should itual of mywitness is made aP parent, that Christ will be seen by oth SSCSS commitment ers through me. Truly, I'm just as un worthy of salvation as anyone readinj le editor: this letter. i writing in reply to a number of To those professing Christians wh< runtled Christians" who have have made their disenchantmen :n to or for The Gamecock criti- known to the wodd, consider the fbl \ problems they see with fellow lowing. The Gamecock is a seculai tians. I'll start by stating for the newspaper in that it strives to serve a: 51Ct tHof I'm nnt ?11 ? * - w * ? uvi aoiiaiiivu v/i miv a uiwuiuill IU CApi C>5 iUI V1CW5. 1 C2u is a Christian, and whatever the appreciate this; the paper has beer d wants to label me is fine, gracious enough to print letters finoir tier it be intolerant, bigot, fun- me expressing Christian truths. As dis ntalist, etc. grunded Christians, you have choser old to the very teachings of to appeal to the secular world about t as in errant, and I know that the problems you perceive in the the only way to my Father. As Body of Christ, the Church of the Liv day goes by, I'm further molded ing God. i image, and I pray that the spir- Indeed, since the members of the Q Will changes to the SAT im] "1 don't think that you can fit any kind of stan?$*9^ dardized test to the broad spectrum of those jNB who take it." Keven Ruby GINT junior "I think they need to do something because it is ft biased. Elimination of biases wherever possible is a positive step. The changes will help, I f Cheryl Wolfe I Marine science freshman _ W Wjy/si WITEWWfcR ipWwiTt^ V 1 ig I want to hear, and I think it's the some common sense to cutting spe ites humanity's result. Those who were even less lik< Patrick Sharfaaugh thyc^7h studies. Examples < columnist because qf aj _____________J latter are still widt say as much almosi been more wrong. The experiment nt, 25 of 40 subjects followed shouldn't be treate erimenter, who was present en together, beg fc 11 the way up the scale to re- to make of the beh -olts, a point where the learn- never seen a Bible I screams of agony to merely mandmcnts or the ^wn shotted. much as a day of St efused to administer shocks much mQK commt le sale, although there was u.eirmvnexperime ligation to do so other than blck^rounds7wha t to help conduct the exper- .. , her in Munich found 85 per- "?n were reversed lling to proceed to the point <leid as the monke, gether comforting. nother experiment, one con- Mightil that v s earlier by anthropologists ,r. " ou r own i J.H. Masserman. In their that seems i s were fed only if they were te.r ' our own 'n! that delivered a shock to an- wise; ^ave ^een rei agony was, again, in plain horrifying periods i gh a one-way mirror. MOW ironic 11 wc t pull the chain, they starved. so desperately look :onnection (rhesus monkeys the sciences an nt as chimpanzees; it didn't lution to our prese cent were willing to pull the something as seen dused; they went hungry in- monkey. Darwin was dene t nearly two weeks without suggest we share a c its fellow. Neither social sta- Of course, one has ition had any bearing on the about it. > Body are in various states of Christian to Isra i- growth, one will see problems; we're his pet i- not perfect, yet. For a proclaiming xQ, 5 member of the Body of Christ to go piease raving to the secular world about the . ( ) problems within the Body is tanta- u . . t mount to David runnine to the propyl Philistines and complaining about the If He ii injustice he suffered at the hands of Body c King Saul. us giro Remember that King Saul was sisters, anointed by God, and that because of if y0 David's faith, God delivered the fy youl throne of Israel to David. What a vie- worid] tory! Did God make a mistake? The .. Lord used that situation to sanctify lhlSa David. If David would have enter- lhe ^ tained the Philistines for his own needs, he wouldn't have grown and would have brought more suffering jrove the test's effective! f1??" "i think it's a positive cl test for those of differei and the changes will bei "The changes in gend< positive, but calculators 7__ 5 * ON p WW. M | Wn/c Wc/j ' | Ssife^ :: * * 3*s :3 ?? ? : last thing nding." ;S Tommy Hartnetl: S.C. gubernatorial candidate ^ At Monday night's debate >; ^ dark side = I had themselves been shocked > ;ly to pull the chain afterward. > 't inclined to feel much sympa- -'* perimenters in either of these > of the former are no longer fea- * >plicable laws; examples of the > dy practiced. This in itself may ? t as either of the studies. ^ s, though, aren't identical and d as such. Still, the results, tak- > >r an explanation. What are we .w avior of the monkeys, who had^j never heard nf the Ten Cr?m. , ,v* Golden Rule, never attended so -j jnday school, yet performed so mdably than did the humans in y nt, many of whom had religious j t would humans do if the situa- \ and they were offered the same 'A rs? The truth, clearly, isn't alto- > j-jj need to look back a little fur- j history for the solution to the to be destroying our society? Afititutions, religious and other- j iponsible for many of the most in that history. >uld be if, all the time we were > ing to religion and philosophy < d a 100 other things for the sont dilemma, the answer lay in * ^ lingly simple as the mind of a - 'y >unced in his day for daring to ommon ancestry with the apes, to wonder how the apes feel el. The key is that David knew >ple and his God. hose disgruntled Christians, assess who you are in terms of Christ. Is Christ truly the only ation that justifies you to God? ?, please try to work within the >f Christ to pray with and help v together as your brothers and ur answer is no, please identirself with the Philistines (the i to whom you seek counsel; lion will make discernment of jes easier for everyone! Michael Whi taker Nursing graduate student ness? iange. It was an unfair it ethnic backgrounds, lefit everyone." John Heflin History education senior it and racial bias are should not be used." Latonya Nixon Broadcasting junior