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Wednesday, March 16, 1994
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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
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Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor
Lee Clontz T?ny \antori
Viewpoints Editor ^ Sports Editor
Carson Henderson Dav^ Mtr^ndre11
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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
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'' Tommy Touchbeny ^
?ant(
>. COLUMNIST the l
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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
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Columbia, SC 29208 r?
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Viewpoints
"Creativity in levying taxes is the last thii
you want to hear, too. 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
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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
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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
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Tommy Hartnetl:
S.C. gubernatorial candidate ^
At Monday night's debate
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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