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Monday, March 28, 1994 1 \ "?a? Serving USC Sii J.T. Wagenheim, Editor in Chief I Editorial I Wendy Hudson, Carson Hend Nancy Salomonsky, Dissatisfactioi t Proposal to place visita in hands of President Pi SG President Brian Comer and forme sented a proposal to the Board of! the power to control campus visitat The three-page memo details the num icy has wrought and the consistent stude strictions. Among the problems Comer and Solor icy are a significant drop in housing enro in 1988 and a lack of community within * The motion to transfer authority to th onded in last week's meeting of the Stu< I and is to be discussed at the next meetin The fact of the matter is, most student policy as it stands, and presumably, the p be to satisfy students, right? Few would argue that a president's fir; of his constituency and the satisfaction of the most important part of Palms' agend; problem with giving the president the rig as the biggest gripe with student housing According to the report, a significant r campus security. The campus in 1993 is ^ boxes, and most residence halls have a j vents nonresidents from entering the bui In addition, nearly every building has I check the keys of entering residents, altl seldom a reality, as most keys are never i The implication that students in "trad have opposite sex visitors after 11:30 p.n students from fostering relationships th Thus, the visitation policy prevents male together in their rooms as often as it previ Students don't need USC to act as a r from attempts at such activities is that sti er in the library, which closes relatively e are here to pay for a place to live and ar rpcfrirtirxnc IUULUVUO 1VOU1VUU1IO. Comer and Solomon's administrations toward doing what students have repe B change in the visitation policy ? and one * the university would be competent to m; Accused takin of victimizatic % While guilty or not guilty, or some variation of the two, is the historic plea of those accused of a crime, today's high profile accused enjoy a new legal loophole: victim status. Tn 1 1 inc ruic ui vicuiii nai conic a long way in the American psyche. Years of unreported rape and prosecuted cases which tended to put the real victim on trial, became an issue in^ grained into the American con' sciousness beginning in the late '80s. Just as sympathies to Vietnam veterans changed with films like if "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth C of July," Jodie Foster's 1988 film B "The Accused," which documented p an actual rape case in New Bedford, tr Mass., did the same. It was a start in this shifting of American attitudes to- hi ward rape, and victims. tc Throughout the late '80s there ? were media reports, and talk show le testimony by stars like Oprah Win- ^ frey, the Jacksons, Roseanne Barr ^ and others of how sexual and phys- m ' ical abuse were not being prosecut- 1* ed with just diligence. As a result, 21 CirmtVl tKif trv rl/i?mc nf VirtifYtKrvrv/4 VI Jjiiipauij iu uauiu v/1 ??vv*xnuvAAi Ui these crimes are now at a peak. But er the cruel irony of this is that the al- th leged victims are turning violent, ol By this victim conditioning, the sc public is not more likely to over- D look, or forgive, cold-blooded mur- P> der or hate crimes. When Damian Williams hits truck driver Reginald w Denny with a brick in a race riot, so- P< ciety is put on trial more than ^ Williams, the real perpetrator. ~ In what should be an open and 111 * shut case in California, where the two Menendez brothers shot their nifpnfs Hpfld in rnlH kIaa/1 Kut paivuvw ? uiwu lyuv | claimed prior sexual abuse by the fa- f ther, a jury finds itself hopelessly deadlocked. No matter how patently obvious the crime, vague claims P( to personal trauma can mitigate the SP callousness of the resulting actions. *j( When Floyd Brown was indicted J "?aiffcock ~ Student Media Russell House-USO Colur J.T. Wagenheim Nancy Salomonsky J Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor Lee Clontz Tony Santori Viewpoints Editor Spom Edilor Carson Henderson Uav'd MandreU Copy Desk Chief Gordon Mantlcr Chns Middrow Copy Desk Chief Graph.cs Editor Wendy Hudson N')ra JM1? F New, Editor Asst. New, The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spnng seines- T ters, with the exception of university holidays and exam L< periods. n; Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the Li editors or author and not those of the University of j] South Carolina. S The Board of Student Publications and Communications ^ is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of ?' Student Media is its parent organization. bt cock ?? i ce 1908 jot Clontz, Viewpoints Editor (J Beard lerson, Gordon Mantler, Tony Santori . ? 1 A 1 ttion decision a( alms makes sense :r SG President Carl Solomon pre'rustees last week that would give ion to USC President John Palms. j erous problems the visitation pol:nt dissatisfaction with present renon attribute to the visitation polllment since the policy's approval 4/^ the individual residence halls. e university president wasn't sec- ( \ dent-Trustee Liaison Committee, \ 5 aren't happy with the visitation X urpose of student housing should /1 j st responsibility should be to that the student body is, or should be, i. That being the case, what is the W . * Jit to correct what exit surveys list If ,? ( eason for visitation restrictions is vell-lit and neady covered by calljerimeter access system that pre- * Vroiirf ilding. student-workers whose job is to lough this particular "security" is checked at most halls, itional style" residence halls can't a. apparently is a move to prevent at extend beyond daylight hours, and female students from studying ents sexual liaisons, if not more so. nnml I U.M.I..L uviai 5UiUUi4.Il, 411U lilt U411U4M1 udents are forced to study togeth- TV1\ arly, or somewhere else. Students I 1' 1 education, not to be insulted by Y01 seem to have taken positive steps copy < atedly stated that they want ? a me"a : would hope that the president of ment, ake such a decision. coluir The breed Appai g advantage S in status delr sport watch JeffTuibitt emn' ?article COLUMNIST "Dc editoi 1 relation to the slaying of Eau "A 1 laire student Earnest Dunlap, outw rown gave the reverse victim pressi rocess in his original court statetent. "He kept coming towards me like e was still going to do something Woi ) me. I didn't want to shoot him. I ially didn't want to have any prob- tO 3 :m at all with him 'cause, I guess, lilt's hist hrwir I om " Tn th v t "V" A (Ull. * v The word 'still' is key to his state- In r ent, for 'still' implies that he was on se: iing stalked, and not the other way comir ound. Brown is claiming to be the fine b ctim. Is there another jury stupid died c tough to believe him right here in the h< e Midlands? The obvious question say w! f why did Brown bring a gun to jokes :hool if he didn't want to shoot and ss unlap will be obscured in the happc ocess. Let No matter how helpless you are, one, I hen you react violently to another winki irson in a situation where self-de- have I nse wasn't called for, you have lost man n >ur status as a victim. You're a vie- uslov nizer. rights Lorena Bobbitt wasn't inexorably vasior 1 the path of cutting off her hus- Perl ind's penis. She chose to do so; Turbi le is the criminal. Yet a jury called locke< temporary insanity. you. C When courts and juries tell these winki ;ople they are not personally re- you tl onsible, it sets a dangerous prece- same ;nt against the rule of law and or- men. it. If y< fined, 7-7 777A Chris Carroll - ,.jn Coordinator of Student Media ing: 777-4249 Laura Day '7-6482 Production Manager lim n....... nbia, SC zvivo - ZLW nAsst. Production Manager Keith Boudreaux Gregory Perez Asst. News Production Asst. Brian Garland Brian McGuire Asst. Carolina! Graduate Asst. Emily Peterson Renee Gibson Asst. Photo Advertising Manager Ilk Jimmy Debutts J. Taylor Rutland Asst. Sports Asa. Advertising Manager |__ 'aul Jon Boscacci Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Advisor Latter* Pol Icy be Gamecock will try to print all letters received, stters should be 200-250 words and must include full ime, professional title or year and major if a student titers must be personally delivered by the author to be Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. be Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for yle, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not ; withheld under any circumstances. HThe 6amecock Viewpoints i foop '00 knoti, ftmimism \s great!// orr$[ if Teaches us fo ge more " g 6&RESCIVE, PE/V\/\NPIA//S>, r^t( WP SEL F-CEt/TEREP. ..CAM r <oU OusT IMAGINE UHAT VIE, J VJoMEty ARE &J0IV1N6 INToT "It's a privilege to be here. This is a gr And I think it will make ; ew feminism natural re* i can imagine my surprise when I opened my _ L__ rf The State last Sunday and saw the words "do nd "feminism" in the same sentence. For a mo- m TB I thought Andrew Dice Clay was writing a guest f Ip W in. However, I was wrong. - ? ; articles I read detailed the exploits of a new I of woman known as the "do me feminist." L uiuj, many jv/ung wuiiiv.ii uavv uuuiavvu iaism that's not man-hating or castrating, but "The lines between i undly pro-sexual." Huh-huh, huh-huh. Cool. blur...the idea that only a icided I was a natural to investigate the "new proposes that, like childn lism." I host a talk show on WCFG-TV that communicating what they exclusively with men's issues...OK, so it's a feminist author, s talk show. Same difference. You can still "(Women's studies) is fu it at 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays on Gamecock Ca- are just mad at the beautifi. ion Channel 4. Summers, professor at Cla ; Sportin' Fool will have his exclusive review "Feminism should be fei en Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," m^t one must be...left-wii ony Santori will discuss Bobby Knight's strug- ta Hill's veracity, then fe ith his superego. Now, where was I? helpless status as a perpe prepare for my column, I decided to do two Naomi Wolf, "power femii i I don't normally get to do. First, I went out Naturally, these "pionee late this week. (Feminism was not discussed.) the feminist mainstream f< I researched the topic. Here are some quotes think anyone who since the "do me's," stolen from recent magazine women's movement shou ;s: gatecrashers, no matter :grade me when I ask you to." ? Lisa Palac, sound. Let me offer free a of Future Sex magazine. tive of the "underdone" ir ot of us just want to go spray paint and make 1- Anyone who believes 1 ith our boyfriends and not worry about op- represent the America on." ? Lois Maffeo, riot grrrl singer. or stupid. The latest poll i rpvr neil shouldn't have you tried a dictionary? I will not stand for some creep to stare or gawk at iccept harassment me. I will not "just deal with it!" If you think all men deserve all the respect ' e editor: you give yourselves, try giving the othesponse to Jeff Turbitt's column er of this planet a little respect, xual harassment, I have a few Look into the word harassment; what Lents. How, sir, would you de- d0 you see? I see an ass! How's that eing locked in a room and fon- for your definition, Mr. Turbitt? >nce you told the person to get :11 off of you? What would you Jennifer Dougherty hen a university official made Political science senior at your organizational meeting lid rape and harassment doesn't , :n on USC's campus? ColUflltllSt UOCSll t me tell you something. Number a(JV()Cate harassment do not have to deal with men ng or staring at me. I do not _ . .. :o deal with idiotic advances a otheedior: lakes at me. Oh, I ftxgot, maybe rIn response to Amy Meyer s letter dy women don't have the same of March 23,1 find great irony, not to and freedoms to nersonal in- mention much amusement, in Ms. t as you so humble men. Meyer's implication that Mr. Turbitt, haps. I should assume you, Mr. the author of that shrewd and very tt, wou Id "get off' if a woman polished opinion with which she is so d you in a room and assaulted taken aback, takes not upon himself )r maybe you'd enjoy a woman the reading, or research, requisite for ng and staring at you. Maybe the task of editorial writing, hink women don't have the First, I am acquainted with Mr. Turrights to personal freedom as bitt, and I can assure Ms. Meyer that one would be hard-put to find, even 3u want sexual harassment de- in these midlands of South Carolina, call you local solicitor. Or have a reader of "the newspaper" more Should SG have the authority to "Yes. This is a university for the students, and it should be up to the students. A lot of the parents want the visitation policy, but they aren't W the ones going to school here." jfl Paul McKinney History sophomore ~ 'Yes. If there is a lot of support by the campus and the rest of student government." ^ Mike Dozier f Political science junior fe$? HeW "IA 0 . 1111 1 eat university and a great law s a perfect center for us." sponse to won | one-third of yc feminists. Thi Pat McNeill 2. Women h; ^(1 political St COLUMNIST cording to The in earnings du ~~post-World Wai rape and sex begin.to Sex discrimir n explicit yes means yes grams. Women in, women have trouble countries that r want." ? Katie Roiphe, women and mi grees during tf 11 of homely women who "evil" era of Re; ll giris." ? Christina Hoff next 10 years w rk University. 3 with ecom i...if in order to be a fern- declining, femii ig and convinced of Ani- cal issues Ho? minism has entered its h fc :tual minority party. ? ? , . v, nist" author HydeAmendm rs" have been blasted by v'ded across tl :>r their comments. But I an" sexua irely wants to help the 25 more womei Id pay attention to these die problems lc how tabloidesque they I haven't qu dvice from the perspec- feminism" yet. 1 lale. Maffeo wants to hat groups such as NOW no control ovei in woman is either drunk ?do me feminisi results say tnat less ttian relax and enjoy thorough and more consistent than B he. On this accusation, then, she is th wrong. e. But more important, and more m ironic yet, is the fact that, even as she makes this unfounded accusation, yet ^ she herself, in that characteristically tc feministic zeal for rowdy righteous- K ness and noise, has exposed both her pi carelessness as a reader of the fore- m said "biased" (as opposed to "unbiased") opinion and her ignorance of w Mr. Turbitt manifestly (to the careful reader) has to say. What he has to say is not unrea- Ul sonable when one considers that such 01 horrific examples of harassment as w Ms. Meyer describes are not defend- h; ed by him. Should she take the time ol to re-read the editorial, she might dis- e] cover that Mr. Turbitt mentions specif ically the wrongness or out-and-out harassment, examples of which Ms. Meyer presents. What sorts of gestures m do not constitute harassment, what "c Mr. Turbitt calls "flirting," is, or CI should be, another matter altogether. n) Yet it seems to be prevalent in fem- aj inist circles the assumption that whenever a man refers to "flirting," he must P* be using that word to gloss over and make seem innocuous what is actually an offensive or a threatening act. m influence the visitat P~ v "I think the presid< rest of the council n conference with th have more interactic 3_ "If | i/g 4H, vr i *y; i v ^ ii/ r -^T o> | 4^?; for Hi*- M . <4 f ?chool. . Janet Reno U.S. Attorney General ien's rights >ung females consider themselves s is because: ave made their greatest economic rides during the past 15 years. AcNew Republic, women gained more ring the 1980s than in the entire r n era before that, tation was outlawed in federal proi such as Thatcher and Bhutto ran owned nuclear weapons. More m earned bachelor of science de?e 1980s. And that was during the igan and Bush! Just think what the ill bring. omic and discrimination problems rcism has nin nut nf unifvino noliti. r many young women are going to et lines over lesbian rights? Or the ent? Not many. Women are as dite political spectrum as men are. 1 harassment are still problems, but i assert their power and speak up, >ok less insurmountable, ite made up my mind on "do me Heck, I don't even know what Lois do with the spray paint. But I have r this debate or how it will end. If m" is inevitable, I guess I'll have to it. ut this is not always the case. Now lere are certain mild gestures necssary for the initiation of such figlents of courtship as, say, the "date" :.g., "What are your dinner plans >night?"); and these, when broached spectfully, give rise to marriage and rocreation, if not just an episodic romance. If I am not mistaken, women likeise "flirt" in this way with men. This >rt of thing is necessary as it is natral. As long as it is not threatening, r carried on against the expressed ishes of the second party, it is not irassment. I should think that everyne knows this, but perhaps Ms. Meyr has never been flattered with this >rt of attention. In any case, this is what Mr. Turbitt leans by such terms as "flirting" or )verture." Unfortunately, in the luative business of victimization as it dw exists, even these harmless ritus are sometimes warrant for one's irdition. Matthew H. Dewey English/psychology senior ion policy? snt should meet with the lembers. He should have a le senators because they >n with the students." Tracy Sabb Accounting freshman r housing, and being a stu?houldn't have the authoriLinda Kraska Psychology senior