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Monday, March 28, 1994
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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: would hope that the president of ment,
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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,
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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,
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"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
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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.
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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