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i Punishmen
Flogging in Singe
but effective way i
An Ohio adolescent living in
cause of his punishment fo
in prison and six lashes on
ministered by a martial arts expei
The young man's crime? Spray
vehicles and tearing down street
Amnesty International, which ha
is upset at the "severe and degrai
and is making efforts to free hint:
% ment.
At first glance, it may seem unr
''for what is a relatively minor crin
But consider this: Fay is 18. If h
' would be tried as an adult.
An adult is, by definition, a per
Fay's "excessive" punishment woi
to know better, but the simple fa<
Flogging is a relatively commoi
tainly, Fay kqew the possible con
definitely knew what he was doin;
nificant intellect to know that spi
erable.
Letters and phone calls suppor
pore embassy in Washington, sigr
of crime and are ready to start era
The questions remain: Is the pi
ever vandalize again? It is unlikeh
Preventing the repetition of a c
ishment.
While having a martial arts expc
ly a violent and harsh punishment
The United States' system of sla
letting them run free to repeat th<
The answer for the United State
but there's a lot to be said for letti
Anyone who has ever had a wir
is to find vandals once the crime i
malicious act.
That being the case, vandals net
y other crimes. If that takes a cane,
Flying dii
wacky fu:
The season is here for the Horse
shoe to become the ultimate sportin
9 field, with warm weather and greei
grass beckoning football tosseis, side
walk runners, bike risers, bocc
bowlers and croquet... malleters?
The elite among Horseshoe sports
however, is the venerable flying disk
Combining skillful wrist snaps, care
ful aim and fierce devotion t<
Bernoulli's airfoil concept, throwin]
a flying disk is essentially die embod
iment of fine, classical sport.
Why, you might ask, am I usin]
the pretentious term "flying disk
rather than the commonly accepte<
"Frisbee?"
Well, I'm glad you asked that ques
tion. You see, Frisbee, like Xerox, i
a brand name (I think), so it woul<
be improper to use it to imply an;
old flying disk is a true Frisbee. Sec
ondly, the Aerobie is a far superio
flying machine, and it differs some
what from the ordinary implement
If you've never seen an Aerobie
it's something like the Rolls Royce o
the flying disk world, without?
i learner interior or Duried wood.
Aerobies also, we discovered
don't float very well. In fact, as wel
as being the Rolls Royce of the flying
disk world, an Aerobie would alsc
be the Lusitania of the flying disl
world. Once on a beach trip wit!
some friends, we threw two Aerobie
into the sea, never to be seen again
We decided to go behind the housi
and throw in the back yard, and w<
threw another Aerobie into the marsh
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rummaicty, wc wcic nuit iv see uu
disk, and one of my compadrej
walked out into the creek, fought twe
very large crabs who were trying tc
k eat the Aerobie, cut his foot on oystei
shells, got covered in mud to hia
waste and got the Aerobie out.
We went back to the front of the
house and threw the disk into the
ocean on the first throw.
Aerobies have a hole in the mid
die, apparently designed so anyone
who picks up the disk has to wear il
as a fluorescent halo and tell every'
one around them they're an angel
The hole also is excellent for hang
ing the disk up on walls, around a
bike handlebar, 10 feet in a tree or
the Horseshoe. In fact, aoart from
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Singapore is the center of controversy be
r vandalism: a sizeable fine, four month
his bare buttocks with a rattan cane, ad
rt.
painting and hurling eggs at a number o
signs.
is protested the law for a number of years
ding" treatment Michael Fay is to receive
i from the caning portion of his punish
Laturally brutal to beat a person senseles:
le.
e were still living in the United States, h(
son who is not a child. All the furor ovei
ild be different if he was not old enough
ct is he did.
1 form of punishment in Singapore. Cer
sequences of his actions. At any rate, h(
g was wrong. After all, it doesn't take sig
ray painting and egging vehicles is intol
ting the flogging have flooded the Singa
lifying a modem reality: People are tired
icking down on criminals,
unishment too severe? Perhaps. Will Fay
r.
rime is, ultimately, the purpose of pun:rt
pulverizing one's posterior is certaini,
the fact is it will almost certainly work,
pping young offenders on the wrist and
iir crimes is obviously not working,
s is not necessarily to adopt this system,
ing the punishment fit the crime,
idow smashed in knows how difficult it
s committed. It's simply a cowardly and
xi to be stopped before they progress to
then so be it
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'* GRAPHICS EDITOR
? being the Rolls Royce and Lusitania
, of the flying disk world, an Aerobie
is also the spider monkey of the flying
disk world.
A cou Die of davs aeo. we did iust
s that. I was the tosser, and I carefully
targeted one of the 'Shoe trees
^ that has no climbable branches. I
lightly flicked my wrist and depositr
ed the disk high up in the tree.
Did I mention it wasn't my Aero
bie and the owner would probably
? kick my rear if I called her and told
f her I threw it into a tree? I guess I
1 should have mentioned that.
I pulled off one of my sandals to
? knock the Aerobie down, skillfully
1 tossed it and landed it on another
? branch.
> My friend Zach, jealous of my atc
tempts to ornament the tree, took
1 ott his deck shoe and, in a truly daz5
zling display of skill, tossed it and
wrapped the shoe laces around one
: of the branches.
Zach ran to the area office to get a
broom (to diversify die things we got
- stuck in the tree); meanwhile, a good
8 Samaritan came by and started help'
ing by throwing his shoe in the tree.
> When the broom got there, we
used it to knock the Samaritan's
shoe down and got the broom stuck.
Then we just pelted the broom with
: ^?^s' knocking it down. We were
iinaiiy able to get all the shoes down
by picking them off one-by-one with
the broom. As the Aerobie fell with
! the last toss of the broom, we del
cided to stop our Aerobie-tossing for
- the day.
If you ever go through the Horseshoe
and see me climbing around in
i a tree, or better yet, see my clothing
i hanging from a tree, stick around,
t You can throw the Aerobie with us.
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Pornography
A barrage of well-documented attacks on die Firs
Amendment has come from the religious and fa
right in recent years, but now it seems the extrem
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While Pat Robertson is the unofficial spokesmai
for the fringe right, his counterpart on the fring
left, Catherine MacKinnon, is no less unctuous. Th
two also happen to have a common enemy
pornography. While the two haven't exactly gottei
together and hugged as of yet, there are not twi
groups more intent on curbing erotic speech.
MacKinnon is an ultra-feminist crusader and thi
main influence behind a broad anti-pornograph
law in Canada. The new Canadian criminal ob
scenity law, through MacKinnon's influence, make
"materials that subordinate, degrade or dehuman
ize women" illicit.
What's more ominous is that MacKinnon an<
Robertson could conceivably form a censorship ca
bal reminiscent of the alliance of religious anc
women's leaders that once helped push througl
the prohibition of another American staple: alco
hoi.
u.h. Lawrence ana William haulkner could joii
A1 Goldstein as pariahs in the new Canadian law
And MacKinnon is only too eager to conquer th<
United States as well.
MacKinnon, a professor at the Michigan Lav
School, seeks protected status for the oppressed
i.e., women. To MacKinnon, pornography is th<
same thing as rape, and producers and sellers oi
pornography are as guilty as an actual rapist, if ii
can be proven that the pornography was a factoi
on the rapist.
By the same logic, should a taxi driver shooi
someone, the victim could sue both Martin Scorcesc
ror maxing tne movie "Taxi Driver," and the own
er of the local video store for renting it to the at
tacker.
MacKinnon, not withstanding the dubious entymology
of the word, might be called a "mrogynist/
yet the media, in its zeal to foment interest and attract
ratings, take this demagogue as a seriou;
spokeswoman for women. She has appeared on the
Gamecock staff in ve
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To the editor: We (Stu
This is in response to the extreme- ment of Ai
ly poor job of editing done by The a press rel
Gamecock on Wednesday, April 6.1 sition was
refer to page 17 in Tony Santori's tive facts.
sports column. He used the words for two wt
"First pitch from first bitch," referring We were t
to the president's wife throwing out long beca
the first pitch at a baseball game. This a good jot
Do you think the U.
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get him out."
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i cover of New York Times Magazine, and she just re3
cently (March 13) participated in a lengthy debate
in the same magazine over the meaning of the First
e Amendment
y But MacKinnon speaks for the average woman
- about as much as Louis Farrakhan speaks for the
s average African American. Both are angry radicals
i- who should be re-routed to Geraldo's show or
some other prolificate of daytime talk-show pablum.
i Instead, she has wrongly been given status as a rea,
sonable representative for women in interviews
1 with Tom Brokaw, Ted Koppel, Jim Lehrer, Larry
i King and Phil Donahue.
But as Christina Sommers ? a philosophy professor,
MacKinnon critic and sometimes Wall
1 Street Journal columnist ? writes, the media find
a certain sexiness to gender feminists like MacK:
innon.
"Most American women are moderate feminists;
r they want for women what they believe is every,
one's right: fair treatment, economic justice, equal:
ity of opportunity. Gender feminists, the feminists
f who grab the headlines and the TV time, are much
t more radical. The gender feminist sees rape, ha
r lossincm anu inaic pamoiogy wnere no one else
does. Americans need to be delivered from the pro- <
t fessionally indignant, doarinaire and divisive gen:
der monitors who claim to speak for women." i
Despite the existence of Sommers' cogent and <
reasonable criticism, MacKinnon's influence is to i
be feared. She is a staple on the lecture circuit, and i
- her recent book "Only Words" has garnered wide- i
' spread attention. <
In "Only Words," MacKinnon reasons that
> pornography is the cause of universal disrespect to- i
ward women and a violation of "equality rights." It '
ry poor taste. It is also the After two more weeks hi
t for The Gamecock, even we contacted them again. I
n the bumbling of the USC er, the reporter called our c
sue last semester. ident to ask what was this
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nimals) gave The Gamecock nor had she worked on tl
lease detailing what our po- This staff appears very ir
on dog lab and other rela- hope next year will presem
After not seeing an article staff that knows what is i
ieks, we contacted the staff knows how to write prop*
old that they were taking so The only decent column
use they wanted to ensure seen is Melissa Tennen.
5. It is ironic that such an
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is "an act of terrorism," not speech and not pro*
tected by the First Amendment.
Once again, MacKinnon is empirically off bas^J
In Saudi Arabia and Iran, there is virtually no
pornography. In Denmark and the United States^
pornography flows easily, yet there is no doubt tha|
women enjoy a greater station in the latter court*
tries. In the United States, there is no widespread
disrespect toward women. In fact, there are man$
families where the wife wears the proverbial pants)
One might even suggest the First Family as an e^
ample.
And while there are some men who disrespect
women, that is their right. People are allowed to respect
whom they choose. There exists a fundamental
right to hold misguided and politically incorrect
attitudes. Should these men engage in discriminatory
actions, there are laws already in pla&
that deal with them accordingly.
MacKinnon's areuments also seem to run aeainst
the tide of traditional feminism. To MacKinnon,
women who appear in pornography are in an unequal
position since they are often poor, and rip
women can be responsible for consenting to appear
in pornography since they are unequal in power
to men. *
This seems particularly odd because a goal of traditional
feminist theory is to show that women a9t
strong and independent beings. Apparently, tSb
MacKinnon, some women are no more than b$
children, and it is the job of the largely male Congress
to protect these meek creatures.
Perhaps MacKinnon can best be described as aft
example of political correctness run amok; an e\Jl
which unites the unlikeliest of trios. One such trio
is Ira Glasser, national director for the American
Civil Liberties Union, Robert Bork, a Reagan nominee
for the Supreme Court, and William Buckleg,
founder of National Review. All three argued against
political correctness on the same team in a recent
episode of "Firing Line." ?
One would think that if those three can team u?,
then surely MacKinnon and Robertson could ? and
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lub's pres- Gn equality for women. The leas* I
issue. She would exDect of this nuhliratinn i*a
>s release, printed apology by Mr. Santori and
le artic e. po^ibjy his removal from The Gameicapable.
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