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? I f I "0a Servo J.T. Wagenheim, Editor in < Edit Wendy Hudson, Cars* Nancy Saloi Awareness ^ People who criticize misunderstand reai As most of you know from the week, these are Bisexual, Ga] week. There has been a mine from students who believe homos pne partaking in homosexual activ jm eternity in a fiery hell. Well, sorry to tell you, that pro! the same rights as everyone else, speech. When USC celebrated black hist planch, their functions went by with atory words, no tearing down of p ? tive activities. Why is it that when we give a wi roversy? There have been several letters y. One published Wednesday wen nosexuality would scare off incon Homosexuals don't go around y Straight people don't go around y ot it. Each individual has a right t against it. And each individual has the rig! really none of your business. Those first be concerned with themselve to criticize. . Until we can overcome the igno I other people's preferences, cultui not only oppress the oppressed, b ingredient for a successful society. You don't have to run out and h say you believe homosexuality is m are people, too, with the same rigl solutely no reason why you should to be treated. Fdnriitintiii his seat reclined during taxi." Pilot: "How does he expect me tc t^ke off with his seat like that?" Upon discovering the company nc longer really loved to fly and seeing that it didn't really show, Delta changed to, "You'll love the way we fly." Delta came to this conclusion after realizing that, with the long periods of time spent on the ground ) With delays and such, all the passengers were overjoyed when they finally did take off, despite the faci they had all missed their connecting flights and would be forced to sleep in an airport chair for several hours. as will ail Delta flights, we had to go to Atlanta before we went to Chicago; ALL FLIGHTS go through Atlanta. If you were going from California to Hawaii, you'd have to stop in Atlanta first. When we changed planes in the Atlanta airport, we had to change concourses, so we jumped on trains that talked like robots from the movie "Tron." Then we waited in line for our widebody jet, which sat about 20 people per row and looked vaguely like a flying cattle car. As we waited on the tarmac, our captain informed us we were "approximately" sixth in line for takeoff. I got a bit worried, because if the captain couldn't give us an exact number on such a simple item as takeoff order, he wasn't really the man for the "fly the big plane" job. I IBarifftock a Student Media Russell House-USO J.T. Wagenheim Nancy Salomonsk Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor Lee Clontz Tony Santori Viewpoints Editor SP0"4 Editor Carson Henderson David Mandrell Copy Desk Chief Pbo,? Edi,or Gordon Maifller Cl>ns Muldrow Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor Wendy Hudson Nora Doyle News Editor A?l News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Pubiicatiom and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of . Student Media is its parent organization. JU%#< becomes ai I "I'm leaving on a jet plane, "Don't know when I'll be bad again." I wonder if the Wright Brother knew what they were getting us in to when they took to the sky at Kit tjpHawk. Surely they couldn't have knowi their cloth, wood and metal con traption would evolve into an air borne bus complete with barf bag 9 and folding tray tables. You see. I went to Chicaeo thi: - - _ "O - weekend with my theater class, ant Ilgot to experience all the joys o Qelta Airlines, that Atlanta-based bas tion of air transport. Delta's old mot to was, "We love to fly and it shows.' Apparently, however, a bunch o Delta flight crews were sitting around one day and decided th< motto was no longer appropriate | Pilot: "You know, I really don'i like flying that much. In fact, I'm jusi in this for the reduced hotel rates.' Stewardess: "Yeah. Those passen gers get on my nerves. I kicked one in fKp nrnlrt fKp AtKoo /!??. Ko Knr litcock use Since 1908 3uef Lee Gontz, Viewpoints Editor orlal Board on Henderson, Gordon Mantler, monsky, Tony Santori e gay pride week sons for it : posters and booths around campus this r and Lesbian Awareness Days, or BGLAD >r uproar about the content of some fliers exuality to be immoral. They claim anyities should be or will be condemned to >ably is not the case. Homosexuals have And yes, that does include freedom of ory in February and women's history in lout a hitch: no crowds screaming defam VJIVI J pLUlliUUll^ VlUlVri giuupj l wopv.L" sek to homosexuals, it causes such conto the editor condemning homosexualit so far as to say that fliers promoting holing freshmen. elling they are gay just for the sake of it. relling they are straight just for the sake o choose his sexuality. There is no law it to privacy. Whether someone is gay is ; who choose to condemn others should s. Take a look; there is probably plenty ranee in our society and learn to accept res and ethnicities, we will continue to ut ourselves. Ignorance is not a healthy ug a homosexual, or join BGLA, or even orally right. Just accept the fact that gays its and freedoms you have. There is abthink otherwise. Treat gays like you want 1 class jaunt rline horror k s Chris Muldrow GRAPHICS EDITOR 5 ! cx>uld just see him in the cockpit saying, "I think it was this...no, no, it was this switch." ? Before you take off, they warn you r to turn off all personal electronics because they interfere with the \ plane's navigational system. Again, I ' had to do a double-take ? I'm counting on this plane to take me to 1 Chicago, but its instruments are ; thrown senseless when I crank up my Discman for some pre-flight | tunes. I'm worried, j On large planes like ours, Delta has installed a video that illustrates ail the safety procedures so that ' stewardesses ? sorry, customer service representatives ? wouldn't | look so ridiculous with that strip of seat belt material and the free float| ing oxygen masks. Speaking of those masks, I'm con1 vinced they're plastic Dixie cups J with Ziploc bags hooked to them. Also, they tell you to fasten your seat belt in turbulence, but if that plane crashes, does it really matter if you're wearing your belt? Later in the flight, the customer service representatives pushed their food carts down the aisles, being careful to smash them into every aisle seat person's elbows. They dis tributed little snack packets with a veritable potpourri of exotic, inedible treats for our culinary pleasure. Airplane food is apparently a strange mix of whatever the customer service representatives can dig up in the back. On one flight, we had sandwiches made of mustard, bread, roast beef, turkey, cheese, ham and mayonnaise sealed shut with a thick coating of wallpaper glue. The sandwiches are served cold; mine was froxen in a big deli counter snowball. The customer service representatives also demonstrated their fascinating ability to pour 20 drinks from one can of Coke. Part two will appear Monday. ' ws* 111 111 ft Chris Carroll ws>. I I I-I / to Coordinator of Student Media vertising: 777-4249 Laura Day X.'. 777-6482 Production Manager Columbia, SC 29208 Gr^n As*. Production Manager y Keith Boudreaux Gregory Perez Asst. News Production Asst. Brian Garland Brian McGuire Asst. Carolina! Graduate Asst. Emily Peterson Renee Gibson Asst. Photo Advertising Manager Jimmy Debutts J. Taylor Rutland Asst. Sports Asst. Advertising Manager Paul Jon Boscacci Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Adviser Letters Policy ' The Game cock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. Viewpoii MAM SK)??NTS SAH J HOUSING i$ A fitfM MI fiACE To Live WHERE C A??fHE S/z?. OF poor6ALLS - THIS 1 'F A G?MftCTE^p, j UtTfcRUE...^^^^ I uhe-UP a C^J 09c )*0 "This is our week to celebr everywhei Parents should J In the past few years, it seems as if society has been raising juvenile delinquents. Society wonders why this is happening and parents are protesting, "It's not my child." Everyday the media is reporting various criminal acts committed by children, and as if that weren't horrifying enough, the number of murders committed by children are escalating everyday. We ask ourselves, "What is happening to our youth?" Whatever happened to the day when children were harassed only by an irate neighbor whose flowers had just been trampled, instead of being harassed by drug pushers or gang members. Or the day when children went to school and received a good education without their parents worrying about them being shot, stabbed or raped by their classmates? Instead of schoolchildren worrying about the type of lunch box or what color book bag they have, they're now worrying about what kind of gun or knife they're going to carry. Society is blaming teen-age crime on easy access BGLA approach brings one - V culty of ke< undermines purpose not a stric problem. A To the editor: trying stru Outraged, offended and shocked sexually re were some reactions to BGLA's kick- H "One ot ^CC at\ 1- w ? - ? ? uii iu dulw wcck. many people i uv u,,t W1 spoke to were concerned. I see that ^is "jean the motive of most members of BGLA ~.act l^at* was to shock people into thinking. a. ^ The resultant thought process, how- 5. V" ?1 . & v. , This is utt< ever, was rather negative and un- g^^g no complimentary due to the approach ? j nQ[ Uf use(^- is violating, Late Saturday night or on Monday, ^ ^xPiicit j people were greeted campuswide jn effort with walls and windows plastered Ugion-biasc with fliers and "informative" pink tri- ^ political angles. Good thinking! It got most Everyone c people's attention! I haven't seen treated eqi such a flagrant use of paper since the would give elections! ter than an The content of these fliers and tri- \jpe all h; angles, uniortunateiy, tiaunted igno- an(j jnseci rant views that defaced the integrity NOT at the of BGLA members, or those sharing adviser for i that sexuality. It wasn't all bad. I saw ing some ol some very useful fliers among the en- ture excurs tirety. dience, wh Some of the fliers included: dren quest "Homosexuality, bisexuality, het- read. This, erosexuality is good, but the freedom sure a bettc to live as we are is best." This displays Cynics mi the American dream and advertises re- love and ha spect. hugger phil< "God loves us too." Yes, God loves how difficul all that He has created. tain, we ow "Nobody wants to spend their ually try. W whole life trapped in a closet." This pride and lc Is homosei "I think everybody shoul want to live. If you're ga if erosexual, fine." || "^is iS America. Everyone choice. I personally don't w^r ^ I not **ere to Jud8e anyone * Ilts ca/afus ill > awful gsm^0clr' tcxzoAcm wy FO^ji ii'i >'V:--'-.v^^ X C ' A ^V^-Trr**" <<< I I C | Keep Life ;<jf \ r 1 5IMPL6 F j| LIVE ON jffc) l| camfjs iU'lll'-'iVii -1"11 to guns and the availability of drugs. I don't think c it is as simple as that. I agree the availability of drugs 1 and easy access to guns are eroding the teen-age community, but I also think the lack of parental in- ^ volvement is the root of teen-age crime. v It's very easy to transfer the blame to guns and a drugs because these inanimate objects promote vi- e olence and this transference of blame somehow c causes teen-age crime. But ask yourself this: does a child decide to shoot someone because he or she ti happened to have easy access to a gun? Or does a c child decide to sniff a little cocaine because they t) know exactly where to get it? Or even worse, maybe the cocaine or marijuana : to better realize the diffieping a dark secret. This is Mary Lee tly homosexual/bisexual Music education/perf fter all, most people's most iggles are not necessarily Jaje(j JIUUVUl VJUVU 11111 it of every 10 of YOU may Open tO all Stlldei US. Think about it." Does that I must question the To the editor: love a man? Do I have to jn Wednesday's paper, a ise of paranoia on myself? (Gr spoke of his distaste for c girls eat fish on Fridays." taining to gay, lesbian and :rly appalling! This is dis- pride. These fliers, placet t because I am straight and campUS) express the send .derstand," but because it ^ a registered studeM . It is unnecessarily sexual- tj0n whose informational c n its implications. help promote awareness of to avoid making many re- J; , ;d statements, I'll try to be ^ r , . * One or the greatest parts lly correct as I can stand: . ? ,' , , ma university setting is the eserves the respect to be . e, ,, , T ".v nity to freely express our i lally and with love as one \.. c c? n o: wj . . . and ideas. Sen. Stacey Grim themselves. No one is bet- , ... ./ , otherbeing. on behalf of himself and ot tve our flaws to reconcile ,n"? ^ docs hc,sPeak f?' irities to overcome, but S?15 committed to work, expense of another. The s_,mdents. regardless of their i BCiLA might consider edit- ucr or 5CXuai onentanon. :> f the material used in a fii- ways work on behalf of all ion for the sake of the au- w^' ^ open to all stud< ich included young chilioning what the triangles Stephei undoubtedly, would en- SG public relations :r outcome. ty believe that equal rights, Gay pride fliers rmony are hippie-ish, tree- r . asophies, but regardless of lfllOnnative, WOrtl t that goal would be to ate it to ourselves to contin- To the editor: e ought to put down our As a gay student at this uni ?ve one another. am disappointed at the mi mollfir /\4* 'no* /> vuuulij iiniiiuifll VJl JU9L (A W< Id live the way they "It doe; Y, fine. If you're het- every r |F?V have th( Maria Zabala anish teaching assistant : has the freedom of ip^t *"F1 "It does believe in it, but I'm j with it a Kevin Cogsdill Jgp p Biology sophomore o UA/e-up ? bll ate. People might think we're obnoxious a tkJo nraalr Imi? moa J .1* ? ? 1 v liiio wttA, UUl WC 11CCU U1C LliailLC IU I serve as role mode Lorri-Ann Carter 1 COLUMNIST ^ ?0AC\\E? ? GET \ % ^ M* _ % , //y " -L - ~~ fj keep life % & ~t\ i smoftt * % 0\r , li,e <"* ,,,? \o&s I * h ^| ^ pt^0\ ^ * \ j % oo$ibJ6j^ & ^ ^ i because they're seeing us be open." David Nations BGLA member is for children nade the girl stab someone. No, I've got it ? the :hild raped a girl because he happened to get high hat afternoon. I don't think so! No one will ever make me believe that a child is >orn evil. Babies are born innocent, but they do ack values and morals. It is the parent's responsi>ility to instill honest morals and values into their :hildren, and it is also the parent's duty to guide he child into adulthood. The parent should be the child's role model, and f the parent isn't willing to fill that role, the child rill find another role model, and that's a fact. Be it . drug dealer, a gang leader, a pimp or someone Ise. A child will seek out a role model or some type >f idol. To all the future parents out there, don't give hese corrupt people the privilege of guiding your hildren into adulthood! You as parents deserve tie privilege of saying, "That's my child!" Lorri-Ann Carter is a journalism senior. standing some people have shown toManeely ward BGLA concerning its pride week, ormance or Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awaresenior ness Days. It may embarrass some _ j. people when we "let the world know" through pro-gay fliers that we are part itc r\f th#? ctiiHpnr KnHu K,i? ?>v u>uuviit UUUJ, UUl U1VJ IIV.VU W know the truth. Even more importantly, the pro-gay fliers are part of SG sena- our weeklong celebration of ourselves fliers per- f?r wh? anc^ what we are. bisexual As f?r l^e particular flier alluding i around to an RA possibly being gay, I know ments of several RAs wbo are indeed bisexual, oreaniza- ^ or feshian. None of them are tryimpaigns inB to fri8hten any "young, straight issues on male" or female, nor are they and the members of the BGLA trying to "pick of beine UP Partners>" or 11,111 the reputation oDDortu- o^ this university, tho chts ? hope the embarrassed SG senator , ? , was able to read some of the many speaks other pro_gay fliers (that is, before mcy were so quiCKiy torn down), " some of which were very informative ng for all ^^hy Qf attention. 2ce,.8eiJ* I believe our fliers sent a very posiG will al- ^ message to visiting high school sestudents niGrs ancj tQ everyone else that USC :nts. is a supportive environment for all kinds of people. Such a message 11 Brown might actually serve to increase both director enrollment and on-campus housing. It is because so many people regard gays, lesbians and bisexuals as something other than "normal" (whatever that means) that we have BGLA, BGLAD and a need to post our fliers. iversity, I David M. Nations sunder- French senior ly of life? sn't Dottier me. I feel that they have ight. They're American citizens that i right to display what they believe in." Denise Phillips Computer science senior n't bother me at all. Nothing is wrong s far as I'm concerned." Marion Williams Biology sophomore