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"IBa Serving Ul Lee Qontz, Editor in Chief Si Edttorl Keith Boudreaux, Lupx Jimmy DeBi No Nukes SRS has its fill of nu While suing the Departm tion to take in many case spent nuclear fuel from I vannah River Site are completely Also easy to comprehend is 1 block the shipment from entering way for a full hearing to be condi Though many don't like to thi: plant in South Carolina that usee ly about an hour away from cam al of radioactive materials has le While Site workers are attemj last thing they need is 153 extn mess, without any extra help in < If DOE had been willing to ad er, perhaps it wouldn't have com* needed to be taken because this er, the department side-stepped ronmental statement on the carg DOE officials were also evas material once it landed near Wih mile train trek to Aiken. Although no one likes to thin at sea, the reality is that some d< involving how to process the mat States should reinstate its policy sold to foreign countries. The onl; el back since 1988 is under "urge While the agency claimed a la mark, Austria and the Netherlai na is not sure an emergency rea needs to take a second look at th< decades of neglect constitute an i DOE officials claim the blockir The agency is housed in Washin Maybe department heads would i nuclear dumping grounds. Though South Carolina may 1 international refuge, that is little er Site has its own problems to df At least, not without more fundi] fomlifiaa tn Hoa] with it. nil A fear of another entity gettii is a valid one. Certainly no one \ fear cannot be the only factor, h drastic measures as to accept th If the DOE wants to keep th< nuclear by-products, it must sta People she Confederal B TOMMY ? TOUCHBERRY Columnist The Confederate flag issue coi tinues to spark controversy throug] out the South. In Georgia, Alabi ma and Mississippi the debat rages on, but no where is the issi more intense than in South Ca olina. Up to this point I have shie away from this issue. I felt I wasr ready to comment until I was 10 percent sure of my position. I ha\ always felt the constant attack t liberals, the NAACP, and "ou siders" on Southern heritage wf wrong. At the same time I strui gled to find reasons why it was i important for the Confederate fk to fly atop our state capital. In recent months I have li tened carefully to the argumen given by both sides, and I hai reached two conclusions. My first conclusion is that v timately the citizens of South Ce olina should have the opportui ty to decided this issue. When i issue is as controversial as this ot I think those in power would 1 wise to let the people decide. Sin this issue doesn't involve the cr rights of any citizen, governme intervention is not necessary. My second conclusion concer the motives of each side. There no doubt that support for flyii the flag comes from white racis but they make up a veiy small p centage of the population. On t other side, a seemingly large p centage of support for removi: the flag comes from black politd< leaders who want to make son nno rav for tho wmnosi of the rvt v"v I? > O ?- I? 10l5aiffeock I Student Media Russell House-USC Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButt Editor in Chief Sports Editor Susan Goodwin Kim Truett Viewpoints Editor Photo Editor Steven C. Burritt Gab rid Madde Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor Keith Boudreaux Erin Gallowa; News Editor As*. News Lupe Eyde Robert Wertz Features Editor Asst. News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of University of South Carolina and is published Moo Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring ser ten, with the exception of university holidays and c. periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are tbcw of editors or author and not those of the University South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Commanicat is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Departmen Student Media is its parent organization. The Ga Hcock X Since 1908 usan Goodwin, Viewpoints Editor lal Board i Eyde, Steven C. Burritt, itts, Kim Truett dear waste ent of Energy may not be a wise ac s, OOUU1 Carolina b measures vu iveep Surope from being dumped at the Sar understandable. the U.S. District judge's decision to I South Carolina, thereby paving the icted on the matter, nk about it, the fact is that there is a 1 to make nuclear bombs, and it's onpus. Forty years of improper dispossd to an immense cleanup situation, pting to undo decades of damage, the a spend-fuel elements to add to the iealing with the problem. [dress the concerns of our state soon?to this. By declaring the shipments was an emergency situation, howevits obligation to do an in-depth envi[O. ive on what would be done with the nington, N.C. and had made its 370k of nuclear waste floating on a boat scisions are going to need to be made terial and whether or not the United r to accept used fuel it had originally y way DOE has been taking spent fuaif conditions. ick of storage space left Sweden, Denlds in such a condition, South Carolilly existed. Perhaps the government ! Savannah River Site. Certainly four equally desperate situation, ig of the fuel is purely a political move, igton, D.C., however, not Aiken, S.C. feel differently if their backyards were >e the most qualified place to take the consolation to us. The Savannah Rival with and cannot accept the world's. ig, more people and more operational lg hold of the material and abusing it vants to be under such a threat. That lowever, leading the country to such e fuel blindly. } world safe from the improper use of rt at home. raid decide te flag's fate i.e. slaveiy and segregation. White ~~ liberals would also do anything to destroy Southern tradition. Those groups are the extremes. _ The majority of South Carolinians are decent, caring people who are 1_ proud of their heritage. These peov pie have grown tired of being the ' scapegoat for every wrong that oc;e curred in the past. No society is ie perfect and certainly the United r_ States and the Southern states are no exception. To these people, the Confederate flag doesn't stand for racism. 10 It stands for family, community, fe hard work, dedication to God, and, ,y most importantly, pride. The flag t- symbolizes a simpler time when ^ most children grew up in real fam:i:? J ? i i i._ c xxxeo anu nu one xiau to xeax tuxx30 stant crime and moral decay. Durjg ing the Civil War, many South Carolinians died for their state. They s. felt they were fighting for their sovtg ereignty. How could any true Amer/e ican not understand that? Finally, I would like to say that I am deeply offended by those who u-. try to destroy every institution or n- bit of tradition that has made the in South a wonderful place to live. ie, The attempt to "outlaw" God, rip be apart our moral foundation, and ce rewrite history is sinfully wrong, vil As for the Confederate flag isnt sue, I believe that a well-crafted monument on the Statehouse ns grounds honoring the Confederate is flag and a state-sponsored "Conng federate" history month would be ts, a reasonable compromise. But I er- would like to see the citizens of he South Carolina make that deci er- sion. ng :al Tommy Touchberry is a marketle ing junior. His column appears st, every Friday. lews: 777-7726 oSSSSS, Advertising: 777-4249 Laura Day "AX: 777-6482 Creative Director > Columbia, SC 29208 s Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez Asst. Copy Desk Production Asst. Tanya Kropf Elizabeth Thomas Asst. Copy Desk Adv. Graduate Asst. n Allison Williams Renee Gibson Asst. Features Marketing Manager f Ryan Wilson Chris Wood Asst. Sports Asa. Advertising Manager Jason Jeffers Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Advisor Letters Policy day, X,. The Gamecock will try to print all letters received, tarn Letters should be 200-230 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student, the Letters muM be personally delivered by the author to ' o( The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. i0rn The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for t of style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. imecock VIEWlitf f vie strongly c W&p&tv mK 5/ RM?cM\ W THE utto I ropuui'ON' OUOTEUNOTOTi "I was already across the streel me. When It hit my knees It sent Water fun ent I love swimming in lakes. I used to be scared of giant attack leeches, unknown schools of piranha, freshwater sharks and other common lake dangers, but I realized I might one day have to jump into a lake to save a beautiful woman. She'd then fall in love with me, and we'd live happily ever after, so my fears faded. Also, 1 live in Greenville, less than an hour from Lake Hartwell, so the residual chemicals in Hartwell ate enough of my brain cells to make me a lake booster. I went to a friend's lake house this weekend and we had a watersport-o-rama. It was the first time I'd ridden a Jet Ski, and! decided I really liked it. A Jet Ski is a nifty little device made by Kawasaki that has some kind o: water propulsion jet, probably stolen from a smal Air Force T-38 training plane. A button starts anc stops the Ski, and another button controls the throt tie. The really neat thing about a Jet Ski, howev er, is the fact it circles around you like Jaws wher you accidentally fall off. My Jet Ski spent much of my ride circling around like Jaws. The trick to riding a Jet Ski is to drag your bod: out behind it and start going pretty fast, fast enougl for the jet to jet-propel your swim shorts off of you xr x I 1 oi,: Iou steer uy leaning over miu mixing un me c?iu You can also jump waves by hitting the waves am falling off the Ski. If you stand up on the Ski, you falls can be more creative. Someone had rented a kayak, a water device have more experience with. (Notice I didnt say anj thing about more skill.) I pulled on the spray skirl a device designed to keep water from pouring int the cockpit of the boat and to make you look lik an exotic dancer in a neoprene miniskirt. I paddlei the boat around the lake, but paddling a white-wa LETTERS Medical school needs This letter is for all new students There at USC and any old ones that we may the bottoi not have reached last year. out of hal In case you didn't know, there is a our chall physiology course taught at the med- for a debi ical school that utilizes pound dogs sitions C that would otherwise have been hu- Medicine manely euthanized. These dogs are If you strapped to a table and cut while still more inf< alive. They must be alive to get neu- our table romuscular responses. day. Also, Dr. Matthew Wolf does basic hypothermia experiments on cats. He removes one hind lee from an alive Geolo cat and discards the rest Many physi- dents fc cians have said his work is non-correlative to humans. Last year, we collected over 900 signatures to end dog lab. We have pamphlets of devices that could be Willi 4 used in place of dogs. Schools such as Yale, Ohio State and NYU have The< stopped using dogs in this way. publishe I Should S ^rr-; -vfc~~ "I think Americans should b iCsT rt f country. I think this count done. There's so much helpi: JL America needs Help, too." " " "I think if the plant can han they're bringing it from oth the technology we have, the got to get rid of it. If they ca ITS Friday, September 16,1994 \ :a?n T'CiPtoioK GROUPS AWP U.N. t (Assembly) when they pulled out real q the front of my body forward. I was tout to them." Sonya Yardley, on her hit-and-run accident ertains, humiliat I - . I thiirl I |. ] L T* * CHRIS MULDROW see ; Columnist [ the ,? ter kayak on a lake is tough because the boat's not 5 designed to go in a straight line. I try to aim for the spot I definitely don't want to go on the lake, and the boat steers itself the opposite direction. It's like , driving a car with Jell-0 tires. I learned how to roll a kayak last semester, so [ I decided to impress a friend on the dock with a roll i in the lake. g?j f She was impressed greatly at how long I could ~ 1 hold my breath and thrash about underwater. She 1 was also stunned at my ability to push myself out , . of the boat (a wet exit, for you yakkers (my very 1 own invented slang word for kayakers)) while I was Pus i upside down in 10 feet of water. I think she was al- der ?? ^n4-a/I T ^i*orr o nloofi/* Irovolr fiill nf* IH3 9U liauucigcwtcu X WU1U uiag U j/iuouv nujMU IMU VI water back to the dock and empty the water out. t Sometimes you've just gotta show off. out f At this point my water addiction was electrify- ve i ing, so I went out in a canoe with a friend. We pad. died around a point, which is the ultimate goal of ter . any lake canoe trip. Points on a lake, little mini- a b i peninsulas sticking out into the water, are the ul- floi r timate adventurer's milestones. Second in impor- the tance are coves, hidden pockets of discovery and ke< T turtles. Third are docks with cool boats because I could never afford a cool boat unless it doubled as wil ^ my house. Fourth are strange things floating in the go o water. They usually turn out to be bottles, trash, ab( e dead fish or soiled things no one on land would get j within 10 miles of if possible. Ch h In fact, the perfect canoe trip would go some- pet to use alternative methods ! are many alternatives but few personal computer keyi n line is that USC uses dogs check their representatives' re jit and convenience. We echo Congress "... under a system i lenge to the medical school Thursday by a conservative ate with a member of the Po- ers' group." Please publish tl Committee for Responsible interesting details (i.e. group >. and address and how to access have any questions or want source). For your readers' infor ormation, be sure to stop by there is a non-profit group, ca at the organizational fair to- Center for National Indepenc Politics (CNIP) that has provi service since 1992. David Oberty II Computer access to CNII gy junior and vice president of Stu- ject Vote Smart" data on all I >r the Ethical Treatment of Animals ators and representatives is a via the internet: gopher.neu.i Duiieun Doara: ova- ra t-a i i i n hfthw vnfora N81)* Otherwise, simply dia P IieiJJS VUlttTB 622-7627 (1-800-622-SMAR'] candidate info voting records, campaign fin; formation, candidates' ans Gamecock (Friday, Sept. 2) CNIPs "National Political Am d, "voters need only punch a Test," and other important ii RS accept foreign nuclea e concentrating on their own I course ry needs a lot of work to be problem J ng of other countries. Maybe Naz Akhtar ^ Sociology/Psychology senior die that kind of waste and if "No, it sh< er countries that don't have We have ( n they should. Someone has Jr n't, maybe we should." jfW ?* 4 Mark Gugino If 'ersonnel management senior 7 i (? MNoMW-1 9 ulck and that's when they hit chlng the wheels and I held on es the brave ig like this: FVont paddler: "Let's go around this point and what's over there!" Back paddler: "Okay!" 'Silent moments of paddling) Front: "Wow! Look at that cool ski boat over re!" Back: "You mean the one in that cove next to turtle?" Front: "Yeah!!" Back: "What's that in the water in front of it?" Canoe conversations are enlightening. We went to a dock to look at a 33-foot sailboat, which sitr I in Lake Murray is like putting.a Carnival Fun p on the newly-filled mechanical white abstract mecock reflecting pond in front of Gambrell. :ay, they filled the pond. Now the chickens need nove, and I'll be the happiest student on caml) The guy with the boat said he couldn't go unany of the bridges on the lake because the boat's st was too tall. I was gonna suggest he get one hose pirate cannons and just blow the bejeezus of the bridges, but I remembered I had to drihome. The only thing I didn't do at the lake was wa-ski. The idea of being pulled on a rope behind oat while strapped to two planks just doesn't at my boat. (Yes, I did add that line just to use it really poor pun.) I can't get up on skis; I just ip hitting my head on the back of the ski. Of course, fall is approaching, and soon the lake 1 be too cold for water sports. I guess I can just paddle in the library pond. Fve been wondering )ut something I saw floating in the water. ris Muldrow is a journalism senior. His column apirs every Friday. ; to teach physiology 3 to ..." tion. cords in For example, when I decided to mveiled write to Congress about the crime taxpay- bill, I flipped through CNIFs bianle more nuaj newsletter. There I found vots name j j j * ing records, addresses, phone nummation, ^ers anc* ^eve^s campaign filled the nancing from the National Rifle lence in Association to each member. Then, ded this for more information, I called the 800 number and found out how South vs "Pro- Carolina's six representatives and J.S. sen- both senators voted most recently vail able on the crime bill. I would like CNIP '(144K ^ crec^ ^ Reserve for their 1 1 800- ideas and all-volunteer efforts; rather D to get ^an some nameless, faceless "conance in- servative taxpayers' group." wers to rareness Bev Huntsberger nforma- Computer Services Division ii* wacfa? II TVUOIVl s not. I just don't agree with it. It's just the same ^ better idea is to not produce the nuclear waste." Phil Li Computer science graduate student Duldn't. We don't need other people's problems. 3ur own to take care of." Jennifer Thompson Education freshman