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"I5fl Serving Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Edltc Keith Boudreaux, Lu Jimmy Del Indecent p The Citadel's attem doesn't solve anythi r ? ^he Citadel's recent nronosal f I I * * er women who wish to folio JL solution. The proposal, whicl verse, Columbia or North Georgi ly address the concerns brought u all-male status. While the school's ] "leadership program" is certainly sic concern of the case?that Th< discriminates on the basis of gem Students apply to a school bee wants to go to Columbia College, seeks an education at the Citadel type of school. Wearing a uniform USC and living in a constant mi An interesting side to the com in the plan weren't told of its exi Given that Columbia College's pres military program and Converse he should have been consulted befor aren't receptive to the idea of sue nature of the proposal. In trying to cope with the alleg around an end to all their female L _ / 1 1i ? ! 1 ? De iemaie cadets to private scum school category. After all, that is The problem isn't so much that T as it is that the school receives adamantly oppose a coed admissi ers provide and there would be ] than spending countless dollars i Though the court battle being this proposal will not bring the vi ing prospective female students will only postpone the solution. 'Contract w i J sets next y< fv TOMMY v TOUCHBERRY Columnist Last week I informed you the the latest polling data indicate America was ready for a return t traditional values and sound ec< nomic principles. I also briefly touche on the Republican "contract" wit American voters. This week, I wi expand on that subject I begin with an example of th basic choice between the Clinton lil erals and the conservative Repul licans. There is a clear choice. Tak for example current speaker of th House and liberal Democratic leadr Thomas Foley (of Washington) an potential speaker of the House an conservative Republican leader Nev Gingrich (of Georgia). Tom Foley has made a name f( himself by being a belligerent an uncompromising House speaker. I his tenure, he has exhibited the mo: partisan of politics (which is fine e: cept he accuses the Republicans < the same thing, i.e. hypocrisy). Du inrr 1CGA farlorol Kn^rrof nr^ac lilg WIC Xh/I/V 1V/UU1 U1 UUUgV/C VI uvw Foley demanded tax increases rath* than the spending reductions Prei ident Bush wanted. Foley was reac to have the federal government shi down completely until he got his te increases. It was also Foley wh turned his head while House Di mocrats were stealing from the Hou* post office. But, the most unbelie able act Foley has committed is h bringing a lawsuit against the vo ers of his own state because the voted for term limits. Poor Fole wants to be speaker so bad he wou even sue his constituents! Newt Gingrich, on the other han has made a name for himself throu^ VIAM/I urnnlr rln+nvmin oil' nn QT* 1110 11CU VI YVU1IY, ueteimiliai'ivix Mx. "common sense" ideas. Gingrich hi stood strong in defending the va ues and concerns of suburban A lanta. More importantly, Gingri( is dedicated to providing answe: and real solutions rather the san t old rhetoric. Gingrich's "contra with America" is evidence of his r lentless pursuit to serve his coi stituents rather than take their mo ey and run. Gingrich is a strong su porter of term limits, which is n "tBatock; Student Media Russell House-USC Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButt Editor in Chief Sport* Editor Susan Goodwin Kim Truett Viewpoint* Editor Photo Editor Steven C. Burritt Ethan Myersoi Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor Keith Boudreaux Erin Gaflowaj News Editor Asst. News Lupe Eyde Robert Wertz Features Editor Asst. News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of University of South Carolina and is published Moat | Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring sen I lets, with the exception of university holidays and a periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of editors or author and not those of the University South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Commanicati is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Departmen Student Media is its parent organization. nflcodt use Since 1908 Susan Goodwin, Viewpoints Editor rial Board pe Eyde, Steven C. Burritt, 3utts, Kim Truett roposal pt at compromise ng, not acceptable to placate Shannon Faulkner and othw her lead falls short of being a viable ti would send interested females to Cona Military colleges, does not adequatep by the controversy over The Citadel's pledge to spend $5 million for a women's admirable, it does not deal with the ba5 Citadel is a state-funded school that ier. ause they want to go there. If a woman she would apply there first. But if she , she is obviously looking for a different l during mornings of ROTC training at litary environment are not the same, ipromise is that the schools mentioned stence until after it was filed in court, rident has said he didn't want a women's is expressed similar feelings, the schools e their inclusion in the offer. That they :h a program is indicative of the shaky fations of sexism, the school has danced s troubles. Rather than routing woulddIs, place Citadel men in that private- I? the basis of Shannon Faulkner's case. {) he Citadel receives only male students state funds. Rely on the alumni who on policy to make up those the taxpaytio case. It would certainly be cheaper _ n court costs and lawyer bills. r waged over The Citadel needs to end, I rar any closer to its culmination. Sendelsewhere won't solve the problem. It 1th America' ear's agenda J " le: for his personal benefit, but rather w} for the benefit of the democratic Li process. Gingrich also has a strong th voting record. He received a 100 J score during 1993 for his votes on m] family issues by the Christian Coali- Lc it tion. be d What exactly is this "contract ca ,o with America," you ask? Let me give ). you a brief overview. The contract bo d promises that if a Republican ma- ^ h jority is elected, three specific re 11 forms will be passed on Jan. 3,1995. tu Those are the Shay's Act requiring jn [e all laws that apply to the rest of q y. America also apply to Congress, the ~ j. selection of a "Big Six" accounting ~ :e firm to conduct a complete audit of [e all Congressional accounts for waste, ;r fraud and abuse and a severe cut of d congressional staff with a reduction d in the number of congressional comzt mittees. u* The contract also promises that )r 10 other bills will be debated and ^ d voted upon within 100 days. These n bills include: ^ st term limits K- welfare reform emphasizing s0 3f work and family rather than govr_ ernment bureaucracy fa a balanced-budget agreement in ;r and a line-item veto for the presirlnnf nr g. u^nv j--\y reform emphasizing malprac- sh ^ tice and product liability a a crime bill with a limit on ? l0 death penalty appeals and empha- / e. sis on honest sentencing and ade- \ je quate prison space for violent ofv. fenders is an economic growth act re- ro t- ducing the capital gains tax (prosy small business) and reshaping bad CI ?y regulations on business to encour- sr Id age job creation and higher take- Ri home pay si d, a pro-family bill eliminating th rh tax and social security penalties for 1J [d married couples a{ as This November we all have a "rej. al choice" between old and new. We fr t. can choose to give someone else a sz :h chance to try and make the legisla- bl rs tive process work better or we can ie write off another two years with lib- ef ct eral incompetence. The choice is sz e. yours; I pray you make the most of pi a- it. gl np. Tommy Touchberry is a markeing tl ot junior. His column appears every m Friday. D j nnn Chris Carroll Jews. 777-7726 DiieaorofSludeiiMaiia Advertising: 777-4249 Laura ]>ay 'AX: 777-6482 Creative Director > Columbia, SC 29208 Jim Green Ait Director s Wendv Hudson Gregory Perez Asst. Copy Desk Production Asst. Asst!4?opy Defk Elizabeth Thomas Allison Williams Adv. Graduate Asst. , ^A-t Feature. Renee Gibson C5?n MarkeUogWrector r Van Hope Chns Wood Asst. Photo Asa. Advertising Manager Jason Jeffers Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Advisor the Letters Policy lay, jgJ. The Gamecock will try to prim all letters received, ram Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student, the Letters must be personally delivered by the author to ' of The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. otB 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. ^^rjjw.||QMSofvr & %> \ mgb ? JmjMUu, to [&) Of So6?io '^ 01 n5^^! i. ,\ | ^*2^ kl l#V?r-g SK,Si%8 *&%'*&%** IUM cyiiMHv ? & "If we are concerned with the noise, make concerned about bottles, make c Shickre Sabbagha listorical look a A grasp of history is essential to a good jourlist. Yes, without a firm knowledge of the events of e past, some ill-prepared journalist might write at George Washington crossed the Congaree Rivwith Abraham Lincoln after a long winter at Val/ Gorge, a popular vacation spot of presidents, len everyone with even a smidgen of history knows ncoln waited for Ben Franklin and rode across b e river on Ben's cool new jet ski. e The iournalist and his nublication would be hu- r. iliated beyond belief and be forced to fly out to is Angeles and join the O.J. Simpson trial watch, ing pelted with empty Coke cans by bleary-eyed S mera crews. P Being an intrepid reporter of fact and fiction, h wever, I've taken the time to research a bit of his- d ry and have packaged this first installment of a re-to-be-continued-if -I'm-ever-stuck-for-ideas fea- v re, the Beardman Guide to Milestones in Science, e dustry, Health and Other Stuff The Discovery t; lannel Would Have Really Long Shows About, I >mplete With Dates and Inventors That Could Be g >tally Fictional, So Don't Look Them Up. Milestone number one?the contact lens. b Contact lenses are little pieces of plastic that sit c acefully on the eyeball and fill the exact same ^ irpose as glasses except you can't push contacts ) on your nose in an attempt to look intellectual. Contacts were invented by a man named Hans a lwmaii in laou. ijuwuiaiis ungiiiai uesigu was a iole lot closer to the optics of regular glasses, but a I members of the original test group died when 11 e frames of the contacts got jammed in their eye 1( ckets. k Gradual improvements to the devices made them a sier to wear and harder to maintain. Careful test- e g created a product that would absorb dirt parti- ^ ss over the course of the day; the final perfected I oduct can feel fine in the morning and feel like a u Leet of coarse-grade sandpaper by nightfall. d ETTERS Linton's success d This letter is in response to the By- ing (not fightir n James column appearing Oct. 3. of our nationPlease keep in mind that while dom. You mus linton may be having unrecognized of our govemn iccess, this does not mean the Bush, reason Clinton eagan or any other administration care, etc., is n< lould suffer by comparison. Great simply want 1 lings were accomplished during the thing he puts )80s, as well as negative. The same cause they tru Dplies to Clinton. ter, and the D( The economy is far from recovered erwise, they w om the Reagan/Bush years, not to what they beli ly Bush and Reagan are responsi- applies to the I e. Clinton has only reduced the deficit I think once 1 j a small fraction, having little or no each other's pc Feet on our debt. We are still in the operate much ime situation as ever. This is not to As for youi at the blame on Clinton or any sin- pothesis, that e administration. Understand Republicans are not le enemy and do not want "to ultint.plv see the Dresident fail." Roth emocrats and Republicans are workWhat's the hest sc H " 7~~~j "They could go ahead and adhere fe III that they provide equal opportun y 9 !|| the corps cadets, yearbook, etc. II ^ the trouble to let her in and not 1 P "If it's a state-supported institutioi have just as much right to go th< then she should be able to do it." ^* fSpifr "5 *-* IV? U TKCH.Qjj i that illegal. If we are concerned abou consumption by bottles illegal. We shoi , a USC doctoral student speaking against the open < j i * J s it contact lens, CHRIS MULDROW Scientists now are working on ways to add mor ottles of lens care products to the contact lens wear rs' case, creating a demand for pack mules to car y lens wearers around on trips. Milestone number two?isienneim mnger Ale Blenheim Ginger Ale was actually invented ii buth Carolina, and the man who owns the' com any now also owns South of the Border, the en ertainment mecca in Dillon, so you know you'r ealing with high levels of quality control. Blenheim is like regular old ginger ale mixe /ith kerosene and lit on fire. It clears your sinus s, your throat and anything else it comes in cor act with. Apparently, real ginger is very hot, an think every bottle of Blenheim has an actual gir er root hidden inside. Blenheim comes in varying levels of hotness ut the last person to drink an entire bottle of rec ap extra hot had to have his stomach replaced wit] he oilpan from a 1975 Ford Pinto. i A Til Acf Ar\ niiTYiV?A?? 4" Viyaa o Onf Hi iUllCOLUllC llUlilUCI bill TTiUl;^ vuu White Out was originally invented by an scho r named Auff White in 1876. Vhite was working on a cure for the common col nd had finally finished his research. He was wrii ig it all down in one of those black-and-white spec! sd books when his son Isleoff rode by on his skat< oard and accidentally knocked a can of white pair ill over his father's book. Auff noticed that the pair ffectively covered all of his cold studies and drie n a surface he could write ori a rain, so he disowne sleoff, quit Jris cold research and went to work fi| iring out how to invent a little brush that woul try up after two applications of the paint and ho1 oesn't signify Bui lg) for the greater good People dO IH)t -democracy and freeit always keep the goal wllfHOIl (KXilcSt lent in perspective. The In last Monday's issi has failed to pass health cock, I read the leftist it because Republicans Byron James on Clint to stall or oppose any- tion. First of all, I woul on the table. It is be- Mr. James that the E ily feel their way is bet- trol. In fact, Mr. Jamei ;mocrats' is wrong. Oth- the past forty-plus yea ouldn't work so hard for licans have not "stalle< eve in. Again, the same mestic agenda. There )emocrats' point of view, mocrats in Congress 1 loth sides can respect that Slick Willie wan lint of view, they can co- Mr. James, the "true" better. pie do not want Clin' Clinton re-election hy- agenda, is another issue. I have compiled my sons why Mr. Clinton Josh Piatt elected. They need no < undeclared freshman cause they speak for t 10. He's an idiot. 9. Gennifer Flow< ilution to Shannon to the judge's ruling "If 1 ity, so she can be in sior Jacquie Case Political science senior n, I think she should "Sh nputer engineering junior r~i ||bpfegM ? I ^?1 t the litter, make littering illegal. If we are jldn't be forced to drink in bars. container ordinance Macs insightful to concentrate the paint fumes for an intense buzz. Milestone number four?Chick-Fil-A. If God eats chicken nuggets, they're from a cosmic Chick-Fil-A. They just opened a store downtown this summer, though it's only open until seven. Chick-Fil-A was invented in the early 1960s by Elias e Pooltree, who envisioned a time in the 1990s when a bearded journalism student would single-handedly support an entire fast food chain based solely on chicken tried in peanut oil. ;. Milestone number five?Macintosh computn er. A diminutive little computer at first, the MacL. intosh was the first computer to make people reale ize a computer shouldn't just do computing stuff, it should start up with a Bloom County cartoon while i it sings "Good Day, Sunshine" and flashes animaj. tions of fish tanks on the screen. Offices were turned i_ from productive bastions of IBM fortitude into hapd py centers of colorful screen savers that took up so t_ much memory no spreadsheet could ever run on the computer again. , Most important about the arrival of the Mac, }1 however, was the fact it triggered the endless deh bate of which type of computer is better, a debate still raging despite the fact everyone knows the Atari 2600 is what everyone really wants on their l_ desk at work. Why work when you can play Yar's Revenge and Space Invaders^all day long? ^ Well, I would talk about more historical milestones, t but my contact is giving me troubles and there's n/Mv?A r\C unfV\ m*r c/tvAon ootrAt* An mi; ^ DU1UC IviilLi U1 lA/lUlll'l* YYiWl XXX J OU CC11 OCX V Ci Ull XXXJ computer, so I think IH grab a Chick-Fil-A sandwich and a Blenheim and go sniff some White Out l. Whew, history repeats itself. (Yes, it's a bad pun, \ but you laughed, didn't you? Okay, maybe you didnt ^ You probably have an IBM, don't you?) Chris Muldrow is a journalism senior. His column appears every Friday. sh, Reagan failure want 8- $200 haircuts -ic agenda 7. Hillary ic agenoa 6 LieS) Lies> Lies ne of the Game- er TTn_ a. O-wmtewaler DnV96re-elec- onforei*nP0'^ d like to inform 3. Paula Jones lemocrats con- 2* Communistic domestic agenda s, they have for 1- Jack Kemp and a unified Hers. The Repub- publican Party d" Clinton's doare enough De- In closing, I would like to say that 'O pass any bill the Reagan/Bush years were the greatts. The fact is, est peace-time years ever in our hisAmerican peo- tory. Face the facts liberals, Clinton ton s domestic wm be defeated in <96 because the . , n American people have seen the soown top 10 rea- .... , i.T^-11 x 1 will not be re- cialistic schemes of Bill Clinton and explanation be- the Democratic Party. hemselves. Steve Knight ;rs Political science senior w a o l mulKners case: ier decision is to get in there, then that's her deci[. I wouldn't want to do it." Nikki Cooper Biology/pre-med sophomore e doesn't belong there. There's a reason for it (The adel) being all male. Military matters are based ly on men. If she really wants to be in the military, can join the ROTC at some other school." David Hicks Hotel/restaurant/tourism freshman