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"11 Set Lee Gontz, Editor in Qii Ei Keith Boudreaux Jimmy We're not University's attem students meets wi With the current rise oi with little explanatioi ment Though a gener dents have seen a considerabl counts over the last couple of y Hie rise in parking fees is a | prices increasing as much as 6C Garage, students who rely on si lapidated, are upset While mor there is little being done to inc the Blossom Street Garage wh no actions to improve any othe However, Student Governm to vent their frustration with th This effort to wake up the adm move in light of recent occurrei dent boycott of the services, si nnrlrinrr faoo Ttia rriot ??? * lulig 1VVO. A XIV ?10 1/ U1 llic ili tates what prices students have ments are to be rendered. This content with university actions structive criticism and destruct That the university wants t issue here. Rather, what the pr Certainly student safety should least, the shift in prices should around areas commonly known f< Though USC is trying to cu commitment to students that it ancing's sake. Hiking prices a lil failing to provide adequate safi All-out atta unfounded f TOMMY TOUCHBERR\ Columnist President Clinton has waged i all-out attack on his Republican c position, and he is not letting tl truth get in his way. Recently, Cli ton declared that allowing the GC to gain control of Congress wou "take us back to the Reagan-Bus years when we exploded the defic cut Medicare, cut taxes for tl wealthiest in America, divided 01 citizens and sent our jobs overseas This is both misleading and fact ally incorrect. Let me explain u ing oincial government statistic First, Medicare was not cut du ing either the Reagan or Bush ai ministration, according to AB News. What Clinton meant to ss was Reagan didn't allow Medical spending increases to skyrocket 01 of control. Second, Clinton purposely mi; leads the public by saying Reaga cut taxes for the very wealthy. Th fact is Reagan cut everyone's taxe a heckuva lot. The top margim rate was indeed trimmed from 7 percent in 1981 to 31 percent b 1988. But, Clinton fails to point oi] the middle class received a larg rate reduction, too. Even the lov est income rate was reduced some It is important to note that evei with the massive rate reduction for the wealthy, the top 5 percen ended up paying a much larger shar of the total tax burden (46 percen compared to 35 percent). The mid die and lower income groups botl paid a smaller share. This was th result of the booming economy Rea gan created. Third, Clinton says Reagan anc Bush divided our citizens. I supposi that would be more or less a sub jective opinion. But, Clinton's rad ical leftist policies regarding con troversial issues, such as specia privileges for gays, have caused ? lot of division among our popula tion. Clinton has divided the natior on issues such as gays in the mili tary, trying to implement a social ized health care plan and preach ing hatred in the way of class envy. On the other hand, Reagan was adored by most of our country, ever, many Democrats. Reagan was a principled leader who also possessed the kind, gentle qualities most look 5 Student Media Russell House-USO Lee Clontz Allison Williams Editor in Chief Features Editor Susan Goodwin Jimmy DeButts Viewpoints Editor Sports Editor Steven C. Burritt Kim Truett , tVmV rtiUf phrttn Pdilnr Keith Boudreaux Ethan Myers on News Editor Graphics Editor Lupe Eyde Erin Galloway Features Editor Asst. 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 Publications and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media is its parent organization. The Q 5offcock ving USC Since 1908 ef Susan Goodwin, Viewpoints Editor tlltorfal Board , Lupe Eyde, Steven C. Burritt, DeButts, Kim Truett gonna take it pts to "nickel and dime" th organized opposition university fees, students have been left i for the jack in prices and lots of resental rise in the cost of living is expected, stue amount of money leave their bank acears and have less to show for it. good example of this alarming trend. With I percent, in the case of the Blossom Street uch havens of parking spaces, however die money is being spent for parking spaces, irease services. A guard was taken out of en budget cuts were made last year, and sr aspects of the garage have been taken, ent has found a creative way for students 4.1., ] O 1-V . c ayuy-nueu lucnei <s i/ime campaign." inistration to student concerns is a valid ices. The campaign doesn't call for a stumply an innovative way of paying their ovement is that the administration dic! to pay, but they don't say how such payidea effectively expresses students' disi without crossing the line between conive dissonance. o cut the budget by 12 percent is not the oblem boils down to is a list of priorities, rank somewhere at the top. At the very see the reinstatement of several guards ir criminal activities (i.e. parking garages). ,t back on its expenses, it must make a will not compromise quality for book-bal- j -tie here and there may be annoying, but sty on campus is downright dangerous. Lck on GOP j , misleading for in a president. In his inaugural j address Reagan remarked, "It does r require, however, our best effort j and our willingness to believe in _ ourselves... with God's help, we can . and will resolve the problems which m now confront us. And after all, why ,p_ shouldn't we believe that? We are ? Americans." Those are the words ^ n_ cf a man who loved America. )P Fourth, Clinton says Reagan a Id 3ent jobs overseas and had the worst B 3h job creation since the Great De- d it, pression. Yeah, Bill, and monkeys e ie will fly out of my butt! Again, Clin- ti jr ton lies. Reagan's policies led to the T i" greatest Deace-time economic, rp- *t.i u- covery this century. Between 1983 ri 8. and 1990, Reagan and Bush creata. ed 21 million new jobs. And these ri r. were not hamburger flipper jobs. a i- Let us look at the facts. During the tl C Reagan '80s almost one in two new iy jobs (48 percent) was at an income oi ?e of more than $28,000. Another 36 w it percent of new jobs were more than n $12,000. Compare that to the Carter jr s- years when there was a 10 percent n loss of jobs of more than $28,000 cj, ie and 41 percent of new jobs were less gr is than $7,000. This may be the worst il of Clinton's lies. 0 Finally, the exploding deficit, y You didn't think I would dodge that ? it one did you! Yes, it is true the deficit * e did explode during the 1980s. But, I r- no, it was not entirely Reagan's ?. fault. In fact, the Congress deserves n most of the blame since they cons trol the budgeting process. This is m; t why the Republicans support a bal- pe e anced budget amendment and a Gs t line-item veto for the president The . GOP's "Contract with America" en t specifically outlines this issue. Again, e Clinton is trying to distort facts. pa] In summary, the Carter years ^is were marked by high inflation, mas- ^ 1 sive unemployment and decreases ^ b in real wages. Since Clinton took ^ office, taxes have been raised, the - economy has failed to experience an - any kind of boom and real wages cOT 1 have decreased again. During the ^ i Reagan '80s the economy experi enced unprecedented growth with i low inflation, low unemployment f and substantial increases in real wages. Middle income families saw in? their wages increase by 28 percent. Americans also had pride in their . country. Do we as a society have i that pride today? I hi ( lik< i Tommy Touchberry is a market Par i ing junior. His column appears Toi every Friday. pui *7*7*7 777/ Chns Cat-roll ^ WS. 777-7726 Director uSarieatMedii vertising: 777-4249 Laura Day X: 777-6482 Creative Director Columbia, SC 29208 Jim Green m _ , Ait Director Robert Wertz nri.at^-u p.?, Asst. News '0I7 , p Wendy Hudson Ptoductron Asst. Asst. Copy Desk Elizabeth Thomas Tai^ja Kropf Adv. Graduate Asst. A?t. Copy Desk Renee Gibson | Ryan Wilson Marketing Director Van IfoDe Chris Wood Asst. b3T As* Advem?g Manager Jason Jeffers Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Advisor Letters Policy The Gamecock 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 amecock VIEWPCMN1 /unjAr I H Ell '3 G01H6 V ON? / jr?^pmsicT\ I v 5T^Key nr^ H KC " 'i Ml ! Si il V'*''**** aUOTEUNCIUOTE "Blossom Saturday spent teai I was a professor this weekend. p"j| Explorer Post 1801 sponsored a Merit Badge [~~ flP Jniversity on campus Saturday for about 300 S.C. Kg Joy Scouts, and I was recruited to teach Emergency freparedness. _ w Emergency Preparedness, for those of you un- | j amiliar with the Boy Scout curriculum, teaches ^gej Qv Icouts how to be ready for various disasters like ^ gu arthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and "Saved By . Tie Bell" reruns. enou? I knew the day was not going to be as smooth ,, s it could when my clock radio started blaring "Achy ar~ Ireaky Heart" at seven in the morning. Please un- ^ erstand that I worked from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. tlons m very day this summer, and seven in die morning see ) me occurs right in the middle of the dream where studen 'm rescuing Phoebe Cates from the jaws of a garbage temng. nek possessed by the devil. I don't function cor- For jctly until at least noon. c?r S^?I All the instructors met in the Gambrell Audito- ^'s n?t um and began downing Krispy Kreme doughnuts olina, r nd Continental Cola to store up sugar energy for ?f thost le approaching swarm of "ankle-biters." out When the auditorium filloH lin wo annnnnco^ hllilHin r, -- 1 it names and the badges we were teaching, and nial. e gathered up our classes. My trusty assistant Atoi any and I herded the eager Scouts to the BA build- Scouts 1 ig. and fac The first question they asked was what time the slow. B( ass would be finished. The second was where the years, lack machine was. Of a The group ate candy like Willy Wonka was gonna if they d ETTERS Columnist does more I feel compelled to respond to Tom- of the irreversible da f Touchberr/s column which ap- suits when one abuses ared in the Oct. 21 edition of The the press in hopes of imecock. port for one's own car Although I, too, feel that less gov- Mr. Touchberry, < iment is better, I do not think that can Party a favor and \ Touchberry realizes the price the litical columnist The 1 rty he claims to support will pay by ty is busy enough dur i relaying of false information. In- year without having ?d, abortion is a very difficult and damage control from i itroversial issue; however, Mr. Touch- supporters. *ry is wrong in his assertion that mocrats favor, "the right to abort 1 innocent baby as a means of birth itrol." In truth, the Democratic platm supports abortion as a woman's ht to choose. They are pro-choice, IVI6C1C31 SCnOOl >T pro-abortion. Democrats do not COIWGniGVlt ttli or abortion as an option when choosa birth control method. I would like to rais T om r* IiPa !/%*%# J ? ^ ? ? 11 11 x uui u mc-iuug ivcpuuncaii cinu questions regnrcnng ir re actively campaigned for Repub- School's dog laboratoi in candidates on several occasions. School currently ha ave seen first-hand how rhetoric course which uses live < ? Mr. Touchberry's can polarize a ing laboratory. If dog ty, crippling it in the process. Mr. ingful" part of a medic ichberry is a hindrance to the Re- Dr. James Buggy cla >lican Party. He needs to be aware top medical schools, sv What would justify raisii llr Jll would say provide more security so there MMp and make sure that there are adequate tele jf""""" "T" "They should cut the hours of when they ch ters and not be so strict on the meters. "Die something to it (the price increase) to ms "C ^ Friday, October 28, 1994 /ii / ~n n .\ i u i. .1 \ i (garage) is a hell-hole. It's a dungeon." SG Vice President Amy Bigham filing Scouts, ea a CHRIS MULDROW & Columnist be or onv minn+A 1 /v??r/v ,?AJ J J 1 r v. uiy wuiuK cum icavc wie wunu uevoia 01 ^ j gary treats forever. One kid was drinking 1 Coca-Cola to stay awake for three weeks. ^ gan to go over the requirements for the badge id the Scouts divide into groups to put to- ouj plans for various disaster situations, situa- jea any of the Scouts would never have a chance Ra] Meanwhile, Harry walked around to nudge ty. ts awake and to intimidate them into lis- 0f j mil example, they had to know what to do if their SQ 3Ded in the middle nf a desert nr a Viliwatwl - ? ?. ?*VWW V vx u x/lllibui U? often you see a good blizzard in South Car- to 1 lot to mention if the state ever awards any abb s kids drivers licenses, they won't be able to I re of the parking lot without running into a foot g, another car, a pedestrian or a farm ani- boy ry a nic disaster is another fun problem for the ] jo deal with. They told me they'd go outside a w e the blast because they didn't want to die tak< )y Scouts have grown more cynical over the are )urse, I told them they could survive a blast lid like we were taught in elementary school harm than good mage which re- Stanford University, closed thef 3 the freedom of in favor of more advanced, no garnering sup- mal methods? If dog lab is "mei ise. fill," why has it been banned io the Republi- United Kingdom for over 100 3 I resign as a po- If the live dissection of livinj Republican Par- is so "meaningful,'' why did the. ing this election ican Medical Student Association to worry about a resolution in 1986 supportir ts own (alleged) medical student's right to choc alternative to animal laborato erases and to be free from any Gina LeVeque ed penalties or faculty intimid 1993 graduate for doing so? At good ol' USC, however, Dr . |cjx gy asserted in the Dec. 8,1993 ( S n) ITIOrO cock issue that a student can oi an helpful "validly" excused from particip in dog laboratory if he/she was i le the following etarian and did not wear dothes le USC Medical from animals, since students "c y. The Medical have the right to pick and choose s a physiology courses." This is an extremel logs in its teach- thoritarian outlook. It is the stu lab is a "mean- which make up this university al education, as our voices certainly deserve to be 1 ims, why have One cannot be forced to engage ich as Yale and tivities which one believes to be n lg the prices of park is less theft ^ve *n tne ' phones and because it's ir i" *j|k thing this coll Wwk " *J9p Not increase t Umemoto | JPT w sunting senior i cm eck the me- PSLfir" don't think y should do it is. They she ike it more going to increj 3 <7 ^ <517 II " I '""ill v.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.i......>.1.1.?.1 j.i.1.1.1.1....| n ting doughnuts d crawled under a desk. Come to think of it, they aght us to climb under a desk for any potential taster in elementary school. Those desks mustVe en made of some secret government material defied to resist nature and man's rage. After coming out from under the desk, I told the Is they could use glowing house pets as lanterns ind cool nuclear debris to sell as souvenirs of the st. Imagine: "My family was in a nuclear holoist, and all I got was this lousy piece of fallout." Alter developing plans for disasters, we went side to learn about knots, which are required rning in every Boy Scout merit badge, including obit Raising and Citizenship in the CommuniTeaching knots is not easy, especially when one rour students insists on getting up every two lutes to chase after squirrels screaming, "DIE UIRRELS!!! DIE!" The final requirement in class was for the Scouts ower their fellow Scouts down a wall, presumy to teach them how to help in a rescue attempt, sisted the urge to drop the Scouts down the 20; wall one by one, though one particularly large reached terminal velocity on his way down. Harind I caught most of them. If anyone ever tells you they'd like you to teach ell-behaved group of Scouts, don't trust them; i some Tylenol and make sure all the squirrels far away. Chris Muldrow is a journalism senior. His column appears every Friday. fnr nartv imacra ie labs wrong. n-ani- If dog laboratories are ever so aning- "meaningful," why are more and more in the physicians opposing their use on medlars? ical and ethical grounds? The Physi5 dogs cians Committee for Responsible MedAmer icine and the Research Modernization adopt Committee opposes the use of dog labs, lg the More modernized teaching methods >se an currently used by top medical schools, ry ex- such as computer simulations, video relat- tapes, high tech mannequins and inlation temship and apprenticeship programs, are more humane and less expensive. . Bug- The bottom line is that USC uses lame- a dog laboratory out of habit and conily be venience and not because it is educaating tionally relevant or "meaningful." I a veg- encourage all individuals interested made in this issue to write The Gamecock lo not and express your views, t their y au- Kristin von Karowsky dents Political science graduate student , and and SETA President leard. in acloral mrf rfni?nrtr\ mg gcuagc iccnu rowers, and I've gotten so many tickets iconvenient to park far away. The main lege needs to do is change the parking. ;he parking garage fees." Nicole King Journalism freshman they should be. They're high enough as >uld offer more places to park if they're ise them anyway." Jeff Gfreene Psychology/pre-med senior 3 *