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Lee Gontz, Editor in Qii
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(garage) is a hell-hole. It's a dungeon."
SG Vice President Amy Bigham
filing Scouts, ea
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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
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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
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y should do it is. They she
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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
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