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Serving USC, Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Chr Editorial Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, Si Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, Car; Violence, in increasing^ People don't use mine Four high school students in Ken ing death of a man. According to invt the man's truck and shot him througl federate flag from the truck. Anti-abortion activists in several s some successful and some unsuccesi clinics. Students at a Columbia high scl theirs who was killed a year ago afti The world, it seems, has become i Debate doesn't settle arguments fire have become an "equalizer," and day because people can't decide to ta What's the solution? The possibili from gun control to gun education in s police. The real solution, however, m The real solution is to teach people t with ideas, with debate. The real solv savage to solve conflict with bloodsl teach some tolerance. Appease but sacrifice libi Well, the Legislature is thinking about cutting more funding to USC, which means we ctuudiilc are going to have to tighten our belts, cut comers and work to keep this whole higher educa tion thing working. In the spirit of campus-wide cooperation and student participation in cutting the budget, I offer f you, the students ofUSC, the Beardman's Guide to Making USC a !" Deadly-Efficient Tool of Stealth ] Educational Opportunity (DETSEO, for short. Pronounced deet 8 sa oh. Why? I don't know.) ^ We've already seen cuts in the ; area of toilet paper deliveries for ? Horseshoe residents, cuts the residents made with relatively little ^ pain. (Painless paper cuts, as it were.) To further this area of "ex- 0 tra fat" in the university's budget, , I recommend everyone not go to f the bathroom for the rest of the se- * mester. If everyone "holds it" for J three months, well save thousands of dollars on water, paper and bath- v room cleaning products, dollars f that can then be diverted to another more critical area. 0 All grounds maintenance should ^ cease immediately on the USC campus. Who needs finely trimmed lawns, flowers and landscaping? c What's a little scrub brush, poison ^ ivy and kudzu in the grander g scheme of things? Botany classes will have an easily accessible environment to study. Maybe the ^ bookstores can make some extra money for the university selling ^ garnet and black machetes. ^ Of course, not all the natural g wonders on campus will be treat- n arl tVlQt WAV Vno+nrnn Wnyan. vv? V1AMW " AHV tUOVVilW 1AU1 91/ ^ shoe trees will be cut down as lumber. 0 We should eliminate campus , dining facilities, too. With the added tj wild blueberries and blackberries ^ from the forest/campus and a nice corn field replacing one of the ac- ^ tivity fields, students can grow a their own food. Hankering for a t, burger? Throw your organic chemistry book at a chunky Horseshoe je squirrel, and youVe got fresh meat ^ for days. C( Well have to reduce the num- g) ber of campus organizations, of course. The potpourri of student a, groups will be replaced by one large ^ organization called "The Club." (Not to be confused with the autotheft protection device with the ^ same name.) The Club would have w meetings once a week where mem- +, bers could do fun things like play g Duck, Duck, Goose and knit mit- ^ tens for each other. _ The Gamecock will do its part to cut spending, of course. Well cut our paper to one page, mimeographed on one of those purpleinked contraptions you know and "?afficodt ? Student Media Russell House-USO Colur Lee Clontz Susan Goodwin Editor in Chief Allison Williams Ste Chris Muldrow Features Editors Viewpoints Editor Jimmy DeButts Carson Henderson Wilson Radhika Taiwan! Sport. Edit Copy Desk Chiefs J . n ? AssL Photo Erin Galloway Jasoo JefTers , Wendy Hudson Cartoonist ( News Editors Tieffa Harper Kim True't Tins Morgan Photo Editor Asst. News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of T South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and l Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the excep- n tion of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or j 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 51 Media is its parent organization^ b | M rack Since 1908 is Muldrow, Viewpoints Editor Board isan Goodwin, Allison Williams, son Henderson, Radhika Talwani itolerance j prevalent Is to solve debates tucky are being tried in the shootsstigators, the students drove past 1 the heart because he flew a Comitates are being tried for attempts, 3ful, to kill employees of abortion tool are remembering a friend of sr an argument with a classmate, a very intolerant place, anymore; guns, knives, fists and innocent people are injured every lk out their nrohiems ties peopie have suggested range ichools to bodyguards to increased ust get to the root of the problem, o defend their views with words, ition is to remind people that it is led. The real solution is to try to iget gods; "ary, lawn ! < ii MM CHRIS far -f MULDROW M I Viewpoints Editor ove from elementary school. The library will have to take iome budget cuts, of course. The ibran/s collection of books will be eplacedby a 1975 edition of The Vorld Book Encyclopedia with the Q" volume missing. Magazine subcriptions will be reduced to Popilar Mechanics and Seventeen, lather than running your ID card hrough a computer to check out odes, you can just write your name ?n a sheet of loose leaf paper. And almost forgot ? late fees are inreased to $200,000 a day per book. To start pumping some revenue >ack into the university, parking aes will have to be increased again. Jtudents wishing to drive will pay 350 to park in Orangeburg and palk to class. Any students with ars within 20 miles of campus will e forced to sell their cars for half f the cars' retail values; the uniersity will resell the cars through he bookstore for full price. Computer labs with sophisti ated IBM and Macintosh comuters will be replaced by a guy nth an abacus and an Etch-aketch. To save on building mainteance costs, classes will be held in ints on the Horseshoe. Professors ill be eliminated, too; that guy in tie second row who acts like he nows everything will be teaching very class. Blue books will be larked up $20 each and required >r every class assignment students implete. Of course, we could harass our igislators long enough to make lem avoid cutting the budget for icher education. Uiey love it when they're bomarded by phone calls, faxes, mail nd visitors demanding represenition ? it shows them we contituents care. There's nothing a gislator likes more than the hacklg, nagging, annoying sound of a >uple hundred thousand college udents (because those orange nys up the road will get cut, too, 3 will every other state-supporti school) beating down the doors l protest. As the Beach Boys sang, "Be ne to your school, just like you ould to your girl or guy. Be true ) your school, let your colors fly. e true to your schooooooool." (Then ley advanced to a vocal range imissible for me to emulate in urinO Chris Muldrow is a journalism senior. His column appears every Friday. __ Chris Carroll / /- / iZO Director of Student Media ing: 777-4249 Laura Day Creative Director Jim Green nbia, SC 29208 An Director Gregory Perez Ben Pillow Production Asst. phanie Sonnenfeld Elizabeth Thomas Asst. Features Adv. Graduate Asst. Larry Williams Renee Gibson Asst. Sports Marketing Director Ethan Myerson Christopher Wood Ryan Sims Asst- Advertising Graphics Editor Ceith Boudreaux _Er? C?" s rirculation Editor Faculty Advisor Latter* Policy be Gamecock will try to print all letters received, etters should be 200-250 wards and must include full ame, professional title or year and major if a student, etters must be personally delivered ty the author to be Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. be Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for vie, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not t withheld under any circumstances. I M NOUJ, A U/OAl i " rTHE U w* le. 1 w look foa /note : Abortion con Today I am going to begin a discussion on is probably the most controversial and divis: sue in American politics since the Vietnam The battle over the abortion issue is both in and serious. According to public opinion polls, k ? _ i -i i <1 /vxnericans tane a position on tms issue in a other. Protests, rallies and blockades related abortion issue can be seen in America on air Weekly basis. The pro-choice faction, those who favor li abortion rights, have attempted to manipulate position through the use of improvable stat and inaccurate representations of the Ame people. The dominant media culture, the pub] ucation system and the Democratic Party have their biggest allies. On tha rvfVlor lion/I ilio nrn.1ifo fo/itinn +l>. W*4 Viiv VV11V1 11U11U) miv fSA Vlllt lavuuilj 1/111 favor of making "abortion on demand" illega rarely given positive media coverage. Most c age is for incidents that involve arrests or th< "acts of violence" by criminals who don't beh* a manner consistent with the pro-life position Republican Party, conservative Christian dei nations (e.g. Southern Baptists, Roman Cath and grassroots pro-family groups have been biggest allies. I have written many articles that include erences to my pro-life position, but I have neve en this issue on directly T feel now is the time, let me tell you why I am pro-life; then I will i my argument in favor of my position. The ref am opposed to abortion on demand is quite si 1. It contradicts my beliefs about human lif Country music m I'm sure all of you reading this column hav< to South Carolina at least once ? where else1 VOU get this nat)er? Therefore, each and everv you has had to have heard country music at once in your life. In my hometown of Summerton (pop. 975 can pick up more country stations than you c? rednecks at a truck pull. For every station, tl a different type of country music. Now most of you Yankees (Politically correct Southernly deficient) are saying, "Drew, all c crap sounds the same to me. It's just a bunch o has singing about their dead hunting dogs an their wives ran off with their beer money in th< wheel drive." My response: While there are a few songs that subject matter, not all of them deal with harsh life problems. You might want to clip and save this coluj you wont sound unenlightened the next tims friends and you visit a fine establishment si Bubba 'N Buck (Columbia), The Silver Spui angeburg) or any dove shoot. While I could not ( tice to all types of country unless I had the sp the complete Webster's Dictionary, I have nan it down into four basic types. First of all, there is the extremely popula country, which is what most of you are familiar This type of music sounds to me like a bunch oi haired hippies couldn't make a living making r roll, so they threw a steel guitar into their regul and called it country. Most of the teen-agers (u ing myself), weary of hearing the rock station! "Stairway to Heaven" 70,000 times, embrace* country like a wino embraces a bottle of Olde lish 800. The second type is what I call contemporary tiy, which is what you can hear on WCOS. The i in this group usually have more than one stee tar note, and the singers actually have accents. t>f this stuff is kind of slow, and it borders on X > Mom CHA> S.C "SHUTTLECOCK", /.WO AOO/H.. Too /I |5B|v I /T5 A %^XV Buses we FUt ^PEOPLE! I > > >LV? ST*A. ENPQ/tS?fllSNTS*C, a II a i it n traaicis Deiiei War" TOMMYTOUCH to the murder as both a Christian and an et riost a being. 2.1 believe that laws which all tion on demand are in direct contrad iberal intentions of those who wrote the Co ( their the United States of America. Let me begin my argument by shai ,nceadn the "medically proven facts" we kno^ ^been ceP^on- According to the Michigan 1 Fund, "The moment of conception is tl oee in a new ^uman being. All of the gem 1 are t*on necessaryto build our body and ;o'ver. present at this moment. Nothing will ? rare this unique individual from the mome ive in ^on excePt f?ocl an(l nourishment." i. The I believe at the moment of concepi nomi- Creator has endowed each and every f< characteristics that will make it a hum their hnct and different from any other huim conceived. When a mother aborts her d ref- is her child, not a bunch of cells) she i r tak- a human life that has been uniquely cn First, This destruction of life is no differei make ping your baby fron i the top of a tall bu ison I ing and killing an iibCi m cn doctor or rt mple: mall and blowing peopic away with a at e and weapon. How wcuia you feel if you kn ore than dogs, pic one of I DREW STEW least | _ Columnist 01 g00 lere is contemporary, but it's still fun to liste The third type, my personal favo term. country. This is the real syrupy, twang if that woldd make a man with the masculini f Bub- out any countiy prior to 1975 to d how Last, but not least, is outlaw count j four- rowdy? raucous redneck stuff that mj to trade in that Honda Accord for a 1 j raised so high you've got to have wai i such keeP air traffic from buzzing the top c topics of these songs include the words mn so "d?g>" "whiskey," "jail," "sherif ur "pickup." ich as Some other things about country yoi r ^Qr_ are: lo jus- * '^le Magics are not countiy. Alaba ace of * When a country artist mentions i rowed ne 18 n01 iauun8 aoout Augusta INatio The difference between a violin When Itzhak Perlman plays it, it's e , Charlie Daniels plays it, it's a fiddle. ' If you're riding through downtow ockYi' an(*see a^unc^ PeoPle standings ar act ^ats over ^cir hearts, there's a good c lclud- J?nes *s playing on ^e radio. 1 Yes, those names are real. ^ The longer the title, the better th F There's no one named Marshall' ? Marshall Tucker Band, coun- Master this basic country knowlec artists trY ^ on any006- ^ y?u think what ha '1 mri- on ^ace ^cante Sauce commerce iifrl forgetting who sang "He Stopped Lovii adult ^Geor&e J?nes, 1980). ? vesTM m iawmy peoPiT?^, SB! T:<? I Li. of \f\fhN yo A helu^^A 1 5 va u? ^ I o/n/N& SoorjJ is about t parents had c< 1 ?._ )X 'Art lying, isn i itberry distributed an " First, they sap ,, ? gal and rare." hical human ral are m? low for abor- Q. yen ^ sup liction to the were rare whe nstitution of a^er \egalizati Let's look a -ing with you government: 1 v about con- age(j between1 Educational Nation in 1973 ie beginning ^73. But thei ?tic informa- ^ed because ot our brain is 1937> less thai be added to 0f abortions. As nt of concep- tion deaths dro before Roe v.V tion that my In 1973, wil ?tus with the death toll held an being dis- that number h in being ever Conclusion child (and it quite low in 19 s destroying abortions perfo iated by God. mand illegal v it from drop- women are no ilding, shoot- Next week, inning in the all-important i smiautomatic Tommj ew that your klipS iinas i Recoi Irt I not n< After mi came to the acy in the d m to. the TAs are rite, is classic this campui y country that W atford. I'n ty of Bluto cry. advertiseme hear this stuff. Professor." ;ry. This is the I first me ikes you want struggling i 978 Ford 4X4 to understar ning lights to the help of tl >f the cab. The ty confused "drunk," "bar," cause "orgai f," "judge" and but not for a Mike Wa 1 need to know hy the hour you incK.3 a ma is not rode. member certe i country club, degree in ch nal. gree. He car i and a fiddle. With his hel] i violin; when have gone oi and pharma n Summerton Can ther till with their While I hav( :hance George Mike is awa any way posi and serving: e song. proven to be rucker in The So keep j and choose lge before you think that tl ppens to guys that the teacl als is bad, try ly competitit lg Her Today" -v- " . A v : ' - - - - - * - ""J "to: i - 'Hi ? s 't **' : t t ts ... *-W 'v, . ? ... " .* . . > -?? T -V , M . V* -A . r , J I ;J. ' 1" " ? - - ;,^r T . A . . * * " * ' P. .... . . "'? ' -v - i? rm- i r?r;-rr>? - v -* ?* ' pped steadily to 39 in 1972, the yea] fade. ;h abortion legal in all 50 states, the nearly steady at around 30-35, an( as not changed 3ince. i: Since the number of deaths wai 72, there must have been few illega rmed. Thus, making abortion on de rould curb abortions period ? mos t willing to con. rait a federal crime I will continue ;ny discussion of thi ssue. / ToucKberry is r, marketing junior His column appears every Friday 0 tm Ennofc nmendsd tutors ecessarity best nch thought and consideration I conclusion that there is a conspirhemistry department. It appears a bit fed up with private tutors on s, especially the services of Mike 1 quite sure everyone has seen his nts around the campus. He is "The it Mike in mid-October 1993.1 was n Organic 333 and couldn't seem id what was going on. I had sought he teaching assitants, but they onme more; this angered them belie is easy." This is true for some, ill. tford is a private tutor who charges . He not only teaches, but shows nd tells you stories on how to resin things. He has an undergraduate emistry as well as a master's de1 honestly boast about his tutees. p, inside the sessions and out, some n to dental school, medical school 1 i icy scnooi. rAs brag of such accomplishments? i no desire to go to medical school, re of my plans and has helped in sible. By writing recommendations as a character reference, Mike has a tutor who cares, all of this in mind when you look from the "approved tutor" list. I le professors are being unfair and ling assistants are afraid of "friend)n." Yolanda Price Chemistry Senior i \ .* ? rV J I OlIOTl llHOUOTl "A high majority of the rapes ; we have oa campus are viwmviw wtww ricohol is frequently involved, whereas metropott* tan areas probably experience more stranger rape and inC6SL Eileen Korpita, Program director of Sexual Assault Services luman life juaiuri uu uuuriuig yuu: rreu-y tern I, for one. am extremely grateful im )pCc-?d to i.hcrtion on demand, look a: > of the misinformatior d promoted by the pro-choice crowd / that "abortion 3'nould stay safe, le Let us agree that illegal abortions ir ore dangerous than legal abortions position, we can infer that abortions n illegal and are now very commor on. t abortion statistics provided by th( total abortions per year have aver 600,000 and 1.6 million since legal i. There are no such statistics befors re are the statistics of women wh< "illegal abortions. Between 1950 anc 1300 women died per year becauss j medical technology advanced, abor