The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 27, 1995, Page 3, Image 3
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
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shoe trees will be cut down as lumber.
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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
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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iifrl forgetting who sang "He Stopped Lovii
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be added to 0f abortions. As
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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.
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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
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"A high majority of the rapes
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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
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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