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Debates often rage across campu:
and The Gamecock makes every effoi
arguments of each side. Great care is
porting, but readers with strong feel
spond negatively to stories which cor
agree. Such feelings are understand)
The Gamecock is not anti-Greek
housing or anti-radio station. We jus
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I will return to the public education
topic next week, but I
would like to comment on a critical
issue now facing the conservative
revolution in America ?
public relations.
Recently, the liberals have declared
war on the conservative
agenda of tearing down the wasteful
and ineffective federal bureaucracy.
As usual, the liberals
have used lies and deceit to accomplish
their task. Though it
may be immoral, they have the
right to do it. The media have
been their accomplice, accepting
the liberals' every word as truth,
which is also unethical.
The real problem, though, lies
with the Republicans. They have
done a very poor job at responding.
The GOP needs to hire a public
relations firm to handle this
crisis because it is getting in the
way of our most important goal,
which is to reverse the failed economic
and social policies of the
past several decades.
A new ABC/Washington Post
poll released Tuesday indicated
that the Republicans are now per
ceived by a majority of Americans
(52 percent) to be enacting programs
that benefit the rich rather
than the middle and lower classes.
This opinion is due directly to
public relations, not policy. You
see, the GOP excelled during the
1 campaign at articulating its ideas,
and a strong majority of Americans
understood their ideas and
subsequently supported the conservative
agenda.
It is not that the Republicans
have reneged on their campaign
promises; it's that a growing number
of Americans have been convinced
that this agenda is going
to benefit the rich. Here are some
examples of issues that the public
has been misguided on: (1) welfare
reform, (2) school lunch programs,
(3) tax cuts and (4) the
balanced budget amendment. Let
me now explain each of these.
The basic philosophy behind
the conservative welfare reform
agenda is to: (1) move people off
welfare rolls and on to work rolls,
(2) to decrease the number of children
born out of wedlock and/or
without both biological parents
and to (3) make the system more
efficient and effective by cutting
bureaucratic waste. The GOP
needs to make sure that every
American understands that under
the current system, at least
65 percent of welfare dollars go
to bureaucrats' salaries, expenses,
regulation compliances and
fraud. The point is that conservatives
want to end this cycle of
dependency that traps so many
Americans ? the liberals do not
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aking story that affects you? Have
into little pieces, infuriated that
an you had hoped?
i the old "kill the messenger synhe
person (or newspaper) that tells
ling.
s about every facet of student life,
rt to fairly report the concerns and
s taken to eliminate bias in our reings
about certain issues often relvey
the opinions of those who disable,
but not necessarily valid.
, anti-Student Government, antit
have a job to do, and we're doing
ns have
with PR
because they would lose their most
precious power: dependency on
government.
The school lunch spending program
might be the biggest joke I
have ever witnessed. It is quite
simple ? the GOP wants to increase
spending for these programs
next year by 4.5 percent.
The liberals want to increase
spending by 5.4 percent. Neither
of these proposals will take the
food out of any child's mouth, period!
The GOP plan will actually
allow for more efficiency in allocating
funds to school districts by
sending the money in the form of
block grants to the states. This is
another way to reduce bureaucratic
waste.
The Republicans want to offer
several tax cuts that would primarily
benefit families with children
making under $200,000 annually.
The liberals attack this
as a tax cut for the rich. My family's
income is in the $65,000 to
$75,000 bracket. We are middle
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a tax cut of $500 or more from
this proposal. That would go along
way toward paying for my final
year of tuition. I call that a tax
cut for everyone who is not already
receiving government assistance,
has children and is not
"rich." Enough said.
Hie final area of debate is over
the balanced budget amendment.
The BBA forces the Congress to
be responsible. It does not require
paying off the national debt, just
paying all our bills each year starting
in 2002. It is plain common
sense. The liberals attack it using
the Social Security issue. The
GOP needs to explain the "true"
facts about Social Security (a topic
I will discuss in detail veiy soon).
The real reason liberals oppose
the BBA is because it eliminates
their power to tax and spend our
money on their projects. The budget
can be balanced by simply
stimulating the economy, cutting
the increase in spending for each
program and eliminating spending
for programs that offer no benefit.
The first 100 days will come
to an aid April 14. The GOP needs
to continue bringing forth, debating
and trying to pass the legislation
in the contract. So far,
they have done this with amazing
success and widespread support.
For the first time in a very
long time, the Congress is working
the way the Founding Fathers
intended. After the Easter break,
the GOP needs to focus on social
and cultural issues that are garnering
broad support. Most importantly,
the GOP needs to open
up the lines of communication
with the American people. That's
what got them there, and they
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Keep life simple. I
Keep life simple. Live on campus.
You know, campus housing is the way to go for I I
all your housing needs. I've lived on campus for
three years, and it's done me well.
For instance, my biology skills haven't gotten LJH^ j
rusty over years of nonscientific journalism/humanities-type
courses. That's because campus it's because
housing has given me adequate field study in var- We only
ious types of furry, frondy and frilly insect, plant that cooks <
and mammal life. average st<
Take, for instance, the colony of cockroaches and invite <
living in my power strip my freshman year. end all feas
I unplugged my trusty turtle-driven Mac CI as- On-camj
sic (since pawned off to my unsuspecting mother, bious, too. 3
who pawned it off to her best friend) to take it columns yc
home for Christmas, and the cockroaches swarmed all the tim<
out of the strip like my own little "Aliens" sequel, head at bir
Now that I'm on the Horseshoe, the housing If a groi
people dust for insects. This means my apartment cided to coi
is roach-free. It also means the apartment looks gathering,
like it's got dandruff once a month. even if onl
Squirrels also tend to wander around some I'd also
campus housing. I love squirrels ? don't get me tion and pr
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99 percent of the people who present- become a DJ at the si
ly work there, but it will also lose a how he is a journalism
very dedicated group of listeners. bly graduating next y
I feel that the article in Wednes- fill his plate. Sorry, bu
day's Gamecock was unfairly biased journalism course ? it
and should have given equal time to filler.
wrong ? but a squirrel made foam rubber sand- iooa io oiis
wiches out of my bike seat on the fourth floor of I'd also <
Laborde my freshman year. event.
For some reason, the squirrels on the 'Shoe I'd have
don't eat bike seats. I think it's because most of fore the en
them have been hijacking students and eating I'd also
them whole. I base this theory on the fact most step out or
Horseshoe squirrels are larger than a medium- important
sized Doberman pinscher and the observation that Faculty Ho
I haven't seen half of the people I know for quite concerned
some time. I suspect they've become Chip and I've
Dale's dinner. people com
Repairs are a bit slow coming to the "Shoe hous- my butt w<
ing. We asked housing to fix our sprayer on our Horseshoe
sink in August, and it still doesn't work. I think one y?u kr
Letters to the Editor
Paper misrepresents
WUSC radio station they feel about WUSC-I
is who it is here for.
T , , . ,, e . If in the end WUSC'
I am outraged at the unfair repre- . , , . ,,
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sentation ofWUSC-FMmthe March , .. ,, ,
22 issue of The Gamecock The arti- P?Sed'lt WOuld n?long
i / 1 Gamecock. 1 he arti station, but rati
de fected mainly on the minor flaws of fluffwith n0 ori(
rf the station and completely left ou ^ and more ^
the positive advantages of the format teners
already in action.
There is nothing educational or di- Media arte
verse about a commercial format. ^ea} j^rk
WUSC-FM is the only outlet to which a ^r?
someone can turn and hear something
different. This station is not meant to ^
be a home stereo; it is here to educate Change to w
and open peoples' minds to all kinds
of music. In the past year that I've nOt neCCSSai
worked at WUSC-FM, I have learned
more about different kinds of music In response to the M
than I could begin to explain, and I'm article about changing
just one of the many people who works WUSC-FM, I have a fe
with and/or listens to the station. Patrick Bryant, one of
Every week when I do my show, running for station ma
at least a couple of people call in cu- the 1993-94 school ter
rious about what Fm playing and where station manager for W
they can get a hold of it. WUSC-FM ing 1992-93,1 was th
does have a listening audience, and a rector. During those t
very loyal one at that. If the format is Bryant never showed
changed, not only will the station lose WUSC, nor did he attf
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CHRIS MULDROW ., . ,
Viewpoints Editor the people at
because I thi
don't drink, i
the sprayer has no handle. don't want t
have one rack in our stove, the stove j-jnifir,
jverything five times faster than your
)ve, so we can't cook fabulous meals Of course
sxotic people over to sup on a feast to ter. You've {
3us housing's alcohol policy is a bit du- ^ erything c
[ don't drink (though from reading my ^ Just as
>u probably suspect I'm either drunk to drive. Plu
i or had a refrigerator dropped on my 0f actually hi
th), but many of my friends do. . ...
ip of people, say 200, for instance, de- e^e' a ee ir
me over to my apartment for a social I think th
I'd have to register such a gathering, commute. 0
y one of those people was drinking. and californ
have to check two forms of identificaovide
enough nonalcoholic drinks and but with Moi
et the effects of drinking. is McDonali
Dnly have about three hours to hold the jen^ dog at y
to tell each drinker to stop an hour be- ^ like... we
d of the event. ably also wi
have to warn everyone not to take a their house.
l the porch since the porch is visible to j^a , ^
people on campus who go drink at the
use or at the President's House; they're * could eat i
students might be drinking in college. Shuttlecock
en paranoid at night many a time when ^ids dogs a
e over clutching alcohol products, scared
mid be hung from the memorial on the e to p as
an example of why not to allow any- the police c<
low into your apartment. ication. Wh
t
rhaps it would Furthermore ? not only was I a
listeners how simple DJ, I learned how to operate a
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1V1, since uicii uuaiu oiiu auncvcu an iiiituwui[< i
sition at Charleston's alternative ras
present for- dio station, 96 WAVE (WAVF). I would
le being pro- not have received the internship had
er be an edu- I not been successfully trained at
ler a mediocre WUSC. Is the name Benji Norton fapnality,
no di- miliar to anyone? He is the manager
likely, no lis- at WNOK?he also was a WUSC DJ.
Hmmm, Steve Varholly ? he is at
Holly Neal ROCK 93.5 ? he's also a product of
i sophomore WUSC. Art Boerke, owner of the pops
at WUSC as u]ar night club Rockafellas', was also
iricm and DJ. a WUSC DJ. Jill Jauch ? copy editnv/traflRp
Hirprt/ir at. a nawsnaDer in
TJSC Greenville ? public service director
at WUSC. Kim Shiver ? concert proTmoter
for C&C Entertainment ? once
a WUSC DJ. The owner of 96 WAVE,
[arch 22 1995 a WUSC DJ. How did they make it if
the format of WUSC is not a training environment?
w pointers for As far as public service, WUSC parthe
applicants ticipates in Adopt-a-Highway, adopts
nager. During a family at Christmas, runs political
m, I served as commentary, runs Student GovernUSC-FM;
dur- ment debates, has had joint ventures
e program di- with CPU for a lip-sync contest and
wo years, Mr. the ever-popular Cockstock events as
an interest in well as Tuesday Night Live. It aired
snd training to special shows during Drug and Alcotation.
Funny hoi Awareness Week and Women's
i major, proba- History Month. The list is miles long,
ear, looking to If Mr. Bryant is sooo anxious to
d, this is not a run his own station, why doesn't the
is not a resume College of Journalism start the station
THEY own ? WLTR? Maybe hei
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the 'Shoe
and the university's concern at rent
drinking, and I don't want to get
t Alcohol and Drug Programs upset
nk they do a great job. Like I said, I
and I don't encourage it at all. But I
o get shot because my friends were
, living off campus is not much betjotta
shell out gobs of money to get
:onnected, and landlords are proba
id as housing people. Plus, you've got
s, you've got to deal with that feeling
aving to have a real life outside of colig
we don't want.
le best solution is to live at home and
f course, students from New Jersey
ia might have a tough time with this,
n's warm cooking (which, in my house,
i's), a nice, unmade bed and a flatuour
side, home is the only place that'll
ll...home. Of course, my parents probouldn't
allow my friends to drink in
II try out the tent I got for Christmas,
squirrel for meals, hear the sound of
:a grumbling past and play with the
nd others who come out to the Horsed
r. And if friends came over drinking,
>uld just arrest them for public intoxich
probably isn't good. I don't know.
cause startup would cost too much, or
maybe because not enough students
are interested in a format that can be
heard on any other station in town.
By the way, ask him how successful
he was with the campus television station
? OOPS, I guess that was not
supposed to slip out that it was a fail
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ure anu went uuat wnuc uuuci mo
management.
My advice ? give it up. Too many
people have pride in WUSC for some
new guy who has made AB
SOULETELY NO EKEVIUUS ?rFORTin
the station to become station
manager.
You will lose an entire staff of 56
DJs who keep the station on 24 hours
a day. Good luck finding new ones whc
are FCC-licensed. You will lose support
from local businesses, record companies,
trade magazines, local bands
such as Hootie and the Blowfish (whc
made their debut on WUSC) and anyone
who supports the station.
Best of luck in the election ? weai
a nice suit and do the best you can
But ratings don't matter to an educational
station ? we are not here tc
play the numbers game. In fact, we
can't even sell ads over the air because
that is a violation of our FCC license
i But you know all this, as does youi
team.
Jennifer Dougherty
1994 political science graduate