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Lee Gontz, Editor in Chiel
Ed
Erin Galloway, Wendy Hud
Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilsc
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to serve i
Federal Express, UPS and
the trees waiting to shoot the
other services have taken the in
and fast service and excel in cu
If the Post Office keeps exp
get shot down.
Take, for example, the remo^
House Patio here at USC. Hen
to get stamps and mail items ai
low the University Bookstore's h
kiosk, it told students their bus
First-class stamp prices are
Why didn't the Post Office incn
several years ago, instead of to
enue enough to delay the inevit
been easier for people to purchas
29 cents?) Now the price is 32
around pennies or get those inf
? chines.
If you've ever done bulk ma
know that procedure has becom
1,000 items or more than 75 po
ve to Dixiana to the immense n
iana, if you're not familiar with
Working in the Post Office's
usually very polite and who try
come contrast to the unfriendly
It's time the Post Office follow
and "got a little more friendly. C
should let some private compar
and force the Post Office to com]
Society is
for poM<
RYAN WILSOI
SwlL Sports editor
Last Thursday marked a hii
toric event in my life as I got t
shake hands with one of the moi
powerful men in the world (an
no, I'm not talking about Rupei
Murdoch or David Letterman). 0
Thursday afternoon, I was foi
merly introduced to the presider
of the United States in the fror
foyer of the White House.
I will always remember the 2
seconds of conversation I had wit
President Clinton, and I'll als
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children years from now, but
* learned much more on that da^
To put it simply, my trip to th
White House only reaffirmed m
own beliefs about the state of ou
country today.
The event was part of Colleg
Media Day at the White House
sponsored by the Office of Medi
Relations. It was a daylong ever
in which roughly 175 college sti:
dents from across the nation go
to question major Cabinet an
White House staff members abor
a wide range of subjects.
I will admit up front that th
whole day was a public relation
gimmick, but nevertheless, man;
students took the opportunity t
question the likes of Attorney Gen
^ eral Janet Reno, Labor Secretary
Robert Reich and Secretary of Ed
ucation and former governor o
South Carolina Dick Riley abou
the Clinton Administration's poli
cies affecting campuses across th
nation.
I learned that students acrosi
the nation are worried about thi
U.S. government cutting mone;
going to higher education, and re
duction of loans and Pell Grant!
that the "Contract with (on) Amer
ica" has slated to cut. Presiden
Clinton and Secretary Rilev em
phatically defended the fundinj
going to higher education.
We were also introduced tc
three AmeriCorps members, th<
civil service program members
> who do service work in the D.C
area. These three students are
earning money for college because
of their work in AmeriCorps. The
Republicans also want to strip this
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Let Clontz Jimmy DeButta
Editor in Chief Ryan Wltaon
Chrb Muldrow Sports Editors
Viewpoints Editor Kim Truett
Carson Henderson Photo Editor
Radhllta Taiwan! Ethan Myerson
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Post Office eagles out of the sky. These
itiative to reduce prices, provide reliable
stomer service.
osing itself to these competitors, it will
/al of the postage kiosk from the Russell
s was a convenience for students, a way
ly time of the day without having to follours.
When the Post Office removed the
iness was not important,
also extremely unfriendly to customers,
sase first-class stamp prices to 30 cents
29 cents? It would have increased revable
rise to 32 cents, and it would have
e. (Who do you know that carries around
cents, so customers still have to carry
ernal one-cent stamps from stamp mailing
with a student organization, you
te more difficult. If you have more than
unds in your mailing, you've got to driew
Post Office distribution center. Dixit,
is on the other side of nowhere,
favor are clerks and workers who are
to help out customers. They are a welpolicies
the office has developed,
ved the example of the workers it hires
otherwise, maybe the U.S. government
lies enter the first-class mail business
pete.
>n't headed
3al oblivion
program down. If you agree with
the Republicans, just ask Mary
^ Louise Ramsdale about the importance
of civil service.
? The most interesting point of
the day came when President CMn3~
ton was asked by a student from
Florida A&M University about the
^ administration's recent review of
affirmative action. Clinton gave a
(n historical perspective by recalling
r- times in his own life when he saw
it open discrimination in his home
it state of Arkansas. He pointed to
countries throughout the world
jP that are currently being destroyed
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President Clinton eloquently
j presented both sides of the argufy
ment affirmative action in jobs
e where past discrimination was
y proven or the question of "who's
ir the most qualified?"). He cited the
military process for promotion as
e one of the fairest systems for placement.
[t Clinton finished his answer
t_ with his trump card: "I have ap,t
pointed at this point in my tenure
d more judges to the federal bench
it who were women or members of
racial minorities than my three
e predecessors combined, and my
s judges have the highest ratings,
^ on average, from the American
Bar Association of any of the last
y four presidents."
As the press conference conf
tinued, President fielded questions
t ranging from health care to the
growing differences in economic
e standing between the classes. He
answered each question careful3
ly, but seemed very relaxed dury
ing the duration of the conference.
As I have stated many times
3 before, living in the South gives
most people a skewed sense of re
t ality. We are force-fed with the
conservative rhetoric that it is hard
? to discern fact from fiction. Hearing
the president speak first-hand
? of the accomplishments, some of
, which were bipartisan,of his administration
reaffirmed my belief
? that society is not headed into obhvi
ion, but struggling to free itself
5 from the ones who would drag it
J there.
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With Repul
Pete Wilson, Allen Keys, Arlen Sp<
Gramm, Lamar Alexander, Bob Dol
Buchanan are all seeking the Republi
nation for president in 1996. They all h
servative nature, but their differences ai
as black and white.
Within the seven dwarves, there is a
American, a pro-choice, pro-gay-rights
an isolationist, three sitting U.S. sena
former Cabinet secretary who advocatei
ishment of the agency he overlooked. If
represent the cream of the crop the R
Party can offer in 1996, then I cheer
"Four more years!" for President Clint
In the past, I thought President Clii
only win if there was a third-party c
Now, after realizing the obvious weak 1
Republicans, Clinton could defeat an;
The band of Republican thugs, excus
didates, all have the charisma and pen
wallpaper paste. They don't offer any
grams or ideas, just the same old failei
Letters to the Editor
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radio proposal
I am writing in repsonse to the
purported changes for WUSC by
Patrick Bryant and his friends. First
of all, I would like to point out the
fact neither Patrick Bryant nor any
of the members of his group have
anything to do with WUSC.
Patrick Bryant is running for the
top position of an organization that
he has never been even remotely involved
with. Seem ridiculous? I agree.
Patrick Bryant's agenda is clearly
motivated by politics and not by a
love of music, as it should be. WUSC
was begun and has thrived on an appreciation
and love for music by students
at this university. As with any
class at this school, the students do J
not choose their textbooks, and WUSC (
lends itself to a learning environment
in much the same way. WUSC is not
here to cater to or represent its student
body. Its purpose is to educate
its willing student body and perhaps
even its community.
For Mr. Bryant to claim that his
major point is to turn WUSC into an I
"educational environment" is ludicrous
because that is all we are. Any
avenue any student would care to
pursue is welcome and encouraged;
however, we do not force any of our 1
staff to get anything more than they j
want out of WUSC.
Such freedom will be extinguished
under Bryant's dictatorial agenda.
He has proposed a regimented structure,
both technically and musically,
which will stifle his very goal of
education by limiting its focus to one
person's interpretation of college radio.
He want to churn out "professional
DJs" whether that's why a student
come to WUSC or not. Every DJ will
have to play music handpicked by s
the music director listed on a pre- f
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want iniuaie- ana worKin
epublican for them,
and yell, Social issues display th
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andidate. Gramm support a woman
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y of them, and want the government
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sonality of With the increasing p
new pro- Coalition, how will Phil Gi
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playlist.
WUSC's current free-form environment
allows each DJ to have complete
control over what music is
played, as long as it stays within the
bounds of the station's music policy,
which is very simple: WUSC plays
music that needs support (i.e., no Top <
40 or music that has more powerful '
outlets). WUSC becomes irrelevant ]
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uii, tries tu compete witn more pow- ?
erful outlets, Market shares and rat- ;
ings do not correspond to an educa- 1
tional station by the very definition i
of an educational, noncommercial i
station, being that its purpose is to i
teach, not to win a popularity contest.
If students want to be catered
to, there are plenty of stations in town 1
that actually get paid to do that. If ]
students want to broaden their hori- i
zons and actually learn something, i
then they can listen to WUSC-FM <
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Eric Greenwood
English junior '<
(Greenwood is music director 1
at WUSC.) 1
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Criticisms of radio i
plan uninformed j
In the last week, I have heard and
-ead many opinions and viewpoints
ibout the plan discussed in Wedneslay's
edition of The Gamecock. Eviiently,
the people who have decided
;o comment have failed to educate
hemselves before doing so. Many runors
have surfaced about a new J
WUSC plan and what it proposes, .
jut only its authors have read the J
)lan. Commenting on the plan armed
vith po more information than what
vas published in The Gamecock is s
udicrous. The article only stated the A
hree main goals and didn't go into z
specifics. It failed to say the plan is z
or playing breaking bands; after all, t
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Party, and al
college students listen to breaking
bands. The plan also calls for playing
local bands. In fact, the number
one source of revenue to local bands
is the college student.
Nowhere have we dismissed nlnv
ing music that is found on other local
stations. However, even if you
don't play music that is on a commercial
station, you must have some
consistency of format. That is to say
you cannot keep a mass audience listening
when you travel from experimental
music to classical to rap. We
are not against playing a wide vari- ,
ety of music ? as a matter of fact, (
we are pro-specialty shows.
In the real world that Jennifer
Dougherty speaks of, the DJs don't
pick what song gets played next. Instead
they follow a playlist deter- '
mined by programming and music
directors (who researched what their '
target market wanted to hear). 1
We are college radio and should !
allow DJs to be involved in the ear- 1
y stages of programming, but not 1
licking what genre of music is played \
lext by drawing a number from a i
lat. j
Each undergraduate student at (
JSC, all 16,225, pays money to keep j
lis or her campus radio station run- (
ling. All I propose is to give them ^
heir three-bucks worth. .
Patrick Bryant
Journalism senior
(Bryant is an applicant '
for WUSC station manager.) *
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Israel column '
full of inaccuracies \
The editorial entitled "Israel *
ihould halt religious apartheid" by ?
Va'el Masri is absolutely false
ind inaccurate. Several claims-are
inti-Jewish. There is no such
hing as an "official Jewish attit
pw,!
If
i easy win
blood bath Pat Buchanan and Bob
; them both through?
le, as President Clinton's poll numause
of the country's distrust of Red
their "Contract with America," he
1 more difficult to defeat. With Presl's
tenacious campaign style and the
ning as an incumbent, he should win
any Republican challenger,
viable challengers, Pete Wilson and
ander would have the best shot at
nton, but Wilson is seen as too modRepublican
Party, and former Gov.
)esn't have the name recognition or
i wage a first-class campaign.
tms time, Fhil liramm should have
an nomination sewn up. If this were
1 of my dreams of four more years of
mton would come true. Phil Gramm
1 that is wrong with the Republican
1 of America will see this next year.
tude toward non-Jews" as Masri
believes is a conspiracy. Judaism
is extremely tolerant of
Christianity, Islam and other religions.
I am disgusted to see Masri
support Shahak's outlandish claim
that there is a "precept according
to which Jews are instructed to
burn, publicly if possible, any copy
of the New Testament that comes
into their hands." Jewish people
respect the New Testament as the
Bible of the Christian religion.
Jews usually frown on the
destruction of literature or ideas.
Regarding Israel, Masri is wrong.
Israel legally took possession of the
West Bank and Gaza after winning
a war in which the Arabs were the
aggressors. Certain Palestinians,
Arabs and Muslims in this region believe
it is their religious duty to destroy
the Jewish people, Israel and
the West at all costs, including death.
Israel had developed a strong military
to defend itself against terrorst
actions. The USA must continue
;o support Israel, so as to ensure our
Dwn security and that of the rest of
-he free world. If we should stop, Sadiam
Hussein and other Hitler
wannabe types will attempt to cause
World War III.
Jews must continue the fight
igainst anti-Jewish ideas such as
;hose expressed by Masri, who asserts
that all non-Jews must unite
igainst Jewish chauvinism and ex:lusivism.
I do not know a single Jew
vho has these personality charac;eri
sties. However, Masri claims the
ight against these Jews is a strugjle
of equal importance to our fight
igainst anti-Semitism.
Adam Haller
MIBS graduate student
(Haller is president
of Hillel at USC.)
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