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1 2 ~~ Serving USC Since 1908 Wendy Hudson, Editor in Chief Matt Pruitt, Viewpoints Editor Editorial Board T ||/>U ArnnlH /"'lo-l, D c. 1 C f_U ah: ?/:n: iunwiu, juiuiv vicurv, vjiwguiy ru&?,, ji&puaiiic juiiiiciuciu, nuisuii wiuiaiiis, Larry Williams, Ryan Wilson, Chris Winston Single-gender schools still an issue after all Roughly two months ago, Shannon Faulkner walked away from The Citadel, presumably ending a lengthy, ugly struggle. However, Thursday's debate at the law school proves that the battle over single-gender education is not dead. In fact, it seems that the struggle is alive and well. Just in case any one has been asleep for the past two years, here's a quick refresher from The Gamecock: Publicly funded institutions of higher learning cannot close their doors to women. This practice is highly unconstitutional. Both The Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute have been ordered to either open their doors to women or provide an equal opportunity for education (the latter is an extremely difficult task at the very least). ? ? j CU..4L. n *?? t> JI fiL. iTi/mcu pay ioacs 111 v iigima anu ouuui oaiuima. ivegaruiess ui uie amount of state funding an institution receives, if it retains a public status, it must benefit all taxpayers. On the other hand, if an institution is private, it has every right to set its own exclusive standards. In fact, single-gender institutions have some benefits. They only benefit a smaller percentage of the population, but they also have a smaller funding base. Tradition is not a valid argument in this case. Just because a wrong has been committed for a great length of time does not make it any less wrong or mean that it shouldn't be done away with. Slavery has existed since Old Testament times, but that doesn't mean it is right. Conclusion: If you're private, you can keep your private practices. If you're public, you must open up to the whole public. I think I hear some knocking. Open up. Beardman puts check UJLl SpCIilli^ Ui IdLlUUo Henry Price is something of a god ^ in the copy editing world; his class CHRIS MULDROW is feared in the journalism school, Columnist but survivors leave with a superior grasp of grammar, writing and style, ners business in the city. The restauIn fact, every time I write some- rant would feature waitresses dressed thing these days, I'm scared I've dan- as English schoolgirls who would gled a preposition or split an infini- whip patrons who didn't clean their tive; I just know Dr. Price is going to plates. A judge said the business chase me down and execute me for wasn't fit for the city, horribly mangling the language. j tried starting a similar restauOne thing Dr. Price always rant here in town. If diners didn't stressed in class was spelling. I al- finish their meals, however, I made ways knew his class would be use- them do ^me yard work, then sent fill for people in majors other than them to their rooms without any journalism, but a story in The State dessert. It didn't have the same sueopened a set of potential Price stu- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ dents T neverimacnned * , , a ax ? ??o- London naa, tnougn. 1 can t ngure It seems a New Jersey tattoo artist QUj. w, miffedowuftfarfs tattoos. Hie o? the home fiunt, I'm a bit conNotre Dame ^i^iing^ Irish are now remed the Columbia weather permanently immortalized on Dan , , , T j i 1 i. , J T, . , lately. I earned my kayak home over O Conner s arm. I m not sure how fl1/ , , T,, , . ., ,, u j-ujz u- A-a. fall break because I thought it would onegoesabout %hing, butitcer- , ,, , j?. , . ? j ,. j . be the end ofthe warm paddling seatainly doesn t sound as impressive ,. , ,, ,, y , as the "Fighting? Irish moniker that son, and mstoUy tte weather toned previously marked the team. n.ce and stayed that way. Ialso IfDr. Price is too busy to begin a b^tafi my wmtodithes to school, seminar for tattoo artists with spelling whrch means tune betoeen laundry problems, I beheve rve thought of a tnPf hf dramahcally decreased, stopgap assistant. Perhaps the same , ^clotept bulkier, that dang technology embedded in popular word laumhy bag fills up to qmckly. Luckprocessing programs could be port- ^?there are new machines in the ed to tattoo needles. laundry room with cool digital timers. . A spellcheckinp tattoo needle The driers only take quarters, should eliminate embarrassing tat- though, and there s no change matoo typos. It wouldn't even need the chine, so the 3,452 dimes I saved for tell-tale beep that accompanies many laundry are now totally useless- unspellcheckers. The needle could just less 1 decide to park at a meter for sink a little deeper in the tattoo re- the better part of a year. *> ; ?4-i? TTnfnrtiinatelv all the meters are lapiciit a ai m, tauauig a uxlici cutij ~? j -> toned shriek of pain. taken most of the time, so I derided Shrieks of pain won't be coming I'm just going to save up dimes and from diners in Belfast, Ireland, how- buy a new car. ever. (I realize the last transition was Or, maybe I could use the dimes rather awkward, but the following to run down to Georgia and get my story will be so amusing you'll forget own tattoo. I can see it now, branmy stylistic faux pas.) A restaura- dished across my chest: "The Bearteur in Belfast proposed a School Din- man." write now I Reader responses are welcome. 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VIEWF ?i m vou come 01 QUOTE, UNQUOTE "Race and sex are not Verdict, Mi Two weeks ago last Tuesday, O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. My Individual Liberties, meets at the same time as the verdict's reading, and I was sent as a class delegate to the TV room to find out and report back. When the verdict was read, the TV Rmm fillpH with 1 fVt twmtIp tit nnlv hnlds about 50) erupted, with mostly the black students cheering. As I walked back to class, a member of the custodial staff, a black women, came tearing around the corner, hands flailing in the air, screaming in excitement. Back in Individual Liberties, the mostly white class sat stunned as I told them. Even my professor, a rather liberal women and former criminal defense attorney, was shocked. The evidence, she said, was so thick, she couldn't see how anyone would vote not guilty. On Monday, in Washington, the Million Man March (m give the organizers the benefit of the doubt) gathered at The Mall to atone, reflect, and rally in support of themselves. During the week, to ten days, before the March, the national media focused LETTERS TO THE EDITOl We know th< In light of the Million Man March last Monday in Washington, D.C, I would like to express my concerns about the betterment of race relations in society today. "White America" needs to recognize the voices of the people that were there and what they said. I do not believe that Louis Farrakhan was correct in saying that reparatations need to be paid to African-Americans and that land should be granted to them in order to rebuild their culture somewhere else. I believe that slavery was wrong and unjust, but I also know that no one alive today was involved either as a slave or a slave owner. Slavery lasted for 439 years; no one today was alive then so why should someone who was not even involved be paid reparations? I know that most people would respond to this statement by saying that they want reparations for their people that were brought into slavery, but has anyone thought about the other people that have been made slaves? The Israelites did not demand that Herod give them money or land for the problems he caused, they just set themselves free with the help of God and started over on their own. My main point to this argument is that injustice may have been done to the African-Americans in the form of discrimination or slavery, but their is one place that justice will prevail ? if not on earth it will be in Heaven. To proceed in the betterment of race OINT5 IHMHi Iff A fliPBCl Vrtii rkur *???* Hiwnv* ivv \ 10U FOUNP OUT COLIN the same thing. There is no b is for women Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Professi irch indicat DAVID HALLER Columnist not on the message of the March, or why one million people would take off work for two days to travel across the country, but on the past statements of the main organizer. These two events, and the reactions by whites to both of them, raise serious questions about the state of race relations in the United States, almost a third of a century after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and more than 40 years after the integration of schools. This reaction should make us all take a great pause and question in what direction are we headed. ^ It should be apparent that whites and blacks, generally, see each other's state of being in this country differently. My belief is that white people believe the time for racial distinction is over, that the black community no longer suffers the injustices it did before 1963, and, because of this, the time for "payment" is over. ? e problem e? relations today, we must break down all things that have happened in the past and begin to think about what we can do about it now to make it better. A fairly new method of therapy is being tested and widely used now in the United States. It involves recognizing that there is a problem, but it deals with how to resolve that problem ? not with the origin of it. In society today, people blame each other for the injustice done to them or the people of their race. We need to move on and face the fact that a problem does exist and get moving towards a solution instead of blaming everyone and claiming that we are all victims of this injustice. It is about time we also started to represent people as people ? not colors. The whole idea that no one seems to understand is that in order to break the barrier that separates us, we need to forget about the past and concentrate on the future. If we do not, it is inevitable that race relations will become further aggravated as each day passes, making it that much harder to deal with in the future. Adam Anders Freshman Betube defends complaints about legislature I have a life and ifs quite fulfilling. Thank you. Ms/Mr. Cook's remarks need to be > k in a closet the rest Of pom is a mm: iological foundation for racial i and men." jr of History at Emory University :e divided j For many white people, the thinking is "we gave affirmative action, we bused our kids, you have members of Congress and the Senate. What else could you want? Isn't it time you take responsibility for your own way, just as we did?" For blacks the thinking is much deeper. "Yes, we have affirmative action, our schools are desegregated and we can now participate unobstructed in the technical political process, but the problems cannot be rectified by band-aids. It must be through the mind as well. I am still more likely to be stopped by a cop for no reason. My income level is generally 60% below that of the average white family. I can't escape yet from the first impression, my skin color, and your subcon scious biases. Until I can, taking responsibility for myself only gets me so far." But most of the time, this message doesn't get through. Take, for example, the media's obsession with the Minister Louis Farakhan and his previous statements. The big news story of a million people gathered on the Mall ? which alone dsts; work 01 addressed in part. Regarding the legislature, my comments were made at the Faculty Senate meeting which led to the two elevators becoming "express" and non-express. A little research would have uncovered a decision to return to the non-express option has been made subsequent to gramklmrrt? frnm fkn 9.Q Anro Uilllgo UUU1 bllV/ UWIO. This issue hasn't occupied much of my time at all. What upsets me is your belief that there is so little office space value to the faculty at USC. I try to dispel as often as possible the fantasy that faculty are part-time staff with credentials. We work very hard and we need viable office conditions. I am pleased you have time to visit the ground floor displays. I have as well. For that matter, one is dedicated to some of the work I have done with USCs award winning intercollegiate debate team. This semester I teach three (3) courses (one of which is experimental and an other on the graduate level). They meet in the BusAdmin and Humanities buildings. I also coach seven (7) intercollegiate debate teams and travel to weekend tournaments. Did I mention I chair a university committee, am a faculty senator, am an associate editor to two professional journals in argumentation, visit high schools to recruit students, completed a second book (in two years) soon to be published by Praeger and published two articles on philosophical argumentation? For your information, during the win Friday, October 27, 1995 IflMMtt 111L / YOUR LIFE JUST 'CUZ distinction, but there copulation should tell you something is wrong ? had to compete with Farakahn's past anti-Semitic and anti-white rhetoric. CBS spent as much time Monday night talking about what happened at the March as it did talking about who didn't go and why, as if this was to give white America (and themselves) some security blanket to believe that it really isn't that bad. If I had a dime for every time people said "you can't separate the man from the message", my student loans would be paid off. Wake-up people. For that many people to come together, for one race to have that different an impression about what happened in O.J. than another, something is wrong. I'm Jewish, and I can separate Farakahn's rhetoric from the message of the charging custodial worker, or the S.C. State student at the Mall. To them, they are trapped in a world in which being a minority, and all the biases which surround it, have caging them in. Until we realize that and open those gates by opening our minds, these events will only get worse. i solution ter break, Fll be at the Plaza preparing a 100-page treatise on debating communication and information technology and preparing my teams to attend tournaments during the break period. Furthermore, if you really believe that our faculty will spend their time during the break sleeDing late and goof ing off, you have been sorely misled. Faculty at South Carolina and elsewhere will be spending their breaks on schol-^ arship and class preparation for the upcoming semester. For example, I'll be working on a graduate course in criticism and an honors course on the ihetoric of popular culture. I use my office regularly and my colleagues at South Carolina do as well. By the way, during the spring "break", the debate team and I will be attending the Novice and Junior Varsity National Championships and we will be preparing to do so during the "break." Fm not sure what you will be doing, but our faculty will be working and using their offices. Finally, I have quite a bit of experience with lobbyists having served as a consultant to a few. I suggest that if you think they only work during lunch hours and legislative breaks you should consider another occupation. Legislators do not attend every session. They are available at all hours. I guess for you that makes them a lot like faculty. David Berube Professor of Theatre and Speech