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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).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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