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Wednesday, October 2, 1996 "IBafl Serving USi Stephanie Sonnenfe A Chris Dixon, V Edltorii Angie Campbell, Martha Hotop, Achi Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, < OPM * Athletes shoul with Carolina We have many student athletes here at Carolina for all our different Athletes < programs. They ^Jieies . spend a lot of their more in time in practice with the and training USC cor during the season and off. Often times their academics get compromised, so that is why the Athletics Department has instituted programs like study hours and tutoring to make sure they spend time on their studies. This is great for the athletes, and ? none of our tuition dollars is going toward this program because the Athletics Department, through the boosters, pays for all these programs. In fact, the Athletics Department pays for most everything it does. They are basically a selfsupporting, autonomous organization. They pay for athletes' scholarships, for all equipment and travel, and -ai i.i_: J . 'iU many omer inings associaieu wilii each ahtletic program. In some ways, this is good. We know that all the perks that athletes might be getting, such as uniforms, are coming from money that was directly donated to the program. None of our tuition dollars is going there. But it also sets up a strange situation, one that has placed athletics r Contraceptive in preventing ? The female hormone progesterone, used in such Condon birth control only sens methodsas to pret Depo-Provera tnfe< and Norplant, can increase a ^ woman's chances W of contracting HIV because it increases HIVs ability to cross vaginal membranes, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. Researchers said more tests are needed to determine if contraceptives containing progesterone will have an effect on HIV transmission in women because the tests were conducted t on monkeys. These new findings reiterate the importance of condom use. Contraceptives that are ingested orally or implanted may prevent pregnancy, but they don't prevent HIV transmission. Condoms are not 100 percent effective, but they are the best way to prevent HIV infection when used consistently and accurately. nSatcocka Stephanie Cece von Sonnenfeld Kolnitz Editor in Chief Special Projects Chris Dixon Angie Viewpoints Editor Campbell Martha Hotop Lisa Adam Snyder Noworatzky News Editors Copy Desk Jennifer Stanley Robert Walton Features Editor photo Editor Achim Hunt Brian Rjsh Sports Editor Graphics Editor Rob Gioielli Asst. Viewpoints The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the eaiiui3 ui juuiur ana not inose 01 me univcrsny 01 South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media is its parent organization. 1 lrrt J, Ecodt C Since 1908 :ld, Editor in Qiief iewpoints Editor il Board im Hunt, Lisa Noworatzky, Brian Rish, Cece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton, A I 0 N Id be included community at the periphery of the University community.They should be live and practice , completely away tegratea from the main part rest of the of campus. The nmunity. only reason they have to come to this part of campus is to go to class, or if they happen to be involved in a certain activity. We know that this system has been set up in part to improve athletes' performance so they are focused on competing. But isn't that where the problem is? These students are here first and foremost as just that, students. And as students, they are part of this University community, not semi-pro athletes that just happen to attend classes here. It's great that we do have n-1 successiui piAJgiaiiis 111 uuiieuus, uut it often seems that these athletes are members of the Carolina community in name only. They live, eat and work south of Whaley Street, almost isolated from the rest of us. The rest of us are at the Carolina north of this street. Shouldn't our Carolina community be the whole campus together, not just one in which athletes and non-athletes happen to go to the same school? s not useful HIV infection We all need to take the responsibility of is are the using condoms ible choice consistently to ent HIV protect ourselves ction and our partners from HIV. To assure condoms are used accurately, proper condom use should be taught in basic sex education classes. While there is no cure for AIDS, it can easily be prevented. Putting on a condom is not difficult. We need to have enough selfrespect to tell our partners condoms are mandatory. AIDS has been around for more than 15 years, yet some people still think it only affects drug addicts and gays. AIDS is not an inner-city problem, it's everybody's problem. ATT40 ' ] /ujjo is now a pdi i ui uux eveiyuay lives and should be treated as such. If you want to protect yourself from being infected with HIV, condoms are a necessity. Other contraceptives will protect you from nothing but parenthood. ws: 777-7726 vertising: 777-1184 X: 777-6482 Keith Boudnmx n(n|HmniBnnn Circulation Manager Chris Carroll Dipka Bhambhani Director of Student Media Jessica Nash Laura Day Asst. Features Creative Director Bryan Johnston J.T. Wagenheim Dwayne An Dircclor McLemore Mark Hopkins Asst. Sports Graduate Assistant Nikki Thorpe Marilyn Edwards Asst. Photo Taylor Jason JefTers Mutating Director Daniel Brown Enk <-oll,ns Cartoonists Facul,y Advisor The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, pot ,ible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withh 1 under any circumstances. HEWPO AFTER. NEAiy $TVve^m\ PPMTI AM' (*(0 I i "But athletics also helps witt stay on th Jamar Ne; Arguments for I John Frick I violence," Pre of South Care In fact, acc Over the past several years, the topic in 1992, state of gun control has been a prominent one overall viol ei on the national scene. Gun control higher, and a advocates have used rising crime rates higher, than to buttress their arguments that guns While sta are bad and that their availability to the shows no pos average citizen should be restricted. more gun com Sadly, these misguided and illogical study condu principles have found their way into laws policies tell a whose teeth end up biting law-abiding According citizens while the criminal elements find Dr. John Lot themselves unharmed. University of Look no further than the Brady Bill to-carry laws to find evidence of backwards thinking, murders fell I The bill provides for a waiting period percent, and before a firearm can be purchased. 7 percent. Initially, the waiting period was NRA Crin justified on the grounds that this time Swasey said was to be used for a background check, that if states However, as instant check capabilities laws had ad became more prevalent, this waiting "...every year period became a cool-off time for supposed people would angry people who would rush out and fewer womei purchase a gun in the heat of a passionate 60,000 few < argument. aggravated a While such theatrical arguments In South ( make a lot of noise, they are truly full of similar cor of sound and fury and statistically signify expected to nothing. Daniel, who "There have been only a handful of passage of th convictions as a result of someone trying a very signif to illeeallv obtain a firearm, a number recognized tl which is disproportionately small in themselves a relation to the hundreds of thousands will allow hon of legal gun sales which have occurred, to protect the It has done nothing to reduce handgun families." While th( Conservatives shou] I Fred Leach I of PeoPle bel TV-The lib< Republicans Sometimes it's tough being a welfare. To * Gamecock fan, especially on days like ' street who d this past Saturday, when victory was would appes within grasp yet somehow slipped away, people with: It's discouraging sometimes, to say the The med least, but it is still my team and I will the other sid stick by it through thick and thin. No job is not to matter how bad things may seem right offer a clear i x I iL.it.li J * T" now, we musi rememDer mai ueuer uaya 01 an issue, r are ahead, and the team is definitely Instead, the^ headed in the right direction. such a way Discouragement is also felt by many look bad. Thi in the Republican Party right now. With the Republic only more than a month left before the for educatio election, Bill Clinton is still ahead in the What you d( polls, and it seems as if the conservative to turn over revolution of 1994 has fizzled away into Another the histoiy books. Why has this happened? recent rise ir How can the mood of a country change becoming m so drastically in less than two years? Bill Clinton. The answer lies first with the media. Dan Quayh The media has done an extraordinary values, but job of making Newt Gingrich and his strengthen fellow Republicans look like a bunch of He raise mean-spirited hate mongers who want into office, b to make the rich richer and the poor taxes and de< poorer plays in our Th.i, of course, is not true, but a lot major concer [NTS Of SIWeRS Aw CM ie seme? w A rv> j? coweNi?wr <WKI ? i studying because you want to keep u e team and not have the coach mad al >bit, sophomore football player, on the tutoring program for athli gun control urn sident of the Gun Owners As We See OUT political SyStei }1^a Rick Daniel said upon ^ jch ft ^ founded, ordmg to state crane records bpw ~ H-pvirifint aid Wfiffi s with waiting periods had new ? Sen^VXieni' 310 7^ it crime rates 47 percent 01 truth WHO Were Well tnO i homicide rate 19 percent of some of the greatest min other states. itistical data continually positive effects of a return to indi sitive correlation between gun rights, fm left to question wl trol and less crime, a recent had this debate at all. cted on concealed-carry The constitution is clea very different story. language."... the right of the p I to an extensive study by keep and bear arms shall t, a professor of law at the infringed." Chicago, when state nght- Even the first part of the se went into effect m a county, which alludes to "A well-re* 8.5 percent, rapes fell by 5 mi]itia..," and is the source of mc aggravated assaults fell by attadm on this dear prescription, aeStrike Director Elizabeth 3 reference t0 Private 8 0WI aebtnke Du-ector bbzabeth At the tjme of the constitn, that this study also shows ^ f ^ ^ without the right-to-carry , ,, , . ., opted them in 1992 that wh? approximately 1,570 fewer "^P0"8 andtthelr Me m have been murdered, 4,177 ofthetr commimrty. , and children raped, and Yat, de,sPlte thl? clflaI rr people victimized by ^ legislators and judges tgi issaults " wishes of our founding fath< Carolina, the recent passage continue to pursue infringemen icealed-carry legislation is right. Even liberal comments have significant results, writer Michael Kinsley ma i played a key role in the concession in The Washington P is legislation, said, "It was 8, 1990. icant milestone because it "Unfortunately, there is the le people's right to protect Amendment to the Constituti nd their property. This law purpose of the First Amendme f*it ViflrrKvnrlrincr individuals sDeech guarantee was prettv cl i thing they love most: their protect political discourse. But reject the notion that free sj ; facts seem to bear out the therefore limited to political top * tdn't be discouraged; ieve anything they see on With only more than a mont sral media tell us of how ahead jn the pjfc and jj jj rn has fizzled away into the hi my average person on tne - f loesn't know the issues, it , . x , ir they are indeed hurting wer!,now to refora such policies Clinton didn t do too muc lia usually does not explore ? ^ntil now'"h? he le of the issue. The media's 100.000 cope on thestreet. In si interpret the news, but to ainton has bec07e 80 c?"sen,a representation of both sides now many members of his ow lowever, they rarely do this. ^ be bas ^ , ^iem oub y often present the news in Ireland of the National Organ! as to make conservatives Women is mad at him for sigi nk about it. If you hear that welfare refonn bil1- 311 Z0* ans are trying to cut funds Clinton cannot be tins' n, that sounds pretty bad. ty members of his own party, m't hear is that they want Sometimes it is very dishe those funds to the states, to think about all this. Here we a reason for the Democrats' to elect this man President of th i popularity is that they are States of America for another fo lore conservative. Look at This is a man who lies to the Four years ago he ridiculed who cheats on his wife, who i i for talking about family thing one day and then turns now he is talking about and does the opposite another, ing the American family, even be involved in criminal a d taxes when he first came At the very least, he is friends wi ut now he talks of lowering Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Ti Teasing the role government the MacDougals. lives. Welfare was never a This is a man who stands ii n unhl the Republicans took the American peorle and says < : 3_ ~ " I - - - .1 ? * m, use MOi N6- UNIT... * I i * f I f & ^ i I SI p your grades so you can t you." jtes constitutional m slip ever so slowly away from the principles let us not forget these truths that were once so esteemed for a reason. They are expressions mght out, well structured and were products ds our world has ever known. ividual's broadly defined. True, that purpose is ly we've not inscribed in the amendment itself. But why leap to the conclusion that a r in its broadly worded constitutional freedom eople to [the right of the people to keep and bear n o t b e arms] is narrowly limited by its stated purpose, unless you're trying to explain intence, it away? My New Republic colleague fulated Mickey Kaus says that if liberals st leftist interpreted the Second Amendment the contains way they interpret the rest of the Bill of lership. Rights, there would be law professors ion, the arguing that gun ownership is zen gun mandatory," Kinsley said, te use of While I couldn't have put it better i defense myself, it is important to note that this point rarely comes up in the public iguage, discourse surrounding these policy nore the decisions. But it definitely should, ers and As we see our political system slip t on this ever so slowly away from the principles itor and upon which it was founded, let us not de this forget these truths that were once held ost, Jan. as self-evident, and were so esteemed for a reason. ! Second They are expressions of truth which on. The were well thought out, well structured ntf s free and were products of sane of the greatest [early to minds our world has ever known. Who liberals are we to question their wisdom when jeech is our own actions have been the source of ics, even all our problems? about '96 election :h left before the election, Bill Clinton is still ems as if the conservative revolution of 1994 story books. i welfare, doesn't matter. Obviously it does not h about matter for those who vote for him. But ts to put character should matter in who we choose tiort, Bill to be our leader. tive that My fellow conservatives, we must m party not get discouraged if Clinton is re-elected ren Patsy Instead, we should redouble our efforts zation of ^ b^ng the conservative message to the ni ng th e American people. The media is certainly W not S?'n?to *t?so it's UP to usted, even rp^ war pQr heart an(j sou} 0f America does not end with the presidential artening , u? election. It ends only when we give up. le United However, the fat lady has not yet sung, and there are still things we can do to country he'P Bob Dole and the Republican Party says one win on Nov. 5. 3 around I have talked to some who say they tt onrvnAnf RnK Finlu Knf fV?mr aron'f rrmnrr jjjgy ouppui i> xj\jkj i/uiv wuv uivj ui vn v gvnig ctivities. to vote because they aren't registered or th former because they won't make a difference, icker and Folks, we need all the votes we can get. It is not just the political fate of a n front of candidate we are determining, but the character fate of our countr