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Wednesday, October 2, 1996
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Stephanie Sonnenfe
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Angie Campbell, Martha Hotop, Achi
Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, <
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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South Carolina.
The Board of Student Publications and Communications
is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of
Student Media is its parent organization.
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iewpoints Editor
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Cece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton,
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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
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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.
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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.
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Arguments for
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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 <
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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
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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