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to help needy,
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USC students
i really don't like
Clemson. Give bio
Hating Caroline
Clemson is blood drive
USC's passion. a victt
We love to hate der
the orange and I ?
white pawprints
that identify Clemson; we love to
hate their football team; in short,
we love to hate everything about
our rival.
} Seeing as we hate Clemson so
much, why then do we let them
beat us every year in the annual
Carolina-Clemson bloodrive?
In the last nine years, we've
lost eight times to Clemson in this
battle of which school can have
the most blood donated during
the week prior to the Carolina
Clemson football game.
) When we lose in football or in
basketball or baseball to Clemson,
we get mad. We wish we could
have done something to help USC
beat Clemson and claim a welldesired
victory.
The blood drive is one way we
can claim a victory over Clemson.
All it takes is for everyone to
I take a few minutes of their time
to truck over to the Russell House
and donate a pint of blood, which
goes to help people in need.
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Britain, France
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preparing to rnission i
send troops to necessai
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to take part in ?
a humanitarian
mission to help 12 million refugees
The U.S. will station abou
1,000 troops in Zaire and abou
4,000 troops in a neighborinj
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scheduled to last about foui
months, is strictly humanitariai
? the U.S. has no self-servinj
f $ interests in Zaire.
* r We are sending troops simpl;
to protect starving refiigees am
to take care of aid shipments am
workers in Zaire.
The Clinton administration i
moving slowly because of concern
for the safety of our troops.
This mission is positive becaus
it is fueled by concern for humai
suffering, not financial interests
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' measures not to risk the fives c
our troops.
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beat Clemson
Sure, there are
MmddmM a lot of myths
regarding blood
'?d in the donation, and the
VClemson truth is, they are
' and claim just myths. It
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nson. giye blood.
Givmg blood is a
simplistic medical
procedure done thousands of times
everv dav. vear after vear.
According to the Red Cross,
blood shortages and emergencies
are common in South Carolina.
The organization is currently
depending on other states to
provide blood to patients in South
Carolina because they do not have
enough donors to maintain their
inventory.
The simple act of donating a
little blood can save another
human being's life.
The Red Cross reports that
someone needs blood every three
and a half seconds. There is no
excuse for anyone having to die
for a reason as senseless as the
Red Cross' lack of blood.
And, you can help rectify this
problem.
By simply donating blood at
this year's Carohna/Clemson blood
drive, you can help save lives and
help USC claim victory over
Clemson.
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rving reiugees
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^USiliLM overlook human
suffering, no
imanitarian matter how far
n Zaire is removed it may be.
*y to end We tend to lose
suffering. compassion when
we are not directly
? affected by an
event or situation.
The kind of suffering going on
t in Zaire is atrocious and ignoring
t it would be inexcusable.
y The only thing we will gain by
sending troops to Zaire is the
s satisfaction of knowing we helped
r save human lives. We do not
1 always have to benefit directly to
y help others.
Not only does the U.S.
/ government have a humanitarian
i responsibility to help people in
i need, but we as citizens need to
be more aware of what is going
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be the most fascinating events to
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e read about, but tney are extremely
a important.
5. When we realize the suffering
il some people have to go through
>f in other parts of the world, we
will see how lucky we truly are.
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Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full
the name, professional title or year and major if a student,
of Letters must be personally delivered by the author to
The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333.
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Shawn Singleton
Winston Churchill once said,
"Democracy is the second worst form of
government - all the rest tie for first."
This cavalier attitude towards our
form of government applies to the recent
senatorial elections in the Carolinas.
WitVi tVio ror?ont olortinna nf Strnm
Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Jesse Helms (RN.C.),
it really disheartens me at how
far in the past these two states are.
The Carolinas are woefully behind
in the times all the way down to the men
we elect to represent us in Washington.
Sens. Helms and Thurmond are two
men who have ignominious and sordid
records, at best, on the subject of race
Multiculturali
To the editor,
On Nov. 11, Tobi Kinsell of
Multicultural Affairs responded to John
IFrick's criticism of multiculturalism.
Kinsell's letter was arrogant and
exemplary of the Office's mindless
propagandizing.
Kinsell is blatantly intolerant.
Contrary to his assertion that
multiculturalism "encourages
communication and education about
differences," he denigrates his ideological
opponents as "fearful because [they] don't
understand."
Kinsell's tactic of deriding men with
different opinions by branding them
ignorant is an ugly one, reminiscent of
the Soviet doctors declaring dissenters
from official doctrine to be insane.
Kinsell correctly states that "[e]ach
individual on our campus is different,"
but denies that "[mfulticulturalism is
not 'breaking people up into neat little
groups.""
Rv its nature, multiculturalism forces
people into Procrustean groups.
Multiculturalism denies primacy of the
individual.
J Its premise is that a person, no matter
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relations and civil rights.
Let us not forget this is the same
Strom Thurmond who, back in 1954,
made a record filibuster to block a civil
rights bill.
Nor should we forget this is the same
Jesse Helms who has a history of race
baiting in elections, scaring white North
Carolinians with threats of losing their
jobs to the "evil black people." Once
again, conservatism at its very best.
Yet, they still get elected year after
year. Is there a conservative complacency
in these states that sends these men to
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Or is there just a general apathy
among the minorities in the Carolinas,
especially the African American
community?
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what his preference, is first a membei
of a group and must be treated as such
This was formerly called segregation.
Multiculturalism's nature is no secret
and Frick was quite correct on that point
Kinsell's statement regardinj
demographic changes is indicative of th<
multiculturahsfs intellectual intransigence
Contrary to it, the massive growtl
in the non-white population is not i
foregone conclusion.
Immigration is controlled by electei
representatives, who could stop it almos
overnight, as happened in 1924.
Multiculturalists maintain thei
worldview with a religious fervor, so thi
rarely occurs to them.
I commend Frick for his courage ii
challenging the "official" position of USC
miiltirnltiirnl hnrennrrarv
He has learned the multiculturalist
low level of respect for diversity.
I urge Kinsell to think of bette
arguments than stating those wh
i disagree with his office are "fearful" an
"not educated," and encourage eveiyon
t to keep an open mind and respec
differences of opinions.
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next step, we have to becon
its, ands or buts about it."
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However, these are just a few of
several areas in the South that have this
problem. Why don't African Americans
vote in the elections that matter?
You would think 1992 was a banner
year for us at the polls, but the 1996
elections were a different story.
It seems to me all the men and women
who fought and died to give my fellow
i African Americans the right to vote did
what they did for nothing. For years I
nave neai u uumpiaiins 11 urn lllj jjcu^ic
about these very same senators, first as
a child here in South Carolina, then as
a United States Marine in North Carolina
Even after all this, we still do not
vote, therefore we shouldn't complain
i about the outcomes of the elections.
When we do not vote, we are generally
ilerant of diffe:
VemonC. Davenport
History/Economics Senior
' White culture also part
[ of multiculturalism
~ To the editor,
I have been surprised and dismayed
to see that the defender of
j multiculturalism, Tobi Kinsell, has not
t responded to the attack against
multicultural principles made by columnist
r Shawn Singleton in the Nov. 11 edition.
s I found it ironic the two statements
were published on the same page, one
n directly above the other.
s Perhaps your columnist is in need of
sensitivity training. Singleton's demagogic
s diatribe certainly did not "encourage"
communication and education about
r differences that will then lead to a higher
o level of understanding and respect for
d our differences."
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about someone who is different from
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saying we are satisfied about our current
dispositions and we have no problems
here in the Carolinas. However, as I
pointed out last week, this is not the
case.
To me, the election of 1996 was about
the future. Yet we continue to elect the
past every six years and a 93-year-old
past as well. There is a distinct white
Southern culture here in the Carolinas,
but it is one that prefers to celebrate the
1890s rather than the 1990s.
We must prepare for a new century,
a new millennium. We have to do this
as one people working together.
Change is slow here in the Carolinas,
and that is something we must rectify
immediately.
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Historians such as Forrest McDonald,
Grady McWhiney and David Hackett
Fischer have proven that a distinct white
Southern culture exists.
The tenets of multiculturalism, if
they are not hypocritical in their intent,
must include this culture as one which
needs to be respected, honored and
understood.
White fear in response to the
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aemograpnic cnanges citea Dy runsen
in his letter is a phenomenon which we
as a society will be compelled to address
with compassion in coming years if we
truly wish to live up to Martin Luther
King Jr.'s vision of justice.
Racial posturing on both sides only
fuels violence. The fear, anger and rage
which members of both races feel must
be discussed with compassion.
Angry rhetoric only fuels the fire of
hatred -- a fire which may ultimately
consume us.
It will be interesting to see how white
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Southerners become the majority,
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Bryant Sapp
Graduate Student