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Wednesday, November 20,1996 "eai Serving V Stephanie Sonnen Chris Dixon,1 EdHov Angie Campbell, Martha Hotop, Ac! Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, Sara S' I 0 P I M New women's positive for Ci A much- rfjmmmmrjm needed service has just opened in Columbia: the \? women's ttecntocci Healthcare needs to ta Center. role in the Healthcare for women presents some unique problems and issues, so it's good that there is a special place for women to go and receive specialized care. This center is Drovidin? comprehensive service, where the nurse practitioners give consultations to the patients as well as examinations, and there are programs that focus on preventing health problems as well as solving them. But, the center should do more than provide care to those women who come in to the center. The center should try to go out into the community and speak to students and other groups who don't necessarily get the correct education about their health and well being. As a part of a public university system, the clinic should make attempts to go into the greater Columbia area and provide educational services. Most of the women who will go to the center IISC paiking to ic to remove p Parking at USC has never been easy, and if two Parking at L residence halls serious a p have their way, f0 remove me it could get anywhere on worse. T h e governments of Capstone and Columbia Hall are petitioning Parking Services to remove the parking meters between the two buildings. Capstone and Columbia Hall have both gathered about 400 signatures to have the meters removed by the start of the Spring 1997 semester. The governments of the two residence halls plan to protest or boycott if the meters are not removed. Columbia Hall Head Representative Ronald Dunham said the two residence halls want the meters removed because residence halls are supposed to be a "home away from home." While removing the meters may make living in Capstone and Columbia Hall more pleasant and home-like, it will only add to the nsainrtjl Stephanie Angie Sonne nfeld Campbell Editor in Chief Lisa Chris Dixon Noworatzky Viewpoints Editor ? Mailha Holop Adam Snyder Robert Walton News Editors Photo Editor Jennifer Stanley Brian Features Editor Gnpho. Editor Achim Hunt Jason Jeffers Sports Editor rv . , n r* ? , Daniel Brown Cece von Kolnitz Cartoonists Special Projects 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 7exam periods. l. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the m editors or author and not those of the University of U Sooth Carolina. Tl The Board of Student Publications and Communications Tl is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of sf Student Media is its parent organization. be a 1 ffrrnrfe SC Since 1908 feld, Editor in Chief Viewpoints Editor lal Board him Hunt, Lisa Noworatzky, Brian Rish, vedberg, Cece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton 1 I 0 N ] health clinic ilumbia area FTPMrrapppi are ones who will already be concerned about 7omen s their health. ire Center But there are ke an active thousands of community, women in this area who know little about things like yearly gynecological checkups and appropriate prenatal care. Specialized health care is important to all women. There are just so manv more issues a women has to deal with than a man, and it's important that all the women in Columbia have a chance to get the proper care. This service is like all services the University offers to the public. Serious attempts should be made to make the service accessible to as many ipembers of the community as possible. That is part of our mission as the primary research and educational institution is the state. The University should not only have an affect on the students going here, but on the entire city. That is a duty we have as a public institution of higher education. The University should not just aL.? ry _ l L ^ ?j I i i 1 oe in uoiuniDia, 11 snouia De active in the community. 10 problematarking meters parking difficulties around campus. USC is inrSC is too tegrated into roblem downtown 'tersfrom Columbia. campus. T h e r e i s n t enough room in the metropolitan area to make college dorms seem more like home. You have to keg) in mind there are thousands of students scrambling to find parking spaces as it is. If you start taking away parking, you are definitely asking fnr tmiiVklo Wl WVUU1V/. If the governments of Capstone and Columbia Hall want to do something about parking, they should petition to have more parking meters put on campus, not have meters taken away. If the meters are removed, all the people who normally would have parked in those spaces would then have to find somewhere else to park. The last thing we need is more students competing for the scant parking spaces around campus. 777-7726 ising: 777-1184 777-6482 IffflBWBSMtimilS Chris Carroll Director of Student Media Rob Gioielli Laura Day Asst. Viewpoints Creative Director Jessica Nash J,T. Wagenheim Asst. Features Alt Bryan Johnston Mark Hopkins Dwaync Graduate Assistant McLemore Marilyn Edwards Asst Sports Taylor Nikki Thorpe Marketing Director Asst. Photo Erik Collins Ben MuldlOW Faculty Advisor Asst. Graphics he Gamecock will try to print all letters received, titers should be 200-250 words and must include full une, professional title or year and major if a student, titers must be personally delivered by the author to he Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. yle, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not i withheld under any circumstances. VJEWl "The fa j Cindy Robargi Human lift | John Frick As we enter a new legislative year, with a newly-elected Congress and another four years of a Clinton presidency, me nme couia not oe more right for us as a nation to tackle the most divisive and emotional issue of our generation. This issue is the raging debate concerning human life, the most notable concerns of which deal with abortion and euthanasia. The current problem with these issues is that they exist outside our normal political system. They are issues which have been decided, not as a result of deliberative representative democracy, but as a result of judicial activism. This is problematic because it undermines the very reason our system exists. It prohibits the codification of the general will of the people into laws which govern their interaction. This is one of the reasons that the proposal of a Human Life Amendment to the constitution would be a great shot in the arm for our countiy. With regard to this aspect of such an amendment, look at the benefits our society gains from its proposal. The most important thing it does is take these deep, emotive issues out of the hands of a veiy few who decide on our behalf, and Confederate Fred Leach The Confederate Flag is once again at tfte forefront of South Carolina politics. The issue, however, has a new twist. Gov. David Beasley, along with South Carolina Baptists, supports bringing the flag down. In what might be the last days of the flag flying atop the State House, the debate about what the flag represents rages on. "Heritage...not hate," I saw on a bumper sticker the other day. But is that really true? What does the flag really stand for to people who wish to keep it flying? People I've asked about this say the flag is a part of our history and deserves a place of honor. This is true, but the other side of the issue says the flag is a symbol of a tragic period in our history that shouldn't be recognized above the State House. Both sides in this argument are right to a certain extent, and both sides are wrong. A/Tnrp> ni 1VJLWJL ^U-OtWlllV^ To the editor, I am a resident of Bates House and a holder of Marriott's great meal plan. On Nov. 9 at 12:57 p.m., three minutes before closing, I got a takeout tray but decided to sit with friends. About 20 to 30 minutes later, my friends decided to put up their trays. Afterwards, the cafeteria lady decided that because I put up one of their trays I must have eaten inside and was still going to take out food. She was wrong. She approached my fiiends and I and stated that I couldn't eat in and take out a tray, which is fine, but that was not the case. So why was I accused? Very angrily, I threw the takeout food in the trash (I did not eat it) and proceeded to leave the cafe. The cafeteria lady was very unprofessional in her approach and should not have assumed that I had done something wrong. Even if I had done .something wrong, oiisrrc _ ? t ict that we get to sleep in o ?o we lave the home-court< 3, outside litter on the USC volleyball team, 01 : not 'revere it vuts the power back into the hands of t)ie people. If such an amendment were passed by both houses of Congress, it would then be put back to the states for tir. 1JI . __J.*1 a! raimcauon. we wouia De utilizing me great gift our founding fathers gave to us when they structured our constitutional amendment process. They understood that such issues would arrive and when these most important issues arose, the closer to the people the decision was made, the better and more just the decision would be. Such a legislative effort would be a major step toward the re-empowerment of the people. The other reason such an effort would be laudable is because of the cold, hard look we as Americans would be forced to take at these issues and how they affect our society as a whole. In this regard, there could be no better elixir for an ailing American culture. Such an amendment would take these issues out of the context of personal opinion and beg that they be analyzed in the context of the values upon which our American system was founded upon. Very few people have taken the time to analyze how these issues fit into the thought patterns which underlie our very system of beliefs. Consider for a moment the pervasiveness of the American belief : Flag represi Robert E. Lee is a symbol of Southern heritage and also a representative of eveiything that was good about the South. Lee was against slavery and against secession. He joined the Southern effort only because he couldn't fight against his home state of Virginia. Many who fought on the Southern side were like Lee; they felt they were truly fighting for a good.cause. Slavery was not the main issue for which the South was fighting. It was the question of who should be supreme the federal government or the state government. Slavery certainly was a big issue, but the vast majority of Confederate soldiers never owned slaves. The argument, then, that die flag stands for heritage is indeed valid if the people espousing this opinion truly believe it. The people who maintain that the flag represents hate and racial oppression are also right. I would like to share an eye-opening experience that I had my freshman year. There was a public hearing being r service need* shoplifter are treated with more respect than I was. In the days following, signs were posted stating that students who want takeout food must leave their IDs at the front, boxes will be checked for two entrees and only one fruit should be taken, even though apples were used as table decorations during Election Day. ! Bates House cafeteria staff needs to learn customer service policies, I deserve a personalized apology and those crazy rules of restriction should be lifted. Needless to say, I no longer eat there, ( and with those rules manv more DeoDle will stop, too. ] Sherry Scott ] Criminal Justice Senior Attacks on Kinsell i unwarranted - ] J> gjtft ur own beds makes it a lo advantage no matter what ? u?*: _ ~ iu. r? m w_ii~..l ii uic duvaiiidyei ui ilubiiny me otu vuueyi :d' in Ameri system throughout our society. When asking nearly anyone of their belief in the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence, if they're American, they will generally affirm their belief in these things. Whether we are liberal, conservative, moderate or anything remotely similar within our society, we are defined by the principles upon which our republic is constructed. Yet, very rarely in those debates will we hear those principles analyzed in an effort to dredge out the right course of action. That this path isn't taken is indeed unfortunate, for our answer is inherent in our system. At the base of eveiy value that our founding fathers put forth as important or "inalienable" lies an innate valuation of human life. If you have any doubt, just proceed down the list. Freedom, Equality, Justice, Suffrage, Self-Determination and any of the specific rights guaranteed by our constitution. They all share a common bond. Our collective claim toward them lies not in our own meritorious actions, nor through any altruistic whims of an all powerful government. Our claim lies only in the fact that we are human, and in our humanness lies no discrepancies. When we ask ourselves why there exists this intrinsic value in human life, our answers can vary. To the religious ents both Ik held at the Gressete building behind the State House concerning the flag. I decided to attend since I was interested in politics and this issue in particular. I arrived outside the hnildina and there was a large group of people waiting to be admitted to the hearing. On one side there was a group of blacks, and on the other side a group of whites. As I approached the door, I found myself being bombarded by different people handing me pamphlets about different organizations that would "protect my heritage." I also heard people telling me that we would have to keep the (racial slurs) from "taking over the world." I promptly left without even going inside the building because I was greatly offended by the things I heard and saw. There is no excuse for the type of behavior that I saw that day. That is when I realized that the flag does indeed represent hatred to some people. I also realized that day racism still exists in this country. It is a problem that affects us all. ed in Bates H< To the editor, I am responding to the November 18 letter written by Vernon C. Davenport condemning Tobi Kinsell and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. In the wake of numerous church burnings, racial shootings, KKK rallies, discrimination cases and even lynchings, I have difficulty understanding Davenport's views against the multiculturalism issue, but as I am an advocate of free speech and ODinion. I have no choice but to respect his right to his personal opinions. I do, however, disagree with Davenporfs unsubstantiated personal attacks on Kinsell when he obviously aas no clue who she is. Throughout his letter, Davenport referred to Kinsell as a he. In his letter, Davenport stated that "Kinsell's letter vas arrogant and exemplary of the Office's nindless propagandizing." f 4_ XI t easier, w )all Tournament . ican society it, is uecauae we are maue ill txie image of God. To the academic it is because of our ability to reason and learn. To the . philosophe it might merely be an assumption, a given which is necessary to rationalize our claims to those * aforementioned rights. ' But, regardless of it's source, it's presence in the thought which gave us our governmental system is irrefutable. And it is this presence which makes our actions on this issue so very important. Human life is something which is revered in the structure of our system. We must recognize that our current attitudes toward human life are anything but reverent. I We must make a choice as a nation as to whether or not human life is important to us, for the contradiction in our current society, where we reap the benefits of a system designed around this belief and then thumb our nose at it, is certainly unsustainable. Congress and the president have the ability to help our country by proposing i and passing a Human Life Am mdment 1 to-tbe constitution because it will, first, empower the people and, second, force them to seriously consider these issues. These are two things which must happen if America is to continue to progress in the 21st century. iritage, hate It is easy to pretend that it is no longer a problem, but ignoring the. problem will not make it go away. Because of people like those I encountered at the public hearing, the Confederate flag flying atop the State House serves as a constant reminder of a past that included the oppression and enslavement of an entire L race of people. However, the present should also be considered as well. Racial tensions are still high, and we as a people (black and white) should do everything we can to ease those tensions so that we can come together as one race ? the human race. We should strive throughout our lives to leam from our mistakes and to correct mistakes when we are able to do so. Our country has made many mistakes in the past, but we often do not own up to them. f. . The Confederate Flag does not I represent hate to most people who wish to keep it flying. Most probably think that the flag stands for heritage. To many people however, the flag stands for a heritage of racial oppression and hate. * l fat&r 'i n ) V^CtJL V^LV^JL ICl He went on to describe Kinsell as "blatantly intolerant" and accused Kinsell of "denigrating his ideological opponents." Kinsell is, in fact, a Caucasian female. Davenport should not make such personal attacks on people and their departments without doing a little homework. I realize that he is the former editor | of the late "Spectator," and falsehoods and general unsubstantiated criticism of liberal causes is what makes him tick, but before making personal attacks, he should at least find out about the person he attacking. Call it professional courtesy. It might help legitimize his opinions and keep them from sounding ignorant. Reed Morton Interdisciplinary Studies Senior