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1 imtcock nee 1908 itor in Chief %\iz 0a Serving VSC Si Chris Dixon, Ed Stephanie sonnenieia, Editorial Achim Hunt, Bryan Johnston, Karen Layi Muldrow, Jennifer Stai Show scho beyond ba Suddenly, it seems sleeping on concrete in the middle of the night is cooL Missing early morning classes is cool. (Well, wasn't it always?) Going up to total strangers and begging for a student ID is cool. In short, camping out for basketball tickets is cool. All because our basketball team is sixth in the nation. Some fans will claim part of the title. A lot can be said for the loyal, supportive Carolina Gamecock fans, and fVintr **rtll ooir if Uicjr wxxi ocijr iu Without the roar of the home crowd, the band, the cheerleaders, the team could not have gone as far. At least that's what some fans would like to believe. We think the Carolina Men's Basketball team earned sixth place because of (surprise) talent, hard work and an excellent coach. Why then, when this formula doesn't always work, and our teams don't place in the top 10 of the country, do Military si harass gaj According to an Associated Press article in yesterday's edition of The State, more members of the military are 1 being dismissed, accused of homosexuality, than when President Clinton entered office more than four years ago. Clinton entered promising to end discrimination of homosexuals in the military. The Defense Department published figures showing the ' numbers of service members dismissed on charges of homosexuality rising from 682 in 1993 to 722 in 1995 to 850 in 1996. Interestingly enough, the people suffering the most from increased discrimination and dismissals are not gay males, but heterosexual and gay females refusing requests for sexual favors and standing * up against sexual harassment conducted by men. Females refusing such sexual advances are labeled homosexual, according to Michelle Benecke, a retired Army captain quoted in The I Student Media Russell House Chris Dixon News: 7 Editor in Chief Advertising Stephanie FAX: 7' Sonnenfeld Viewpoints Editor Achlm Hunt Karen Layne B,7"? Jennifer Stanley cJohn^?n ' Mews Editors Jports Editors ^ John Lyons T1"M "?P1U,H K ,, Ben Pillow ' Copy Editors > rMfhef3?B Nlkkl Thorpe , Features Editors ^ J The Gamecock it die student newspaper of die Univ< Wednesday, end Friday during the Fail and Spring semet periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the edi Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications Student Media is its parent organization. muss The Gamecock will try to print all letters recei' include full name, professional title or year and delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsn reserves the right to edit all letter for style, possi ^ withheld for any circumstance. , Viewpoints Editor Board te, John Lyons, Kelly McPherson, Ben lley, Nikki Thorpe. ol spirit sketball fens not follow their own logic? If the title, championship or win can't come without the support of the fans, why do the fans not show up when they are most sorely needed? When any Carolina sports team is on a losing streak, fans often don't show, though this is truly when they are needed for that extra inspiration. We hope the support Carolina fans have shown the 1996-97 Men's Basketball team will continue throughout spring sports. The soccer, baseball and fnoma Tirnrlr in erf QC Viorvi UCULA. UXUiiO VVWIIVJUOb UU itfUU and want to win just as much as our No. 6 basketball team. If students are truly schoolspirited (which the past basketball season seems to indicate) they will flock to Spring sporting events and help other teams to victory. Aould not rs, women State. She said some will even weather the harassment in order not to be rumored gay, investigated and perhaps dismissed. Evidently, Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell policy" has been ineffective. It is exceedingly unfortunate that the only person in power to help make a federal, legal difference for homosexuals has proven to have such a weak influence. Moreover, it is atrocious that women trying to fight sexual harassment are being dismissed on charges that should not pertain to their nnnfnrmonAo in fVio milifoTO lUi xxx uxx(/ xiauviu^ in the first place. It is ironic that there was such a fight to allow women in the military, on the basis that there would unwanted pregnancies, an influx of STDs and plain general distraction. Now that women are showing no interest in their male counterparts, for whatever reason, (due to homosexuality or not), the military is punishing them, for it. use Colombia, SC 29208 77-7726 Adam Synder r; 777-4249 Office Manager 77-6482 Jason Jeflfers Cartoonist Ben Muldrow Melissa Sellers Graphics Editor Online Editor IflddLaRocqne Laura Day Asst. Viewpoints Creative Director teginna Green Marilyn Asst News Edwards Taylor Jessica Nash Marketing Director AsstFeatures Erik Collins leflf Ntcholaon Faculty Advisor Asst. Photo irsity of South Carolina and is published on Monday, iters, with the exception of university holidays and exams Ion or the author and not those of the University of South i is the Publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of yed. Letters should be 200-250 words and must I major if a student. Letters must be personally xjm in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock ble libel or space limitations. Names will not be VIEWPOII /jij / >1 1 J / ? . 7 7 ' 7 7 7 ; '/j/j , '' ' ' . V 'Wi;' V / Iff7!' (f^ . I I pip \\:'l UyLljTTLs, We're pleased to have won was playing c Ed! Where's the legis Iast Tuesday must have been a slow news day. Why, you ask? Well, the headline on Wednesday's edition of to the computer eai The State was not about has in his or her o the great basketball victory over This is just f Arkansas, or Clinton campaign funds, legislators have but was entitled "New seats of power $900,000 bill for ft $1,000 chairs." of the house, whicl Yes, the headline above the the fold desk for Govern< was about the price of the chairs $8,000 dollar des legislators are seeking for the Peely, desks whi< statehouse, when and if renovations realty Want 1 had t are ever finished. Yes, there are really the comment fron four zeros in that number; the state pen works just as i lawmakers want to spend that amount as an expensive oi of money on new furniture. Now I am doesn't want an e: not one to say that they don't deserve that mean he will new furniture, but the spending, when My question is t broken down, seems a little ludicrous to all of the old to me: $400,000 on new mahogany statehouse? Did 11 desks and $180,000 on chairs: plus, of a lifetime? I w they want to spend another $3,000 for been there and st a laptop for each legislator, in addition sale. I can see it nov DDE Condoms symbols of a To the editor, going to do with i I have to disagree with Fred Leach going to promote 3 and his opinion about condoms and are you going t( Valentine's Day. He fails to realize homosexuals dei that a condom is more than a symbol lifestyles, I have j of sex. It is a symbol of safety. For where my money partners who are engaging in sex, a world have we as condom is an appropriate gift. It is not so for as to not onl only a gift but also a promise to one with this kind of another. It is a promise of safety and showing our fina of caring for one another. you do in the privj Fred Leach also foils to realize that is your business, a woman can buy mndnma for her malp don't feel that I ni nnrtnpr Pprhans thp wnmpn vnu saw On this campus ! were not "manning" the table, but finance your beh; rather "womanning and manning" it. Wayne Ridge v And by the way, Valentine's Day Retail Administ is not just a bit commercial holiday. It is Saint Valentine's Day. It is a day plnVon , remembering a man who served his wlOVauIll 31 lord Jesus by loving his neighbor. Sorry, r? jop nilhlir but in most instances, giving your r sexual partner a condom is a loving COIlScioUSIK and caring action. A condom is a means of safer sex and more responsible To the editor behavior. So, don't knock it! I am writing Audrey "Apple" Shippey profound disappoi Religious Studies and Psychology out of the ignorant Senior of some people lecture/reading i p , am writing in r< student Opposes Rocque's article homosexual funding La Rocque : Giovanni's poe! To the editor. freshman. She n As I picked up my copy of the closely. Had she, Gamecock last week, I couldn't help that Giovanni hi but notice that the Bisexual, Gay, and to pick with Lesbian Association received a portion Washington." Ai of my student activity fees. I can't out to La Rocquc believe on a campus this large that those "fat cats" i there are not enough people who care some are womei enough to take a stand and stop this the height of etl kind of lunacy. What exactly are you these woman ar VTS^^ * f/ S f 'yfs* I - ?? / / v i ' / 7 / ' / > /// ' ' . / ; tti/ij families first c EE PR auth Carolina ? ? here tonight against a 1 extremely well coming ii lie Fogler, Basketball Head Coach V) il n^-iTPA lil/linnc i 1 iiaiuic iiiumg 11 F1VSFIV 1 and loolc at thi3 picture of Jo Calhoun! Do you think it would f Qmm the mantle in the living room?' Fm sure there must have beer ? legislator already ^ antiques there, too. 1 : _ those were sold at auction, or the floor The lot 45 ^ de9, 1? " T/i by Gov. Beasley. Going once, irmture for the rest , . ,, , ,/ ,, 1 includes a *15 000 tW1Ce' S?ld to the Sentleman u n \ for $15,000. Thank you, sir. Ni >r Beasley and an , ,. J k for Lt. Governor can buy hun a new one. :h neither of them As 1 kePt reading, it be 0 laugh when 1 read apparent that these must r 1 Beasley "My veto ordinary chairs, as they will ine on a cheap desk $2>400 desks to g? with them ie." Ok, so if David House>311(1 lai2er ^2'80C spensive desk, does Senate. still get one? These people need to learn 1 his?what happened shop. I'm sure I could take th furniture in the Heihg Myers and buy sufficient miss the garage sale for a lot less than that, incl ould have loved to delivery, ien all of things for Then the money could go t something important, like my < r. "Robert, come here education. caring, loving attituc ny money? Are you is presumptuous, as well as se: four sinful behavior, give these "fat cats" a race and i ) help your fellow and then attribute it to Giovai il with their sinful Another thing attributed to G a right to know just is serving judgment on the fa is going. How in the character of Nicole Brown. She' a society regressed said that "anybody should die y become comfortable thinking belongs to you, La E sin, but now we are Giovanni simply wished people t ncial support. What about O.J. for a while. Nicole icy of your own home and Eon Goldburg's parents' fao however I certainly graced the television screen sii or any other student discovery of their murders. W should be forced to thought about O.J.'s parent! &vior. words: No one. Giovanni was ray Jr. to raise consciousness. rationSenior And since we are ra consciousness, let me ask y , . , question: When did pro-Blacl temptS tO anti-White? Quentin Johnson Theater/English Junior/Sen iSS Allocation process fn out of extreme and 1 ntment I am writing OIHS ? that held the hands who attended the ^"e ^^r, of Nikki Giovanni. I 1 am writing in response jsponse to Nikki La wonderful articles about n on Friday, February appeared in Friday's paper. Ifs to know that you think so hi 3peaks of reading me and my ability to operate try when she was a capacities as Dotn rresiaeni o lust have not read it and Chairperson for Senate 1 she would have know Committee. However, I woul< is always had a bone add a few points to enhan< the "fat cats in brilliant review, id, allow me to point In your article, you impli ;, yes, the majority of there is some type of corn are white males, but between AAAS' allocation and 1 and black, too. It is in the process. This claim is locentrism to ignore all accounts. As stated id black "fat cats." It NOTHING to do with the an 'maan^L^/ ??n?^i*n , ; / / / / ' -I / / / / ' .'/ . / / / / / / / / / ?V |V ) | I /} I jl 7/ 3 '7 ? =J- 'JM Zanderbilt team that _ 1 l nere. ts furniture? hn C. If not my college education, then it over how about using it to actually do something such as beach refurbishment i some on the coast or providing all-day daybe kindergarten in every school in the state. c used We could get a jump-start on the going rest of the country and be the first to a blue put a computer in every classroom. dw we Or if you don't like those ideas, come up with one of your own. It has came to be better than spending it on pieces lot be of wood which just sit there. Did I . have mention the desks on order are in the mahogany? I desks Why not oak, just as durable, not as expensive. All I can say is that these aow to must be impressive things the lem to legislature is buying, desks Do you think if I asked nicely, they uding would let me look at what my tax money bought? I promise not to touch oward anything or leave fingerprints, college All I want to do is look, honest. I won't even sit down. le in relationships xist, to money my organization received. And gender it should not cause even the slightest ini. stir because as the largest and most iovanni active student organization on campus, te and it rightfully deserves a fair amount of "never" funds available. And unlike smaller, ." That goal-specific groups, AAAS has an bcque. agenda that encompasses the entire 0 think breadth of University life. Brown Even if I had the desire to (which eshave I didnt) funnel funds in AAAS direction, nee the I could not have executed the intention, ho has My committee votes on every budget; 3? Two 13111 not allowed to cast a vote unless trying there is a tie. Since my committee reached its consensus without me, it 1 s i n g would have been impossible to commit ou one such an acti mean I find it both offensive and appalling for you to even suggest that I would somehow act in such a way that could have been deemed a conflict of interest I am a woman of honesty, integrity and ethical responsibility. I strived to ee of fulfill both duties to the best of my ability and was hurt to know some of my peers doubted me. In closing, Fd just like to say thank you to all of those who did not lose i to the faith in me throughout this ordeal, lethat Those loyal people include my so good committee, my advisor, .Tamel, Peter, ighly of my co-workers, my co-workers in AAAS, in dual my sorority, ana my rnenas. nowever, f AAAS ^ think I may have failed all of you in finance one way- 2ave the Gamecock 1 like to $33>913 for the next fiscal year. After :e your rea<hng Friday's edition, I think we'd all agree that was certainly a ed that "^location, elation Kimberly T. Baxter my roie Accounting Junior false on President, AAAS , I had Chairperson, Senate Finance lount of Committee