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TOie (5; Serving US> ^ Editor! Adam Snyder, Into Nikki LaRocque, Stenhanie Snnnenfeld. Ai Graduates can live it Cliff Apart- nHHrrrnr? ment residents believe the Ani- * mal House movie LLlff Ap< ^ view of Greeks. VS. Greek Director of Housing Gene Luna I was at the mercy of the angry Cliff otereoi residents Thurs- Greeks ai day night as they j expressed their aim U1 displeasure over the future location of the Greek Vil lage. *As demonstrated with sweeping generalizations concerning noise, crime and drinking, the residents are stuck in the past and have a Hollywood perception of Greeks. But the Cliff residents are being unfair to Greeks. Greeks are no longer completely unruly and inconsiderate of the world around them. They are vital, active members of the Carolina cornel munity. Pol Pot h; over gene A Pol Pot, 7TTT w leader of Cambo- HUiijL dia's Khmer Rouge pip regime in the rOL rC 1970s, claims he's COTISC not a savage per- ^ son. But histori- Fnrmpy ans and statistics . ^ may dispute this. dlCLJl L6CLC They cite Pol Pot acknowl # as head of a 1 j regime responsible for killing 2 million Cambodians. That's a lot of people, especially for a country the size of Cambodia. It is, in the purest sense, a genocide. Pol Pot came to power in 1975 and had visions of turning Cambodia into a labor camp. Re* searchers estimate between 1.7 million and 2 million died from executions and exhaustion during this time. These days, Pol Pot is confined to a hut with his wife and child, according to an Associated Press story. For about 20 years, Pol Pot refused to talk to the press. These days, he's talking and not really apologizing. He claims, in an interview ? published in Far Eastern Economic Review, that a lot of peo B3S Student Media Russell House Adam Snyder Susan M Interim Editor in Chief Photo Eo Nikki LaRocque Donnie I Viewpointt Editor Graphics 1 Rosalind Harvey Stephanie Sc A News Editor hut Viewpain Sara Ladenheim Kristin Ricl News Editor, Design Cara Pe ? . . Asst. News Marcus Amaker Amy Shannon Tori 0*i Features Editors Asst. Photo Ac him Hunt Brian F Bryan Johnston On-line ? Sports Editors Julle B, Ben PiDow Chris C Copy Desk Chief Casey D? 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Letters must be bel or space limitatio personally delivered by the author to not be withheld for an imtcock C Since 1908 u ttoara erim Editor in Chief Viewpoints Editor jsistant Viewpoints Editor ION , Greeks 1 peace ===jjT| For example Greek organiza tions are raising artments money for MD^ Village with a jail-bai auction today 01 Greene Street Yes, with th< types of freedom and re 'e harsfl moteness from th< ifair. central campus these social orga nizations wil probably hav< more to drink am party louder. Community spirit will b< needed to overcome the conflict! the two sides have. First, Clif residents will have to accep the Greeks as neighbors anc friends. Then, Greeks will hav< to be mindful of the special need! a family has living on campus and make some compromises ii their living plans. Remember, respect goes botl ways. as no ills >cide rxrrrmm Ple died but no Uiijklfli as many as his , j torians think ]t S Clear ?Qur movemen ierice made mistakes, he said defending his ordering of ex n , ecutions and tor ' Cambo- tures during his ier must reign. edge his Still no apolo eeds. ^ Mao ni fa f n l ?-? ^ U pi 1/ V 111V overwhelming facts and the ob vious numbers, Pol Pot still can not offer an apology to the countrymen he sought to destroy What sort of mind-set does this man have? A skewed one. Then is no way he can undo his crimes But he could offer an apolo gy. He says his conscience is cleai in regards to the genocide. That's great, but what about the fami lies who lost sons, husbands wives, daughters and countless other relatives in the Khmei Rouge's march toward domina tion? Certainly an apology won'1 clean Pol Pot's slate, but it woulc establish the fact that he is awars of the horrible, disgusting crime he helped orchestrate. 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Office (803) 777-388 VIEWF . ^ i 11 4 LL^ r : ^ 9 ^ * i 1 E2SS3SHSSST \ "I've learned a 1 5 Senior volley 3 F i l5aiBSUlii35ylQ j Family h( 1 To the editor, We, the Resident Council of niifF inarfmonta u/nnM lilra +<-i Vivinrr WAAAA blUVllUUj "UU1U X10.V bV Ml ilig an important housing issue to the atI tention of the larger USC community. Cliff Apartments is located on the south side of campus (west of Bates) and are designated as graduate and family housing. Many of you were probably unaware that this University offers accommodations to students with j. families, but, for those of us who need it, Cliff Apartments is a wonderful opportunity to remain close to campus ^ resources and still keep our costs down. ? We have a sense of community here. r It's a quiet and safe environment. This is all going to change in the next few months. 3 The Board of Trustees has decided to create a hew Greek Village. These new buildings are certainly needed, as can be seen from the condition of some of the current Greek housing. However, the plans for this project indicate that two buildings will be located directly in front of Cliff Apartments, sitting on two-thirds of our current parking lot. We do not object to Greeks or to their being on campus. We understand that they have their place in college life. We just don't think that place is within a few feet of family housing. We think Greeks would 5 agree. The placement of these units , brings up safety issues, both during 5 and after construction. Our children * will have to walk through this site just to get to the bus stop on the other side of the street. And once construction is t finished, they will have to walk through j Greek housing units. i We know that parties and drink\ ing are part of the Greek social system. You can see the broken bottles t and other evidence of it around current Greek residences. We are concerned about alcohol, driving accidents, I noise and other problems that might arise from having Greeks living so close to families. Greeks may be pleased with the new accommodations, but do thev want to endure constant calls from upset Cliff residents when their parties get fP 0 "Which 3 / Diversity ' Week A event did ?. you ? attend?" 3 5 4 2 PINTS K , V TORt&gETEVER ,<r ^nnTV>OTi^ K \ ot about life down here and about living oi rball player Ashley Edlund, on her yt >using protests too loud? Are the University and/or white trash and i Greek organizations prepared to face live in "dilapidat< possible legal consequences when a felt the flag was drunk driver hits one of our children had no relevance or when something equally tragic hap- "War between thi pens? We doubt it. ugly because of it Another issue is a common one As for the f here at USC: parking. Once the con- racism, I cannot struction area is blocked off, we will uses it as a banm have 36 parking spaces for 190 resi- er, thaf s not whs dents. a flag ot a separa This is a ludicrous situation. We a war to ^ts ?PPr have been told that we should be able realized that whe to park just to our east, in the Bates slavery was not West lot, but this seems unlikely. Unfair taxes The Bates buildings will be con- goods' prices thai fronting their own Greek construction trialized North h problems (four buildings will be going formation of th up in their parking lot) when they lose ?f America. Even half of the spaces from their already heralded "Gett full i0t most Northernei The, contraction plane just don't ^^uteTrs" seem to benefit anyone. The speed at . , , , 1 i 11 want to end slave which this project is being pushed through by the Board of Trustees ^ w has resulted in plain and simple bad armies that were planning. Northern, which ] ?r , . , , , ,, . that the slaves we We are astonished and angry that ftetrendw,wifll such an extensive construction projed ^ onsl h, of t has been planned for our front yard without our input, and we are looking Imagine if th to the rest of the USC community for American support Would Mr. Johns , j . , , need to note the re We are students who are strug- ? ? c? , , ? lean nag: bucnis gling to raise families, work and con- f . ?. ... j . federate flag in t tinue getting an education that we . know is so valuable. Ifs a difficult thing to do, and Cliff Apartments made it He uses 1 a little bit easier. There has to be a as exa more appropriate site for this new inality and ugly de Greek Village. The Resident Council descent, he should . . . .. . ... . . ... ?TT_J T_.l. > is doing all that it can to bring this is- W1C uihuuukca., sue out into the open and have this de- a^s0 comes f cision reevaluated. That they share 1 The Cliff Residential Council S heritage and has "New" flag spin unoriginality. To the editor, So I say to yc Mr. Johnson's column Wednes- nex* t"ne/ou),<^ec^1 day, "Yankee offers to use flag as butt fe 1 j' . :g0 wipe," is an example of the ravings and rainec* opinion ramblings of someone who has put no co ,ence- ,In s}10 thought into what he has put in print. sPeak: ?r4 alse,li v Mr. Johnson had three "points" to back P>e w> think is up his feelings that those who respect nec oser' the Confederate flag were "inbred, Andre Rembert Won*. / didn't know It was 7 Diversity Wo ok' Carrie Stewart Ashle English Senior Englh fflHHiiiHiiHmiiffl? c ti my own and being ind jars at USC and on 1 ?Greek1 redneck losers" who Freshm id trailer parks." He Classic* a sign of racism, it 132 years after the i States," and it was Bull S s unoriginality. To the e< lag being a sign of I jvu deny that the KKK article or er of hatred, howev- lems, an it it stood for. It was hanging ite country that lost The essors. It should be jn about n the states seceded, ouj. ^ aj the primary issue. ^200 per i and manufactured ^ ^ t favored the indus- versity v lad more to do with fixing tli le Confederate States 0f comp alter his now much- than twic ysburg Address," state jobi s didn't care about fees and ley were more racist ^he and sure as fire didn't piement, sry. even th< as the Confederate pressive integrated, not the electroni juts into perspective cution. ?re willing to fight in wh i their masters to stop duck blin he "damn Yankees. get toge e United States had hunters 1 Revolutionary War. them the on feel there was no The ilevance of the Amer- cannot b the state of the Conson who oday's Southern so- at the ga Thr colors and crossbars shacks ai inples of its unorig- 24 hours sign. Being of British js ses I realize it resembles would sti ' and the American g rom the same f ag. studystu the same colors is a underth e United States and vouse? c? tates to their British . J :il uuimiig iu uu wiiii xiue in the veu >u Mr. Johnson, the bavfto n de to throw your two the land c off and give a lame;hat has no specific havetob rt, think before you Dorene ] nil be you who peo- Bibliogr an ignorant "red- Thomas ' J|< % i /onm." This< y Wilson A xh Junior A\ mmm 4 u ependent." the team tillage en j Major >t. garage utter bull litor, jt finished reading the Oct. 22 1 the Bull Street Garage probid I think my mouth is still open. gate has been broken 38 times three months. That averages )out 13 times per month. At throw, that's $2,600 per month. bis rate, within a year, the Univill have spent $31,200 just le gates, which, for the sake arison, is just a little less e my salary. So much for cushy 3. This doesn't include the lost the tailgating issue. solutions that have been imed don't seem to be working, jugh they seem pretty im: undercover cops, increased c surveillance, actual proseit will they think of next ? d? Thaf s it. I've got it. We can ther a consortium of local ;o stake out the gates and tell ire's no bag limit. solution is so obvious that I elieve that I'm the only perhas thought of it. Put people tes. ow up a couple of little of lid stick some bodies in them per day, everyday that school sion. At minimum wage, it ill be cheaper. ay it could be done by workidents, but that probably falls e "fox guarding the chicken itegory. ! would certainly put a crimp odals' tails, but, then again, I anind myself that this is USC, )f overlooking the obvious and hings more difficult than they e. Boltz aphic Researcher Cooper Library 1 bond on Oromno St. nthony Smaltino mdfa Arts frmshmmn