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Adam Snyder, Editor in Chief
Amy Shannon, Viewpoints Editor
Kurt Johnson, Assistant Viewpoints Editor
AAAS budget cut
too much too soon
Wednesdaythe i i i iijiHowever, this
Student Senate ap- HHAAMilUUHHI year's 43 percent cut
proved the Senate AAAS received a 43 of the AAAS budget
Finance Commit- percent budget cut. is a drastic and severe
tee budget propos- measure. AAAS will
al. The controver- be losing nearly half
sial budget will ofits usual allocation,
implement major HKUUlkiiHHi It is unfair to expect
funding cuts for Such a drastic them to be able to
some student orga- CUf should have deal with such a huge
nizations. , . . , cutback when they
The most dras- heen implemented ^ accustomed to so
tic monetary cut more gradually. much more,
was received by the The Senate FiAssociation
of nance Committee is
African American Students. Last trying to do the right thing. They
year they were granted $14,150, but have attempted to spread the wealth
this year they will be allotted only among all the organizations instead
$8000. ofjustafew.
Although AAAS has been giv- According to Finance Commiten
a disproportionate share of the tee member Steve Veldman, the top
student funds in the past, this year's five organizations were granted 42
budget cut of $6000 is too much too percent of the budget last year. This
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iasi. year rnese organizations win receive
For years the Student Senate 28 percent,
has allowed AAAS an excessive Still, a better solution would have
share of the overall budget for uni- been to cut the AAAS budget gradversity
organizations. Last year they ually over a period of a few years
received over $9000 more than the until an acceptable allocation was
second-highest funded student reached. This way the Senate's regroup.
This is simply too great a dif- forms would be perceived as less peference
to be condoned and over- nalizing and more commendable,
looked.
Winfrey case a
win from the start
Chalk up an- In addition,
other victory for celebrities use their
freedom of speech. nrue casf> against status all the time to
Oprah Winfrey, who ^ u wr f u endorse products,
wL being surf for Wmfr^ rea"y such as shoes or d*
possible defamation ^Cld WO merit. odorants, but then
of the U.S. beef in- when one uses that
dustry by Armaril- status against somelo,
Tex. cattlemen, 7^ jury made the right thing, the certain inwon
her case last i r ? dustry gets angry
Thursday refuting choice in favor of ancj takes that perthat
idea. Winfrey and protecting SOn to court. IndusDuring
a 1996 . freedom of Speech. tries cannot have it
show about Mad one way. People have
Cow Disease, Win- their opinions and
frey made what the cattlemen the positive and the negative should
thought to be a slanderous state- be handled and heard equally,
ment against the industry. They And finally, the cattlemen
said beef prices fell within days of claimed that Winfrey's celebrity stai.i
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uie prugrtuu miu uie iieius vaiue ius swa^eu tut; views ui tne jui_y.
dropped by more than $10 million. Winfrey, of course, has her talk
The cattlemen filed claims un- show, which is a form of media. This
der the "veggie-libel" law, which pro is a free forum for her to talk about
tects foods from statements of de- and say what she wants. In other
mation. words, she is allowed to give her
This case was a sure thing for opinion, as is any other form of meWinfrey
from the start. First of dia.
all, it's kind of hard to hurt the rep- Media does not tell their audiutation
of a piece of meat or veg- ence what to think. The media ofetable.
Really, this "veggie-libel" is fers views and highlights certain asa
bunch of bull (pun intended). It is pects of certain events. So in turn,
simply asinine to shield food from the media tells their audience what
name calling. to think about. Then, given the inPeople
have the right to voice formation and such, individuals are
their doubts. It is called "fair com- allowed to propose an opinion for
ment and criticism," which, in a nut- themselves,
shell, is someone's opinion and this The juiy made the right decision
opinion is protected from libelous based on the facts at hand and once
or slanderous cases. again helped preserve one of our
last true rights.
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what parts
of the Bible are true and to be taken 1
literally and which you can throw out? w
When one understands the context in w
which it was written, then one begins
to see that it was meant to be taken
literally. C(
"It would be absurd for me to open r(
up a calculus book to the middle and st
try to understand what all was going c(
on without having understanding of sc
each part of the equations that it oi
was dealing with. Likewise, teachings
and stories in the Bible are meant to w
be understood in the context in which h
they were written." tl
Now, I think I have some idea of B
the contexts in which the Bible was fa
written, but I, like many others, come 0]
to different conclusions about how the V(
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necessity for a literal interpretation.
That's why, last week, I asked liter- je
alists to write in and explain their po- ]3(
Winter Olympics ^
should be valued, su
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taken seriously CU;
To the editor: ari
After reading the article in the Feb.
25 Gamecock entitled "Winter Olympics *or
a Waste of Time," I thought it necessary
to enlighten your "so-called" colum- eVl
nist Mr. Singleton on a few topics. It eJ'
was easy to determine that he spends
most of his free time watching men
"pretending" to wrestle and drinking
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Affirmative action "
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To the editor: mi
Racism- a reasonable definition is w*
any attitude, biased opinion or stereo- ^
type of a certain race. Certainly racism 0 P
is wrong and should be fought. How- th
ever, fighting for one group's rights at
the expense of another group's rights m<
is discrimination, an aspect of racism. P^
Therefore, it is fair to say that im- ^
posing affirmative action on employers
and school administrators is also m)
racist.
Affirmative action, a plan that die- lei
tates who business owners can hire, f?]
who schools can accept and to whom Pe
a promotion goes, not based on quali- n0
fications, but rather minority status, th
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tion to the rest of us. I found their
;sponses to be intriguing, and more
lan a little overwhelming. There are
) many different ideas on this subct,
and so many people wrote in, that
will take me more than one colmn
to let them have their say. For
lis column, I am concentrating on the
;rictest of the literalists.
I wrote back to Moody and Bazeiore,
and asked, "Don't you have to
Imit that there is some possibility of
uman error?" I thought that maybe
jme of the inconsistencies (for in;ance,
the fact that Matthew's gospel
as a Sermon on the Mount, while
uke's has the same teachings in othr
contexts), might warrant a positive
oswer to my question. Such was not
le case.
"The scribes who copied the Old
estament were very precise. They
ould copy each page not word for
ord, but letter by letter. At the end
? the page they would count all the
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liters. 11 mere were two ainerent
)unts, instead of trying to find the er>r
they would throw out the copy and
;art again. There are also too many
ipies of the New Testament manu:ripts.
Way more than the majority
f these manuscripts are the same.
"All that aside. Yes, there is alays
more than the possibility that
umans will make errors. But with
le Bible, it is a living word from God.
elief in its infallibility is based on
ith, but supported by logic. With an
Den mind and heart, God will rejal
the ultimate truth to any analys
into any paradox."
I admit that the faith argument
aves me aeienseiess. l ne concept or
ilieving something on faith is one
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held for any cir
the Uquor store. I don't know how
r. Singleton could be so critical of a
bject that he obviously doesn't have
due about. If you are going to disss
a topic, at least know what you
b talking about.
Whether an athlete is competing
gold in the 100-meter sprint or the
nan bobsled doesn't matter. Both
ents are of equal importance in the
es of the Olympic movement.
In my home of Greenock, Scotland,
ave a friend by the name of Graham
>ree. Graham is an Olympic cyclist
at builds his own bicycles to comjust
as unfair as not hiring and proDting
based on a racist attitude. The
imecock cited that Bobby Gist, exutive
assistant of USC's Equal Oprtunities
Program, claims "affirative
action does not work to replace
lite workers with blacks and women,
only says that if a workplace has an
ening, it should consider hiring
em.
I agree with Mr. Gist on this statesnt,
only if he means that the workice
should look at everybody, Africannericans,
women, Caucasian men,
[ equally. Anything else is discrimatory
and racist.
We are about to enter a new milinium,
and put behind us, yet not
rget, the discrimination that hapned
during America's history. But,
w, in the nineties, minorities have
e same opportunities as I. During
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with which I grapple, becai
ply don't understand it.
Sometimes I think that
victim of an age that, to its o
ment, values only one kind o
making process. I can't bel
thing unless it is logical, ar
ism defies logic. I sympathiz
remy Touzel, a sop
Mathematical Science major
a problem with"... the fact
Bible's only support comes
Bible itself. That's like me s?
I am God, and validating it
that because I'm God, only I
that I'm God (I hope that mac
To some extent, I feel 1
missing out on something,
alists, the great questions ai
answered. I'm sure this gi
a sense of peace that I will ne
Maybe that is more import
the logic of it all. Maybe s<
doesn't have to be true to b<
route. I guess I wouldn't ha1
ry about these questions if I
ir
eraiisi myseii.
Perhaps the conflict bet
eralists and those of us whc
demned to a materialist m
most intense in the creatioi
lution debate. Trent Smitl
student in Biology, says th
are just as many leaps of fa
ecock will try to print all letters received. Letters sho
d written letters must be personally delivered by the
or's telephone number. The Gamecock reserves the n
icumstance.
pete with. Graham has v
Olympic gold and four World
onship medals in the 1000-r
dividual pursuit. I'm sure
gleton has never even hear
event, but that doesn't make i
of time. Mr. Singleton, can y
ine the hard work and dedica
an Olympic athlete must en<
tr? m air a it tr? tVio cTamoa 1
l/VS 1UUUV IV VU VIIV gUlllV/Oj 1
win a medal? I bet you can't.
In regards to your comme
the lack of participation of
American athletes, I must
you. Do the names Hershel
my pre-college education, we
same tests together, read 1
same books and were taugl
same instructors.
Why then are achieven
qualifications such as GPA,
scores being thought of as a
discrimination? The argume:
frequently hear is that these
made by white males and t
are biased to the minorit
take them.
Where does affirmative ac
If students of unequal status ?
ed jobs and scholarships be
race, not merit, then why nol
norities different tests in the c
or different assignments?
If a minority student wis
equality, then let true equal:
Does affirmative action supj
rior work? Hopefully not. Cor
"If I had to play with 0
one eye, I would still
go back out there."
Melvin Watson, USC basketball
Monday, March 2,1998
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deas of the context in which
is written, but I, like many
0 different conclusions about 0
Bible should be read."
ise I sim- lieving evolution as there are with accepting
creationism," because a major
1 am the jaw 0f therodynamics has to be brown
detri- ^en an(j "the dating system used to
ievTany1 ^ve a^e eartb at billions of ^
id literal- years ?ld or whatever is flawed at its ^
e with Je- basic assumptions."
h o m o r e "The question is which story is a
, who has person to accept, God's version as told
; that the to the ancients, or the more recent verfrom
the sjon a(j0pted by humans recently. Ac.a
tually the Bible makes more sense.
DV SSVLQff
can prove Look at the genetic code...that's dele
sense)." sig11' I study the molecules that make
like I am us work. They are too big and too com- a
For liter- plicated to have arisen by chance, even ^
e already if it supposedly took a long time."
ves them j can't argue evolution's case, but
ant than ^en * d?n't really want to. The imDmething
Portant thing is that Smith accepts no
a KpqI explanation other than the prepos
ve to wor- terous sounding creation story in Genwas
a lit- esis. That's literalism for you. And
that's faith.
ween lit- Something else that Smith says,
?are con- though, intrigues me. He says the 0
^gS evo^ "Proves to ^ guidebook for
ti a grad the best way to live at peace with God
at "there and with other people." That, I will
ith in be- not argue.
uld be 250-300 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if
author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. E-mail letters must inight
to edit all letter for style, possible libel or space limitations Names will not be withvon
two and Edwin Moses ring a bell? Both
champi- are Winter Olympic veterans. Or what
neter in- about the Jamaican bobsled team, or A
Mr. Sin- even the Kenyan cross country ski ~
d of this team? Don't be ignorant of a topic, Mr.
t a waste Singleton, if you are going to print your
ou imag- opinions for the world to read,
tion that We should all as spectators of athiure
just letic competition stand up and cheer
et alone for our nation's athletes as well as our
university's athletes, not because they
int about are winning, but because they are cornAfrican
peting.
laugh at Allan Tucker
I Walker Senior, Exercise Science ^
i took the among industry and individuals has
From the long been a motivating force in proit
by the during excellence.
Most black, Hispanic, or other milent
and nority students that I know would
and SAT agree that they want to be judged on
means of a fair playing field, not with different
nt I most rules from their counterparts. After
tests are all, in sports, don't all players have to
herefore measure up to the same standard?
ies that Mr. White Man on the basketball
court must play by the same rules...no
tion end? one will offer him affirmative action
ire grant- so that he can bend the rules in his faicause
of vor. Life is full of inequities for all of
; give mi- us. The standards should be set and
ilassroom the players should all follow those standards.
"May the best man win!"
3hes true
ity reign.
jort infe- James Edwards
npetition Sophomore, Pharmacy ^