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Fred Leach and Erin Sh; will educate us on topics about which they care dee Page 4 ttw \LA\l\ Serving the Cam EDIT( Adam Sny Amy Shann Kurt Johnson, / Promise! kept for Change. It's \~mmmmnr, what is needed. And now is the Manv g time. With recent ,, . dents and stalls in . . the race relations Special automobile at segme USC, such words are the deal of a HiK* lowing up on a challenge pre- kept JO) sented to The to take Gamecock, as well as other student organizations, by a concerned re er, last Friday's "Race Relati Special Report" was something hope a majority of the students n Articles concerning self-segregat Greek segregation, and student ganization's concerns over the sue ran and presented the pul with possible "solutions." What was refreshing was t organizations such as Student G ernment, SALA, NAACP and Greek system were acknowledg this problem and offering ideas what to do about it. However, th all they are, right now, at leasi common idea that ran through e nxecuuuj temporal Secretary of W/gggTTState Madeleine Albright has urged The Just\ Gov James Gilmore failed of Virginia to tem- p . porarily stay the execution of a prison- ^hai CI 1 er on death row for COTluicU stabbing a woman to death. Angel Francis- The co Breard, a citizen execu of Paraguay, was found guilty of the c 1992 stabbing, and in 1996, Paraguay filed a fede civil rights lawsuit claiming t] Breard was never informed of right to contact the Paraguayan c sulate. Both the government Paraguay and the World Court h requested that the U.S. Supre Court postpone the execution i til formal appeals can be evalu ed. The U.S. Justice Departmi has admitted that Breard was: allowed to meet with a repres tative from the consulate nor \ the consulate ever contacted ab Breard's case. Despite the numerous pleas deferment of the execution from bright, Paraguay and the Wo Court, the Justice Department c tinues to maintain that the exe tion should proceed as schedul The Justice Department is m ing a mistake. The execution < wait temporarily until this sit tion is sorted out. People in the J ?ic( Serving the Carol The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The I Friday during the fall and spring semesters and live time periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those The Board of Student Publications and Communication is the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock Adam Snyder Editor in Chief Rosall Amy Shannon Viewpoints Editor Sara Ladenhelm Kurt 1 Can Pellatt News Editors Carrie Jennifer Stanley Features Editor Krlatlr Achlm Hunt Hatha Bryan Johnston Sports Editors Saan ( Susan Meyers Photo Editor jQfi Q Brian Rlah Online Editor ?fin R Chris Dixon Copy Desk Chief Connl* Student Media Julie Belter Sherry Susan Barrett Alicia Dickson Carol) Judaon Drennan Creative Services Jim Q i Ellen Persona Director of Student Media Mlche Lee Phlppa Advertising Manager cnK C i 7 aw 1 -plySamecotk >tina Community since 1908 3RIAL BOARD der, Editor in Chief on, Viewpoints Editor Assistant Viewpoints Editor $ must be next fall article was the conbMilUuJHH cept of open-mindptimistic ideas 311(13 kttte ef'^changed in fort- common ? . reason for such probrace relations iems came from the nt on Friday. mention of the lack of ?communication and misunderstandings "omises must be on ^P118- . These are obvir next semester 0usly the two things ' this head-on. we, as a university and as student organizations, are going iad- to have to work on. And the differons ent organizations had many ideas we to try and accomplish this. ?ad. Ideas such.as having meetings ion, with different organizations and ; or- having special conferences on the s is- subject were common. And great blic ideas they are. But the real test is going to come V*of nnvf oomnotor ?rV*on /^lfPnrinrr 1IC4.L lltAl OCUiCOlCI TYUCU WiC UlllCi lixg lov- organizations have the time to inithe tiate such plans. Will they or was ;ing this just empty rhetoric? Surely, i on sincerity and concern back up such at's words at the time, but time will tell t. A if the same emotions will back up ach our actions. a must be rily delayed i i| 11 tice Department messed up horribly by ice Department not notifying the to notify the Paraguayan consulate about Breard. By not accepting its Peruvian was mistake and by re?d for murder, fusing to acquiesce to Albright's requests, the image and repucriminal's tation of the departHon must be ment is going from j , , bad to worse. ielayed. Still, the Justice Department feels ral "there is no basis for concluding that bat the assistance of a consular officer his would have changed the outcome of on- the criminal proceedings." That may be true, but it doesn't justify not o f telling the consulate. No one can be ave denied the right to seek out the help me of diplomats from their own counun try if accused of a crime while in a lat- foreign country. This right is guaranteed by both the Vienna Conent vention and the Friendship, Comnnt merrp and Navicrfltinn Trpatv nf en- 1859. vas Because of this, Breard may now out be released on a technicality. It is appalling that a prisoner is being for allowed the chance to have his conAl viction reversed after being found rid guilty of murder, on- But that does not address the ineu competency in the Justice Departed. ment, which is the at the root of this ak- entire problem. The conduct of the ;an Justice Department has been unua acceptable. Mistakes like this let us- criminals walk free. 5amtrack RBi 'ina Community since 1908 University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and s during the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam of the editors or author and not those of The University of South Carolina. s is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media All numbers area code 803 The Gamecock nd Harvey Public Relations Coordinator Editor 777-3914 ohnaon Asst.Viewpoints Editor ? _ ? , ? ... Viewpoints 777-7726 McCullough Asst. News Editor i Freestate Asst. Features Editor i\iews 777-7726 n Brown Asst. Sports Editor Rayford Asst. 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Viewpoints Ed. peared in amd t The Post them. and Courier this past weekend. It was I h about a 33 -year-old Apache man, throu named Litefoot, in Alabama who de- more, cided to adopt his ancestor's ways of ways living. He lives in a forest down a peans dirt path near the tiny Chattahatch- pie as ee Creek, which is in the city of Eu- really, faula. His house is a tee-pee that soars these da reet to tne tree tops. 1 r He never wears shoes, unless he Ten Ii has to enter a restaurant. "I don't like bough shoes," he said. He rescues wounded of an c animals, rehabilitates them, and ing a ] Philosophe I Steven YATES I M Guest Columnist PTl* I I to the Are we being inundated by "pre- wh?S( posterism?" Susan Haack of the ^eir ( University of Miami thinks so. by im The author of a recent book, she has ^an ; become one of today's best philoso- . ^ phers. a*ms Professor Haack published an ar- quest tide "Science, Scientism and Anti- truth, srience in the Age of Preposterism," in belief last November's The Skeptical Inquirer, mcreJ one of the few magazines devoted to fields an uncompromising defense of objec- truth tive, rational thought against super- less> stition, pseudosdence and intellectu- promt al barbarism. In her view, the problem the a( is not just all the nonsense floating postei J l x 1. rnnf f? arouna, dui sometmng mucn worse: 1 ? "a rising tide of irrationalism, a theve widespread and increasingly articu- itself, late loss of confidence in the very pos- T1 sibility of honest inquiry, scientific or proble otherwise.. .We are in danger of losing becon our grip in the concepts of truth, evi- "A cul dence, objectivity, disinterested in- jects 1 quiry." becon One form of preposterism has tak- is, the en over the humanities, portions of the thetr social sciences, and influenced practi- porta] cally everything else. It says we nev- fudge er "really seek, much less find, truth, suits of the Greek urges reader ^ to reconsider music are sc To the editor: w^? ? Recently, I read a letter written by 0 self-proclaimed Dead Head Jack Straw. m The only thing wrong with the letter Just a was Straw had no idea what he was w^h t talking about. Loose I'm in a fraternity, Sigma Alpha and, i Epsilon, and I know npre of The Grate- starte fill Dead's music tham Skeletons From patch This year, we wen Columbia, and we wei to do a lot more schmc | Jim Sonefeld, USC Ah Wednesday, April T )INTS ( I. exacsei TOPRJNATB O SOCIAL SEC Aa I "\ .? UMKJL 1 VSs. tan sho hem free. However, he keeps a r, Tacoma, as a pet. Many of the lis he has raised come back to nd eat from his hand. ; survives financially by making 1 crafts, such as dream catchers, y the night and being a fishing : on Lake Eufaula. He visits Is and gives lectures about the rs of drugs and alcohol. He has up the "luxuries" of running wad electricity. v 's not because I copped out or be- v I'm a bum. It's because this is a is in my soul," he said. v hat a great man. I read this ar- I a awe. I was awed over the fact p lese great people are now a strug- b minority. This was their land s. heir home. And we took it from iave a little Indian blood running tl gh me, but I often wish I had k The American Indians have al- h fascinated me. When the Euro- r came over, they saw these peo"uncivilized" and "savage." But, I , it was the Europeans who were g things. tl iave a poster in my room, "The n adian Commandments," that I I :t last semester. It has a picture h >ld Indian man sitting and smok- n pipe. When I read this poster, I s< J 3r critici 1 we do is advance personal or -derived interests. TTais has led ( growth of schools of thought 3 "scholarship" merely pushes awn agendas, impugning critics coking ulterior motives rather advancing reasoned responses, genuine inquirer," writes Haack, i to find out the truth of some ion, whatever the color of that " Pseudo-inquirers either defend 3 held despite evidence or, as is ^ isingly common among those in e such as hers, advance claims the i of which they couldn't care ? so long as they get tenure of ^ ation. Professor Haack blames ;ademic reward system for pre- . rism. Support for politically cor- 11 ashion ability is now built into n iy lining piuirass, it icuuuitca n ie sciences have an equivalent s ;m. "Research in the sciences has e ie very expensive," she writes, ture of grants-and-research-pro- a lias grown up; and science has s ie, inter alai, big business." There t is, always the temptation to bend f uth about the success of real im- r ice of one's grant or project or to n the data in order to ensure re- if that conform to the ideologies c ise putting up the money. This t m 11 " a <m elude the author's M held for any circun loset" and "American Beauty." c so be the first to admit there a >me people in the Greek System t ire severely unhip and terribly f-touch with the world around h . On the other hand, there are d s many kids who arm themselves i heir parent's Visa and set off for ; Lucy's or Natural Vibrations 1 br $150, purchase their Hippie i ir kit, complete with patchouli, a iwork attire and the pre-fabri- b > MVOPTtoM df INVESTKW ,JwSBL JLIR.1TV PR?M1UK\... gj&PHH college press EXC iws us the w "And every time I think about this, I can't believe what happened to these great people. I believe their way was the right way." ras amazed. Each commandment that We were supposed to be ras written on the poster was a virtue ture. nd moral of mine to which I had de- But the Europeans t oted my life while still in high school. their guns religion aj never saw anything that had exem- the rfect oflife F Med my thoughts and beliefs any ^ ^ , etter than this poster. I couldnt have , _ _ Al . . . aid it any better. **** fiShtm? for their n& Here are a few, just to let you know: Ttay tried over and ovei "Treat the Earth and all that dwell white man and make pea hereon with respect," "Do what you but we found out what th now to be right," "Be truthful and stood for. The Indians foi onest at all times" and "Take full people, land, and simple i esponsibility for your actions." The white man fought foi And every time I think about this, were s0 g^y they eve can't believe what happened to these fW _i. f . reat people. I believe their way was A , x ., e. ? /, / TU ,, ,, And now Litefoot is g le right way. I believe they were the .. , , ,. ., lost civilized and moral people ever. ^ ""J"4?a believe we were meant to live off the ?eoP^e are surPnse(J ind, live off the animals. We were live," he said. I dontundi leant to have such pride and honor I'm surprised to see how tl o not to disgrace our name or tribe, and me both, Litefoot You zes preposterh "The underlying problem: Higher educ: has become more and more dominate* factions of political and business inter< none of them interested in learning lays right into the hands of the sci- versities. The corruptioi ntific-objectivity-is-a-myth school, versities, whether by p The underlying problem: Higher rectness or the bottom-lii ducation has become more and more is therefore the corruptic ominated by competing factions of po- So what's the soluti itical and business interests, none of really sure. Ultimately,1 hem interested in learning as an end our educations and rese< ? th.???,,H . . ll itBCll. 1 lie ieouii/ ? cue puiiuvcuxj whafc wg put int() tnem , activated irrationalism, the hack- ^ ^ d ds on tensm, the puffery Some of the for- do we questions ? ier is virulently antiscientinc. Haack ,. ., ir i a. ur a. -a.- r mg ever an end in itself, ingles out feminist cntiques of sci- ? ? , nee" as examples. J** own J** ?rjust *1 Other forms of preposterism try to ^ei? g^n' , s ev.e[7^ pe science without really under- htical, the political] tanding it. Still, others have led to Must ^ be? Doc he myriad documented instances of our quality of life to reflec raud and faked research results. To teries of life and the un emain true to its own nature, it can- should we be content, li iot bow to any political authority. Nor pursue the steady strei 3 it suited to a business ethos, even tainment the mass-cons' onceding that someone has to pick up ture all around us is mo he check. Most inquiry is done at uni- ing to provide?" It's up t< :k will try to print allletters received, letters should be 250-300 words and must include fulTname. professional l ritten letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333 telephone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letter tor style, possible libel or space limitations. istance ated hemp necklace. These people are laborated with everyon is confused and as far off target as grass pickers to Cuban i heir Greek counterparts. Jazz trumpeters. Secondl You, like many people, have bought ful Dead were pioneers.1 a to the band's commercialization and mimicry. They stepped ov listanced yourself from the source of prints of those who went inderstanding, the music. So, Jack, with this i It is important to understand might want to mix a litt Tie Gratefiil Dead tried to accept and in with your philosophy, inderstand a wide variety of people surface and think for yoi ind their styles. Look at the band mem>ers' outside projects where they col- Ei * in re able )OZing." umnus 15, 1998 taw, w a of the uniolitical corle mentality, >n of inquiry, ion? I'm not we get out of irch projects What we put values. How he: "Is learnworth doing f a mo_ necuia tu 11XO.ng really poy correct inis it improve t on the mysiverse?" "Or ke sheep, to am of enterumption culre than will) us. itle or year and major if . E mail letters must in Names Mill not be uritbe from BlueGuitarists to y, The GrateThey refused itside the foot before them, n mind, you le originality look past the urself. Seth Riddle lglish, senior HANGE ay one with nan-ought over ad corrupted rom 1492 to Indians have at to survive, to fight the xe with him, e white man ight for their ight to exist. greed. They n took away ;oing back to is suppose to to see how I 2rstand that. iey live." You and me both. sin ition dby