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Fred Leach and Erin Sh;
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about which they care dee
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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
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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
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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.
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The American Indians. Their sto- sets tl
rv is the most beautiful and hor- couga
rendous in the world. Though anim?
the African slave trade and the Jew- him a
ish Holocaust rank up there, this lit- H?
eral obliteration of an entire race, I be- Indiai
lieve, ranks durinj
p as nQ ^ guide
Though school
I've felt dange
flp m such feel- given
: ings for teran
|i? J t> fj quite some "It
' * time, a re- cause
gfe cent arti- what:
J*^-, ifcle has led W1
krl' wbh me t? write ticleii
?JHH this col- thattl
kurt JOHNSON umn. It ap- gling
Asst. 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
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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
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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
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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
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