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matter vulgar, sexist
To the Editor
This letter is in response to the
absolutely disgusting and sexist remarks
Shawn Singleton regularly includes
in his columns. I am amazed that
the gutter language he uses in his writings
makes its way into the school newspaper,
and I am calling for his resignation
immediately.
In his last two articles he has used
the term "vermin" to describe women
six different times.
Vermin are defined as "objectionable
animals such as cockroaches or
lice" and can also be defined as "an
obnoxious person," but I think Mr. Singleton
prefers the former.
He even refers to his mother as "vermin."
Maybe he was left on a doorstep
when he was born or not held enough.
Who cares?
This attitude is inexcusable and very
unprofessional. He also seems a bit jealous
of the fact that women can pick and
choose who they go home with. For obvious
reasons, it appears they don't go
home with him.
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them "all they want is dollar bills" or
they get into bars "by wearing short
tight skirts."
Yet he still wants to put his picture
with the NITRO girls in the paper?
What about the "poor slobs they have
no intention of sleeping with?" Get over
it.
Lastly, for some reason he still hasn't
recovered over the fact that Brett Favre
is arrogant. Maybe he is arrogant because
he has won Super Bowls and has
been the MVP. What is the reason Mr.
Singleton is arrogant and sexist towards
women?
Paul D. Roof
Graduate Student
Football team gets
unnecessary perks
To the editor,
Ahh, Gamecock football. Don't you
love it! Actually, no, how can you stand
it? As a USC athlete, student and peer
of football players my disgust with
the program grows with each passing
day.
They are the most well treated team
and the prize of the athletic depart
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proud of. What are they using their 80+
full scholarships on? Water boys?
Now my complaint is two fold; How
can a team, as poor as ours walk around
the place as if they own it and why
should other sports teams suffer because
of them?
Now as an athlete, there is the Academic
Enrichment Center to make sure
that USC athletes are maintaining the
student part of student-athletes. Now
this place in generally quiet and quietness
is enforced there until the football
players arrive.
Then your studying is ruined by the
constant "what up dog" and "yo, G,
what you doing" and "chillin" that is
put up with from only the rulers of
the school, the football players.
Now this is another classic football
story. While I was lifting, I actually saw
Brad Scott pull a football player aside
to talk to him about his grades.
Well, that is what it looked like anyway.
It turned out that these football
: players athletic academic adviser happened
to be there and that the adviser
got yelled at by Mr. Scott about his football
player not making good grades.
These athlete are not held accountable
for anything! Not for their
actions on the field or in the classroom.
It is always someone else's responsibility
to do things for them. I just don't
understand this.
Our athletic department says that
the ratio male athletes andfemale athletes
must equal the male to female ratio
of the University. So there are 53
percemt women and 47 percent men on
this campus.
The athletic department is striving
to have the total athlete ratio to represent
this as well. The problem comes
in with the football team.
There is not a sport for women that
can balance out football. To compensate
for this lack of balance other men's
teams get cut.
My team has to sacrifice depth and
legitimate talent for a bunch of gorillas
bringing up the rear in the SEC.
This is perfectly understandable, foot
Dan is a revenue sport.
And how about those guys that my
team sacrificed for this week?
Why are we babying such a bunch
of losers? Why do we walk around pretending
that our football players are
good with they are pitiful. Why do we
give them all this special treatment?
I would like to leave you with a quote
straight from one of Carolina's greatest,
found in Monday's issue of The
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In fact, one herbal remedy that was
listed, Ma Huang (Ephedra), is a stimulant
that contains ephedrine and psueioephedrine
and closely resembles amphetamines.
This is a potentially dangerous substance
for which the FDA has proposed
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