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One hemi- H
sphere to the east, flHHUiii
our Atlantic neigh- The introd\
bors are preparing common j
to institute, for 11 cum
European countries,
a universal
currency to be _ ,
called the euro. Despite the j
Different mar- represents
kets throughout progret
the'continent are 50 yea
preparing the peo
pie for the change
by already posting prices in euro
marks.
No one can pay in euros yet,
and their exact weight the present
currency will not be exactly
known until the ball drops on New
Year's Eve.
Also, no one will be able to buy
euros at the bank until 2002, when
coins and bank notes will begin
circulating.
Yet, stocks and bonds will trade
and be set in euro, and workers
at multinational companies will
receive denominated checks in euros.
Economically, this might be
burdensome and could cause some
economic problems for some of the
11 countries that might not be totally
prepared for the change, but
symbolically, this is quite an eyeopener.
Lottery no
toeducatic
' The candidates
for the governor's
seat have done a Thelotteij
great job neglecting improving
issues during this
campaign. The lot- mrWf
tery and video pok- IHaiiiybi
er have unfortu- Moremone
nately moved to the problems
forefront of cam- \mtsoi
paign rhetoric, taking
the place of issues
which are much more
important.
Some of the many things
that have been overlooked are issues
relating to minorities and
groups lower in socioeconomic
scale.
When they came to campus
Tuesday, representatives of both
Beasley and Hodges focused on
a lot of the tired old ideas we've
been hearing all fall.
Just like most political issues,
the lottery and its effect on education
isn't cut and diy. This is especially
true in relation to the
state's rural black population.
Rural schools in South Carolina
are some of the worst in the
state. Schools in these low-income
areas don't receive the kind of atHie6ai
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currency
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More than 50
UalHHH years ago, their
action of a countries were the
European epicenter of the
worst war known
to man: World War
II. Countries were
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Problems, it were destroyed and f
amazing many, many people
from died. For six years,
rsago. these countries ?
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other and killed for I
what they believed was right.
Now these countries are joining
in a peaceful, economic union
in which there is no discrimination,
no prejudice, no differences.
They will be united as common
Europeans, paying with the same
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Yes, this might be a bit of an
extremely optimistic view, but this _
merger could bring people together. R<
There is something we can coi
learn from the Europeans. Our ?
conservative society, unfortunately, in T
sometimes misunderstands their of tl
more liberal and open societies. torn
Yeah, it's just money, and mon- ^eer
ey has been seen as certain evil, gau
but connecting countries to a single
currency allows for our dif- r
ferences to become our common just
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education. urban areas do- Y
Thus, the state \
rjnTTJ^HB needs to give them
more assistance,
ywon'tsolve and nor just incaused
by creased funding.
f neglect. Simply throwing
money at these
and other schools
in South Carolina is not going to
solve the problem. They need increased
funding, as well as significant
attention from the state's
educational resources. EIV
Better teacher education, more col
money allocated to technology, bet- ?
ter equipment and supplies and "if i
more attention given to curricu- out
lum and the way testing is used triec
are other big needs in the area tent
of education. tf> h<
South Carolina's educational cr*n
problems are not simple ones. cou|
There are decades of neglect at ^ ^
the root of this under-performance. a gt
Money is not the answer. The wlia
state has the funding to help these mei]
schools which have been ignored law!
all these years. They simply don't
have the desire to.
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letters that include news clip- an
ping of what's happening *01
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Cincinnati is ac
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The most do
)B GIOIELLI recent one I for
lumnist got was a ap
cover story Co
'he Cincinnati Enquirer about one
le area's leading civil liberties at- to\
ieys, Scott Greenwood. He's only to
1 practicing for a few years, but has rig
led the reputation for being a as
inch advocate of citizen's civil lib- na
iS.
rhe story mentioned how he had mt
suffered a major defeat. The Unit- Iss
Itates Supreme Court had just fla
led down an appeal of the Issue 3 voi
}. This was a major blow to the ho'
rights of Cincinnatians and espe- sp<
y to its gay community. . ap
'n 1992, the city added sexual ori- of 1
tion to its eaual oDDortunitv statutes tn,
legislation c
tT7hat, exactly, will hate crime
\ / legislation do? Most people,
'\ even the most clueless pro- ^
ponents of
^ ^ate CI"ime ^
jpr Ilk legislation,
M concede that ^iv
nf *v extending He
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2=!?? a criminal pr
won't think, on
kill a homosexual in a state with- la\
hate crime legislation, I could be
1 for first-degree murder, which po- la\
ially carries the death penalty. But po
jwever, I do it in a state where hate ha
les include gay/lesbian groups, I mj
d really get in trouble." soi
iVhat hate crime legislation will do coi
;'s best, proponents say, is "make ec<
atement." Ooooh! This is just ph
it our country needs: more stateits
clogging up the arteries of our Mi
3ooks. ha
idents defend NASA, ofd
rrent shuttle flight did
de\
'o the editor: inc
am writing in response to the ed- bar
il on John Glenn (Oct. 26). Specif- qu?
y, I would like to address the sat
nent that space "dollars benefit
istronauts while the other 255 mil- Job
American citizens wonder about imj
ure for cancer, the solution to our ly ]j
;less or books that school children not
aissing." The technologies NASA dre
leveloped in conjunction with the reti
:e program have led to over me:
)0 secondary applications of space
lology, including advances in the
cal field.
in prior missions astronauts
conducted research on a variety
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used to justi
that along with sex, race, creed
d physical handicap, it was illegal ?ri[
people to be discriminated against "
their sexual preferences. This was
tually very forward thinking for
ncinnati, which is a rather conserv- to
ive city.
But in 1994 the Christian right
sup, Citizens for Community Values ^he law i
CV) was able to put a public refer- gays an(
dum on the ballot named Issue 3,
lich called for the removal of the sex- ^ei
I orientation clause. The issue passed, 0DD0rtu
d that part of the law was struck .
wn. Greenwood, as general counsel ^
the ACLU in Ohio, sued the city and P. 1 1
pealed all the way to the Supreme , !?n 0r ?
>urt the^11
I was depressed for my old home- |f0V1 e
vn. There were good people, trying os.e w
make progress, but the reactionary cnmi^a1
:ht, claiming the moral high ground A
their own, was fighting tooth and ^irmat^
il to restrict people's freedom. differen
I was reminded of the advertise- actional
snts CCV ran to get people to vote for these po
sue 3. They would show a burning A 6
ig on the TV screen, and then a last 50;
iceover would begin, emphasizing stacles t
w Issue 3 was for "equal rights, not been rei
scial rights." It was a clever ploy to still ran
peal to the more moderate members need eqi
the community. They knew they had governn
convince moderates that this part of ing prog
an t change J
Isn't such a statement a redundancy
* a nation founded on the idea that ? a t
men are created equal? What "stateait"
does hate crime legislation make? ^
II men are created equal, and even
icks, Asians, Hispanics, Arabs, Na- ojv
e Americans, Jews, and gays, too!
>w magnanimous of us white straight
ople. Why not act like we meant what society 1
! said the first time? murder'
Besides, laws aren't for making Of C(
itements. Laws are for making rules. Qut Qf ^
we want to make a statement, let's .
e the press for that. Even better, let's g
e our everyday actions and words for
iking a statement. We weaken the Same a!
inciples our country was conceived ? ,
when we qualify them by making a S10n 0
v that says hate is bad. m c
For one thing, it's not against the PeoP'e v
v to hate. As an individual in a sup- ^ we
sedly free country, it's my right to hatred i
te anybody I feel like hating. It is not he reali:
I right to kill that person for any rea- on an 11
a. Furthermore, the same crime is plicable
nmitted whether I have done it for Imp]
momic, psychological, emotional or somehow
ilosophical reasons. tive is p
If the men who pistol-whipped We pun
itthew Shepard and left him for dead thoughts
d done so out of love, would we as a sentime
The Gamecock will try to p
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elude the telephone nui
liseases, including breast cancer, os- To the e<
porosis, diabetes and AIDS. In ad- An e<
on, NASA technology has led to the cock ask
relopment of more everyday items, space w;
luding household smoke detectors, elusion s
codes in retail stores, car phones, lions of d<
irtz timing crystals and weather program,
ellite storm prediction. tronauts
Regardless of how one feels about America:
in Glenn's role in the program, the cure for <
)act that NASA has had on our dai- I disa
ife is tremendous. Space dollars may entitled "1
be used to pin-chase books for chil- flight" on
n; however, they do provide a strong world as
urn for the education and advance- Glenn's 8
nt of all Americans. USC.
Schoo
Jennifer Meisburger Terracio;
Graduate Student, Geography two expe
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le still need equal o
is in our governmei
keep making progt
somehow gave special rights to ]
i lesbians. thei
it the CCV and organizations in p
n don't realize is that all equal sue!
nity statements provide is a y
je against discrimination. These guis
are a promise by the organiza- cjas
pvernment making them that gr0l
H not discriminate. And they pea]
grounds for legal redress for -can
ho feel they have been disced
against. ^
ou?h the two are related Af
re Action is really an entirely ?0UI
fc policy. Unfortunately the re- ei,r
ies among us tend to think of
licies as one in the same,
rica has come a long way in the Pow
years. Many of the major ob- actl
;o an egalitarian society have Mos
moved, but discrimination is Pa^
ipant in our society. We still groo
ial opportunity policies in our the}
lental structures to keep mak- end;
ress. caps
how peop]
? an individual in a
e country, it's my r
ybody I feel like ha
be more understanding of the it st
? ton
>urse not. And people are killed big
ate when no politically incor- calli
le is involved whatsoever. Hate as t]
mother human emotion, the feej
> greed, ambition, fear or any peo]
eeling which stirs up the pas- ja(
dU- to s
>n the same side as most other
/hen I say that it would be nice
id a society in which the only
vere that of bigotry. But let's ^ (
stic: social change must occur Pre:
idividual level - a lesson ap- a?a(
to many other situations.
iying that a particular crime is ^0 r
v worse when a particular mo- s*101
iresent accomplishes nothing, righ
ish acts in this country, not stiti
s or words. Making a law against relij
nts won't make them go away; to t;
rint all letters. Letters should be 250-300 words and must Inc
d written letters must be personally delivered by the author
mber. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letter for s
iitor: this
iitorial Monday in The Game- roph
ed if John Glenn's return to "hel]
is really necessary. The con- can 1
tated that it was not, that "bil- I
)llars are poured into the space ques
These dollars benefit 174 as- Glen
i while the other 255 million chea
ns citizens wonder about the spao
cancer" etc. it is
igree. An article in The State pedii
LJSC Research Riding on Glenn scier
Oct. 20 states that the science tag.
3 a whole will benefit from cure
13 experiments, not to mention will 1
ques
I of medicine professors Louis spac
ind Robert Price have designed
riments for Glenn to perform."
lot likely to benefit South Carzens
in the immediate future,
er start building a future
our children or start
building jails."
ren. Colin Powell,
' Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
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Right wing organizations shroud
r arguments against these policies
atriotic rhetoric and statements
1 as "equal rights, not special rights."
What they're really doing is disiing
their own prejudices. This is a
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siu lacuc useu uy uxscxxxixxxxaiury
ips throughout history. They ap.
to our most basic ideals as Amers,
and they make us feel we are beunpatriotic
if we don't agree with
n. Anyone who has grown up in this
ltry knows there is no charge more
ious than to call someone a traitor
disloyal to the government,
[t's a shame when people use the
erful symbols of our democracy to
tally undermine its basic ideals,
t Americans.are afraid to sound unriotic,
and when discriminatory
ips claim patriotism is on their side,
f are using a powerful tool that
angers the freedom of all Ameri5.
le think
supposedly
igni to nate
ting."
irs the holders of those sentiments
lore vehemently express them. Even
ots are entitled to something
ed freedom of speech, and as long
he expression of their thoughts and
ings stops short of violating other
pie's rights, the government has no
:e to infringe on even bigots' rights
ay what they think, no matter
r unenlightened or wrong.
We don't have the right to be liked
;verybody. If we did, most of the
3S would belong in jail for crimes
inst Newt Gingrich,
rhe government should not be a tool
social change. The government
aid be a tool for enforcing our basic
its and ensuring that, through inations
such as education, the nress
pon and art, social change is free
ike place in our society.
lude full name, phone number, professional title or
to the Russell House room 333. E-mail letters must intyle,
libel or space. Names will never be withheld.
could eventually "help prevent aty
in bedridden patients" as well as
p determine whether heart tissue
be created artificially" (The State).
fully understand The Gamecock's
tioning NASA in the editorial. The
m flight has all the trappings of a
p publicity stunt for a very rattled
. .XT il. 1 T / lil i
e program. iNeverxneiess, i ieei mat
unfair to criticize the current extion
because its benefits to medical
ice research cannot contain a price
He probably won't find any cancer
s, but who knows how many lives
be improved by the answers?and
stions?Glenn brings back from
e?
Kyle Criminger
Philosophy Junior