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Jennifen Stanley
Sara Ladenheim,
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Kurt Johnson, Assistc
Kathleen McCormi*
Abortion a
done for a
Lately we've
been hearing a lot HHHUaUl
about "abortion vio- The recen
lence." Abortionist ahnrtinn i
Dr. Barnett Slepian
was fatally shot Oct. I
23, and as we all ^
know, abortion clin- meal
ic bomber Eric kUkrsfc
Rudolph has been on ;
the lam for months.
The tragedy of the loss of human
life is lamented, and then the blame
begins. All anti-abortion activists
are implicated by pro-abortion pundits.
They say that speaking against
abortion, a right guaranteed by the
First Amendment, creates a "climate"
conducive to abortion violence.
It is absurd to blame innocent
activists for the conduct of extremists.
If there is any "climate" being
created, it is one of animosity between
pro- and anti-abortion factions
when unfounded blame is
placed on the latter. This animosity
reduces the chances of a compromise
being reached, which is intentional.
The media covers each incident
obsessively, as though there
aren't other incidences of violence
occurring all over the country. This
over-emphasis on abortion violence
does two things?one intentional,
i.i i.i i
me umer uy ueiauit.
First, it convinces the average
media consumer that abortion violence
is committed and condoned by
the average anti-abortion activist,
which is of course absurd.
The second thing it does, ironically,
is to encourage people to comSafety
need
Student Gov- i
ernment made
their annual walk Safety Wa
to re-evaluate the dangerous
campus safety sit- camy
uation Thursday. BrrTFPWiF
The walk is aimed
at showing the The admit
campus adminis- should h&
trators, who don't conct
usually walk the
campus after dark, problem areas
on campus.
The campus garages, other
than Bull Street Garage, are still
the least safe areas on campus.
The walls have been painted with
special paint that lightens the
place, and police supposedly patrol
the garages. But that doesn't
keen neonle from committing
crimes there.
Supposedly, one should be able
to turn around any place on campus
and see a security alarm, but
they are often hard to find.
There are just as many problems
during the daylight hours.
USC needs to reroute traffic. Many
cities have bike lanes. These would
enable bikers and drivers to share
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violence
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pj^? mit these violent
UdHHH acts.
t Spate of If the people who
ijiotence. bomb clinics and
shoot doctors are acI
tually anti-abortion,
, they are not stable.
a makes gane pe0p]e WOuld
imous. know that such
measures only play
into the hands of their abortionrights
foes. -v
The people who do this, then, are
crazy and may or may not care about
the legality of abortion. It is likely
they are attracted to the prospect
of committing abortion violence because
they want to become celebrities.
Nuts commit high-profile crimes
to get attention. People have been
assassinating presidents, or attpmntincr
fn Hn sn fnr orpnprfltinnK'
surely they aren't doing so to support
well-reasoned political differences.
They do it for their screwedup
conceptions of glory.
Eric Rudolph's case underscores
this possibility. He allegedly not only
bombed an abortion clinic, but
planted a bomb at the Atlanta
Olympics as well. Surely the
Olympics had nothing to do with
abortion; the man just has a sick
need for attention.
Every time the media runs stories
like this into the ground,
more crazies are encouraged to commit
the acts that will get the most
attention.
Abortion violence would occur
far less if the perpetrators were not
reinforced by the media.
s attention
j^SjjjSSFj the road more safely.
Additionally,
Ik shows walkers often hold
areas on up traffic and put
[JUS themselves in danmrrTTMBj
ger. USC should
take the time to
lustration re-evaluate walking
3dsafety patterns, taking
>ms note of where grass
is worn from pedestrians.
This will help campus planners
know where to install
crosswalks and sidewalks.
The campus is going to get
more congested, and the USC architects
should keep this in mind
when planning new facilities. The
more students have to cross busy
intersections like Assembly and
Blossom, the more chance there
is tor danger, remaps witn tfte addition
of more patrol cars, more
call boxes and more pedestrian
bridges, students would feel a little
safer using campus services after
dark.
SG can only raise awareness.
It's the administrators that have
to take action and respond to student
fears.
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Gee, I didn't know I had so many
friends named Candy... I
Oh, wait, those aren't real e-mails.
They're just those 30 or so ads from porn
sites I get \
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KIKI MCCORMICK bachelor, t
columnist Brian
thought his c
free on-line time would be most effi- *
ciently spent distributing his credit card
number to porn sites. Hence the e-mail. 1
I can't believe this stuff. It's like a
little portal into the male mind. The e
subject lines will be innocuous, then 111 t
open the mail, and it will say:
"Our teen girls like to show it all! t
And they love you to watch!"
"Teen sluts in Tiot porn action'!" t
"Hard-core teen girls 18-21 in their p
prime j'they do anything and every- t
thing." ii
Impending
It really isn't about sex. It's about
Travelgate, Filegate, Chinagate, Campaign
Financegate and general sliminess.
FinalEMILY
STREYER can 5 des^
columnist perately
grabbed at
him while
he slithered away?but now?now they
have him, they hope.
With or without the support of the
press or the public, the impeachment
plans are proceeding. Clinton, having
recently moved forward the Middle East
peace process by depriving its participants
of sleep, has bounced back once
again, but the Impeachment Monster
has been awakened.
According to the press, however, we
all have grown tired of the Lewinski
scandal, so tired of it that many have
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advantage of motorists
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To the editor: c
I was driving up Greene Street last \
week on my way back to work after run- {
ning an errand in Five Points during c
my lunch hour. As I approached the t
Pickens Street intersection, the light c
was green and the first car was at- i
tempting to turn right. I was the fourth \
car at the light, and we were all at- s
tempting a right turn. There was a ?
steady stream of students, three and r
four abreast, crossing Pickens at the i
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I men's lu
"Our teens are the youngest allowed
>y law!"
There seems to be a theme here ...
Apparently there are men out there
vho want not only to ogle women, but
o ogle the youngest women possible ?
firls, really. In fact, I've gotten severil
messages with references to "school
firls." Why all this emphasis on youth?
Well, it could be that they really look
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rawer?out men, wnat iooks oesi is ae:ided
upon by society, so it isn't that
roung girls look inherently better than
wentysomethings, but that men have
lecided to call young features attracive.
So, then, we are left with that which
listinguishes teen girls from women:
hey are less educated and less powsrful;
therefore, they are less likely to
ntimidate men.
As far as I know, such sites do not
ixist for women. Anyway, I'm not geting
any messages about the "youngest
mnks allowed by law," or "school
>oys who do anything you want."
So why is this fear of intimidation,
his need to be the one in charge, the 1
irovince of men? Haven't they tradiionally
been in charge?oh, wait, thafs ;
t, right?
\ impeach
even lost interest in punishing him
for it.
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Ana tne puDuc nas even recoverea,
as it so quickly does, from being
(gasp) lied to by the president. His spin
doctors have pointed out that everyone
lies about sex, but that's not why Clinton
lied. He lied because he lies about
everything.
He always has lied about everything,
and he continues to do so?he's lying
about the so-called budget surplus even
now. After promising to repay Social
Security with the budget surplus, he
went on a spending spree and still maintains
that he's repaid Social Security,
even while crowing about all the new
programs he's funded with the same
surplus. (We get what we vote for.)
But finally Congress caught him in
a lie that people in our Puritan sociohr
porn oKnnf non nnnnPQ
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When I got my first speeding ticket,
I'd been caught in a speed trap,
but I had to admit that I'd had it coming
to me for quite awhile, and it was
probably about time for me to get caught.
As my mother likes to say, "It all comes
out in the wash."
Is this what is happening? Should
we be concerned that our Congress may
be conducting a ludicrous impeachment
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crosswalk, even though the "Don't Walk"
signal was on.
The students knew that if they filled
he crosswalk, blocking the street, of
:ourse none of the cars needing to turn
vould press forward, so they kept step)ing
into the street even though they
:ould see the car attempting to make
;he turn. It was a collective mentality
)f "our need to cross this street is more
mportant than your need to drive to
vherever you're going." The
stream of students crossing Pickens
stopped shortly after the light turned
ed, and the Pickens traffic began to
nove across Greene. At this point,
he first two cars at the head of the line
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"Hard-core teen girls 1
prime; they do anythir
thing."
I'm not going to call it a backlash, with \
though, like feminists do. This is not rules i
a concerted movement designed to den- know
igrate women and keep them down. No, Bi
it is something far less organized, far the a
sadder than anything Susan Faludi guyS,
might imagine it to be. It's the pathet- chanc
ic attempt of men to find their way in rigkjn
a world that has changed too fast for more
them. home
I'm trying to figure out why it is that turesi
young men aren t yet comiortaoie witn worse
powerful women. Maybe it's that they ^
don't have anyone to teach them how
to cope; maybe their grandfathers 0 '
and fathers have taught them tradi- men ?
tional sex roles without considering how learT:
the world has changed. propo
Their grandfathers didn't have to spenc
worry about competing with women for mensi
"men's" jobs. Their fathers were pretty
sure to have better jobs than their wives Send
and are the first generation to work gckvie
ment not at
And the public has ev<
as it so quickly does, f
(gasp) lied to by the p
hearing because Clinton's had it com- try a
ing to him for so long? Is whether he ning
deserves to be impeached over this ir- thinl
relevant because he's done so much else fajm
to be removed from office? Will it all
come out in the wash?
Personally, I want him impeached? .
for Travelgate, for Filegate, for selling in^ a
nuclear technology to China, for Gore A
and^ampaign financing, for thumbing a^ou
his hick nose at the presidency (Rea- wish
gan wouldn't even remove his coat in B
the Oval Office, much less his pants), this,
for disgracing the office, for embar- pubb
rassing the country, for his arrogance. jS) tc
But there's a small voice in the back awa,
of my head saying, should we im- js
peach him for this? Shouldn't this have ^at
simply been an embarrassing sex scan- ,,
dal?
Maybe not. It might not be my business
what he does in his private life, &enc
but when we pay him to run the coun- gckv
sprin
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turned right?on red?apparently as- If
suming it was their only hope of mak- we dr
ing the turn. ing ai
This entire scenario repeated itself railro
when the light for Greene turned green dom v
again. sidere
I know what it's like to have to get take i
from one class to the next. I went to to do
USC and had to cross Pickens on my Oi
way to and from some of my classes al- build
so. This was early '70s, when there was to wa]
no pedestrian bridge across Pickens, so of Pic
I've been there. I'm not denying the bettei
need to get to classes, all I'm doing is jgr23(
asking for a little consideration... a little
help.
i
do down there part of
the day."
by Professor Bill Stanley,
to the Russell House patio
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*e girls
8-21 in their
lg and every
vomen as equals or superiors. The
iren't worked out yet, so they don't
what to tell their sons,
xt that's just a theory. Whatever
xuse, we're left with a bunch of
ivho are lost. Instead of taking a
e and asking a woman out?and
g the possibility that she will be
successful than he is?men sit at
on the Internet, looking at picof
girls who won't make them feel
about themselves,
ley need help. I don't know what
xbout it, but I'm hoping that once
[et used to sharing power, they'll
l it isn't really such a scary
sition. Then, they won't have to
1 their weekends with two-dilonal
teens named Candy.
comments to The Gamecock at
ws@sc.edu or kawarth@vm.sc.edu.
xoutsex
en recovered,
rom being
resident
,nd he spends his morning plana
tryst with a woman my age, I
c it's everyone's business. (And, in
ess, would the baby boomers and
pofinn Y-prc ko cavincr "Plpasp if'c
sex!" if Reagan had been screwin
intern? Probably not.)
jid the Starr Report is not just
t Lewinski?the Democrats only
it were.
iut I still have my doubts about
Whatever this is about, if s the Reicans'
last hope, however fragile it
i get a president who has gotten
i with everything. So maybe this
out revenge. I guess I should hope
it's OK to let it all come out in
irash.
I comments to The Gamecock at
iews@sc.edu or esstreyer@mindig.com
tude full name, phone number, professional title or
:o the Russell House room 33). E-mail letters must Inyle,
libel or space. Names will never be withheld.
the present situation continues,
ivers will probably push for crossrms
much like the ones used at
ad tracks, and a little bit of freerill
be gone; the freedom to be contte
to your fellow humans. TheyH
it away from you and force you
it.
r spend a few million bucks and
an ugly, dark tunnel youll have
Ik through to get to the other side
kens. Come on folks, we can do
". If anyone has any ideas, I'm at
uno.com.
John Robeson
Columbia resident
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