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Wednesday, April 28, 1999
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To the Editor: LU111L.U11U
Amid the newspaper stories, tele- mentionec
vision reports and radio broadcasts ciilture ha
about the Littleton shooting, there is lair backlj
one lesson we must learn. Guns, en- en
tertainment and society pressures 8ense a Sc
did not drive Eric Harris and Dylan mi1
Klebold to kill 12 of their classmates srarits.con
and one teacher. We did. Philade pi
As members of the coveted 18 to 35 1S s^nc y
advertising demographic, we influence 3111 ai
young children more than any group p111?8 anc
besides parents. butblamn
We shape the market: Our pur- ar0UI '?'
chasing power gets us what we want. saa^' r?
And we want the same violent enter- er
tainment blamed for influencing the eas^;
two Colorado high school seniors who ere
slaughtered 13 people. Who chooses to saying on^
support these shows? We do.
We must ask ourselves whether we Pr . ave *
will take responsibility for our choices. did, it m(^
Motivated by our purchasing power, :
television companies air more explicit j,e
and violent programming each year. Pajn> an
We watch violent shows; advertis- ?n -v P .c
ers pay networks to air commercials oemn js
when we watch. Why all the violence 0 ^
on TV? We put it there. wev
Likewise, the movie industry re- tragedy coi
leases movies featuring cynical killers ^^
dispassionately torturing, brutalizing s 11
and murdering their victims.
We know many of these characters
appear in critically'acclaimed movies
touted as "art," but who understands 1
when violence is gratuitous and when
it is art? We do. Children don't. Dire<
While our media and entertainment
choices alone did not cause the Colorado ElN vJJ
shootings, what those boys watched as
children and young teen-agers affected
the way they chose to act April 20. 0 e c
They watched and idolized movies fea- Pr r
turing cold-blooded killers that laughed mmg r?s
at their victims. Then they went and versi 01
S did likewise. roanEng
If you or I go to a movie this week- inaccurate
end, we should think about whether * no on(
the next Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, assac
Kip Kinkel, Mitchell Johnson, Andrew ^ c^e
Golden or Luke Woodham will one day Alt o
see that same film. done, we e
How will it affect them? Who de- to set
cides? We do. They don't. J You?
dents mus
Lynn Rogers lfor classl
English and Spanish Junior course 1S
have to w
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Placing blame disaPPoin
solves nothing SZ
not have a
To the Editor: es^
I'm glad to see The Gamecock doing ^ac1
something to stop the blame game sur- ^ SfCfe?<:
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ever will get the answers,
re quickly the world can face
ve can move on. .
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r fire recently that wasn't >
in your article. The gothic
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h, I, too, have come under
a site (http://www.raven- \jfisk V
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ia tried to tie my site, which
iterary, to the shooting.
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violent movies is one thing, i* W
g an art form that has been s
centuries is completely inic
poetry has nothing to do
:e and hate, but rather a re- '
re rumors swirling around
theirs. I doubt this rumor
jen no proof of it. Even if he
people would realize that
agedy is great and so is the
lg the pain. I strictly conict
and all others like it, as
r, I have no desire to see the
tinued by "passing the buck"
is squarely in someone's lap.
ove on, let's stop the blam- ?
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cent editorial (4/23) slam
man English and the uninot
offering enough fresh- (We also require the instructors to
ish courses is based on take an intensive two-semester teachernformation.
We're surprised training course, and we offer - for free
at The Gamecock called any- - individual tutoring in our Writing
ated with freshman Eng- Center and Writing Studio Programs.)
k out the facts. It would be great for our budget, and
igh the damage has been it would let more students get the times
) wish you'd make some ef- they desire, if we allowed 40 or 80 stuhe
record straight. dents in every section, but our goal is
lid: "It is sad that some stu- to teach writing effectively, which re;
forego their initial choices quires small classes. Some sections and
s] because the section or some times do fill up rather quickly.
llled Students should not. We alee can't holiove that wen moan
irry about the availability to suggest that we should have an un ses."
Although it is certainly limited number of sections at any paring
not to get a particular ticular time of day. We are constrained,
ime for a course, surely you of course, by the number of classto
suggest that we should rooms on campus and by the schedules
y limits on the sizes of class- of our teachers (who can only teach one
because we want students
in freshman English, the
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But no one, to our knowledge (and then we add more se
we've been involved in freshman Eng- absolutely must, we
lish for many years), has ever been one student,
forced, as you claim, "to wait a semes- In other words, t
ter or even a year before they can take sumption of your editoi
these entry-level courses." schedule enough class
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freshman English is a required intro- would be nice to have
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courses for students. at that time, such a sc
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some particular time slots may not have If you do have other
any seats available, but other time slots freshman English migl
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