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Quote, Unquote ‘Sometimes I think USC could trim a lot more of fat from its budget than it lets on, [in terms of] extraneous programs ’ Elizabeth Gray, Junior in the Darla Moore School of Business Wednesday, July 11,2001 lOte 0amccock • Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 Editorial Board Mackenzie Clements, Editor in Chief Ann Marie Miani, Viewpoints Editor David Cloninger, Sports Editor Cristy Infinger, News Editor Rick Johnston, Asst. Sports Editor Tuition increase unfair to out-of-state students USC has proven yet again that it doesn’t care about its out-of state students with the most recent tuition decision by the board of trustees. The latest board decree will raise out-of state tuition by 8.5 percent to $10,904 per year, while in-state tuition is only going up by 5.2 percent to $3,964 per year. This difference is unfair to out-of-state students who are already paying twice as much to go to school here. me liiiudi iiiLicd^c wuuiu lmvc lai^cu lumuii aciuaa-mc-uucuu by 10.4 percent — for all students, regardless of their residency. But in responding to Hodges’ expectations of lowering exorbitant tuition increases, USC halved the increase for in-state students and barely chipped away at the earlier increase for non-residents. Ironically, tuition increases for both in-state and out-of-state medical students was cut in half, from 20 percent to 10 percent. If trustees could be fair concering tuition for the School of Medicine, why not be fair for the rest of the university’s students? So we pose these questions to President Palms and the board of trustees: Why are you making out-of-state students suffer more than in-state students with tuition increases? Are non-residents less im portant to this university? Palms said, “I believe the governor and the General Assembly took this bold action trusting that the colleges and universities would respond in a manner which would impact South Carolina families [the emphasis is ours] — through a reduction in the previ ously approved tuition increases,” Guess we have our answer. About Us The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fal and spring semesters and eight times during the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media is the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock is supported in part by student activities fees. One free copy per reader. 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Student Media Area code 803 Advertising 777-3888 Classified 777-1184 Fax 777-6482 Office 777-3888 Gamecock 803:777-7726 Editor in Chief gamecockeditor@hotmail.com News gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Viewpoints gamecockviewpoints@hotmail.com Spotlight gamecockspotlight© hotmail.com Sports gamecocksports@hotmail.com Online www.dailygamecock.com Betsy Baugh Brad Walters Community Affairs Copy Editor Student Media Erik Collins Sarah Sims Faculty Adviser Advertising Manager Ellen Parsons Maegen Thornton Director of Advertising Sales Student Media Carolyn Griffin Susan King Business Manager Creative Director Sherry Holmes Todd Hooks Classified Manager Creative Services College Press Exchange -—---- 1 AIDS: 20 years with the lights off You could almost hear “We are the World” humming through the streets of New - York during the last week of June for the first U.N. summit on AIDS. w uniy, tne “brighter days” GregHambrick crooned by is a featured Michael columnist and can Jackson, Sting be reached at andStevie gamecockviewpoints Wonder won-t ©hotmail.com. , be coming until the world leaves Reagan-era politics behind and learns to loosen up on two fronts: homosexuality and condoms. The U.N. gathering, the first ever to discuss battling a disease, started off two steps behind when a number of countries refused to let the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission participate. I’m sure the argument went something like: “Those guys, who have been battling the disease since it was first recognized? Who needs ’em?” Well, after much hemming and hawing and a brave walk-out by our northern neighbors, the United Nations finally allowed the commission to participate. The United States didn’t walk out, but we agreed with Canada’s principles. How valiant of us. One 16-page declaration later, gay men are scratching their heads wondering why there’s no explicit mention of the need to educate and support their community. You see, the words “men who have sex with men” made too much sense for several eastern countries, and so the words were changed to “those who are at risk due to ‘sexual practice.’” OK, anyone who isn’t at risk because of sexual practice, raise your hand. That’s right, we all are. Gay, straight or whatever. Now, this doesn’t bother me much. After all, we all do need to be better educated on the disease. However, Western Nations wanted to specifically name groups vulnerable to the disease, but Muslim “The ‘brighter days’ crooned by Michael Jackson, Sting and Stevie Wonder won’t be coming until the world leaves Reagan-era politics behind and learns to loosen up on two fronts: Homosexuality and CONDOMS” nations found the mention of homosexuality offensive. This kind of thinking makes the declaration by the United Nations useless. So what do we need to battle AIDS? We need these backward countries, as well as backward people AIDS SEE RAGE 7