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IN YOUR OPINION, CONTINUED exception of two: football and basketball. Even though students have to get tickets for these sports, they still have the right to a ticket as long as one remains. At Tennessee, Mississippi State and Georgia, students pay for their tickets in addition to the athletic fee. This doesn’t occur at USC. The important point is that a student doesn’t purchase a ticket. This is the reason for validations being canceled earlier this year. If a student had wanted to get a ticket for a spouse or significant other, there were opportunities, including season date books, which gives the holder a ticket to all football games. The Athletics Department has gone out of its way to ensure that students have tickets. My mother, a season ticket holder for 26 years, was told she could not order extra Clemson, Alabama or Florida tickets this year because of demand. Furthermore, some Gamecock Club members were denied Clemson tickets because demand was so high. It would have been very easy (and more profitable) for the Athletics Department to sell some student tickets to Gamecock Club members, but instead they tried to find ways for as many students as possible to attend games. Having missed four games in the past three years, I am one of those “dedicated and loyal” students that Ms. Little speaks of and I will have to worry like all of my fellow students. While I do not take any solace in this, I do take solace in knowing that the USC Athletics Department has done, and will continue to do, all it can to make sure that I have a ticket. CHRIS ODOM CHAIRMAN. USC STUDENT SENATE ATHLETICS COMMITTEE, FOURTH YEAR STUDENT. COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS Civilians dying in war is nothing new Why is it news that war kills civilians? War has always killed civilians. This war has already killed thousands of our civilians, including a good friend of mine. On Sept. 11,1 was at my office on the seventh floor of World Financial Center Tower 4. A close friend of mine was at a meeting on the 103rd floor of World Trade Center Tower 1. My friend did not make it out alive. Maybe running for my life on Sept. 11 and/or losing a friend has hardened me, but when I hear about the poor Afghan civilians, I don’t shed any tears. ED BELL NEW YORK, N.Y. USC CLASS OF 1998 The Gamecock. On the Web. WWW.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM Prashaw degrades women too much I am writing because I don’t understand Charles Prashaw’s large allocation of energy into alienating his female readership through his frequent (albeit repetitive) use of debasing terms when referring to women. In a Sept. 19 article on college life, he writes “College needs more slutty girls... In high school there were tons of girls who were sluts... I feel this university needs more sluts.” In an Oct. 29 article on capitalist-fueled patriotism, he notes, “Here’s another example of patriotism gone amiss: girls wearing these little tight tube tops that say" ‘USA’ in trashy glitter. Nice — not only do you promote America, but you also dress like a slut.” Does Prashaw realize that tired stereotypes are renewed when derogatory words are casually inserted into the vernacular or comprehend the underlying, dangerous messages that are inextricably connected to the word “slut”? Does Prashaw know his demeaning remarks, whether sarcastic or-not, sound unprofessional and only serve to detract from the main point of his articles? Perhaps Prashaw is unaware that his language violates the spirit of the Carolinian Creed, which calls for respect for the dignity of all persons and lists behaviors such as taunting, insulting and ridiculing as being inconsistent with its ideals. JULIE SELIGSON THIRD-YEAR PSYCHOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT Submission Policy Letters to the editor or guest columns are welcome from the Carolina community. Letters should be 250-300 words. Guest columns should be about 600 words. 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