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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
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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
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