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Coed wins Bums, contest baby, (see page 4) v.bums (see page 2) VO1.. LX- No. 94 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, May 16, 1970 Students argue about heckl! during the rally Thursday at I ReportL, on Pol.. Two USC students are collecting eYeNwiiness accounts on "police brutality" and "over reaction by 1he police" during the recent unrest on campus, hoping that (ov. McNair "will have a probe and very thoroughly." The collecting of statements is in response to student reaction on whal happened at the Men's Towers on May 12. They said they were doing this "because many students believe that these officers are attempting to cover up what actually occurred." Beau White and lavid Roach will he collecting information until Tlhursday and then hope to talk to ( ov. Robert McNair personally. Roach said they wanted to let students and citizens know what was going on and what has gone on. Tlhey asked that any student or facult y member having eyewitness acc'ounts contact Beau White, Room 717 K dorm. Box U-3832. They also plan to give the in formation to newspapers, wire services and U1. S. Sen. Ernest F'. Hiollings. White and Roach said they felt this would put the burden on the Governor. , At least 23 statements from students have been received. l"ive students said they were beaten by police: 13 said they saw others beaten. Twelve students said they saw dorms gassed. Numerous students said they witnessed police in dorms. One student, Jack Classen, who lives on the first floor of L dorm, said "my roommate and I were inside all night. (We have 6 wit nesses) I turned around and saw a -state policeman run into my room. I walked towards my door (heard a lot of noise in my room). Other state policemen (5 to be exact) followed and saw me, I was walking slowly toward my door and one came at me and clubbed me. "He pushed me past the others, I kept pleading with them saying that that was my room and they all clubbed me as I went by. I turned around and they pushed my Sroommate out of our room and he fell down - blood on the floor. They hit him while he was on the a floor. He got up and they pushed us both outside. They left us because ' they knew that they could not arrest us because they pulled us n ut of our own room. My roommate Alc lle 441 OF A 7. 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The air in the room became Ilooded with gas and it was im possible to breath. We had to stay in the room or run outside and face arrest and clubbing which was the thing to do by police. "We decided to make a run upstairs and we made it. The same night. my roommate was arrested and clubbed. l)uring his arres;, he was not informed of his rights or reasons for arrest. He was not told until the following day of the charge,s and bond." Hoth Col. P. E. Thompson, direct or of lawV enforcement for the patrol and Maj. W. J. Seaborn, otlicer in charge at the scene. denlied entering the dorm. Strip ealitie at the time), only 11 people's time had< p as point. I knew I er. eternity in this cor (acid time had passed d anses activity. At first I ir the then I realized tha ever trip wvas about. "When I talked said, intensity dropped. ck of ()nce I stared I wl while the andu enljo hollyhock t hat shot verycom mode changed very size to oil drum si; gri People drifted in dow apartment. I coul tisley background, 'It's the TIhat's the sixth on as on "At one pointlI'ci afore. a speed freak stick his arm. He said. iages been'?' Between th The traveling for seve ity. I periencing itrange t th "After I peaked a hings down, I started ani the what I had done, be The other people ha I the and appeared to et )kd much as anything i spent I have yet to find a im- willing to listen to to me ou.t...a.... w.tho met days This weekend, for the first time in days. National Guardsmen again seemed out of place and the Horseshoe semed made for springtime 1rolicking. Although guardsmen and police remained on alert. the campus was quiet. Friday night's curfew of midnight to 1; was a welcome relaxation of the earlier 9 to 6 hours. Saturday and Sunday the curlew was lited entirely. with the 'state of emergency' pro clamation remaining in effect. The few persons remaining on campus heard occasional lirecrackers. A few bottles were broken here and there, and scat tered fragments of glass were reminders of more turbulent days. Blacks on Jacks "I can't say I was greatly shocked," was the reaction of one black student at Carolina to the deaths of two Jackson State College students Thursday. "Orangeburg wasn't but two years ago," Turner McCullough, a junior majoring in journalism, continued. "It was more of a continuation of insults being thrown at black people." McCullough said that some of the black students at Carolina are "resentful of the fact that two students can stand outside a dorm in Mississippi and get shot, while LAtland outside. the Hoeyconbs and only get cannisters of tear gas." Commenting on the disturbances at Carolina last week, McCullough said. "I did not think that the whites at Carolina had enough guts to get together and do anything. I believe that the strike showed that Carolina is waking up. The con frontation with the National Guard and deliberate violations of the curfew seem to indicate that people are at last coming out of apathy and that Carolina is going to change." Black students will support strikes and rallies, McCullough said. but "as far as active par ticipation. we know what the University can do. You can fight it if vou're white." "'The concensus of most black students is that a coalition of black studIents and white students at t'arolina is not the getting off stage of a united movement but a'fest to see if black students can get along iuts ofohrare inute of therwith their ~lapsed. At one topics. would spend "Someoi dition when no the Al ricai uring weeks of dimension was distressed ''I c'an't was what the is fo realiz there is or stood the imaginat reality, it in amusement it is poss lating green someone' tId have been a someone v from thimble his mind.< .user, only and out of the asylum ca d hear in the own imag his first trip? knows onl.1 e this week.' or what se ime to' and saw reachingi ing a needle in bit free. How long has itrihsld a two e's I was tihusanad. ra weks, ex- mos na mnd was cominlg possible, masane rap about outide. en and so forth, outade. d the same grin hols unn i.joy my talk as frighteninj :hey had to say. "The tr group who is so hours of y someone else's ten hours ut interrupting o n es.r week( of diS In aleneral. however. campus was (lifiet. in contrast to Tuesday and Wednesday nights' disorder. Students f ound the weekend a nice Iiime to head for home and the beaches. 'riday night. after a state of ficial had talked about "getting the bovs and girls together for some hin tonight. it rained. "ilf it had rained about Monday." one st udent said. "maybe things would have been much different." A -People's Parade" to mark .\rmed Forces failed to materialize Saturday when less than 5 people showed up for a 9 a in. rally on the steps of the Sl atehouse. About 20 people marched against fte rally. They were across the i!omment on State with white students at Carolina. 'Continued on Page 4) ississippi de Protes A group of students will gather to show their concern about the deaths of two Jackson State College students today at 1 p.m. The rally is scheduled for the Horseshoe if the state of emergency which has barred meetings on campus is lifted and at Maxcy Gregg Park if the state of emergency is still in effect. The decision to hold the rally was made at a series of meetings held during the weekend. "It's a sort of ad hoc group," Mrs. Barbara Ex-her. talks o BY MICHAEL HALL Staff Writer Yes. Dixie Cup, the Mafia is in town operating its own take-out stores. A person who refused to identify hemself over the phone recounted some of his drug experiences to Tlhe Gamecock recently. This person said he was an ex-addict own more important own: polit e handed me pictures of seerr coast. They were three and ~l. worl stress how important it . Sthat to a person on acidthi no such thing as dont on--everything isdn s possible to be a cigar,an ible to be a tooth in tripj mouth, etc. Only to c4 'ho really has control of -"-I inly a genius, only a drug reve an inmate in an insane any. i enjoy a reality of their didn nation. No person who I-m what he reads in a book anot mieone tells him without anot ito his mind is the least hank me gave me some tuna fron' Wow ! My mouth had ten lip s, aste caves. It was the get teful, tasteless food Hut still dark. I walked " The sidewalk wa&s assu and valleys with large sup e of it was the least Bru4 - wha plasted about twelve UnIE our time. For the next men people of all sorts I saw troul a smiled at me. Shop prev ,d fo :urban sI reet They wore construction helmets with American flags on Ih'n Hoth groups were out rotestors t W ednesday, A jury trial for approxima arrested after the May 7 take been set for Wednesday a Magistrate H. E. Watts. Action will be taken TI magistrate's court on the arrested for curfew violatior1 A warrant is out for the a charged with conspiring and for the purpose of destroying r in connection with the inciden at the Administration Buildii Several arrests were mad spiracy charges. Mrs. Barbara Herbert, on there is a possibility of a fedet the University for suspent hearing. iths t rally Herbert said. "I don't think people are out to challenge authority. They just want to show their concern for what happened at .ackson State." The rally' is "two-foid." ac cording to Rita Fellers. "The first purpose is to express horror at the killings at Jackson State." she said. 'The second purpose is to give expression to the fact that during the past week many Carolina students have learned for )in add, F1 drug who wanted USC students to know more about heroin. lie began by saying he had cold turkeyed his habit following a near-fatal overdose of poison. He said his Mafia supplier had sold him a bag of pure strychnine. After shooting up half the bag he said he went to a local hospital for dual -rs. rednecks, old ladies, emen. little children all 6 ed to sense my amazement amusement at the regular have always been annoyed people talk about what they know about. After acid, it yvs me more. If you haven't *. led. don't talk about it except :' 'ople who have. had no great internal lations, but I wasn't out for It didn't change my life, it tentice me to harder drugs. I not hooked on acid. But is her culture, another life, ier way of relaxing without overs. getting in frights, etc. got two worthwhile things acid. F"irst, before I had done 'rvice to 'I don't need it;i I can l there with my imagination.' i now I know. E econd, one has no right to me his concept of reality is rior to anyone else's. Lenny e wrote, 'Reality is what is, tshould be is a dirty lie.' 88 you're one of those people I tioned before, you'll have ble reconciling that with my ious statemeant." Ilows Ces numbered by policemen. The rally group had no parade rimit. they admitted later. o be tried Thursday." fely 20 persons who were over of Russell House has t 10 a.m., according to Nursday at 10 a.m. in cases of some of those is last week. rrest of about 20 persons entering a public building ecords and other property t in the Treasurer's Office ig a week ago. e last week on the con e of those arrested, said *al suit being filed against ling students without a today the first time how it feels to be black." -With the police on campus many students have learned what it 's like not to have any channels to go through."* she said. "Now for once they are thie''&fty. P61ice have gone into innocent people's rooms. taken them to prison and not listened to them." "''he rally is for the general student who can't be apathetic when innocent people have been hurt." Miss Fellers said. 0 Ict use treatment. The hospital staff called a State Law Enforcement )ivision agent who told him he would receive help if he revealed his sources. He st ated he lay on the admitting ta ble b r three hours not knowing If he would live before his body began ridding itself of the poison. Tlhe only aid he got was a wet washcloth trom a nurse. Speeds and barbiturates were sub)situted for heroin after he left t he hospital,: he said. He described heroin and other opiates as putting him in a dif lerent warp or frame of reference. He said the warp was very profound and cerebreal (thought provoking) at first. But he added that physical addiction took away any' mental pleasure of the drug. Over the phone he spoke in lab technician terms and said drug users know as much about use and cft ect of various drugs as medical personnel. When asked about drug sup pliers, this person said both the Mtalia and independent dealers sold hard and soft drugs. He said It was easier to find a narcotics dealer after five p.m. than an open grocery store. 'Te works for narcotics (hypo, needle, etc.) are available from numbers of legal sources he said. He added that acid ([SD) had given him the same warp dif lerence and mental exercise at first but had become boring and lust another habit after a while. He added cautions to USC students. First, many students, he said, are ignorant of the dangers some of the drugs in C0hmnbIA hold, especially when takap Whu competent superviIog' 'Second, Iow grades et ses * are sold on campus for stat are not to be trusted becatue cannot be sure of theiw sII% ingrediants, he de Cneluding his person said, - ~ 4* make Itsalf