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opinion 'Happy with wha By A Evelyn Montgomery is indeed one woman whose work is never done. She works as hard as most people but, like Sisyphus, to her lot fell a job that is taxing to the patience, exhausting to the body. Evelyn, 38, is a cleaning maid in USC's dorm at Columbia Memorial Hospital. "I wouldn't want to be cleaning dorms for the rest of my working life," she swore. "When you are cleaning them it doesn't seem like you are getting anything accomplished-the boys dirty it even as you are cleaning it. "It surprises me," she shakes her head. "They pour soda on the floor. Shoot off fire extinguishers. Students in college don't seem as advanced as the ones in high school." Evelyn has been working in USC dormitories for six years. Each semester is different, she says, each one brings in a different type of student. "Last semester was terrible. There were days when I felt like turning around and going back home. You'd step on the floor and your foot would stick." Evelyn made a face. Just as students differ from semester-to semester, so the nature of the work varies from day-to-day. "Monday is the worst day," she declared. "They have been here all weekend without anybody to clean after them. You know they don't go home and do the things they do here." Evelyn's experience with college students has not disillusioned her with the advantages of a college education. She has a husband and five children, makes $2.52 an hour, but is trying to save money to send her children through college. "Finishing college is the most important thing for them. I am always after them on their grades," Evelyn said with a laugh. One of her daughters is married but four children in school are doing well, she said. Actually, judging from the reports, another daughter is doing particularly well, Evelyn said. "Her teachers are always saying how smart she is. She should be a leader some day." Her eyes smile as she talks of her children. "I want my children to be successful. I want my The Gamecock's South Carolina and the El TO THE EDITOR: rights. Only a lu By the recent decision of the for lustry ecoi state legislature to kill the growth a state I proposed Equal Rights Amend- its natural resoi ment (ERA) the leaders of this women, to great state have demonstrated to capabilities. the people their high degree of If a person enlightenment and awareness to theory that Soul the changes taking place in the potential for gr outside world. that of most oti They have shown what years of be raglical. To schooling and experience in public state such peop! life have done to elevate them to a and not capa point where only the most thought anywas esteemed statesmen, such as muistmakesucd George Wallace and Lester pour souls. Maddox, have achieved. I must truly These men have proved beyond a men and say, shadow of a doub,t the true merits tastic work." i of being simple-minded and such capabl stubborn. In a world that is decisions for ui changing in all respects they have may be with AJ seen through their "opened" eyes on the top of th that If South Carolina is to progress more years bel to a point at which it can provide nation. decent opportunities to its people it must rely on the proven methods of Could Crc the old masters of Southern con servatism. out sing 4 To the unenlightened person It may look as though these TO THE EDIT prominent leaders have dealt a All year long se*vere blow to the promise of equal the imbecilli tIhave' roby Salahuddin children to be always somebody in life. I don't want them to grow up plain." Evelyn herself is planning on furthering her education. She is a high school graduate and now is looking forward to learning typing at night school. She hopes her job as a typist "won't be as tiring as mopping floors and picking up trash. "I would have never thought I'd be working as a maid. I always figured I'd work in a beauty shop. But I got married soon and so couldn't keep up with cosmetology." Evelyn explained an aspiring beautician has to work for a while with someone else in the field before being allowed to set up private practice. She said she doesn't regret getting married she's been married 19 years now. Both she and her husband, a mail handler in the post office, spend a lot of time with their children. But if Evelyn had her way, this time she would stay longer in school. "I would like to go back to school.. .find a job, make as much money as I possibly can," she said, speculating on the possibilities. "If you have a good job you can have a nice home. You could have lots of room-you wouldn't be cramped up." Nice homes are one of the things she likes about America. "People have beautiful gardens -flowers are real pretty." The other nice thing is "you can raise your own vegetables," Evelyn said. She is happy with this country. "America is a good place to stay. Women in America can do just about anything they want to do. You can buy a car, own a home, move about freely. I like my freedom," she said. However, Evelyn is not as satisfied with President Ford. "I can't say I dislike him, because he il human," she said. But she suggested he would do better to settle domestic unrest before trying to solve problems elsewhere in the world. Times are bad, she said, jobs are getting tighter, "a lot of people are losing their homes." But Evelyn is content. "I am happy with what I have. I don't worry about myself. I worry about my children." mail Areviews of Chuck Cromer. V Ahe referred to basketball c4 iatic may feel that Frank McGuire and his player omic and social King Frank and the turkeys i1 tutepo l fentertainment column I cast res empludin allts off as unprofessional journa re,incluinlest and the writing of someone wit thei fulestintelligence quotient rani agrees with the between 50 and 75. ti Carolina has the In~ his latest so-called rev wth that exceeds Cromer refers to two of er states, he must greatest musical talents of the he leaders of this as 1. a consumers rip-off artist e are in a minority 2. a joke. an.h Cre >le of intelligent John Denver adteCre .This is why they have brought countless hour decisions for these is"tening pleasure to me millions of other fans in the Ui congratulate these States and throughout the wo 'Keep up the fan- Their talents provide a wek ho knows? With relief from groups such as E men making Oak Arkansas, Led Zep; in a few years we Humble Pie and countless 01 abama and George who's only talent is to scream list of states 20 or guts at you until your head si ind the rest of the Until Cromer begins to objective reviews instead of RICH KULKASKI cas tic and unsubstanti rremarks about people that do ra true talent, or until he has s4 arpenters? million records and arrange written his own music, I will :put any stock into the pure I have put up with that appears in his column. 3 entertainment LENNY I Editorials Law adn The Board of Trustee's decision to give a committee appointed by the President power to select 7 per cent of the first-year law school class is being bogged down by con fusion and protests from the law school. It has become obvious that the Board acted without fully realizing the problems that their decision would cause. Law students are justifiably afraid that the decision will allow state legislators to get acquaintances, who do not deserve law school entrance, into USC's Law Center. The law school faculty is in the midst of adopting a resolution to have Law Center Dean Robert Foster meet with President Patterson to come up with an agreement about first-year admissions policy. The Board's idea of having a committee to select 7 per cent of the first-year class has both good and bad points. If the law school faculty and staff would have strong representation on the panel it would be controlled so that it would not turn into a farce in which politicians and Board members would be c alling the shots. However, the Board has handled the entire situation poorly. Instead of studying the situation and formulating a plan to allow disadvantaged students or those who ob viously deserve a chance to prove themselves in law school entrance, the Board quickly pushed through a decision that was totally lacking in planning. then Board chairman T. Eston >ach Marchant admits that plans for s as the committee were not yet ri an formed and that a meeting that with law school officials must h san still be held. sing All of* these things should have taken place before the je,Board decided that the 7 per '70's cent selection process was and ters THE GA1 and tited E rid. JIM" 1 ome lack Managing Editor pun, STEVE PARKER hers News Editor Photograph heir BILL PRATT MARlMA plits. nake Entertainment Editor Productios1 sar- CHUCK CROMER TERRY ated have The Gamecock welcomes letters from re subject and a maximum of 300 words. They >ld 27 Pse.Jdonyms or other aliases will not be us I and circumstances warrant. To assist us in ve, gygg. your mailing address and a telephone numb bunk right to edit all letters, not for content, bi Campus Opinion, Drawer A, USC, Columt )LIN tissions 1. riecessary. The law school )bviously feels the proposal is riot needed and their opinion should have been searched for months ago. Clemency program Quietly, almost without notice, the conditional clemency program for Viet nam war military deserters and draft evaders ended Monday. Only 22,500 of 126,900 men eligible to apply had done so. Ironically, news of the. clemency program's ending was hidden beneath an avalanche of dispatches from newsmen in Saigon and Phnom Penh detailing the latest news on the retreating South Viet namese and the fleeing Lon Nol. It is evident that just more than two years after the Paris Peace Agreement was signed South Vietnam will fall to the North Vietnamese. The United States, which spent more than a decade trying to help South Vietnam, should realize that any effort they make to arm the Vietnamese with military supplies will only prolong the agony in Indochina. Congress should resist President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger's attempts to get supplemental military aid. Then the President and Congress should make another attempt to come up with a clemency plan that is ac ceptable to a large number of draft evaders and military deserters. Only then will the United States be on the road to recovering from its un successful foreign policy mistakes. [ECOCK Advertising Manager ART FRANK y E ditor Sports Editor SENG PETE FEHELEY Manager Copy Desk Chief COON FRANK DELOACHE aders. Letters should be limited to a single must be signed with the writer's true name. ad, but the writer's name will be withheld if 'ifying the identity of writers, please include er where you can be reached. We reserve the it to meet our space limitations. 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