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We lopned th W and that studeni ceulty afifairs? If"was a firm no from tlh g t Ierings behind close of stuidents, I euthority for t I riefThe damecopck c rtfnent to the student body." bMA, help wondering just what facunt university are NOT "pertinent to t w huWt up for a while. faculty inet. According to the report - romnresident Jones, the faculty asked ft ithe athletic program at the Universi and economic %asibility of enlarging ti said his - report. was "sufficient" ar Nit,h7wever, the faculty resolution (maik flhembers before the meeting) was specific on finances, plans, programs ar tietics in the curriculum. For some reasc ly not considered "pertinent to the studei place of athletics, its finances, plans ar aren't considered the business of students As Who's the University for, anyway? If faculi want to know more about athletics, wh westudents know about it? W* h%Ve triticized closed meetings as deprivin stpbts Gjnd the public of the right to know what publi 1edl4 are doing. We have contended that it is dangerou o eW or two people to decide what is "pertinent" fo . We feel students should be allowed to attend th fetinjsi hear all the facts, read them in The Gamecoc Md decide for themselves what is "pertinent." Itis cler from this week's case that as long as facull ineWings are closed, students will get incomplete, suga reports. They will be deprived of the opportunity beup-to-date, fully informed and able to participate tIYersity life with a thorough knowledge of what's goir on We hope Student Government, dorm governments, It teret groups, concerned students, sympathetic facult embers and everyone else-will make themselves hear on this Issue. Keeping information secret does nobody an g.d. It just leads to suspicion, confusion, misui Ndrstandin6 and hostility. if that's better for the University than free and ope discussion of issues, we're in sad shape. 2: 'sgo easy on last-week tests week's "meanest guys on campus" award goes t those thoughtless professors who persist in giving quizze nid papers the week before final exams. While professors are requested to refrain from suci cruelties, no one can stop the practice. One can only hop that poesr iludrtn htrveigsol bgnnow for final exams and that students should notb over burdened with excessive class work a few days befor exams. kIn fact, a 'two-day reading period before exams is al Uexcellent idea which keeps recurring and keeps gettin thumbed down. Early this year Student -Senate passed bill requesting such a period. The bill echoed simila measures passed in years previous. But no action has been forthcoming and students now g Snto their first exams with a grand total of two day (turday and Sunday) since their last class. If the hppen to have two or three exams on the first few day! they're in. big trouble. Tevalue of two days for reading---or lust relaxing, I the student chooses---can hardly be estimated. in man cases exams count for a third or a half or even all th grade; they're important and students need the time fo 'proper preparation, less tension and pressure. It Is probably too much to hope for a reading period thi semester (although it would be a most progressive an ckisiderate move). We do hope, however, that there wi be one next semester. Meanwhile, go easy on those last-week quizzes. Pleas4 THE GAMECOCh Carl Stepp Jack Padgett in-ChRuulnaes Manager .0 A~ *Sy d YI' 0 H'I oI. rI y| 14 I. idI dI In "o, it's not a neon sign si id letters USC against th In spirit hat, with USC in I it d The Right ai S.C.'s 8 should By SHERRY SHEALY k Columnist Capital punishment is murder - "legal murder" - and it must be r' abolished in South Carolina! 0 Ask Ohio's ex-Gov. Michae V. In DiSalle. In 1937 he authored the Ig Baby Lindbergh Bill requesting the death penalty for kidnaping. DiSalle confessed he was - "emotionally aroused by the Y kidnaping and subsequent death of d the Matson boy in the northwest y section of our country." Now. 23 years later. DiSalle Is firmly against capital punishment. Why? "Maturly has changed my mind." says DiSalle. "So has living with eight murderers." When DiSalle was governor eight of the nine persons -on the gover nor's mansion 'staff - - had' Meen convitted of murder. Five of the eight slept under the same root with his family. Or ask James Fulton Foster of Greer. Foster was convicted for the slaying of a Jefferson, Ga., merchant in 1966. He was twice Letter Nurses need new facility Dear Mr. Stepp:. We, as nursing students, are writing in regard to the change of S priorities in the University program. Originally, the law school and nursing school had top priority. Now after only one winning season, expansion of the stadium is a deemed more important. We B question this sound judgment of an. administration and state govern ment which would ignore the very evident need for new facilities for nursing. McCutcheon House, School of V Nursing, has only four classrooms. e These are inadequate in size and r heating and in dire need of repair. Because of these inadequacies, more than 300 student nurses must have nursing classes scattered In other parts of the campus. We have no library and our few research books are divided among all of the -libraries on this campus. We offer the opportunity for a guided tour to anyone interested in our dilemma. BARBARA PRINGLE NINA ELMORE SELENA RWYNE PIPE SMOKERS . * PINE PIPES * IMPORTED TOBACCO * PiPE REPAIR * CLEANING SERVICE Carolina comreshop' 14$Moe $treet, Columbio,$.C, TatEPHONE (393) 254.65 SC in bright light lhouettingthe head of a i P .sky. It's a ame. etters, on the >proach 'legal be abo condemned to the electric chair and sat in a cell two years, "awaiting death for a murder he did not commit." Innocent, but a convict never theless, Foster was cleared when Charles P. (Rocky) Rothschild admitted the slaying. In testifying at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committe (S.C.) in 1959 when the death penalty was studied, Foster said, . "No one knows ,how you feel. Only I know...You'll never know how I suffered..." Or ask Lewis E. Laws, warden at Sing Sing while over 150 men were executed: "Capital punishment has never been and never can be anything but an uncertainty. It is a punishment for revenge, for retaliation, not for fo# protection. Wa as have a puisbsept that is pos'sible' of applleai *1vith both certainty and calify, that presents an opportunity for In dividualization of treatment, and that Is in accord with modern crImInological methods. Can we not have the vision to see the possibilities of the fnture, the courage and faith to progress toward those possibilities?" Or ask F. L. Hoffman, L.L.D., Statistician, Prudential Life In surance Company: "No evidence can be produced to show that capital punishment ,acts as a deterrent, or hinderance to even the worst of murder records conceivable. The death penalty, rather to the contrary, acts as a deterrent to swift and adequate justice: Imposes heavy burdens upon taxpayers as the result of long trials, fosters sensationalism of the worst possible typo, and stains the civilization of those who enforce It." Ask anybody who values human life. Capital punishment tends to cheapen human life. It has to be the most pagan of all rituals, even though today's "civilized" people have created improved and more "humane" methods of torture, i.e. the gas chamber and the electric chair. Utah, incidentally, provides for two methods oi legal murder: Steve NV in "The Sharon Farrell Samecock fan at a recent iurder' 1us hed shooting or hanging rather than the chamber or the chair. These "civilized" people who drop the fatal cyanide pellets into the acid of the chamber or who pull the switch on the chair scoff at paganistic practices, such as the Japanese who, at one time, specialized in a death calling for 21 cuts to the human body; or the Chinese who boiled their victims; or the nationality who used to put a board across the body and crush the victim by piling stones on the board. But I guess we of today's society of intellectuals should have no reason for guilt because we practice civilized methods of murder. Ha! South Carolina is developing a rehabilitation program which is one of, the best In the nation and shows promise of improving;, It should soon be top-notch . Then why not use it? Certainly society has an obligation to rehabilitate the murderer whose temporary mental disturbance might otherwise cause him to forfeit the rest of his life. And what of the times an in nocent man is "Iegally" murdered by the state? It's happened, friend. More than once. And the first time it happened was once too much. In March, 1956, a delay of execution reached San Quentin two minutes after fatal cyanide pellets had been dropped in the acid. Now there are very few offenses which call for death, although at one time there were close to 300. Each time one of these offenses was debated and eventually removed from the list of capital crimes, someone hollered that the removal would cause in increased rate of crime. The warning has not proven correct in any of the cases, as crime did not result from the removal. To this date we have "not one single fact to support the belief that the death penalty holds down the murder rate." IcQueen Reivers" I, Will Geer .1-35-7-9 J| victimn Doar.Mr. 8Spp: it seems today that everyone Is shouting law and order. What is unfortunate about this Is that nobody Is' shouting justice. Recently, I have been the un fortunate victim of this and a few otheW problems of our "lIbertyiand justice for all" state. Wednesday at approxImately 12 p.m. I was arrested and detqirAd by the Columbia Police NOW ment. A friend was also arrested with me. As a result of a con troversy Inside Don's earlier that night a fight occurred outside Don's about 11:40. I witnessed only a part of the fight as Ihad to take a friend's date to her dorm. After leaving her I Immediately returned to what was to be the scene of my "crime." What happened after I returned follows: I emerged,from my car to investigate the presence of ,two police cars and an ambulance. I was concerned about the condition of one of the injured whom I had met that night and another friend who I knew to be here and possibly involved. I walked over to find a policeman and a person who was shouting at him to find out what I could Looking around I saw about 12 males who I could only describe as "Southern." Tere were a few longhairs, including myself. From what I gathered and had seen I concluded that the "Southerners" had attacked two people. Ap parently nobody was being arrested for either disturbing the peace, being disorderly, or assualt. I was appalled at the fact that so many had attacked so few. In disgust I turned away and shouted something which will not be repeated until after I appear in court. What I said was to the effect that the "Southerners" should be locked pp. The policeman, thinking I had said an obscenity immediately FRM OPT TH MSTF $bni t2A0 I e Al I order wonders placed me In his patrol car. the fact that I was under arrest was never told to me Until long after I had been in the police station. A friend, in a peaceful attempt at. what 4 can only describe as courteous reasoning with another officer, was placed inm thi patrol car with me. SA paddy wagon was called and took us to the police station. The presiding officer's attitude at the dtatiod was extremely similar to Officer Oble's (Alice's Restaurant). I was booked for being disorderly, my -friend for being disorderly and disobeying an officer. We appear in court Friday night. The attackers and or the people with them were allegedly footbal players. It Is Ironic that the only two people arrested, one of which was not even present at the fight, and the other who was peacebly in volved, both had long hair. No one who took part In the violence, I believe, was arrested. With a fight, and at least 12 people present, and shouting and yelling (not all of it clean), it seems an odd state of affairs that only two were arrested. Most of the people involved were the type one would expect to dig law and order. I guess that what repulsed them is that law and order is little more than peace. If law and order cannot be had, please let us have justice. FRANK D. TARDIF Got a Questibi Ask Inquiry Box U-5131 ?"THE YEAR'S BEews T:3:12 Og 7:04 - t P.M M8UHIII8 l:I# -3:15 5:15 . 7:15 - 9:15 BOTTOM .. . iN IN-JTOWNI! s. 1 .25. 4:34 - 6:17 . 3:00 "AMBUSHERS" and . SINGLES ONLY