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ceulty afifairs?
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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
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By SHERRY SHEALY
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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