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the dead ed the second anniversary of the deaths thdents---shot by police officers. 00thing like that will ever happen to us 7-7 white, we are middle class, we are and we are at the big University and not StIe Coflege. But when one--or 28--is shot in the night though popular or safe at the time---be ter all several white University students at the airport a month after the B~ut, that was just an accident --- a (114"Itulation on the part of one officer. And, what's being to wing shot? Yet, no action has been taken AOONW'* the officer here. 'nTd ys after the deaths Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times completed his study of the deaths and found: "no materlol evidence that any Negro students were armed with firearms" at the time of the clash with state police. He iCalrmed that medical records showed that 18 of the 28 shot were struck from behind. Two of those fatally shot were shot in the back and that one was beaten by officers and dragged away after being shot. Two students were shot in the s?les of their feet and a number while lying on the ground---some crawling away and others lying flat. Nelson based his contentions that the students did not fire on the police at the time of the clash in 1) that no one reported seeig students with guns at that time, 2) that no officers were shot, 3) that no weapons were confiscated, 4) that Associated Press photographer Dozier Mobley---who was quoted by his own news service as saying it was an ex' hange of gunfire---later said that there was no student fireOut "the police panicked," 5) that several television netrk news crews there at the time used the same words: ''the police panicked," and 6) that "there was no material evidence of any kind that the students fired immediately before the incident." 'Course, we all know that 'nothing like this would ever happen to us. Would it? Dixieland blues Oh I Uish I was in the land of cotten injustice there is n'er forgotten. Look away, and maybe the whole problem will go away The situation was bleak. Carolina had a slim lead (50 points or so); the crowd was calm (only leaping to its feet every minute); the team was dragging (they missed at least one of every 10 shots). But there came the pep band to the rescue, with their rousing rendition of that noted spirit song, "Dixie." Did the team come alivel No, but the crowd did---at least the insensitive racists on hand. They again showed that ignorance and prejudice J v rl,o l lina. Y . It I e that peo"*044M now haxw-etercity and don't live In barns should contiove lo tolerate such a nauseating relic of the past. Once again decent members of the Carolina community were humiliated, this time before a television audience, by the playing of the worn-out war song. It was verbal hate mail, silliness at its peak. It was bush hick. To anyone living in thee twentieth century, it was sickening. To you others, it probably was nice. Lords of the ring Student Government's most recent attempt to face the pressing problems of Carolina involves that all-important, timely concern: class rings. Students are being had, Student Government has discovered, because ther is only one class ring. Thqt is a monopoly, so SG leaders are brilliantly seeking to provide a choice of rings by coming up with a new,competitive ring. Meanwhile, we are told, SG will get $3 from each ring and students will be happy because they have broken the monopolistic stranglehold on the rings. We heartily commend our devoted guardians of. the government for their efforts. After all, problems like parking, Siater, racism, curriculum reform, reacher evaluation, consolidation of Student Government and the lack of student decisionmaking at USC have been stagnating for years; why should we takie them now? Especially with the ring situation so critical. 111111 TUES., FEB. 17 Discount To USC Students 4 IN PERSON 4 * N N N TH TEPTATIONN N P usIcJE sNCK"UNNING AWAY' * Plus TNE ORISINALs MISS SLINKY * Admission $4.50-$4-$3.50 -- ALL' .SEATS RESERVED. $1.00 OFF! 34.50 AND $4 TICKETS FOR USC >dkins: The ins, by 'r Asi S~LL -NMRtt @ r oers w0v vot4 aA 1$ NAW o rwo F?e*ms ON HAWl 04 COA)Ffil NOW~ CAN # t " A C tA OrSMIO.j --~ ~ --i. IM~ 30 STAM"V NUMRI6 LIK -- TWAT F we TW p coo ON 94T*A d APE pp Letters king the g state to adtnire and imitate. Maybe the students at Carolina are the only ones who don't see it this way. They haven't shown great interest in home games, as is obvious with the number of lef tover tickets. Maybe a few are studying and earning their grades. Name withheld by request Just an error Dear Mr. Wannamaker: editorial concerning one of our newscasts in which the recent ] M4 FR IE0 FRED CRE A ALL YOU CANE THU] HOMI COUNTR STE POTATOE ROLLS VEGETABI ALL OF 1 El SPECIALS KNOX AD CAYCE RE ON Odder B( o*ney tu l 5f-: TA 0Ht GH IT 84 WS u N r ? HT Dear Mr. annamaker AND sm! -- P'AY, CA R A 80% I . wa uiu hnIlAned b 0 Ma Dear Mr. Wannamakser: I was furious when I learned from experience that some ot our varsity basketball players, who supposedly make good grades, cheat on finals to make them. I doubt the veracity of these sports writers who obviously are com menting o grades without any research into how they make these grades. Obviously, all that is important is that they make good grades along with a national ranking and recognition of South Carolina. 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The operator on duty. was previewing the taped "laughter" drop-in, and because of the newness of the equipment did not realize this was going "on the air." We at WUSC Radio regret the incident, and wish to apologize to anyone offended by it. .1OHN 1). RUSS Station Manager Howard ~ew Manag SDAIL Y ~NDAY Ti CHICKEN H ICH FRIES SF MY SLAW AT YOU CA RSDAY F MADE F Y STYLE FRI AK CRE $129 ALL .EYOU CANi THE ABOVE SPECIA BREAKFAf 3G, 2 PANCAKES, BAC( GOOD AT BOTT DR. STAUlRANT' Of 'New Lei Rhetoric By BEN WYNN Guest Columnist The reaction to the closing of the UFO reveals the fallacious logic and unjustifiable dogma behind much of the "New Left's" rhetoric. First, the logic of the assertion that every non-radical is part of a united conspiracy to destroy flower children is opposed by the closing of the UFO. "The arrest of the UFO staff is in keeping with the increasingly overt pattern of repression.. under the Nixon Administration." That the Nixon Administration wants to keep mutinous ideas from circulating among military personnel (Douglas MacArthur reminded us in his "Reminiscences" that the Army can't be a democracy) is no doubt true. But there is no evidence to support an Administration con spiracy to close down radical coffee houses. Recent closings of coffee houses should be looked upon as the result of many in dividual communities' reacting to newly discovered decadent in fluences. That non-radicals constitute ar "establishment" with a single cohesive consciousness does nol hold under inspection. Literally dozens of New Leftists from whc knows where suddenly appearea on campus, performing invaluable services such as manning tables all day, which is certainly not what conservatives at USC want. Our local UAF chapter, we can at least deduce, isn't on the Nixon payroll, which should kill the single, con scious conspiracy theory. Those who look for a single, conspiring capitalistic mind should remember there is a counterpart in those right-wingers who believe a single, international communist conspiracy explains all govern ment actions. With the many crosscurrents in non-radical politics, this panacea that "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" produces the antithesis to freedom of thought which is necessary to justify paranoia toward the rest of society. On the other hand, a second assertion was confirmed: the instantaneous response to "cause" is an indication and purveyor of collectivism's doctrinaireness equating the inflexibility 9f cen--1 tralization. The United States is a great nation because the essence of a Johnsoui ement Pre SPE CIA UESDAY OM EMADE 'AGHETTI ROLLS LEA $ 129A RIDAY ISH FRY ENCH FRIES AMY SLAW EAT$191 LS GOOD AT BOTH BT SPECIAL N, TOAST, JELLY, COF exposed, free-market economy is its em phasis on local decisions. Government intervention should be the exception rather than the rule. We have all heard the fallacious idea that only the Left is capable of dealing with the modern problems of a changing age. In reality, the unthinking response to the UFO points to a ridgidity inherent in radicalism which stifles the in dividual's ability to differentiate the subtleties of varying situations. Many observers have long been aware of a hypostatic quality of the radical mind which brings about instant, identical responses in its participants. "These have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast...but receive power as kings one hour with the Beast." The hour after the closing of the UFO, the Gamecock Room was rife with knowledgeable lawyers all expounding glorious oratories on the intricacies of the law. Immediately, a movement was afoot to point out the nature of the law to the courts. Crowds marched on City Hall. Their absolute self assurance approached a con temporary travesty of The Mob. At one point, we expressed the opinion that individuals could best become aware of the law as the various litigants give their in terpretation in the proper arena the courts, and that the court's serenity is intregal to its im partiality. Indeed, that if marching influences the court's reading of the law (since the courts presumably don't make the laws) it points to a deficiency of our judical system. "But," we were told, "the marches are for the prosecutor, to let him know convicting these people won't do any good. We will continue the UFO." In other words, we will act as we please and make it impossible to enforce laws with which we do not agree. (Tones of George Wallace, Dick Gregory?) The Gamecock, supported by the "S.C. Methodist Advocate," was also interested in the courts. 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