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]y CARL STIMPP Associate A seris reviWw af Caroina policites cocerning "doub] Jeopardy" is one of the campu Mo0t Presging needs, particular in light of recet actions against student c1harged with criminm offenses. "Double jeopardy" meanj simply, being punished twice fc the same offense. It has long be held by many respected perso that a student involved in criminal dispute should not I subject to additional academ punishment. The "Statement of Stude Rights and Freedoms Within t] Academic Community," which ha been approved by the Board Trustees and is official policy, clear: "Students who violate the la may incur penalties prescribed I civil authorities, but institution authority should never be use merely to duplicate the function general laws. Only when the i stution's interests as an academ community are distinct an clearly involved should the speci authority of the institution 1 asserted." What this means, in short, is th the University should leav criminal matters to the cour unless its academic interests ar specifically concerned. Lately, however, it seems ti University is asserting its interes into matters which strain th definition. One student, Bre COOL 01 ENJOY YOUI BRING A FRIEN DAIRY QU BRAZIE HOME OF THE I REIRESHING TREATS Il * Mr. Misty * Milk * Parfays * Sundaes * Ice Cream Sandwich * Banana Splits * Cokes * Co PLUS 1hE BEST BRAZIl BROILED BURGERS IN TOWN 1366 rtosewood Drive (Opposite University of South Carolina Roundiousr Open 10:30 a.m. Close 10:30 p.m. Daily wi THEE: R EST 629 1 (Across froi Lunch and THIS V INCLUDES: CHOICE OF Save Stepp .back ble jeopi BurSey, has been the example of numerous punitive efforts of the administration: first, when not a student, he was barred from the campus; second, after gaining readmittance, he was suspended after being charged (not con victed) with a criminal offense; he was again admitted - but only to attend clases - by the discipline Is committee, at least some mem e bers of which objected to high s' handed administrative attempts to ly unfairly get rid of Bursey; upon a indictment (which is not con k viction), Bursey was again suspended. This is a complicated story, but C one fact emerges: a student has m been bounced in and out in school is without ever being convicted. a This is called "presumption of e guilt," and is un-American, as ic everyone knows who remembers the old saying, "you're innocent lt until proven guilty." i However, the University accepts s "guilty until you prove yourself of innocent." In fact, one trustee - is Michael J. Mungo - has in troduced a resolution calling for w the suspension of any student ly charged with a felony or major al mismeanor. d If trustees passed his resolution, of the University would bind both n- "double jeopardy" and ic "presumption of guilt" into a d highly questionable regulation. al Even without the regulation, the )e University may be on thin ethical and legal grounds. Again, the at statement of rights applies: e "Pending action on the charges, ts the status of a student should not e be altered, or his right to be present on the campus and to at te tend classes suspended except ts where the administration deter Is mines such action is necessary for tt his physical or emotional safety tSELF, ID TO E EN R iOST W TOWN shakes es ER IG BIRD AURANT lAIN STREET Ti the Honeycombs) Dinner Specials VEEK $100 1 MEAT 3 VEGETABLES COFFEE OR TEA DESSERT 90* with Meal Ticket IING 11-5, 58 trdy?' and well being, or for the safety of students, faculty or University property." The intent of this is clear: the University shouldn't harass a student charged with crime unless absolutely necessary. Whether the University is violating this statement is questionable. So Is whether it is off base in presuming guilt or sub jecting students to double jeopardy. At any rate, there is enough evidence to support an in vestigation - by Student Govern ment, the faculty, or the ad ministration. We think clarification of the University's proceedings is called for. Coliseum manager named USC's personnel director Robert B. Horning Jr. has been named acting manager of Carolina Coliseum. Harold Brunton, vice president for business affairs said Horning will direct Coliseum activities until a permanent director is named. Former director Lee Herbert resigned recently to accept another position. Horning, who will continue as personnel director, joined the University last year. Our Man Ho Let By ARTHUR HOPPE. Columnist WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 1972 (cq) - A White House spokesman denied today that President Nixon plans to send General Curtis LeMay to law school. The report cropped up following the Senate's rejection of Mr. Nixon's 17th candidate for the long vacant Supreme Court seat. The rejection of the candidate, Antonius Prior of Tallahassee, Fla., was a bitter blow to Attorney General John Mitchell. Mitchell had personally conducted a two year investigation into every waking hour of the candidate's life. "This time," Mitchell had said, "we are absolutely sure the can didate owns no stock, thinks of all men as brothers, has never made a racist statement nor even an in temperate remark in 30 years, and can be counted on to maintain a dignified silence while under at tack." In voting for rejection, however, Senate opponents cited the doc trine of separation of church and state - Brother Antonius, as he is known, being a Trappist monk. White House hopes for Senate approval had been higher than at any time since 1970 when Mr. Nixon nominated his third can didate to the Supreme Court - Sen. Strom Thurmond. Political observers at the time h ailed the Thurmond nomination as a brilliant piece of Mr. Nixon's Southern Strategy. Not only did the P*resident thus finally pay off Thurmond for his support in 1968, but he consolidated Southern backing against the gravest threat h e faces in 1972 - Gov. George Wallace. C Monster Burger C Monstressly geed Monster Be Crisp French Fries . . . A $1 special pries. FrankI (Ar The 2tradmarka Iicense.d be finiversaIp'Sier "NO GEN us non Sen. Thurmond seemed ideal. He was a Southerner, a strict con structionist and he had legal ex perience, having served as City Attorney of Edgefield, S. C., in 1929. Moreover, his confirmation was assured as a matter of Senatorial courtesy. Unfortunately, Sen. Thurmond himself rejected the nomination. "I've been fighting the Supreme Court man and boy for 60 years," he said, "and I'm not about to go over to the enemy." After that, the White House admitted, the selection grew more difficult. Mr. Nixon took to calling prospects personally. "HI, there," he would say. "I just want you to H ow can be this a By RON LESLIE Guest Columnist As you walk through the Carolina campus, a sample of conversations quickly reveals the diversity of student opinion on Peace. The only remarkable aspect of this diversity is the degree of acceptability war has attained here. The United States is engaged in an immoral war; a war In which our devotion to honor is serving no legal function. No international treaty requires our presence in Vietnam. to be there itself con stitutes a violation of the United Nation's Charter. Arthur Goldberg, a former Justice of the Supreme Court and United States Delegate to the United Nations, gives the United Nation's Charter a position as an internationally recognized legal document. This charter has rules requesting any party to an in ternational problem to request third party arbitration to settle disputes. ampus Night wend embinatios Plate .10 v.lue ceti.on to cashier we IOM STREfET Bidge) ... C. 0ee Frauk Nr Sem netas ?6. TLEMEN, WE ZOV- THE unate t know that next to Haynsworth, Carswell and Thurmond, I think you're the greatest judge in the country and .. . Hello? Hello?" (Some feel that Brother An tonius, who is of course under a vow of silence, was nominated simply because he couldn't say "No!" His habit in recent weeks of constantly shaking his head vigorously from side to side, however, was described by the White House as "a nervous tic.") In any event, experts agree Mr. Nixon has now more than repaid Sen. Thurmond by sending the names of 13 other Southern. con structionists to the Senate. None was mediocre - the caliber of unjust w cceptable? It clearly disavows war as a first step in resolving international disputes. We have, by our military presence in Vietnam, violated the supreme document of in international law which has a provision pertaining to in ternational disputes. If we refer to the present leadership in Vietnam in order to obtain a moral justification for the war, we again find difficulties. The present leadership of South Vietnam is composed of those persons who supported the French in their efforts in the French-Indo Chinese War. They received the training in the The Gamecock The Gamecock is pubilahed tru-weekly during the fall and spring semestera with the exception of University holidays and exam periods. Change of address forms. sub scrIptIon requests and other mall Items should be seast to Drawer A. UsC. Columbia. s.C. 2326. subscriptioa rates are 86 per year or S3 per semester. Bulk copies are 86 per 100. The Gamecock thIs year receIved 637.666 from the student activity lund entItling full-lime students to a subscription to the paper. Of fices of The Gamecock are In Rooms 366 and 316 of the Russell House on the University campus. Phones are 7771, 777-4249 and 777-4220. second class postage paid at Columbia. s.C. The editor la chief is Jim wanaamaker. Although The Gamecock Is published by the University of south Carolina, the opiloes published herein do not necessarily represent those of the Unlversty, the student body or the staff of the paper. PIPE L O ,SMOKERS * FINE PIPES * IMPORTED TOBACCO e PIPE REPAIR * CL.EANING SERVICE CAROLINA CAMERA SHOP, 1n. COtUMSIA, S.C. 1 405 M AIN ST. Ph. 254.4234 AC.C* ogether candidates having deteriorated since Judge Carswell. But the President still faces the problem of removing the threat Governor Wallace poses to his re election chances. He may well have solved that problem, however, with tonight's late an nouncement from the White House: "The President will send to the Senate tomorrow the name of a true Southerner, a strict con structionist and a distinguished jurist who served as judge of the Third Judicial District pf Al bama from rge t t98 9 0- aarge a(opyright Chronicle Publishing Co 1970) French Air Force; they should by all moral rights assume the same position in our hearts as those valiant Americans who remained Tories during the American Revolution because of financial considerations. When asked his reasons why the United States failed to support the conclusion of the Geneva Con vention of 1954. which called for national Vietnamese elections in 1956. President Eisenhower said that, in effect, we couldn't. because the system of government we favor would have lost. These facts are pretty much agreed upon, even by those who support the war, so one question remains, "How can anyone be so morally bankrupt as to support such a war?" Injunctior (Continued from Page 1) College. They will be open from 9 a.m.-4i p.m. Rierson said that the specific Read paper Dear Mr. Wannamak,er: One of the first things I noticed on Monday's editorial page was a letter from Sen. Leppard headlined "Drop academic requirements." On reading the letter, I found he meant only those requirements for those running for office in student government. I was disappointed. Frankly, we should drop academic requirements. STEVE SKEL.TON The University c prese "Blood, Sweat 8:00 p.m., May 8, at th Coliseum. Tickets are $4.O0 bought by mail. check 201 Acemic.: Bui.dung UGi Letter Suspension law unwise /Dear Mr. Wnnamaker: It has been brought to my at tention that there is a measure under consideration In the South Carolina legislature that would prohibit attendance in a state supported college of anyone convicted of a drug violation. (In fact, within our university students have been forced to drop out even before being proven guilty In the courts.) The consideration of such a law brings to mind one apparent question: Just how much does the state and the University of South Carolina care about the welfare of its youth? It would appear that the state is more intent on the punish inent of a crime than the rehabilitation of the convicted one. It is evident that our state Is deviating drastically from the principles founded by the first colonists of America. This country was established on the principle of "second chance." Afterall, the founding colonists were merely European "rejects," who came to the New World for a second chance. Then the youthful USA itself gave its citizens a third chance by various acts which allocated free property in the West for those who had also failed in this country. Why then, I ask, does the state of South Carolina take the reverse course from that which made our nation as great as it is, and why doesn't the administration of the University of South Carolina take a stand against what is evidently a deprivation of the basic rights of its students? Although the state seems to ignore the welfare of Its youth by proposing such "retarded and paradoxical" laws, it seems that President Jones would have some consideration for his students. It's high time the government and residents of the state use a little foresight, although it may strain a muscle that our state seldom uses. Expulsion from college can not only ruin a student's life, but will also deprive the state of the well educated citizens which it definitely lacks. The administration of our university. as well as the citizens of the state. should begin to defend its youth that is on the verge of being deserted by both the school and the state. How can the university morally deprive its students of an education because of a few mistakes? Legislation such as this can only result in a wider generation gap, a less educated populace, less respect for the state laws, and possible social turmoil. Our state needs all of its youth educated - not just a privileged portion. Education may be the possession of which no man can be robbed, but it is also the right (not a privilege. but a right) of every individual. President Jones. wake up! You should be creating intelligent minds, not destroying them. It should be apparent to every mature individual that a few youthful mistakes should not destroy one's future livelihood. Our future leaders should be protected. At a time when South Carolina should strive to educate its citizens, it is taking several giant steps backward. I am horrified by the proposal of such a law, and I am astounded that the administration of our school has not taken an adamant stand against such unconstitutional, unethical, and grossly mundane law. RKICK ID. HALTIZEG3AR i lifted instructions given should take care of the procedural difficulties which the elections ran into last semester. "There is no excuse for anybody not knowing about the elections," Hierson said, "It will be well publicized by us." He noted that because of the change of election, the mandatory meeting required of candidates will be April 22 and nominations must be in by April 20. Debates concerning the elections have also moved up a week as a result of the changes. The first debate, in which candidates for major offices will present them selves will be April 23 and a debate for runoff elections will be April 28 with the runoff election being April 29. f Georgia IFC ~nts & Tears," e University of Georgia per person and may be B are to be meiled to IFC, L, Athens, Geoi 30601