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I0 no onIs. No of a ing self * "1. ~ps Wr iUious. ttle-trial a tar.. and hV* So John Perd moving In o Unlv" Columbia College. He wont kiddin .the tial he said, "W " aren't tylft UnIversity today." "We aren't trying .c b a College today." Today has a way of46MlIng'and It has. While Foard attacks the right of University professors to free speech - unless it Is against undesirables such as the UFO-- University President Thomas P Jones talks about police access to campu. That was last week. What we have riow Is a witch hunt and It's time that somebody b1sids the local affiliate of the American Civil berties Union has the courage to speak out agoInst it. The ta( ulty the American Association of University Professors, the Student Senate, the local press -sihouldn't they see something wrong with investigation or harrassment of professors because they testified in court that they do not disapprove of a coffeehouse. One professor here has compared the trial to the student trials in Czarist Russia of student reformers that forced them underground; that made hard-core revolutionaries; that helped UFO trial: Round one of the UFO trial has beyond a reasonat ended. it did not. The four defendents--Duane Defense attor Ferre, Will Balk, Lennie Cohen Broadwater agree and the UFO, Inc., itself-have great nation, state been found guilty of causing and this is the way w< maintaining a public nuisance. keep it." . The corporation was fine $10,000. Broadwater cha The people were sentenced by UFO as a place Judge E. Harry Agnew to six years could go and not b of imprisonment each. The con- picked out of their r viction was immediately appealed to go without the to the S.C. Supreme Court. ________ Cohen had been released by last night on $7,500 appeal bond and Balk and Ferre were expected to E d be released on bail this morning. The jury took a little over an by hour to shift through the more than 0 a week's testimony. The court room was quiet as the decision was girls or the guns. read. boils down to say Agnew had told the more than that sort of plac 100 spectators, "I want to make it Columbia... clear to each and every one of you "You must find f that whatever may be your believe. Ifyou don feelings, I want no show of betrayed the cause emotions. In the event that I do see have gone forth irl a show of.emotion, some of you when they have i may well-end up.id.-jail.". ehwe will hold it. SaturdayMhediefense had called Defense attorney its last witnesses. Monday both He said, "The sides made their summation because they are he arguments, and the judge charged not here for a pop the jury. not here fo aupop Both the solicitor and the defense We're here to judg attorneys attacked their o- certain acts are crip ponent's witnesses Monday, but or not certain their real cases seemed more criminal." evident in their generalizations. The jury and c< In describing the law to the jury, defendents unpopu Foard said. "You know that this is .Boult said that if a great country and this is a great in town got the sa state and a great county the tention as the UFO burden is on the state of South would be bigger t Carolina from beginning to end...- as teUF the state must prove that guilt plase Ug aeop Our Man Hoppe The dream di By ARTHUR HOPPE mean you kicked (Columnist these years," the) "for some silly dr Once upon a time there was a "We told you all wonderful country called America. a dream," said the It had a wonderful dream. It 'This dream's a dreamed that all men were created the Poles. equal. It dreamed that all kinds of "Some dream vi men could thus live together as let you in their golf brothers. Jews. Tlhis was a brand new dream. "And tax you F'or a million years each man had secular schools lived with his own kind, fighting Catholics. with others of other kinds. So the "Se!parate but people of' the world were excited by cried the feminist Tlhe Wonderful American Dream. "It shows you All kinds or men flocked to society is "crow America to be part of the dream -- students. And they l,ith usnians and Lascar s, rock throwing to bi Paraguavans and Poles. Tran- Now a dream is sylvanians and transvestities. built or gossamer Miraculously, all became imagery. Once yoi Americans. dream, that's all Of course, as with any dream so dream. And yoi wonderful and new, there were believe in it anyr troubles. Once. Americans had to TIhe President tight a terrible war with each other "To bring us toget to save the Union. free the black am today creati men and thereby preserve the Black States or dream. Louisiana. the A hundred years passed. There States or Georgia were setbacks. But progress was UJnited Indian Sti slowly made. The day finally came and1 Oklahoma. TIh when the dream seemed almost a State of Herkeley reali ty. That , oddly enough was lh'lo'sot( when America woke up.goNe Yrk Tlhe blacks stirred first. For a r'li(dMr hundred years they had struggled fmnssgtdv for a place in The Wonderful A eoe h' American D)ream. But the closer Stes tineh they got. the more they saw what wt i w i they had been missing. And the otrslohek more frustrated they became. W~t hni a "Integration's nothing but a 'ls.Adnbt dream." they said angrily. "We'll ltOi'(.f go our own way and do our own eeyhr a thing."ralt,n oe 'Well. if integration's nothing Widru )ei but a dream." said the whites Mrl ra tesily. "It's sure not worth busing l)l Id(LmHua our kids across town for." taintig This arouedAtheeIoran..t"Yo 2tts u nec 40 ee it next? mve the way for the Soviet Revelution. We don't tink it's come lust that far yet, but we wond4r who's next? To ticket, or It must be the season. Everybody seems to iave to come out with a list of candidates to vote for. Wayne Hembree and Doug Jones came out Nith a statement on their platform and a list of :andidates that one should vote for. Last night he same statement was trotted out over the iames of Mike Spears and Chip Galloway. The list of candidates was somewhat different. Spears, a candidate for president of the student body, said, "No, I have no part of that. I'm running on a ticket with no one." Galloway, a candidate for vice president, said fhe list of candidates one was to vote for was not a ticket. If it was, he wouldn't support it; it's lust s group of candidates "running in support of each other." He said he was asked to support the group and he said he would, not as a ticket, but as a group of "qualified candidates." Yes, he was Involved in preparing it: "Just about everybody Nas involved in it." Once again, it seems, the mimeograph machine has been proven to be faster than the brain, freer, more footloose and much more difficult to extract a foot from than the mouth. round om e doubt." Yet, somebody is going to be there and sell them drugs.. It's safer in ey Thomas Columbia to sell drugs, than to run that is is a a coffeehouse." Several pushers nd county, and were given immunity to testify would like to against the UFO. "Just let them have their opinion acterized the and let us have ours. Don't send us vhere soldiers to jail," Boult asked. "That's not "sat upon or against the law, to lead that kind of toney...a place life. Looking bad, talking bad is not ooze, the call against the law. itorial report Jim Wannamaker He added, It Thinking bad is not against the we don't want law. in the city of Boult read from Johnny Cash's song "What is Truth?" The lonely the deens voice of youth did formoneyask. you will have if all those who "When we can compete for full faith that money in this country and we can issed the tor- not compete for ideas, we're going to lose ...it hurts in trying to do leber F. Boult something right about what they thought was wrong (and'1hen being 're on trial arrested)." iopular. We've Boult was through. larity contest. Foard returned for his final vhether or not arguments. linal; whether people are art found the0 wvery business .-'. ne kind of at- ~ lm' lid, 'the police e. "' mn the rest of i a K ug den? "AnyIi gather today, us around all said heatedly, - am?" long it was only acists smugly. ,ad joke," said/ ) en they won't MCEa . liubs," said the support their srs "said the I equal sexes!" ow rotten this 'I d the militant redoubled their Id a better one. a fragile thing. ATTENTION - STUDI opes and misty say it's only a OF FACULTY RETUR tcan't really SORE YOUR WINTEr ore. ad no choice. er." he said. "j DO NOT TAKE THEM I g the United trims, woolens, leather lississippi and sf norepcal Jnited Racist sf norepcal nd Florida. the trically controlled stora es of Alcatraz United Student DO NOT BE MISLED. cago. the Jews ence between storag the Catholics storage. and and th(e i'ed. were( still 50 e'ach man lived .lighting with ids. it was no e'n lor a million e' (itht'r. dre'ame'd The (SURROUNDS ' na.v be nothing 1415 Gervais Street Iream is he't ter 601 Moir Repress About the time the jury got the UFO case Monday, I was trying to 3 over Yes, he gave immunity to pushers: "If it takes that to rid Columbia of this cesspool of evil, I'll do it and I'm proud of it... "What brought all those drugs there? What attracted people from out of town? What made this nuisance? "They'd have you believe that everything they've done is legal. I wouldn't let my children go to that place if I could help it and I think I can... "They have indited me with taking advantage of them...Their testimony indites me, the police of Columbia.. .the people and everyone in Columbia..." Foard had heard a song too. His song was "The Old Rugged Cross." "I doubt if they heard "The Old Rugged Cross" or saw a Bible in the UFO. "If you wanted to know where crime was going on in Columbia, you went to the UFO because that's where the criminal element hung out. -.1 "It certainly must be cesspooYof all nuisance. They are closed and I hope you will write a verdict that will allow us to keep them closed." They did. dd Bodki 7 - Em O4bCrts# MUSMPROPtA NTS AND MEMBERS NING NEXT FALLII CLOTHES WITH US -IOME. Your furs, fur s and suedes will be constructed and elec ge vaults. There is a big differ e and cold VAULT LAUNDRY & CLEANERS HE CAMPUS) 2000 Blossom Street Street GENTLEMEN, TODAY TV TOMORROW- THE UNI% ion smiti convince a friend that acquittal would come rapidly. How could there be any doubt, I idealistically maintained? The defense has blown to smithereens all evidence the prosecution presented. My friend was more cynical. "Don't forget this is South Carolina," he reminded. He was right, of course, and my idealism flew out the window again. The three UFO defendants were convicted, then sentenced to 6 years apiece. It is hard to decide which is more frustrating: the case's outcome, or the fact that so many South Carolinians will refuse to see the trial for what it obviously is. The outcome is outrageous enough. First, there is the archaic,. ill-defined, anti-nuisance law under which the defendants were tried. Second, there are the outlandish bails required of the defendants---more money than many indicted murderers or rapists pay. Third is the trial and conviction. The prosecution relied on flimsy hearsi and plinted'informers. The defens answered each charge and demolished each piece of evidence. Fourth, there is the sentence, reportedly the only recorded in ns WhoL.. TOAD leaAtC*AN IS -, early He'l GieFom a r Calorvsuat The FTDer a bog *Asan nde.-n entbsn.. arl He'l 4E UFO.., rERSITY/ rustice By CARL STEPP Associate editor stance of anyone's being sentenced to jail under the nuisance law. The entire affair would be horrifying to the average person if he read it as fiction. Those same persons may not even pause to realize what a travesty it is for real. Repression ---stupid, narrow minded, unconstitutional, brazen repression--describes the whole mess. And, more flagrantly, the prosection doesn't deny it. It proudly states that it intended to close the coffee house and had wanted to do so for ages. That a handful of small-time politicians would frame some dissenters is not so surprising. But the jury went along. They bought the whole stinking story, and they returned---against all reason--a verdict that convicted three persons. for operating a- peace lyving coffee house dhat some people disagreed with. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is what the trial shows of our judicial system. The jury members sub stituted their individual ideas of good and bad for the legal concepts of right and wrong. This is not justice; it is caprice. Agree or disagree with their politics, the UFO defendants were not guilty as charged. They were guilty only of disturbing the political sensibilities of certain South Carolinians--a non-crime which is what democracy is all about. Undoubtedly, it seems, their appeal will win. All reason and democratic ideals demand it. But then they demanded acquittal in the first place. Riepression overrode justice once. Can we dare hope for justice now? ATTICA RECORDS DISCOUNT LP'S & TAPES BLUES-HARD ROCK Under New Management Maudy's Bosom Bi0ife early. MAother's Day last longer. an FTD florist today. And -lug Bouquet to arrive send it across the street. A special arrangement. Decial mother. Yours. ~~~12.5O quet. Verdict, another travesty Yesterday was only another travesty. Not like the Chicago Eight. There was not the great notoriety. Only the feeling that the owners of an unpopular establish ment - one catering to long hair and dirty jeans - were being screwed. But they were not alone. Anyone with any decency has been shoved up against the wall in a sweeping Under my breath By MIKEKROCHMALNY Associate Editor blow at whatever is holy to justice. Three men have been sentenced on a charge that is at best ridiculous. They have been given sentences that are at best un warrented, at worst repressive. Don't feel sorry for the owners of the UFO - we are the ones who have lost. We, the citizens of Columbia, have shown ourselves a nuisance to morality. If there were real justice, we would be the ones behind bars. AprOn 2-4:30 p.m. -- Student Speakout, Russell. Knuse patio. 2:30 p.m. -- Men's Residence Hall Presidents Advisory Commission in the conference room. of the Pendleton Building. 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