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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
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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 .-'.
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lid, 'the police e. "'
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gather today,
us around all
said heatedly, -
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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
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ore.
ad no choice.
er." he said. "j DO NOT TAKE THEM I
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lississippi and sf norepcal
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nd Florida. the trically controlled stora
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the Catholics storage.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
April30
9:30-11 a.m.. 2-5 p.m. --Mathematics Day in
the Commons Room.
3:30. 6. 9 p.m. -- Movie: "La Guerre Est
Finie." Assembly Room.
6 p.m. -- University Union Dance Committee.
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