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VO1.. LX- No. 94 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, May 16, 1970
Students argue about heckl!
during the rally Thursday at I
ReportL,
on Pol..
Two USC students are collecting
eYeNwiiness accounts on "police
brutality" and "over reaction by
1he police" during the recent
unrest on campus, hoping that
(ov. McNair "will have a probe
and very thoroughly."
The collecting of statements is in
response to student reaction on
whal happened at the Men's
Towers on May 12. They said they
were doing this "because many
students believe that these officers
are attempting to cover up what
actually occurred."
Beau White and lavid Roach
will he collecting information until
Tlhursday and then hope to talk to
( ov. Robert McNair personally.
Roach said they wanted to let
students and citizens know what
was going on and what has gone on.
Tlhey asked that any student or
facult y member having eyewitness
acc'ounts contact Beau White,
Room 717 K dorm. Box U-3832.
They also plan to give the in
formation to newspapers, wire
services and U1. S. Sen. Ernest F'.
Hiollings. White and Roach said
they felt this would put the burden
on the Governor.
, At least 23 statements from
students have been received.
l"ive students said they were
beaten by police: 13 said they saw
others beaten. Twelve students
said they saw dorms gassed.
Numerous students said they
witnessed police in dorms.
One student, Jack Classen, who
lives on the first floor of L dorm,
said "my roommate and I were
inside all night. (We have 6 wit
nesses) I turned around and saw a
-state policeman run into my room.
I walked towards my door (heard a
lot of noise in my room). Other
state policemen (5 to be exact)
followed and saw me, I was
walking slowly toward my door
and one came at me and clubbed
me.
"He pushed me past the others, I
kept pleading with them saying
that that was my room and they all
clubbed me as I went by. I turned
around and they pushed my
Sroommate out of our room and he
fell down - blood on the floor.
They hit him while he was on the
a floor. He got up and they pushed us
both outside. They left us because
' they knew that they could not
arrest us because they pulled us
n ut of our own room. My roommate
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were shot at the door and windows.
The air in the room became
Ilooded with gas and it was im
possible to breath. We had to stay
in the room or run outside and face
arrest and clubbing which was the
thing to do by police.
"We decided to make a run
upstairs and we made it. The same
night. my roommate was arrested
and clubbed. l)uring his arres;, he
was not informed of his rights or
reasons for arrest. He was not told
until the following day of the
charge,s and bond."
Hoth Col. P. E. Thompson,
direct or of lawV enforcement for the
patrol and Maj. W. J. Seaborn,
otlicer in charge at the scene.
denlied entering the dorm.
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ealitie
at the time), only 11
people's time had<
p as point. I knew I
er. eternity in this cor
(acid time had passed d
anses activity. At first I
ir the then I realized tha
ever trip wvas about.
"When I talked
said, intensity dropped.
ck of ()nce I stared
I wl while the andu
enljo hollyhock t hat shot
verycom mode changed
very size to oil drum si;
gri People drifted in
dow apartment. I coul
tisley background, 'It's
the TIhat's the sixth on
as on "At one pointlI'ci
afore. a speed freak stick
his arm. He said.
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ity. I periencing itrange
t th "After I peaked a
hings down, I started ani
the what I had done, be
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spent I have yet to find a
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met
days
This weekend, for the first time
in days. National Guardsmen
again seemed out of place and the
Horseshoe semed made for
springtime 1rolicking.
Although guardsmen and police
remained on alert. the campus was
quiet. Friday night's curfew of
midnight to 1; was a welcome
relaxation of the earlier 9 to 6
hours. Saturday and Sunday the
curlew was lited entirely. with the
'state of emergency' pro
clamation remaining in effect.
The few persons remaining on
campus heard occasional
lirecrackers. A few bottles were
broken here and there, and scat
tered fragments of glass were
reminders of more turbulent days.
Blacks
on Jacks
"I can't say I was greatly
shocked," was the reaction of one
black student at Carolina to the
deaths of two Jackson State
College students Thursday.
"Orangeburg wasn't but two
years ago," Turner McCullough, a
junior majoring in journalism,
continued. "It was more of a
continuation of insults being
thrown at black people."
McCullough said that some of the
black students at Carolina are
"resentful of the fact that two
students can stand outside a dorm
in Mississippi and get shot, while
LAtland outside. the Hoeyconbs
and only get cannisters of tear
gas."
Commenting on the disturbances
at Carolina last week, McCullough
said. "I did not think that the
whites at Carolina had enough guts
to get together and do anything. I
believe that the strike showed that
Carolina is waking up. The con
frontation with the National Guard
and deliberate violations of the
curfew seem to indicate that
people are at last coming out of
apathy and that Carolina is going
to change."
Black students will support
strikes and rallies, McCullough
said. but "as far as active par
ticipation. we know what the
University can do. You can fight it
if vou're white."
"'The concensus of most black
students is that a coalition of black
studIents and white students at
t'arolina is not the getting off stage
of a united movement but a'fest to
see if black students can get along
iuts ofohrare
inute of therwith their
~lapsed. At one topics.
would spend "Someoi
dition when no the Al ricai
uring weeks of dimension
was distressed ''I c'an't
was what the is fo realiz
there is
or stood the imaginat
reality, it
in amusement it is poss
lating green someone'
tId have been a someone v
from thimble his mind.<
.user, only
and out of the asylum ca
d hear in the own imag
his first trip? knows onl.1
e this week.' or what se
ime to' and saw reachingi
ing a needle in bit free.
How long has itrihsld
a two e's I was tihusanad.
ra weks, ex- mos na
mnd was cominlg possible,
masane rap about outide.
en and so forth, outade.
d the same grin hols unn
i.joy my talk as frighteninj
:hey had to say. "The tr
group who is so hours of y
someone else's ten hours
ut interrupting o n es.r
week(
of diS
In aleneral. however. campus
was (lifiet. in contrast to Tuesday
and Wednesday nights' disorder.
Students f ound the weekend a nice
Iiime to head for home and the
beaches.
'riday night. after a state of
ficial had talked about "getting the
bovs and girls together for some
hin tonight. it rained. "ilf it had
rained about Monday." one
st udent said. "maybe things would
have been much different."
A -People's Parade" to mark
.\rmed Forces failed to
materialize Saturday when less
than 5 people showed up for a 9
a in. rally on the steps of the
Sl atehouse.
About 20 people marched against
fte rally. They were across the
i!omment
on State
with white students at Carolina.
'Continued on Page 4)
ississippi de
Protes
A group of students will gather to
show their concern about the
deaths of two Jackson State
College students today at 1 p.m.
The rally is scheduled for the
Horseshoe if the state of
emergency which has barred
meetings on campus is lifted and at
Maxcy Gregg Park if the state of
emergency is still in effect.
The decision to hold the rally was
made at a series of meetings held
during the weekend. "It's a sort of
ad hoc group," Mrs. Barbara
Ex-her.
talks o
BY MICHAEL HALL
Staff Writer
Yes. Dixie Cup, the Mafia is in
town operating its own take-out
stores.
A person who refused to identify
hemself over the phone recounted
some of his drug experiences to
Tlhe Gamecock recently. This
person said he was an ex-addict
own more important own:
polit
e handed me pictures of seerr
coast. They were three and
~l. worl
stress how important it .
Sthat to a person on acidthi
no such thing as dont
on--everything isdn
s possible to be a cigar,an
ible to be a tooth in tripj
mouth, etc. Only to c4
'ho really has control of -"-I
inly a genius, only a drug reve
an inmate in an insane any.
i enjoy a reality of their didn
nation. No person who I-m
what he reads in a book anot
mieone tells him without anot
ito his mind is the least hank
me gave me some tuna fron'
Wow ! My mouth had ten lip s,
aste caves. It was the get
teful, tasteless food Hut
still dark. I walked "
The sidewalk wa&s assu
and valleys with large sup
e of it was the least Bru4
- wha
plasted about twelve UnIE
our time. For the next men
people of all sorts I saw troul
a smiled at me. Shop prev
,d fo
:urban
sI reet They wore construction
helmets with American flags on
Ih'n Hoth groups were out
rotestors t
W ednesday,
A jury trial for approxima
arrested after the May 7 take
been set for Wednesday a
Magistrate H. E. Watts.
Action will be taken TI
magistrate's court on the
arrested for curfew violatior1
A warrant is out for the a
charged with conspiring and
for the purpose of destroying r
in connection with the inciden
at the Administration Buildii
Several arrests were mad
spiracy charges.
Mrs. Barbara Herbert, on
there is a possibility of a fedet
the University for suspent
hearing.
iths
t rally
Herbert said. "I don't think people
are out to challenge authority.
They just want to show their
concern for what happened at
.ackson State."
The rally' is "two-foid." ac
cording to Rita Fellers. "The first
purpose is to express horror at the
killings at Jackson State." she
said. 'The second purpose is to
give expression to the fact that
during the past week many
Carolina students have learned for
)in add,
F1 drug
who wanted USC students to know
more about heroin.
lie began by saying he had cold
turkeyed his habit following a
near-fatal overdose of poison. He
said his Mafia supplier had sold
him a bag of pure strychnine.
After shooting up half the bag he
said he went to a local hospital for
dual
-rs. rednecks, old ladies,
emen. little children all 6
ed to sense my amazement
amusement at the regular
have always been annoyed
people talk about what they
know about. After acid, it
yvs me more. If you haven't *.
led. don't talk about it except :'
'ople who have.
had no great internal
lations, but I wasn't out for
It didn't change my life, it
tentice me to harder drugs. I
not hooked on acid. But is
her culture, another life,
ier way of relaxing without
overs. getting in frights, etc.
got two worthwhile things
acid. F"irst, before I had done
'rvice to 'I don't need it;i I can l
there with my imagination.' i
now I know. E
econd, one has no right to
me his concept of reality is
rior to anyone else's. Lenny
e wrote, 'Reality is what is,
tshould be is a dirty lie.'
88 you're one of those people I
tioned before, you'll have
ble reconciling that with my
ious statemeant."
Ilows
Ces
numbered by policemen.
The rally group had no parade
rimit. they admitted later.
o be tried
Thursday."
fely 20 persons who were
over of Russell House has
t 10 a.m., according to
Nursday at 10 a.m. in
cases of some of those
is last week.
rrest of about 20 persons
entering a public building
ecords and other property
t in the Treasurer's Office
ig a week ago.
e last week on the con
e of those arrested, said
*al suit being filed against
ling students without a
today
the first time how it feels to be
black."
-With the police on campus
many students have learned what
it 's like not to have any channels to
go through."* she said. "Now for
once they are thie''&fty. P61ice
have gone into innocent people's
rooms. taken them to prison and
not listened to them."
"''he rally is for the general
student who can't be apathetic
when innocent people have been
hurt." Miss Fellers said.
0
Ict
use
treatment. The hospital staff
called a State Law Enforcement
)ivision agent who told him he
would receive help if he revealed
his sources.
He st ated he lay on the admitting
ta ble b r three hours not knowing If
he would live before his body
began ridding itself of the poison.
Tlhe only aid he got was a wet
washcloth trom a nurse.
Speeds and barbiturates were
sub)situted for heroin after he left
t he hospital,: he said.
He described heroin and other
opiates as putting him in a dif
lerent warp or frame of reference.
He said the warp was very
profound and cerebreal (thought
provoking) at first. But he added
that physical addiction took away
any' mental pleasure of the drug.
Over the phone he spoke in lab
technician terms and said drug
users know as much about use and
cft ect of various drugs as medical
personnel.
When asked about drug sup
pliers, this person said both the
Mtalia and independent dealers
sold hard and soft drugs. He said It
was easier to find a narcotics
dealer after five p.m. than an open
grocery store. 'Te works for
narcotics (hypo, needle, etc.) are
available from numbers of legal
sources he said.
He added that acid ([SD) had
given him the same warp dif
lerence and mental exercise at
first but had become boring and
lust another habit after a while.
He added cautions to USC
students. First, many students, he
said, are ignorant of the dangers
some of the drugs in C0hmnbIA
hold, especially when takap
Whu competent superviIog'
'Second, Iow grades et ses *
are sold on campus for stat
are not to be trusted becatue
cannot be sure of theiw sII%
ingrediants, he de
Cneluding his
person said, - ~ 4*
make Itsalf