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JIM FARRELL EDITOR LUCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED AD. MNGR. EDITORIALS For a few, we all pay It seems that in the population of the Carolina Com. munity there are some who really don't give a damn about others in the community. With the renovation of the Campus continuing the Russell House has just about been completed from within. Along with this progress comes the degeneration of the student population with the ripping off of certain materials from the student union building. When the Russell House has to employ people specifically for the task of keeping an eye on the fur nishings on the new first floor lobby, then it's time to re evaluate the maturity of a group of the community. The policies of the Russell House concerning the visitors and the hours of use are strict enough. Why should the rest of the students suffer because of some jackasses who feel they have accomplished something because they have ripped off a couch that belongs to all the students at USC. We hope that these persons are proud of themselves because they have finally done something. They have -taken away the chance of the other students to say that all the Carolina Community have a chance at maturity. College vote? Most of the so-called experts predicted that the turn out for yesterday's election to fill two vacant Richland County House seats would be 1ghit. And -- fr 0-Once-- thie experts were right: even with the good weather--which, by the way, shouldn't be a factor in the election of represen tatives--the voting was moderate at best and sparse at worst. We don't have the figures.on the percentage of college voters, but a nationwide trend shows that the college-age vote is not all that it is made up to be. In other words, the activism of the college student is more rhetoric than ac tion. We are now wondering is this a picture ot things to come, especially concerning the '72 elections. Are the presidential candidates actually wasting their time wooing the college vote? If they realize they are then the power that the college vote could have had to help change things would be diluted. The irony lies In the fact the people who worked the hardest to win the vote may be the ones who will destroy the gains that came with winning that vote. Gamecock THE GAME COCK is spiblished tri-weekly during the fail and spring semesterd and weekly during the summer semesters with the exception of universitj holidays and exam periods, Change of address forms, subscription requests a n other mall items should be sent to Drawer A, uSc, Columbia, S.C. 29206. Sub scrIption rates are $7 per year or $3 per fall and spring semesters. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. THE GAMECOCK this year received $39,000 from the student activity fund, entitling full-time students to a subscription to the paper. Offices of THE GAMECOCK are in Rooms 306 and 310 of the Russell House on the unlversity campus. Phones are 7774178, 777-4249 and 777-4220. Second class postage paid at Columbia, S.C. Although THE GAMECOCK is published by the student of the university of South Carolina, the opinions expressed herein do no necessarily represent these of the university, the student body or all staff members. Associate Editor................oh T.Gs Assistant Managing Editor.-.-..-.-..-.-..-.-..-.. .oh enb am Sp s E ner ..-.-..-.-.' -.-.-.. -.-. -.. .. .. . ut. e Huckabee SpOrt-l-l-e-s-..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.. ... ...Teddy Hefner and Doug WHlNams chief Phegahr .... ..............ChriClis News ieN....-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.. . .i Norwood -..-..-.-..-..-. .. .. .. .. .. ...Rusty Robinso Featre Eiforand Harry Hope Fecat e ito . . . . ...'..'...'..'..'.. . -...B ob Craft* Taday caviited{ The ol By JOHN GASH Associate Editor Attica is becoming another obscenity in our society. In Viet nam they call it war, in Northern Ireland they call insurrection, here it is an obscenity-the obscenity of hate. In simplistic terms, Attica can be considered the conflict of man versus man, but, as we must realize, we cannot just wade in the water - especially when the water is turning red because of the death of 41- human beings; not pigs, not revolutionaries, not guards, not convicts, but people. The authorities did it for the cause of "law and order" and the convicts did it for "revolution." (However, it appears that eight of the ten hostages were shot, thus, fogging the credence of the of ficials' story. Originally, they had said the eight had had their throats slashed by the convicts.) Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald said he would order the attack again even if he knew what* Guest column Nixon '. (Editor's note- This column originally appeared in The Daily Nebraskan. It was written by Prof. Jeffrey Hart.) On four different occasions so far during his Presidency, Richard Nixon has shown himself capable of moving dramatically-and suddenly-to affect the course of events, and this pattern must be unsettling to his rivals at home and his opponents abroad. His actions on the economic front are only the most recent example of this distinctive Nixonian style. rom the begnlaning of l1S presidency, Nixon's options on Vietnam were severely limited by decisions made in the closing days of the Johnson Administration. Had Lyndon Johnson waited on the bombing halt, and allowed either Nixon or Hubert Humphrey to make that move, then the winner of the 1968 election would have had much more room for maneuver as far as the North Vietnames a concerned. If the new resident had stopped the bombing himself, then he would have been much freer politically to have used the threat of resuming it, even resuming it on a much increased scale. Instead, when he took office in January Letter to the editor Eaton's MR. FARRELL: 'The difficulty in replying to the guest column of Cyrus Eaton lies in how to analyze a disjointed mass of cliches. To comment upon the entire article would be prohibited by space limitations; therefore, I will comment only upon Mr. Eaton's major premises. Mr. Eaton states that "... we have a presidential dic tatorship..."; he supports this conclusion by stating that "The President ignores Congress..." Someone should explain tTie Cnsttution to Mr. Eaton because Ms provisions for a three-branch go vernment forestall a Presidential dictatorship. President Nixon cannot ignore Congress because for all his prime time speeches,.he can only propose >scenity ol the death figures would be. Oswald and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller had ordered the crushing of the rebellion even after one of the guards had pleaded on television with Rockefeller not to attack the prison because it would mean the guard's death - and it did, for the guard was one of the ten hostages to be murdered. Rockefeller's neglect for life is inexcusable. Maybe there is a case for the convicts and their cry of repression. But let us not stop there: murder in the name of revolution is just as insane as murder in the name of repression or in the name of Nixon's continuing the war. However how many questions that have failed to be answered, there is one that must be an swered: why didn't the authorities wait? What is a day, or week or even, for that matter, a year when 41 lives are involved? Do stalemated negotiations warrant "legitimized murder," as Dr. Vernon Fox, who once "talked drama ti 1968, Nixon was limited to essentially three options a) a sudden pullout and the aban donment of all policy goals in Vietnam; b) a negotiated peace; and c) gradual withdrawal and Vietnamization. Rejecting a, frustrated on b in Paris and Moscow, Nixon was forced back to c. But having reached this conclusion, he did not hesitate to face the consequences; the necessity for quick strikes against the Communist bases in Cambodia and Laos. He did not try to muddle through or fudge the issues but moved boldly to disrupt the enemy in those strategic base areas. The diplomancy with China exhibits an analogous pattern. No matter how Nixon's Peking moves are presented they are objectively, anti-Soviet rather than pro-Peking. It is, after all, the Soviet Union that has moved ahead with a crash program in long-range missiles; it is the Soviet Union that is ex panding its influence through the Mediterranean and the Middle East; and it is the Soviet Union whose growing fleets are spreading through the oceans of Lhe world. Nixon's Peking column: new laws; it is Congress that must enact the proposals before they become binding. To state that the President has a dictatorship would be to state that he has control over Congress. This is not the case, for less than 60 percent of the bills proposed by the President have been passed, and no major bill has been passed without extensive Congressional revision. Hardly a Presidential dictatorship. By stating that "The President has determined our disastrous financial policies...", Mr. Eaton overlooked the fact that all fiscal policies must pass through the House Ways and Means Com mittee. Seldom do the Com mittee and President Nixon%gree. The statement . made by Mr. Eaton, "Now Wthrat warning, Attica. down" a riot at Michigan State Prison and is now a criminologist at Florida State University, said concerning the storm trooper tactics. Fox and other critics are not alone: the hostages who survived are quitting. Why? Two of the bitterest, who were being in terviewed on national television, blamed it on Rockefeller and demanded to know why he hadn't got out of his comfy mansion and met with the convicts. The ultimate disgrace,however, has to be laid upon American society because we are expected to condone actions of formulated murder by elected public officials. The least they could have done was listen to the guards who pleaded for their lives. Or, even, better yet, they could have asked Sgt. Edward Cunningham's wife. But they didn't. She'll attend her husband's funeral in a couple of days. o moves diplomacy gives the Russians plenty to think about, even though they have 45 divisions on the Chinese border. And, for the connoisseur, a: delicious touch was added when it was reported that Chou En-lai is going to visit Romania, Albania and perhaps other Balkan states, the Balkans being, of course, a simmering trouble spot in the Soviet empire. A Nixon Ad ministration aide has remarked privately that since Nixon's China ploy Soviet diplomats in Washington- usually distant and haughty-have become amazingly agreeable and cordial. And down among the second-raters, both the North Vietnamese "seven-point" peace plan and Rep. Paul N. Mc Closkey have sink without a trace. Now come the equally sudden and dramatic economic moves. In substance these are complex, but there can be no doubt that Nixon concluded that the gradual recovery implicit in his game-plan to date did not sufficiently accord with the political time table. He had t at, nct he ideaving McGovern, Bayh, Muskie and assorted spear-carriers in the middle of half-delivered speeches on the economy 1* 1 cuCnes advice or consultation, they have overnight adopted sensational policies offensive to all other nations," referring to the new economic policy is purely erroneous. A similar policy has been advocated by Professor J.K. Galbraith and the Democratic National Committee, among others, for the past sdveral months. It appears, then, that the President has capitulated to this economic theory rather than plotted on his own to be "...of fensive to all other nations." I will conclude by simply asking the readers to review the column by Mr. Eaton and finish the evaluation that I have so briefly toucbed on.