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GLENDA MILLER INTERIM EDITOR HOLLY GATLING ART FRANK INTERIM MNG. ED. AD MANAGER' EDITORIALS A letter to West Dear Governor: We're sure you're aware of the situation on campus. But, we would like to explain to you the extent of the problem. If you can in any way help us, we would ap preciate it. Stories appearing in the GAMECOCK last Wednesday have started the wheels turning in the Richland County Solicator's head because he sees the chance to come to campus and again purge it ot the unclean forces that corrupt the minds of our children. Before the solicitor comes back or sends some com mittee to do his dirty work, we should consider the con sequences of his last invasion. Cambodia WAS an issue. The student body WAS restless. But, if anyone is to be arraigned for inciting a riot, it should be John Foard. The one cause of the unrest, the tension and the riot was an indiscriminate campaign by law enforcement agents to bust everybody who ever looked like hesmoked.The match igniting the bomb was the constant harrassment of students. No one knew who to trust. Your best friend might be a narc. That was %me atmosphere to further pursue your education in. Solicitor Foard probably has good intention when he makes a bust. But he's busting the wrong people. He should be after the people who are making the illegitimate speed that's messing up a lot of people. He should be after the guy that's financing the whole thing. Perhaps that's a bigger bite than he can chew. All the harrassment, all the damage, all the trouble all the hard feelings and what was the result? Not a single conviction. The logical question is ''why did he do it?'' Political expedience, perhaps? Publicity? Misplaced good will? We may never know. The important thing is that it doesn't happen again. Perhaps there's a greater question involved in the issue. It's a question of individual and human rights. Does a person have the right to use drugs if he wants to use them? Should he be the final judge of what is right for him? After weighing all the facts, does the individual have the right to be the master of his fate? In the Drug issue in the GAMECOCK, we presented the facts. We uncovered some things that shocked people, but we revealed the truth. We have people talking about the issue, the right people (the law enforcement people of the state). This is a campus problem, but it is not just a campus wide problem. We will solve our part of it. Let the solicitor take care of Richland County. No problem was ever solved with force. If you can help us, Governor please do it. We don't want trouble, just help. One person in 800 is not indicative of the whole school. Everyone shouldn't have to suffer for that one incident. Please, don't let them. Today revisited Seek oi By JOHN GASH Associate Editor Now that the drug problem on campus has been presented, where do we go from here? We seek out solutions. We seek out reasonable, mature solutions that are reflective of the educational atmosphere of this university. We seek out solutions that don't either pit the administration against the student and student against student. Part of the solution, naturally, is the continuation of the one-hour drug course which Dr. Milne teaches and the continuation and expansion of projects like Maudy's Bosom. But to really get at the core of the problem, something else has to be offered, something viable, something realistic(none of the "4scare" movies with all the red, yellow green lights flashing while the instructor reveals himself as one who really doesn't know the difference between amps and bennies) and, most importantly, The watermark See 'B By BOB CRAFT Columinist For those who have been saying that they are saving their money for a really good motion picture, now is the time to open up those piggy banks because a goody is here. Bless the Beasts and Children is great. Let me say that again for those in the balcony, Bless the Beasts and Children is great. Currently playing at the Miracle Theatre, this film deals with the efforts of six teenagers to stop the slaughter of some buffalo by trophy hunting gunmen. These buffalo are to be "harvested" (a rather distasteful gunman's word) t by being put in a pen and letting v the hunters cut them down with a AIRLINE PRECAUTION... IF ANYONE AO0Ck' OR' DEV/OLUS... OPEN H IS VAIE BE MQi?E CAREFUL GATE 3... BY' DQ A KNO77T5 5AEC / PP it drug s( something the university com munity will accept. Regarding the possibilities of deciding what popular voice is in this issue, one would have to eliminate all except one: setting aside a specified date for open :ebate in all classes, and, at the nd of the class period, have a Jesignated committee or person abulate the results. By doing it this way, the issue could not be avoided The class is a captive audience; it doesn't mean that the students would actually go to all the trouble(?) of going somewhere to vote on a referen dum. Once the results were tabulated, they could be directed to a com mittee to formulate the results for the entire university. The end result would be that a majority accepted student proposal could be revealed and put into effect. Time is the most important issue in this proposal. Everything should be done within a two-week period, with no extensions and no excuses. Too many things have died because of red tape. less the I bandy dandy 30.06 phallic ex .enions. These six teenagers are a mixed )ag of misfits. There is the son of a famous comedian who is in iisgrace because he has blown his bar mitzvah, the son of a wealthy tockbroker who has taken up the ine arts of the lock pick and the lot wire, the 14-year-old chronic )edwetter who has the honor of )arents who tell him he is a lomosexual, the son of a Marine ,aptain who is forced to live with lis high fashion strumpet mother, ind the two brothers, one of whom Jeeps under other people's beds ind carries a security pillow and he other who constantly bickers - vith his brother and beats his head gainst the wall. V N WEk>E AI-READy BE/NG SU/ED AND GEO09E wA u/ E- / )>utions Of course, it would be up to the administration to set aside such a date. And it would be up to the teachers to cooperate with the survey. But, most importantly, it would be up to the students to show for class and participate. No one has asked the students what manner is needed to help solve the drug problem. Hopefully, the students will participate fully within the proposed project for determining outlets for solving the problem. Solving the problem is probably an overworked euphemism; "starting to start to solve the problem" is better. Last Wednesday's special drug issue was an attempt to identify the scope to the campus problem. The issue wasn't meant to an tagonize the faculty or present a sensationalized view of the drug problem. It was also a step towards presenting the problem. Now that we've presented it, it is time to start doing something on a large scale towards solving it. easts' This Catch-22 crowd set out to be the Messiahs to a bunch of early American remnants. In their odyssey to get to the buffalo pens, they steal horses, cars and have encounters with the local yokels which are unpleasant. Their fervor to save the buffalo comes about when their loutish redneck counselor takes them to see one of these sporting events. They are sprung from a descent into the Grand Canyon and chauffered to the slaughter by their counselor who has drawn the privilege of taking home a wooly trophy. The boys scream and yell during this "game" that they are murdering helpless animals. They are drawn up short by a contemporary who sees nothing wrong with it. When the boys tell him that he wouldn't shoot a person, the little hunter delivers this chilling line, "Sure , you see people killed like that on television. The boys decide that they won't let it happen again. It affects them so deeply that one of the boys has a mightmare in which he sees his friends and himself herded out of the pens to be shot like the buffalo, with his mother giving him the coup de grace. One night they set out on a journey to free the buffalo in which one of their number is killed. Stanley Kramer has assembled a ine cast of young actors for his ~omment on American morals and he state of the American society. ['he only one I have seen before is. Billy Mumy who schlepped around Nith Jonathan Harris and that obot in the series Lost in Space for :ountless seasons. The young actors show a deep sensitivity and come across really well in their various parts as alienated, misunderstood neurotics who are trapped in the cruelp't world of all, the world of children. This journey that they undertake is the coming of age for them all, a dark journey that ends in the cruelest surprise of all. The whole review of this movie can be given in just two words; See