The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 09, 1972, Page Page 2, Image 2
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,
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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
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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.
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.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
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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