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GLENDA MILLER T"TERIM EDITOR :HOLLY GATLING ART FRANK INTERIM MNG. ED. AD MANAGER EDITORIALS Kudos to... Every now and then someone will rise up and shout, "You only print the bad news. Where's the good news?"' Or another reader will say,' "Why are you so darn critical? How about saying nice things (usually they say this to our critic, Bob Craft)?" In reply, we must say that we print what we feel is the most important news, be it good or bad. Sometimes we wonder if the reason so many people think there is only bad news is because they only read the bad news. Well, anyway, there have been quite a few things of late which deserve credit. They deserve credit because they are examples of how women and men can help woman mankind. Our hats off to: Alston Wilkes Society and VolunteerServices The Office of Volunteer Services, one of the more active offices on campus, is now collecting old clothes for new parolees from correctional institutions. The office is working with Alston Wilkes Society on the project. The Wilkes Society is a non-profit organization which helps rehabilitate men and women who have served a part of their lives within prisons. Donations are still needed. The clothes can be taken to room 210 in the Pendleton Building. Or you can call 777 3171 for information. Do it. TheBosom, Monsanto, Associated Women The Associated Women Students organization sold doormats to raise funds for The Bosom, the drug crisis center in Five Points, Friday and Saturday. The doormats were donated by the Monsanto, Co. It is heartening to see that not only is there a campus organization moving to help drug abuse, but also a com pany and a great center like The Bosom. Hopefully the efforts that these organizations are con tibuting will grow into a statewide contribution. Ms. Eslinger and the abortion hotline There has been much publicity about the abortion hotline and the person who runs it, Vickie Eslinger. The publicity is deserved because the hotline keeps women out of the butchers' hands and because it is one of the biggest successes in student governiment. But Ms. EsIlinger is working for a second goal: the end to sexist policies on campus. Unfortunately, this may prove to be the hardest of her fights. in the case of the abortion butchers, most people realize that such a thing is a problem. But, in the case of sexist policies, most people (most males, at least) don't think of the attitudes that have kept most women from higher jobs as sexism. Keep up the good job, Ms. Eslinger, with the abortion hotline. And about that other job fighting sexism, don't give up. The capon Those fo< By SCOTT DERKS Columnist Don't look back if you are afraid of the past gaining on you, but here are a few of the issues and facts that have cropped up in the past few weeks, simply a potpourri of - events. Otto Passman, D-La., chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, has held up the Peace Corps budget for eight months and says he will kill the Kennedy created program if he can. In addition, if the budget of $72 million is not increased, the corps says it will be forced to bring home half of its 8,000 volunteers and stop activities in 15 countries. With ten men vying for the honor of representing the Democratic Party in the upcoming presidental election, a look to the past is always helpful. If you examine the names of candidates during January of each election year back to 1936, you will discover that the candidate who topped the party's list of preferences in that opening month, emerged as the convention choice. There have only been two exceptions. Wendell Wilkie picked The watermark I got the By BOB CRAFT Features Editor They dedicated the Richland County Memorial Hospital yesterday and I was there. I knew that perhaps there was going to be a bit of rough going involved with the whole thing when I went out and tried to start my car. It took me fifteen minutes to get the little German gem to kick over. I had an invitation to the thing that had been sent to me in the mail and as I was tooling along, I suddenly remembered I had no idea where the bloody hospital was. So doing what any red-blooded American boy who has unfailing confidence in the media would do, I stopped in Five Points at Eckerds to buy a newspaper. I deposited my 25 cents, pulled out a Sunday State. There was a twenty-page section on the new hospital. Unfortunately, The State did not mention in the entire section what the address of the hospital was. The closest they came was saying "High on a hill dominating the city's northeast skyline...'" Well, that narrowed it down pretty good, but... So I went into Eckerd's and asked the girl at the counter where the new hospital was and she said "Well, it's, uh, you know, I really don't know where it's at. Jim, do you know where the new hospital is?" she asked the guy who was trying to look up the whereabouts of somebody's photos. Jim looked up from the notebook, "It's out that way somewhere," he said pointing in the general direction of north. The guy in the letter jacket whose photographs Jim was looking for said "Go straight out Harden Street out to Zayre's you can't miss it." Dtsteps of up a surprise nomination in 1940 and Barry Goldwater ran second in the January polling in 1964. The new convention procedures adopted by the Democratic. party may change things, but yester day's wink goes to Muskie. A nationwide study done last spting by Harvard University researches during the Calley trial, showed that 67 per cent of Americans said they themselves would shoot "old men, women and children" under orders; 82 per cent said they thought a majority of other Americans would. Even though President Nixon appears to be more friendly with the press, forgetting his past hatred, it is interesting to note that Nixon has appeared on prime time television 14 times during his first 18 months of office, which more than equals the combined time of Presidents Johnson and Kennedy during their first 18 months of office. (That does not include his China spectacular). Nixon ap parently sees television as his only way of speaking to the American paople without his words being interpreted by reporters in terms of other speeches, other promises, m dedicat there as promised, dominating the northeastern skyline of the city, was Richland County Memorial Hospital. There were about 200 people sitting listening to some fellow who wat giving a long introduction to Gov. John West who, in turn, gave a long introduction to Thomas Perkins of the Duke Endowment who rambled on about the hospit'al. I sat down in one of the many empty folding chairs and started to take notes. My Parker pen which had never given me a moment's trouble since I received it three years ago, even after being run through three wash cycles and a rinse, decided that it wouldn't write anymore. Not letting that deter me, I picked up my handy-dandy Pentax for all seasons and thought I'd shoot some pictures. Wrong again. I flipped on the meter switch and found that the meter had taken off on vacation with the pen. About this time, the sky, which had remained grey and dreary, decided that it would drop its load. It developed into a nice spring downpour. The T.V. people covered their cameras, the people who were listening to the speaker broke and ran, leaving the Governor and the other Notable Personages to suffer along. Finally, someone led this little old man named Bagnal up to the microphone who whispered some magic incantation that dedicated the hospital. There was a nice touch of paganism about the whole thing. After the voodoo of the dais, there was something called the Tour Of The New Facility. Tours of new hospitals have, in our society, taken the place of hangings as a the past and relevant facts. Roger McAfee, a cooperative farm operator in Fresno County, California bonded 405 acres of farm land to guarantee the $103,500 bail for Angela Davis. McAfee's family has been forced into hiding since he helped in the release of Dr. Davis. He was beseiged with threats, and his children were beaten up at school. McAfee says that helping the black militant is "the most important thing I could be doing right now." The present milk price con troversy involves many important and interesting facts which should be considered. The milk industry has contributed $322,500 for Nixon's reelection since last March and has heavily pressured Washington officials into reversing a decision not to increase milk price supports. However, in dications are that high milk prices would create surpluses. At the moment about five percent of every dollar spent on dairy products is going into political campaigns. Ralph Nader, who has filed a class action, said he is concerned. ion blues People will come through rain, hell and high water to see a new hospital. I suppose it has to do with the rather morbid curiosity that we all have. Touring a new hospital is much more socially acceptable than, say, spending an afternoon down at the undertakers because there's always the chance, however slight, that one may emerge from a hospital living and breathing. With clenched teeth and a prayer at my lips, I took The Tour. I strolled down the many myriad passages amazed at all of the many pieces of equipment that the New Facility has to keep the human body alive. And this was just the kitchen. I trudged along with the predominantly elderly crowd who oohed and ahhed over the new developments in oxygen tents. I had various encounters with the Volunteer Workers who had been stationed to keep the rubes in line. I dodged a lot of rambunctious urchins who ran from room to room playing with the flush toilets and getting fingermarks all over the expensive stainless steel equipment. The New Facility is big. One little Scarlett O'Freak in blue jeans and a southern accent that would make a sugardaddy weep said "L~awdy Mercy I'm glad I don't work here. I'd just die!" And it's true. If your doctor takes a wrong turn you could easily succumb before he gets to you. All in all, the dedication of the Richland County Memorial Hospital was THE place to be after church yesterday. And a good time was had by all