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Look at the other side DEAR MS. MILLER: My letter concerns two articles printed in the April 19th issue of the Gamecock. They both concern getting the facts straight. My first bitch is about that God-awful pict ure entitled "I'm Min Li. Bomb Me." I don't know where you dug up that picture but maybe you should check your source. You just might find out that the subjects were victims of the Viet Cong's indescriminate shelling of civili ans. What, pray tell, do you call that? Accidental? Hardly. It seems that you, among others, would have us, the public, believe that we are the only ones that ever killed anyone or anything in Vietnam. Really now. What about the other side? A little "equal time" maybe? What do you think happens every time the Viet Cong or NVA shell a village or city? It's not just a bunch of empty huts or vacant lots that become impact areas, it's PEOPLE. Good ole' flesh and blood ones just like in your picture. Who do you think fills the hospital wards over there besides Americans? Right again, people just like in your picture only vic tims of someone else's bombing. And in case someone wishes to point out our atrocities, please, before you do, look through the relatively unpublicized tons of theirs. You'll find it's far worse and far more prevalent, if you can read it without being sick. But enough on this and on to my next bitch. You, Mr. Phil Sharpe, are also guilty of murder. Possibly even to - countless numbers. Not to be trivial, BUT apparently you not only failed to read past the head lines in the newspaper you took your information from, you also apparently butchered what you did read. It said 100 bombers but only Across from USC ROUNDHOUSE TGAMEI TeGAMECO( .< is published ti semesters with the exception of Un Changes of address forms, subscri should be sent to Drawer A, USC, C $3 per semester or S6 for both semes GAMECOCK this year received $5 entitling full-time students to a sub GAMECOCK are in Rooms 316 ai University campus. Phones are 77 class postage paid at Columbia, S publication of the students of the Uni official publication of the Universit not necessarily represent those of if staff members of the GAMECOCK. Editor......... .. .. .. ,Managing Editor..... .. .. Associate Editor... .. .. .. .. .Assistant Managing Editor .... Business Manager... .. .. .. Sports Editor... .. .. .. .. Asst. Sports Editor.. .. .. .. Photo Editor..... .. .. .. Chief Reporter.... .. .. .... News Editors... .. .. .... Feature Editor.... .. .. .... Circulation . . . . . . . . . . Classified~ Advertising... .. .. Staff Writers. .. .. .. .. ....Lar Gilbert, Bob Grondahl, Barbar, Niewidaomski, Ellen Murray, Kris Wilson, Ann Winters, Debbie Krell, I and Fran Zupan. Sports Writers.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Photographers...........Courter S Advertising Manaer.. .. .. 20 B-52's. Granted, that is picky, not where does it end?Certainly not in your letter. You are right on one account though. Those 598,110 people are not military targets. So where did you get that they were? Where, I ask you, did it say we bombed 598,110 nonmilitary targets? Just because the paper said we bombed the Haiphong area how can you say the Air Force passed up all those military targets just to bomb 598,110 non military targets? Again, please get your facts straight; it adds to your credibility. Last of all I wish to make one final statement. I too abhor killing and I too would like to see peace in our time, so would most other people. Mr. Sharpe, your propaganda is bullshit. Look at the other side; we're not the only ones killing "innocent" people. BILL McFARLAND Chairman chosen against wishes DEAR MS. MILLER: In regards to the letter, "Goodbye Union," I feel there are a few more facts to be brought out. I am referring to the Arts Com mittee after Mr. Barney Oliver's election, nominations were taken for the position of Arts Committee Chairman and only two people were nominated - Warren Chick and Andy Zalkin - by the Com mittee. But when the results of the appointments were announced a dark horse - Susan Boggie -- had received the chairmanship. The thing which puzzles me is how the officers can go against the direct stated wishes of a committee, because, after all, the committee members are the ones who have to work with the chairman. Also Miss Boggie's credential s are somewhat questionable. She was appointed vice-chairman of the committee, but was absent at a majority of the meetings. Also on the event - The Fantastics - which she was chairman, she showed up %/ hour before the performance to take her bows which she didn't de serve. The people who work on the event were committee members, not the chairman; She was not there until a few minutes before the performance. I just hope that after all the committees' work of this year was not wasted. If the committee fails, OCK i-weekly during the fall and spring iversity holidays and exam periods. ption requests and other mail items olumbia, S.C. Subscription rates are ters. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. The 0,000 from the student activity fund, scription to the paper. Offices of the id 318 of the Russell House on the -8178, 717-4249 and 777-3888. Second .C. Although the GAMECOCK is a versity of South Carolina, it is not an '. The opinions expressed herein do e University, the student body, or all - - - .. .Glenda Miller -.-.-.-.-... .. ..Jim Farrell -.-.-.-... .. ..John T. Gash -..-..........Sharon Givens -..-.-.-.-.-. .. Ute Huckabee ..... .. .. ..Doug Williams -.-.-. .. .. ....Steve Parker .... .. .. .. ..Tom Price -.-.-.. .. ....Rusty Robinson ... .. .. ..Karin Burchstead Vicki Thomas ... .. .. .. ....Bob Craft. .......... .. .Mr.nty Preston . ... .. ....Patty McQuillian ry Evans, K. Wayne Ford, Armida iMurray, Ruthie Lyon, Judie Schweickert, Sharon Edsell, Beth etty Woodruff, Charlie Fellenbaum, Bill Grant, Jim Hersh, Gary West, Veron Whitm ire y Dicely, Doug Holladay, Alan Hus, leve K ish, Lewis Phillips, Murray Sill ............. .. ..rt Frank Letters the blame can only be laid at the doors of the powerful. WARREN CHICK On discussing menstrualcramps DEAR MS. MILLER: The spark of demonstrations by members of "Viet Vets Against the War" has been well reported by your associates in the Gamecock. However, only part of their story has been told and your readers may be interested in learning a bit more about them. The group, inhabiting the ZOO, better known as the Lee Street Bunch have boondoggled the public by their signs. As Weyman Dod son adroitly phrased them in his letter, the group is "no better qualified to pass judgment on the horrors of war than they would to discuss menstrual cramps.'' Perhaps next time they demon strate they'll add truism to their placards. The group concerned are more likely semi-professional agitators - who seek pleasure and get their kicks at seeing the public grinding their teeth, clenching their fists, and becoming violently aroused by the verbal defecation spurting from their oral grottos. This same bunch are well renowned for their draft dodging counciling services to the community, and their growing success at enticing men to desert from the armed services. The individual, Peter Brown, whose letter of the 19th called you a "complete idiot" and condemned the Gamecock for not rallying for his "progressive movement" has published, organized and demon strated on our campus - but he rea lly isn't one of us. By last word, he was holding a substitute teacher's position in the city when he wasn't too busy trying to promote a cause which he doesn't actually believe in. What type of individual is the person, who openly condemns killing of Vietnamese as a sin against humanity, and then secr etively chants "down with the pigs'".anorganization against crime and violence. His actions can not be anything but deceitful, and his goals nothing more than disrupting the workings of our campus, government, and the creation of his own army of fellowmen and journeymen to do his dirty work. Demagogues have forced them selves and their "causes" on people since the beginning of time. Sadly enough, many revolutions are the result of aimless people wanting to claim membership in a group or movement created under the disguise of eliminating the sicknesses of society. Their quest to right the wrongs of one generation usually ends in in flicting their own injustices and sicknesses on the next. MIKE WITKERS Across from USC ROUINHOUS More on the Crucible story f; DEAR MS. MILLER: tt Shellie Newell's letter con cerning "The Crucible's" budget C cut by the Board of Allocations told n only half the story. An examination I, of the members of this committee - tl will reveal that none of them has 14 any interest in a campus literary t( magazine, and only David Lewis k has any practical knowledge about ti one (and his magazine, "Common e: Sense," can scarcely be called ai literary). Mr. Lewis, who has t3 shown his hatred and scorn for el "The Crucible (Crudible)" from c( the beginning, was the committee member who suggested that literary magazines were "on the decline." Surely, he could have no reason to want to inc;ease the allocation' to a magazine whose first issue was so very obviously superior to any issue of his own? By forcing the staff to work with only 6000 for the whole of next le year, the allocations committee seems to be trying to effect the S second demise of "The Crucible." W The university and its students deserve the recognition that this publication has brought it by prov- A iding a medium for its outstand ing writers. Such artists as Thom Bigham, Terry Parke, Dennis m Adams, and Wagner Roberts certainly merit the outlet that the 0 first issue of "The Crucible" pro vided them. Perhaps the Board of Allocations has forgotten that this issue was produced on a shoestring c budget by a staff that received no financial remuneration? Surely the board cannot argue fri that "The Crucible" has not pro- fe ven itself; at the South Carolina m Collegiate Press Association Con vention in Charleston on April 1, w 'The Crucible' received three first place awards, one third place, and the award for the best overall M literary magazine in its category, a fact that was semi-ignored by the Gamecock and, apparently the Board of Allocations. In addition to this, the judges (all from out of the state (must one be from out of state to have literary taste?) asked for their own personal copies of the magazine. The editor of "The Anthology," the Winthrop College literary magazine, has written to Ms. Domroe requesting her assistance in preparing a revival issue of that publication. So, with Ms. Newell, I beg the Board of Allocations to come to its senses, recognize the true value of "The Crucible" and increase its budget accordingly. IVY MOORE TI'm Susie, murder me' DEAR MS. MILLER: I have just read your April 19 issue with interest. The picture of the pathetic Vietnamese victim of war was very poignant, and a valid argument against continued bombing. It would have been more authentic, however, if it were not opposite an editorial plea to legalize abortions. Why not a picture of another baby, with the caption, "I'm Susie Smith, Murder Me" ('Because I am inconvenient, expensive, and perhaps em barrassing." VIRGINIA IIEAILI System caused concert failure DEAR MS. MlI.IR: Concerning the review of the aye Tucker concert, here are a !w facts to keep the record clear. he reason for the poor quality of te sound system was that Andy farquez, president of Phillip onstellation Enterprises, made o attempt to get a good system. istead he pair a member of one of ie local bands of Columbia $5 to ,t him use his bands' system and i operate it. Since he probably new nothing about doing sound, ie result was a bad concert. If this cample of skimping on quality is ri indication of Mr. Marquez's rpical effort, perhaps someone se should be running campus )ncerts. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Iring them iome alive EAR MS. MILLER: I am writing in response to the tter carried in the April 19th sue of The Gamecock which was ritten by Weyman Dodson. I have ad (as everyone else has) of both e war itself and the dem istrations it has precipitated. rter considering both sides of the gument at hand, I can only say - at my sympathies lie not so uch with those at home who >pose the war, but with those who ust fight it. This is not to say that I condone e war in any way, I do not think at anyone in their sound mind iuld. War in itself is an atrocity yond belief. But the Vietnam ir has stimulated no emotions )m me stronger than those of ir and anziety that I carried with E for thirteen months while siting for someone I loved to just me home alive. DEIRDRE E. DODSON 'Day of the Gamecock' Saturday. Golf: 8 A.M. Spring Valley Baseball: 10:30 A.M. Rex Enright Intrasquad football: Stadium,2 P.M. Track: 5:30 P.M. Weems Baskin Admission, $2 covers all.