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Vol. LXIII-No. 14 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, October 16, 1972 This notice w Dietzel. For ti Drugs in R Two USC football players have been dismissed from the team and expelled from The Roost for break ing Roost regulations, according to Head Football Coach Paul Dietzel. Dietzel said the players, Ike Houck, Pittsburg, Pa., and Brian Nemeth, Clearwater, Fla., admitted to him smoking marijuana earlier in the season. Do Dietzel said Sunday that an assistant football coach smelled marijuana and incense near the room Houck and Nemeth shared in the Roost on the night of October "T 4. Upon investigation, he said the turne coach found the room to be filled Abou with smoke so thick that it was seep- knocl ing under the door and out into the up, ai hall. "Ike was in the room, and the came investigating coach said he was so some< stoned he couldn't answer the door." "I However, the players tell a differ- Perry ent story. "On Wednesday, got to October 4, I went back to my room, 'What lit some incense and a candle and ing.' I played some music," Houck recal- no one led Sunday. "I was laying in bed .Die reading a book for English. Brian incidi was studying with someone in admitl another room. The light was on. I "I cal] had to put the incense out because tice ti it was too strong. about 7*r9A AfwM? as placed on the Roost cafeteria bulletin boa ie full story see below. oost?: 2 playe it. I was told he absolute practice, I talked to hir he denied it again. Special "So I asked him w ~aeccksmoke was in his roon in there asleep with all t Report Dietzel asked if he wa. By then when had he? gawhile and said he didn the last time he had s l I just wanted to hear Dietzel said. "He then a smoked since the Ole IN then told him he was en I put the book down and the year. ( anhlor laer, someon 'Yod,'o,Imuo md ed.t dnthi e smokgtingou.I bohrsaid ha iod e wenisay Bhutlder, yorda.ut er agasite.S I ene the door."d abu i. tze said hIe k oe heardeou Hocthe as ta tedt ouinto he halanpseOtbe t about it. (anotext layend aikd 'Yu qesindiimftrp cut tis smking ut.' sa. s aid tol ehOe abote the hll i thi? I'notsmok denie ligt agan.'Hth lo~ ~~~~~sokedwasvin his shudrrotsotnenatnih a wasthre.SoI hutth dor. H id the smee whasl: Diesidh erdaot t zeeked cut truhe it. thehenxtmrnnnad " whenha overme I" ~ed bing ery psetabou it. He ad erida oe i ed im,Houk, verat rac dt lstn tiehat ha s Ienx a n se i told meantd rthe har it," ~~~~ ~ Dietzel said. "He dne mkn o thn ea Lrd by Coach Paul rs vs. Dietzel ly had. After called me over again and made the n again, and same accusation. I said it was not true.He asked if I smoked in the hat all that Roost and started getting angry. He i. 'You were was shooting questions to me about hat smoke?" when I smoked. I was shocked. He n't smoking looked so mad he wanted to hit me. He thought After this he said 'You just lost your t remember scholarship."' oked. I said. Dietzel said Sunday he thought the truth," very highly of Houck and his family. kidhehadn't He added he knew Houck had liss game. I experimented with marijuana dur rinished for ing the summer but apparently had the player's promise he "wouldn't as mad and fool with it anymore." What really Dietzel said, "If I was going to going to tell pick out a guy I was going to do 11 just sick something to, I wouldn,t have done it to Ike." He paused before adding, ri Thursday, "Brian was different. I didn't know' .m., Dietzel him as well." actice. "He Nemeth was different. They oaches saw weren't on overly friendly terms nsaidIwas and both were aware of this. passed out. Nemeth had written a letter to Diet io thick you zel during the summer saying he didn't want to come back to Carolina ald him no. and play football. "He was all men ing he coul- tally screwed up and for all practi a liar. He cal purposes was gone," Dietzel e me admit said. liar. So he (See DRUGS. Pae 3, Celumn 1)