Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'Students robbed of. privacy A policeman enters your room or apartment, begins searching through your belongings, finds nothing and leaves. As long as he says he had "probable cause" for rumaging through your home (temporary as it may be), he is within the law and you are totally subject to his actions. According to a University security officer, students can be subjected to search by city policy at any time. The police men are not required to be accompanied by a campus police man and they don't necessarily need a search warrant. There only justification need be that they had probably cause. In case of drug arrests or searches the cause can be smel 1mg marijuana or hearing sounds the policemen think are connected with smoking it. Now smelling marijuana is one thing because the odor is distinct enough to be identified, but how does a person define marijuanaish sounds? What this means is if the police man is struck by an urge to burst into your room and go through your closets and drawers, he is at liberty to do so. You have no rights in the matter. And you have been robbed of a basic liberty -your right to privacy. Perhaps there is some legitimacy to this theft because some would argue that the need to protect society from dope pushers is greater than the pusher's need for privacy. The general public benefits because this man is dangerous. But a person can't be defined as a pusher until he is caught pushing. And his right to privacy must be violated in some cases to discover this. So students hav _no right to privacy when a policeman thinks drugs are involved-whether they are involved or not. And irresponsibility in policemen can be found as easily as in students or anyone else. Perhaps we should re-examine the powers invested in these men. Sometimes people don't remember that police men are not the law; they are only the instruments of the law. And they are human and corruptible. So police abuse in situations like this, as in most situations, is highly possi ble. Pap test painless A Good Decline The Best Way Uterine cancer deaths have declined Early Detection by the easy simple about 50 percent in a generation Pap test is a woman's best protec due largely to early detection tion against uterine cancer. through the Pap test, and prompt By getting your regular Pap test it is treatment. Get a Pap test today, within your power to help reduce says the American Cancer Society the high death rate from uterine to all adult women. If every American woman over 20 Socey had a regular Pap test - a painless, easy method to detect uterine can cer - the annual death rate of 13,000 would drop, sharply, ac cording to the American Cancer So ciety. You Can Do Itl The American Cancer Society wants to wipe out cancer in your lifetime! Get your quick, easy, painless Pap test today and have one each year. Cancer of the uterus kills about 13,000 American women annually. Early detection and prompt treat ment could practically wipe out most of these cancer deaths, says the American Cancer Society. Save A Lifeth Calling all women over 20 to have a Pap test! The life you save could be b sn s your own, reminds the American Cancer Society. A Greet Mission .oin our great life-saving mission, says the American Cancer Society to women over 20. Get your Pap Mte ie..Suet test to detect uterine cancer and get Cre il...Yuwne o a friend or a relative to have one, yumng oca omc n too.toady The Pap test is a painless, simpleSoehralntelned and quick method of detecting yofndtmfraPptetnc uterine cancer, the American Can- aya?I' uc.Pils.Uu cer Society points out. All women al eaie n hni' ra over 20 are urged to adopt this life- t nwyur reo trn 'having habit,.acr It's PreciouslThnabutisUere When a woman decides to have a cacrihglyuabewnd Pap test, the American Cancer Soci- etdery htswa h a ety believes she may be giving her- tetcnd...eetitary self and her loved ones a most pre- Temius.Ocayar oa cious. gift - her continued health sml etta a aeyu and well being.lfeTaetmoufri. Women will agree with the Ameri can Cancer Society that they owe it to themselves to have a Pap testSo .y 7 WEIR 'Our Times' Stennis BY SMITH HEMPSTONE WASHINGTON--Last week's shooting here of John C. Stennis followed a sickening script which is becoming all too famil iar in this city and other urban areas of America. Two youtbs approach a 71 year-old man under cover of darkness as he is getting out of his car. They hold him up at gun point. He offers no resistance and they relieve him of his wal let and watch. Having done this, they club him to the ground and shoot him twice with a handgun before making their escape. . It happens all the time. The only reason the Stennis case rated more than an inch or two of agate type in the back of the paper was because the 71 year-old man happened to be a respected United States senator and chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Com mittee. The statistics are drearily familiar to anyone who reads a newspaper. Between 1964 and 1972, armed robberies increased by 230 percent, and about 63 percent of these rob beries were committed with guns. Fifty-one percent of all murders in 1971 were commit ted with handguns. These mur derous, easily concealable weapons were used to kill 74 percent of the police officers slain in 1971. Who's to blame? The crimi nals, of course. And the soft hearted judges and parole boards who let them roam the streets. And the gutless state legislators, members of the House of Representatives and U. S. Senators who are so afraid of the gun lobby that they refuse to enact even mild handgun-control laws Cironically, Steenis last year voted against such a bill in the Senate.) Three Things are needed: -- More police. -- Stiff, mandatory sen tences with the possibilityof -opinions - DER EVERY DAY! shooting' parole for crimes involving vio lence and for the commission of a felony while armed with a gun or knife. - A flat ban on manufacture, importation, sale and posses sion of handguns applicable to everyone except police officers and serving members of the armed forces, with federal com pensation to the owners of this country's 30 million handguns. These should be no form of registration or licensing for the 66 million rifles and shotguns which have legitimate uses for sport and self-defense (long guns were responsible for only 14 percent of 1971's murders.) That is the only way this prob lem can be dealt with. We are simply too violent a people to permit the indiscriminate own ership of handguns. There are nearly 10,000 gun murders every year in this country; in Japan, with fully half our popu lation, fewer than 30 people are murere wth unseah yar "GunsDon'tKill eople Peopl KillPeopl" chats th gunoby Tht istu.Poe will kill. eahotei wt soe or~K7 thi ae ad f hylc any other mean. Butthe loo of handgns makesit epr atelyeasy or peple1t4 kil peole sohoo tifgn o ung' presecle forme invn enjo lene landter tn,had commison, of awfeldo whe armed doith.u -A at banu the mufaturn itizen'stconsaleutinal righteto sionao as.gutnjst aplicabe o everyone undilute poight oficer asesino membattere s oh pensation rgto te ownr of hisd cuntr' 0mlio adus which s have ia right fo sasprts.Wehave-aeright (lo uem canhe dealkt iht. Wer simplyig too ilentn au peoplet RICK familiar' alone at home without worrying that some teen-age punk is hopped up on drugs and is going to gun them down. Just as I have hunted, so too have I been held up by a pair of hoodlums under circum stances similar to those in Sen. Stennis' case. I was luckier than he, but I can assure you it was no fun. It may happen to you tomorrow. Unless Congress screws up its courage and takes on the gun lobby. Our fearless legislators did nothing when Sen. Robert Ken nedy was killed with a handgun. They did nothing when Gov. George Wallace was critically wounded with a handgun (Sen. Birch Bayh got a bill past the Senate but it died in the House). Now Sen. Stennis has been seri ously wounded with a handgun. Everybody is shocked. All the representatives and senators are doing what they do best, which is talk. But will they do anything about it? Sure, they'll provide for stiffer penalties and more police. Fine: That's politi cally popular. But will they act to curb the flow of handguns? If the past is any indication, they will not. The Gamecock is looking for reporters, preferably with experi ence in news writing, in political science, English, history, sociology, psychology and business. For information call Patrick Tyler at 777-8178.