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Panish Arre Misplaced With the arrest of Dr. Panish of the USC Philosophy Department and the seemingly pending arrests of other faculty members on drug charges it is not an inappropriate time to examine the mentality of South Carolina law enforcement people concerning crime as it relates to this campus. Not wishing to negate the serious ness of drug related crimes, it is obvi ous that they must be placed in context in the general body of law; and this is where there is a point to be made. Several weeks ago during a party hosted for the USC basketball team by a USC student at Bell Camp, a fire destroyed one of the best equiped cabins on the grounds causing about $700 damage. Two officials for two dif ferent law enforcement agencies have conceded that the fire was deliberately set. However the investigation of that fire, beyond determining that it resulted from arson, has for all practi cal purposes come to a halt. Where is the relationship here and the subsequent point to be drawn? _It is exactly that both are crimes alleged to have been committed by university related people and secondly the treat ment of these two crimes and their investigations is grossly dispropor tionate. The maximum sentence that Dr. Panish could receive if convicted of all charges against him would total 12% years. However, the maximum penalty for arson in this state is 20 years-there fore the crime of arson, permit the numericallogic, is exceedingly more serious than any one particular charge against Dr. Panish and almost twice as serious, based on these figures, as the combination of all three. If one accepts this argument one may view with a great deal of bewilder ment the time, effort and manpower expended on the investigation of Dr. Panish, as opposed to the token inves tigation into the Bell Camp fire. Fifth District Solicitor John Foardgid last The Gutenberg Experiment Mary Doe By HARRY HOPE Dear Diary, Well, what a day. I'm flum moxed, befuddled and con fused. And Tom wasn't home all day, and I'm still awry. It all started when Rodney was killed. He had married Susie, but Janie was really car rying his baby, and while he was at it, he managed to get both Kate and her daughter in trou ble. I tell you, if that soap opera has one more episode like that, I don't think I can take it. Anyway, Podie Brunton came by and wanted to know if I wanted to go out to lunch. Well, I thought that would be a nice change. She said she would treat, so I should have known that would mean trouble. Yep, you guessed-right to the Rus sell House Cafeteria. I swear, that place is a mess. People throwing food, spilling pudding all over the floors, breaking st Denotes Priorities week that he has been "working closely" with law enforcement people in a series of investigations of the USC faculty for the past two years. The Bell Camp investigation seems dead after two weeks and it is very likely that Foard has ever even heard of it. In fact the two agencies that have inspected the fire damage at Bell Camp have both said they have not con tacted the sponsor of the party that was held the night of the fire, and further more both said they had no plans to. One of the men of the arson division of the Richland County Sheriff's Department asked a Gamecock repor ter to contact the party's sponsor explaining that a student could better talk to another student. Even if this is a valid assumption it nonetheless is a somewhat telling insight to the sincerity of the investiga tion. What one gets out of this situation is a distinct feeling that the law enforcement people in South Carolina have a strong distrust of anything that smacks of intellectualism-such as a university faculty-and therefore tend to persecute that intellectualism with a large degree of enthusiasm. This is contrasted with their near indifference to a crime like arson where motives may be more simply defined and therefore more compati ble with their mentality. One of the oldest arguments in exis tance is that people tend to be hostile toward things they don't understand. Drugs may not be the issue here at all, but merely a vehicle through which people like John Foard may strike out at a body of people with whom he has little empathy. Those students that have been here for several years know that Foard has crusaded through this campus before flying other banners than those against drugs. Maybe if the university would give John Foard an honorary degree in something or other he would go away. 'sn't Need D plates, tons of grease all in the at a weil work-and that's just the serv ing line and the help. As for the Well, students, my gawd. I under- . Podie ai stand it's not so bad since Marge faculty1 Fowler started getting all the were go: rowdies in the Faculty Dining kin o a Room. Come to think of it, that's knwa who makes all the mess-the said he i faculty. Especially Arts & Sci.. get whi ence people. leaves i All I wanted was a grapefruit. ing. It w They charged me 25 cents. That and eve: was outrageous and I told the moustac girl that. Of course, she thought really el I was a secretary of a Campus Chuckle Shop person, so she treated me But he really mean. I figured I could Paul Fi( buy six for 50 cents at the A & wax for P, and I told her so. mad abc When we started eating it's so r "lunch," Podie leaned over and thing. I said, "Look who's coming." It time he was only Bob Alexander. I ler's bei didn't have the heart to tell him thing's the glue on his moustach was zel's sm coming off, and it was hanging So, af - opinions Cries And Finest Film F BY TERRY DUGAS During the month of April, Columbia will be graced with the finest film festival ever shown in the South and, indeed, one that could fill the best movie houses of New York. Included in this Festival are the two best films of 1972, the film immediately preceding the most notorious movie playing today, two of the funniest films ever made, and two of the best French films of recent years. The best film of 1972, Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers, won every major New York Film Critics Award and missed the Oscar only because Bergman would not permit it to be nominated. Bergman is the greatest living director and this, his latest film, may be his best ever. A story about the relationships among four women, Cries and Whis pers is a film of surreal fantasies and feelings. It is the most moving film made in years. The second best film on 1972, the Oscar winning The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie, is a frivolously witty film by Luis Bunuel. Bunuel, no longer savage about the hypoc risy of society, has made his latest film a humorous satire on every thing sacred to anyone. It is a per fect contrast to the intensity of Cries and Whispers. The Conformist by Bertolucci, t ys Like TI -d angle on his face. my ear when Bob joined us, home te sked if he knew those wasrthe rnembers that the police Bwrtthid ing to arrest for posses- wacr Irugs. He said he didn't just lyi iything about it, but he six inch vished somebody would When I ever keeps burning Bunny n the Pendleton Build- gave it as getting on his sinuses y ou s h ry time he sneezed, his finally he came off, which got in time rnbarrassing every time Oh, D s Witten yelled at him. never di said he got even with came o Iler-he stole his bees- about h4 his beard. I can tell he's instruct ut Paul's beard and how tattoo a eal looking and every- still her never will forget the from a was talking about Fid- albums ird and said "Hell, that they tal as phony as Paul Diet- and I w ile." spaghel I don ter an hour of getting lik .hi Whispers ~estival Ever director of Last Tango in Paris, is a vivid picture set in Italy in 1938. The life of the central character is seen through flashbacks; his insane father, his drug-addict mother, his seduction and his sensual marriage. Our two French entries are Cesar and Rosalie and Chloe in the After noon. Cesar is a faintly absurd com edy about a scrap-metal tycoon who enjoys being No. 1 in work and play. On the other hand, Chloe is an impish erotic comedy about a young executive who is attracted by an impulsive girl about town. The two American entries are Horse Feathers by the Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields' Never Give a Sucker An Even Break. No person who has ever seen a film by Mark or Fields needs to be told that these are two of the most insane comedies ever made. An endless succession of one-liners and sight gags almost make these two movies too much to take in the same night. Why do people watch movies? One friend told me "I don't go to understand them, I go to enjoy them." These are six movies you can enjoy. They will by playing dur ing the month of April at the Gamecock 1 and 2 Theatres in Caycee. Individual films are $2.00 but Series Passes may be bought for $5.00 from Dr. David Byre of the English Department, David Sim pson, or myself. What more can I say? 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