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VOL. LXIII-No. 50 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, April 23, 1973 Former USC Coed Slain in N.Y. A 22-year-old Columbia woman described by former USC basketball star, Tom Riker, as "A good friend," was shot fatally Friday after entering a New York apartment house where Riker lives. Wire reports say that Jill Marett died at 6:45 Saturday evening in a New York hospital after ten hours of surgery that failed to repair the damage of an attacker's bullet. According to police, a gunman forced Miss Marett into a building a half block away from the Mayor's Gracie Mansion and took her at gun point to the fifth floor landing. There the police said the attacker demanded money at which time the Columbia social worker gave him $30 from her wallet. Then the man told her to remove her clothes. However, Miss Marett began screaming after removing her jacket and slacks and the gunman fired the lone bullet which passed through the left sid.. of her body doing enough damage to cause her death 27 hours later. According to re ports, Riker was just leaving the shower of his third floor apart ment when he heard the shot. "I thought it was a fire cracker," he said. When Riker reached the hall on the third floor, he said he heard Miss Marett crying, "Tom, Tom." Riker said he rushed to the fifth floor where he found her sprawled on the floor. He helped her to his apartment where he called an ambulance that took RIKER her to Metropolitan Hospital. Police said they had been unable to reach her parents, who appar ently were vacationing from their Columbia home. Her father Wil liam C. Marett is a physician. The 6-foot-10 Riker was a first team All-America in 1972 and the top draft choice for the NGA's New York Knicks but spent most of this year playing for the Knick's farm team in Allentown, Pa., before being released outright this w inter. Other than being described as a "Columbia social worker" news reports say nothing else about Miss Marett except that she was visiting New York on an Easter vacation from a South Carolina College. USC records show that a Jill M. Marett was a residence of Capstone North dormitory last year and that her Columbia resi dence is 423 Waccamaw St. En Garde-Renaissance Week S A Ft C A the to< All (SA the tee ano Ath son spo the ap;: tor Cori ing of ing Rul linj fun by I der Wil der Vic aff pai wil ma US qe Details Page 3 to thi etic in ding uestioned BY R. HARRY HOPE motion that would require USC Athletic Department .ome before the Student ocations Commission, C), is being considered by Faculty Athletic Commit of the Faculty Senate. 'he motion, along with ther that would require the letic Department to rebate ie of its funds to student rts clubs, has been tabled by committee pending the earance of Athletic Direc Paul Dietzel before the imittee. he committee has been try to resolve the budget crisis everal sports clubs includ the USC Soccer Club, the )by Club and the USC Sai Club which have had their ding requests turned down the SAC. 'he SAC, in a letter to Presi it Thomas F. Jones, Charles ten, vice president for stu it affairs, Harold Brunton, e president for business airs and Dietzel, said "In the it the SAC has subsidized :h student activity fees ny athletic teams which the C Athletic Department has ,n either unable or unwilling ;upport. See FUNDING, Page 2