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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.
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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