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Mrs. Jones' Dic Mary And Dear Diary: S1 They're digging up my.front fc yard! Honest! Somebody over in in archaeology decided they could tt find some wells, or something, o- w ver on the Horseshoe. Now all these people are running all over fi the place, crashing in the house st looking for free Kool-Aid, wash- ti ..ing their dirty hands and faces in ti our fountain. Honestly, I don't tr know what. that Hal Brunton is up to this time, but I. hope he's a] making enough money for it. All rr these construction crews are rais- C ing enough hell. b: Like the other day...I took the V rooster for a walk and thought we would truck on over towards tl the Humanities Building, as the i kids say. Well, we got to Pickens M Street, and there were bulldozers ti and trucks and foul-mouthed I construction people running a- o round, throwing things at each n other. b I went up to a man who looked s like the boss (I mean, what did I b know? They were all standing a-* round looking like they weren't r doing anything, but this one had L a Bic pen in his pocket, which a makes him official, I suppose.) tj Anyway, I asked this man if he ti knew what was going on, and he v said Hal Brunton had told Doug Fitzgerald, who told him, that b they were going to dig up Pickens Our Times The Silent BY SMITH HEMPSTONE F ti At West Point they call it the S Silence, and it is invoked against e a cadet found guilty by his peers t of an honor violation when that I cadet refuses to resign and can not be discharged because of lack ti of legal proof. C It means that, for the duration h of his stay at the military acade- C my, no other cadet will speak to a him except on official business. V He rooms alone, eats alone, ex- I ists in a silent world of averted i gazes. In the end, most cadets r cannot endure it; they resign. t James J. Pelosi endured the c Silence for more than a year and c a half. The ordeal stripped 26 pounds from an already lanky a frame, but the other day the youngster graduated from West Easy To Open Gamecock BRIT TONS iry The Man reet while everybody was away the summer and they were go r to lay a section of 1-26 right rough campus, and that Hal is going to get a bundle from it. So,- I figured I would try to id Hal and see why the con uction crews'couldn't be a lit quieter. And do you know at I almost got hit by a dump ick? It was awful. I wandered from site to site, d I saw that things were pretty ich the same all over...workers Ilygagging around, throwing icks at each other. Why, when I is over at Bates West, the man io had the Bic pen there said at the place wouldn't be ready time for people to move in hen they got back to. school in e fall. That gave me an idea. n going toask 'om if we can't >en up some of those extra usty old rooms and start a arding house. He always did y I needed some kind of hob r to keep me out of mischief. I finally found Hal poking a und a patch of grass beside the ndergraduate Library. I tried to k him about all of the construc n, but before I could say any ing, he asked, "Hey, Mary, hat can I build here?" [ told him I really didn't know it that it was left up to him. "Hey, I got it. What about a World O )int to become Second Lieu nant James J. Pelosi, USA. 3me few of his fellow shavetails fen shook his hand and spoke > him, and he concluded that he id no regrets. Pelosi had been convicted by ie 44-member cadet Honor Dmmittee (of which he himself id been an elected member) of )mpleting an answer on an ex nination after the order to cease ork had been given. At West aint, that is construed as cheat g, since it gave Pelosi (who de ied the charge) an unfair advan ge over those in his class who utifully dropped their pencils on ammand. The Long Islander refused to acept the Honor Committee's dict and appealed his case to board of officers. Midway UPSTAIRS AUDII -919 So :h Of Prc parking lot for Hondas? No,no. Hell, we could .always use ano her reflecting pool." I started to walk- away. The rooster had already gotten tired and left. When I was leaving, I heard him mutter, "You know, nothing irritates me more than to have a patch of grass lying around here without building something on it. It really doesn't look pro per. Grass! Ugh! The color green...just turns my stomach unless it's money. Money! Money money money..." I hear he does that often. Just goes on for hours. All for now, Mary Jones GAMECOCK tboug Th Gamcoc is a p*caflom of the $est"a of the University of aood- Caroulm. It is m an fflelal publcatie of the wlvrefty.The oialmo epreesed bdrals do NeO 09eseaMiY F*P resea t=; i of the utvey, the adeat body or all tr effmme :nw1 Gameco&k. Edtor ................ Thomes Ansel Price U a-agg Edotor ........... B1tty woeduff Advertishg Manager .............. Ed Terris cunaladt Mme.ger .......... Is&ry dmd st.ff C.strbutsn ................. . Cr.t Trry Duns Harry Heo Walter ets Dv Simmw.. SCadet P through the hearing before the officer board, the case against him was dismissed on the order of Lt. Gen. William A. Knowlton, West Point's superintendent, when Pelosi's lawyer pointed out that the Honor Committee had seen a note from a high-ranking officer to the effect that the case should be expedited because it was a clear-cut honor violation. At that point, the Silence was im posed on Pelosi. Now nobody compelled Pelosi to attend West Point, where he was receiving an education worth at least $50,000 at the taxpayers' expense. Nor can he or any cadet plead ignorance of the code which states that cadets will not "lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate those who do." mier Street rhe U.HC HoMrseshno gress * 2t4 RETA/N AU M&t7H 03 Pelosi, of course, made neithe claim. He simply said that he wa not guilty of the violation witt which he was charged. The offi cer board did not rule on thi substance of the case; it simp: dismissed the charges because o evidence of 'command influence. That Pelosi elected to endur the Silence and accompanyinj aberrational harassment (his mal was destroyed, his locker wa vandalized, he was threatene4 with bodily harm if he presume4 to wear his class ring) amount to strong circumstantial evidenc in his favor: A guilty man woul4 hardly endure so much so suc cessfully. Nobody is going to argue tha lying, cheating or stealing is good thing. And there is some thing to be said for the premis GAMI The Gamecock is publisil on Thursday during the ft a week during the summer, holidays and exam periods Change of address forms mail items should be sent t< Columbia, S.C., 29208. Su and $2 for the summer. 1 from the student activity to a subscription. Offices < 318 and 319 in Russell I 1400 Green St. Telephom news, and 777-3888, adve at Columbia. S.C. 'NWMSDAY THE WETL-ANDS AP OSS1146 -WMKVMN .ANO ZmmaleW r that honor is like virginity: You either have it or you don't. But it is demonstrably true - that West Point's Honor Code is not working very well, either on r the banks of the Hudson or on r those of the Mekong: At present, some 19 cadets are under investi gation for participating in a phy sics cheating ring; the acceptance I of unearned decorations for valor t by some West Point graduates in 1 Vietnam and the attempted I cover-up of the My Lai massacre ; by others are matters of record. The Pelosi case seems to indi I cate great injustices can arise - from a simple code mercilessly applied in an authoritarian setting t by young men eager to preserve a the reputation of the Institution -which sustains them and of which a they are a part. ~COCK ed twice weekly on Monilay and Il and spring semesters and once with the exception of university subscription requests and other The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, scription rate is $3 per semester he Gamecock received $38,000 fund entitling full-time students f The Gamecock are rooms 317, louse on the university campus, es are 777-8178 and 777-4249,. rtising. Second class postage paid