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Recall th RECORD p For thosi turning to I traffic acck At this p Valdario th explain to tried to ge hands were I then taken 1 charged wit on bond apI Of two ti erable amot Charles A. I Consider not want Ti Justice and placing plish his en to decide tl This inci4 Prevails? COCKstafI narcotics ai legality of 1 it can be d( himself to trickery. TI file a comp A length: ances that taken again kept inforn tigation. As of thi word has cc The poin ed to recur right to cot Court-threa trouble. It is timl cular to loi the courts SHO UNIVERSITY OF MYRTLE BEA recent stir caused by the arrest and trial of STATE iotographer Ed Tilley. who are not familiar with the story, Tilley was re he newspaper plant via 1-26 when he stopped at a ent to record the scene for possible publication. )int Tilley was told by highway patrolman John W. it he would have to leave the scene. Tilley tried to he officer that he is an accredited journalist and his press card out of his wallet. At this point his rabbed and handcuffed behind his back. Tilley was o the Lexington County jail where he was formally a disobeying a lawful police order and then released iroximately one hour later. ials, the first ended in a mistrial, and after a consid nt of dallying with justice on the part of magistrate avis, Tilley was justly acquitted. Justice prevails! ! ! now whose purpose was served. The patrolman did ley to shoot pictures. By physically restraining him him in custody, the patrolman was able to accom 1. In this case it took a jury and two different trials it this was an illegal police order. lent is strikingly similar to one involving a GAME -r who was threatened with arrest at the scene of a rest. In this case the photographer questioned the le order and was told that "it may not -be legal but ne." The student continued to shoot but restricted rom the hip" shots. He remained free only through e GAMECOCK photographer then was advised to aint against the narcs. conversation with Chief Cauthen produced assur he order was illegal, that proper steps would be it the policemen and the 4AMECOCK would be ed of the outcome of the police department inves writing about three and one half months later no h me from the police department. c of all this is that if incidents of this type are allow- P and thereby give local police officers, in effect, the c trol what is printable in the papers, then the Nixon n tened freedom of the press is already in serious for the public as a whole and journalists in parti- I dly question the directions in which the police and re going. IV DOAT SOUTH CAROLINA THEATRE [2H CONVENTION CENTER. PhotoContest Students get off your rears! ! ! Of the fourteen entries that ave been received for the contest, nine of them are from fa ulty and staff. Of course, this may be some indication of the ay that these people get, that they have to enter cheap photo ntests to make ends meet. In any case, we need to get a little tore response from the student body. RULES OF ENTRY ARE AS FOLLOWS: . The contest is open to all U.S.C. students faculty and staff excluding GAMECOCK staffers and employees. I. Photographs should be permanent, unmounted, black and white prints no smaller than 4x5" and no larger than 8x10". [II. Each photograph must be accompanied by an entry form clipped from a current issue of The GAMECOCK. [V. First prize will be $15.00, second $10.00 and third $5.00. Winners will be announced if the final issue of the summer GAMECOCK on August 9, 1973. All winning entries as well as some of the outstanding non-winning entries will be published in the August 19 issue as well as the fall orientation issue of The GAMECOCK. V. All weekly entries are due on Wednesday at 3 p.m. These dates are June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 11, 18, 25 and August 1. VI. All photographs become the property of the GAME COCK. VII. Photographs will be judged by the GAMECOCK editorial staff. VIII. Photographs must not be identified in any way on the front. However, all should have complete identifi cation on the back. K. There is no entry fee. GAMECOCK PHOTO CONTEST Entrants: Week No. 4 N1ame ................... Local Address . ...............*.. *-... Phone * **........... ........