Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RESIG1 " "GET OFF MV BACK!" Student Awa Long Time C One of these days, the student You are being closed out of policy population here is going to wake decisions by a practice of secrecy up. at the school highest level. You It's certainly not going to be thiscreases esit he fc th year nor next. Perhaps it will not hous coditi ha be even in the next decade. But it's odtiot tendos in going to happen.ears. And when it does, USC students You are pawns in a game that are going to come to the dramatic rates political influence. wealth conclusion that the University is and athletisover all else, leaving not operating in their best in- academia far in the back. Daily terests. terets.you witness the destruction of There have always been ram- something natural for a concrete pant complaints about something or another at this school as far back as the mind can accurately travel. Unfortunately, these have been just isolated grievances by an O pinion individual who has been inad vertent prey to the bureaucratic tendencies of this place. structure that undoubtedly be Worse yet, it appears that no one behind schedule in completion and is going to right themselves until create another eyesore on a each member of the Carolina campus that beady has too many. community has been burned at It is incredibly difficult to believe least once. The time it takes for an that students at this institution are entire generation of college s goatt~tte ol lo students to be touched and react isthslc of onen nte impossible to gauge It can beUnvriysptgouoicd safely said, however, that such aYeiths apnd,ndwl period is going to be exceedingly prblycniutods. long. Look at yourselves in relation to tigaoti;ayhn rl the University. You are being maigu oigoto h protected by a health insurancestdnseae(dsrngasi policy that is so ambiguous, it doesmase ,thrargnrlyoe not een coerfomalpactie so ns ampratils af yercn Altouh teU ME CatI at e mptoo highest levlo lettrs rceied, ref rene wlbeingi e to hosin en typd ad nde 20 w rese desill thefat that anonmou letersal hou ing ca n dithodn ae for vlidrasons Whil re y wns inuara e that lettrs illbe pinrd, es poltia nfuar ne. healt lettehletiswilrllbeese,inavin S A spectc streaking. streakers paraded < estimated The pol toward the be comm( Student especially cheap thr buying tin The Mal from the f male. This dis of each se Really, ji mosphere that there It is un 0 don't kno' people wh than strea nonchalan " the fire-e: Woodrow Another of Woodro bought. be voted at any of three levels, sidg a right up to the omnipotent Board of j . e Trustees. jail and ex since the r The question is: What can you and are r do? Carolina does have one so called activist group in AWARE. the people The foundations AWARE was built here to wi upon are worthy of praise. Perhaps However, as long as this group arrests an jumps on bandw.,oo,s that are not Ga. Acci only unoriginal wil irrelevant to ' . student needs, it will never serve arrests it any true purpose. although t It is incredibly difficult to believe This is that students at this institution are viously a Students have been manipulated apparent long enough. It is becoming in- streaking creasingly obvious that something before the constructive has got to be done to bridge the ever-widening gap that passed. exists between the students and the Howevei policy makers. more big The system has to plan a st be changed, not in a violent or number orn revolutionary sense, but in a te.Sr creative manner. The centers of power have to be adjusted to allow tolse bu more student input. For the people that attend USC have a far better idea of the conditions here than a lawyer- who is so far removed from. the situation. .\Iana ging Students have got to take it upon Iliill Gra* themselves to open the channels of communication that latently exist between themselves and the University hierarchy. They haveT I to make their voices and concerns known to the people who are in positions to take action. A IthouM students< The University of South Carolina is not an o1 system is about to undergo a massive change at the ad- op)in ions e ministrative level with the coming - re'sent th(] of a new president. It is. difficult or all the to say whether the downward spiral of concern for the students will continue; but unless the l':ditoia student is heard, there is little \eu I chance for a reversal. Yports I Now is a critical time. A disappointing lack of concern on itn the student's part has lulled the .' ports 3 school into a belief that any act it ( irculat takes will go uncontested. Two- I.tra way communication has to be 1:imi established, and established as soon as is humanlv possible._________ treaking pectacle !cle is haunting USC; the spectacle of Monday night, a large crowd of ( about 500) left Bates House and lown Green Street before a crowd to be four to five thousand. ice were restrained in their actions a mob and the streakers. They are to nded. reaction has been quite favorable, from the view of the unfair sex. The ill and air of the stock-market at 1e quite overcame some of them. e, or dominated,sex enjoyed it, judging act that almost all the streakers were parity between numbers of streakers x frustrated many of the spectators. idging from the "loose moral at of USC, it is somewhat surprising were so few female streakers. fortunate however that the students v what streaking is. Many of the D stripped were more of exhibitionists kers. Some walked through the crowd tly; others displayed themselves from 3cape on the Green Street side of sat in the window sill on the third floor w brandishing a rubber phallus he had ,e or not, the state legislature is con bill to punish streaking by 90 days in pulsion from school. This is ridiculous eal streakers are not harming anyone 'obably not offending anyone other than in the le.islature, who weren't even tness it. the next event will be greeted with d tear gas, as was the case in Athens, >rding to reports, there were three Athens, and there were injuries, he exact number is unknown. an extreme reaction to what is ob fad, and a passing one at that. It is even to most of the streakers that is not going to last. It will probably die inevitable right-wing legislation is r, streakers are planning at least one event before reaction comes. They reak Sunday night to reclaim their e title and are urging people to join sakers of USC unite! Y ou have nothing t your clothes! l-:ditor I)ouag WiAlliamFIs te Gamecock h The Gamecock is a publication of the f the University of South Carolina, it ficial publication of the un iversity. The xpressed herein do not necessarily rep se of thc university, the student body ~taff members of The Gamecock. I 'age l-:dio......j \il ( *oope'r .4111r.........---....... ' 4m m ' i 'o e r