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Police Chief John Inman, the tarl after a police officer shot a black y the home of Dr. Martin Luther King "A tragedy of this magnitude co who was not in command of his fac completely shocked at this violenc4 same as all Georgian's about Mrs Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, Democratic Party telethon, said, Georgia join in expressing our sl families and in prayer for Mrs. IV Hosea Williams, president of th Christian Leadership Conference, all Atlantans, the nation and the a after he led a protest demonstratii black teen-ager, issued the statem, Mrs. Rosa Parks of Detroit, whc Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955 set of the civil rights movement, called "I met her on and off through th was a very fine person - gracious, l was a wonderful wife and mother challenge. Be alert. America needs more lerts. E. Berlin J. Carter T. Flynt B. Poston Ed. Well taken in theory, but your suggestions are of course tran sparently fatuous, as I'm sure you are quite aware. Why tamper with degree titles, unless there's room for parody here as with everything else? Illness Victim Speaks Out To the Editor: I was one of the unfortunate victims of what Dr. Hirata called my "own little infection." I 4im not surprised that the accusation of mass botulism would be scoffed at. It is a difficult thing to try to prove. If Dr. Hirata thinks that it was "very, very mild," I wish he could have been in my shoes for a couple of days. I've never been so painfully sick in my life, and I doubt if I'm an exceptional case. It was four days before. I could even eat again. I feel sorry for those who endured the "little infection" with me. I bet that if a survey was taken of those who were ill, you would find all had eaten one particular substance in the cafeteria. I'm afraid to eat in there now, but what else can a dorm student do? Live at Har dees? ~I believe the least the cafeteria could do is pay the medical expenses of those in volved. Perhaps they'd rather face a suit (multiplied times 50!). The students at this campus have enought to worry about, without having to be afraid of what they eat. Nobody was permanently hospitalized this time. Nobody died. But what about next time? Myles M. Alexander Ed. We have described our own feelings on the subject In a recent editorial. The question up permost on our minds was why a doctor was not Immediately called in considering the gravity et of a series of protests last week Duth, was among the first to go to Sr., to offer condolences. uld only be done by an individuat ulties," the police chief said. "I'm and I'm sure my feelings are the King's death." who was attending the National "I know that all the people of rmpathy to the King and Boykin' itchell's recovery. Atlanta chapter of the Southern -alled the'shooting "a tragedy for vorld." Williams, jailed last week I on against the police shooting of a .nt throught an SCLC spokesman. ise refusing to sit in he back of a f one of the first major marches of Mrs. King's death "a great loss." e years," said Mrs. Parks. "She A alented and a church woman. She USC Critic Speaks Out To The Editor, After due consideration I feel it necessary to write this letter in response to the unethical teaching methods used by this University's faculty. Throughout my college career I have discerned that few college professors give a shit whether they endow their students with any form of civil education. Obviopsly, this University lacks standardized teaching methods that appeal to the individualistic charactieristics of the student body. I have found that most professors with their doctorates are so incapable of doing their jobs that they insist upon the aid of certain shiftless graduate assistants (who have no business in the teaching profession in the first place) to do all of their work, such as correcting all tests and research materials .. With all due respect, I feel that these graduate assistants are on the whole, unqualified to attend to such matter, much less take it upon themselves to judge their fellow students. If these doctors can't handle their own work, I feel they should resign. Approximately half of the professors that I have come in contact with aren't even in terested enough in their students, to whom they have profusely en deavored to bestow their wisdom upon, to bother to stay in the classrooms during exams to prevent cheating, of which there seems to be a great deal of going on. This, in turn, can hurt those students who have honestly tried to study and encompass the knowledge offered them. I have, in my own personal experience, achieved the amounts of work so heavily laid-out on students, but have failed to receive credit for my efforts. I make no claims to reach the genius level, yet, I don't con sider myself an idiot either. At tempts to rectify these wrongs only end futively, or -with hostile feelings between faculty and students. I sense that the faculty is not playing the game fairly according Letters "AND THE VISIOIIS THAT MV BRAIN , STILL REMAI to the individual efforts put fort by students, but yet are givin1 grades unfairly due to personn prejudice or mere ignorance c academic achievement. There is failure among faculty members t recognize personal and substantir opinions by students on subject which have neither been prove nor perfected, but insist that thei ideas are totally in the right, ar1 that all opposing views are not i accordance with University polic: In essence, University professor are too narrow minded. I feel the they should open up their minds i realistic, and often . time responsible and correct modes thought. It infuriates me that there are proper means by which studen can right these wrongs. Facult members have too much power i their hands when they can pla God and can hold over students heads the supreme judgement i right and wrong in academic et deavors. Students should figt against these proposed injustice and put the limits and progessior of education back in the hands c the students -u back where belongs. I have felt it as my right and duti to express these viewpoint publically so that these grievance might be amended by efforts pti forth by concerned facult members and by the will ar desire to establish a better go and guideline for futur educational progress here at t Unvity of Sout Caro.l ..lin. theastudentse-cbrcknwhred belogs.dcto. orpe migtre andduabyzedfos p munothiyonene faculta stdeeto stancolicwh aete go cepd guiene for Utur educationl psrabusress,r wath theiatendnty oSthoroflcost. Rayt HetIntheed ieHn Apeproductnlyn you chaes awe ase of the uren "pubndsh higerh educai. urureston tI amer indiidulite migon muctiotetenr.ulya stuentisy cnlctwt h "edatin'i a bsnes,wt IsN - - Yo 1 Editor's Note: Here is a story, from ti consider editorial material. It speaks fc A young woman wears a modified white electrodes sticking out like hair curlers. O her, a white dot moves up and down. She is hooked to a computer, and scie across the screen shows the computer suc responded to her mental command . Lawrence Pinneo, director of the Neurc Stanford Research Center here, says th wave tracings taken by an electroencepha that distinctive wave patterns correspo whether the words are spoken aloud or me Pinneo said the mind-reading machin spoken word than a silent thought. When responds correctly about 60 percent of the it responds correctly about 30 to 40 percen "It looks space-agey, but it's only biza plored much of our mental potential," sa her brain directed the computer. "Thi linking computer intelligence with hum Like the humans whose minds it monito errs, but scientists predict that someda; persons conversing entirely in pure thou Pinneo says the key to improving the c training individuals to think ourer thoug Someday, he says, ways may be develk of communication so that machines messages into brains, which may mean turn into a mechanical monster used by 'houghts of citizens. Pinneo says the experiments show n Therefore, the machine must be taught subject's brain waves. Pinneo says the Pentagon-funded proj( stage and though still unreliable, the com it is 100 percent correct." The implications of such work "are lii Staff EDITOR ...................... nASOCIATE EDITOR5........... d AD MANAGE R................ WRITERS Hank Gilman Kathy Edwards r Phyllis Purcell Merry Baetmen Merki Morrow Scott Kearns EDITORIAL........................... r V PHOTO ........................ AR TWORK .................. PROOqCTION................ 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To silent commands, t of the time. irre because we haven't ex Lid Rebecca Mahoney, 22, as nk of the advantages from in intelligence." rs, the computer sometimes the machine may lead to ght. )mputer's accuracy may be hts. ped to reverse the direction can electronically insert the electronic gadget could government to control the o two people think alike. how to interpret each new ,ct still is in the embryonic puter has had "spurts where nited only by imagination," ......Carl Baab ......Scott Kearns - Carl Naylor .....Sobby Alken Chuck Cromier John Van Dalen Terry Dugas Lynne Perr i carl Naylor .....Seget Kearns5 John Van Dalen Carl Saab Cart Neytor .....Scott Kearns ...... en Hood ......Steven S. Folios Kathy Edwards John Van Dalen ..... KOIeh Grossman inofe stwdentseofthe licial psblication of the eit soyo alte st(