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Evelyn Montgomery is indeed one woman
whose work is never done. She works as hard as
most people but, like Sisyphus, to her lot fell a
job that is taxing to the patience, exhausting to
the body. Evelyn, 38, is a cleaning maid in USC's
dorm at Columbia Memorial Hospital.
"I wouldn't want to be cleaning dorms for the
rest of my working life," she swore. "When you
are cleaning them it doesn't seem like you are
getting anything accomplished-the boys dirty it
even as you are cleaning it.
"It surprises me," she shakes her head.
"They pour soda on the floor. Shoot off fire
extinguishers. Students in college don't seem as
advanced as the ones in high school."
Evelyn has been working in USC dormitories
for six years. Each semester is different, she
says, each one brings in a different type of
student.
"Last semester was terrible. There were days
when I felt like turning around and going back
home. You'd step on the floor and your foot
would stick." Evelyn made a face.
Just as students differ from semester-to
semester, so the nature of the work varies from
day-to-day.
"Monday is the worst day," she declared.
"They have been here all weekend without
anybody to clean after them. You know they
don't go home and do the things they do here."
Evelyn's experience with college students has
not disillusioned her with the advantages of a
college education. She has a husband and five
children, makes $2.52 an hour, but is trying to
save money to send her children through college.
"Finishing college is the most important thing
for them. I am always after them on their
grades," Evelyn said with a laugh. One of her
daughters is married but four children in school
are doing well, she said.
Actually, judging from the reports, another
daughter is doing particularly well, Evelyn said.
"Her teachers are always saying how smart she
is. She should be a leader some day."
Her eyes smile as she talks of her children. "I
want my children to be successful. I want my
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TO THE EDITOR: rights. Only a lu
By the recent decision of the for lustry ecoi
state legislature to kill the growth a state I
proposed Equal Rights Amend- its natural resoi
ment (ERA) the leaders of this women, to
great state have demonstrated to capabilities.
the people their high degree of If a person
enlightenment and awareness to theory that Soul
the changes taking place in the potential for gr
outside world. that of most oti
They have shown what years of be raglical. To
schooling and experience in public state such peop!
life have done to elevate them to a and not capa
point where only the most thought anywas
esteemed statesmen, such as muistmakesucd
George Wallace and Lester pour souls.
Maddox, have achieved. I must truly
These men have proved beyond a men and say,
shadow of a doub,t the true merits tastic work." i
of being simple-minded and such capabl
stubborn. In a world that is decisions for ui
changing in all respects they have may be with AJ
seen through their "opened" eyes on the top of th
that If South Carolina is to progress more years bel
to a point at which it can provide nation.
decent opportunities to its people it
must rely on the proven methods of Could Crc
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To the unenlightened person It
may look as though these TO THE EDIT
prominent leaders have dealt a All year long
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children to be always somebody in life. I don't
want them to grow up plain."
Evelyn herself is planning on furthering her
education. She is a high school graduate and now
is looking forward to learning typing at night
school. She hopes her job as a typist "won't be as
tiring as mopping floors and picking up trash.
"I would have never thought I'd be working as
a maid. I always figured I'd work in a beauty
shop. But I got married soon and so couldn't
keep up with cosmetology."
Evelyn explained an aspiring beautician has to
work for a while with someone else in the field
before being allowed to set up private practice.
She said she doesn't regret getting married
she's been married 19 years now. Both she and
her husband, a mail handler in the post office,
spend a lot of time with their children.
But if Evelyn had her way, this time she would
stay longer in school.
"I would like to go back to school.. .find a job,
make as much money as I possibly can," she
said, speculating on the possibilities. "If you
have a good job you can have a nice home. You
could have lots of room-you wouldn't be
cramped up."
Nice homes are one of the things she likes
about America. "People have beautiful gardens
-flowers are real pretty." The other nice thing is
"you can raise your own vegetables," Evelyn
said.
She is happy with this country. "America is a
good place to stay. Women in America can do
just about anything they want to do. You can buy
a car, own a home, move about freely. I like my
freedom," she said.
However, Evelyn is not as satisfied with
President Ford. "I can't say I dislike him,
because he il human," she said. But she
suggested he would do better to settle domestic
unrest before trying to solve problems elsewhere
in the world.
Times are bad, she said, jobs are getting
tighter, "a lot of people are losing their homes."
But Evelyn is content. "I am happy with what I
have. I don't worry about myself. I worry about
my children."
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Editorials
Law adn
The Board of Trustee's
decision to give a committee
appointed by the President
power to select 7 per cent of the
first-year law school class is
being bogged down by con
fusion and protests from the
law school.
It has become obvious that
the Board acted without fully
realizing the problems that
their decision would cause.
Law students are justifiably
afraid that the decision will
allow state legislators to get
acquaintances, who do not
deserve law school entrance,
into USC's Law Center.
The law school faculty is in
the midst of adopting a
resolution to have Law Center
Dean Robert Foster meet with
President Patterson to come
up with an agreement about
first-year admissions policy.
The Board's idea of having a
committee to select 7 per cent
of the first-year class has both
good and bad points. If the law
school faculty and staff would
have strong representation on
the panel it would be controlled
so that it would not turn into a
farce in which politicians and
Board members would be c
alling the shots.
However, the Board has
handled the entire situation
poorly. Instead of studying the
situation and formulating a
plan to allow disadvantaged
students or those who ob
viously deserve a chance to
prove themselves in law school
entrance, the Board quickly
pushed through a decision that
was totally lacking in planning.
then Board chairman T. Eston
>ach Marchant admits that plans for
s as the committee were not yet
ri an formed and that a meeting
that with law school officials must
h san still be held.
sing All of* these things should
have taken place before the
je,Board decided that the 7 per
'70's cent selection process was
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months ago.
Clemency
program
Quietly, almost without
notice, the conditional
clemency program for Viet
nam war military deserters
and draft evaders ended
Monday. Only 22,500 of 126,900
men eligible to apply had done
so.
Ironically, news of the.
clemency program's ending
was hidden beneath an
avalanche of dispatches from
newsmen in Saigon and Phnom
Penh detailing the latest news
on the retreating South Viet
namese and the fleeing Lon
Nol.
It is evident that just more
than two years after the Paris
Peace Agreement was signed
South Vietnam will fall to the
North Vietnamese. The United
States, which spent more than
a decade trying to help South
Vietnam, should realize that
any effort they make to arm
the Vietnamese with military
supplies will only prolong the
agony in Indochina.
Congress should resist
President Ford and Secretary
of State Kissinger's attempts
to get supplemental military
aid.
Then the President and
Congress should make another
attempt to come up with a
clemency plan that is ac
ceptable to a large number of
draft evaders and military
deserters. Only then will the
United States be on the road to
recovering from its un
successful foreign policy
mistakes.
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