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Wheele TtlA imilMMMUtt to m. iiv utu t vi oivjr 1a OA|MUUlll|{t 88 necessary. Someone has to move in order make room for it. In the next 10 years, if t university continues to grow in size a population, the area called Wheeler Hill u be gone. From Blossom Street to Rosewood Dri and Huger Street to Pickens Street, Wheel Hill was chosen as the most desirable ar in which to expand. As Douglas Fitzgeral former vice president for operations, said 1975, "It was contiguous to the university, was the obvious way to go." The property owners in the area we mostly poor, black and without the politic The Game Opini Lonterenc to reach it A Sept. 3 student leadership c acquaint leaders with ways to run the achieve its purpose. The conference's goal was high, workshop is to familiarize the leaders with essential information which they tneir organizations in the coming yc "Such subjects as chartering, stu< efficient conduction of meetings will written by Student Government Pr said. Unfortunately, the conference did Instead, with the help of Board of Tr Curry, Provost Keith E. Davis and A Barry H. Rosen, the meeting turne operation of the university's admin Trustees. Of POl irep cfllHonf lttO/ln-r. """J 1 uv,, uiuumi icaucia neeu suci a conference designed to help the 1( organization. In the long run, it is only through organizations will improve their qua Additionally, organizers for future should study the problems of how clu members. The apathy that runs ram colleges throughout the country r discussion between USC's student lead toward finding ways of improving inte student organizations. If the administration, specifically C are left out of future conferences, sponsors can forget about the waj ministratively and they will be able proDiems confronting the campus's c ^ BMC?gHM????I??B?? GAMEC George Morris Editor Mickey Trimarchi News Editor Carl Strange Asst. News Editor Gene Gaillard Photo Editor Marguerite Ryan Karen Whitaker Graduate Assistant Editorial Page Editor THE GAMECOCK welcome* letters from its readers. L subject and a maximum of 300 words. They must be s Pseudonyms or other aliases will not be used, but th? circumstances warrant. To assist us in verifying the idei mailing address and a telephone number where you ca standing and ma|or, also. We reserve the right to edit all our space limitations. Address: Campus Opinion, 1 Columbia, S.C. 29201. L MH99KJM AXS ? *'*-* r Hill dii is power to oppose the university. Pei to many did not care enough about the he munity to save it; it was, after al nd paradise. Drugs, crime and overpopul rill were part of their lives. But it was a neighborhood if ho ve identity. People lived there. Tlie resi< ler could see their friends. Children went t ea same schools and played together. Y Id, people from Wheeler Hill married, live* in died there. The neighborhood gave ide It to black people in a powerful white w Once the university bought Booke re Washington High School, Wheeler Hill :al doomed. There was talk of building a V ^ Lr ;\.uv.iv on / e failed s goal onference, designed to sir organization, failed to 4'The purpose of this of student organizations will need in order to run ;ar. ient allocations and the be discussed,'* a letter esident David Wilsford not approach this goal. ustees Secretary George ssistant to the President d into a lecture on the istration and Board of ti information, but not at iaders learn to run the i such conferences that lity and quantity, leadership conferences bs can recruit and keep pant in universities and nust be tackled, and lers would go a long way rest and membership in urry, Davis and Rosen, then the conferences's i things are done adi to concentrate on the =. organizations. g^j Qj T f ^ One issue glC Ford-Carter insuj-Bnoe. The candi views. The ] Billy Baker !*ealth inSUl sports Editor increase fed $70 billion a increase of Mitch Sherwood The Dem< saiiy Wilson insurance fii Asst. sports Editors and general The assuir Chuck Cromer is correct. Entertainment Editor however On half to practi .etters should be limited to a single Jimmy Ci igned with the writer's true name. health inSUH i writer's name will be withheld if onvprnmpnt ntity of writers, please include your ? iiiueiii n be reached. Please include class NevertheU letters, not for content, but to meet for doctors J rhe Gamecock, Dr.w.r A. USC, voluntary.' / J sonnel and p ad urine rhaps school, a new community outs com- previous homeowners moved 1, no sidized housing. Some left ation altogether. The university asked no one d an "The area is slowly drying up. a ients thev leave we tear thp hm?u> Hnur 0 the asked us to tear down one house, I oung man was still living there. W 1 and kicked him out, even though he is ntity his rent," Fitzgerald said. orld. We cannot say the university r T. advantage of the residents on Wh was though in some cases this may b new have no wish to criticize the < r' A? > ional health i of particular concern in the upcoming television debates is national healtl (iatpK aro ? !i- ' " u.uiiivuii.aii^ opposite in tnen Republicans oppose compulsory nationa ance. They say such a program woulc leral government spending by more thar nd would require a personal income tax 20 per cent. )crats favor mandatory national health nanced by employe-shared navroii ??J tax revenues. iption that federal spending will increase Without national health insurance, e out of 100 families will continue to pay ically all their income for health care, arter's support of mandatory national ince appears contrary to his wish for less interference in individual lives. ;ss, pre-paid national health insurance and patients is needed, but it should be i. grant to provide more medical per reventive medicine should be included. ?ce$sarily ide. Some university officials; expansion is for our into sub- own benefit, our own education. However, the city we cannot help but fear the reaction from Wheeler Hill. Persons fight back by atto move. tacking the university societv?thraitAnincr \s soon a& students on the Bates House ramp, stealing n. The city bicycles and breaking into apartments, but the old e haven't One cannot help but wonder how many i behind in benefitted from the change. Perhaps our feelings are those of wishfulness. Despite all has taken the wisdom, skill and knowledge in our eeler Hill, university, the best in Wheeler Hill could not e true. We be saved and the worst could not be actions of changed. I ^ ll \ I \ I 11 : jgfc* ilLz^0' I If plan necessary ; Carter is correct in assuming that there is no 1 economic incentive for medical personnel to practice preventive medicine. Doctors should be paid in * proportion to the number and health, not the sickness, 1 of their patients and for the service they stand ready 1 to render. 1 We propose that wage earners with income above a certain amount receive a partial refund for their good health. Persons who are not wage earners would pay | a minimum fee ar.d would receive free hospitalization 1 but not a cash refund. If national health insurance is instituted, a preventive medicine program operated in South Carolina by the Department of Health and En vironmental Control could be expanded to the general public. It is now limited to fulltime state employes. It is true that federal spending and personal income tax will increase, but as a script 1 * * .wv; ?cnavcuo ngni 10 deny the poor access to preventive medicine and the dying access to expensive medical treatment. Everyone should be able to take advantage of the swift advance in medical knowledge.