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But the whole see of something that \ the past, was a pre and belongs to the the event at Kent generally unsympat think about the re? attempts to revive i No one who renv forget the tragedy < really just a part of Four students, some shot by panicked gu The presence or < the place of the s people's memory, dergraduates at Ke the building were >vhen the event th< preserve happened been only 11 years have been embroiled Vietnam war protes university administi So for whom ar< posing construction State students. The: points crni dfoi ascl MEcc Marguerite Ryan Editor En Bob King Advertising Manager les letters from its readers. Letters s if 300 words. They must be signed w ises will not be used, but the writer' ro assist us in verifying the identity a ivicpifvnc iiuinuvr wnerv you can i also. We reserve the right to edit all tions. Address: Campus Opinion, T 18. tStat 2 RYAN es has just witnessed t. is in every respect t e two-month sit-in at Ke [ent, Ohio. i anachronism, in eve In 1970 four students we Juardsmen during a riot *rsity administrators ai ild a evmnasium near t d killings. Demonstrat< i built--at least not the to preserve the memory say the planned buildi , the Associated Pr? ne took on the wei rd aspe vas begun and finished >duct of events in the pa past. The resurrection State in an alien ai hetic setting makes o isons for such despera pmhprs thf? chruu; n rtc ti> ? M v?tv unwtiugo W on May 4, 1970, which w the tragedy of the timei innocent bystanders we lardsmen. absence ot a building ne; hootings will not chanj And most of the u nt State who will be usir 14 years old or young* b demonstrators want . Freshmen would ha old, hardly old enough I in the tenor of the time it and dissatisfaction w ation. j the demonstrators o] ? Surely not for Kei sole effect on them will t I RyL1 I 4-^ Associ 1S we into tt has wi to fun with 2 Ij studei B. becom The r "V rocky, 100I s tribute i 1 anH rli educat VijlV a poor with i eventu expect novd woods burder Associate Editor Bllt 1 Chuck Cromer for So lertainment Editor Mpriioj obviou needec hould be limited to a tingle ? F1GCC ith Ihe writer's true name. Man s name will be withheld it ot writers, please include be reached. Please include letteri, not for content, but he Gamecock, Drawer A, > e no iss no new gym or a gym locate apparently the trustees hae < Is it for the four students v How will it help them now' Preventing the gym's i VV/aa*^/iioiIt/O UUUllUg LUIIbll U I1? the living or the dead-nor 11 anything destructive. I nothing. ry They created a "tent city r(r campus for two months. a\ national media coverage. ? tention of administators a J? heard there* protestations i their obiections wers not wn of the gym plans. I At the point when the uni g permission to remove the their whole noble cause took of people clinging to a dead ii . lack of anything else to cling i they stayed, fully aware an 1?J; forward to the inevitable c< police. Shades of 1970. They "d resistence drills. Shades of ne parents of students killed we lte arrested, the purpose of t ... became less preservation < memory than use of a gen situation, building a gym, fo poses. re They became martyrs -wii for. They became dire< ar omcnind fr*r? o nonp" D. ivi u Lnuoc in l_ l I d 11 n. of the cause's validity. The w lg not with a bang but a whimf er were on them, 192 of then t0 without injury and no one ve enhanced. to The whole fiasco reveal* s._ purpose--the romantic notion ith barricades against an enemy, noble cause. Except that tl p. changed and the cause ended and if they want to find a caus )e would do better to find ones i plenty. ,OYD WOODS late Editor welcome the new USC te Carolina community eathered many problei ding, but this fall the 14 young South Carolir nts, who hopefully 1 ie 24 doctors badly nee oad ahead for thp in though, as many prob olved when the doors t of the money provide< ledical school has beer kmth Carolina Legisl sd little to the school s letoric trains very few ion does not come ches education is no bette no education. Feden lally decrease and th ed to bear the brunt 1 caused by having two are two medical school! uth Carolina? We th al University of South sly provide the nun 1 for the state. Two me< sssity. y wonder how we < me d els where, which considered doing, vho were killed? construction acctive,for anyonefor that matter t accomplishes ?? 4l__ cum ?dl UI1 lilt; They received They got the atnd trustees who and who decided rth the scrapping versity got court i demonstrators, on a desperation ssue, perhaps for to at the time. So d maybe looking jmroniauon with practiced police 1970. And when 1 re the first to be 1 he whole event of the students' erally innocuous r their own purth nothing to die stionless people ipion- regardless hole thing ended, >er. The cameras n were arrested 's memory was , id the apparent i of manning the of suffering for le enemies have ; in the early 1970s . se to defend, they ; n 1977. There are 1 medical scl university 1 of budget 1 medical school layoffs we The institution looked mo ns from staffing concerted school will open tactics sho tians as its first expecting a U/ill PVAntnollu voor Otd\rv\M " ?> Vf VI8VUU11J J V/Ui . k/VUK ded by the state, keep the C stitution is still help the nc lems will not yet TTiere ah open. between th i for starting the research uj i federal money, spent mor ature has con- determine i ;ave for rhetoric unit. The n doctors. A good hadtheide; ip. A doctor with the final sa ;r than a doctor accomplish II funding Will nf hipfprin e state will be should be t of the financial We also g medical schools, offered thei s really a burden Without th? ink not, as the opening in Carolina cannot certainly b iber of doctors personnel. iifal <u>hnnlc aro Wourick f ? wwawAV Ml V f? V TTlOll V hope that or :an afford two not the besi SG presi needs w By LLOYD WOODS Associate Editor Obviously our new Studer Government president, Bra Steele, has read "The Selling c the President," a boo describing Richard Nixon' maniDulation of thA . vertising medium during th 1968 presidential campaign, fo Steele appears to have use some of Nixon's tactics durini his own campaign. We refer to Brad Steele1 advertisement reproduce! elsewhere in this issue. The a< claims ne was a forme President of Anderson College implying he was president o the student government. Actually he was only Presiden of the sophomore class. Under the heading o representation he has th< statement that he "hasn' U^-WTilwr 1 IIUIVU^ 1 Dear Mr. Holderman, I am not a seer, thus I cai mane no predictions con cerning your administration; can only make wishes. I givi you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you will do ai excellent job as President, bu strong optimism is not one o my fortes. At 41 you are comparatively young to be president of USC and from your pictures yoi appear even younger. I hope /our age proves to be ad yantegous, but I must say thai you look to me like a cherubic hools, especially when t has had to lay off work cuts. We question wl re really necessary. 1 re like a whining tae effort to sav#? mnnpv uld not be necessary. 7 i $3 million tax revenue s i of that money could harlestonians in their j !\v medical school. >o appears to already b e two schools. Both war nit, and the legislature e than $15 thousand f South Carolina even n< nedical university clair a first, but the legislatur U JSC (n IllVlot Kawvnnnt. f ! J vv ttiiui uappcilo. J_il ed if the two schools mi g with each other. C< he key. [ive kudos to the doctors ir services non gratis a: eir aid the school mig the fall. Their assistai e appreciated by the ] We salute their unselfi: he new medical school si le day it becomes one of t, medical schools in th dent atchim missed a Senate me October." This in Steele was a Studen it He was not. Wehav H tnlrl that Qf?-? J!' V* vw.v. V..UV JIVVIC UIl if attending Senate k regularly until a s month before the j I- tion. e Steele also managi r contact with the d much as possible, e g so far as to send his manager in his p] s stump meeting at cl school. Did he fear d We find it hard to r trust in someone i, deceived us. Steele f will cause us to anything he says in t t Steele may be president the stud< nment has had, but f just as easily the wo 3 just have to keep a H t him. )o<>(ly'; Howdy Doody, mc n a: * * - uiaiespeci oi course I I do hope appear e be deceiving and yc , merely be a pupp i Board of Trustees, bi t strong president, f certainly qualified. not mean to im / President Pattersoi ? puppet of the trust i managed to be ineffe ? no strings attached. . luck, Mr. Holderma t need it. From the Peanut G al he medical srs because hether the "he layoffs tic than a , but such "he state is surplus this be used to obs and to e a rivalry it a cancer has so far trying to jeds such a ns to have e will have ittle will be )lrp a hahif M I1UU1V )mpromise, s who have s teachers. ;ht not be ice should permanent shness. uccess and the best, if ic Luuiuiy. II J eting since lplies that t senator, e also beek, I not start meeting ibout one \Dril Pier ed to avoid voters as ;ven going campaign lace to a tho lour v?v 1C4VY the voters? place our who has !'s actions question he future, the best 2nt goverhe can be rst. We'll ose eye on > >aning no ances will >u will not ot of the Jt will be a You are Now I do ply that n was a ees. He ctual with Good n. You'll lery