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Wayne Brooks
Associate Editor
Collins Walker
Photography Editor
THE GAMECOCK welcon
subject and a maximum c
Pscudonums or other alia
circumstances warrant. 1
your mailing address and
class standing and major,
to meet our space limit*
USC, Columbia. S C. 2971
Ken
By MARGUERITE
Editor-in-Chief
The United Stat
event in 1977 tha
produqt of 1970: th
State University, *
The event was ai
sense of the word,
killed by National C
Kent State. Univ<
trustees want to bu
site of the riot an
don't want the gyn
They say they want
that day, and they
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vvuuiu uuatUI C It.
reported.
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
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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
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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