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Thursday, April 20,
Politics, health I
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By BILL DOUGLAS
Gamecock Staff Writer
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of self responsibility and health
were the subjects of a lecture by
former entertainer turned activist
Dick Gregory, at Russell House
Ballroom Tuesday night.
4'We cannot have good health as
long as America is a sexist, racist
country," Gregory said.
"We're not going to stop being
racist or being sexist and stop all of
our fears overnight," he added.
"What we've really got to come to
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fears are there."
GREGORY ALSO defined the
word "love" in the American
context. "Love flowers, so if you
get sick 1*11 kill them flowers and
bring them back to the hospital. I
"hate weeds and will not kill
weeds, but will kill flowers," he
said. Gregory said that in a nation
that kills and destroys things that it
loves, like flowers, he would rather
be a thorn or in a bush or a weed.
Gregory views the government
and large corporations as
manipulators or "pimps." "One
way the super-rich manipulators
get us is basically, we don't think
that much different from them, we
just do our thing on a smaller
scale. You cheat on a history test,
they cheat on a whole continent,"
he said.
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that cheating is cheating, there's
no degree to it," Gregory said.
"Somewhere down the line you
must understand how they get us in
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By JIM PHILLIPS and
SALLY WILSON
Gamecock Staff Writers
| After trudging around campus I
trying to gain some insight ii
situation, the only thing one car
assurance is that housing is in \
demand for housing is increasing
one knows for sure just what to do
Several solutions have been
renting space in local motels,
arranged at affordable rates for s
seen. Several officials in Hesiden!
told the Gamecock the university
additional dormitories. National
number of college-age student*
stantially during the next 10 yea
Director of housing Robert
university is "a little hesitant
mortgage to pay for a new residen
fully occupied in the future."
ACCORDING TO Stewart,
especially those in the North, hav
dormitory space. He said some
cupancy rate of less than 75 perc
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that whole game mat we play.
That's why they can lie on them
aerosol cans, making you think
that's the only thing that's
destroying the ozone layer," he
said.
GREGORY SAID that 90 percent
of the aerosol cans in the home are
for fraudulent reasons. "You've
got that air freshener to make the
house smell fresh," he said. "If you
want the house to smell fresh,
clean it."
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American people can no longer
trust the government for good
eating. "The burden for good
eating and good health has to be on
you (the individual)" he said.
He asked the audience to give up
white refined sugar for seven days.
"I'm just not talking about that
sugar in the bag, 37 percent of
everything you eat is white refined
sugar. That means for every 100
pounds of food in you 37 pounds is
white refined sugar," he said.
Gregory, speaking on fond
processing, said, "Did you ever
peel a white potato and notice it
turns brown while you peel it?" he
asked. "It oxidizes when you take
the skin off. How do you think when
you go to the supermarket and
them potatoes are all ready peeledup,
snowy white and waiting to be
french fried ? because they bleach
them in formaldehyde. The same
thing they embalm dead folks
with," he said.
GREGORY ALSO discussed the
FBI file on him. which he obtained
through the Freedom of In>n
is in sighl
supported
assistance
entirely se
curate, anc
for almost two months and the occ
lto the USC housing of living on
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rery short supply, the financial a:
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about it. currently o
proposed, including Beginning
Whether that can be ticipate in t
tudents remains to be per'semest
tial Life Services have runs betwee
does not plan to build local hotels
projections show the of students
} will decrease sub- much faste
rc
A. Stewart said the ANOTHE
to assume a 40-year Stewart sai
ce hall that may not be used to ass
priority is |
transfer st
many universities, campus. If
e had problems filling for housing
schools have an oc- few semesl
ent. Housing at state- eluded ent
South Carolina, Columbia, S
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formation Act. "In 1965, they (the
FBI) said I was dangerous and had
communist ties," he said. In 1977,
Gregory co-authored with Mark
Laine, a book, "Code Name
Zorro," which dealt with the
assassination of Martin Luther
King. The book helped facilitate
the re-opening of the KennedyKing
assassination investigations.
Upon the re-opening of the cases
six FBI agents were subpoenaed to
testify before the Warren Commission.
Gregory said that the
agents are dead. Four died of heart
attacks and onp Hi#>H in a huntmn
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accident.
Gregory read an order from the
Washington FBI office to the office
in Chicago saying that they should
"neutralize him" via undetected
means. "They won't kill me 'cause
they know I'm telling truth,"
Gregory said.
The lecture was not without its
lighter moments. Gregory, an exnightclub
comediaii joked with the
deaf interpreters who were there
with residents of the Com
piciicusive seiner ior me Deaf in
West Columbia. Gregory asked
interpreters Paul Godfrey, Barbra
Porter, Debbie Chai and Phyliss
Iluckeriede if they were reading
his lips. "If you are," Gregory
said, "ain't too many white folks
that can read niggers' lips."
Gregory also asked the sign for the
word "nigger."
GREGORY'S LECTURE was
presented in conjunction with
Health Enrichment Week and was
sponsored by Open Door, Afro and
the National Panhellenic Council.
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universities in South Carolina recei
from state funds, and therefore ir
If-supporting. If present projections ,
1 if the university builds another dori
upancy rate falls below 100 percent, t
i campus at USC would increase to th
' few students could afford housing i
ssistance.
ntowner Motel and the Wade HamDtor
ffer a limited amount of space for sti
next fall, the Carolina Inn will als
his program. According to Stewart, th
er for a double room in one of these
n $375 and ^425.Finding additional sp;
and motels may be a problem as the n
; desiring on-campus housing is inci
r than available space.
:K SOLUTION to be considered this su
id, is a restructuring of the priority s
gii spaces 10 new siuaenis. current I
given to incoming freshmen, then, in
udents and continuing students livii
the number of incoming freshmen at
is very high, as has been the case for tl
ters, the other two categories may
irely. The only possible solution I
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musing shortage
ves no problem would seem to be the establishment of a quota
lust be system for incoming students. Once the quota for one
are ac- category is completed, no more students in that category I
mitory, would be admitted until quotas were reached for the
he cost other categories. Regardless of the efforts of Residential
e point Life Services to ease the housing shortage, it appears
without there will continue to be many more applicants for space
in university residence halls than space available. j
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ie costs apparently worked well, since Bates House will undergo j
motels similar changes beginning next fall. With present laws ;
aces in against discrimination, coed dorms at USC will probably
lumber continue to increase over the next few years, allowing j
easing students of both sexes to obtain the best possible I
housing.
mmer,
system As an added note, it was reported in the first part of the
y, first housing series that residents of Rutledge College, which \
order, will undergo renovation at the end of this semester, were
ng off- concerned that they may not be able to obtain space in
>plying the Horseshoe for next semester. After housing sign-up
he past was completed, The Gamecock learned all Rutledge
be ex- residents desiring to remain on the Horseshoe have been
to this accommodated.
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