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Priority bv lor.pi ? t/ BySkotG Assistant Entertai Recently, while waiting the opportunity to wit display of police efficient Much to the later re several cars parked on ] just recently reached the time. Those omnipreser justice, the parking met end of their time limit, an cars as illegally parked.] to watch what I had pre end results of. A pair of c the unfortunate autos i hntoH little* (Troon aline n 11M?VU UVVAV W*1 0U|HJ \J dispatch, thus making democracy. Later, while strolling a an equally efficient team hastily and dutifully full their only true mission parking tickets. Although an unfortur particularly cruel forir (several times over), I dedication and prompti working upholders of de< But lurking in the back gnawing note of doubt. been many reports of car scale vandalism. Purses valuable objects had beei with frightening regulai drink machines, fire buildings themselves wer a savage horde of camp One professor told me particular study lounge curred on a repeated bat simple it was for someon for an exposed purse or \ pad his pocket while cau i nis victims, tteports incu I occur in study lounges, ac r restructui 1 police de^ arrick humanities Inment Editor trouble spo ; for a city bus, I had House. ness an impressive In viewing cy. began to uti gret of the owners, security foi Pendleton Street had dening war end of their parking they devot< it gray servants of towards the ers, had reached the predictable d quickly decreed the answer. fcT? T ! 11 1 T ill 1 II liuw i was privileged i win ue u viously only seen the of criminolc ity police hastened to there are se and dispensed those justifiable b if paper with prompt Question the world free for predictable professors < round campus, I saw nabbings, ii of campus policemen where theft filling what must be these theft in life: dispensing vandalism j certain arec late victim of this the precurs i of justice myself Admittedly, had to admire the the crimes < 11 1 1 1 A. 1 lews ui uiuse nara- oy siuaenis. :ency. strain on la of my mind existed a unchecked Recently, there had attention, npus thefts and wide- A securit s, wallets and other some of the] i lifted from students settled into rity, while windows, staking out extenguishers and difficult tasl e being beset upon by cadets or i us rowdies. could perfo i in 0rpnf Hot oil of a nno naronn ^?OI cs VilV pvi k?Vli where thefts had oc- number of lis. He explained how sharply, e to just walk in, look The camp vallet, and proceed to doing one j< sing much sorrow for that job is icate that most thefts rather hav< ademic buildings (the than my w, ANSWER TO THI ing needed a i * )artments buildings are one of the biggest ts), the library and the Russell I these facts, a curious dichotomy fold in my mind. Should our local ces continue to wage their madon illegally parked cars, or should i some of their fiery efficiency ise more serious menaces? It is what the victims of the thefts would le first to admit that my knowledge I >gical proceedings is not vast, but I veral questions that I cannot find a inswer for. one: if thefts are occurring with regularity in certain areas, if :an cite reports in detail of purse i statistics can be compiled as to s frequently occur, then why can't s be stopped? Question two: if is mostly contained within a few is, such as rowdy dorms, why can't tors of these crimes be caught? the bulk of these crimes, especially )f vandalism, are being performed , I realize that this will put a larger w enforcement personnel, but the growth of these crimes demands ;y watch system might alleviate problems. The thieves seem to have a pattern of regular "hit areas," so one of these areas should not be a k. Perhaps some undercover police maybe even students themselves rm this much-needed task. If just was caught and prosecuted, the Hiaffo 1 /InnnnnnA Mtviw TTVUAU U1IUUUUVCUIJ UCV1 CdOC us and city police deserve credit for >b very well, but the importance of questionable. Personally, I would ? someone steal my parking place allet. > il L RISING COST Carlen got after his i To the Editor: As Richard Nixon once said, "It's ea Perhaps Jim Carlen is down, maybe h this school's football program, he sh It isn't hard to remember Jim Cai press predicted that he would be lu< Well, Carlen fooled everyone and won season bowl. Even though Carolina lost that encc of Ohio team, he immediately became football program that had been 'fo college football coaches." But since then, it has been all dow Carolina, Carlen sported a 7-3 record i hun traoro Po.Ioh kno ~ 1 vttv jvaioj vai l^ii liao iiiailtl(JCU UI11 position. Both of these victories wer weakling of a "weakling conference," I have to laugh at Carlen's remark ficient supply of "quality" high scho my frequent visits to my native si Michigan State football game. MSU's whole starting backfield wa Carolina. That's right. Lonnie Middleton, junior, Orangek Bruce Reeves, sophomore, Irmo, "fi Charleston, Bishop England, '78 all s thrM> vpnru Rmvim hntk iiobm ond 1 v?? w j VM* W) v MVW1 J VM1 Of OllU A 408 yards on 42 carries is destined to b And who can forget Eric "the flea' in three years at Michigan State gain< downs? In one game he gained 350 yar Former President Ford, during i remarked after glancing at Carolina's back to back road games against So could easily understand why Paul 1 schedule). Perhaps Jim Carlen will do this schc to play it. Brian West Journalism junior I I I I I mm js down irst year isy to kick a man when he's down.' e's not. If he cares anything about lould be. rlen's first year at Carolina. The :ky to win three football games, i seven and sent Carolina to a post >unter to a highly regarded Miami 3 known as the savior of a school's re known as the "graveyard of nhill. After his first two years at igainst ACC opponents. In the last y two victories against ACC ope over Wake Forest, a perennial as Carlen puts it. b that South Carolina lacks a sufol football players. During one of :ate of Michigan, I witnessed a is from, well nowhere else, South ?urg, Orangeburg Wilkinson, '76; 1\ and Dreek Hughes, freshman, tarted. Middleton has lettered all lughes, who as a freshman gained e a superstar. ' Allen, a Georgetown native, who ;d 2,654 yards and scored 30 touchds and an NCAA record. i visit to Columbia last spring, 11980 schedule, one which includes uthern Cal and Michigan, that he Dietzel left after making it (the >ol a favor and leave before he has gamecock Founded 1908 Mark J. Lundgren Editor In Chief Don Fobes Copy Desk Chief Jim Phillips News Editor Barry J. Glenn Entertainment Editor Mike Hunt Sports Editor Dave Roback Graphics Editor Sharon Pippin Wire E<j|f0r Judy Sims Editorial Page Editor Janice Wood Graduate Assistant Jan Easterllng Asst. News Editor Brett Frledlander Asst. 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