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The Pll I al/ik uj kvi^n viiuyaii Assistant News Editor The recent story concerning objects being thrown from the Wade Hampton Hotel may not mean much to students who are currently living in other university housing, but for those students who occupy dorm space in the hotel the situation could be serious if another inHHpnt nppnrc It was necessary for housing officials to take action to prevent such acts of immaturity from happening again. Not only is damage to property incurred, but someone could be seriously injured or even killed. However, not every resident of Correction Because of space limitations in Friday's Gamecock several facts were cut from the editorial which ^ made parts of it seem factually f incorrect. To begin with, the case of Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) applied the sixth amendment's right to counsel the states, fyy not the due process clause of the \AJ? 5th amendment. Due process was applied to the states through the 14th amendment. ^ Also, the right to counsel has ' been guaranteed by the Conctitntlnn i 1 T T ? IA 1 ' ouiunuii ui liic uiiut'll dlillCS -i- ? since 1789, not 1978 as indicated //fJ by the typographical error in Friday's paper (all the right numbers were there, just in the wrong order). The Gamecock regrets the error. amennnk Founded 1908 C Mark J Lundgren Editor In Chief Don Fobes Copy Desk Chief Tom Travis News Editor David Baker Entertainment Editor Brett Friedlander Sports Editor Dave Roback Graphics Editor Barbara Mathews Wire Editor Jim Phillips Editorial Page Editor Luign urogan Assistant News Editor Lehman Stiles Assistant Entertainment Ed. Sjj Joey Holleman . . Assistant Sports Editor Janice Wood Graduate Assistant Jill Griffin Advertising Manager Fran George Production Manager Jon Clemmensen General Manager Sam McKee Business Manager Mark Ethridge Jr Adviser Newsroom: 777-7181 j Advertising: 777 4249 Business Office: 777 3888 ? Sole reproduction rights granted to the * Associated Press All other material con f, tamed herein may not be reprinted without $ tne permission of the editor K Opinions expressed in the Gamecock are those, if signed, of the writer and, if unsigned, of the senior editorial staff mnocei the Wade Hampton participated ir these fun-and-games. Those of us who behave and try to act like adults may be forced out of the hntpl anH fn o rfvnr,r uiiv4, vu u gi caiui CAlCllt, 1IUII] living in any other dorm in 1979-80, if someone gets bottle-happy. The recent notice which was sent to all residents of the hotel from Residential Life Services was what could be considered a scare tactic. The contents of the notice was an "I dare you" type format. We were informed that tampering with the window restrictors installed over Spring Break or one more incident of 4 'debris or missiles" hpinf* 0 thrown from a window would result By Jir Editorli My uncle h Savannah Rive - j Aiken for year JT fa se glow in \j since the mishj Island nuclea 7 " dletown, Pa., i aroma: 111V 1 l/UUl 111 U1C In case son % accident which takes up . . miles in Aik waitmq srsr (?s t/ DuPont, for the j q Folks aroun I fa fH/YY)Tl?3/rV) ? ^ave never ' # (A^AjkJkJ\y ft/* plant by its pr< they casually i bomb plant." cvci wcic IU V world novel, Y start here. To begin wit Af^^re nWe. gAMecPOK. . \.A- - S:- <&' <S ? * V C> kVN* ... w^<A w ^*K? $*> \ \^\V ' \ it speak 1 in drastic measures taken by ; housing. i Tampering with the windows | which by the way, only open about two inches after the restrictors were installed, will result in expulsion from the dorm and possible suspension from the university. If anything is reported being thrown from a window, all hotel residents will be asked to leave the dorm. We will not be permitted to occupy another dorm for the remainder of this semester or for next year. What happens to the $100 nonrefundable deposit we paid to secure our rooms for the fall semester? More importantlv. where would we live? ri Phillips indicated in a recent sto it Page Editor Columbia Record, securi las worked at the "bomb plant" has not bee ir Plant, SRP, near at times. It was discov s and I have yet to past week that a small a i the dark. However, plutonium 238 was "missi ip at the Three Mile the plant for 10 days. T r station in Mid- material actually never I don't think I'll be plant ? it just found its u hts off with him in part of the plant it wasn't near future. to be in. le of you haven't While I profess ignorar s inai garganiuan technical operation ot a ited nuclear facility facility, I do know that f hundreds of square 238 is something you d en and Barnwell chalantly stick into you tally, it is operated and carry into another r ware-based giant, you want to have childrer government). any natural instincts su< d the Aiken area will to live. And I don't i ken to calling the employee responsible stu >per name. Instead his lunch pail so he cou refer to it as "the first in line at the < If Jack Anderson Nevertheless the employ /rite an end-of-the- was fired, thank God) did le would probably the stuff, creating a p< hazardous situation. '"" ?y ??* (TH " 1 I R? ^Jlg^ J ^AWAWlW\\ < < ? mH ? J J.WVVNWWWW^ out I do not feel those of us who reside in the Wade Hampton and refrain from throwing objects from the windows should be forced out of our rooms and made to suffer because of someone else's idea of a good time. If another such incident was to occur, housing officials should at least attempt to identify the student and the circumstances ClirrAimrlinrt ? ? 4 1 ' ouiiuutiuuig me iiitiuciu ueiore they send everyone in the hotel packing. We have a right to live there and a right to stay there despite what the officials say. If we are forced out it might be fun to spend the rest of the semester camped out in front of 1215 Blossom St. ry in the phone Thursday that the plutonium ty at the 238 could only kill you, not blow you n ine oesi and the western half of South ered this Carolina to that great reactor in mount of the sky. The really dangerous ng" from stuff, the stuff they use to make he lethal THE BOMB, is plutonium 239. You left the can't imagine the flood of relief /ay into a that washed over me. I wanted to supposed ask him if, since the disappearance of the plutonium, he could turn a ice in the radio on by just walking by it. I i nuclear didn't because I was comforted by >lutonium the fact that he couldn't blow one on't non~ up by the same maneuver ? he 1%, I i At u naa me wrong number. oom ? if 1, or have The bomb that was dropped on :h as the Hiroshima killed tens of thousands mage the ?f people. Aiken's population is ck it into about 13,000. Augusta, a town of Id be the about 60,000, lies just across the cafeteria. Savannah River. I wonder if /ee (who anyone has ever run a geiger misplace counter across one of those green otentially jackets Jack Nicklaus has won? iL ~ : uvei me ?ee Nuclear, page 19 aHpes r -m- ^ >1.1 /" i ? * * ; KiNfc* HAt) ee&N CTep s\Kce me. iTOsJr' AT THENuclear ftMT? J \\ PV