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Hall adv dOk V/JL tllV/ By Larry V. Hudson English graduate student Snowden residence haM director A 7 1: ; A. 1 ir i i uu uvc in uie lowens anu come stumbling in at 3 a.m. only to find you've lost your keys and can't get into your room. Maybe you are a resident of South Building and have just lost your best friend in an automobile accident. Or maybe you live in Bates House and feel like having a hall party. U/hofmmr fho nimnmof onnnc *T uavv Tvi wiiV/ en vuinovaii^o, you can usually count on one particular student to be involved, Ana cfnrlonf \tihn ic f /\n n/\ vuv ovuuviu mi \i 10 inuic ii/i I iu "A L~ ~H h ridti duviaci iiaa uiio u? the toughest jobs on campus." other reason than to help dormitory residents cope with life in a uiiivcioiij i COIUC11LC uau. i uai student is the hall adviser. A HALL ADVISER has one of the i _t A ? . 1 lougnesi jods on campus?ne or she must be a coordinator, program director, disciplinarian, counselor, all at the same time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Administrators have it a bit easier?when their job is done, they can go home and leave the ? A 1 i?L.: 1 iU siuuents ueiimu mem. The hall adviser doesn't have that advantage. As long as a hall advisor is in the residence hall, he or she is on the job. There is simply no let up, no release for these people except to run away for a weekend every now and then in an otiomrvt f a rnrto 1 ?i onmn conifir ?iivmpi iv/ ^^aiu ouiu^ oauuj . Consider why a person would want such a job. It's not money ; to say these people are underpaid is a gamecock Founded 1906 Tom Travis Editor in Chief Leigh Grogap Copy Desk Chief Michael Gooding News Editor Brett Friedlander SDnrts Priitnr Lehman Stiles Entertainment Editor Russell Pace Graphics Editor Brian Duncan Editorial Page Editor Janet Gibson Wire Editor Mark Platte Assistant News Editor Steve RiddellAssistant Sports Editor Mark Chevalier. . Asst Entertainment Editor Carl Babcock Graduate Assistant Anthony Gray Advertising Manager Fran George Production Manager Bill Outlaw General Manager Sam McKee Business Manager Mark Ethrldge Jr Adviser Newsroom: 777-7181 Advertising: 777-4249 Business Office: 777-3868 Sole reproduction rights granted to the Associated Press. All other material contained herein may not be reprinted without the permission of the editor. Opinions expressed in the Qamecock are those, if signed, of the writer and. if un | signed, of the senior editorial staff. * l j.m i foul in .11*1 <il<iyij(i'iii 1 ? ' '"ii I?WpI . sets iser's job touehest n gross understatement. Thev eet no tuition break. They are required to cut every vacation break short in order to be here when the dorms reopen. They are responsible both to the administration and to the residents on their halls. They must deal also with those problem residents that no one else reaHy wants to confront. The hall adviser must deal with racism, personality clashes, i j _ i a. _r _ii depression ana a nosi 01 oiner problems, all for a minimal salary and a single room (and the hall advisor pays the same housing fee that everyone does.) ? nmm a im it 1 _ Lr, i a r /all, 11, uie oniy reason these people do their job is because they want to. They enjoy helping others, and it's not always easy ? "Someone from Student Government wants to help open the dorms. Or how about being on duty Saturday night after the Clemson game while everyone else is out on the town." it is very easy to forget that hal advisors are students, with man) of the same worries and problems that all students face. So now certain "organizations' have decided it would be nice tc open the residence halls over Thanksgiving. Student Govern ment seems to think that opening tu? -J :? _ 1 :J iu. uie uumia is a guuu iuea. un uit other hand, it seems no one has stopped to consider the fact that hall advisors (and resident hal directors) are being asked to cu their Thanksgiving vacation bj 4...~ J iwu uays. And let's not forget that some o] these people live a long way frorc here and maybe get to go hom< twice a year. Someone fron Student Government want to hell open the dorms? Or how abou being on duty Saturday night aftei the Clemson game while everyone else is out on the town? Think it's an inconvenience to have to com* back here two days early to run j dormitory? You're damn right i is SO WHAT AM I SAYING' Simply this: there is a goo< possibility that the dorms will b< open after the Clemson game an< the hall advisers will be here doinj their job if the buildings art opened. Just as they always do Rut Ihoco nonnlo Hosartro onmi a'm*. v??vwv pvvpiv vivavi tv oviir consideration and great deal o respect. So the next time a hall advisei asks vou to turn down a ster<H? or t stop throwing bottles a pedestrians, or maybe comes t< help you with a problem, stop am think about it. rnLI^I l a !i 1IUIIK UDOUl 11. - riW> ca^ jimmy *rou<w-rhetoric' carter's cj BWH8S , GAO estimates'79 fi r > WASHINGTON - Uncle Sam, like a rube gawking at the carnival midway, has had his pockets picked this year for a staggering $11 billion. That's the official estimate of the number of taxh rvaifAr 1 r* r?o f At?n/I omnir Kir timof/\ Fajcl uv/nai o uiai uavc 11 iiici c\i awajr uy waoic, fraud, and corruption under federal government programs thus far in 1979. [ The figure comes from a compilation of reports by i the General Accounting Office, the congressional ? watchdog agency set up to ferret out theft or t squandering of money by government agencies. 1 The $11 billion rip-off occurred in the first nine t months of 1979 and undoubtedly will rise higher f before the end of the year. In other words, the bureaucrats have bilked an average per capita of $1,800 paid by 6,111,111 Americans in annual income f taxes. i The GAO investigators found the government's ; Medicare and Medicaid programs were swindled out 1 of more than $4 billion. They reported that careless > bookkeeping and outright corruption cost the U.S. t Treasury 31.7 Diuion in me purcnase 01 services and r supplies by the General Services Administration. 3 Crooked GSA officials and private businessmen s have admitted their guilt and have gotten off with a e legal slap on the wrist. i The Agriculture Department recently was found to t be dumping still usable, expensive office machines and equipment at a surburban Washington trash heap. The department was paying a private firm to haul the desks, typewriters and filing cabinets away. ? Local residents and used-equipment dealers were 1 finding easv nickines nt government evnensp E? i BRAZEN BETRAYAL: While posturing as an I elder statesman, Richard Nixon continues his brazen e betrayal of the American people who twice elected i. him president. ? In his Watergate cover-up, Nixon lied and connived f in an unsuccessful attempt to save his political life. His latest trickerv is motivated bv sheer mnnev grubbing. Back in 1973, Nixon was pressed by newsmen as to the source of $1.5 million he paid for his Pacific estate r at San Clemente?the Western White House where he o took his leisure in surf and sun. He squirmed out from t the heat when a White House spokesman proclaimed o that Nixon intended to bequeath the property to the i American people for public use. On grounds of Secret Service security, he appropriated $702,000 for the upkeep of the estate and . such fancy trimmings as redwood fences around the fog IARGE UP CAPITAL HID . ) 1 -m -m ~W V 1 aud at $11 billion swimming pool. Upon his exile in disgrace from the White House, the once poor boy from Whittier, Calif., took refuge at the baronial retreat with the services of aides and guards riaid for hv thp onvprnmAnt Earlier this summer, the ex-president reneged on his promise to bestow the property on the public. He quietly sold the San Clemente estate for an unHrCnlACOrl o*Y*AI?rit fr/\ ? 4- ? uiov.iv/ovu ainuuiH iv |ii ivaic oiiycia cti (iiouiimuiy fci hefty land-boom profit and is now preparing to move into a purchased luxury apartment in Manhattan. We've learned his broken promise might land Nixon in court. Justice Department attorneys are studying whether the 1973 White House announcement is legally binding. If they find grounds, they may haul him into court on a civil suit, demanding that the ex-nr#?siHprit kw?n hie umrH ? I ?f " So far, Nixon has escaped being called under oath in a court of law because of the hasty pardon granted him by his hand-picked successor, Gerald Ford. And a Justice Department source cautions that Nixon may still evade any legal consequences for his latest deception because there seem to be no laws on the books to cover his San Clemente caper. FLORIDA LAUNDROMATS: The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has come up with convincing evidence that international narcotics rings are using Florida banks as laundromats for meir ui-goiien gains. A secret agency report discloses that hard green cash in $20, $50 and $100 bills are flowing into banks in the Miami and Jacksonville area and most of the deposits are coming from Colombia, the Central American source spot for illicit drugs being smuggled into the United States. For instance, federal reserve branches in the two Florida cities last year accumulated $3.2 billion more in cash than they paid out. The Miami branch doled out its cash deposits in three years. Fifteen percent of those cash-on-the-barrelhead deposits originated frnm tko d~-i- ? .. v.? Hiv uciiu ai oaiuv Ul v^oioinoia. The Treasury Department won't venture an explanation of this curious development but the DEA internal document does. "A sophisticated international banking system has evolved in southern Florida to facilitate marijuana and cocaine drug traffic from Colombia to the United States," it charges. The banks themselves aren't in the business of not accepting money but the federal government might well consider freezing some of the more suspicious bank accounts of known drug peddlers.