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Reality oi liarH tn m X.4L 1/ Vf ?^LJ By Mc AutetMV At 12:17 Saturday morning, ne campus that seven people had beei rumors were passed from one stui were gathered, it was reality that others wounded. It was a reality that most stu wouldn't understand. We were all J first exposure to the fact that trag< there", but that our safe, comforta be violent. NO DOUBT the murders were ; university. President James B. H celling all of the Homecoming acl would hurt the students rather thai Parents called their children frc an event which was reported in a] country as well as national televisi< A day after the catastrophe, opi ? m _ * t a ? - ~ as warn. nuusion, oniy years slayings. Residents of Maxcy, Hou: the incident. Houston had always h them, watching football games witl The most unbelievable thing of a people who either knew Houston ( disco. Kappa Alpha Psi fratern Houston wasn't a member of the 1 wouldn't speak about Mark, e^ Rvpu/itnp??ps nf inr>iHonf Iror fearing to have their names ass< curence. THE ONLY WAY to see justice information to come out and tell w have a perfect understanding ol presented by eyewitnesses and cor A fair trial can only be insure placed in an order to present the everyone was afraid at first of beii - _ it ii-' we re an in mis as a university, a Mark Houston, we must reveal an> Call the Columbia City Police 1 help everyone. Committee ap To the Carolina Community: In the view of the tragic In q nnart i nrtc rl n i ? rt ??U|/pV111115^ U U 1 1 II ?5 Homecoming weekend, we on the Russell University Union Contemporary Sounds Committee would like to extend our deepest apologies for any misunderstandings concerning our ad which ran in last Monday's Gamecock advertising our upcoming "Police" concert. The image in our ad was to nnrtpfllf fltn f Ar/1A pv/1 t* MJ Lliv, IV71 cv, auu pvwci U1 the music and in no way meant any physical violence CJamecock I 1 Q n Q Tom Travis Editor in Chief Leigh Grogan Copy Desk Chief Michael Gooding News Editor Brett Friodlander Sports Editor Lehman Stiles Entertainment Editor Russell Pace. Graphics Editor Brian Duncan Editorial Page Editor Janet Gibson Wire Editor Mark Ptatte Assistant News Editor Steve Riddell Assistant Sports Editoi Mark Chevalier . .. Asst. Entertainment Editoi | William Tinsley Special Editions EdKoi . Carl Babcock Graduate Assisten | Anthony Gray Advertising Manage Fran George Production Manage BUI Outlaw General Manege i Sent McKee Businese Manage . Mark Ethrtdge Jr Advise f Newsroom: 777-7181 Advertising: 777-4-149 i Business Office: 777-3888 Sola rADroduction rlahts granted to thi / Associated Press. All other material container herein may not be repfinted without thi permission of the editor. * Opinions expressed in the Gamecock an those, if signed, of the writer and, if unsigned of the senior editorial staff. : 'out there' nderstand irk Platte I N?w> Editor ws spread quickly around the USC l shot at Bates West Panic pnsnpd as dent to another. As some of the facts two students had been killed and five idents of this campus couldn't and shocked and for most of us, it was our jdy strikes not only in the world "out ble, sheltered environment can often a crisis and a damaging blow to the [olderman seriously considered cantivities but did not because he felt it \ honor the deaths. >m all parts of the country. This was [most every major newspaper in the Dn and radio newscasts. nions were shared through whispers old, was held as a suspect in the ston's dorm, expressed disbelief over ung around in a crowd, laughing with h them; but this time he was alone, til is the lack of facts put together by >r were witnesses at the Bates West ity members wouldn't respond ? xaternity. Members of Maxcy dorm /en though they knew him well. >t their information to themselves, >ciated with such a frightening oc e done is for USC students with any hat happened. In order for the jury to f this case, more facts have to be icerned students. d for Mark Houston if all facts are case in a balanced light. Of course, lg connected with a murder. But now md in order to do justice to USC and r information. Investigation division at 779-2100 to ologizes for ad connected to the shootings this weekend. The idea for the ad was submitted by the Graphics Center and the ad copy given to the Gamecock on Thursday October 4th. Again, we apologize for any additional grief our ad caused to the family and friends of the students involved. Larry Hancock? Contemporary Sounds v^unimiiiee inairman Paul McClanahan? Graphics Center Manager Lou Ross? Program Advisor 1 Opinion Letters The Gamecock welcomes letters from readers. All letters must be typewritten a triple spaced on a 65-space line and should b maximum of 300 words. Letters must be signed with the write correct name, telephone, mailing addre cuum Buiiiuiiig hiiu niMjvr. rseuounyms i unacceptable, but the writer's name may withheld by request if circumstances warrai We reserve the right to edit letters for spi and style. Address letters to: Campus Opinb The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, Cotumfa SC. 29306. Columns r In as effort to Increase reader input i f future issues, the Gameeeck offers a wee guest column. .. Columns must be limited to one newswor subject and must be no more than four tyj pages. All columns must be typewritten t ? triple spaced on a 65-space line. All facts m , be accurate. The editorial page editor reser B the right to reject any column for any reau and edit for space, content, style and curacy. 9 Columns must be signed with correct nar address, telephone, major and class stand or faculty position. Address columns to: Gu Column, The Gamecock, Drawer A, UJ Columbia, S.C 29*208 Koj/uLta SIBBF/Tr Maybe Cart WASHINGTON ? When Jimm; Carter collapsed during a runnini marathon near his Camp Davl mountain retreat earlier thi month, his White House imag makpiN h#??7an fnmhlinc* with fhpi political worry beads. News photographs of th president showed him gasping an groaning with mouth agape a Secret Service agents helped hir to a limousine to whisk him bac within the confines of Camp David Carter subsequently that da made a subdued public at pearance at a gathering of hi fellow marathoners and sought t grin the whole episode off. Hi personal physician, Dr. Williar Lukash, twice examined the chic executive and pronounced him i good health. Carter aides quickly commente that the forner Naval Academ cross-country runner did well ( last nearly half the six-mile ei durance trial compared to othc potential presidential rivals. X jr A 11 I _ J yei me scary episode aemoi strated that health and physic; _ fitness will be a factor in the 19* run for the White House. Carter, who becomes 55 year old on Monday, is believed to be i generally good physical fettle bi the blind staggers he developed c nd the Catoctin Mountain run raise e? questions as to his ability to carr the tremendous physical an r-g emotional strains that ever ss, president undergoes in offici Some medical authoritic associated his exhaustion wi! emotional stress. ice ??. Subsequent to the publicl recorded collapse, we learne trom inside ooservers tne jog gin president still shows signs < strain. He recently conducted briefing on the SALT II treaty an many of those who were ther nto reported to us that he looke Hy "ashen" and "gray." Despite th _ importance of the issue, they sail 25 he appeared preoccupied and ha tnd trouble concentrating. Even White House sourc* JJjJ acknowledge he is physically lej ac. bouncy than a year ago but th insist Carter is physically fit. n*< Since the . days of robust bi| game hunter Teddy Roosevel sc. evesy occupant of the White Hous . " has engaged in some form of sporl ^sz'f-^' 1,-1^ J i. t ~-^ |l^i-ZX \er should wai y or exercise at his doctor's urging, g Franklin D. Roosevelt, although d cripped by polio, swam. Harry S. s Truman took brisk morning walks, e Dwight D. Eisenhower, even after ? t 1 A - 1.1 1_ 1 T _ 1 ?71 r nis nean aiiacK, goiieu. junn r . Kennedy went sailing. Lyndon e Johnson rode horseback around his d ranch. Richard Nixon went fishing s in the Bahamas with his n millionaire friends. Gerry Ford, an k all-Big Ten football player, swam, I. skied and golfed. y Jimmy Carter, however, may be )- overdoing it to show his athletic s prowess. Perhaps he should try o walking instead of jogging for a s second term in the White House. JJ CARTER'S BOOBYTRAPS n With Teddy Kennedy looming in the wings and Carter's popularity d sagging, the president's path to y reeiecuon is currently Desirewn q with some explosive political 1. booby-traps involving his closest ;r confidants?Bert Lance and Hamilton Jordan. 1. Lance, who bowed out under jj pressure as the administration's jO budget director, is under indictment for his slipshod practices ,s when he was the president's "fripnHlv hnnlfpr" haplf in II J "MV" ^ Georgia. >n Jordan, now Carter's chief White l(j House honcho, has been charged y with participating in the cocainelcl sniffing scene in New York's >y discotheque society and at e Hollywood parties. ;s The charges against the 35-yearfh old presidential protege thus far have been pretty nebulous but nevertheless the Dress and y television have given extensive d coverage to the allegations, g The most potentially ruinous >f scandal may be exploded, a however, by a grand jury which is d investigating a possible White e House cover-up of a Robert Vesco d scandal. Vesco is the unscrupulous ie financier who did a moonlight flit 1, from thia country to escape jail for id his fiduciary misdoings. Thic /inliamn rlio/il/u^/krl kftf \/a?/*/v a mo wiuillll UIOVlU?9^U UKIi V COVU ?s enlisted the help of two Georgians js early in the Carter administration >y to approach the White House in the hope of ending extradition g- proceedings against him. t, It has been established that one >e of the Georgians, Spencer Lee IV, ts accepted a $10,000 downpayment 'ou misunderstand Pi *ade Carter ? ttoeyre < wiv tvulacemenhs for ? J * ?I - - - - a ir $oL?Hol d \\ I ' "" 1 jn /y^S\ ^ W " I Ik in 1980 from Vesco and approached Richard Harden, a Jordan chum in the White House chain of command. With visions of additional millinnc Han^ind in hie ImaH T told Harden of Vesco's approach. The White House version is that Harden touted him off any further efforts on Vesco's behalf. Yet when we appeared before the grand jury at our request, we discovered that the panel had had i.?. i ?r 4l nruu. uu pnui miuwicu{$c ui uit; wuiie House involvement. The Justice Department has shuffled three different prosecutors in and out of the presentation. The conscientious grand jury foreman, Ralph Ulmer, sought to quit his post, charging in a letter to the presiding federal judge that4,coverup activities are being orchestrated within the Department of Justice under the concept that the Administration must be protected at all costs." We have learned that other grand jurors are becoming just as disgruntled as their foreman over the handling of the case. WATCH ON WASTE Lobbyists for the nation's hospitals have succeeded thus far in smothering any legislation to cirb their inordinate profiteering at the expense of the sick and dying. An unpublished report prepared by the Government Accounting Office for Sen. Herman Talmadge shows how the hospital profession is pursuing a devil-take-thehindmost purchasing policy as long as the customer pays the bill. A study of six cities revealed that hospital purchasing agents pay wide variations in buying such basic supplies as bandages and oxygen units. The GAO investigators found thflt kllVAra in fKa coma nitu i*aca1ir WK M<V UUIIAV VIVJ' 1 VIK VIJ checked with each other on commonplace orders. They found that medical supply salesmen often conned hospital purchasing agents into thinking they were getting special price deals. The salesmen urged that the deal had to be kept hush-hush. The GAO reported that on most of the deals iL.. 1 A ~ 1 ~ I i -A r uie nuspiuiis were oeing siung lor more than the going price. Copyright, 1979 United Feature Syndicate, Inc