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Gues Gameco differenl Freedom of the press is 1 responsibility sobers even makes his job really tough. People in general are g authoritative about words i fluenced by the media, the; public to consider different \ and how to present it. That's "20/20" is all about. I know a student newsp students, and maybe it's the at fault here. Whatever the t perspective in the Gamecock EXAMINE FRIDAY'S (O "Evicted students form ten too-bright students who ren ments. Their landlord is bo< down the buildings. The article virtually clu themselves in the rear for miffed because no one will f why they want to is beyoi misdirected, but it was appn That 'caveat emptor' ap significance of that story. Cr legally your fanny is covere< hot to expose injustice that \ and its readers. Page three in the same pa] in jail again." Now, with a I wrong? The profile of Bret view?and only his. The ar reflection of its subject. App impressed by his antics. The only thing remotely nc nuke activities. Then agair plants, just as everybody wa can we hope to learn from thi If the article's purpose wa ceeded. It's not that Bursey that most folks don't live rer exercise some reasoning anc the system is wiser than tryi have stories and philosoph courage him. Gamecock? I CHOSE those articles a might scrutinize its stories focused and leave me with them). I'm not saying that nc be completely fair and objec to publish, the Gamecock a fairly objective reports and t I don't want to be misund' job of keeping students info notice and complain aboui ignoring its strengths. I kno\ must deal not only with the r a student staff and with beinj In short, I appreciate th formation but think its editoi the Gamecock has a goal, s printing news that is news ai yannecoc Founded 1908 Tom Travis Editor Lmgh Grogan Copy De Michael Gooding New Brett Friedlander Sport Lehman Stiles Entartainmei Russell Pace Graphk Brian Dqncan Editorial Pag Janet Gibson Wii Mark Ptatte Assistant New Steve Rkldell Assistant Spori Mark Chavalier .. . Asst. Entertainmsi William Tinsley Special Editior Carl Babcock Graduate A Anthony Gray Advertising > Bill Outlaw General Mark Ethridge Jr Nowsroom: 777-7181 Advertising: 777-4249 Business Office: 777:3888 Sole reproduction rights granted Associated Press. All other material co herein may not be reprinted *rith< permission of the editor. Opinions expressed in the G*n?ec< those, if signed, of the writer and, if ur of the senior editorial staff. ?t Column ck could use t perspectives hi 1/ \A# ? i\aicn "UUIOM Journalism Junior leady stuff, I know, but the idea of p the most freedom-happy reporter, at ullible and find something mysterio n print. Since ideas and attitudes an v (including the (iamecock) owe it to joints of view before deciding what is r what the uproar about Geraldo Rivera aper will always reflect the attitude student mind-set and approach to life tf :ase, I, for one, would like to see a diffe ct. 12) Gamecock. The big news of the ant association," is the story of some ited, without leases, some crummy af 3ting them out?I hope to renovate or cks with indignation. Instead of kicl making faulty decisions, the tenants orce the landlord to let them stay (the id me). The tenants' anger is obvio jpriated intact for the Gamecock. plies to apartments, too, I think, is et a lease with everything spelled out, i with both hands. But the reporter wa le did an injustice to the story, its subj per proclaims, "Former USC activist b headline like that, how could the storj t Bursey accurately reports his poin nimip ? * n C/\lf MlrtUflO 4 nviv o piuuo anu OCHM Igllicuus IUIIC , >arently both Bursey and the reporter iwsworthy about the story is Bursey's i 1, everybody is concerned about nuc s concerned about Vietnam in 1970. So v s condescending revolutionary? is to point out a social deviant, then it cares more than most folks do, but ra it-free. Most folks have to work. Most f 1 restraint and believe that trying to chi ng to wreck it. And most folks, I'm cerl ies as meaningful as Bursey's. Why rbitrarily to illustrate how the Gamei (which are frequently lopsided and more questions than I had before rea< ?wsnanerine is pasv nr that anu nanpr r? I I O J ~"'J I f ~ - ?tive. I am saying that in exercising its r ccepts responsibility to provide accur 0 keep opinions on the opinion page, erstood?I think the Gamecock does a rmed. Like perhaps most students hei t the paper's shortcomings, often u v the unique problems faced by editors ights-and-responsibilities jazz but also 1 students themselves. ie Gamecock as a source of camptu r? anu reporters must aim ior ODjectivil omething to accomplish this year, let id viewpoints that are viewpoints. Opinion in Chief Letters sk Chief ,?ph? The Gamecock welcomes letters fi ' 1 or readers. All letters must be typewrit) t? Editor triple spaced 011 a 65-space line and sho it Editor maximum of 300 words. : Editor Letters must be signed with the i Editor con-ect name, telephone, mailing a class standing and major. Pseudony e Editor unacceptable, but the writer's name i ft Editor withheld by request if circumstances w t? Editor y/c reserve the right to edit letters fc it Editor and style. Address letters to: Campus ( The Gamecack, Drawer A. USC. Co ts tcntor s.C. 29206. sistant Manager Columns Manager In an effort to increase reader in] A-...:? future issues, the fiimMork offer* m guest column. Columns must be limited to one new subject and must be no more than foi page*. All columns must be typewrit triple spaced on a 65-space line. All fa< to th? be accurate. The editorial page editor r tntained the right to reject any column for an> out the and edit for space, content, style i curacy. Columns must be signed with correc ock ara address, telephone, major and class a i?tyn?d, or faculty position. Address columns U Column, The Gamecock, Drawer A Columbia, SC. 29206. - pptfhe ifiAMeaxP-y 3 in^ ^ e of JuSf 4 nnU / /V^0 DnU s so ects tack i go t of are ? Chilean vhat ? sue crimes o ther i oiks inge ^en- WASHINGTON ? Shakes] was conscience-stricken eno cock anc* haunted by her husl un_ Pinochet, the wife of Chile's ding tator, apparently has no such i ight a recent secret shoppi ate, SC ? Madame Pinochet ens< entourage at one of the city's fine callously took her ease less tl re j spot where on Sept. 21,1976, k fhile her husband set off a car wh0 Orlando Letelier, a freedom ! Chilean regime. ? in- A young American co-worl y if Moffitt, also died in the explos it be *n ^e quiet confines of the Enr An American, Micheal To' wing Cuban refugees were cc 7 A U.S. grand jury also ii Pinochet's top secret police 1 having instigated the monstn Less than three years assassination, Lucia Pinoch bassy Row with her daugt personal secretary and six toTand over neariy an entire floor o . .. A U!l- At ? uiapea wccr 5 ?u?y wnne ine gener indulged themselves in a sh< tab ran around $5,000 at least. ddrest, ms are Neither the hotel nor the < ?y be comment on her visit but 1 arrant. visits to this country are kept v apace Her brutal dictator husbanc )pinion, been trying to improve his im lumbia, charges that DINA, his se< torturing political prisoner Chilean people with iron-fiste< He's pronounced some ecor arresting the ferment of the allaying the odium he's he put into government abroad. weekly In the Pinochet governmen in the role of an Evita Peron. tenand fascist Argentine strongman M must the masses while lapping it u eserve* home consumption, Pinoc ind**?" modestly dressed, rubbing ell t name, Yet last year, Chile's first landing New York City to appease *' jewelry and fancy couturier ' up this year with the Washing Her credit rating in the QI^H ni iviwaiLf ti BBSSmS5ES5H5?SSS55 dictator's u f military g Deare's Ladv Macbeth necticut Ave ugh to be guilt-ridden New York m; band's crimes. Lucie ; ruthless military die- Gen. Pinoc qualms. rules against be extraditec ng trip to Washington, murder. The ponced herself and her ready to taki mcst lavish hotels. She may wind up lan two blocks from the iller agents in the pay of bomb and murdered Members ( oving refugee foe of the themselves a sword's poin the House r ter of Letelier's. Ronni leaving tho ?ion that was heard even workers fac ibassy Row Hotel paychecks in wnley, and three right nvicted of the murders. Nowhere i idicted three of Gen. mention tha lenchmen on charges of working vt ms crime. Washington's paychecks rt after the political et swept into the Em- Investigate iter, her son-in-law, a wives are w bodyguards. They took estate mark* if the swank hotel for a check indica al's wife and daughter million worth )pping spree. The hotel The wife Derwinski c $300,000 for Chilean embassy would estate. ^ucia Pinochet's flying secret for a reason. The wives I, Augusto Pinochet, has husband's st age of late in the face of Louisiana's <rpt 0pctann Viae Koan -?* * " w QX/w IU0 KfWI 1 aumiis mat. s and repressing the she got on th dtyranny. and offered t lomic reforms in hope of poor in his country and As Congre Id in by almost every about $64,00 familv'c talrc t, his wife has been cast p wife of the World War II What if a 4 who curried favor with United States p in private luxury. For het's wife is shown Students fr >ows with the poor. gathering sig Colossus G. I lady took a jet flight to next Februar i an appetite for furs, Their slogj dresses. She followed it going to push ton spendthrift binge. fashion salons of Con /tyf jSQjMMl rife ignores overnment nue in Washington and Fifth Avenue in ay have sustained a setback, however. het's puppet Supreme Court in Chile has the U.S. demand that his three cronies I for trial in this country for the Letelier , r^v ?* i n?? : OUIIC UCpdl UllClll cSIIU V^UIlgl CSS HI C e retaliatory action. Madame Pinochet in another hotel. WORKING WIVES >f Congress tried to pussyfoot on voting pay raise. The House and Senate are at t over the issue. Balked by the Senate, nembers took off on a fall vacation, usands of rank-and-file government ed with the prospect of getting no October. in the acrimonious debate was there it some members of Congress have ives who, as entrepreneurs in 5 real estate boom, are bringing home inning into thousands of dollars. on shows that at least 14 congressional heeling and dealing in the city's real at, the most inflated in the nation. A ted that they peddled more than $15.5 i of property last year. of Illinois Republican Rep. Edward ollected commissions of more than selling over $3 million worth of real insist they aren't capitalizing on their atus but one, Carolyn Moore, wife of Republican Rep. W. Henson Moore, after last year's congressional election, e phone to every newly elected member o sell them a house. ss wrangled over hiking its salary to 0 plus extras, the average American s-home pay is roughly $16,000. RIMATE CANDIDATE 75-pound gorilla became president of the 5? om the Hudson, N.H., High School are [natures to place their local zoo favorite, Jenson, on the state's presidential ballot y. an is: "If you elect Benson, nobody's him around." Copyright, 1979. United Feature Syndicate, Inc.