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Security should b< I USC President James B. rioiaerman has been sitting on a special report on campus security for nearly six weeks. Last spring he created a special committee to study campus security. The president set a May 1 deadline for the committee to submit a report to him. The committee researched the problem, came up with several recommendations and submitted the report to the president on schedule. ITnlHarmon hao U 1 * aiuiuvi man iiuo liau dllllUbl MA weeki; to review the report and decide 011 any further action concerning campus security, but he still will not release the report to the public. Campus security is a matter that concerns everyone involved with the university. The contents of that report should be made public so that students, faculty and university staff can find out what the special committee saw as security problem areas. Several students who served as mpmhprs rm tht? nnnimittoo hoim said they do not understand why the president will not release the report. The report should be open for public inspection, yet Holderman remains adamant about withholding the information. Even if the report contains some Carter si The United States has always been an open-armed country, welcoming the poor, the persecuted and repressed people of other nation-states. Perhaps it is time for us to change our image. The Cuban refugee situation has forced Americans to face the depressing reality associated with accepting anyone and everyone who wants to enter the U .S. More than 100,000 Cubans have entered the country in the past month, most of them through illegal means. 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Unless the administration has something to hide, it should release the report Steve Beckham, an ad ministrative assistant to the president, said that there is too much confidential information in the report to release it at this time. He said the report contains recommendations for personnel changes and that it may take the president all summer to review the report and decide on a course of action. If there are people who must be replaced to make campus security better, then the situation should come out in the open right now. The administration should bring everything above board and make the changes that are necessary out in the open instead of working behind closed doors. The entire Carolina community will benefit from positive changes in the campus security network 1 A 1 ? * ' - - " anu me aammisiration should work to make these changes fairly and openly. In an era where people fear politicking behind closed doors, it seems that Holderman and the USC administration are content to do as they please. It appears that they will make no effort to inform 1 ouldn't h extoll the virtues of our compassionate actions in allowing the refugees to enter the U.S., they are blind to effects the influx of immigrants will have on the country. In fact, the refugees are already causing disruption in the economic and social structure of our society. A country weakened and discouraged by an economic siump, Durdened with growing unemployment, cannot feasibly absorb a large number of new people into the working force. It is unfortunate that this is the case, but it is true. Conflicts have also surfaced in the social attitudes of people in this country over the behavior of the On Columns In an effort to increase reader input into future issues, the (iamecock offers a weekly guest column. 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Cubans rebelled P? violently against their American ef caretakers, in protest of the long processing period they have had to wl endure. Similar outbreaks have en occurred at Eglin Air Force base fo in Florida. tit As the number of refugees grows fo< the frustration builds and more rn violence can be expected in the as future. And that violence may be ec closer to home than we realize, ov Rumors have been circulating that to Cubans will soon be transported to ac Fort Jackson. m Secretary of State Edmond re Muskie was right when he said the Cubans had broken international ur law. The U.S. in past years has restricted immigration visas to about 50,000 a year. The Cubans al Cooper bo To the Editor : In her front page article, Karen A< "a scandal involving USC comput Cooper," and that he "had acceptc IBM" of a 20-day trip. The media distorted this case, and Ms. Addy ; c : IUSIUII. IBM did not finance Cooper's z trip, but rather financed an extensi< tour he was already making. What t not been demonstrated publicly. What has twice been demonstrate did the right thing in choosing the IBM computer system. It was den Clemson bought the very system mended for (JSC and also when the we actually got proved inadequate rWfaGE H iM I > 41MYS GET W i he did not know anything abou contents of the report. It seems strange that the ministration does not even wa make the campus police awa the committee's findings. It s< like that department could be most from the results of committee's investigations could possibly implement s .1 %^uoan >ntinue to come into our count ispite warnings of fines c ;portation back to Cuba. Th< snalties have yet to be enfor< fectively. The Carter Administratis lose motives are admiral ough, has succeeded in re rcinu the nrpvalpnf u/nriri ude that the U.S. is a nation ols. Castro, in an intellig* ove, literally emptied his pris( well as easing the Cub onomic problem by allowi er one percent of the populati leave Cuba. Our country meel cepts the refugees, althou ost of them complain not pression, but of poverty ... tuation which is not exac iknown in the United States. CUBAN REFUGEES ha ready erected signs proclaimi -Lettersught bes Hep. Nori pay for th Jdy writes about taxpayers s er official Jack meddling v ?d a bribe from real scandi nave luptmeuiy UMJ lino f)l adds to the con- would have Perhaps iround-the-world legislators an of a speaking hands off I his trip was has jobs. d is that Cooper more expensive lonstrated when Cooper recom cheaper system / *s > Cooper onp V ^ ! '* . ' v V ' \ ^ ' t s ' . % . fj My. /AM 9? THE IRANIAN / " it the changes to help slow the growing crime problem on USC's campus. i adnt to ^he administration should open re of rePort to public. It owes the ?ems Carolina community a fair and nefit ?Pen 1??^ at ^ie committee's f in/4ir\rfr> the and _?tc,ve Ridden, ;ome Editor in C hief refugees ry, "Queremos Salida! ? We want ind out" in reference to their detention ese at processing centers. Rather than -ed complain over uncomfortable situations they should be ap3n, preciative that they are being ble given special treatment ... over in- Haitians, Cambodians, Vietat namese and all the other millions of of people who would like to live in *nt this country. >ns There is not much Carter can do an to alleviate the problems coning cerning the refugees already here, ion But he should put an end to further <ly attempts at bringing illegal aliens igh into the country. of Carter is president of the United a States, not the entire global system tly ... and he should consider first the problems of his own people, before taking on the problems of the ve world : Karen Addy Editorial Page Editor t computer ma Russell asks why the taxpayers should e university's mistakes. I ask why the .hould pay for the government's continual vith USC's business, for therein lies the il. If the government had not intimidated lying an inferior computer, the taxpayers saved a bundle. this case will serve as a warning for IinH ' l- " ?? burviiiiuciiuii 10 Keep meir JSC and let our administrators do their Keith Terrell media arts graduate student Jote: See correction concerning Jack O. age I I