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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.
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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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report
e public
recommendations that will shake
up USC's campus security system,
as some committee members have
said it will, the report still should
be open to public scrutiny. 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
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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
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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
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the Carolina community about
campus security and the problems <
that the committee found in the
Even USC Campus Police Chief
Marvin Harrelson does not have a
copy of the report. Harrelson said
that while he did know of the
report, that he did not have a copy, (
he had not seen the reoort and that <
ave let in
immigrants. cc
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IN FORT CHAFFEE, Arkansas dc
last week. 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 ;
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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
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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
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>ntinue to come into our count
ispite warnings of fines c
;portation back to Cuba. Th<
snalties have yet to be enfor<
fectively.
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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.
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ready erected signs proclaimi
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it the changes to help slow the growing
crime problem on USC's campus.
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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
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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
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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
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JSC and let our administrators do their
Keith Terrell
media arts graduate student
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