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Editorial ?i
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USC still has not acquired "the Pit" and it is time for
students to band together and force the administration to
take action to get it back. USC lost the use of the valuable
student parking lot this summer after a long drawn-out court
battle.
The lot is at the corner of Blossom and Pickens streets and
served as the major parking facility for women students who
live in South Building and South Tower. Because USC does
not control the lot. these women must nav $15 a month to a
private company if they want to park there. If these women
don't want to shell out the $15 a month, they have to park at
least a half mile from their dorms and walk back late at
There is no reason why USC should not have regained
control of the lot by now. The administration apparently was
not prepared to swing into action when they lost the land last
spring. Now, because of that unpreparedness,USC is caught up
in red tape on the acquisition. The administration knew in
May that the lot was going to return to the Rembert family.
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USC did not have the lot back by the fall that the loss of the
200 student parking spaces would put a tremendous strain on
student parking. And he was right. The South Building area is
constantly cluttered and congested with cars. While the
parking problem in this area is not new, it is obvious that it
has been compounded this fall by the loss of "the Pit."
USC is supposedly trying to buy the lot. About $200,000
appropriated to purchase tne land was tied up at tne joint
Revenue Bond Committee this summer, but those funds
became available in mid-July. At that time USC made an
offer of $85,000 to purchase the lot from the Rembert family.
The family says the land is worth more than that and apparently
will not sell it at that ridiculously low price. Several
people have estimated that the lot is worth over $150,000.
USC can not afford to play games with these people. That
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now. Holderman and his cronies complain about all the red
tape they have to go through to get this land. But, that excuse
is very weak. They have had all summer to get the lot back.
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family refuses to sell it to the university. Family lawyer
William Quirk said yesterday it appears that USC is going to
take that approach to try to re acquire the lot. Condemnation
however, will take a long time. Quirk said he expects the
family to fight the condemnation proceedings. And all that
means is another round of fighting in the courtroom -- with
thp <itndpnts who nppd tn nark in Pit" as tho lncpre
If USC doesn't get the lot this fall, students will be forced to
suffer through a parking nightmare because the administration
was slow to respond and get moving on getting
the lot back. There is no excuse for the administration's
inactivity and inept handling of the entire "Pit" situation.
Stephen Riddell
Editor
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The extremists would like to oeen manning coa
get their hands on the Saudi north of Kabul and
oil spigot and use it as a in cement plants. B
weapon against the United rebel fire forced th
States. to flee forborne.
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warned President Carter to
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presence in Saudi Arabia as Thanks to the n
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their country would only closed, communist
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support in the event the long-haired visit
royal family comes under immediately shear*
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to the request. This is one sworn in as seer
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given to lower-level planners ago, the State De
for the military activity in spent over $50,000
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forces in the region will proof windows and
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ources manor safe from would-be We believe it is past time
ming, is assailants. If Jimmy Carter for freedom-loving jourempt
to loses in November, there nalists to band together and
i e r i c a n will be yet another secretary raise hell about this ominous
and to of state whose home will development. Personally,
>il depot have to be made secure. It we salute our brave
in the would be cheaper, in the long colleagues who have
run, to build an official courageously sought to give
residence lor tne nation s the people tne trutn in lanas
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Russian PRESS SUPPRESSION: CRAFTY CONGRESSM>me
so There is chilling news from EN: The Occupational
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world these days about ministration routinely
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decided communist regimes alike inspect for violations and
nigh of are jailing and threatening what penalties are imposed,
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tributions. In return for the
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newsman was assassinated promise to try to eliminate
HIPPY: and seven others were exiled the agency.
ition of from the country. Some
lave an foreign journalists have SOME STATISTICS: The
mentous been placed on a terrorist Agriculture Department, the
hippy?" group's death list. government's oldest
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national critic of the Stroessner bureaucrat for every 17
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ind. The to write unflatteringly of the places to keep it. So one of
lation of government. Those who the most effective tools for
las gone violate the stringent rules catching the drug kingpins is
etter. A will be thrown out of their to keep track of large
arber is profession and prosecuted. deposits of currency in the
ort, and Foreign newsmen are nation's banks. But this tool
?rs are being harassed in Iran and has largely gone unused,
d. Soviet-occupied Afghanist- Since 1970, bankers have
an. They are under the been required by law to
VASTE: constant threat of expulsion, notify the Treasury
ce was Native journalists are in Department when someone
?tary of danger of being denounced makes unusually large
ui years and triea as enemies 01 me deposits ot casn in savings
wrtment government. and cheeking accounts. But
o secure #In the Soviet Union and investigators for the Senate
s, bullet- elsewhere behind the Iron Permanent Subcommittee
the like Curtain, freedom of the on Investicaions have
he was press is stifled as always, discovered that the so-called
"dmund Reporters in fist toe the party "currency reports'/" have
lxpayers line and parrot Kremlin been gathering little more
another propaganda without ex- than dust at the Treasury
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