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Editorial ?w The Spur dLdUUUiy Why was a non-student, much less anyone, stabbed in th< Golden Spur on Wednesday night? What was a non-studen doing in a bar that supposedly caters and is restricted to USC students? The answer is that IDs are often only perfunctorilj checked, if at all. People come and go, and no one reallj ,exercises any control over who is in the bar. Gradually anc 'surely the Golden Spur is degenerating into a low-class div< where not onlv do VOU have to wfltrh vnnr wnllpt nnH nnrcft but you have to watch your back. ' The Spur has a guest list for non-students ? which does noi moan thov aro of amr nnrHnnlar timn n rtiiAnf /?f nm> ivM.. v?i v ?v umj [^41 vivutai uinc a 5UC0V v/i anj diuucin in the bar. Regulars, even if they are non-students, are let ir by a nod and a wink to the doorman. Are profits so important to the management that the Spui forgets who it is supposed to be serving? Students of USC arc the name of the game ? they and their specific guests should be the only ones allowed into the bar. Last year the police were called to the Spur three times tc stop fights, and the management admits that they've had bottles hrokpnnnri fisticuffs Hurina nrffnmpnfc Richard Bullard, the man stabbed on Wednesday, was released Saturday from the hospital. According to the registrar's office, he was a student in spring 1976 and hasn't been once since ? except he has remained a regular at the Golden Spur. For the past few days the Spur has been checking IDs carefully. Let's hoDe thev continue to do so and keen out all but bona fide guests. " ~:< . *>:a:?>-: : > : yaA-w:^?giS8888a8gaam^SSKtgR::a>:::? tjoJgSS^KR?sst?MgiFS^6)g3iaM^y:ASssngi;a!.AW.ltWW^ Greene Street as seen from the RusseM House. u.ose otr OUCCL Greene Street in front of the Russell House should not onl; be closed during the day as it is now, or closed 24 hours a da: Monday through Friday as the Columbia City Council said i will consider shortly - but it should be closed permanently. mL ^ ~ J a i- - A ? " ? - * ~ xne sireei oeiween me Kusseii House parking lot and Bui Street should be torn up and sodded. Not only will it be safei for students but it will create a mall area similar to th< Horseshoe and a more homogeneous campus atmosphere. Greene Street certainly isn't a major throughfare especially closed as it is during the day, so why not complet the job and enhance the beauty and safety of the campus. The city council said they would look at the proposal in th< spring and has been stonewalling the issue ever since. Mayb iney nope it will eventually go away. It won't. Students hav< j been pressing for the closure of Greene Street since the lafc ; 1950s and they aren't about to stop now. t Wake up city council and do your job - close Greene Stree i utk tw u aitiv; : I I jQ amecock I Founded 1908 inwnroom: / //-/TBI Advertising: 777-4248 Business Office: 777-3888 Production: 777-2833 Stephen RiddeH Editor Richard Meyers Asst. Sports Ed. Brian Melton Copy Desk Chief Glenn Johanaon Graphics Editor Cart Babcock Editorial Page Editor Cylinda Calvert Wire Editor Mark Platte News Editor Jeannie Ralston Features Editor Kevin Johnson Asst. Nsws Editor Jean Hatched Business Ronda Temploton Ent. Editor 'Jerry Brewer General Manager Ward Borden Asst. Ent. Editor Anthony Gray ... Advertising Manager 1 Mike Chibbaro Sports Editor WHIiam Tinsley . . . Production Manager Michelle Rurchetta ... Asst. Sporta Ed. Mark Ethridge Jr Adviser Sole reproduction rights grantsd to the Associated Press. 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Wi? we. havi ^ MKT CfelSf r CAM HOU1 j MOVIET ?, NEVJS In i BBBg SSg J a Jl/lrfi?t i Polic< To the Editor: On the 13th of August, as I was driving past one of the Towers, and came to a full \ stop at the sign, one of USC's police officers hollered out, I "You idiot" to me for no (apparent reason. Feeling insulted, I stopped the engine a few feet away and walked toward Officer Weaver Grayson to ask why he said that to me. His answer was, surr?t*icincfl\r annimh "WJioro V??VU5?a) TT?VAV are you from?" / I avoided his question and y asked mine again. He only t told me to have a nice evening. 1 r I said no more, drove s away, and ran into him a nnu:,. ii u_ uiuc idici. aiuo nine in; was , in a police car with another e uniformed officer and one plainclothes man. I had to e stop this time when I e realized they were following e me. e Since my license and t registration had expired, they wanted to ticket me for these offenses. But they did not have a ticket book and had to go somewhere to get 1 Money for stac To the Editor: In response to Skot Carried proval of spending university 1 athletics in the September 3 - would have to agree with him th he is "just naive and idealistic." What is wrong with spending expand Williams Brice Stadiui ic is completed, it will provide i every paying Carolina student, that what students have been ? all along? i The expansion is J which will benefit the whoh u AH TER,SO VJE iE. THE, 'ONE. ?F1U?I Lett 2 bully it. Officer Gravson said. "Wait here till I go bring my book." I waited in my car for at least half an hour for them to come back. Finally they reappeared. It was around midnight, and I had a final exam the next morning, but he took his time writing the tickets. I asked why he hadn't charged me the first time he stopped me, or I ad he analyzed what he's said. He gave no reason, but said that since I was back, why not? Returning my car registration and driver's license, he said, "What's your name? Didn't you read it on my papers?" "If you don't tell me your name, I'll just have to take you to the station." rnU * 1 men itc iiuiieu 10 me uniformed officer in the car. "Sir, he doesn't want to tell me his name." It didn't take me long to realize he was only trying to waste my time. The final was at 8:00 the next mor should 1 Hum exf .j: i , . ... k, a utz>Mp- Doay, noi jusi mose ir noney on so why endanger the issue, I which is in need for ex at maybe Inflation, rather tl for the expansion, h* money to Carlen to request the m? When fees of $4, by the wa: a seat for one of the lowest activ and isn't without the increi tsking for program would suffer a project I agree, a univers 5 student phasis on academic f^WE HAVI * MOVIETONE SO VIE MO* ART CENT! HOO&E IT Mfl 6 3ers r studc ning, so I said, "O.K. You win. My name is..." I felt particularly sensitive about this as a minority student, but it could happen to any student next time. I was so upset by it that I could hardly sleep that night, and I feel it affected my performance on the Friin/\ir book d< costly To The Editor: I am so damn mad, I can hardly see straight! I just found out that the Economics book that I bought last semester, which was supposed to be used for two semesters, is no longer Deing used, something like this has happened every semester j1 nave been at Carolina. The instructor for be speni >ansion tvolved in athletics, about the i ! athletic program, being buili :tra funds? 200 parkir new Engi han considerations emphasis 1 is prompted Coach increase in activity large as I y, not $40. USC has tivities cm ity fees as it is, and considera ise. th<* athlftic i-ii ?, ? c3(icviuiiy without f<x ity should put emmatters, but what 2m; e. rue. NEWSFIIK T AM ' -ft TO >nts exam the next day. It seems to me that USC cops should be above this type of bullying. No one at this university is an idiot, or they wouldn't be here in the first place. Mohamed K. Al-Aswed engineering junior nics eal >rror my new Econ class offered the explanation, 'the previous book was simply a mistake/ well hell, it was a pretty costly mistake to all the students who bought it! I wish somebody would get their act together, if they could, we would be forever in their debt - as we already are! William David Saunder* French junior )tp It'. . t .1 .t lew Computer Science building t in a space that once provided ?g spaces, not to mention the ineering building- isn't that I think with a university as JSC with its innumerable ac.4-1 J- - - nisiae 01 academics, other tions need to be made, those affecting 5,000 students >tball seats. Susanne Jordan journalism senior