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Editorial mranra Holderman has r private parking for convenience 4 While students and faculty members at USC fight for a parking spot everyday, there is one man who never has to worry. He doesn't have to leave 20 minutes early just to walk to his car, not does he have to search an equal amount of time < l or a space when he returns. As a matter of fact, he even has quite a few extra spaces for his friends and family. The average person hasn't found out just what it takes to become a close friend of this prestigious ? man. and it is questionable that many have since his extra parking spots are empty more often than not. President Holderman has a private parking lot behind his home on the horseshoe. There are rarely more than three of % four cars parked in the lot on an average day. THE PRESIDENT of USC deserves some special conveniences. But considering how he puts USC's parking problem near the bottom of his list of priorities, it hardly seems fair. 1 Because Holderman never has to look for a parking space, he can afford to make it a low priority issue. He can put an arts center on the top of his list and spend money on trips to Washington and California. Students, in the meantime, are * spending their time and money riding around campus and its outskirts looking for a parking spot. So while President Holderman stens from behind his steering wheel int< the back door of his house, he should be l counting his blessings. Then he should give some serious ' consideration to putting a rush on the student and faculty parking situation. Vietnam veterai of the hostages' To the Editor: recognition as heroes and U Thank God! The hostages payment for the time spent c have been freed and in captivity, but enough is F returned home. Our 53 enough. How about the s embassy personnel (in- Vietnam veterans who sp^nt F eluding Richard Queen) over a decade in a helltro tl arrived in Washington this realistic to imagine. True, v Wednesday, receivng all the the 52 hostages were h lanfare of our nation's sometimes beaten and some n A L L /"V U ^ IT I. PC 1 greaiesi neroes. vjver a nan may nave suuerea v million people lined the psychological problem1, but t streets to catch a glimpse of the veterans of the Vietnam r our gallant men and women War were subject to a far v spent 444 days in greater torture that mangled v ap'ivity. Americans from thousands of our young v aii over the United States men's bodies and left their c have also shown their love minds with a burning \ for the hostages by tying memory that they will never r yellow ribbons on their car forget. These young men had > antennas and doors, around no choice but to serve Uncle c trees, and even around Sam in an undeclared war t themselves. Gifts from loyal that destroyed over 50,000 Americans have been sent to lives. Unlike the veterans, , the freed 52 in numbers too the would-be-hostages were i ^re.tt to conceive. All in all, warned in advance that the hostages have probably some type of unrest might received more gifts than occui . but they decided to (hey could possibly use. remain in Iran. I personally think that the While listening to hostages deserve President Reagan's speech ^ gamecock . i rounueo 1 mum I 1 Newsroom 777 7101 Advertising 777 4249 1 Bu - mess Olf <. 777 380H Production 7 7 7 2833 I Stephen Hiddeil Editor ( Jill Hancock Copy Desk Chief Leesa Bainbridge Editorial Page Editor j Teresa Weaver News Editor Cylindo Calvert Wire Editor i Don Weatherbee . . . Asst. News Editor Jerry Brewer Genoral Manager Michelle Burchette . . Co-sports Editor William Tinsley . . Production Manager ( Richard Meyers Co-sports Editor Jean Hatchell Business Manager Mark Platte . . . 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I bet none To 1 ueblo (a U.S. intelligence of the hostages will be 1' lip seized by the North unemployed. oreans), the veterans of This letter may sound like ie first and second world I'm ridiculing the freed 52. ,4ea ars and the 52 American I'm not! I nraved likp Nl )stages as heroes, but said millions of other Americans ^e' )thing of the Vietnam for the safe release of our *1 sterans. Aren't they heroes hostages and I thanked God stuc o? When these poor men for their safe return home. iturned home from combat Though I was too young to s^a' /eryone wanted to forget be drafted for the Vietnam ^enr hat happened to them. Jobs conflict, I wish that we as Am ere hard to find because no Americans could have done ^ ne wanted to hire a disabled more for thousands of young Go\ erson or a young man with men instead of just trying to wor o exoerience. I realize the foreet. A hero's welcome Am ietnam veterans greatly would have been nice! Nat ut-numbered the 52 Robert Erickson,Freshman stages, but people in Mechanical Engineering \merica needs ? I more maturity ? o the Editor: concern I or the returning ere Amidst the contiguous hostages' "psychological cer vpnts of President wpll hpinc" a fpdpral inHpp I nrir leagan's inauguration, the convicted a man who was elease of the American prisoner of war for eight ostages in Iran and the years in Vietnam, and who ubsequent fanfare, a finally began identifying [uestion has been puzzling with his captors, of treason Wm ne: has America matured and sentenced him to life in t ind finally realized the prison? amifications of its actions, Treating 52 American w ir are we simply "patting victims of fate as heroes 11 lurselves on the back" for does not atone for the < ?? olace to make up for our thousands of should-be ecent years of frustration? heroes who returned home Tott I would love to believe that as bums. *a America has awakened and President Reagan claimed Garri ;rown up, however, many that the day he greeted the Iran igns point the other way. hostages was the happiest are ' '"or instance, how can day of his life. I propose that wou| Americans say that they there have been happier Wi inderstand the value of an days, such as the day World wr(?r ndividual human life (which War II ended and the day ^eir s the cornerstone of all man walked on the moon. *ran a: : ? ? tun co n: 11.. r , i 41 a 11 t orri lihcu^hUMi ui mc ai rniuuy, i suggest uiai uie v~" " lostages) when the brutal happiest day of all our lives how nurders of four Americans will Ik? the day that America This n El Salvador went un- has matured enough to C0Vr loticed last week? honestly say that it practices Furthermore, how can what it preaches. 'n n< Americans say that they Michael Fitzgerald inderstand the meaning of Business Administration ustice when in the height of senior I I. J ?J ^ 1 i \ f: S. <1 \ i r' Atk' r i Nuclear attack not the answer he Editor: j lave become increasingly alarmed since the release of 52 American hostages that many Americans are ing to use Nuclear Weapons so readily. Every time I r someone remark that the United States should ike Iran, 1 wonder it tne world learned anything trom horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. will be the first to admit that the actions of the Iranian lents as well as the Iranian Government broke every i of diplomatic cooperation and International Law. I II also hope that the world shall unconditionally conm the barbarous actions perpetrated against the erican diplomats by the Iranian students. re must remember that not all members of the Iranian 'ernment condoned the taking of hostages and many ked diligently to speed the release of the 53 ericans. Certainly, it is self-evident that not all Iranian ionals residing within the United States condoned the i nrf nf liAcfarfao II A?y Ul UUOUl^^O. owever, I find it deplorable to condemn an entire up of people because of the actions of a select few. To demn the Iranian people is as to condemn this versity because of the unbecoming behavior and ions of one drunken or disorderly student. hope that in the future, before someone suggests iking Iran," that they shall first stop and ask theorizes if it will make the world a better place or promote longstanding American ideals that, "all men are a ted equal, that they are endowed by their creator with tain unalienable Riehts amnnp these are I,ife I.ihertv 1 the pursuit cf Happiness. Mark Lee Freshman, undeclared major at - fon't condemn "anion students ie Editors: m writing in response to a letter which appeared in the iecock January 28, 1981, concerning the harassment of ian students. It is hard to believe that individuals who enrolled in an institution dealing with higher education d be so ignorant as to the feelings of others. thout a doubt, the taking of the American hostages was ig, and the terrorist have been criticized world wide for actions; but when we (Americans) harass innocent ians, we put ourselves on the level of the much criticized ^ricfe If iii/v f - ' * * 1 * - ? - ? ? .ovo. >. wc ncv nit- i<iMu^ oi innocent nosiages as wrong, can we then turn around and harass innocent Iranians? action does not promote the democratic system that this itry was first founded on. The entire hostage crisis was e unfortunate, but harassment of innocent Iranians will 3 way correct this injustice. Two wrongs never make a Terri Terrell Freshman Journalism major