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'lj Editonit Carlen's ? inconsisti It took Athletic Director Jim C Chuck Finney and Tom Thomai found out that the two player, Statehouse swnritv cnmrH r?n Hm Carlen immediately revoked tl them off the football team. Car defensive back, will be eligible scholarship. Thomas, a lineback* will not get another chance, acco; The comparison between Carle and his handling of the altercati was involved in back in October a When Ellis was charged with a and aggravated nature after { following the Duke game, Carlen the team. He took the stance th proven guilty. But Carlen didn't give Finney t ho HaiiM Authority about loci To the Editor: Sometime in the period of 1 December, the master key to Pr area residential office for Prest< least one more dorm master key fi If Preston residents will rec came around for some lock work had gone bad in the looks. The lo approximately one week after the office. All of this is to bring to point tl had anything stolen from his roorr should contact his residential life M v infarmatinn nnmoc fir-c* ho residential-life office when the th being reported to the police. The secretary told me not to sa> I was not suppose to know. As for t confessed to the real cause of the called his bluff. r~ : gamecock Founded 1 9< Newsroom: 7/7 7181 Business Office 7 77 3888 Stephen Riddell Jill Hancock Copy Desk Chief Let Teresa Weaver News Editor Cy Don Weatherbee Asst. News Editor jei Michelle Burchette . . . . Co-sports Editor Wil Richard Meyers Co sports Editor je{ Mark Platte Entertainment Editor Ru. Lynn Massey Asst Ent Editor Ma Chip Lowell Graphics Editor Letters & C Sole reproduction rights granted to the . contained herein may not be reproduced wi Opinions expressod in the Gamecock are unsigned, of the editor. The Gamecock welcomes letters and col be typewritten, triple spaced on a 65 space Letters should be no longer than 300 w< to ono ivews.worthy subject no longer tf column# must signed with the writer': mailing class standing or faculty i iinnccept4t?i?, but the writer's name may h if th? circumstances warrant it. We reserve the right to edit columns anc reserve the right to reject any column for or Address letters and columns to: Editorial USC. Columbia. S C. 29208. i" i i > i" mv UVUWi Clearly both incidents warrant Carlen only took action in one cs Ellis was not disciplined becau Finney was a starter too. Perhap! this incident involved drugs. Carlen struck hard at the Game for Ellis' suspension after the fi| lot. He said the paper tried Ellis ai Now, when asked why Ellis w; two players were, Carlen clain circumstances in the Ellis case. C himself. When his players get i serious the offense is and then i case. Carlen said the magnitude of thi dictated that he take action, weren't of the same magnitude. i>ecurit\, To the Editor: ar USC student security di guards have been known to th receive verbal insults and th non-verbal malicious st gestures from fellow th students for merely doing st their jobs. o\ The insults and gestures 1 I actions Bnt arlen just one hour to throw s out of the Roost when he s had been arrested by a g charges. ipir srhnlarchinc nr?rl lrir?b-*5>H UIU|A7 MUM 1\IVB\VVI len said Finney, a starting to play this fall without a jr who quit the squad in 1979, rding to Carlen. n's handling of this incident ion defensive end Phil Ellis re like night and day. ssault and battery of a high j * fight in the parking lot i did not suspend Ellis from tat Ellis was innocent until and Thomas the benefit of :ed disciplinary action, but ise. Many students thought ise he was a starter. But s Carlen was harsh because 'cock when the paper called ght in the stadium parking nd sentenced his uniustlv if " ^ " as not suspended,yet these is there were extenuating )arlen is acting as the judge n trouble, he decides how enders his decision on the b offense in the Finney case Apparently Ellis' actions i guards e probably caused by a srespect and ignorance of s e security guard's job on n e student's part. Some d udents are of the opinion g at since the guard is only a n udent they can walk all li 'erhim. r Granted, student guards h 2S lied ; m ks i: j' ate November and early eston was stolen from the 11 )n-Woodrow, along with at a ar the same area. ^ all, maintenance workers , claiming that the springs j cks were not changed until J ; keys were stolen from the lat if any Preston resident i during this time period, he ^ ; supervisor on the matter. ^ nd because I was in the E eft of the master keys was y P r anything about it, and that d he maintenance worker, he s; lock change as well when I 1 v, Name Withheld by Request ^ 38 I Advertising 77 7 4249 i Production: 777 2833 4 Editor * jsa Bainbridge Editorial Page Editor linda Calvert Wire Editoi ry Brewer General Manager 0 liarn Tinsley Production Manager in Hatr.hell Business Manager g >s Furtick Advertising Manager rk Ethridge Jr Advisor ? is Columns s Associated Piess All other material thout the permission of the editor gj those, if signed, of tMe writer and, if j umns. All letters and columns must SI i line C jrds. and columns should be limited ian four typed pages. Letters and ? correct name, telephone number. ? position and ma|or Pseudonyms are al ie withheld on letters, upon request, W I letters for space and style, and we ly reason Paoe Fditor, Gamecock, Drawer A, ^ "ji,1.?r-r LLn the off: |are wcmierjLng Jiov ^ ^?re money out of ^ history of rip-ofj in 'j ? * ( v in ImrKtej 1 M2P.7A M\ ' cy gallon V JWUi ? T 3" fcyJ 0%\ ? [Xrm^ M II ? Letters to t deserve re not bona fide registered to? ecurity guards. They po onetheless perform the ge uties of regular security uards. The security guard's rei ciain job is to protect the foi ives and property of the sU esidents at the dorm where the e is working. the STUDENTS should try to 1 emember this whenever the hey come into the dorm in a of ad mood, whether it be ev< rom a broken love affair, re< ailing a test, drunkeness, or res jst plain old grouchiness. asl The greatest number of res isults occur when residents do* re asked to show their keys, res "hey make it seem as if it is foi Pll uiAiia V/\JVCJ 'o the Editor: I followed the Gamecock's cover rom the start. From that time, I c ludson story, but never what Phil lllis pegged guilty the moment th ou even tried to get Ellis' side < laying judge and jury. Your bias esired, as far as fair journalis aying that Ellis is innocent, I was see from your articles that your < 'as Larry Hudson himself. L/.S. supp genocidal 'othe Editor: Very few Americans have any e? ictatorship of the Right. I gre lepublic under Trujillo and lived i f this century's bloodiest dictators For those of us who have seen nd shoot innocent people in the j nd at times run from the terror 01 ; almost impossible to believe I merican government to the g alvador. all in the name of anti-co I UNDERSTAND the fear of Co Dread. Cuba is a repressive stal lilure. But we must not foolishly si tuation. Here it is not a que: apitalism; it is a question of justic When a man is branded a Commi higher salary because his family Fter found shot in a ditch, can w illers merely because they claim as a great anti-marxist. The Hig eft. as we saw this week in the att i.ces of the petroleum r they can keep alterir the consumer. TKe mo fs is out of control.. LTERED saaa^? he Editor > student' d painful to reach into their VERE ckets and pocketbook to often fol t their keys. of non rhe security guard is gesture, quired to ask the residents who i ' keys because it is a gestures indard rule to prove that another ; student actually lives at did not a idorm. thesecu low'iver, after working at done, i dorm for a certain length The i time the guard will take a entually get to know and There is :ognize most of the grimace iidents. Then he can stop the roon ting for the keys of the guard's iidents he knows, but if he head she es not recognize the guard w ;ident it is his duty to ask the d( 'a key. necessai rage was t< Your ? age of the Phil Ellis story believe t onstantly heard the Larry men. Ho Ellis had to say. You had in your e story broke. I wonder if cident, t )f the story or if you like level in ed stories left much to be details 1 m is concerned. I'm not articles, not there as a witness, but your wri only reporter on the scene PHIL your bia . 0 candidal sorting srss 9 # "tale" a nation sas Maybe somethii rnorionno r\t 41?' .w... wt i ausm ui tut; biased c< !\v up in the Dominican n Spain under F'ranco, two . (Editor'! the police and army beat storv wh jtreets, and who have felt f their clubs and bullets, it If the support given by the I I f enocidal government El mmunism. . mmunism and oppose its IT 1 :e also, and an economic ? implify the El Salvadorian To the K< stion of Communism or While :e or genocide. Horseshc jnist simply for asking for of peace, is starving and he is soon- obvious e condone or suoDort his the beai to be anti-marxist? Hitler Neo-Geoi ht is just as brutal as the and the a empted coup in Spain. of the "pi hesitate I Ken Strauss thereon. Pre-medlcal student Transf i conglom er ates, ex ij} ilieir gas rates "?o A. A. . f> I . sL Lerntyjng exjseri ..and th.e$u)pject s~* 1 ,i1 %,/ I - ']t) it I 1 ^G?& ? > Pi JTr K/lit s respe* IAL INSULTS are than ne lowed by some form and tl -verbal malicious deliben Usually the person guard jses non-verbal roomk* i had at nnp timp nr StuHp disagreed with or that s< pprove of something people t rity guard may have put do doing tl ion-verbal gestures student variety of forms, time y< the straight forward insultin or frown, snapping just re 1 key jerkily into the staying face, turning the 8 a.m. irply away from the and pri ith a sigh, slamming him a >or harder than don't y ry, talking louder least de ao one -s irticles have influenced many s hat Phill Ellis likes nothing bet! wever, I must say it was quite i February 11th edition, that "? he alcohol content of Hudson's dicating intoxication." It's i ike that seemed to be missin I guess it was just poor resea ters. ELLIS' reputation was, to say t ised articles; yet, somehow, p for sainthrvnH Ic nnf au aavrv 11V MIC \JII get a buck out of the situatioi is, but also, for reasons unkno bout poor dad trying so hard altercation did bring somethir \ to lose it. s your story is the true story lg missing from your articlej average. Soph* s Note: Phil Ellis refused to pi en the Gamecock asked for his < UQPcVino r a 1V/V/ tes comir iitor feet trs walking down the geometi >e, that ancient hall walkway , I was struck by the shivers f disparity between of harmc itifully understated Alas, rgian architecture where b icidic, intestinal hue the Horst aint" employed as, I house of :o say, "decoration" spew fort ixed and immobile. Name J squeeze even J merit in the 4, IS ^ i j ^ 11 memoer mat he is up from midnight to to protect your life operty. Try to give little consideration, ou think that he at serves that? Bernard Simien sided tudents on campus to ter than to beat up old lice of you to mention it the time of the ini blood was twice the imazing how minor ig from your earlier rching on the part of he least, damaged by <Ir. Hudson is now a e who, upon realizing n, decided to sue not wn to me, USC! His to recover from that ig to my throat ? too , but there was still s: namely, fair, unChris Lommen Jmore History Major *esent his side of the comments.) decor lpnt JB. 111. tmpling upon the 'ical diadem of I s, I suffered spinal rom the blatant lack I ny there presented. where be beauty? B e truth? Where be sshoe? Where be the I convenience ere I 8 ;h my lunch? 9 Withheld by request I S I ct cessary to the guard, le boldest one is ately walking by the without showing the iy. nts should realize scurity guards are oo. No one likes to be wn or insulted for leir job. So to all the s out there, the next >u're thinking about g the security guard