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Editor Lack of may hav snrina c< Jl U ~ USC students will be tr concert this spring because < The Contemporary Sound! University Union has only $< traditionally sponsors each feature big-name entertain* Buffet in 1977), Contempora good bands. Committee Chairman Jai $15,000 to put on a really g< problems have thrown the 1 Contemporary Sounds bring throughout the year. Throuf tries to raise money to sup outdoor concert. The committee expects sponsored early this spring tribute greatly toward payii the program bombed, Cont< dire straiehts financially. The committee went to I funding help and manage< budgeted for a Graduation E as much as the committee v band. The committee should ha^ beer contract to a beer disti money they had to work wit the contract would have bee the committee would have b it is now after sitting back I miracle to bail them out. Am eric To the Editor: : J ? i- n? f ies uaviu neaiy, me ir J?serve praise in their stru communist imperialism do western flaws as well. Rem against western interventioi the end, the Vietnamese d< dictator who had (with Ame a free election. The hostage crisis in Irar blunders through imperiali though, have finally throwr which was established by th 1956. As a result, they are no ' socio-cultural democracy. THERE ARE many oth perialism ? Nicaragua, South Korea, the Middle Ec mention a few. When the ant communism and marxism, rights and imperialists is n wpII tn rpmpmhpr thof t ? * v v V4IIVU1MV1 VII14V V aggressors or imperialists. Again and again in the lasl intervened in the internal af it has, each time, violated Y toward true and free democr Is America's duty to stoj txjcoming just another oppn and so call "proponent" of should champion non-inten forts on preventing its occur IN EL SALVADOR, for ins Gamecock Four Newsroom: 777-7181 Business Office: 777 3888 oicpnuM niuuuil . (ancock Copy Desk Ch .a Weaver NewsFdi' I Weatherbee Asst . News Edi' ^ ?i?11 o Burchotte Co sports Edii R< ird Meyers Co-sports Edi' M.irk Platte Entertainment Edi' Michael Romatowski Asst. Ent. Edii Chip Lowell Graphics Edit Letters I Sole reproduction rights grantee contained heroin may not t>e reproc Opinions expressed in the Gamei unsigned, of the editor. The Gamecock welcomes letter: ho tunAuurittnn liinlp snnrflH nn n ( l etters should be no longer than to one newsworthy subject no I columns must be signed with the mailing address, class standing or unacceptable, but the writer's nan it the circumstances warrant it We reserve the right to edit colu reserve tho right to reject any colur Address letters and columns to: USC, Columbia, S C. 29208 planning re ruined oncert eated to a low-budget outdoor ji jaaji |jicuuiiii? aim iciiuci snip. 5 Committee of the Russell House 5,000 to pay for the free concert it year. While the concerts rarely p.rs (the last top act was Jimmy ry Sounds usually gets two fairly Ties Rokosny said it costs about ood concert. This year financial fate of the concert up in the air. s in bands to perform on campus jjh these projects, the committee plement funds budgeted for the i Beatlemania, a program it 5, to be a big success and conlg for the outdoor concert. When emporary Sounds found itself in the Student Senate looking for i 10 gei $2,ouo tnat nad been tall. But that $2,000 is not nearly /ill need to get a halfway decent ve actively looked into selling a ibutor when they saw how little h. While getting approval to sell n difficult and taken some time, een far better off doing that than hoping for some kind of funding an interv eedom fighters in Afghanistan ggle for self determination, and es exist. But let's not deny the lember the Vietnamese struggle r1 that lasted nearly 15 years? In efeated an American-supported rican help) quashed the result of i reminds us of other American st actions. The Iranian people, i off the oppression of the west e Shah's CIA-supported junta in w on the shaky road to their own or examples of American imPanama, the Philippine islands, ist, Argentina and Chile, just to i-communists preach the evils of calling them violators of human ot enough. It would serve them communists are not the only t twenty-five years, America has fairs of third world nations, and luman rights, botching progress atic government. 3 the spread of communism by sssor? As the largest democracy human rights in the world, we /ention and concentrate our efrence through others. itance, a blockade of Cuban arms 1 ided 1908 Advertising. 777-4249 Production: 777-2833 Editor I I 'f' Loosa Bainbridge. . . . 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Gamecock, Drawer A, SP Coajtiajuia/< iris TRW OF F|N< i PERFORM ) ' t ^/Jy neo mm |H8( ?0T~L ' ; Zz?^WW< tlfr> ""Letters to th ention vie flowing to that country is much tx destroying weapons to the people oui insure that El Salvador establish a stop outside interference in that coui We should strive to insure that people's hands and no outside foi outcome. If the El Salvadoran democracy or any other governmer we help them by preventing intervei true proponents of human rights an* Mr Hpalv fho "VrnfnorvA ?,?. , m *v/v%*jr , tuv t l^lliaill O^UUl Ui to mean non-interventionism) is Americans. Can you recall, as I can, the police chief of Saigon pull the Marxists n To the Editor: opp The tense and potentially win] explosive situation in El busi Salvador has resulted in trac some interesting and occ- Catl asionally intelligent upn debates on the pages of the mos Gamecock in recent weeks. coui In response to Mr. I^eonard mor Henry's most obnoxious peo; *??i- - * icuci vii maitn i, i am inclined to present my com- A ments. Sah Mr. Henry obviously issu assumes that the opposition The in El Salvador is entirely plui controlled by Marxists, as and does our Government (based the on some very thin per "evidence"). In fact, the pari Marxist element is only one and of a number of factions in the squ; country which are actively The Greek anta immateria io me ttdiior: co,I< Unit In the last four years, 1 prot have enjoyed a fun-filled,but grei intellectual environment eve here at the University. I toge joined many organizations to quot meet new people and father stro new ideas and skills. And orga yes, I did join a sorority. Tfc I have listened for four And years without comment to hous the heated issue of Greeks can* vs. Non-Greeks. Such an issue is immaterial. Many TH(. /)ajaju/)l u. RING M F*] SM S -* JCSr le Editor elates hu stter than supplying life made rselves. Our duty is not to of a 2 favorable regime, it is to three ntry. cold ; Amer the civil war is in the trial not :_ri :i. ? vca avi tu liuiutriice 115 "St] s choose communism, Amer ital form, then so be it. If could ition, then we become the callec d anti-imperialists. will k ne" (which to you seems forev< still present in some again the film clip that showed trigger of anAmericanot the onb m osing the present right- govei g junta. Besides small Gn inessmen, students, and govei le unions, the Roman all df holic Church supports the But I ising. It is arguably the regin ?t powerful group in the cours ntry, and represents posiU e than any other the is pr pie of El Salvador. force aid fr NI) THE PEOPLE of El order /ador are the ones at Tht le. They are starving, probl y are being tortured, must idered, and oppressed, they are being killed (at V rate of some 50 persons f ? , day) by, for the most t, their own government paramilitary death /TT ads in collusion with it. people want a new Toth igonism ? ^ Muse 1 issue -ac? orgai ige campuses across the juror ed States do not face this ment >lem. If USC is to be a from at university, then art s rvone mn?t v ...?uv YI vi iv jccin ther. To apply a famous Th< e, a college is only as year' ng as its weakest year1 nization. Th< link about it students. show as Lincoln said: "A they e divided against itself incer lot stand." Ob Sarah Chaplin strinj Alpha Delta Pi s x. 1 I r r r\-p- n I /ItKJJi-L /UTS HW6 f\ f WWi> FOR CHQ* f HIS Ml/SIC/M. %POi -J po ue HAVZ A \__^\/OLUMr(.t.KS FRO V AUPtaric man rig Smith-and-Wesson 38 while it r 1-year-old North Vietnamese s -year-old Vietnamese child wit abdomen as her mother wept ican B-52 strike, and the soldi ana was a prisoner of war. lades of the Viet Cong" indee< ican imperialist blunders is w occur again in El Salvador. I "Vietnam Syndrome" still exi eep the memory of Vietnam fi 3r. Maybe if it haunts us, ther in El Salvador. u opposit -nment. not mted, a Communist dete 'nment would not be at govc isirable in El Salvador, seen J.S aid In t Hocnnfi/i Tmn v? ??BV/ V?\vOpVHV. * le in power is en- aire; iging exactly the op- shou * of what is intended. It host ecisely this aid which mes! s the opposition to seek in 01 om any source it can, in affai to survive. usal ire is definitely a grave em in El Salvador. We not aggravate it. We do uror prot t student e Editor: petitive, controversial and inv* any objective person would h ;nt Art Exhibit currently or :ums. i problem is not with the art 1 of professionalism surroum lization of the exhibit. The deci , a part-time faculty member that sponsored the exhibit, \ the start. Clearly, her associa tudents and their work canc< /ely. Q)rO t P ? 11 10 aisu a prooiem witn rep s student exhibit have somel s exhibit. e issue of graduate student pf also raises some troubling qu sweep away the bulk of award itive for undergraduates to part viously these questions need t< gent guide-lines established bef is * A//C4 Lie WP \ MS.. SM ft; \ I Mr woRe I TH6. / SMITH $ hts ested against the temple >oldier, or the photo of a h a gaping wound in her ;? The child died in an ier was killed without a i, Mr. Healy. Shades of hat I say, blunders that Yes, I reiterate, the sole An/I T ~ ? ?1 ioio, i-rnivi i yi ay UlciL VjrUU *esh in American minds i we won't let it happen Lee Norris History Sophomore ion have the right to rmine another people's irnment; only they do. It is as if the lessons of and Vietnam have ady been forgotten. We Id take heed of former age William Belk's sage of non-intervention mer countries' internal rs. He knows what it get 1 too well. Rick Grant South Carolina College items exhibit ilidated. That is the way ave to judge this year's i display at McKissick work itself, but with the iing the juroring and sion to elect Nina Parris in the very art departvas an ill-fated mistake tion and familiarity with jlled or altered her obetition. Works from last how re-emerged in this irticipation in a student estions, for traditionally money. Not a very good icipate in "their" show, a be resolved, and more ore next year's exhibit. lame withheld by request I