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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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