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* EditorialTime Despite what enthusiastic Law Enforcement and Qafotv nir<wfnr Pari Cfnlrac K/MAVVJ *-**? VVVVA VUftl UVVIWO says about the improvements made with the campus police department, there is still a great deal of rumbling under the proverbial volcano ready to pop. We don't think morale has gotten much better under the few changes instituted by Stokes although they're probably all for the best. What is most worrisome is a that the system was thrust ^ upon the department with little or no input from those who have put in the most time there. There are probably at least a dozen cops in the department during the past two years that knew the answers to the problems long ago and when they tried to speak up, they thought twice and remained silent. The whole situation was 0k repressive and communication had been severed for years. With the new changes, the USC police have become inwardly rebellious, frustrated at not being able to speak their minds to supervisors who obviously aren't taking their feeling into consideration. ALTHOUGH STOKES ^ should be commended for at least trying to change the image of the campus police, he must realize that USC cops still need to air their grievances and frustrations above to the top-line management, not below to students they feel are the easiest prey for their disenchantment. For instance, the per manent shift change has many advantages and disadvantages which should have been examined in cooperation with all the department, not with just a few. Disillusioned police officers who are used to a certain way of doing things ^ should be handled with kid I. ,, University o< South Car ; found? Newsroom: 777-7181 Huiinev* Office: 777-388B Mark Platte Editor v ?nne Mrven ( opy De*k irwel Donald B. Weatherbee New* Editor Michael Komztowiki . . Entertainment iditor Tracy Helms Sport* Editor lohnPamell Photo Editor 1 Sole reproduction right* granted Jo thi tained herein may not be reproduced with Opinion* e?pre**?d in the Gamecock a ; MRned, ol the editor. The Gamecock welcome* letter* and < typew ritten, triple-ipaced on a 65 *pace lii i leu ' should be no longer than 300 w< newsworthy subject no longer than lour signed with the writer'* correct name, standing or faculty position and major. Pw iname may be withheld on letter*, upon re We reserve the right to edit column* an the right to reject any column tor any rea* Address letter* and column* to: Editors Columbia, S C. 29208 For CI gloves. The rookies can easily adapt. If Stokes trys to wield power, he will make his changes felt but the force will crumble beneath him. Promotion policy should also be established quickly and officers should know where they stand. The younger ones are going to look to the top for advice and concrete answers about their future on the force. A wellwritten, clearly defined promotion policy may be just the thing needed for the retention of men and women who would go elsewhere if salary levels were comparable. The implementation of students to work with campus police brings only one Question to mind: whv was it not instituted years ago? On-the-job training beats every other kind and this plan is one of the best to come along in quite a time. New training programs will also help keep men in shape but the next biggest drawback will be money. If campus police doesn't get the funding it needs for decent salaries, the turnover rate will proceed rapidly, undermining the entire structure of what is to be accomplished. riUVVL V H.K, I H L MONEY issue is not near as important as image, a major problem in the campus police system for years. As long as students and university personnel continue to see USC cops as nothing more than men who can change flat tires and lock up university buildings, it would be useless to go any further in assuming that these police will be respected at all. Stokes should be checking with USC public relations constantly trying to come up with some good ways of making campus police more visible throughout campus by lecturing, conducting workshops and visiting classrooms. As students 3C0CK olina, Columbia, S.C. d 1908 Advertising: 777-4249 Production: 777-2833 MichiH Gooding Editorial Page Editor |erry Brewer General Manager Mark McEwan Production Manager lean HatcheB Business Manager I. in da Haines Advertising Manager Mark ithridge Jr Adviser t Associated Tress. AH other material conlout the permission of the editor. re those, if signed, of the writer and, U un column*. AS tetter* and column* must be ne. ard*, and column* *hould be limited to one typed page*. letter* and column* mutt be telephone number, mailing address, eta** fudonym* arc unacceptable, but the writer'* quett, H the drcum*taiice* warrant it. d letter* lor *pace and *tyle, and we re*erve on. I Page Iditor, Gamecock, Drawer A, DSC, mnoA t " a* \ become more acquainted ^2* * with these individuals as v 4jS* ' human beings, the better ^ they can be understood as " f law enforcers. .. . . Let's pray to God that incidents like the Bates West v f shooting of two years ago *, never happen again with an * assurance that we're safe f wherever we travel on this rv n J i 1 uaui^ua. uui uuuiiucnce nas been with Carol Stokes the f( past six months while he's 1/ # ru ii< been trying to restructure a ' L ' W I J n U J . . rapidly faltering institution. l/r vv . A/ v v These next few months will ** t / r //V ur r L Or be immensely important to all of USC and the future of CLO 5 L R T 0 G ? J hi E! our security: we hope Stokes will be up to the task. movi^a* daam The country of Mexico has become nothing more than it has been in the past these days. A visit there is like living in the past, mingling with people that are as wrought up in their economic problems as we are. During ten days in May, observations made become more concrete now as the impact of a poor country gasping for breath stand as a test of time. The gray, chalky haze that permanently affixes itself above Mexico City could be easily mistaken for the collective gloom of hard-working people who walk the filthy cobblestone streets as if they were preparing for their own execution. THEY FEIGN affection for their jobs, drinking themselves into a stupor with potent alcohol that makes the limited freedom they choose to enjoy seem that much greater. Marii Phtte/Editor h'Cluef "How do you like our country?" they would ask every day, each one of them hoping to hear something good about the land they had run out of good things to say by now. It was probably a kind of reassurance that things weren't as bad as the disgust and contempt which so easily flowed for the government of President Jose Lopez Portillo. Perhaps that is why tourists were treated like long-lost relatives, being asked to join Mexican get-togethers in the bars and most often, serving as the center of attention. The American females that visited there those few days were catered to with wild anticipation. The whistling was the most mild of attempts to lure girls out with them and telephone numbers were held out by the Mexican men to the women in busses, restaurants and street corners. Thank God For To the Editor: that of the New York Daily Thank God for New News, that eye-catching, Yorkers! For years I have easy-reading (perfect for the been an avid fan of that typical USC student) great newspaper that only publication that boasts the could come to print in the world's largest circulation of Big Apple. But now it seems any news daily. we have a little bit of New York right here at USC. It was a bold and creative move to change the nature of What I am referring to, our student newspaper so and what I have been ad- radically, but I think it's just miring all summer long, is the kind of move that's the Gamecock's new format, necessary to try to enAs any New Yorker would courage USC's apathetic know, the new format of the student body into becoming Gamecock is tailored after more involved in the issues ,T\ . \ :ON T ROLLERS ' A J r?r -j *v-J , ) ?" / T(wr#Aiirr?e J S too CfAtg fOK ' K'Htl - " L~mS L t :) <" ) j C ile Of Despair THE WOIYIFIN of that nrninfrv uioro horHIti n.,?^ ?- ?.v.v J "VI v nuiuijr CVU OCCII, probably in the shacks hidden on the hillsides and immersed in dirt. The men walked the sidewalks, muttering in excited spanish whenever they saw a touristy blonde or light-skinned brunette. And it became known that the way of life was to fight in the cities, labor in the out-lying areas and sell worthless items in front of the stores in Acapulco where the rich Americans would walk by hurridly. In Mexico City, the metropolitan subway could very well ctanrl ac thn rfrnafoe Avnmv\1/\ ? uiunu UJ mv 51 vaitoi VAaiu^ic m 1.11c UUJJI casing Illlllgd Ui lilt; land. Simply, during the rush hours after work, thousands of people appear calm waiting for the metro that will take them home as they sweat from the steamy heat of underground insulation. THEN AS the subway squeals to a stop, the men and women brace themselves The metro doors hiss open and each person pounds against the other in a mad attempt to beat out his neighbor for a place to stand , already-packed with pressing bodies. A white-haired old women starts to make her way out but it seems her stop will be somewhere down the line as she is sent mercilessly back into the middle of the crush of natives. The last man to make it on does so by straining through a one-foot opening between the metal doors. Once inside, the faces grimace and suddenly it makes no sense as to why this subway is the most important to risk injury on. As the -Mexicans tell it, two separate trains are used late at night to keep the men from molestine the women. as they do during the day, utilizing their wandering hands in different ways. Given that they have the capacity for new sources of oil, Mexicans talk proudly of their discovery these days. They like Ronald Reagan but hate U.S. intervention in El Salvador. They hate Americans for the most part but love the barrels of money that are poured into the fictitious paradise of Acapulco. At times the people even tend to like themselves. During the times when an American and Mexican can sit down after many, many drinks, talking to each other in what they perceive 10 oe eacn omer s language, the American can faintly understand what the Mexican is saying. And what he is saying is "help." The Gamecock and events that shaoe their dedicate*! ' fpw hnv#? ct?n lives during their college managed to put out what has careers. turned out to be a bang-up style newspaper. The staff of the Gamecock Now tha* we know what this summer should really be ?an ^ done with just a few given a pat on the back for imaginative people, if more doing what turned out to be students were to voice their an almost impossible task, ideas and opinions USC that is putting the newspaper could turn the Gamecock out all during the summer in"> a student newspaper to months. While coping with b? admired and imitated by shortages in manpower, college newspapers all equipment and materials, throughout the U.S. Let's see and most important a budget it happen ? get involved! that has been slashed to BobSynnett, pieces, the hard-working and USC graduate HHHHHHHHBi