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Editorial |n TL? UMmA Ill Sill? R^UIII^ jf%Jl ^3H | VI H lit? isllW When the smoke cleared Aug. 15 on Waverly Street 1 downtown Columbia, a seventeen-year-old boy was dow bleeding from the holes put in his back by a cop with shotgun. Michael K. Moore was the target, the victim of misguide protection. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, an the crime he was never tried for did not warrant his deatl The kid died after running from a stolen car, leaving hi blood on the pavement and his death to two scared cops. H didn't get a chance to leave anything else. THE COLUMBIA Police Department announced Tuesda that two policemen were fired and four more suspended, bi will that incision cut out a cancer rotting the credibility of ou police department? The Columbia Police Department took a life that wasn theirs to take, but maybe the cop they trained didn't kno that. They give him a gun and teach him how to shoot it, how I shoot at men, how to hit the vital areas on a silhouette of man. They know how to kill men, but do they know when n< to shoot boys? TO TAKE or to spare life with finger movement is a awesome power. We must be able to trust those we entru with the power. We rely on police departments to train o fi^orc thnrmitfhlv hpfnrp civinc them the Dower. Thev mu live up to this responsiblity. They must remember how eaj it is to kill a man and how hard it is to protect a man. America grew up with guns. Guns conquer, enforc protect stabilize and damage. We're still growing up wi guns, but after centuries of carrying the gunbelt, our postui ? ?A Ulrtof/wil Up uraij rtr? fnr urhoi v grows WcirptJU. muci ltd uiaaLCVi iio waj i^Qviuug ivt mtui. t have today, but when the smoke cleared we often found o aim to be off. GENERATIONS follow bullet paths, but when the smol clears to peace, neighbors won't lay down their guns. Mi with guns are hired to protect us from men with guns; w will protect us from men with guns? China Visit Bridges Gap Each of the ten people who returned from China Thursd morning had to agree: the exchange program of students a faculty between the University of South Carolina and Shar University is the first notch in the carving ot a milestone. Those that were there will attest to the fact that much is be learned on both sides of the exchange. For our fi students and four faculty members, the language of China the main goal. For the gifted learners that have come he; USC easily qualifies as a working source of advanc knowledge. Of all the things that were learned on the trip by the ten was that the two countries share a basic need to be helped one another. The second aspect of the exchange lies with I actual people involved. They are the ones that bridge the g between communism and democracy. And judging from i response accorded on both ends of the spectrum, there little room for doubt that the agreement will not be follou out fully and with a sense of purpose. The toasts, the wishing of good luck and the dedicatior greater ideals between the two univerities all beca commonplace during the two week-visit of a buf delegation sent Sept. 5-17. The Gamecock had the rare opportunity to send representative to China for the preceding dates. The detf of the trip, the Shanxi agreement and a preview of Chim the 1980s will be presented in a special Gamecock Thurs( edition sept. Z4. me two-weeK trip win De cnronoiogizea v> photographs and articles. It gives us a great deal of pleasure to try and undertake task of having the students here experience and someli appreciate the scope of an international exchange such this. It is even difficult to try and analyze a history of peo older than history itself. With the Chinese comes the f tradition, the distinguished past and the inevitable fut that can only be seen in a country of 950 million people. The agreement between Shanxi and USC comes not onl1 good will and belonging, but hard work and negotiation.' current Holderman administration and the entire Insitub International Studies under James Kuhlman deserve cr< for what will be known years from now as an act of \ poseful understanding and advancement in learning. We salute exchange programs, whether they involve teraational trade of students or those within the U.S. We that USC is on a smooth, settling course of action and we only see promise for the future. : I st I Forcing B [e GLEN ANDSHEAHEAR UP Field Syndicate MALIBU, Calif. - Cliches ke about Southern Californiaen run about a dime a dozen. ho But no one would have expected laid back Southern California to crack down on one of the state's most institutionalized forms of recreation ? nude sunbathing. NEVERTHELESS, BEACHES m'ado famous by California-based rock and roll bands have become the targets of a police crackdown on public nudity. And, as thousands of sunbathers . here have already 1X1 discovered this summer, . local law-enforcement 0 authorities are willing to ve spend much time and money 1 *s to catch them. As the summer season iitin/lo a!rviim nr\rvt?Avim yviiiuo uuwu, appi uaiiuaicijr 100 of the nude bathers V arrested so far are preparing to fight the | authorities in court. But their task may prove difficult. Just last week, a 30year-old woman body builder was handed a $150 fine and a year's probation. 1 If she's arrested again for the same offense, she'll face a minimum of five days in a Los Angeles County jail. lils can cmnese Amoassaaor cna James HoSderman. irthday Si It was only in June that the county sheriff's department oU:r?n^ to ?rr; c ?? suiiLcu 14- uiinjcia iium chasing youth gangs to the "beach sweep force." Now wearing a green-and-white T-shirt-and-shorts combination, the officers roam the beach on horseback with binoculars in hand. ACCORDING TO OBttrUVITHS tho Ko!i/>h cmoon k >JtJ a % V M*V WVMVII *J ?T V/V/J,# force has kept nudity to a minimum with its SWATlike efficiency. "There's no question about their effectiveness," conceded one nude sunbather now facing trial. "They've scared the pants back on all of our beach-going friends. "When I got busted," continued the sunworshiping 30-year-oid father of two, "I was sunning with mv wife between two large boulders. The two sheriffs arrived and asked for our identification. When I told them my wallet was in the car, they made us get dressed and took us to the station. It took eight hours for them to book us. We weren't released until 11 p.m. And then we had to get i i- i. ? ?? * uacK 10 our car. we were still wearing our bathing suits." THE IMAGE OF people hitchhiking in their swim Zemin and USC President Have the right to remain silent... lits Out 01 suits at midnight might seem silly to some, but the last laugh may be on the citizens. One would think that lawenforcement officers anywhere would have more important tasks than to bust beach-goers who sunbathe in the most isolated of coves. At a time when local police agencies face budgetary constraints ? and the Los Angeles department is no exception ? it makes little sense for the authorities to stretch their resources for the sake of prudish interests. County taxpayers are shelling out much as $1,000 per day to support their beach patrol; each arrest costs and additional ilFtf* in bureaucratic paper work. Not surprisingly, the sheriff's department defends the high expense, insisting that nudists only prompt gawkers and criminals to trespass on the nearby GAMI University of South Oro found* Newsroom: 777-7181 Buwnets Office: 777-3M8 Mar*K*tte (ditoi fill tancort Copy Desk Chief David Corvette (Aa. IT orn Coyne Am t. 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What are they going to do to us next?" Before local governments follow the Los Angeles example for their beaches and lakefronts, they should know better than to take complaints about nude sunbathing too seriously. Uncovered sunbathers on isolated beaches aren't a |p public nuisance. All that nude sunbathers deserve are ordinances establishing where they can go. Such restrictions would save governments money and t~.rw. ?U/> ? 1 "cc uic JAJIHJ*; IU puiauc i?ii crooks. icogkT liru, Columbia, S.C. h Ml 1900 I AdvertkWtfi: 777-4249 I Production: 777-2833 I . TfJfV Hrlrrv* _ 1 |im Corbett Ami. Sportt Editor A ?n> |. Newman Acting Photo Editor Kny Brewer General Manager Linda Haines Advertking Manager Maifc Mcf wan f roduction Manager lean Hatched BmineM Manager Marti Ethridgejr Advfcer e Associated Press. 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