The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 18, 1981, Page Page 2, Image 2
Editorial
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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can cmnese Amoassaaor cna
James HoSderman.
irthday Si
It was only in June that the
county sheriff's department
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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
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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
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wearing our bathing suits."
THE IMAGE OF people
hitchhiking in their swim
Zemin and USC President
Have the right
to remain silent...
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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
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JIM HENSLEY,
SECRETARY of the
Clothing Optional Society,
contends, "It's frightening to
see government coming
down with their Gestapo
tactics and using so much
energy to close down a a
passive form of recreation
.... 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
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