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GAME( Founde Mark Platte, Eg Jerry Brewer, Ge Linda S. Haines, Ac Jean Hatchell, Bv Mark McEwan, Pro< Vet* Last week the Senate Committee introduced a senate which would eqi stipends paid to the Government president student media heads and Office president. Currently, the Student ment president recei\ 1 _1 A 1 *1- ? nigner stipends man i organization leaders, would cut the Student Go president's salary from $1,800 ? the same as the the Gamecock, the Ga Black and Portfolio, th manager of WUSC, anc tivities Office president would cut the stipends p other Student Gov executive officers as well The bill was brought uf i <. i_ i last wetJK anu is preset reviewed by the Rules G It will be presented to I again to be voted on t Then, if passed, the bill Student Government John Boswell to be signed This could cause a Several senators said t reason to believe Boswel the bill. If this does occi will have to go back to s will havp to rpppivp lwf ; the senate vote. In order for this bill i fective next year, this ye has to pass it. If Boswell1 l he well knows, there is a that the bill will not pass * since the new senators ar begin their terms in t\ However, there should enough time to override veto. uru?* : vvucti uiib umei tsiice i seems to imply is organization is more than another. This is not organization takes a lot run ? the editors of tl media and the Student G< officers all spend much work for their organiz* none more than the other All of the organizatior service to the students c all of the different se necessary to provide interest to all of our 26,(K To suggest that one orgf \ more important than ar therefore deserves mor ridiculous. % mmmmmmm_________ Tom Coyne, News Editor Johnny Boggs, Sports Editor John Vaughan, Entertainment Editor Beth Sundrla, Copydesk Chief d 1908 Mike Fisher, Graphics Editor litor-in-Chief Lezlie Wallace, Editorial Page Editor neral Manager Patty McCarthy, Asst. News Editor ... . ? Buddy Horres, Asst. Sports Editor Ivertising Manager LHTIS fiuguirar, intrurnuruis cuuur ISitlCSS Manager Fletcher Johnson, Graduate Assistant iuction Manager M?rh E",rid?c " Ad""er o Unjust 1/ Finance Student activity fees pay for the bill to the stipends paid to all organization lalize the heads. The Senate Finance Student Committee is in charge of and the allocating the money to the difActivities ferent organizations. After looking at the stipends paid to the : Govern- organization heads over the past es much few years, the fact that Student he other Government receives more than The bill others seems to imply that vernment $2,250 to Student Government in the past editors of has felt their officers deserved irnet and higher stipends than other student le station organizations. The Finance 1 the Ac- Committee is now trying to rectify . The bill this. aid to the ernment You would think the president o: Stlidpnt. flnvprnm#*nt wnnlH 10/ + f/ ) in senate make the salaries fair for al itly being students ? after all he is suppose t< ommittee. be in office for the students anc he senate because he cares about issue* his week, which concern all students. Woulc will go to not a veto of this bill be in contrasi President to Boswell's purpose of being ir I. office? It seems that if HorwpI problem, really wanted things to be fair foi ;hey have all students, he would not b< 1 will veto making statements that he woulc ir, the bill veto a bill that would rectify i enate and wrong that has been in existenc< )-thirds of for quite a while. to be ef- There could only be one mor< ars senate solution for this problem ? raist /etos it, as all the other salaries to the levpl n possibility the Student Government president > this year That would be impossible in light o e slated to the current money shortage th< vo weeks, university is experiencing. I barely be seems far more logical for th< Boswell's Student Government officers t< take a cut in salaries. n stipends immrtant Student activity fees pay th tr..? it h stipends paid to all the differen nfHtYvT^ organizations. The Studen f /f ? Government affects man wprnm^nt students, but so do other orgai time do e zitions. Members of othe >tiHnc ht organizations have to sacrifice jus ons, dui as much as the executive officers ( the Student Government. is supply a If Bos well does veto this bill, he i >f USC, and showing no concern for othc rvices are students in other organization! things of But the senators will have anothc X) students, chance to pull the bill througl mization is Maybe the Student Governmei lother, and senators will show more concer e money is than our Student Governmei president. OH. JUST WRITE SOMOHfNG ABOUT MAN I on the miem to 1 Letters To The Edito. Company's Reputatio TO THE EDITOR A reply to the response of Mark Fink (Gamecock Feb. 17) the Gamecock on March 3. Firstly, my original aim was to point out that although tl to express their frustration and anger, the Israelis are ; ' Palestinians wre driven from their homes and are force I cupation in desolate refugee camps with inadequate food, w T7*^wm u i-i? i'ui iw lung nuw, (.11c ldidcn jcws iicive uccn U5liig lilt i . persecuted in the past and playing on peoples emotions wi was terrible, but it bears no relevance to the problems todaj ^rie Kandel keeps telling us of atrocities committed by t dates or names, just stories. He 'forgets' to tell us that it is Israelis' who cold-bloodly bombed Palestinian camps insi f and wounding over 700 innocent people. As if it wasn't eno . from their country, they Zionists must continue to torment t . I am particularly insulted by Mr. Kandels accusation tha * and have a narrow view point. I am a well traveled Britisl ) the Middle East. Mr. Turner has also traveled in the are; 1 have discussed this problem many times with both Arabs j pains to research the subject well, relying on foreign correi j U.S. news. What about you Mr. Kandel? Have you ever be Have you even been to the Occupied Lands ? 1 I do not "hurl insults at Jews" either Mr. Kandel, or pe 1 distinguish between the words Zionist and Jew. If anythinj 1 am most certainly not anti-Semitic, so please be a little m accusations. Further more, Mr. Kandel, why don't you k< i problems instead of making personal attacks. As I have said before, Israel is as much a Palestinian 1 homeland, both religions involved have a Semitic origin I 'rightest' as Mr. Fink put it, then it is also the right of the i survival. Mr. Finksays that the Arabs want the land for difl ; what though. The Palestinians are struggling to regain th land upon which they used to farm and live, just as the Israe OK so the IJ.N. eave lepal lpcal nrwpHpnpp fr?r n Tmuich 2 I - O" - O O^- IT" M WVTTiOll " I 1974 the U.N. General Assembly adopted a Resolution c - I (Resolution 3236 (XXIX)). In this resolution the U.N. expr f I Palestinian people have been prevented from enjoying reaffirms the inalienable rights of the Palestinians to returi j from which they have been displaced and uprooted, and ca month the U.N. had a majority vote to apply sanctions ag j Golan Heights. The U.S.A. then vetoed the motion which t East opinion that Israel would not survive if it wasn't for the S Waving the names of other terrorists around by no me; 3 other terrorists, Mr. Fink. As I said in my last letter two wr two sides want the land for the same reasons; to live on, in p e ______ it Gamecock Editor Mark Platte is attending the Internati I in Bellagio, Italy this week. 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The ;d to live under military ocater and living space. ; excuse that they have been th the Nazi atrocities. Yes, it f. he Palestinians, no localities, > these same 'poor victimized de Lebanon last July, killing ugh to drive the Palestinians hem. 11 know little about the cause h subject and have worked in a anu visuea israei. we Dom and Jews. I go to particular spondance as well as national en outside the U.S. or Israel? ;rhaps its just that you can't g I amy be anti-Zionist, but I lore careful in your choice of iep to the point and face the homeland as it is a Jewish ? If the fight for survival is Palestinians to fight for their Ferent reasons, he doesn't say e land seized by the Israelis, ;lis are doing now. state in 1948. On the 22 Nov., m the Question of Palestine essed its grave concern that their inalienable rights and i to their homes and property ills for their return. Only last ainst Israel for annexing the only strengthens the Middle ! 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