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GAMECOC rounaea it/ua Fletcher Johnson, Acting EditorJerry Brewer, General Manaf Linda S. Haines, Advertising M< Jean Hatchell, Business Mane Mark McEwan, Production Mani Crime Pay G. Gordon Liddy is scheduled tc give a lecture at USC on April 1 Tickets became available foi students in the Activities office yesterday. There was an incredibly long line from the time tickel distribution began at noon for 4S minutes. Americans have made G. Gordon Liddy famous. What is the reason for people wanting to hear a man who was convicted of conspiracy and spent three years in jail as a result? Liddy was a crook? he aHmiHoH if Via -i ~f mwmmvvvu iv. lit wao even piuuu UI it. How many other crooks can make as much money as Liddy while they're in jail, and after they get out? The reason may be simple. Americans admire and respect Liddy for not copping out. He was the only man involved in the Watergate scandle who stuck to his guns? he stood by what he did. As a matter of fact, Liddy prided " " lutuocii iui ucvdi squealing as did the rest of his cohorts. Some students want to see him simply because he is an interesting "character." Of course he was first brought into the limelight with his part in the Watergate break-in. he was one of the biggest contributers to the break-in, and even aided in its planning. Some consider him the most immoral member of Nixon's staff. Liddy spent a longer term in jail than did the other Watergate crooks. He has also made more money than the other Watergate members, his autobiography made him rich, his movie made him even richer, and now his lectures are making him even richer. The question is, how can this man Job Wei Barry Gray and other members of the Finance Committe should be commended for their job on this year's budget. The committee has long been acknowleged as Student Government's most difficult, and members seldom receive the proper recognition. All licensed oreanismtinnc io 0 IV 1 U1 the money from Student Activity fees. Every group feels their need is most important and are rarely happy with the results, the Gamecock is no exception. The group, however, puts long hours in and deserves the utmost respect andcommendato Tom Coyne, News Editor J JL3hte Johnny Boggs, Sports Editor John Vaughan, Entertainment Edi Beth Sundrla. Copydesk Chief in Chief Mike Fisher. Graphics Editor jer Lezlie Wallace, Editorial Page Edi Patty McCarthy, Asst. News F.dito inager Buddy Horres, Asst. Sports Editor Iger Chris Hughes, Intramurals Editor Mark Ethridge Jr., Ad\'iser iger s F or Lidd) > who is so immoral, and almos . insane be making so much mone * for illegal actions? The answer i ? that, hfi is a ffpnins Hp is takina fill r advantage of his experiences u, in Watergate, and using th > American public to make himse] rich. i But the American people ar i letting him get away with it. The i flock to see Liddy wherever h goes. That is all he does now sine he was released from jail? lecture Some people believe that wha T irl/4?r /4?/4 K/v f.*~vM ?i? UiUU^ U1U lie U1U 1U1 HIS UUUIllI) They admire him for playing th system to the hilt? and gettini everything out of that he could. Everything Liddy did, or didn1 do, he did for one person? G Gordon Liddy. he is not sorry fo anything he did? he's just enjoyin the benefits from it now. It seems important for Liddy t prove how "tough" he is. H is boo] he told about several incident i ? - ? - - - - wnere ne attempted to prove this He would do things like put hi hand over a flame. When he was ? child, he had a fear of rats. T< overcome this fear, he caught ; rat, baked it, and ate it. To over come his fear of thunderstorms, h climbed up to the top of an oak tree tied himself there, and stayed ther until the storm was over. Would a sane man do these acts? However crazy or immoral this man may be, he is still making money, and it is doubtful that he even cares what people think oi him. Liddy is definitely not the victim that many of his admirers make him out to be. he was, and is a willing perpetrator in the entire Watergate scandal, and ever comes across as being proud of his actions. 11 ? It LFUIIC . Especially commendable is th< . decision to reduce Stude | Government's budget to only eig . percent of the budget rather th; the customary 10. It is very ra [ that a group willingly reduce the own budget so others can recei more money. All groups should realize 1 work put in by every member the committee as they line up make their appeals. For a job t\ has been thankless for many yes the Gamecock would like to < press its congratulations for a j well done. ^ Uly1 seta SEALC ^ - 1 iiwainunjjy e betters To T1 If y Stipends Un e e TO THE EDITOR ' The Gamecock has reached a new low in the ar ,t decries at great length and with great conceri \ President, receives more money for occupying e student publications, the student radio statior president receive for occupying theirs. The criti ? thinks, who gets how much, but rather why any c all! t i Under no cireumstflnpAc nan i ? VUII A UliUCIOldliU Ct I I r* jobs, and I am outraged to learn that even one cei r salaries. g This absurd editorial implies two reasons jusl occupancy of these great seats of power and resp q time expended in providing same. Let us first c< ml 1 " " ' . iiuicni uinues. me oniy ining that I can sc pursuit of its mandated functions is the budgeting s organizations, and this is a well-known annual fi i. torily, it cannot be seriously said that this process S that justifies a salary at all, much less the kind < a just as absurd to assert that if no salary was giv There will always be someone willing to do whate^ 0 it can't be terribly important. a The same is Imp nf tho n _ % %/ V* VI1V ^/V/OlI'lUlld Ul X. OI LIUllO C e manager, and Activities Office president. The se k the duties performed ? by these neophyte functioi ' the money they are receiving. If the time these p< e duties imposes a constraint on their study or problem, for which the solution is not a paychec activities take too much time is no reason for their ? And now, editor of the Gamecock, it is your tur ' for what he does makes me bilious. Platte is a bu " fright wig topped by a dunce cap. What other c< ? perience of seeing his newspaper hit with a $1 m I maniacally uses his own little corner of the edi ; candidacy for four Student Government execu persectuion for misuse of public funds? This ma [ Nor can his "column" be considered anything b readers are innundated almost daily with ter l misstatements of fact, and preposterous elucida ; paid on the basis of journalistic expertise, he sh under fals^ pretenses. Whoever decided to make which remuneration is given made a sad mist i maHp an oiron mm v<vii 51 avct uusiaite. To conclude, I can agree with only one asserti( , . for each of these positions should be equal. No on< nt ht ?r,r GAMECOCK ? Business Office: 777J Sole reproduction rights granted to the Associated m j Press. 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In the editorial of March 8 it i the fact that John Boswell, as SGA his position than the editors of various 1 manager, and the Activities Office cal issue here is not, as the Gamecock >f these people should get any money at y of these positions being treated like it of my activities fee goes toward these tifvine thf> navmpnt rtf colovlnr # - o r?j ~..v v?? uniativo 1UI U1C onsibility: the service provided and the insider how that applies to the Student \e that the Student Government does in ; of the student activities fees to various asco. Even if it were handled satisfacrequires the time or provides a service )f money revealed in the editorial. It is en, no one would perform these duties, yer it is that these people do. If not, then ditor, Garnet and Black editor, WUSC rvices provided ? and by this, I mean laries are negligible when compared to iople put into the performance of these recreational time, then they have a :k. Just because their extracurricular being paid for them. n. The very idea that Mark Platte is paid iffoon and an imbecile. He should wear a allege newspaper editor has had the exillion libel suit in the same week that he torial page to announce his anarchical itive seats, thus sparking rumors of a in absolutely cannot be taken seriously, ut so much bird cage lining. Gamecock 1 inches of childish sniviling, obvious tions of pointless rhetoric. If he is being ould be thrown in jail for taking money the position of Gamecock editor one for due. wnoever gave Platte the position )n of the March 8 editorial: that the pay J should get anything. JOHN B. BOWDEN MPA-JD Student * ?,| IMHIWIHIWI I'liTT* 9 Newsroom: 771-7181 388# Production: 777-2833 imber, mailing address, class standing or faculty >sition and major. Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but e writer's name may be withheld on letter, upon siks>?# : s * u . . "<?' circumstances warrant it. 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