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..opinion! Student partic absent in new When' the new attendance requires students to attend 90 p class meetings, was passed 1; students participated in the S Committee. Student Government Vice I Sheely said two appointments \ the appointed students did not i mittee meeting. The new att strongly affects students, yet r inDut into the oolicv decision. JL JL V The Student-Faculty Relatic serves as a communication lir Faculty Senate and the Student S is no communication link witho ticipation. Former Student Government Boswell blamed a general munication in SG appointments There should have been no mixas vitally important as the attenc The two students who were pointed to the committee sho reliable students who could se Yet they chose not to attend the n Nothing was done to follow 1 mittee meetings. No one in Stud< knew who was appointed, much ] appointees attended the meeting* There is no record of anyone 1 in any SG minutes. The Powei sibilities Committee, which af pointments, has no record of th the Student-Faculty Relations Co in iiiu&L uuiiimiLiees i thirds of all voting members pre: can make a decision on an issue were at the meetings, it seems i committee had enough members The name Student-Faculty ] mittee implies that students a] mittee. If no students are on thi loses its validity. The group referred to as the Faculty Relatk With about 26,000 students finding two students to serve c should not be that difficult. Per vjuv eminent spent mure nine appointments than on the SG p plimentary football tickets, the problem filling committee positi< Believe it or not, there are sc terested in working with Stude They submit applications j assignments, yet never hear am it be acceptance or rejection. If there are students willing committees and want to do a gew they be given that opportunit students with no more respect f< two supposed appointees to the Relations Committee? Sheely said there was no sysi these appointments to see if th attending meetings. A simple could answer any questions. Ca and ask them if they attended the student says he didn't go replace him. If he says he did g happened. Any student on a committee s\ to attend the general Senate r prepared to make a report business of the committee to > appointed. Telephone calls ar "system," but they do serve the The new attendance policy affected many students. For otli an infringement on their rigl themselves. It is hard to explaii they had no voice in the matter. A Student-Faculty Relatii meeting should be called.Make s appointed and are at that meetir Taking a stand on a subject tendance policy is necessary, difficult to create a comprom suited to everyone's needs. It w people in the long run. < ipation , A w? I r *** m a v \ >v- % (juiiuy ^ policy, which IEV fUCCD IVDf ercent of their ' ast spring, no BOUNDTOW Jtudent-Faculty J MtRESTRff ^resident 1 Mike vere made, but attend the com- ^ ^ endance policy 10 students had ~ ^ >ns Committee . 1_ I L i 1 _ _ ik oeiween me n , . enate, but there ut student par- - . ^ President John flL ~ nL"" " ~ lack of com- ?? for the mix-up. -up on a subject reportedly ap- ' |At*Arc uia nave seen IVp leetings. Trains have up on the com- Editor. snt Government Countless lines, no doubt, hav less whether the penned about trains: the iron 5 of the west and the bane of n . hurried motorist in the East Oeing appointed many movies and mysteries rs and Respon- been set in their dimly lit, i jproves all ap- filled coaches? What is it al ie appointees to train: this amiable behemoth, immittPP so formidable> so arcan mmiuee. anachronistic? nust have twosent before they We sit at a crossing as it se 5 If no students creeP? turtle-pace, along the I "- ii i__ ii. _ -l _ certain it will soon ston and r iniiKeiy mat ine direction. We wait at the depot to vote. Amtrak rattles and screams Relations Com- steamy halt, bells a-clanging, li re on the com- a it committee, it Cff Antllfn should then be E> I I C v O W C >ns Committee. By Gene Stephens attending USC, A former student of mine, MI o pommirron . .... - - c* vvy.iiniii-i.vv borhood gathering: "Catching 'haps if Student not the answer to crime." on committee Deputy Shutt, as head of t (resident's com- Lexington County Sheriff's Dej re would be no ffiSS^ISSSSS mis. urvrrii cii/ir?f?ocr>iTi :? ? . . TV 1 A II i3U V/V/EilMr fli ijl llllc me students in- is no crime, no victim and no nt Government. Crime Watch, he noted, has c for committee percent in participating neighb / reply, whether 11 wa,s with some pride tha r ^ J' concepts and theories concerr had heard first in the classroo to serve on SG Justice at the University of Sou ~ J ,.1 1 ,3 )i 1: ! ju juu, biiuuiuii t ^rniie prevenuon is an tciea v ty, rather than Il'.s relatively simple in its fc 3r a job than the Pj ciPle> formulated more th Student-Faculty citizens first must lear crime ? they must become infc tem to check on willing to join hands with thei e students were defense through group surveill fplpnhonp pall must become united. ii The need for citizen action \ It. aPPp tees agajn jn April when I directed the meetings. If in South Carolina. The results to the meeting, 80 percent of South Caroliniai 50, find out what their personal safety and their they were five years ago. It t , ,, . . * that today's criminal is more irtiiln ho romi?r?>H J ,v/ulu ^^ ago had risen almost 10 percen meetings and be of 77.4 percent. regarding the Asked what "precautions th vhich they were the largest increase in the pi p> not pvartlv a "keeping a gun for protec e noi exacuy a respondents said they did. purpose. has drastically other citizens, howeve lers, the policy is more constructive steps, sue it to ripfirip for alarms and lights, and join a to students that ESS groups with the lowest "fear MIS Committee residents, college graduates5lire students are likely to be installing protects jg taking other "special precaut siioh as the at- joi"?n8 a crime watch. bucn db uie au rwi) WARNINGS need to l> Ir iwniilH nnr Ko . .... ... *v "ww w gun tor protection is a .dubious ise policy better The best you can hope will hf ould please more know you have the gun and this is seldom the case. All *3i/utTN fjnyrn -vr k v 1, w " ^ ? 0. '^v JH&Ss^& ^ mmUmstt *9S0t?i: 1 ^ g^SEB?kl personality, mystery t( flashing, to spit Aunt Clara out onto whi re been pavement, baggage and all. of horses What is it about trains? The lum- con iany a bering, rolling motion that rocks the the How manliest of us into a gentle sleep. The the i have clank-clanks and "shhhh" of V smoke- screeching wheels that jar the the bout a heaviest sleeners into nuestioninp eve # T" O ^ mai is alertness as the conductor stops to Cai e> so prod a tired "Bessy" off the tracks. ofv V What is it about trains that can y ems to cause the grandest world traveler, tracks, jet-setter, to double over in nauseous u t everse delight? What is it about trains? as the Is it the adjustable, padded chairs ro^ > to a and obstinate foot-rests or the ghtsa- gravely-voiced porters and greasy, crime prevention Rick Shutt, told the neighthe burglar after the fact is he crime prevention unit of desirable consequences; jartment, was extolling to the leads to a property cr a "Crime Watch" to cut down frontation, with the gun o s in the neighborhood. In addition, the presem prevention, Shutt noted, there and/or tragedy-shooting cost to the taxpayer. And the comes home unexpected! ..i i fri#?r?H in tho hoof rvf an ar ui crime uy an average 01 bO ?,7 or hoods a child shoot himself or s< t I listened to Rick echo the Second, realize that u ling crime prevention that he excuse nor a justificat ms in the College of Criminal veillance and action iro ith Carolina. tivities and informing yc vhose time has finally arrived, agencies immediately, n< >rms and it works. The basic by yourself or with others an a decade ago, is also sim- There are literallv hur available to assist you n what they can do to prevent property against crime. 1 >rmed; second, they must be do to reduce the cost anc r neighbors to form a mutual local law enforcement ance and group actions. They Programs in the South Cs vas brought home to me once The author is an assoc the annual Fear of Crime Poll Criminal Justice at USC of the poll indicated that over i? at c muic uunucniai auoui personal property today than ilso indicated that the feeling tfljCIM violent than he was five years t in the past year to a 1982 level f R oy were taking against crime," copy Desk chief david d ISt year (Up 15 percent) Was News Editor JohnL tion," which 51 percent of Asst. News Editor JeffD Asst. News Editor. .. Forrest B Ent. Editor John Vau Asst. Ent. Editor Chris Hi r, indicated they were taking sports Editor Tom < h as installing special locks, I Asst. Sports Kditor. . Dennis Sv ing with their neighbors in Newsroom 77 tgs in the poll were that the I Business Office 77 of crime"-males, suburban The 0amecoch wtlcom<!, Were also the persons most editorials must be typewritten, ve devices in their homes and Letters should be no longer I ions" against crime, such as I limited to one newsworthy sub and guest editorials MUST b< ft considftrftd First l(M>nin0 a number, mailing address, clc i method of crime prevention" u"ac,c""'""c . \ . request the circumstances wc ippen is that the criminal will We reterve the rlght to edit gl will stay away. Unfortunately, Address letters and columns other possibilities have un- use, Columbia, sc. 2920s. , . ik ! HKPf"4~ d jet-setters ite-capped cooks? Or is it the odor camphor and menthol from the igested woman across the aisle and fumes of oil and diesel fuel from engines we remember the best? yhat is it about trains that give m personality? Their one roving i piercing the pitch of a North rolina night? Or their imposing call velcome and warning? Vhat is it about trains? Ve hate to see them approach,, 'ering their gates before us. And we e to see them leave, their red ialongs, so final, waving a jaunty, ling farewell. Ernest L. Wiggins Journalism graduate student necessary t editorial pulling the gun on an intruder often ime escalating to a violent conwner usually being the loser. le of the gun often leads to accidents ; the son or daughter or spouse who iy, shooting the relative, neighbor or gument, shooting yourself or having omeone else accidentally. inited citizen action is neither an v 'inn fnr viorilanticm Piti7on cur. raw** V VltJBIS V/ * V * CiV * 1 0UK yolve watching for suspicious ac>ur neighbors and law enforcement >t harassing or brutalizing a suspect idreds of programs and techniques in protecting yourself and your ro find out more about what you can 1 heartbreak of crime, contact your agency or the Division of Public irolina Governor's Office. iate professor in the College of nccock? | :ditor-ln-Chief (chard Meyers eWitt Opinion I'age Editor . 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