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^opinionMoney, no guides NF Diehard sports fans wh Football League action f< pleased upon hearing oi strike settlement betw< management. Those same fans, how extremely disappointed scheduled to resume. Instead of the high qu rnrnfi to exnect. fans will game that's just a cut a Out-of-shape athletes wil the exception, and after who can still play will drive to win. Baltimore Colts' coacl is "no wav" his team c Dr. Mike Andrews, specialist in Chicago, sa a bunch of garbage on th< Players go through n workouts and exhibiti summer to be properb atrap nlov q ro0ular qp?( \> V VI. piuj M & is rushing to give all of the season to start up agi Andrews said the pla> three to four weeks to j condition needed to play But the NFL, like all < leagues, emphasizes m; the safety of the player same. The most logical U - w season and start over ag Instead, the league lu agony, scheduling a t< sending 16 of its 28 tc season with less-than-e> advent of a substanti meaningless. When moi to the olavoffs. the feel contented satisfaction. The strike has left mouths. Players are m are angry with the pla? out in the cold. Instea( affair, we will be subje inferior play as a once ife urAiinHc anH tripe tn l 1VO VVVUIIVIU Utivi v* JIVW W m accomplished more har Write a !( the Game Disagree with an edit like to express? Write a The Gamecock provi< readers to express opj The Gamecock also o] readers to write guest " " topic. Both letters and coli 65-space-line and tripl not exceed more than shoud not excefed four t; Address letters a Gamecock. Ooinion J Russell House, USC, C< I"??-?(actffi Rich ! Copy Desk Chief David DeWi Asst. Copy Desk Chief. . Kay Bendi News Editor John Brau Asst. News Kd.. .Richard Culherts( Asst. News Editor. .. Forrest Brow Ent. Editor \ John Vaughc Asst. Ent. Editor Chris Hand) Sports Editor Johnny Bogi Asst. Sports Editor. . 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Now the NFL |0tt four days to prepare for fers need a minimum of lUj I ,j 1 ..j'; get back in the physical * professional football. Mark eh )ther professional sports probably \ akine monev more than grievances integrity of the ?J"v2taS thing to do IS cancel the However, th ain next year. seems to im is decided to prolong the good enough )tal of nine games and and warriors suns to the playoffs A mankind>sze :citing prospects with the militarism, ial interruption is now among othe re than half the teams go Auschwitz, 1 iri0 r?p>rfjiinlv less than most peculis 0 - j sticks Dest 11 , paper Nevil] a bitter taste in many his hand, si ad at the owners, owners guarantees ^ers and the fans are left Kjf si i of calling off the whole cted to several months of Mr Euis p proud sports league licks even if Hitl< ^ecover from a strike that world War I m than good. subjugation Nazism. ittor tn remember * **1 *w Jews, gyi J desirables" I If without an; wUUIV military. 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Yet Mr. r atrocities, Munich and there is no h< rhe inclusion of Munich is wishes to live ir, because the image that ?'sure'?the hal n my mind is the piece of, have thp qamp le Chamberlain waved in Hedafms gned by Herr Hitler and Vietnam dead g "peace in our time." saying he is 41 -?-i -l-JJ ? At , igui iu ^ictuucu uic ucoi to jor anoiner ci ; glad and big" and other manipulated.' is objectors with whom are many of f rofesses to identify, but the Lt. Tuck< er had never touched off saying he and I, it would have meant the he professes t of millions of Czechs to "could care 1 for his countr * T* *>11 rk r\ MTaII f(f* L VLjLP an uu n v/ii w. appi cuiaic n, that the extermination of upkeep of the] >sies, and other "un- Such rhetor would have gone on journalism, tt y help from the German is preparing [ad the other countries of hope that in epted German domination college he woi ly as the Czechs, Hitler's examples of < ion" would have been final mention mo at put an end to Auschwitz toward thoi the resistance of con- disagrees. Wc )bjectors, but the victory of likes of "olaf j lies having no truck with of their crav l_ i imL in /orcis, me sacriuce ui uue nim so sure ouls won't defeat the forces possibly give >me or abroad." worthy as Ola dent's desires jalistic, foolish imn criticizing the stadium addition was ai mple of three typical student characteristics, total lack of appreciation for the necessii major projects well in advance of their i tt. .4:4:?..?u a tun. lviajur ciiuucs &ucii h? uic umvciany u e or appropriate funds, solicit bids, and let on short notice due to an unexpected econ ch nobody seems to be able to figure out any wi you demonstrated a very short memory..a hims and desires. My observations over a < he university have been that when the Gam< ams are riding the crest of victory and the ca vith the excitement of winning, students corn having tickets ffiiarantfted for ?verv rnntest.r iplaining students are the ones who stay aw len the 'Cocks play a no-name team (even in have fallen on hard times. you expect the amount each student pays i s to guarantee you 24-hour-a-day, seven-di ess to every facility on campus, plus guara very event. bout it for a few moments. Estimate the actm ng what you expect. Lifok at how foolish you ai A Director of } W "THEfOl ly^BEEN I as necess IN CLO editorial ??? __________________ tne motiv tialf of Mr. Ellis' letter Tucker < onsistencies. He claims criminals summed up by e. e. andreaso oem in praise of "olaf E*lis does " who let himself be displaying than take up arms, qualities, >vish to see Christ and I have Ellis states flatly that contrast i iaven or hell, says he ana me to be an old man and is ranges fr f-million draft resistors were popi desire. level of a to speak for all the the kind o 1 in his last paragraph, each gen< 'certain they would ask Is it hance and refuse to be changes ii ' Yet among those dead fall of oi ho cnmA mntivntinn as. Perfectly' sr whom Ellis vilifies, I suspe the half million (again, idealism i o speak for all of them) late '60s \ ess" if Lt. Tucker dies sublimati y, "excepting we won't fears, of aving to pay for the drafted a plot." for nuir ic may be acceptable in ingrainec IP traHft which Mr Fllis is hard to ply, but one would motivatic his three-plus years of their core lid have been exposed to I do no clearer thinking, not to toconvin re humane attitudes motivate se with whom one atrocities uld he also begrudge the draft was |lad and big" the upkeep much ( es? If not, what makes disappea that Lt. Tucker cannot his life for a cause as f's? Depi : ll & iy ui f-4 ? T ] mm is *ys-anteed L ? -ft "MISTER, CAM NtDO SfARj rt West GAMES?" Records GASSEP?J t CteafjffiiWL nv?? aiiiI ai y evil (SING, I would like to adit appears to be his main ontention with Lt. Tucker, es of 500.000 draft resistors. -alls them cowards and , Ellis, "men of conscience n." As I have indicated, Mr. not do an exemplary job of I either of these noble but let that pass. long been intrigued by the n tone between the late '60s present day. The contrast om the sorts of songs that liar in each era, through the ictivism on our campus, to if future the young people of oration claim to be striving just a coincidence that the n mood followed the rise and ir Vietnam involvement so ? jet that the expressions of that were so prevalent in the vere in large measure due to on and rationalization of ten unconscious, of being nd sent to war. "Looking out iber one" is so deeply I in the American psyche, it to believe that the only >n of most draft resistors was science and reason. t doubt that many were able ce themselves that they were d by anger over American > in Vietnam. But when the ? done away with, why did so )f "the counterculture" r along with it? Peter J. NyiVos Associate professor irtment of Mathematics and Statistics ' ~~ ' l I r, it s ^ WQ Mr j, ? Tf\ C2S . / [J IMI H?? r??td t A FEW BUCKS FOR