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Numbers dwin at student unn Walking in the sweltering summer h shade trees on the Horseshoe and brigades of sprinkler systems, USC st one place to find shelter and mingle v their kind ? the student union The Russell House Student Union, I great stone edifice created by a non-j fund years ago, is dwindling right bef< A quick glance around the Russell 1the the same services that have alway the Activities Office, Carolina Prograr cameroom, the Union Station, the c snack bar, the Print Shop, Student IS and the Golden Spur. All were created from that big non-i fund, which means whatever profit might make remains within the studer All of this profit and loss is handle Business Office, hut the ladies that wc tell you there's not as much work tc there used to be. The gameroom, which houses doz games, is managed by the USC Books bookstore is part of the Division of I #1 i ?*n tn V* i s~% li f r> n ?? n tt /-*l-t x-v 4 It /-J / lana, which a ui ciiilii ui uic pi C.muc What this means is that for every tc video game in the gameroom, only a it goes back to the Russell House. Where the rest of the money goes i operation are paid becomes rather clo However, there are two places tha surely doesn't go: back to the studeni lower tuition. The issue is not whether USC has a i money; the issue is whether anyone su of it. The Union Station is managed by J Golden Spur is closed, possibly for g< The Russell House Mall is being bu leased by the bookstore, again thro Affairs. Why shouldn't the rent on the 15 culated throughout the departments c union? After all, aren't they located i House? Is everyone satisfied with the stud< could it be a much nicer place? USC is guilty of no wrongdoing : i.. .1 _ i i: cuuim;, yuu iiiliuuc liiuian giving. Could the student union be moi described as the "student mall?" Are the other businesses as concer dent participation and development i union would be? How much longer will USC ha union? No one has objected to the usurpati* dent union. The union is supported by the sti fee, but no one wonders if the activ buys as much as it used to. The responsibility for action lies Government. Until now, SG has igno Maybe this year's administration woi ? Gamecock ~ Editor in Chief | Leslie J. Dun son Copy Desk Chief Ann Farmer Copy Editor News Editor Marisa Porto General Manage Entertain. Editor Robert O'Connor Ad Manager Sports Editor Tracy Mixson Business Manag Photo Editor Drew Pearson Production Mgr. Copy Editor . v Cal Harrison Graduate Asst.. Copy Editor Hal Hewell Adv'*er Newsroom 777 7181 Advertising ;iness Office 777 3888 Production The Gamecock welcomes letters and guest editorials. All let must be typewritten, triple-spaced on a 65-space line. Letters should be no longer then 300 words and guest edii mna nn lA.iriAr than fnur tunoH r\a IU V1IU iwvrcnui my ?uupi?l ??u lUliyoi man iwui lypsu pa editorial* MUST be signed with the writer's name, teiepho dress, class standing or faculty position and major. Pseudoi but the writer's name may be withheld upon request if the t We reserve the right to edit guest editorials and letteri , Address letters and columns to: Opinion Page Editor, Gam Columbia, S.C. 29208. tiling UM \ eat, past the \ around the \ udents h.. ^ vitn more ot ocated in the \? appropriated Yy \ > are our eyes. V\ \ ^\ louse reveals ^ uccn uicic. y y\rr \ n Union, the afeteria, the *\ /* /'x /ledia Center annrr>nriatf>H ^ \.l L4|7|/l Wjyi IUI V.U ^ or loss they ' it union. d by thc RH tmaofcvr )rk there will ) be done as ? ^ ~ r ..: a Cll> UI VIUCU tore, and the S'Sicf Student cha )ken put in a small part of To t,ie E^.ltor:. ... . A Regarding the article in the A? n r> r\ r* Is li/limk ror\r*rta/4 #Uot r\< wufri^ci/cn YTiuvii I vpui ICU lliai L/l ifter costs of Pruitt feels that "There's plent iudy. parking, just not next to the bui! it the money (Students) want to go to. . . \ union or to r, . Mr. Prutt, I invite you and any members of the faculty and right to make ministration of this university to 1 ffers because parking space on this campus bei the hours of 9 a.m. and noon o Saga, and the weekday cither lhc fa" or 5 KJSJSJ . ilt and being ? ugh Business shops be cir- m ' ,f the student MpmnMRS (1 in the Russell *nt union or Recently, 1 was looking throug newspaper and I noticed that a 11 War is being rebroadeast. 1 thouj I, unless, of forget. And at the same time, I rer ten some months back on the w; re cttectivcly own perspectives, my own remem The huge gray stone stood a , . , memories of the past. Names hac ned Wltn Stu- ? names of dead men. Dead mc IS the Student huge slab was a monument to a w; that never existed, ve a Student This monument, this hunk of r tempt to honor the dead of a war port and that left its survivors stil on of the stu- Vietnam. I remember Vietnam. As a teei ident activitv newscasters on the 6 p.m. news re; - i II I thought that event was so ordina liy iee ClOliar uncanny ordinariness that was pected. After reading the casualt with Student then show the other side of the ' red the issue. anc* rebellious college student test that said we shouldn't be ov lor Detter or worse, we were thei we would stay there until the job the job would never be done. The war had a personal meanii Vietnam, and my family, like m; Herb Reeves resignation for that news, prayi r Ron Emter never come. 1 remember the i Ron Emler strange car in the driveway and I er Carolyn Griffon the house when the phone ranR Mark McEwan that news never came. Yes, I rem ? Wanda M. Hite ment of its victims by us good / .. Mark EthrMge Jr. Those who did walk out c welcome home. Maybe unlike sc 777 2833 h?me to cheers and parades, th< to the deadening silence of a nati tors and guest editorials own kind. And just as thos wars, the Vietnam soldier fough toriais should be limited nocent people slaughtered, his ges. Letters and guest endless line of body bags waitii ne number, mailing ad way, being shipped home in a I lyms are unacceptable, foest way out 0f the jungle, circumstances warrant. ciea(j soldier was escorted . 11CP military guard and pallbearers, fc ecock, Drawer A, USC, e. ' ? c of the maze of Vietnam would n< He would always be shifting sai warn \x I SI \B?\X v.- IN FED Letters illenges Pruitt on semesters. To make it easier on you, I jg. 1 suggest you drive a compact or subsnnis compact car as many of the parking y of lots are not conducive for use with a Idinc "family-size" car. Also to make it easier, perhaps you could pretend you have a Commuting other Student (CS) sticker, a group which ad- even you admit is less advantaged than ind a resident hall students. ween How about, for a change of pace, n any you decide to look for a parking space pring near the Thomas Cooper Library? I xiitvi vainpuo .v* f Vietnam cannot h the television section of a This lack of a h i-part series on the Vietnam height of the Viet jht, it is good that we don't rebellious time wl nembered a piece I had writ- over the horrors o ar. It was a piece about my involvement in the ibrance. war's participants mid too few and too late There really die I been carved into the stone tended hand woul ;n, not heroes, because this But how could ar that never was and heroes another human be day by the rule o ock, was a Ration's vain at- M-16 rifle with h that that nation did not sup- The answers are t i i w: .. 11 ? ,1 u _ u i i living iiu> iiigiiiiuai c taiitu uui wc tuuiu nitvc through hell to pr< riager, I would watch as the with disorder. Wc ad off the day's casualty list. I remember Vic ry; killing in wartime had an outstreched hands accepted and strangely ex- off the planes. I y lifst, the newscaster would standing at attent war, the long-haired hippies how proud the pol s carrying their signs of pro- negotiations. And er there. But we were there, who didn't get tl re, and like good Americans because so many was done, not realizing that If my recollecti intentional becaus historical trash sv ng for me. My brother was in couldn't help but any others, waited with calm stone that stands i ng all the time that it would of the Statue of L ineasy feelings - stirred by a died masses yeari the deafening silence through holds freedom al . But, luckily for my family, precious of gifts f ember it mostly for the treat- War. We have r< Americans. from the guilt of >f Vietnam had no hemes' if ihaf him? ? ? ii?Mi HU5V piV ildiers of wars past who came to the Vietnam er ; Vietnam soldier came home us that now all t1 on that had turned its back on have names and 1 e soldiers of the past fought ed out of the junj t his war, too. He has seen in- to pray no other friends blown apart, and the who fought in Vi< n ft t A Ko r U ? ?1 - 1 1 ?5 iw uv 0111j/jjv.vj iiutuc. 111 a CU US DciCK. body bag may have been the 1 remember Vi< forget, just as * to his final resting place by a Holocaust or an; >ut the soldier who walked out scar of war on it ever have a final resting place. id in constant motion. rfec&^o K\^!. THERE'S^ ERAL GOVERH^tW MX V(HP MWE3TW& sr luinriiK ' parking issue won t even ask that you do this at y p.m.. Or in the rain. Or both. Mr. Pruitt, in short, if you don't have a reserved parking place on campus, then my letter is nothing new to you. But if you do not know what it is 1*1.. C J I. ... I 1C/^ 11kt ior siuaems 10 paiK ai ujl, please do not presume to tell me that you know there is plenty of parking. Jacqueline Finklea Graduate Student Department of Health Administration be forgotten ero's welcome was a sign of the times. The nam War came during the 1960s. It was a len people were promoting peace and love f war. Many Americans didn't support U.S. ' war and, therefore, they didn't support the In't have to be parades though; just an exd have been enough. we understand the precision art of killing ing? How could we understand living day to f kill or be killed? How could we hold an ands that knew only a peaceful existence? hat we couldn't know unless we were there, ; understood that a lot of good people went eserve some kind of order in a country filled : could have, but we didn't. :tnam, and the newscaster's account of the ; offered to the prisoners of war as they got remember the salutes and the honor guard ion. And 1 remember thinking at the time iticians must be feeling with such productive I I remember the silent tears of the soldier lat handshake or that salute. I remember forgot. ons seem fragmented, the fragmentation is ;e that was Vietnam ? a fragmented piece of /ept under the rug. In writing this column ! : remember the words carved into another in-New York Harbor. The words on the base ibertv read: "Give me vour tired, vour hud ling to be free.".America is a country that jove all else, yet we have taken that most rom those who dared to fight in the Vietnam jbbed them of their freedom to be free ? being part of that war. ce of gray stone which stands as a monument a veteran is anything at all, it is a reminder to hose casualty lists and body count numbers flontiiUr A :r?i : ? n UVIUHIV3. nuu ii illume muiviuuais wno waiKgle serve any purpose at all it is to remind us such confrontation happens because those stnam won't fight for the country that turnetnam. 1 don't think any of us can afford to <t can't afford to forget Hiroshima or the y other atrocity which left the unremovable s victims. The Daily Beacon University of Tennessee