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The Go Jill Ro^rt, Tracy Mason, nunagtog aditor Andy Duncan, copy dask chiaf Susan Patna, naws oAtor Yvatta latorra, assistant news edttor Tona Cantrad, antartainmant editor | Gr?gg lasky, sports aditor Joe Riekat nhntn ?Ai(w Ray Grontag. MtitlMt photo tditof No respi Trustees | students' The past week's meeting of USC's board of trustees revealed a serious credibility problem that students have with the majority of the trustees. Any student present had to be disappointed in the trustees' reception of student leaders. The trustees seemed to listen to complaints from graduate business students Eddie Gwock and Chris Lane. Student Government President Kelvin Stroble also seemed to command his share of attention. But once the students were finished, the trustees reached insiae memseives tor tired dialogue used in far too many similar meetings. Trustee John Beasley gave kind words to the students. But he was condescending, praising the students' presen? ?-i ?? 1 luuuri rainer man wnat was actually said. It was as if Beasley were grading Stroble's comments. Trustee Mikp Mnnon ftf Columbia was more direct, saying he couldn't believe business students were so I naive as to discount inflation as a fatttjr itf Tn&tnttMttag a* college's high academic standards. Whether masked or direct, the trustees' comments are more important than the tui; r% - botna can me Ki it mnKr irm ) UUl IIIUUO Of CI P.W. Botha, president of South Africa, says he's too busy to meet with Bishop Desmond Tutu right now. The Nobel prize-winning Anglican bishop of Johannesburg says his nation is in a desperate situation after a year of racial violence that has claimed nearly 500 lives, I resunea in uotna aeciaring a state of national emergency and focused world attention on the white-minority government's archaic racial segregation policy of c4|sai iiiwiu. But Botha refuses to meet with Tutu to talk about ways Word on "Should tli yh, because fit ituaent body prosi dent he was voted to represent th? students. Ho should have a voice in how the school is run." fliwait B?!>iial?i I Staler tMi?r mecock wJrtor in chu) Ron Eml<(, general manager Uoog Trueblood, advertising manager BiH Rogers, adviser Newsroom - 777 7181, 7182 Edrtoi'i OHice - 777 3914 Advertising - 777 4249 Business Office - 777 3888 Production - 777 2833 ect patronize opinions tion increase they approved for the fall. Trustees sppm to _ v vy iuv r\ respect for student leaders, and students will never be heard by the board until they get more respect from trustees. One way to solve the problem is to grant trustee status to the SG president. A stu dent can be intelligent and mature enough to help make decisions for USC, but SG presidents can't be prepared to represent the student body when important information is presented to the trustees in executive sessions. Stroble had to work hard just to get a copy of the proposed increases four days u ? * UVIUIV" lilt II UMCCJ> II1CI. i~IC says past presidents received copics of budgets five minutes before they were approved. How is a student government president supposed to review a $200 million budget four days before final judgement? How can anyone represent student complaints when no time is allowed to research an argument?. * We hope trustees can help future SG presidents by making them ex officio members of the board. If not, then SG should approach the state legislature with the idea. ike Tutu wait m w ? m M ^ / n't so patient to defuse the rioting. He says he mav he ahln fr? fit the bishop into his busy schedule in about three weeks. Botha should realize that no amount of military action can make his racist policies any more just or his nation's blacks any more satisfied. And until he institutes real iciorms, me ngnting will continue. The South African president should find time in his schedule to read a history textbook and review the fates of other busy rulers. Such as Nicholas II and Louis XVI. \ i the stre le SG presid "Yes, it would be to the advantage the students to have someone represe i them. Without representation, I don't s 1 how they (the board) can always act the bast interest of the students." Bill Fost Economics ten! Dpi m j*. D \/ ? : } \N IkH*^ I K ^ >1 ...W1/ HkM=^ w 'We have i | Student positions on two com | eliminated this week. Students development committees have vc do. The reasons given for the aban< lack of attendance and interest o Every new Student Governmcn have a chance to send their new | their input. If there is someone r not abandon the position, you pu AHI II talr nvhv &UH1 To (he editor: | The nation is awash with selfappointed groups claiming to ; speak for the public interest. One of these organizations onerates [ under the seemingly innocuous and patriotic-sounding name of the American Civil Liberties Union. In May of this year, the | Augusta Herald published several articles describing actions taken by Charles Varner, president of a/^I ii n usv juuiia v.a>uniia /\v_-ivU. rvir. I Varner had taken sharp exception to the fact that Aiken County public school children had been exposed to prayer during the school day. In my view, prayer in school, devotional readings or I any other religious activity is ; neither the real good of the J al.lu, nor tne real issue that needs airing. set ent be a votii of nt "Sura, it would give more of e real voici in to the student*. (JSC students need ell th? voice they can get." er Tim Ushet or Physkt graduate inion tf NDUM?ST. TSNTSHE Interci right to spea imittees of the Faculty Senate were on the executive and professional ting power just as faculty members Jonment of these student positions is n the parts of the students, it Association administration should people to the faculty committees for nediocre in an organization, you do t new people in there who will work. Let es liberties i ne rear issue is tne continued growth of centralized government control over this entire nation ? something that the ACLU, is totally behind. ACLU partisans insist that their goal is to defend the Consititution and uphold civil liberties. But the organization's record reveals continuing efforts to legalize ? 1.- J auui nun, iiiitKc uiug) uvanauie, keep filthy books in school libraries, defend flag burning, support homosexual demands, counsel draft dodgers, oppose the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism and make government the arbiter of practically all values. Regarding prayer in schools, the ACLU cites the First Amendment's clause, "Congress shall make no law resoectine the establishment of religion or prohibiting the exercise thereof." It in mumkAr nf ly iiwiihjci ui ^ S' v ?3pIP 'JBB'jjK^, >-> - ^ i "Yet. He shouM be ftiere to spesk for > the student body ee wtole. He should be i the one because he is student body president." r Ibtda Wee ? ^ m inHHumn l A wwnsf mi m smpu? k, vote,' stu Marion Moffet, newly elected pres "there is a lot of work the senate does Every decision, no matter how sm< pus. UT is in the student busin< automobiles. And closing doors to positions on committees is just anoth ronnll.. ; uvun;-)iuucilk I CIMIHJIlMlip. ters #1 > wim bom is clear that the intention of the ? Founding Fathers was merely to I keep the federal government s frnm ? Hum iviiintii; ??-tUVHI?lllllg a par- I ticular religion. If the ACLU were really interested in helping the American people to enjoy their liberties, the organization would stand fully in opposition to recent court decisions thai have allowed federal presence in education and then used that presence to throw God out of education. That the ACLU is not interested in these fundamental issues is clear. And the reason why can be gleaned from the fact that the ACLU was founded in 1920 by such noted American Communists as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William Z. Fooler and ... n ?? ? narry r. wara. me group grew for many years under the leader the board of "Yf?, (fefinftety. W? used rmn of sta i stem's op^niWi in ttort." c Ptotof Mnm fe K ?-2S. " - <" m i ii * i dent says ident of the Faculty Senate, said that does not interest students." ill, affects students on this camess, we're not here to make students by eliminating student er nail in the coffin of the dying The Daily B?acon University of Tennessoe stitution .hip of Roger Baldwin. In 1935, Baldwin stated: "I am for the socialism, disarmament and iltimately for abolishing the state tself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. 1 seek the social ownership of property, the aboliion of the propertied class and he sole control of those who proiuce wealth. Communism is the joal." Unfortunately, the ACLU has B?-VH c< ?U> pVTTVI III i IIW UllllCU States. Citizens who feel the time has come for those who favor America's traditional values arc urged to let their opinions be heard. Let's not allow the radicals of the ACLU to alter our nation in the manner sought by ACLU leader Roger Baldwin. Eugono L. Pttillipt S.C. coordinator for tlM Arfw Birch Society trustees?" "Yes. I'm not tort how much power he houW have, but I think he should be part if the system." Pam Smith ffkHmmfafi Qraduatfl