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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
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Ray Grontag. MtitlMt photo tditof
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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?
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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;
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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."
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tion increase they approved
for the fall.
Trustees sppm to
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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
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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
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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.
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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!
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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ly iiwiihjci ui
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"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
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m inHHumn
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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
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ters
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is clear that the intention of the ?
Founding Fathers was merely to I
keep the federal government s
frnm ?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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