The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 25, 1991, Page 3, Image 3
Friday, October 25, 1991
Pomposity
Self-important county solicitor
should concentrate on real crimes
Richland County Solicitor Dick Harpootlian has done it again.
The man who closed down predominately black-owned liquor
stores because of public drinking outside of them has decided to
tell members of the University of South Carolina how to do
things.
Governor Campbell asked Attorney General Travis Medlock to
look into the recent allegations of former USC President Holderman's
sexual misconduct. Medlock passed the buck to Harpootlian,
who has vowed to get to the bottom of things. The need for
an investigation in the first place is debatable, but Haipootlian's
comments are completely uncalled for.
Haipootlian said USC trustees who served during Holderman's
tenure should resign. He went on to say, "If I was on the
board ... I'd feel compelled to resign. Not only did the board
give Holderman carte blanche to mismanage the university's fi
nances, but they also turned a deaf ear towards any conduct."
These comments are out of line. The county solicitor is calling
the trustees guilty before he has made any investigation whatsoever.
Is this the kind of justice USC can expect from our grandstanding
solicitor? Harpootlian is giving the trustees the same
chance to defend themselves that he gave the black liquor store
owners before he closed them down.
To be sure, there is serious reason to wonder about the trustees'
role in Holderman's escapades. However, it is both an injustice
and an insult to cast aspersions on the entire Board of Trustees,
especially when all the facts are not known as of yet.
Dick, USC can clean up its own house. The university certainly
doesn't need any help from the likes of you. They say justice is
blind; obviously in South Carolina, it is also dumb.
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I
iGAMKCOCK
Campus polict
Sure, there is a crime problem abounding around
our wonderful campus. There is, however,
a crime problem at every college campus. Rape,
theft, illegal use of telephone ? you name it,
we've probably got it.
So what is our campus police department doing
to stop it? Well, I've often seen our lofty
men in blue breaking up little disturbances and
standing around in an authoritative fashion.
They drive around a lot, I've noticed. They i
open doors and they chat. I
Another thing they do is stop anyone they
finH u/QlUnrr r?n rQmniK at nipht that thpv fin<1
to problems today. For a student in ing down th?
the professional schools, the prior- cuse me, bu
ity must be providing him with the in that spac
knowledge and skills to participate, and it won't
contribute and achieve in his back." She {
elected field of endeavor. ing in for a
When making fiscal decisions, her, I said, "
the priority must be acquiring ta- And we wa
lented and knowledgeable teaching pull out. Ui
faculty, and providing them with saw her do z
the resources and materials to pull back in
teach well. Next in priority must then, havin
be creating an environment with search, we ^
the facilities and resources for stu- that we coul
dents to pursue interests in their To begin
elected fields, and to assist them in encounter (o
translating their education into selfish and
employment. to think that
If and when these priorities are fronted she 1
met, any remaining funds may be to the sam<
allocated according to the agenda who are perl
of the faculty. Their research and ing an extr
their extracurricular activities must grateful for
take a back seat to student educa- And, if a w<
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questionable. Many of my friends and I are ob- i
viously questionable. I've been stopped quite a <
number of times since I first came to OSC.
Once I was stopped walking from my parked
car to my dorm. Another time I was stopped
when I obviously had the gall to bike across
campus after midnight. Many of my friends
have been stopped too because they didn't look
normal or they weren't acting normal. -What exactly
is normal and who gave our campus police
the right to interpret what normal is?
LET!
Education has
. a a cePl no othei
to be priority
To the editor: _
Much attention has been given JjJpoj]
to the allegations of sexual mis- 55
conduct by former USC president CpillYI
James Holderman. These allega- ^vulll
tions aside, I feel his tenure should
be revoked merely on the basis of To the editoi
his admitted fiscal misconduct. It happen<
There is an expletive with strong this campus
sexual connotations that describes first as an ui
what Dr. Holderman did to all of graduate stu<
us at this university. member. In
The current president, Dr. written to T,
Palms, seems to be a good man time I'm goi
who is doing a fine job under diffi- a forum in v
cult circumstances. I feel the entire Monday i
USC faculty should seize this op- ound 6:30 p
portunity to revitalize and stream- were among
line the entire spectrum of univer- ing a parkii
sity affairs. brary ? no
First is the matter of priorities, cling the pa
As a student and future taxpayer, I hour, we we
feel the most important activity of we made ou
this university is the education of lot next to
its students. young woi
For the student pursuing a lib- compact car,
eral arts education, that means ac- of us, pulled
quiring a good understanding of reserved for
the historical thought in his elected disabled peo
field, and developing critical think- As she ste
ing skills and research abilities to viously not i
enable him to apply his knowledge my husband
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people, to keep ani i>estp
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KlPP Shives
That's funny. I didn't think I paid my tuition
dollars so I could be harassed every time I try
to cross campus.
Our university police need to find something
better to do than walk around asking to see student
IDs. How about stopping rapes that occur
-verv week or askine that fellow whv he's car
rying my VCR down Greene Street?
If you haven't noticed yet, Columbia has
quite a homeless problem as well. I can see no
reason why any homeless person would steal a
VCR. Homeless people do not make prank
phone calls either. Why, then, do campus police
spend a lot of their time running homeless off
our campus, especially during midday hours?
A friend of mine who just happens to be
fERS TO THE~jpi
jdents, the public and walk on campus alon
of modern life will ac- ~ as well she shouldi
r approach. Phi Omega Escort S
Dan O'Neal vides free taxi service
Economics junior Pus (I spent many ni
for Escort when I wa
I norl/arc graduate). Also, anothi
II JJ^tl 1VCI ^ Pi Kappa Phi, has advi
ii brary Escort" service.
[ 01 eartn Disregarding the
paying a fine for pari
and the inconvenience
? t?... collect vour car from
xi again, i ve oeen on
more than 10 years, lot rather than taking
idergraduate, then as a space (for however bri
lent and now as a staff and even when it seer
that time, I've never spots are always emp
he Gamecock, but this for one moment son
ng to say something in needs instead of your
diich I might be heard. nience. I've watched
light (October 21) ar- bound People travel fa
m., my husband and I wa^ because the rese
the many people seek- were occupied by so
ng space near the li- ^ere for 3 minute." ]
1 easy task. After cir- sick 10 realize that in
rking lots for half an a?e> while we claim t
re about to give up. As c*a^y conscious" and
r last pass through the correct," we are still sc
Longstreet Theatre, a So watch out for
man in a red sub- called the police on
driving directly ahead sions> watching in
into one of the spaces wtliIe ^ey place a $2!
vehicles transporting car ~ right before tf
pie. takes it away.
pped from the car, ob- Watch out for me
it all impaired, I asked person in the car right
to stop the car. Roll- Just as frustrated as >
e window, I said, "Ex- the Iack of parking sp*
t if you leave that car ^or me? though, my i
o, I'll call the police P10 10 have a consci<
be there when you get * d he more than happ
?aid, "But I'm just go- you.
i minute." Interrupting Carol B
I dnn'f nam. Mnvn. it " ASSt. to I
ited until we saw her 0 Undergradi
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were far enough away 11
dn't tell for sure.
with, it angered me to To the editor:
nee again) someone so Every time I pick \
brazen; it saddens me issue of The Gamecoc
, even after being con- feel my stomach turn,
ivent back immediately of nausea was not pr
J place. Those of us my first month of
fectly capable of walk- morning routine was
a distance should be The Gamecock and
the ability to do so. hour-long break betwe
Dman does not want to would read it thorough
3
:OHD AMENDMENT.
ced priorities
homeless has been banned from campus for the
next six months. If police see him walking around
campus, they have told him that they will
arrest him. Why? Because he was seen walking
across a parking lot.
Randy Antley, a local artist who you may
have seen around Five Points, also just happens
to be homeless. He used to eat at Russell House
almost everyday until university police found
him washing up in the Russell House bathroom.
They banned him from campus, too.
Why? Who cares? Neither of these guys were
doing anyone any harm. The only law they
broke was to be homeless. Plenty of people file
on and off our campus everyday and are nevei
harassed by the police. Just because someone is
different is no reason to give them trouble.
Perhaps we could solve at least a bit of our
crime problem if the guys in charge of stopping
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wasting their time. Then maybe someone could
finally catch the library pervert and someone
could find the guy who stole my wallet out of
Russell House.
TOR
e after dark late, The Gamecock stirs yesteri't
? Alpha day's lunch, as it gives yesterday's
ervice pro- news.
around cam- Nausea turns to depression as ]
ghts driving flip through the pages of Tht
is an under- Gamecock, which I feel sure ]
er fraternity, somehow paid for, and I am tolc
srtised a "Li- what a "crummy" (for lack of a
better word) world we live in. My
expense of back issues of The Gamecock all
ring illegally seem to contain virtually the same
of having to stories. I'm not asking for the staff
the impound to go out and find some new probl
a reserved lems to tell us about; however, 1
ef an errand, don't want to hear the same probns
like those lems that I heard of yesterday.
ty), consider Racism, sexism, communism
leone else s an?j otber _jsms dominate our col0%yn
conve- lege paper. College used to be the
wheelchair- scene Qf radical change> but m
r out o eir Gamecock doesn't speak of that. Il
>r sPfces simply reminds us that there are sc
meone just m problems, we are helpless tc
!t makes me affec[ ^ a|| , wi? admit
this day and c .u
. .. my ignorance of these issues may
r? S\T not Problem; however, 1
y do not feel that I have perpetuated
' them in any way.
me. I have 3
many occa- Daily, the editorials and letter;
satisfaction to the editor show intense feeling;
5 ticket on a and often hostilities. These are the
le tow truck final days, before we enter the
"working world" forever. Let';
? I'm the wait until we are fully in the worlc
behind you, and decide for ourselves what is
'ou are over and what isn't crummy in this
ices. Luckily world, and not be told repeatedl)
nama raised by our school newspaper.
iy to sharcU "k ise 1 blf defense 01
Tige Watts on the same principle
ebee Collins An e<^itorial *s editor's com
the Director menls and opinions, whethei
jate English everyone agrees or not I person
ally do not agree with everything
Tige Watts says, but I find hin
:uses quite humorous because of the ir
rationality of some of his
ews statements.
Rousseau once said, "I may nc
agree with what you say, but I wil
up the latest defend to the death your right t<
k, I began to say it." This is a principle of ou
This feeling government (or used to be). Checl
esent during the Constitution. Everyone shouli
school. My just live lightly, in harmony wit!
to pick up everyone else. The Gamecoci
during my could help.
;en classes, I David Browi
ily. But as of Ad-PR freshmai