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Ticket-Honc Confusion reigned over the student mass attempting to gain access to the unusually crowded field house at Saturday night's bas ketball game. This is no revelation to those students who attempted to gain entrance via student priority, but it might come as a shocking fact to those responsible for such unreason able delay of basketball-loving students. In order to get past the student entrance both student activity cards and student iden tification cards had to be shown. And, when and- if both were shown, the names on both were scrutinized to determine just what the middle initial was. At least, that's the way it seemed to us. If such unnecessary measures are taken in the future in an attempt to make a buck or so more it'll require a week end bag to carry all identification necessary. Honor board members were checking iden tification at the request of the ticket office officials. But one thing has been clearly ex plained to The Gamecock. THE HONOR HOARD HAD NO OFFICIAL CAPACITY AT SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAME. The purpose of such close vigilance toward students has been emphasized time and time again: To keep non-students from gaining admission via a Carolina student ticket. Thus, to keep them from entering illegally. A university regulation states that student tickets are "non-transferable." It is assumed by students and faculty members that this will save the Athletic Department money because a person getting a free or cheap student ticket would be lost as a source of income for the ticket office. That's what students have had put before them for some time. It has also been assumed, quite erron cously, that selling or giving away of one's athletic book is a violation of the Honor System. This is not true. The Honor Board is involved in athletic events only insofar as the seating arrange ments at football games are concerned. A student deliberately lying to obtain a book of tickets in a more convenient section of the stadium has violated the Honor Code. A STUDENT GIVING AWAY OR SELLING IlIS TICKE1T IIAS VIOLATED A UNIVER SITY REGULATION. The student constitu tion provides that a person violating the Ilonor Principle shall answer to the Honor Council, while a student violating a univer sity regulation may have to answer to his New Plan, 4 Spec Carolina has welcomed several visiting speakers within the past year or so, some of which may be- called "national figures." There has been criticism from both the Gamecock and the student body from time to time either because of the quality of the sp)eaker or the lack of national prominence surrounding him. Since some of the speakers met with dis ap)proval, however, and because of the wide sp)readl demand throughout the years for a student-managed program to obtain speak ers, Presidlent Russell in cooperation with ODK( has chosen a committee from the stu (lent hody at large to serve as the Student Committee on Public Functions. This com mittee is to work in cooperation with the adlministration in planning and handling the detailed work of convocations and other pro grams. However, the p)resident has given it permission to handle programs of its own. If the committee can gain the support of RALPH GREGORY Selvy Shows CI One' man packed 4,000 people pulling for Selv; into' the Fiel Iouse last week- as he touched end, many of them basketball voiced the op fan1s and some o,f them just would like to curious to see an amazing ath- points, at least.' lete.the first time ir The object of the largest gath- tory that so rr ,ringt in the recent history of pulling for a 1 the Field House was a chance to look good. see the greatest basketball point The reason f< maker in the history of the game, ment of the dei: [Frank Selvy from Pnrman Uni- that .Selvy wi versity. points, higher The fabulous one sent many season average of the fans away disappointed, this same phen They had come expecting him to cager. score anywhere from 45 to 75 Selvy wasn't points. They had ample cause to record breaking expect such phenomenal feats, gave the crow too. After all Selvy had a 42 why he is per point average and much of it most talked ab was compiled against teams today. Held t< ranked slightly higher than the in the first qu Gamecocks, against whom he had that his jump s' scored 48 earlier in the season, curate as usual Most of the 4,000 fans were put on one of or Violation dean or the disciplinary board. Class rodm activity is primarily Honor Board concern. Members of the Honor Board were asked to cooperate in checking identification and tickets Saturday night. Why they should have been asked to perform such a duty is not clear, unless the implication by their presence could scare someone into thinking he was violating the Hohor Principle. Members of the Honor Board have ad mitted that there has been a state of con fusion over the ticket-honor matter. No one seems to know why they are expected to assume jurisdiction over the issue when they may not want it and have no reason to take it. There's little doubt that the Honor Board is a buffer zone for someone else. The some one else may not know this fact. But the Honor Board cannot be expected to carry the burden not belonging to them. There is great difference in being called up to the "higher ones" on charges of vio lating school regulations and violating the Honor System. Taking excessive cuts is a violation with a regulation. Taking over the maximum number of subjects is in violation with a regulation. Cheating or aiding someone else on a quiz is a violation of the Honor Principle. If a student is dropped from school because of excessive cuts, etc., he has lost no part of his good name; if he is dropped for disciplinary reasons he has lost some dignity and much respect; if he is dropped for DISHONESTY, he is marked completely and deeply in .the public eye. He may have marked himself even more psychologically. It seems to us that the entire matter, even with the Honor Board rid of the burden which gives it an unpleasant view in this respect, is superfluous. It stands to reason that a student should be able to do what he pleases with his ticket, despite the fact that it is sold to him on a discount. Some students want tickets to all the games and others care nothing for athletics. That is where the trouble in ticket-selling lies. This editorial is not an attempt to under mine the regulation on the ticket transfer, however; it is an attempt to lift the responsi bility of enforcement from the Honor Board where it never belonged to start with. The responsibility of making regulations is left to the administration. Honor Board members should not get blamed for them. The violation of a regulation can never compare with Honor violation.-JWR -ontroversial ikers the students in these programs, they may eventually be put in student hands. Through cooperation with President Rus sell, the student committee has taken its first step. A very controversial figure, William L. Buckley, will appear on Tuesday night in the chapel. Buckley became the object of much criticism for his book, "God and Man at Yale." Mr. Buckley attacks academic free dom in this book and is considered by many a great upholder of McCarthyism. At any rate, students will be given a chance to ask questions and present arguments Tuesday night. Whether or not we agree with Mr. Buckley in his philosophy is immaterial. We think that a variety of speakers should be pre sented at this university. If, by any chance, Mr. Buckley chooses to speak against aca dlemic freedom, he will be doing so only be cause some believers in academic freedom have agreed to hear him.-JWR iamp's Attitude to score as often team jobs that one will see in this the ball. Some day of race-horse, high-scoring inion that they basketball. ee him get "160 Splvy turned to rebounding and It was probably passing to help his team build Field House his- up a lead over the Gamecocks, any people were who at times showed themselves 'isiting player to to be potential spoilers for the Paladins. Several times Selvy >r the disappoint, passed off to his mates rather arting crowd was than drive into the basket for, as "held" to 30 what would be for him, a simple than the record shot. set last season by Fans marveled at Selvy's lack omenal Kentucky of interest in his scoring mark. In fact, two inebriates were heard up to his usual to remark that Selvy "doesn't pace but he still care whether he scores or not, a. I an example of long as he wins." That's about naps the nation's the size of it; it seems. >ut college player So Carolina fans were dlisap only six points pointed in the performarnce of a arter, and seeing man who scored "only" 30 points, 20t was not as ac- a feat accomplished by a Game the Furman ace cock no more than three times in he most effetve the past four years. 0 Who Casts The Votes? By Faris Giles Spring is creeping up on us whether we like it or not. To some of us on this campus, this season means solely the time "when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." To others, specifically fraternities and sororities, spring signifies student body elections. Most of us have heard, at one time or another, criticisms that the university has too much pol itics. In a sense, this is true, and in a sense, it is false. Cer tainly we have too many useless organizations that exist merely for the glorification of a few individuals. On the other hand, we may contend that campaign ing, and student body elections are democracy at work. And, yet, there is something still lacking in answer to the secriticisms. The political facts of life here may seem to some morose and morbid. One fraternity, or soror ity, joins political forces with another and form a bloc. Usually the procedure of dual back scratching, i.e., "you support my candidate, and I'll support yours," is followed. Actually, there is nothing morally wrong in this. What is definitely wrong and undemocratic is that only a minority of the student body is interested enough to take part in politics and elections. The minority is of course the frater nity and sorority groups which take this interest in campus activities invariably for two rea sons: (1) glor:ification of Theta Delta or (2) self-glorification. However, before someone blows a fuse, I would like to say that the students who do not belong to fraternities or sororities are the ones to blame for these deplorable conditions. If these individuals, the majority of the student body, are interested en ough to participate in campus politics, then the minority must assume control. I sincerely believe that when indlividluals are elected to office on this campus on qualities of leadership and desire to serve, and not on fraternity or sorority affiliation, we -will then have a true experience of what demo cracy at work is like. One of the worst things here is to see one person try to push another into his organization merely because he's a fraternity brother, or sorority sister. These are a few random thoughts to perhaps ponder over before election time. In conclu sion, the main p)oinlt I would like to stress is that what we need here at Carolina are more stu dents who will be enthusiastic enough about extra curricular campus life to at least go to the polls and vote. And vote, not for a fraternity b)rother, or soror ity sister, or friend-but a stu (lent who attempts to undlerstand1 what is needed most by the miaj ority of the student body, and one, who thus enlightened will gc nd vote. g$rs T14hoNor% A Legitimate 'BeefI Dear Editor: I just finished reading your latest edition and I must say that it was very enjoyable read ing. But . . . I have what I be lieve to be a legitimate "beef" coming. In Mr. Gregory's article about the Student Activities Fees he failed to mention any other organization receiving allocations from the Publications Committee. Being manager of a radio station that receives only $400 a semester Is no fun . . . and I'd like Mr. Gregory to know it. The station has always been on the bottom of the list when allocations were made. For several years we re ceived no allocations. Through sound management we struggled on our way. We were finally placed on University supported activities, and our allocations have always been far from suf ficient. Nevertheless, we have continued to operate in the black. How many other organizations can make that statement? We would be more than happy to have our record, both financially and by services rendered, com pared to other organizations re ceiving allocations equal to and larger than ours. When Mr. Gregory said: "It would be rather foolish to expect a business to operate under the JOHN DUFFY Buckley 4 Academic A recurring topic of debate in university circles is the question of Academic Freedom. The parti sans in the debate range from extreme leftists who would allow every kind of nonsense to be taught to extreme rightists who would allow only that to be taught which agrees with their narrow definition of American traditions. As usual the great majority of Americans concerned with the problem avoid both ex tremeCs. At the present time the leftist position is not very popular. There are few people who are willing to allow Communists, either misguided or malicious, tc teach. Incompetents, immoralists, and blatant exhibitionists are as a matter of course excluded frorr our university faculties. Tc argue for or against Academic Freedom in terms of the left posi. tion is to be unreal and unfair The major defenders of Academic Freedom do not hold that ans person should be allowed to teaci any point of view. They admii that there are persons who are in competent and malicious an( points of view which are demon. strably absurd and dangerous. Ir attacking Academic Freedom, t< debate against this point of viev is to fight a straw man. The leff point of view is noi dlangerous at this time for the simple reason that those wh< adlhere to it have been generall3 discredited. The attack from the right is dangerous, however sinc< the rightist view is enjoying I vogue among some thinking an< responsible people. The rIghtist: begin by pointing to what the: call inconsistencies in the practici of Academic Freedom. Commun ists and crackpots are fired, the: O12it,iort... same budget which it had five years ago. It's equally foolish to expect the campus groups to do the same," he said a mouthful. The point is we've had no alloca tions, and when we did get them they wouldn't take care of our needs. The cost of station opera tion has increased along with the cost of newsprint, engraving, and what have you. Yet we're work ing at the same old stand, doing the best we can on what we have, and still receiving our good old standard allocation of $400. It costs the Gamecock $448 just for printing, but we have gone on a whole semester on less than that. As I said before . . . I believe that the Student Activities Fee should be increased, but I also believe that one organization should not do the beefing, and if they do they should include all other organizations in the same boat. We are not looking for sym pathy, but rather for equal con sideration in a common problem. Until such time as positive action is taken to solve our mutual problem, then let's cooperate and beef together. Sincerely, William F. Jones, Jr. Manager ~haIlenges :Freedom argument here is not against the view of Academic Freedom held by the majority of its defenders. Academic freedom has its limita tions, just as political freedom has limitations. No one would consider it an inconsistency to dleprive a person actively seeking to overthrow the government of his civil rights. Nor do we hold it to be a violation of personal freedom to imprison criminals or to forcibly diet.ain thee insane. The core of the right wing argument is that American insti tutions must teach what they call "American traditions." One of the proponents of this idea, Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr., loosely (defines these tradIitions as free enterprise and Christianity. Mr. Buckley sincerely believes, as do most right wingers that these ideas represent "good." How ever he holds even further that even if these concepts are not "good" they should still be con sidered so by the educators in a private university. In Mr. Buckley's own words: "In point of fact, the argu meat I shall advance does not even require that free enter prise and Christianity be 'good', but merely that the educational overseers of a private univer sity should consider them to be 'good'." This is strongest argument, to (ate, against Academic Freedlom. It is based on a premise which is (quite foreign to the American edlucational ideal (although not to American practice) that co! leges should serve as propaganda I mills for the ideas of those who pay the bills. I shall try to refute this argu ment in the next issue. Mean while I urge my readers to go r and hear Mr. Buckley present his r unorthodox ides nex Tu. ay The Book 1 To Read (Ed. Note: This book review was written by WALTER W. PARKER through the coopera tion the Clariosophic Literary Society.) GOD AND MAN AT YALE* By William F. Buckley, Jr. While in undergraduate study at Yale University, William F. Buckley became greatly con cerned with the faculty's outlook on religion, individualism and economics. Most often he found this in direct conflict with the ideals of Christianity and free enterprise which he cherished with such fervor. Buckley nurtured and sheltered these ideals during his four years at Yale, expressing them at every opportunity (he was very active in student affairs, holding among other offices the editorship of the Yale Daily News). In 1951 his book presented these ideas which he hopes will incite a more acwe attitude towards curriculum su pervision among the alumni of his hallowed alma mater. God and Man at Yale is an informative and readable book, though definitely not one which I would recommend for an eve ning of pleasurable reading. The author makes use of innumerable footnotes and quotations through out the entire text which makes the reading somewhat a task, but we must remember that he wrote it primarily for "Yale" men and excuse him on this ground. The reader is soon convinced, however, that professors in Yale's Departments of Philosophy and Psychology tend to ignore reli gion or in some cases preach atheistic or agnostic doctrines. These teachings are not balanced by the Christian teachings of the Department of lReligion so that, to quote Mr. Buckley, " . . . it remains that Yale, corporately speaking, is neither pro-Christian nor even, I believe, neutral toward religion." In the field of E'conomics Mr. Buckley sees a well-defined trend toward socialism hiding behind a cloak formed by the policies of "Academic Freedom." I't seems paradoxical that an institution supported for so long a time by free enterprise should be propa gating collectivism. Mr. Buckley sums up his opinions on the entire matter in these statements: "I will not say, then, what specific professors should be dis charged, but I will say some ought to be discharged T ... I will not suggest the manner in which the alumni ought to be consultedi and polled on this issue, but I will say that they ought to be, and soon, and that the whole structure of Yale's relationship to her alumni . . . ought to be re-examined." CollegiateI CippingsI MAYIBANK HERE, TOO Kent, O.--(I.P.)--The Student Council at Kent State University has been asked to support a letter writing movement to change tj e p)resent income tax lawv. W-. i Congress again in session ,it is expected that the Hon. Blurnet R. Maybank of South CarolinaA will appear before the Senate Finance Committee with an amendment for an inclusion of educational expenses, with med ical expenses, which are deduct ible in the amount that they ex ceed five per cent of net income. PERSONALITY VS. BRAINS New Orleans, La. -- (I.P.) -- Personality outweighs brains in Newcomb College's search for new coeds. Miss Dorothy D'le, whose job is to recruit stud*ts for the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for Women, the women's undergraduate division at Tulane University, points out that "Newcomb is interested in enrolling girls with a lot of per sonality rather than Phi Beta Kappa material. Of course we stress scholarship," she reports, "but it's the over-all abpearance that counts most. And I'm not just talking about 'good looks'." The Newcomb secretary of ad missions travels all over the South telling high school students about advantages in attending Newcomb. She often makes as many as three speeches a day before high school groups. "One of the most frequent questions the girls ask," Miss Dale said, "is how close New comb is to Tulane. Of course, I tell them 'rgh ext dr.".,