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MAGAZINES REMO "WI cci Last week's Gamecock cs front page a story saying thi periodic publications classed as had been removed from the ma in the Campus Shop. The magazines were taken at the suggestion of adminis felt that a University-operate< not engage in the sale of quest ture. It is true that the Campus mately owned by the Universi1 sider might consider that such flected the character of the sch magazines are offered, they v and read. However, periodica required reading and the perso: around and finally buys one something he thinks he will 4 And if he can't obtain what campus, he will go to a near where he will find the magazin Further removal of period to the discretion of Ben Fowler, manager. The problem is wher line and to ascertain what cor tionable literature. Many of the banned magaz Playboy, Sexology, Nugget, a chology, are largely concerned color jokes, ribald cartoons, a: women dressed in varying nothing. However, Nugget contair John Steinbeck, 0. Henry, Ja and Erskine Caldwell, a repre: might be hard to find in anot unless it be Atlantic Monthly Is that not better, even with it nude art, lusty humor and riba Man to Man, which contains fr and illustrated stories about (lope addiction and juvenile without even a hint of anythi known author? The latter publ available. Letters to the Editor Honor- Board President Interprets Statements Dear Editor: It is regrettable that the columnist-who seems to delight in being a part of a controversy did not read the article of last week closely enough, so that he could realize where his presenta tion of fact was unauthentic. The interpretation of the word "unauthentic" on the part of this writer is that it means "not true." Referring to the article of Oc tober 29 by the columnist, we find the following statement in quote. "Last spring, in one of the first meetings after elections, the body (Honor Board) voted to bar Gamecock staff members from its meetings, reasoning that public knowledge of the board's actions on honor cases may re suIt in great harm to students being tried for breaches of honor." The unauthentic and questionable portions of this statement are two-fold and both cases were brought out in the last issue of the Gamecock: ~Number one: The Honor Board does not handle any infrac tions of the Honor Principle and for this reason would have no fear that public knowledge of their actions could harm a stu dent. Number two: The Honor Council handles all infractions of the Honor Principle and re ports the results to the Game cock for publication; thereby erasing any validity to the pos sible reference of the above statement that the presence of a Gamecock reporter at the trials would enable the student body, to know more of the proceedings or result in greater benefit to the system. No outsiders are present at a trial and the names of thqusp Involved are not released. We are cogaisant of the criti cism of thes Zonor' Board's policy about renorting its bueinan. to ED tat Constitu onable Lite rried on the Is an artic] it at least 15. ber Coronet) "undesirable" publication tgazine stands screams at iti unfaithful hu: off the racks magazine blui tration which was removed I store should long before th ionable litera- from the shell And what Shop is ulti- light in diggii y and an out- about movie s literature re- sons? The fa( Dol, for if such printed in- th vill be bought probably the I is are hardly the names of a who browses probably wor, is purchasing Playboy. mjoy reading. Is there ar he wants on which literatu by newsstand of the way? of his choice. Writers m English teach icals was left ireds of years Campus Shop material whic e to draw the ljcations to sli stitutes ques- form with a l very outstand nes, including Tale" in Chau nd Your Psy- HawthornE with sex, off- quired readinj id pictures of' Tess of the D' degrees of lish 12 at the cerns adultery is fiction by are for sale ir Lmes Thurber Other booli ;entation that Caldwell's Tol hier magazine, Acre, neither or Harper's. frankly wher s collection of Roth's story < Id satire than Tomorrow"; a ankly written books. prostitution, It would s delinquency, starts taking c ng by a. well- shelf, he runs ication is still stop and migh1 textbooks for HERBERT BRYANI Separate Not Ne An extra cost of approximately $3,000 was added to the new Business Administration Build ing when separate lounges for professors were installed along with the usual ones as is the case in other buildings, except the library. This segregation probably isn't too unusual in that it is the practice at a number of schools of higher learning where there are mature individuels at tendling class, and it certainly isn't unusual on the grade school level where individuals not yet mature are attending class. Actually this is a trivial issue. And $3,000 isn't a lot when you consider Russell House costing over one million dollars. But it is a little extra money spent that dlidn't have to be spent and could have been used for something else. It was said that the professors wanted the separation. Probably they think they are different from the students, maybe- a little out of the student class. About the only difference though is age and reason for being at Caro lina. One thing remains the same: the professors and stu dlents are on the very same level when maturity enters the pic ture. A college level student is the Gamecock. The Board is com posed of representatives from the student body and as a group still believes that its handling of the situation is best for the stu dents. In reference to absurd compari son between our reportings and those of Senator McCarthy's committee, the situation and the matter of material is obviously dlifferent and shall be handled accordingly. We do hold the principles of our honor system in high esteem and do believe that there are ways in which It can be improved. We are continuously working to ward this goal; however, we do not think that the presence of in dependent reporters at our meet ings will aid our endeavors in any way. Sincerely, Bill Weston, Honor Board President los ruture? e on "The Third Sex" (Novem more questionable than a little (Your Psychology) which readers from its cover about ibands, virginity and sex? The b across the front of Coronet before it was put out for sale e other magazine was removed about the magazines that de ig up the most obscure "dirt" tars and other prominent per ts and insinuations which are ese, of which Confidential is est known, degrade and smear well-known persons, and are ;e than the "party jokes" in y kind of criterion for judging re to sell and which to put out 'ho are proclaimed great by ers and remembered for hun after their death have written h would put the current pub ame if printed in Signet book )roperly illustrated cover. One ing example is "The Miller's 2er's Canterbury Tales. 's The Scarlet Letter is re in many places and Hardy's Ubervilles is required for Eng University. Yet, the first con and the second seduction. Both the Campus Shop. s on the shelf include Erskine acco Road and God's Little >f which could be writte~ more e sex is concerned; Lillian if a drunken career, "I'll Cry nd several of John Steinbeck's eem then, that once someone bjectionable material from the into the problem of where to even end up with nothing but ale.-C. M. Lounges cessa ry usually accepted in society as a mature individual, even if some don't always act as such. If the professors want tbe se paration there is no reason why they can't have it. Indeed, there is no real reason. They have it. Some think a professor shouldn't fraternize with stu dents. The military services think along the same line when they segregate officers from enlisted men. When LeConte College was being built it was thought by some that the lounges for profes sors should be separate from the students. That was blocked by Admiral Smith, then presiden-t of USC. And he was a retired Navy man. If a teacher becomes too familiar with a student then he might give the student an added favor some time. But if he is a good professor who does his job well he won't. There is nothing wrong with a college student being a good friend of a profes sor, or the professor being a good friend of the students. Students are the main cog in the USC wheel. Professors are at the University to give tests for the students, grade his papers, lecture to him, and other wise serve him when it is within the realm of normal student professor relationship. Of course that is a little over-simplified, but the point Is there. It was not necessary to go to the trouble of spending extra money. The student wouldn't mind integration in this particu lar case. As was said this is a trivial is sue, and possibly shouldn't take up so much space. But there is a principal involved. And there was an amount of approximately $3,000 spent that didn't have to be spent. It could have been put to a much better use in view of the circumstances. Quotes A puritan is a person who pours righteou, indignation into the wvr.ng things. -0. K. C HESRTONn "What sort of miserable excus time, Furber?" PAT TREACY Look At S With Co These days the segregation issue pops up as often as flies in the soup at Joe's hash house. The newspapers are fanning the flames of racial problems almost daily with hot copy on any event which involves segregation. An average citizen who is not usually conscious of the problem finds that he is disturbed after being submitted to this shouting campaign. Some sources have described segregation problems that "are raging in the South" and as part of a "hot issue." The normally conservative New York Times carried stories of the Till murder case on the front page for over a week. Recent holdings of the fourth Federal District Court outlaw segregation in state and city parks. This news was spread over front pages likc jam on the face of a six-year-old. When the Negro preacher, DeLaine, went north, he had more atten tion than Marilyn Monroe would have on a barnstorming tour of Old Soldiers' Homes. It adds up to the fact that if anyone were to say that newspapers aren't black and white, he would be sadly mistaken. All the issues have been stated, restated, paraphrased, slanted, juggled and labeled. Any ques tion of ethics by this time is obscured from general view. The issue is no longer a free flight machine of imagination, but in stead a concrete situation whose outcome will be more pertinent than vapor trails appearing in the heavens. The side issues and their repercussions will give us more than eye trouble. A cynic could snicker to himself and think that the ethics involved are nothing more than an overture or introduction to the real plot. The plot bemng of course when the reader finds out what two forces are opposing each other. Each side has heroes and standard bearers whose names are legend. Source material has been ferreted out of every nook and corner available. Interested CROWING FOIR UNIVERSITY OF S Member of Associat< Fouded January 80, 1908, with I editor, "The Gassecock" Is publish University of South Carolina weelb ea ei t on holiday.sad during opinIon. expressed by columnnS sarily these of "The Ganmecock." eado-semsent. The right to edit is EDITOR. .. .. .. .. .... MANAGING EDITOR . * BUSINESS MANAGER .. ASSISTAN'l' MANAGING EI NEWS EDITOR .. .. .... CAMPUS EDITOR. .. .. SPORTS EDITOR .. .. ... SOCIETY EDITOR. .. .. .. FEATURE EDITOR.... CIRCULATION MANAGER. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MA CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER.. ASSISTANT SPORTS EDIT( ,STAFF RI Timmie Timmons, Roy William Alex Lancaster, Pat Palm, J thorne, Jim Brandon, Marst - Marian Upehurch, Phil King, COLUIt Billy Mellette, Pat Treacy, BUSINES Jimmy Turner, Windy Mul Bnlluakr. Ritt Eay s do you have for being late this g regation ol Head parties have rattled the coffins of Aristotle and the sages who lived after him. Depending on what faction is doing the modu lating, past ages cry for liberty and justice either in the negative or affirmative. Combined they chorus an intellectual din which says nothing. Therefore, , since the matter seems to be one which cannot be settled dogmatically it must need another solution. If this were the case the only realistic ap proach would be the subjective application of interests. Here in the last analysis is where it will be decided anyway, and is the only rational basis from which a practical plan of action can be projected. However, if we deal with the problem as one of interests we must analyze current events and place our personal desires in the pass tense as an established fact, and then proceed with clinical efficiency to remedy the ill. Now it is a matter of good sense to realize the state of the patient's illness and source of the germ. In this case the cause would be the Supreme Court's decision on segregation. This is an actual affliction and cries for a remedial counter decision. There are a few alternatives open to us. Kill the germ-remove ourselves from the Supreme Court, or them from us; kill the patient-destroy any part of the system which this decision effects; or sacrifice a limb--compromise by allowing only as much segcoeation as the law requires. In the future as the issue is brought further out into the open our system must face one of these decisions. We cannot cope with a dynamic force, the Supreme Court's decision, by placing our salvation in the hands of historical cycles and hope for the abrasive element of time to wear away its signifi cance. It is better to state the facts and sentiments nowv andi with cool heads formulate plans for handling problems that can- be expected to arise. Any other outlook is reactionary and not dlirectedl towards a solution or a realistic acceptance of fact. Let's not be accused of reading last week's weather report to find out what Is happening outside today. -coc& A GREATER DUTH CAROLINA d Collegiate Press lobert Elliott Consales as the first rd by and for the students of the ly, on Fridays, during the college examinations. ta and letter writers are not nieces Publishing does not constitute an reserved. ....CAROLYN McCLUN0 PATSY PENNEY KAT ANTHONY ~ITOR ...... Dew James ..Herbert Bryant ...Pat Treacy ..Walter Johnson ...Linda Cauthen . Kay Oxner Billy Bruce WAGER .......Carol Shockey ......Bob Kelsey R H . Sid Badger PORTERS a, Tom Walker, Lewis Cromer, Immie Gasque, Barbara Haw a Wiseheart, Carol Watson, Mdarcia Fisher, Pat Lott [NISTS Dew James, Herb Bryant S STAFF linax, Marion Singl1y, Edit DEW JAMES Reunik Relatives, FROM JEAN'S DIARY . . . Dew and I went to a reunion of his clan today (Sunday). There were the usual-relatives galore, food likewise, a corp of de throned politicians, cousins show ing off new girlfriends and boy friends, aunts "goo-gooing" over the little additions to the family, a fat woman and a bee. The bee was ar smart one with a craving for banana pudding. He (or she) chased Dew into a car. Closing the door didn't halt his aggression because he went around and came in an open win dow on the other side. Tossing a hunk of the sweet stuff on the ground didn't apease the honey-maker either. The old buzzer fancied himself a privil eged character with the consti tutional right to sup at the same paper plate as his victim, who is afflicted with "sting-phobia." As for the fat woman, I think she was invited for the benefit of the diet-conscious. Looking at her ought to make it easy for anybody to cut down on the carbohydrates and sweets. * * * Honor board President Bill Weston reminds us that the Honor Council and not the Honor Board handles all infrac tions of the honor principle in BILLY MELLETTE Rad io--Th Of A Con After 20 years of health, I have now discovered that I am either not eating something I should eat or eating something I shouldn't eat. Whatever the cause, I am a walking virus (viro-giro) incubator. My viruses maliciously staged an uprising during the State Fair holidays and caused me to be absent for the first time in some eight years-from the you-know-what game. The flag was flown sev eral inches lower during the game because of my absence, though if you notied it you probably thought it was for an other reason. I heard the game on the radio, though, which brings us easily to the topic of this column: The amazing things I did hear on the radio during a week's constant listening. (What else can you do when they have needled you in the tail and confined you to the area of one bed?) First off in the mornings the local announcer always gave his wake-em-up routine, which is simply a series of weather re ports from stations as far north as the Hudlson Bay and as far south as back around -to the Hudson Bay, a noble spot. to know the weather of. Punctuat ing the weather reports were the time and some music, mostly the time. The announcer seemed to have an intense desire to tell wvhat time it was, and nothing can be said for his choice of music. (Anyone who can know ingly select a Jan Garber record with no breakfast is bad off.) In spite of the weather and the time and the hoarse breathing of the announcer into the micro phone and the sound of him dIrinking orange juice brought by the girl who works in the office, I never cut off the radio because (1) like I said, you have to do something and (2) the Breakfast Club! always came after that. That is close to being my favor ite program. It is called the Breakfast Club because never at any time during the program does anyone on the program say Breakfast Club like that with no mark of punctuation. They shout it, and every 15 minutes they change sponsors and slag it. They go "Good morning Breakfast Club-BERS, doo doo diddly doo dee doo," or some thing like that. The reason ] like the program is because I am sure there is some secret mes sage they are trying to get across. They talk in code, and if you dlon't believe it then you listen some morning and try to remember what they said on the program. You can't do it. It', a kind of code that is maglo They make you think you are saying something when they ar, not. After the Breakfast Club came my premium winner, my favorite drama, the program I have been cutting classes to hear: WHISPERING1 HOPE . Bygoly mn Has Food, Bees a letter to the editor elsewhere on this page. In a previous column, this writer attributed the job of deal ing with those accused or breaches of the honor principle to the Honor Board. Technically, the job is that of the Honor Council. Actually, calling this "unau thentic" seems a little trivial since the Honor Council is chosen from the membership of the Honor Board. The distinction is small and technical. The point still remains that it is the right of the Gamecock to sit in on Honor Board meetings. It is conceivable that it will have to rely on the Honor Council to report the outcome of trials, since the body is actually a court and jury, if it deems it necessary to adopt such a policy. This ap pears unnecessary to this colum nist. However, we do not deny the Honor Council of this pre rogative. The Honor Board constitution requires that a written notice of the outcome of trials be sent to the Gamecock. However, we don't have to go back any further than last year to find evidence that this constitutional require ment was not met. e Delight valescent if you haven't heard that one then you'd better not listen be cause you will start to making bad grades and cutting out of all your classes like me. It Is one of the most intense dramas ever written, and has been run ning for a great number of years. It is narrated by some lady named Hope Winslow, and there is a fellow who helps her by playing crescendos on the organ, a very .powerful organ made by the Double Fortissimo Company. What I can't figure out is that if Hope Winslow narrates WHISPERING HOPE, is Hope supposed to be whisper ing her lines or is hope an emo tion that is always whispered, or is there any connection between Hope and WHISPERING HOPE in the first place, and if so, what? Is Hope kin to Don, or is Winslow not her real name? Does the organ player whisper too, or is Hope the only whisperer, and does she have any connection to Bob? You can see the develop ment of my curiosity since the Whispering influence, a result of the intense dramatic suspense.1 The only thing I didn't like aboutw Hope's program was that Nora Cathcart, the heroine, never got too much accomplished because the organ kept interruptin-g. After that always came com mentator time, which is very imteresting if you get one of the exciting ones like Paul Harvey, no kin to Thurber's rabbit. I only wonder how the world gets along without him on week ends. Dinner time was doubly good. While the Ranch Hands were tun ing up I would roll over and get some anti-virus and then hear them guitars get picked warm. Sears was having a big sale, too, and had bought a pocketful of air time, so I learned all about what they had, along with the Bee Jay Kredit Klothiers money saving plans. In the afternoons Captain Thunderhead kept me worried as to his safety, and then came the Rocket Eighty-eight time, when some 10,000 used cars were ad vertised at give-away prices, along with Royal Crown Halir Pomade. Night time was right interesting, too, because I could find out just who liked who around town. Readers may doubt this, but Love is a Many Splen dored Thing was dedicated to no less than 96 lovers, by actual count. I believe the disc man had the telephone book there, except he knew one heck of a lot of nickname. I suppose, to make a summa tion, I would say that Saturday is the betday to listen to the radio because not only have you already heard five days of WHISPERING HOPE, but Big John and Sparky come on Satur days. (The only thing better than listening to the radio on a Saturday is to watch television on a weeknight, but that is grounds for anothe cou.).