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Wheie Condemning, the views of Student Associatioi toward tl and communism, the Studen withdrawn Its membership fr< zation. Every year NSA holds a c bate issues and form policies Workshops are held to discuss pus problems such as stude and student government. At the regular Council me November 23, the issue was de who had first-hand knowledg4 ings of the association and t1 basing their arguments on s( Arguments on both sides h Southern traditionalists won. Council members wishing t< in the confines of the associa could be accomplished by sta3 ganization and formulating p Those wishing to withdri stand should be made more ei of other sections of the couni Council has made its decisi< does it turn? To the SUSGA Anthony E. Brown Hats An T HE RACE is about to begin. It will not be a short sprint around a dirt track in a modified jalopy but one in which all com petitors will have full-house en gines and high-speed tires. It will be a race for champions only. No tinhorns need apply. Already the preliminaries have started. Prospective candidates are choosing their teams and mechanics and are rushing to doctors to see if their hearts are st rong enough to last the dis tance. They have divided into two armed camis: the Demo crats and the Republicans. A mong the hierarchy of the Democratic party there is in ternal strife which has split the Once solid party into two deter m i n e d groups: the Irresistible Northern Democrats a n d the Solid Soithern Democrats. T lESE groups have their own favorite sons which each half is determined to make president in 1960. Unless they begin to realize that they must re-unite for the strength necessary to carry a majority of electoral votes, the Democrats will lose. They may have lost already. The Democratic party has as its strongest prospects for the presidency a number of noble men who have done little or nothing of great importance. An exception to this generalization is perhaps Adlai Stevenson, who has lost twvice, but who has amnassedl a fortune. That is very important when running for president nowadays. It shows that the man is capable of something, political or other T lEN there is Lyndon Johnson, who trains horses and junior senators on his ranch in Texas. Tie is very good with horses, it is said. But he has the powers to wvin if the two schools of thought combine to run hinm against the The GOP wvill wvin in 1960, all things heing the same as they are now. They will wvin by a large margin. The two strongest con tenders for the presidency among the Republicans are Nixon and Rtockefeller. The one has the experience and p)residIential approval a n d the other has name and money. It is dlifficult to say which is the better argument. N IXON could win because ol his popularity and because of his deeds wvhile occupying the office of the Vice President. Rockefeller could win because, if he had the notion, he could buy the D)emocratic Party and ex port them to Polynesia where they might play the "Missouri Waltz" and win over the native vote. He probably would not d( such a drastic thing. It would deipopulate South Carolina. It is a foregone conclusior how the election will go in tht state. D)iscounting accidents ani literacy improvement, S. C. wil vote as it has voted for nearly century: Democratic. There is a story circulatinj about an election a few years ago It seems that in counting th< votes in a large precinct in the City of Charleston that the cojn ter found a Republican ballo near the top of the box. H E immediately fainted dea4 away. Upon being revivedl he dacieda to lay that ballo Do We Vo fron the National bers, all Souti ie racial issue as South Care t Council has to spread "the >m the organi- would be infir form our cons Dngreps to de- the, country, r on the results. selves. practical cam- Let us hope nt orientatien precipitated by is their decisio ating Monday, we were not a bated by those , of the work- An ironic p ose who were tween the pohi etionalism. at the Unive ad merit. The leaders in thei ocratic Party. > remain with- The South r tion felt more cratic organiza ring in the or- power. The Pc olicy therein. are becoming tw felt their state leaders, ident to those states-righters ry. wilderness. Th :n, now where cision of whel L whose mem- or withdraw, d Rings Ani aside until all the rest were counted. At the bottom of the box he came across a second Re publican vote. "That settles the matter," he said, tearing the tWo ballots to shreds, "Somebody has voted twice." That is doubtless an ex aggeration, but not extreme. So we see the two ancient foes about to pit their respective strengths. To gain their ends, they will coax, wheedle, and im plore the public to elect theirbinan to the highest office in the land. T IIE Democrats with their galaxy of potential candi dates will have .to unite their forces if victory is to be a possi Dan Foster . . Abolish G Improve C At the last meeting of Caro lina's Student Council, several very noteworthy events took place. A long overdue reformation of USC's election laws was given a healthy boost when the recom mendations of Election Chairman Bobby Hunt were adopted by council. Fraternity cliques, favoritism, unethical political maneuvering, and statue quo do-nothingism all got a swift kick in the breeches. The spring elections, for the first time in many a moon, will vi brate with spirit, a sharper de gree of fairness and a keener sense of what is right for the student body. But the move that reveals that a definite plan is underway to set "our house in order" is a plan by Jim Leventis, president of the student body, to give USC a new student constitution. Out-Moded The present document is be hind-the-times in service and scope. A new official constitu tion is desperately needed. Attempts have been made to launch a new constitution on sev eral occasions. All have met with failure. Perhaps the present stu (lent government administration will be able to run the gauntlet of approval both by the student body and by the Board of Trus tees. Leventis has appointed three distinct committees: a legislative committee, an executive commit tee, and a .judicial (honor) coin mittee. All three will have the momentous task of surveying the needs of the Carolina Community and formulate a charter that can meet these needs successfully. Abolish Council Thue first item that should rank high on the reformation program is an abolishment of the present student council, its method of se lecting members, and other inade quacies that have crept in through the years. A student Senate would lend I(dignity to a body sadly lacking in that quality. The Senate should abe composed of fewer delegate' than the present Inadequate rep Sresentative assembly. The reasori .is simple. SA more careful selection of aSenate members, and a member -ship of fewer students, would t speed business, assure a more pro portionate representation, elimi nate many of the hurdles to ef. Ifcidney that now exist, mak4 ,voting more expedient, and leni t itelf in general to a progran Here? ern, have the sme outlook lina? What good will it do word" among ourselves? It itely more productive to in tituents 'in other sections' of tther than to re4nform our the decision to withdraw was forethought and wisdom. It a, not the student body's, for aked to vote on it. rallel can be found here be :y problems of students here sity and our adult political r relationship with the Dem nay be a part of the Demo Ltion, but it has. no voice of licies of the National Party more and more irksome to but the voices of Southern seem to be crying in the y too are faced with the de her to remain in the party They will remain. 1 Things bility. "United we stand, divided we fall" was first uttered by a Republican, but it applies today to the Democratic Party. The Republicans, having two very powerful hopefuls, neither of whom have said "My hat is in the ring" as yet, must persuade the dissenting Democrats to their side of the fence if they wish to continue to lead the adminis trative end of the government. As for the other political parties, there is little hope. The Progressives and the Socialists will poll few votes and the Com munists will barely show. They cannot win, for democracy as a form of government is one thing they did not invent first! >uncil And .onstitution that would be of the students, by the students, and for the stu dents. Not Representative As it stands now, the student council is far from representative. Since several schools elect over twenty members, it is impossible for these twenty to contact their fellow-students and ascertain their feelings on a particular bill or motion. This tends to make students fall more and more on their own personal feelings - many times forgetting who placed them in of f ice. A Senate would be more of a class, rather than a school mat ter. Members would enjoy a fuller range of individual discretion; but since they were elected by their fellow classmen It would be less difficult to seek out their opinion, since one would not need to know what school they were actively engaged in, what their major was, or if they had voted in the election that put the sena tor in ofif ice. Student Senate However, the strongest case for a Student Senate is the most obvious. U8C has grown up. Ii has outgrown the high 'school stu dent council it now attempts t< operate. It has grown beyond the constitution that shackles It lik4 a chain. The present student govern ment could well go Into history as our finest If it can give the stu. dent body a constitution thal bespeaks of the dignity, the progress, and the hope that il now the Carolina Community. New Era A Student Senate backed up b: a strong student executive, at honor court that works in fact al well as principle, and a constitu tion that marks step with ou: wants and needs would launel a new era at Carolina In studen affairs. Many Carolina students lael interest in their student govern mnent because they feel It foolisti a waste of their time, and the; therefore do not vote or back ul their classmates because it rep resents a hopeless crusade. Per haps in some Instances they ar right in doing so. But we have begun the effor to stem this tide. The first steI have been made. The march hi begun. Now In the hands aft thra committees rest the hope for sti dent government .at Carolin The challenge is plain. We mu' put our house in order. Letters to the Editoi Former'NS) Prexy Prais Editor's Note: Mr. Kurtz is a West Visinian, and a '51 graduate of Swardbmore (Pa.) College. Thee he was campus NSA chairman, also secreary. treasurer, and vice president of student counil. He was Penn sylvania Regional NSA preai dent and a member of the NSA National Executive coimimgee. He has attended six National Student Congresses, and while taking two years of graduate work at Columbia University, was an advisor to the Metro politan New York Region, NSA; NSA delegate to the World University Service, and a mem ber of several NSA national committees.) Dear Editor: I am appalled at the decision of Student Council to withdraw from the V. S. National Student Association (NSA)-even more so by the fallacious reasoning used, and the lack of basic un derstanding of NSA shown in the council debates, as reported in "The Gamecock." The two main issues were com munism and integration. I would like to discuss them in turn. Johnny Hagins obviously knows little about NSA when he is quoted as saying "NSA doesn't embody our thoughts on integra tion or communism, and I don't want them speaking for us." NSA Anti.Communist NSA has always been stoutly anti-communist, as I can attest from considerable NSA expe rience since 1947 . .. and I was always under the impression so were the MEN AND WOMEN OF CAROLINA. Mr. Hagins quotes "U. S. Sen ator Williams from Mississippi" with some material against NSA. First, there is no Senator Wil liams from Mississippi. There is a Representative Williams, but his stature as an expert on stu dent affairs is nil. His material from the Congres sional record, distributed at coun cil, is taken from a paper of J. B. Matthews. Matthews is an ex communist who was fired in dis grace by the House Un-American Activities Committee some years ago when he called the protestant clergy the "chief dupes" of Amer ican communism. Academic Freedom I could refute the points against NSA listed by Matthews Williams item by item, but let me take one as an example of the reasoning used before the coun cil: Nu,mber 17 states "NSA condemned the Cuban government for closing the University of Havana. This resolution puts NSA squarely on the side of the communists" (because many communist students opposed the government). The resolution refers to the ac tion of the Batista government in closing the school, because of the .anti-IBatista actions of many of the students of all politicsl be liefs. NSA objected because of the basic violation of academic free dom involved, and the destruction of a central tenet of Latin Ameri can education tradition: that uni versities are heavens for the scholar, and asylumns of polit HISThf D T t. K Official -B es Teams; ical refugees, regardless of be lief. Warped LOgi The reasoning of Matthews points up his one-sided logic and warped view to see everything from an anti-communist view point. He does a great injustice to the many Catholic students of the Univ*rsity of Havana who were in the forefront of the Ba tista fight. Several who spoke at council questioned the political affilia tions of some NSA national ad visors. Some were cited as having been affiliated with communist organizations. (One group listed by Matthews was Russian War Relief during World War H4.) Among those persons were Mrs. Roosevelt, Ralph Bunche, and others. May I point out--be sides the support given NSA over the years by those well known communist lovers, Presi dents Truman and Eisenhower among the NSA advisors are such other well-known communist dupes as Harold Stassen, Mil ton Eisenhower, and Father T. M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame. On Integration NSA does not take a position in favor of the Supreme Court decision. In doing so it has al ways recognized the tremendous difficulties in implementing the decision and has allowed South ern schools great latitude here. 'Southern students have always been prominent in NSA; several were major factors in its found ing. In its dozen years history, at least two presidents of NSA have come from Southern schools. Don Richardson is reported by "The Gamecock" as urging with drawal because USC is supported by the state, the state follows a policy of segregation, and there fore University funds should not be used to support organizations with contrary policies. Seek and Question If we accept this, then it fol lows since USC accepts federal support . . . the latest being an $80,000 national science grant, to say nothing of USC students who receive funds from the Na tional Defense Act . . . the Uni versity should not allow Its funds to be used to support or ganizations, such as the state of South Carolina, who oppose fed eral policies. This is ridiculous! What hap pens to the concept of academic freedom if by accepting money from any government, institu tions of learning are chained to support all the policies of that governmental unit? What hap pens to the concept of th'e scholar in his search for truth? When the University has lost its right to seek and question, it will no longer be a school worth attend ing. NSA has always afforded Southern schools the greatest of opportunities to speak for the Southern viewpoint. Have Caro lina students forgotten the speech of former student body president Fred LeClerq to NSA on this very point two years ago? Presldent's Speech This presentation won Caro lina and the South new friends. Will Carolina now shut Itself off asts USC \A Student LaJ from all chance to consolidate these gains? In summary, the arguments in council reflect a viewpoint on communism which is illogical, one-sided and warped be sides being totally divorced from the facts of NSA. It reflects a viewpoint on integration which will do nothing but cost Carolina friends . . . and an.opportunity to effectively present Carolina's views. It is the same sort of view point, that of measuring every thing in our national life today on the single question of segrega tion, which is -costing the South many friends among those of other sections who would be friends. It is cutting off your nose to spite your face. I sincerely hope councit will reconsider withdrawAl . . . that the idea of a student body refer endum be reopened . . '. and above all, an attempt kii made to present to the MEN AND WOM EN OF CAROLINA, the true facts of their national student organization that of the many benefits USC can receive through active participation. -Kenneth R. Xurtz PRESIDENT PIASES ATHLETIC TEAMS Dear Editor: "The game has ended, but the memory lingers on l" Yes, our football season has drawn itself to a climax once again-history has recorded our wins and losses. I think that everyone would agree that we had a very successful season. Granted we lost to Clemson, North Caro lina, Miami and Wake Forest and we failed to see the "wide open" offense; however, I feel that our team and coaches.should be congratulated on the efforts they put forth. The 'Spotential danger" of the fighting Gamecocks was limited due to the number of injuries we witnessed this year. Many of our outstanding football players were seated in the stands with their fellow students rather than participating in the game they loved so well. Good Job To the Carolina Gamecocks, the coaching staff and all those connected with the Athletic De partment, I - say congratulations on a job well done. Likewise, I feel that we must recognize the entertainment pro vided for us during football half time by our band and lovely ma jorettes. The twirling of Judy, Robin, the Coquettes and the precision marching and musical ,ability of our band made the afternoon complete for the spec tatore. Thank you, Mr. Pritchard sad everyone connected with the band for representing Carolina so ably. The favorable comments I heard everywhere I visited with the teahn are so numerous I could not begin to tell you how much you were enjoyed by every one who had the opportunity to witness your halftime perform ances. Top Cheerleaders To our very able and most enthusiastic cheerleaders-includ ing Jerry and Wayne-we must say thank you for keeping our spirits high in offering our moral support to the team. Win or lose, CROWING F( UNIVERSITY OF Min-.' of Assoel Founded 4a 80, 1908, thet Uaivrek of Soet arUe year oeept on bolidays and dark nh. opmog e6se e Lettens to the Editor, but all 1et not constitute an eudorenseut.1 ublieation any letter is reserv'ed. EDITOR .................. MANAGING EDITOR .. BUSINESS MANAGER . ADVERTISING MANAGER COPY EDITOR.. NEWS EDITOR FACULTY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR. SPORTS EDITOR. CAMPUS EDITOR . CIRCULATION MANAGER CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER REPORTERS: Judy Killough Ann Ellis Sheek, Loretta P * NeSmith, Barbara Able, Marge Owens, Ann Neil, Elise Me Penny Holland, Cookie Crum, Krebs, Howard Hellams, Way (thdrawal: ids History ahead or behind, you were al ways on the spot with the right cheer at the right time. We thank you. To our student body, I wish to express my appreciation and that of the administration for your wonderful sportsmanlike conduct during the games this season. You always conducted yourselves as ladies and gentle men and were most courteous hosts to our visitors. But we must not falter in our loyalty to our athletic teams. Last night our baskbtball season began. Our cagers have put in many long, hard hours of prac tice preparing themselves to corn. pete in the name of our Univer sity. New Coseh We welcome our new coach and his staff and bid them good luck in the season before them. I am confident that our student body will provide even greater support for our "hardwood" com petitors. May I offer in closing the phrase you heard mentioned at Carolina Stadium this season, one well worth remerbering. "When the-Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he writes not that you won or lost but how well you played the game." Jim Leventis STUDENT [AUDS HISTORY DEPARTMENT Dear Editor: In the November 25 edition of "The Gamecock" a question was put forth asking whether stu dents consider history courses too difficult. Personally, I was amazed at the asininity of the - replies. With the exception of one stu dent, everyone questioned replied in varying degrees of criticism, ranging from lamentation over their own dullness and subsequent poor grades to specious attacks upon the character of the history professors. One of these would-be critics even criticized the department for being among the top in the nation. Certainly the high rank of our history department de serves praise and admiration, not criticism. .Although many mediocre in dividuals would advocate a. medio cre history department to cor respond with their abilities and efforts, I am sure that the de partment will continue 'to main tain high standards. The antagonists of history courses even condescended to use argunmentum ad hominem. In venomous phraseology, they de scribed the professors as dwellers in ivory towers and as know-It alls who have spent all their lives memorizing trivial facts. These sarcastic arguments speak for themselves; they lucidly illustrate as to the character of the attack and the attackers. Our history department has always taken an interest in the students and maintained ofifice hours for those having difficulties. In conclusion, I would seriously . - doubt that these critics could de fend their statistics or their spurious arguments. I speak not only for myself, but for many other passing stu dents. Melvin H. Puv ) IR A GRAE SOUTH CAROLINA sted Collestate Pres with Robet EllHott Can==lsa as the eblished 6r andfo the asdents of vekly,anFriays, dusing hem esee c"'~The --ecsh en GLENNA BRYANT Karen McKibben Ed Spears ..... ...Tommy ROSe Penny Sinclair * Charles Behling ............Dee Chandler Bill Lumpkin MargaetScott * Bobi Alford * Alice Holland Jim Hatehell I Blake F'ishburne ,Jacquie Splawn, Nanoy Carroll, lott, Henry Cauthen, Vance H. iret Baird, Selby Taporek,- Novelle Lean, Pat Roberteon, Jay E137, Linda Jones, Jimmy Foster, Sara ne Corbett, Adolph Inman, Larry UenAon.