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Camnpaign Excitement about the Prc paign is becoming more and on campus each day. Campai becoming increasingly popula students supporting each of are being held. University and faculty nimbers are beelt portant in tile election. hIe for the Kelinedv forces i.s t( law professor, Frank Sloan. Within the next few weeks should mount to a greater Vice-P1'resident Nixon will si Staie louse grouln's. The fol Senator Kennedy will speak place. In the interval bet ween Carolina speeches, the secon Delates will be leld on It lev of these events,i nterest should increa e ra1pidly. l'he ("atilecocku hl()pes to stin lifltilig tl illit'r'st 1). , , the vaipai.t events wvlicli l tainl to Stdllnts. To blegin, 1) I111llbiii. idd1Y'ess0's IV\ 111C Cill gi\en \ ' ll e'l\ ' !l'.age il , Mr. A. MAisoni Gibbes. ti Denocrats for Nixon inid L,< Anthony E. Brown Autumr 1i the eloIlieilt gran,11deilUr of Sp'inlg cele'bIate the Ilbir'th ot' Natuire after. mnthitlis of Winiter' drowsiness, the comliin tif' Autumn11111 rersnsthe year Ilow mattire inl diy\'s ZUNi CXpliie '(d in timeIV. AuItIumn1 is the revaling ol, fruit vngtendered by dehca"ke f,1lor tof Splring.L. It is the reui ,te long.L SMouvht-for end, (if phains ma.de and ideas ceiated. ALutUIIn is the year,:'- last revel before the long timnlalncy of glrtv Winter styal> life fr i ee and field. It comes sih-nt-ly fromll the hills, a pailt.e with an 1unmatched palette of aady al delightfil Colors, dips a brush into brillll t rvd-i and glowIg yellow' and deep tolled brownis.., Iloves across a field to the pin' forest, and is gone. From earth to sky there lies upon the iii I the heaviness of ihnker hues. The \wId i!s a sigh from a clarinlet playinlg n a lw register. E ACIl 1of Vat' W,Creakture'S I*klV the lull that pervades *t atI pht SI erie w i th a SoIb II erness t Iat implies the begi nning to' lon rest and 1f deep Iiet. TheIre is in t air the ,aie simlokinloss that was vaguIely preeint in Sprinl,g noW it is a c'-liing siitoke that is feltb great lienlocks as Ili' sa] I l an i* i s t lib 'et< iwh Itlt liti .\utuno I i twtn \in wii eb a In . ti er i ii tuxtp r i ti of lr f i 't 'aietlion.it U lial If : ov and i ite ('o n, m(t oItti la.tin) rebu n,hi haeis ' e t'rms, for t t AutUM iN th Sia g n FoI'l d Able, Mikemb)an ers .t [oin A tho y 'niser 'Oitt ii (out M.roin v.ir xpin ii, ;Iura o i ar TYPITS:.ariy o'eat, N h (.on CATONSS:Voettertoi dirha :Cl le IPHOTOGAHR:St la' Excitenent Sti sidential cam- has arranged more obvious to meet the gn buttons are lumbia trip. r; meetings of interest in ou the caididates cially apprecii student voters Members of )tiiig very in- promised stafi tate chairiman arrange a m I a University and Kennedy appreciated. I the excitement meeting can 1 pitch. Monday For a few >eak from the the editorial lowing Monday carry general 'roi the same paign. Durinj the two South vatch curreni I of the Great firm or chanj isionl. With alI the candidate; i the election imake an editb of the candid do its, part inl h l ft titi j in In all of th nll coverage of t studtenit inter, art illlarly pvr- catpaign. A oth of the ('o .l aleiCo-l Itre old enoug Adiates will be [)III* pawl% old eiough il ember of the <tty of a col Ige Comittllilee, cover politica 1: Season Of t greatest height in a forest of dwar-fed trees. I N TEi ninth and tenth months Of our Soutihein year, Atunin cimlles, : trallsient visitot from an un11known hld to -athelr all living thing iI LtHiled aris. The air as stie,; the gaiety and vivid pleasure if the carnlival at its highest pitch -t light and color, and that which inihe Spring bloomed bright with pilquanict y and fantasism becomles more clearly defined in the ruddier light of the deeper golden stin. It is not until the sun sets into the iea-ilness of December that the revel of dreans ends, and the end olles in a final speidid burst of spect Ia as the living vainly at Iempt to cling to fleeting moments 1f life. When we mere human creatures witnes, the comting and going of t vear ilf sea-otis, we caInot escape the reality of the analogy between 1en arid Ilths. In the lifetime ,f a Ian, thete are manty Springs :u1l many Auat umns. Inl each year, th11re is Sowing and there is gather itig :al there is rest. The Spring beget .e Sunnnier enriches, the Autullin ni;L11ures. t 11 c W initer tuInIn ate.- it is art 1bI, old cycle Legimunig. Middle, and enid, yet imh etnd requiire., the adlvent of a new \iitinmnri, i'ach Winter the 2u: of anther Spring. If we look at 'ife it this pterspective, we omy di-iiover that those values o'f noit eriailism maujl eg''eiitrismt mayt nit h ld :il o f the answers. A 1'T1'\l N, then, is t hat time of yeart. ir if lifte, in which self evailu:it i nmade, it irder to at ~co c1 SOUJTII CAROLINA ate :oil .dlegiae P.lrew u>inblihel byv am.1 for thei stsulents of mi ti'. iin I ricia , c.i. luring the coltlege i>buiiii'tuiiid letter wr.iters are not iiiik."' "I hei (i:,necck" enicouragesa hie righut toe eit our w.'ithho,ld fromn (ilA.\LES IILIANG .huudy Killough Tlommny Rose .lerryi Jac(kson L,eviuna Page Iliioward lI 1llamsr' K(el ley J1ones L ee ,1 ordaln D)oug G;ray Itohert Glytmph Antn Butrgdorf 'edia Williams, llank Ieirermann, uh-er, l'hiilie flayes, P'at Htutters, ittyv X Esler, Hill Savage, TFrinia iledlitn, Blanding Clarkson, .Ianet tnmy Alarihant, E. V. Kimrell, ris .leads, Jack Go,ttlieb, Leroy ( ritn, Emtily 1ledding, Claire Thomliipson'I, Ilenty L affitte, Jos lke Shehuretn, Bland Itopeur, Hill Ft eynioldis. Adams111, Hretda W illiam s, Ruth r a h Tleague, Hrenda Lancaster, *k, Ann Tfimmons, .Judy Craig -.nn rs Carolina for two of the staff members Vice-President during his Co Mr. Gibbes' co-operation and r student newspaper is espe tted. the Kennedy forces have also members that they will try to eeting between the students . Their co-operation is also t is certainly hoped that the ye arranged. weeks following the speeches page of our newspaper will comments about the cam f that time we will closely developments to either con Te our present opinions about 4. Then "The Gamecock" will )rial statement endorsing one ates. is it is our hope to stimulate 2st and pa.rticipation in the great number of our students h to vote. The others will be i the next election. It is the lege newspqaper to adequately events. Aaturity rive at an answer to the oldest question man has pondered. Has the sowing brought forth a fruit ful harvest? Have the results justified the methods we utilized to obtain them? If these doubts can be resolved in the affirmative, the question is answered fully, for we have then progressed success fully from the point of youth to tit of maturity, and maturity is experience as it relates to time. As with the Atutumn, time passes, and thus, do we. C. W. Martin Official Confident In USC D)ear Editor: I have just returned from a trip away from the campus on Univer sity business, and have read With great interest your editorial, "A Statement of Policy" in "Trhe Gammcock" of Sept. 16. I felt that your staff is abso lutely right. that this is Carolina'.s time for greatnhess. As you may know, I camne to the Unimversit y as 1)Iirector foiir I )evelopment on1 .1 uly I of this year. I left private busi ne(ss to coei)~t back to Carol inia bei cause I felt that there was no limit to Carolina's opportunities for growth and progress. This outlook has been recon firmed in my con tacts here, wvith alumni and other friends oIf the University and in my studies of what other schools aire dloin1g. More power to your staff. Let's not settle for anything less than excellence. With l)est wvishes and( kindest r'e gards, I ami Cordially, C. Wallace Martin JIM CARPENTER ... 'Underachiev May Solve Aca At. this time wvhen Carolina faces t remlend(ous imeireases m en rolIhnent and(( the comlpetition for admlission is becoming morel' exactt ing, acadeici standarlads must un dlergo change. One oIf the qutestions which is brwought. about by this con dlition is: Can t he standards of the Uniuversity be raised to the high level that is dlemlandedl withot saci(ificing is dutly to serve all 1he people of the ta te? A pssible solut,ion is found ini this article wV h i h is reprinted from '"Timie Magazine" "On many aL college campus, a C is still a fashionable grade for a bright. young man whose puirsuit oIf fun often overrules his search for knowledge. IHut not any longer at. Massachusetts' Aminherst College. Tlhere 'gentleman C' andl even 11 studlents whose performances do niot mleasure up to their abilities have ai new name: un(derachievers. With the title is awa rdled a mandatory onle-year leave (If absence from the college. In his annual report, Am herst President. Charles W. Cole said that the college's program to unload loafers had fared well dur ing its first experimental year and will ha contnnud Jim Straight . . . Professors Conceal Final Exams Have you ever stealthfully crept up on one of those little white slips when final grades are posted each semester, run your finger down the list until you found your number, taken one quick, brave look at the grade and - whamo! There on that little score card is a mark en tirely different from the one you had anticipated. Well, don't feel like the Lone Ranger if the answer to that ques tion is yes. Most of us have our grades figured out to the last decimal point before we take our finals. Therefore, it is not unreasonable or imiprobable for a student to have a good ilea of what grade he has made on a course before he actually checks it out on the white slip. To find a different grade is both puzzling and irritating. Now we know the grade we had going into the final, so this little surprise must be due to our ef forts on the examination. This news is particularly irritating if our professor has chosen to reuse a few questions from his old exams - exams that we had been study ing the night before and knew backwards and forwards. This situation is not too uncom mon to be cited, and in such a case the student is able to judge with a large degree of accuracy what his grade should be. And yet, sitting squarely beside the student num ber is a big fat "frog" or maybe a "dog." Well, I for one want to know what happened. However, under our present system, the odds are against the student even getting to see his final exam, let alone having his grade changed in view of a possible error on the profes sor's part in correcting the paper. It is particularly difficult to catch a professor after the close of the spring semester. The only time I ever made a real effort to get in touch with an instructor about a final grade was one spring about three years ago. I finally reached him at his home and he told me over the telephone that the exam papers were locked in his office, but he would be glad to show me my test if I didn't mind waiting until the following Septem ber when he returned to school. Now the purpose of this article is not to complain about the grade given to myself or to any other student by the professors on this canipus. I think that we have as good a faculty as there is in any school. However, I do think that each student, if he so desires, should have the opportunity of Ilioking over his corrected final exam andl possibily dliscussing its mewrits and/or faults with his priofessor. It's basic human nature for a person to want to see howv he has doine on something on which he has spent a great deal of time and effort. To dleny a person this right is a useless and irritating shortcoming in our system. I pirop)ose that we have a justifi cation (lay sometime after final e'xams each semester. On this particular day each student wvho wishes may go by his respective professors' offices to pick up his paper and p)ossibily discuss its quality with his professor. WVhat (10 you think about it? ers Method' demic Problems "Picking from faculty sugges tions of shirker sopihomores andl juniors, Amherst D)ean C. Scott P'orter classified 51 students as potenlt ialI undlerachievers. After a careful screening of the students' recordIs, and con ferences with thenm andl their pa rents, five juniors and seven soiphomoires were told iA) take a year's leave. Of the twelve' who failed to fulfill theirt potential, one had a H aver age, the others had C or below. All may return next fall, with what Amherst hopes will be 'added mnaturi ty an;d perspective.' "Under('lying A mherst's p)lan to make its studlents fulfill their promise, saidl President Cole, is the basic problem of h;igher education's becoiming 'an increasingly scarce commodity.' With 50%', more fresh men seeking admission by 19615, he exp)lainedl, 'colleges will be rnore and more careful not toi permit a student to remain unless he is working at some level (lose in) his topJ capa(city.' Piredicted Cole: 'The uInde(rachie'ver program may lie contsidlered the foreshadowing oif things to come, an experiment that in one form or' another will be widely t ried.'" @9 DEAR SI: I WA14T TO TILANX CENEROU5 OFFtRp HOWEVER, NViGORS PAVE PERGUAPEP POIToN TeMPORARILY, MI Sam Freed . . . What Price Even the ancient Indians emmi grated to this continent to exploit its greatest resource - that of freedom. Theirs was a freedom of movement which is a few centuries would be denied to them. The so called "first Americans" came to America seeking a new kind of freedom - theirs was a freedom of association. The religious and economic op pression of Europe drove these people to the "free" shores of the United States. The turn of this century brought another great in flux of souls searching for that in tangible ingredient so basic for human contentment. The seekers assimilated. Then men could no longer turn to the west for their freedom, but were forced with the awesome task of creating their own freedom. I do not, of course, advocate complete freedom, for it is an overt point that man must live by cer tain rules within his society. But there are certain evils that exist in this society that should be eliminated for a more compatible, therefore a stronger, society. If an individual's right is in fringed upon by another individual, the injured has only to resort to the courts for a solution, and his freedom has been preserved. If neither migration nor the courts were open for exploitation to man, then freedom has definitely been impeded. This gives rise to element - to again destroy the fundamental principle for a strong people. We witness today, the struggle of fellow Americans to preserve their rights; these brave boys, fighting for their freedom in a Letters to the Edit< 'Then W< (Editor's Note: It is usually not thne policy of "Thie G;amne cock" to p)ublish uansignied lA-t ters to the Editor. However, we are overlooking that policy in this case since we feel that the follow ing letter merits special conisidera tion. By the way, if thne anony mous author of this letter is in terested, we would be pleased to haive him join our staff.) Dear Sirs: I'm a freshman. I camne to Caro lina sevbral assorted inches of b)ounce and questions about college. 1 had never felt anything like the atmosp)here at Carolina . . .the "Y" Camp, with its welcoming hands and its tremendous sense of class unity, registration's mutual gripes, the pep rally, the dances, the new words we added to our vocabulary, and the exhilarating knowledge that we were all inte gral parts of a place of learning which was more than just a school; it was a way of life. We beat Hale out of Duke all over campus for the week pr'eced ing the game. All day Saturday we talked about nothing else, the tension grew, I.D). cards were traded, I heard snatehes of songs sacred and profane hummed, sung, whistled all over campjus, all of them referring to the way we were going to exorcise D)uke's D)evils. Then we went to the ganie. ChIeerinng Section I sat in the middle of the cheer ing section, which functioned for about the first twenty minnutes of the game anid gave uip the ghuost. There were so many non-collegiate persons in the student sectioni that it was indistinguishable from the rest of the stadium. D)uring the first qjuarte'r, the thirty-odd yeanr old "student" in Bill Able . . . 'S. c. U., Over the past few semesters, the University of South Carolina has been tabbed as Suit Case U. (S. C. U.) by the "noted" Howardian philosopher, Frank Howard of Cow Pasture U. (C. P. U.). At first, some members of the Caro lina Community rebelled at being called S. C. U.; because we are the original U. S. C., Southern Cal having been founded a number of ( decades after S. C. - oops - U. S. C. However, after the atrocious ex hibition of school spirit by some of the Carolina student cheering sec tion last Saturday night during the Duke game, it is fairly obvious why we're called S. C. U. Although we may not agree with the offen sive and/or defensive tactics of the coaching staff; or, for that mat ter, the particular type of play by the team, there is no justification for demoralizing remarks over the public address system, such as "wait 'til next year." Carolina does not possess the unity of spirit that most schools do. When our team fails to win the season opener, we should bear in mind the record against Duke over the past several years. It ap pears that U. S. C. students are fair weather fans. The time to rally around our team, to display our confidence in them, is during just such a time as this. We certainly are capable of having a lot of team spirit as was displayed on the opening play from scrimmage Saturday night. This was the greatest ovation ever given a incomplete pass play. This was an ovation in spite of failure. We are entitled to express our displeasure; but, in the interest of a greater Carolina in all respects, we shouldn't let this agreement carry over into the sports arena. Nor should we forsake our team, for indeed it IS our team . We should give due consideration to the great efforts of our athletic g teams and cheer them on to super human efforts, if necessary, by giving them our wholehearted sup port. whenever possible. The least we can do is to give them our vocal suppoit against the opposi tion. Let's stop being a S. C. U. and become U. S. C., the home of the fighting Gamecocks. ke Game' as a Bufferin unto one afflicted with a virus infection; go thou forth into the ailing cheering sys tem of Carolina, into the suffering splirit, and work twice as fast, twice as loud, and twice as Hale ishly. (Editor's Note: J. M. Reamies, direc'tor of the Unadergraduate , Library', has said that mneasures have been taken. by miembers of the library staff anid the athletic dlepartment to correct the situa tioni dliscussed in the following letter.) To the Editor:C It has been my misfortune to be in the University Undergraduate Library on three occasions in thei p)ast week. I stated it was by mis fortune because of noise going on on the bottom floor. I am not quite sure who is re sponsible for these disturbances even though on all three occasions I have observed various members of USC athletic teams engaged in loud talking and whistling. I might add that these central figures are varsity players. The opinion has alwanys beeni mine that college students are mac ture individuals and would auto matically respect the quiet atmos phere one seeks by going to the library. But now I see I am inl correct in my views and am forced to putt some of the "Big Men onl Campus" in the seat of the child ishly immature. It is only natural for people to be full of vim and vigor, and( 1to enjoy joking and horsing airounl But why don't these young athletic giants use some of their nervous energy at the sport they're being given a scholarship to perform! To sum upl the situation, amd this goes not only for the guilty parties, if you want to talk, laugh, and raise a ruckus, please do not come to the library to do so. Sincerely, Julian R. Ratterree CAMPU CWbLY 5o YOOR COMPANY FOR YOR MY FRIENP5 ANP ME 7-O ACCEPT ANOTheR Freedom? free land. This struggle can take many and varied forms against all sowts of oppression. But the fact remains, because it does exist; there has been a basic failure, not in our laws or legisla tion, but in the attempt to create the intangible element. Look at the fundamental struc ture of the state or of any bureau cratic organization, especially one subservient and dependent upon a larger entity. Because of this, we see the ability of a few to control the masses. To place this on commoner ground, let us look at this in the perspective of a university. The state has an investment in the university and takes an interest in that investment. But the question is here in the state heirarchy, the assembly as a whole, or certain individuals who use the power of the whole to their advantage. I think, without too much deliberation on this point, that the answer would be in favor of the latter. So here is a situa tion where men can, by pressure of one sort or another, force basically good men into acts of dubious na ture if they desire to do so. The institution could very well be the fertile field for the best laid planls of men. There is no insur ance against this. If caught, they use their high positions to squelch any attack on their person or the organization, and continue to deceive and mis represent the truth at the expense of the basic freedom of expression. Where is justice? What is eure? What price freedom? 3 Went To T yell, the noise was disturbing him. A fter I )oke made the first two touchdowns t h e gentleman wvho wvas theoretically leading the stu dent lbody in cheers began to chop the team and our chaunces, I pre sume to maintain his replutation as a wit. iIe had nothing else to gain by his comments. Needling T'he Team WVhen the team came out on the wrong side of a roug}h play and most nleedled suppIlort, they kept right onm needling it. There was al most no spirit and little cheering. The only really enthusiastic refer enee to spirit I heard all night piertained to the liqIuid variety. Five separate times, three of themi while the team was carrying the hail at crucial points, the crowd juimpled to its feet and turned as one - - to watch the fights that had broken out ini the back of the grandstanods. Tlwenty minutes before the game was over, p)eople began to leave the st adium. Ily the last five minutes, when we almost made a touchdown (andl might have if we'd had a chei(erinrg sect ion !) there were scat ered climps of people in a for mneily jail- packed section, and mlore were strieain rg out the exits TIhose~, Who Stayed Of those who did stay, most grutmibled, soe had to be helped ouit, a few (God and Maxcy bless hem! ) stayedl cheering feebly on I, as it salys in the song, was so madio I biawvled. We canii make one IIale of a lot of noise wvhen we're winning, or golifinig oiff at a dance, or being "oriieiinted" in the gym), but we soiiideds pretty dayaim sick and jl'miy Saturday night. And unless we ennu dlo iune lIIale (If a bletter job, t hi only1 part oif Carolina that is sick and1( puny is going to stay that way. MIEN A NDI WOMEN OF CAtliIMA, I a.-ea to yo.