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This dispatch is coming front lines of the invasion I The enemy objective, co< House, has been infiltratec tion-eleverly disguised as little old ladies wearing ric Students, hereafter calle only with chess boards, br limp french fries, are beatii retreat before the Scout kni Of the enemy. The real trouble seems t posed "friends'" of the All Slater. The Allies brought in reir weeks ago, Cleverly disguih ud netnbers of AKG; but also brought in reinforce '11sg"ised as high school te tho Allies resorted to throw its an(1d coffee, the oppos The seconld-floor retreat of its comniunicatiols center, t he fort. despite line-cutti stealing. Led by their officers, cod he Allies continue to beseig llowever, a recent skirmi: faculty and enemy spies dre: in led to most of the facu falling into the hands of th< At the moment, Allied fc a strategic advance to the i reorganize, and resupply. H ture is not all dark, CIA I plant spies in the neeting, These spies are acting as : for Slater. [hey pick up ma of enemy strategy while sho (1uder enemy noses. Harvey Yaschik The D< Yes. you, Miss Jordan -- To bin with I nave neither the time r1 :ho nwlination to hicker with yi about the Eihmnn case. I did (ot and do not consider the ichmnanin case a topic for debate as ylo seemingly do. I consider it :be a tet of conscence and not mrthing~ with which one can dis play adleptness at debate. In *he stait of miy letter to you I d sav "1al!" This was meant as a iendly greeting to you and nit t.,, remind you of the Nazi slgain "ITeil." What I really wan:-'ed to say was-HELL, Miss Jr id::, open iir eyes-take in he fa -open your mind and let 'toe 1111 seep inl. May I first point out to you somnle f thc things that Eichmann is h :;,in d f .r. His crimes are edune r t.hree categories: no aigainost the ,Jewish people uL na;::in of millions of wVt metts nm'ain st humoan ity nun:it r ofIt 01(zech chHdren), .:heo SS and the Gestapo) ho } nn n plannedi the site for nyot'i :na:in~ death camp o)f \hwz. I was Eichmanni tooi, Pe :-onally chose the Zyklonm n .. 'The tOr Iler was CROWIM%, FOI UJNIVERISITIY OF F Member of A.noc,sial Fouinded January 30,. 1908, wi' first editor. "'1he Gamnecoc-k" is pual the University of South Carolina we< vesar except on htoidtiays and during Trhe opinions expressed by cou necesqsrily those of "The GameCo( I.etters to the E'ditor, hut all letter noGt conistitute an endorsement 'Tis publication any letter is reserved. EDITOR MA NA GING EDITOR HUSINESS MANAGER AIDVERTISING; MANAGER NEWS EDITORS SPORTS EDITOR ASS'T SPORTS E;DITOR FEATURE ED)ITOR ASS'T F'EATFUREi EDITOR SOCIETY ED)ITOR ASS'T SOCIETY EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR EXCHANGE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAG;ER BUSINESS SECRETARY COLUMNISTS 1B111 Able, Anthony E. Brown, Marty Sheheen, Bill Savage. BUSINESS STAFF: The Tue 0O 'DI to you froth the ' Fntelligence >y enemy forces. formation de. le name Russell of Allied For( by the opposi- grouping of t] Cub Scouts or Ted Ledeen is .iculous hats. After a rec :1 Allies, armed Chappell beca idge decks, and the Allies. HE ig an inglorious Chief of Guei ves and hatpins The Milita name Student o lie with sup- tions to take c ies-code name success of the Commander iforcements two Sumwalt has . ed as debaters plans for a s the opposition whether or ne ments-cleverly be arranged. Achers. Though Special Se ng stale dough- Union Comm ition prevailed. movies to be the allies, with battle-weary t is still holding features such iig and copy- are planned. - A firing rai L name Faculty, name Horsesh 1 Russell House. men may be : ;h between the shoe with adA aed as business- hees." Ity dining room Military Po enemy. have been add rces have made on enemy veh *ear to regroup. the enemy as t owever, the pic- ing the Green las nmanage(d to By the coml of the enemy. units Davis F ,tudent wvorkers Be sure to I ny valuable bits the frontlines cing Slater food Pork Chop Dfense Cann wards, E-ichmann was actually smuggling Jews into Auschwitz. Af ter these unthinkable horrors, who can offer any defense for Eichmann? Both Germany and Au.stria have refused to help his defen-ise or even pay for it. Israel, at its own expense ($20,000 as a retainer), has taken on the burden Of trying to defend a man they WOuld like to see dead. Perhaps dtath is not the best punishment, but really there is no punishment that can fit his crimes. TWO Wart The point of the matter is that the Western Allies were not aware that the Nazis were fighting two wars- with two separate general staf fs. One wvar was to conquer the world and the other was to kill all the Jews. Because the Allies wire not aware of the two wars, the Jew. could gather no allies for :hemiselves. There is one man who still lives today that might have saved at least one million Je'ws - Joel 1Brand, the .Jewish rep)resentative ofa omnmunity in Budapest. Eich nm n catlhl Brand inct o his office andic offered him a ransom of one million .Jews for ten thousand trcks. Brand was to negotiate with the Allies. The British took him into custody alnd kept him in cmunica do. The negotiation failed. 'res ident Roosevelt heard of the co ci6 A GRtEATERI OU1TI CAROLINA ed (Collegiate Press h Rtobert EllHott Gonzales as the fished by and for the students of kly, On Fridays, dluring the college exammnations. mnists andl letter writer, are not k.".I be Gamnecock" encourages umct be signed. Piublishin g doe. right to. edit or withhol d from .JUDY KILLOUG;li ilocward HTellamc Jerry Jlackson Gene D)yson Levo,na Page, Nancy A ria il, K<elley .lone .Jcan WVoleott lBrenda, Williams Kerry Wsofforcd Pat Pedlen .\urray (Coker Hoh il; Emily Redding Lee .Jordan, Tom Marchant W4ike Sheheen, Jacquie Splawn, Carnl Esleecke A nne Abr. agents working at the irn. ;k keep Supreme Commander :es Tomlin informed as-t!*e ie enemy forces. Head of CIA fighting a valiant battle. ent change of command, J6hi me Regimental Commander of has appointed Ski Duszynski rilla Operations. ry Government Group, code Council, is making prepara ver civil government upon the Allied campaign. in Chief of all Armed Forces pproached the opposition with ummit meeting to determine t a satisfactory cease-fire can rvices, code name Student ttee, has arranged for free shown twice a week to the roops. Other morale building Is Artists Series presentations ige for the Allied troops, code oe, has been set up. Enlisted ,een practicing on the Horse ,anced weapons called "Friz lice, code name Campus Cops, ing their bit by placing tickets icles, and heroically stopping hey advance upon Allies cross Street line of demarcation. >ined efforts of the two ROTC [eld is now in Allied hands. ick up the next dispatch from of the battle. Hill was never like this! -J. A. K. ot Rest possibility of saving some Jews from their horrible death and im iediately dispatched a personal relresentative to seek out Brand. Hrand% was found after much delay, but the deadline that was set by IE,'ichmann had passed and the million perished. Law Disputed Servatis, Eichmann's defense lawyer, has challenged the legality of his client's capture, he disputes . the law on which the trial is based, and he questions the court's juris- r diction on grounds that an alleged criminal cannot he tried by his t alleged victims. s The prosecution maintains that b lisrael has the right to try Eich- I man iid cites from laws based b o decisions by the U. S. courts 0 e-tablishing that a court may try a defendant regardless of' how he b was caught or brought to trial. Cited particularly was Pettibone i Vs. Idaho-in which the court ruled e that even though Pettibone was C taken out of Colorado against his will and wvithout knowvledge of the state's authorities, the court of a Idaho had a right to try him fort murder. Colorado had a grievance, e the U. S. Court held, but Petti- a boune did not.a As to the legality of the Israeli I law under which Eichmann is being (I tried, no less than 17 nations have I0 passedl simihir laws since 1945 ' making crimes against humanity et retroactive. er *Not of Vengeance' Tlhe Prime Minister of Israel has said, "Our concern is not of W vengeance hut only one document- y ing an era in which genocide be- di came a policy of a political state." In all truth, Eichmann is too juny, too trivially human to bear pm he weight of the gigantic charges ~ bI that are being hurled against him. But there is an ironic inevitability it< about this, for by his own admis- in sion, the man who has directed the Nazi was always fated to be ah pawn of forces greater than him- m self. ta Now as he stands before his l hi judges enclosedl in a glass cage, he in has hecome the instrument which cC t he Israelis have chosen to "honor Ic the dead and warn the living"'c igainst the terrible aberrations at which (an befall the human spirit. ca In th(e Jerusalem courtroom all t( so 'nankind stands on trial with Adolf Eichmann. oh The prose'cution and the perse. is pr uIted are tired therefore THEYp mist rest Lke a tide I paw that drownwd Died .ytentay. vrioycle to tombstone anel a God he wanted to meet. Something was, but I Cannot remember. Man dies in the gutter with A smile on his face. La Nuit Sombre Man went into some pit To live and has not come out Again. He sits peering through the Darkness and watching For coinpany. Once in a while, God-gass seeps by, not staying. One-eyed worms crawl and hiss In the blackness. Aan feelt night pain and Aches of silence. Agony, ecstasy rise and meet A skudi of holes. Cool - Blood-water drops in puddles Of stone. God-gasa diffuses about worms, And sores come on weeping lungs. Die, die, die ... Agony, hurt, Dripping blood-water Time has gone away to eat nonetities. Man sits peering through the darkness. -William W. Savage, Jr. harles W. Joyner Scho It was one hundred and one ears ago that the father of progressive education" first ict his own father. Since then, has beconle something of a na onal obsession to blame all the hortcomings of our schools, oth real and imagined, on John lewey. Much of the criticism etrays a lamentable ignorance f his philosophy. A favorite exhibit in the chain er of horrors ascribed to Dr. iewey is the "life adjustment" pproach to education, overlook ig the whole point of his con apt. He urged that students be cjuipped to meet future goals, ather than become "adjusted" a dormant status quo. John Dewey has suffered more t. the hands of his disciples ~an of his detractors. His goal as the maximum development each student's abilities, not leveling down to a mediocre verage. Dewey's quite logical icory that students learn best 'being interested rather than sciplined was prostituted into wered standards as recreation as placed on a par with aca mies. It was a semantic diffi lty of far-reaching consequen ~s. 'Intereat Them' lie didn't mean "teach them hat they're interested in;" he eant "interest them In what u're teaching them." It Is evi nt throughout his writings at b)y "interest" he meant hallenge." By taking "Inter ted" out of context, and ap irently not bothering to read uch more of Dewey, (I don't amne them too heavily, It's etty rough going) the Dewey a thought they detected the plication of "fun." Education, unfortunately per ips, is not necessarily "fun," r should it be cheapened to ake It so, save through con gious enthusiasm for the irning process itself, and per ps the stimulation of "build g character" through mental mnpetition, as character Is al redly built through physical mpetition in athletics. This sort of competition is an hema to the Deweyltes, be use it tends to breed frustra n, discouragement, and "per niality repression." It Is fortu to indeed that ~a skinny, or ae, uncoordinated non-athlete not subject to the same re esslons. OtherwIse we might ye to do away with school Bill AiJe... . YaniKee D levor 14 4wwh, se4t -to the f enierg Vee*ky" in anser to their attack upon . the South winted in last' wek's 'Ganecock." Dear F. B. (Felldw Vigot): It is obvious from your state ments and insinuations that you have no personaflknowledge of the South, its people, or their relation ship with their colored brethren. You are typical of the current run of the mill, abysmally ignorant pseudo-intellectuals who shout rab idly and point southward toward your intellectually underpriviledged white brethren. I challenge you to come South and spend a week or a summer and make a serious attempt to find out the truth. Arrangements may be made whereby you can room on Stdacs Am *Dear Editor, "Ma'am": In the April 28 issue of "The Gamecock," Larry M. Rosen ex presses my sentiments to a "T", concerning Adolf Eichmann; the JEWISH BUTCHER. I would like to add further, death is too merciful for this mon ster, he should be condemned to spend the rest of his days in Israel; among his victims' relatives. Has the world forgotten, or is it afraid to remember? Claire B. Benggio *Ed.: See, she knows! Dear Students: This letter is directed to the rising members of the Junior Class, but is also meant for other fellow students who helped me in my campaign. I would like to thank all of you who voted for me in the past elec tion. I can assure you that I will do everything in my power to carry out this worth-while endeavor which you have bestowed upon me. If I may be of any help to any ols vs. Educ Reprinted From Egghead Vice-Admiral Hyman G. Rick over, a leading exponent of "1tougher" education, is much closer to the Dewey concept of "life adjustment" than either he or the Deweyites would care to admit. Rickover has said "If we try to spare our children mental effort and to protect them against disappointments a n d personal failures through flunk ing exams, we send them ill p)repared into the competitive wvorld." That, too, is learning by experience. Dr. James Bryant Conant, in his recently completed survey of American secondary schools, as serts that the school system needs only moderate improve ment, "with no radical change." His basic premise is that schools needl only to be enlarged. "The comp)rehensive high school, a so cial melting pot throwing rich and poor, (lull and bright to gether," thinks Dr. Connant, "should give every kind of stu dent as good an edlucation as he might get in a school designed just for him." Actually such consolidation is part of a general trend in Ameri can education nowadays anyway, though I suspect .nore so for hudgetary reasons than academic reasons. Dr. Conant recognizes that "the academically talented student is not being sufficiently challenged," and asserts that he "should never get a chance to loaf." Limitation It seems to mec that the delib erate limitation of competition implicit in such a "melting pot" school encourages just such loaf ing. The former President of Harvard doesn't seem to advo cate any significant changes in standards or curricula. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Admiral Rickover, with whom I'm more nearly in agreement. Of course ho and Dr. Conant aren't necessarily talking about the same things. Dr. Conant Is preoccupied with schools; Adm. Rickover is con cerned with education. It strikes me that Rickover thinks more like John D)ewey than the self-professed Dewey ites. D)ewey said, "Experience is learning." It seems to follow that what can be learned by ex perience need not concern the school. Rickover says, "Recrea tion, manual or clerical training, etiquette and similar know-how have little effect on the mind It self, and it in with th ind tha 6odle... Cam the University of South Carolina Campus for one dollar a day. Your meals will probably run around $2.50 to $3.00 per day. If you are sirlcerely interested in your fellow American, either black or white, the costs will not be prohibitive. Furthermore, I challenge you to a debate on the topic: "RESOLVED, that Southerners are bigger bigots than other citizens of the United States." You, of course, will have the affirmative. Better Understanding Perhaps when you discover the answers to the following questions, you'll have a little better under standing of the entire United States, not just the South. What Northern university has a colored high school in the middle of its td Stacks? of you at any time, please feel free to contact me. Thanking you again, I remain, Sincerely, Doug Gray THE MEN AND WOMEN OF CAROLINA: I wish to thank each and every one of you for your support for the office of Student Body Treas urer in the recent campus elec tions. I appreciate your trust and confidence in me and I will make every endeavor to fulfill the duties of the office to the best of my ability. I feel that we have a great thing here at the University, and I would like to see the entire pro gram here improved. If at any time you have any questions about Student Government or a pertinent problem you think deserves the attention of Student Council, please do not hesitate to call on me, the members of Council, or the other Student Body officers. Thank you very much. loward Iellans ation the school must solely concern itself." 'Useful' Subjects The so-called "useful" arts sub jects (to what percentage of stu dents is shop mechanics useful?) are of little value in understand ing the complex world we live in, either in scientific or social terms, or in making well-reas oned decisions in private life or as respons5ible citizens in a modl ern democracy. Specifically, Admiral Rickover adlvocates tailoring curricula to the capacities of the abiove average, the average,. and the bielow-average. In short, he's for groupaing at all levels. Dr. Conant opposes this on the grounds that it would tend to brceed "status groups." Of course the athletic "status group)s" have beena campus institutions for years, but I am given to un derstandl that the football hero is now a vanishing breedl. Social Structure Va nce Packa rd 's recent book, The Status Seekers, seems to in dlicate that' our social structure is pretty muc'h formed on social climbing from one status group to the next higher, and the next, and( so on. Someone has termedl it, "Keeping upJ wvith the Jones's as they keep up wvith some other Jones's. No one ever rests for the ,Jones belowv to catch up." If this is true, and if we're go ing to be consistent about this "life adjustment" theory, maybe such status groups would be ex ('ellent preparation for life in American society. Dr,. Conant dlefends present curric*ula on the grounds that A mn e r i e a needs more than "brains," it has to uplift talent at every level. That's a noble i sentiment, but wye have to ask, "does the present system do it?" Adlmiral Rickover has advancedl specific proposals to (10 just that. Hie says that even the belowv average, though his maximum ability be only sixth grade for instance(, should thoroughly coma ple'te sixth grade, if it takes till age sixteen to do0 50. Each shouldl learn as much as he can, withouit being lost trying to keep) up with those ahead of him, and then advanced through social p)romotion until he gradu ates or quits, and without poking along ait the speed of the average if a student learns more rapidly. t The school must limits its func- d~ tion to b)rain-training, and en decavor to supply that need ade- r quately, rather than merely r claim to fulfill the much broader To. Town campus as does the University of South Carolina? What two cities, outside the South, have more race riots, each, in a year than does the entire South? Are Puerto Ricans actually sent to separate schools in New York City because of lan guage differences? What city, state or nation has made such a calm, complete reversal of its inhi bitions and traditions in such a brief time as have Virginia, North Carolina and, yes, even Georgia? Can New York or even the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania offer such a record? What state outside the South contributes an equivalent percentage of its per capita income to education? How many states outside the South can equal Sout.h Carolina's per pupil allocation when per capita income is considered? Sir (or Ma'am), when you have found the answers to these ques tions, you will be 10 times better qualified to write an article on "Bigotry in America." Until then, you'll remain silent if you're wise. F. B., you're just as dogmatic as those you condemn, and you almost admit it. This is the only ray of light in your diatribe of slanted passion-arousing verbiage. You're as narrowminded, as prej udiced in the opposite direction, as is the die-hard Southern Segre gationist who mounts his soap box and rants at great length to arouse the populace. No Hope As long as there are people like you on both sides of the problem, there is no hope for a reasonable, acceptable solution. Before there can he reason, the parties con Crned must be possessed of such. It's quite apparent that you're as lacking in this department as your Southern brother whom you have vastigated. Peaceful settlement of any issue which involves human passions and prejudices is never brought about by rabid writings and orations. h'lhe solution lies in education, or brainwashing, if you please. You may prefer the terni psychological readjustment. Perhaps you will be concerned enough and kind enough to come South and make such an attempt?V Al Williams . . . Right Of Preservation itecently, there have alpearedl on the e'ditoia3l page of "'The Gamiecock" articles concerning *"Operationc Abolition," Freedom and Inquisition. Several of these urciteris imply that the State nor the Feoderal G overment has a righ t to pr eserve itsel. Onie wvriter wanted all the world to k(now that he was asked: A re you a Communist ?" Hie broa'dcast it to all the campus as if he were proud of being asked s uch a quest ion. Tfhis is not mieant to deflate his ego, but every fedleral employee, every serviceman, andl every studlent with a National D)efense Scholar. ship has been asked the same iluestion. I lowvever, if Communism con stitutes a dlangor to the mainte cance of the United States Goy rnment, it is a legitimate ques ion. The (question) cannot be0 reasonably challenged. Perhaps the cause or design behind the luestion may be. Thbis is another nat ter. As in the case of "Operation A bolition," we should not tole *ate the disolution of "denze aoy" to the point of extinction. Sis most interesting to note hat one writer cited the "Chris ian Century"~ six times. This ~ither demonstraites a rather imited readling habit or a tre niendlous avarice for religious vritings. For the information of the vriter of that letter and the Christian Century," the San 'rancisco situation nm a y be ikened to the cleansing of the emnple by Christ. Christ showed iis intolerance~ for those who vould destroy IIis Father's house nid it's about time "good Ameri ans" shou311 ld emonstrate their Iltolerance for those wvho wouldl estroy the United States sys ('ml of government. Tlo find wvhat is a good Ameri an, we need go no further than he article "What Price Free omi" carried in the past issue of The Gamecock." . . . Education lakes a good man, and that good ten act nobly, and conqu beir* eneiesi in battle, hocy~ ho.1. ~