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Will Finish Semester The news story was a very small one in the morning news paper, but it told of a big event: George W. Tomlin, Dean of Stu dents and Activities at the Uni versity of South Carolina, was resigning his duties as Dean to return to teaching. Four years ago, George Tomlin made the transition from full time teacher to administrator. He brought with him an ample supply of patience, knowledge, and an interest in the welfare of students as people. He needed them all . . . for the job he held is, at times, a thankless one. Besides his qualifications for the job he held, Dean Tomlin had other attributes that were to gain him the respect of students and faculty alike: A personal conviction of honesty and in tegrity. Students were fortunate to have a man like him; the Uni versity was well-served by him. He has been honored by many organizations - and Wednesday night with IFC's Man of the Year award - and he has been recognized with various honors both scholastically a n d pro fessionally. A man of his calibre will be sorely missed in this sensitive position. It is, perhaps, idle speculation to wonder why Dean Tomlin is leaving this position to return to teaching. The very suddenness of his resignation leaves m a n y questions un answered. Dean Tomlin resumes his role as educator with the satisfaction of knowing that his was a job well done. It will be a difficult thing to fill his shoes and match his strides. He now will spend a semester in advanced study to prepare for a return to a regular teaching schedule. We can only say that in any endeavor he chooses, he deserves the best, and we can safely pre dict that he will continue to have the best interests of the students always uppermost in his thoughts. -dwb. By ROBERT KOTEY, Secretary of the Ghana Student Ui Written for "The Stud< ITH HAS BEEN my unhappy lot t( formal leader of a group of 2 dents - all of those Ghanaians st Bulgaria - who have been forced to interrupt our studlies and to set in which to pursue thenm. It was a which we and almost all the oti dents in Bulgaria have taken, but w protection in the face of a patte racial dliscrimination, when dlenie organize an All-African Students1 very lives were threatened, it was sible for us to remain in the count My own experience began when scholarship to study in my chosen fi and my government, which has woi ship agreements wvith a numberc ments in both the East and the XM for a position in Bulgaria. In De number of Ghanaian students - selected solely on the basis of edu cations - flew from Accra to Soi higher education. W E HAD COME with open mi beginning we were filled with received a friendly welcome from people, and we were placed in the sai the same rooms, with our Bulgat dlents. We set al out the formidable ing the Bulgarian language in ordle be able to understand our textbook Early in the year, however, we I ence sonme difficulties. We had co to study, and not to live luxuriously ditions turned out to be not nearly had expected -- not as goodl as th versity studlents in G;hana itself. happy at being cramped four in a only 14 by 9 feet, with four beds a the middle with a chair at either studying very inconvenient, as son had to sit or lie on their beds in orc living allowance came to only ?24 ?18 of which had to go for food little over for books, recreation, trai supplies. W E HAD ALL arrived in tropic Ing and were given no allowa clothes, so that simply trying to ke cold Bulgarian winter posed a real ship. We brought our problems to the TUniversity authorities, who replied Dean f Studeni -(Photo by MlcGrail.) Dean George W. Tomlin, Jr. Self: 'Severe Blow' Dear Editor: On Tuesday, February 26, 1963, The State newspaper contained news of the resignation of Dean George W. Tomlin as Dean of Students here at Carolina. It is need less to say that his leaving will be a severe blow to the stu dent body of U.S.C. Dean Tomlin has always placed great faith in the Caro lina student. During the past four years he has been a champion of the rights of students to exercise authority over their own affairs and has worked tirelessly to providt us with the things necessary for the building of a responsible system of self-government. I am certain that I express not only my own feelings, but also those of the entire student body when I offer a sincere "thanks" for the service that he has rendered. I am sure that as Professor Tomlin, he will continue to be an effective voice on behalf of the students at Carolina. Sincerely, Wn. Osce Self, Student Body President A GACC)cocGI CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Asociated Collegiate Preea Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first Editor. "T he (amecock" is published by and for the students of the University of South Carolina werkly, on Fridays, during the college yeas except on holidays and duruig examinations. The opinions expressed by colamnists and letter writers are not necessarily thome of " I he (amecuck." "The Gamecock" encourages Letters to the Editor, but all Letters must be sigued. Publishing doce not constitute an endorement. The right to edit or withhold from publication any letter is reserved. -Al hanaian Student no way out of four difficulties. We later appealed lion in Bulgaria, to the Minister of Education, who told us that he t"would do something to help, lie never (lid, howv .ever, and eventually we were forced to turn to the serv a~thein-government of Ghana, whicn s.s mrpa. .sed with us 3 Ghanaian stu- and provided us with an additimral living allow udying in Sofia, ance of ?10 a month. k' new cutiesA PARTICULARLY ugly incidlent occurredl in painful dlecision ILAugust, 1962. Half a dozen Ghanaian studlents er African stu- missed (dinner at the hostel (lining room andI went to hen denied police a nearby restaurant, the "Chuchuliga." '1 her'e was rn of consistent music playing, andl one of the Ghannians asked a d th rigt to Bulgarian girl in the restaurant to (lance with him. dnon thengh o As they were (lancing a young sohtlier wvent up to clearly ~n pour the girl and asked her: "Is it not a shame for you clerlyno 1)5-to dance with . . . ?" The Ghanaian did not want Iyplidfo. to make trouble, so he returnedl to his table, but Ieadrie ecormcs just as he was about to sit dlown another Bulgarian ked out scholar- boy pulled his chair out from behind him, and he f other govern- toppled onto the floor. Before he co'ild even get est, selected nme back on his feet another Bulgarian 'inacked( him whoer 1h1, a over the head wvith a chair, and he fell over un wober, ee conscious. By this time the Ghanaians were furious, cational qualifi- andi a general fight ensuedl between the dozens of i obegin our' Bulgarians who were in the restaurant and who pouredl in from the streets and the handful of Ghanaian studlents at their table. nds, andl in the Surprisingly enough, the Bulgarian po'ice wvho high hope's. We were so seriously outnumubered, that the police re runny Bulgarian but left the place inmmeditately. It wats only when me hostels, ev~en the Ghanaians appeared to be holdling their own -ian fellow stu- against the Bulgarians, dlespite the fact that thmey task of master- were so seriously outnumbered, that the 1,lice re that we might turned and broke up the fight. They made no ef 3 andi lectures, fort to find the young Bulgarians who had startedl egan to) experi- the fight, but rather arrested only the six Ghana me to Bulgaria ians. Four of the six were wounded in the fight, but living con- and they were released by the police the next (lay. 50 gtood as we At the request of the Government of G;hana they ey are for uni- were immediately flown back to Accra. The two We were un- who were not wouInded, however, wetre kept in jail 'oom which was for one full month before their case came before nd( one table in any kind of court for a hearing. The only wit endl. It made( nesses called were Bulgarians, none of whom h-ad ie in the room themselves been arrestedl. er to readl. Our NE OF TH E students, George Anmah, was s n a .onh fly Otencedl to one year in prison andl the other, E. antIthisleftA. Attiga, to three years. As a result of pressure sportation, and from the G;hanaian government they we're released al weight cloth- cr mn h fia tdnsrmiigi ice to purchase Blai.W otne ohv oego red 3p warm in the aogteBlainsuet n epe u h economic hardl- Bugra goenettonosesosam ot andhe hoam abut us, incidethi lraed much con cteto o h lude that it was being supported from "above. that there was Pirtnatyerteewr nl e fia s Georg A H AVING established that uni versities, particularly state supported universities, w e r e undergoing a slow but decided change, we are ready to ask the question: of what value is a de gree, anyway? The cult of degree-worship has arisen in many areas of today's business world. This is true, par ticularly in our huge distribution complexes where the actual development and manufacture of the product is secondary to the profit picture. As an example, take soap. Now we all supposedly use soap, and there can be no question but that the marketing, advertising, and distribution of soap and soap related products has long over s h a d o w e d the production or manufacture of this particular item. W E HAVE, then, the problem of establishing arbitrary criteria for the mass of clerical and service personnel necessary to distribute this common prod uct. More and more, the trend is toward requiring the college de gree as the first ticket to mem bership in the ranks of our fantastically spiraling numbers of white collar workers. The reasons why a degree has become almost required are va ried, and not always candid. But, not being especially concerned with the why of this inordinate emphasis on a degree at present, let us delve into the effect of this phenomona. Where there is demand, there is supply. The demand is for a degree, regardless of whether or not the possession of the degree materially affects the perform ance on the job. This distinction had to be made, or else I would have doctors, lawyers, engineers, and other professions descending on me in great wrath . . . but this is an obvious distinction be tween situations where a degree is an acknowledgment of com petence in a technical or special ized field, and where it is not. W H ERE this aforementioned cult of degree worship comes in is that many businesses Fricans Leave Bulgar In Bulgar Store thtanm 300 Africain stu dents stud(I,ing in llulgarians uiv~er?.ities annisouniced their ini tenltiona to lealve that coun1tr this week, chairging racial dlis eimmintat ion ansd politial hatraiss mentlt by the Baulgarianu govern menit --aund meis%aiged a plea to Western unIiversities aind na Stional unsions oif atudtenits to find palaices for themi to conit inue their studies. Upon)1 rceipit of te appeaCl, the Un;iitedl States5 Naitionial Stu denit Associationli, thle Amnericanu nuation,al unsion of studenuts wjhichi was susspenidedt fromi tihe Cairo hln campus)il is.193960, isn. fornm the (Colleginte P'ress Service*. thmat I SNSA is inaumgua. raitinig ant "African. Fr eedloma Fsundi" to meett the needsI of lie 300 stutdenits, helping to puay for t ranssportatin and p,laingsi 1s numy51 ats posib%le ins U. S. snive-iiie.. I SNSA, ma con fedlerainu of the -sudent gtov ernments of mnore thian 400 Ui. S. luiversitieUs, wiill a,k its muem hers schooL' to conussict funsd. rasisinig dives" for thet studen.ats, I -t.N'tA internamtional vice-pre'si tdeint Don,. Smaitli of the UJni .,ersity of 'Texas told (:1'S, TFhe studtents chairged thle 11au gasriani governimnt with thiwairting their aittempjts to form i -mi AIll-Africa Stident I :nion to < repjresenst alh African stuadenats inii tihst countshry. 'To support their teinmtif raciunh udiscriuimsstion a by thle lhealgarinn, goivernmenut, < the. studtensts stay thnst Arnsh stu-t denits stu.ding in the counitry< we're allowed to form anm simtilar organiuzamtion.( I SNSA casled thme deci,ion of tIhe sti'uens to heave iuhgasrias "'a heavy lowi alt rasin in s the' Conni,it lc." The NSA saidl tinast rona ribli ution to the fuandI can lbe senat to the I SNSA nia. lional oiffice, at 3.157 Chstnuss J St., l'hiladuelpshian 4, h'ensysl. vania. e Tomlin -Dave E cademic Ch or occupations - which are honorable enough - have suc cumbed to "image upgrading" urged upon them by their pub licity men (or human engineers, as they now like to be called), and adopted the arbitrary re quirement of a degree without the corresponding need f o r demonstrative proficiency. It is shallow . . . it has led us to the era of the cheap degree. At the beginning of this series, a statement by Dean William Patterson was called "revolu tionary." In effect, Dean Patter son said that one of the aims of the stiffer academic provisions was to direct into other paths those not suited for college work. He publicly said what many ed ucators have said among them selves in years past . . . and that is why the statement was called revolutionary. T HE cffcct of the cult of de gree worship is to engulf col leges and universities with people who are not suited to academic life, who overload our already strained facilities, and whose best interest is truly not served by the financial strain of four years of college. B EFORE venturing further, the argument is sure to come up: "But college is a place to mature and find one's self." Granted, but is it serving that purpose to many? Are extra curricular activities a reliable gauge? Those who think that they are might try this little experiment: Take a Garnet and Black, pub lished any year in the last decade, and turn to any page of the graduating senior section. Now, count the number of seniors who have gone through four years of college with two or less extra curricular activities to I i s t. Actually, the figure averages out to about 40% of the senior class ... and that is calculated on the generous side to allow for typo graphical errors, mistakes in com piling, and what-not. Extra-curricular activities are no reliable indicator of finding one's self . . . and should not be viewed as such. It does, how 'ia ells( students -- from Mali, the Sudan an Bulgaria, andl there was, therefore,: ill-African studlents' organization Ghnaa studlents arrived last yearx elves all in the same hostel, andi .ogether and exchange views we fori StudIents' Union, of which I was ele We neve'r thought to ask the permis: zhorities to form such an organizatioi to feel that thxey were prep)aredl to deC >n individual national bases. W E H AD gone to Bulgaria to st gage in p)olitics, and we hadl in resistedl the formation of an all-Afi 'ion fox' fear that it might be invol It was only when we became convinc Africaxn organization in Bulgaria nec Lo do with politics that wve agreedl to Wh len in November and D)ecembe Look definite steps towvardl the orgai All-A frican Students U nion, wve had Lives in mind. First of all, we wis neans by which we A frican studIent >ur interests in the absence of p)olice ook after our welfare in the face of ng conditions. Secondly, we wished aizi/ation which could b)ring us toget pirit of pan-Africanism. We fell 'arious national leaders are now fig ill of A frica, as students it was x(ccele'rate this realization in anya l'huirdly, we wantedl to foster frieni he Bulgarian youth and the A frican B Y DECE'MBER wve had dlraftedl a our AASUJ -- which, with the p~ tud(ents from 22 countries, reprere 'voic'e of A frica" - andl had elected >fficers, headed b~y Tetteh Tawiah of lent of p)hilosophy. When the Ur 'ormedl we invitedl two indlividluals to he G;hanaiaxn A mbassadlor andl, as a vill toward the Bulgarian authoritie: >f Education. We were su rprisedl here'after' Tlawiah was cal led biefor< if Eduxcat.ion and( toldl that we wouli xand the U Inion because it was agai 1Idles'' of Bulgaria. 'Phis was all the hxorities ever said, then or latex', trange way this genuinely pan-A fri vaxs "'against our principles.'" We d Id, howe'vex', hear' rumoours ihr ies felt thait the' A A SU was intei oliti'cal orgaxnizaxtion hostile to overmnment. We thex'efore sent a del finixste ox f ducat ion tox p)resent hin f our coInsttutionx and to explain 0u ins. 1 U' t ookt iher. 0 t ,.m ti;n;, ht .i Resigns Iledsoe - ange: Part ever, seem strange that with 40% of the seniors devoted (evidently) to academic pursuits alone that USC's academic rating is not spiraling skyward. It is spiral ing, all right - ask the petitions committee in which direction. H ERE is the problem facing us today: economic, popula tion, and status pressures are forcing more and more people into colleges which can't - in deed, should not - handle them. The University has attempted to unilaterally remove some pres -Last in College Ty Elitor's Note: From the All-Star College Primer, Illustrated Epub lished by the Grooves of Academie Press. THESE students are participat ing in an organized bull ses sion. It is officially known as a GRADUATE SEMINAR. They are doctoral candidates, and most of them intend to be professors some day. They learn many academic skills at the seminars. These skills are called methodology. The smarter candidates have wives who are employed so that these candidates can concentrate on their methodology. EXAMPLES of methodology are: How to form a clique. How to exhibit superior knowl edge. How to reply indirectly to a critic. And how to prepare footnotes.* The methodology of obtaining a fellowship is also important. It teaches the fundamentals of requesting a grant and pulling strings to get it. If an applicant is offered two fellowships he learns how to play one college off against another. This is very important. It is basic to his fu ture advancement. A DOCTORAL candidate must prove his scholarly ability by w r i t i n g a dissertation and defending its conclusions before a faculty committee. A disserta tion is a document based on re search that is original, with con )fExodt d Guinea -- in merely asking us so needl for an HrLE NEXT th .When wej 6 Tetteh Tas we found our- (expulsio from nI ordler to sit with having beei ned the Ghana failedl to take an ctedl secretary. evr student 4ion of the au- kinishka) which 1, and we came when the'y are il with us thus classes, and in e signedl. It was tr dy, not to en- tion, but this wi the beginning obtain a textbool -ican organiza- the early part ol ved in politics, obtain it one mo ed that an all- was not sufficie dI have nothing Bulgarian text. form one. given him permis r of 1962, we ing of his examni dization of the In spite of the 01)' several objec- Tawiah, we woul hed to have a full imphIlicattions 4 s could dlefendl fact that the V p)rotection and A mlak of Ethiopi inadequate liv- i ng that he wool to have an or- by the regulatiom~ her in the true that the actions that i.f our on the personal hting to unite rather on the h< our (duty to ment to the for? vay we could, would unite all th dIshi p betwveen On Saturtday', s. to leave Blulgariai constitution of orde spr 51 ead son. articipation of at the hostel and Ientedl a true 'rime~ Min0ister's a list of seven reinstate.ment of' Ghana, a stu- withd rawal of th ion had leen and to insist up,) patronize it -- the reprIesentativt n act of goodl When we arrived , the Minister toldl by a man11 u when shortly Hualgarian~ Koms(o the Minister that the l>rime M I have to dis- he wouIld mneet u nst the "p ri n- Monday morn ing. Bulgarian aut- were elected to that in som 'rime Minister, a can movement A ft(er they had v hours withoot a a it the authori- the sec retaiiry to ided to be a he was prepa redi he Bulgarian The( seven studtien egation to the report to us w"hat i with a copy committee oif the r' non- political case( shiould lbe prc mdel no reply. (Sc. III sure ... but it will not be able to handle the job alone. There are other measures which the University could take, and there are measures which could be adopted by the secondary schools as well as labor and business groups which have a direct concern with the problem. T H E concluding article, "Aca demic Change: Part IV," which will appear next week, deals with some possible solu tions, plus steps that could be taken by USC. Series - pes: No. 3 clusions that a r e not. The Methodology here is to avoid challenging the findings of pre vious research by any member of the examining committee or his friends. If you are a dotoral candi date, shade your dissertation with ambiguities. Then write Ph.D. after your name and design a project that will bring you a post-doctoral fellowship for study in Europe. *Tii, . n fotnots.e. I'e hard to read, isn't I f I hapt part of the ieclnigne. Here are "I.n' e nuark * *..: . Copy thern and . t.etn elcwhere in this primer for fnol ete of your own. These abbrevia tion, will ai ho help: et al.. op. eit.. ibid. I . tIehsn for referene.e to leadinlt works and anlhriticr,r - e .g.. .MS(;uJffr'a Render, The o efhd o/ 11:. A. A. Milne. and Dr. Seus l4 show oun are acquainted with the litera tore in thi. fichd. JS o ee hi /atr ng w knw ws ta nFbur hisprfsosadecuessg satisfired with atndner of ter casevTaih' Heooks.hagde irretar in ladsses and exaina hs becaussohe hand beentuna tossg Cwhich was out of stock during his course and wvas only able tQ ithi before his examination, which it for~ him to master a difficult IIis professor had quite naturally sion in adlvance to dlelay the tak intion to the next academ*nic term. 'ious falsity of the charges against I not have been convi ned of the)i >f his case had it not been for the ice-Plresidlent of the AASU, Mr. El, 'was alsoi warnedl the next morn '1 le ex pel led if he dlid not abide of the Uiniversity. We knew then >f the authorities were not based condluct of the two studlents but stility of the IBulgariaun govern nation of an organiziation which A frican studtlents in the country. eel,ruary 9,e Taw'eiah was5 ordered within 12 hours. As news of the e 15i0 A frican students gathered walked dlown Lenin Street to the ,jffice. JVe wished to demahlndl the lawiah in the University and the n deportation ordler against him >n reecognitionl of the AASU as volice of the A frican students. it the Miinistry, however, we were ho said be was a leader of the intl ( You ng ('ommnilist League) Imste r was not available but that ith our rtSepresentativ,es 9 o'clock Over thle weekend, seven students (en'iesent our i position before the rid thbey arr ived pr'omiptly at 9.00. 'ai tedl at thle oiffice fo five full espotn se, a manai who saidl he was 10~ Pime Mliister t old themi that 0 see thbem onliy bitter. int the dlay. s then returnred to the hostel to hadie hatppenedl, andl the executive A A SU met. ti plan ,iust how our sentedl to thle Prime Miniiste.r. Ieourh ntfexi wec.)1