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Ediorlal Poll As the semester draws to a close a new staff of editors will assume their positions on The Gamecock for the spring semester. The new staff, to be headed by Donna Rus sell, is probably the most experienced, well informed, and logical group to serve the newspaper in many years. The change should prove refreshing for all members of the Carolina Community. During this past semester, more than anything, we seem to have picked up a large following of enemies; for many, our edi torial stands were so unpopular that some resorted to bomb threats, poison pen letters, and even burning crosses. It was an experi ence well worth the effort and trouble-be ing editor, that is - but we're glad it's only a one-semester job. It's time for a change. We have been condemned and commended for editorial positions we have taken during the semester. All of The Gamecock's edi torial stands, however, were based on what the editor truly and honestly believed to be in the best interests of the students of Caro lina. Below, we'd like to list some of the more important editorial stands taken by The Gamecock during the fall semester of 1963 -all of which we stood behind at the time of publication and presently stand behind: USC INTEGRATION: "The fall of 1963 will go on record as more than just another academic semester at our University - it will serve as an index of and a challenge to the student body. While we oppose integra tion at this time, feeling that it is not in the best interests of either race, we must face reality with rationality and comply with the laws of our nation." FliATERNITY HOUSING: "A strong step in the right direction would be to allow the fraternities to move off campus and maintain their own houses. There can be no question but that in many universities this procedure is followed with success. It would require thorough study, much preparation, and a lot of leg-work. Even so, the reward would be worth it." CONTROVERSIAL SYLLABUS: ". . the syllabus will prove an important class room addition in aiding teachers throughout the country in exposing high school students T H E recent intimidation of behalf of' the the Philadelphia courts gro has reacl by various so-called ''civil of the ridicu rights" g r o u p s (CORE, These grot Committee f' o r Freedom like them, Now, NAACP, etc.) in re- everything gar to the 64th annual Clemens to Mummers' Parade certainly The childrei came as no surprise to any.. Rlack Su mb one familiar' with the re- through the lated activities of these most as rare groups. Their sensitivity in berg Bible, f/ GAMx Co CROW1NC FOR A GREATER UNTVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO: Menmber of A,u'oelated Collegiate Pre. Founded JanuryV 30, 1908, with Rlobert Elliott Gonz Editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridayi, duri year escept on holidays and durng examinations. The opinions expressed by c'olunmnists and letter nece%ssrily those of "'I he Gamecock." "The Gamnecoc Letters tee the Editor, but all Letters mucst be signced. I not constitute an endlorsement. The right to edit or publication any letter i. reserved. EDITOT..OR.. I MANAGING EDITOR .DI ASSOCIATE EDITORDO BUSINESS MANAGER EM News Editor Spurts Editor Society Editor. Feature Editor. Campus Editor Mary Chief Photographer Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Exchange Editor Art Editor. Office Manager PHIOTlOGitAPHIERS: Ralph .Jarrells, Dave UJn COLUMNISTS: 'Toddl Wilson, Dave Henr.v, Carl Narrow, Bill Savage, .Julia Drake, Zazel WV STAFF AtENlIBEJtS: Sara Ellioett, Haerriet liotlemd, Seg 1 virgemee ANaxes ill, Ilarry Weldw,s ic~kie' Elliott.I lieery Eice J amne Smelh, Alaerciea Da)aziel, Jace Ca.elbsuon. Itetty Caeperter Martuin, I .esa I .venox, Nanecy Jee Edlwards, Sues I 1.mdau.e, Efrid Tom Iluenter, Aike Camsp, Kathelen liigginst, Preciouis leer Gwen Taylor,. llarrie't le.aBere, L inda (ordlell. Ceerter Crewe Hlollatnd Winekie Youtng, Andey Orgonmk, Iee Jce' Garrett, Joane Moore, Eva Edlesbuerg, SalIly Keyes, Rlosenmary Meody, Caroel Gaerv DuPre, Dan Pruitt, Deb Watkins, Isabell Secrest, Lind Icy Reviewed to the real and true dangers of intern tional communism. And, too, it will serve help teachers in organizing a sensible al intelligent approach to the teaching of tl threat and growth of Marxist-Leninism." WESLEY FOUNDATION: "We have tl highest respect for the Wesley Foundation activities in religious fields; but, their e forts on campus in the realm of eocial wor seem, at times, to be misguided." HONOR SYSTEM: "If . . . the facul desires to continue the honor system, let offer them a challenge: place students c their honor. When students are aware th they are being trusted by their professor the good and noble ideals of Carolin honor system will begin to be realized." ACADEMIC FREEDOM: "Student Se ate passed a resolution last week calli for the recognition of academic freedom the basic principle upon which the Unive sity and the student body will grow. V hope this resolution will neither be ove looked nor disregarded in future tests < our campus." VIET NAM: "Madame Nhu, on h world-wide mission, said that the Buddhi uprising in Viet Nam was inspired more I political fanaticism than by religious zer Since there was no proof of Buddhists beil persecuted, why should we not have b lieved Madame Nhu?" FRATERNITY TRIALS: "We strong condemn the verdicts issued against t fraternities by the (IFC) Tribunal, a1 urge the suspension of sentences again the two Greek groups, substituting instes "declarations of reprimand," which wou by their issuance, merely verbally conden SAE and Sigma Chi . . ." KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: "T cause of John F. Kennedy was the same f which Lincoln died - a nation "conceiv in liberty and dedicated to the propositi< that all men are created equal." PRESIDENT JOHNSON: "There probably no man in our land more capat of taking over the reigns of the Presiden at such a time as the rugged and talent Texan. Lyndon Johnson's field is people: knows them, he knows what they want, ai he knows how to give them what th want." YOUNG DEMOCRATS: "The extremia have succeeded in ridding the Young Der crats of a truly great president-a preside whose ultimate aim was to rid the camp Democratic Party of both the fanatics the left and the right." 4I PHILADELPHIA American Ne- paigns, as yet unsuccessi le the heights have been launched to ghi ous. certain colloquial expr ps, andl others sions from Tom Sawyer i have attacked HIuckleberryj Finn. Qual f' r o m Samuel Oats has been blasted Quaker Oats. its use of an illustration i's book Little a portly Negro woman > has become, boxes of Aunt Jemima p ir efforts, al- cake mix, and even as the Guten- Amos 'n' Andy program : md many cam- come under fire from civil righters. One mi. well wonder where this a V2Ifj,pidity will end. A SSUMING for a mom 1th at no limits are to set for the actions of th LINA groups, the day conceiva could come when anyth ale, a, the first offered to the public in noeca, of ,se way of a r t , literati rig the college dIrama, and the like could c,,ier a,, not censored merely on the a k'g"'org,'n so of a "minority gro withholI ro that found it unfavora For example, Shakespea: ;NNIS MYERS Othello could be banr XVE BLEDSOE Stephen Foster could be< NARSEL credited, and the name JNARUSELL Al Jolson could fall into [LY REDDING repute, if, indeed, any Regina Galgano still remembers him." MikeMcCathy Black Joe" would have MikeMcCathy be changed to someth Connie Wall else, as would "Darkt< Pat Roessle S t r u t te rs' Ball" CartonO'Nal "Swanee." Jack B e n Cantn O'eal would have to get rid Bill Campbell Rochester, and Joseph C ..Larry Barrett rad's Nigger of the Nar Sheila Reardon sus would have to be 4ellie Merrymnan vmpd Joan K. Roberts JUDGING from the pr Carter Crewe .ous actions of the < erwood.rights groups, the af< erwood.mentioned conjectures c< Hendricks, Ted become reality. We hi ilde. that this is not the c, I,it-':ay"r ,-iey and we suggest that, a .iu l.:,ielfi .irna deterrent to such a po o.,'Car" OlOsn bility, these organizati Carol Iadopt not eonly a sense ri,e. Arn anon direction, but also a se a srpi.,winon of humor. HERE SONNY aYU LIFT.... to id ie Ze 8N k, >n '8, -- 's r Te >n ar LETI fl. 1g e- Red Threat Editor The Gamecock Dear Mr. Myers: e Don't look now, but there is a id communist hiding under your St typewriter. d, WILLIAM F. MEDLIN Id (EDITOR'S NOTE: Thank in you, Mr. Medlin. And may we congratulate you on the suc cessful spelling of all twelve le words in your letter. Indeed, )r this is a vast improvement ,d over your previous epistles). Young Democrats Editor 1s The Gamecock le Dear Mr. Myers: ey What justification has a news ad paper of the whole student body 4e to take a partisan political posi id tion? Your editorial endorsing one person in the Young Demo crats struck me as unfair to the independants, Socialists, and Re publicans on campus. Putting aside your highly ' questionable right to print such nt an editorial, the editorial itself is L18 a gross distortion of the subject of it purports to comment upon. You enumerate Miss Reba Hutto's leadership record and proclaim her, non sequitur, the person to lead the Young Demo crats. In fact, Miss Hutto's own reason for resigning wvas her 3disagreement with the group 3 consensus - a personal matter to which her undlenied abilities and popularity are irrelevant. ul, You blame her resignation on an "extremist elements, who... s- stand in opposition to nearly .nd every aim andl principle" of the Cer D)emocratic Party. But the reso for lutions the Young Democrats of passed were, in general, r*e on affirmations of the 1960 Demo a- cratic platform planks favoring the Medicare, the Nuclear Test Ban, las ending racial discrimination in the schools and jobs, and the like. ght Another endorsed the principle .tt- of Academic Freedom - a posi tion the Student Senate has also taken, Sen. Myers! Even the ent most controversial, opposing the USHouse UnAmerican Activities ese Committee, expressed a viewv held 1Y by 20 Democratic Congressmen. ngThe New York T i m e , The the Wash ington Post, Christian Ien Ire, tury, and the Americans for beDemocratic Action. Are these ," extr'emist? The effect of your editorial *e, was to intimidate dlissent. If you ed8 believe this will help the Young e'Democrats "to achieve great of ness," you reveal your political jis philosophy as one of shallow op one portunism and conformity. Old EMMETT DURANT to Editor ing The Gamecock Wnl D}ear Mir. AMyers: ndy In the Dec. 18 issue of The of Gamecock the editorials of a on- IBlessed Trinity of true believers c..- appearedl, and after reading them re- one dloes not know whether to laugh at or curse the foolish sentiments expressedl. i.. Mr. Myers set the tone with an ivil intemperate attack upon those )re- whom he chose to call "fanatics." ?uld Without citing a single proposi ope tion as proof he indulged in se, childish vilification andl exagger B a ation and then proceeded to ssi.. eulogized in a shoddy andl maudl ons lin manner the Young Denmo of crats' resigning President. lHe nse then insinuated that there was a onsni-acy afoot to subvert the S00 rei wl H< Th --ap re, - bli to so ne cla se in wl co ERStitS ra co organization and tried to impli- 1) cate an ex-Republican in the lo affair. He finished with a t quixotic call for student inter vention in order that "zealots be disposed of," lest the organiza tion "sink in a sea of fantai- ] cism." hi JOHN V. CRANGLE CI Editor be The Ga.mecock aT Dear Mr. Myers: When the Student Senate cen- n sured the University Y o u n g st Democrats for their resolution to ai abolish the U. S. House Un- b( Amorican Activities Committee, w they chose the wrong issue. a It is not the senators' concern whether the Young Democrats, or any other campus organiza tion, takes a position that is seemingly out of step with gen eral opinion. The whole idea of censure and investigation for political reasons is wrong, and smacks of government censorship and authoritarian rule. In order to achieve its pur poses, a university must provide a truly liberal atmosphere. This means that freedom of speech, press and thought must be en couraged and actually used. It means that pressure must not be Ci applied to force everyone into the same ideological mold. U n t i A Carolina attains this atmosphere, it it can never fulfill its promise as a great university. H ENRY S. EICH EL Dear Zazel Editor The Gamecock ti Decar Mir. AIjyerR: Obset nity - wheres . . . An mi exchange of words in this column last month concerning an objee tion to our "advice" column, "Dear~ Zazel" has left me ex- t aisperated. I am not, however,.i app)roaching the subject with. Purjit an i ndign~oat ion, h av'ing a sense of' humor' too. But 1 (1o feel ' th at youiir a nswer to Miss Sossa- si mon was a goodl exampIle, as I ( will try to explain constructively, of how certain parts of this news PaperQ are often misused in re gardl to the reflection of the a nteeds of Carol ina readers, for a whonm it is sulpposedlly pulblished. Has The (Gamecock f i a a II yu degenerated to the editor's pri-h vate tea party, energetically k cr-eat ive, but no longer genuinely for anyone else's benefit, whose g phi~losophiy dlismisses objections I( as to its tastefulness as being e< "only in the mind of the read- a er?" We all live in virtually a sea of inherited andl transmitted so-t cial values, almost none of which t are strictly our owvn. In that case, t tihe concept of a "collective read-a ing mind" is not a wild over- (d albstraction, being thle reason for t, anything legitimate being put v into print. And if a person writes v to say that something seems t obscene it is prob)ably because r shle is part of a subculture that at one time judged it to be so. Right now 'l find myself strug- t gling with the way our inituitions still insist that some things are r ultinmately right or wrong in dlependlently of the "judgment t of society," blut we are still left with dlealing with the Carolina t community 1964. As always, we readers will be satisfied with what we in general want. Where dIiffering opinions suggest doubt, take a poll! (I vote for "Gort"!) JAMES rOv TODD OMETHING of concern to t quite a number of people in rent weeks is the situation ich took place in the Field use during the Duke game. e game was televised, and it pears that the display did not reive warm recognition. Spirit is one of those intangi things that every team needs be a winner, and spirit is rnething that every school eds to draw its student body ser together. It is actually a rse of pride and respect for an ;titution. But when it reaches the stages ten paper is thrown on the art, Coca-Cola is poured on the ach of the opposing team, and 1 cans are used to beat on the ils behind the opposing team mbined with profane language ing hurled at several of the lyers, that which exists is no ger school spirit and cer inly displays a /ack of pride d respect. HIS year's team is one of the most exciting that we have d in many a year here at irolina, and they deserve our st effort to do our part. They e playing on desire, hustle, Ad those intangibles which ake a great team. We in the (nds can provide extra spirit d enthusiasm, but it needs to in a spo.'tsnlanship type of ly. When spirit and enthusiasm e presented in this way, it Carl Hei Medical Practice Need Revision In America This article is written to criti ze certain medical practices in merica today. At the onset let be understood that there are anfy conscientious doctors who about their business everydlay thold ing their i ippoc ratic Oath id using thiei r skill s to alleviate ffeing and bingi ng credit on iw mued ical prof) ession. We (do not ish fori this to he an embarrass 'lit to thenm. Ho iwever, there are day many docltoirs andi( dent ists ho arei priouc ts of our ma rialistic ag'e and are engaging he med ical priofessioun for per -nal and econioic gaina. leire -e a fewv stories to illustrate a uation which1 is all too fre enitly occurring today. Very recently a man suffering oim a had stroke was rushed to local hospital to get medical tention. However, oii arrival an 'becoming scene developed when >sp)ital authorities dlemandied to now how and when they were sinig to be paid for their serv es. A fter twenty miinutes of mnfusion the man was admitted 1ler the mani's young iron was equi redl to sign a note stating iat he would pay the bill if were was not insurance enough >cover expenses. This story has sad ending -- the boy's father ied, yet the hospital will have >lbe p)aid even though there was ery little done for the man. Why asn't the man helped first and rien make arrangements about ayme'nt? Here are two related stories. 'here is a grandmother who had I) spendl a good portion of last unmmer in a hospital. No tangible esults were receivedl by the ladly ut everyday expenses mounted i the po(int (if absurdity, andl a reat ha rdshi Pwas laced oni his lady and the family who ared! for her. 'There are more ged people in America todaiy han ever before and they are nereasingly asked to give a ~renter part of their meager in.. omes to hospitals andl doctors. Phey cn't hepbin g n o. /ILSON arolina Spirit at Duke Game Questioned nakes a tremendous impression )n everyone, and gives a good iame for the University. When t is displayed otherwise, it de racts from the University. Our next game is this Satur Jay against North Carolina State, and it should be quite a game as the two teams are evenly matched. Spirit and en thusiasm will play a large part in the outcome, and I am sure that we will have an abundant amount of it. Let's make sure it is presented in the best light. E VERYTHING seems to be go ing quite well in our at tempt to get a new Field House. Let me again emphasize the fact that we are not merely seeking it basketball court but, in addi tion, a place that is large enough to seat our entire student body for all functions. In essence, we are asking for an all-purpose building that will aid in all phases of University life. Plans are also being made to enlarge Russell House with ad dlitions to the game room and facilities for the use of our stu dents. A tremendous amount of progress is being made in the field of student activities, and many will soon be a reality. My best wishes to everyone (luring exams, and I look for ward to next semester as one which will play a large part in the future of Carolina. Let's all do our part. mdricks S health, but there is no reason why these people should be excessively charged for treat mcent. Ilospitals today do not e<Iual the plushness of modern hotels but their charges are cocm parable. The other story is of a young cianc su ffercincg fr~omc cancer wht spenlt con si derable tc'ne ina hos pitals before his passing. Very little could( be done for him and very little was (lone, yet the hos p it al acid the doctors concernied arrived at an astr'onomcical fee, placinig the family of the boy inc a hcad light. What we vancnot undlerstandl is how the djoctors andl thce hospital officials caci charge so excessively when they were ucnable to be of any ceail andC significacnt help. Th'Ie Acmerican Med(ical ASSo' ciatioln puts otut a great deal of prcopagandla todlay telling every one how great the present sys tecm is wvorking, the adlvances bceicng made, the charity of the dloctors, ad in ficnitum. We admit that thce small-town doctor dloes aL lot of so-called charity work, but het hans his reward'( andI is able to live comfortaly-the only kick hce has is the ircregulacr hours which he has to work. How about the city specialist? We wvonder about the acmount of chacrity work they doC, and we wonder abotut the bills they pad to get more out of the inisuranice companies. We are surce that one offsets the othec. By the way, wvhat great loss (loeS a dboctor~ face when a patient (loes cnot pay? iIe hasn't lost a sofa, Or a washcing machine or an auto mobuile -so what is the beef, hasn't he (lone something good for~ somecone, can't he sleep with out his conscience bothering him at night? D)octors spend1( many long years in preparation for their careers andI no one wishes to deny them the op)portunity to make ai dececnt living. HIowever, a medical dlegree dloesnl't give this man the right to "steal"' from the public, nor does it give him the right to take ai Un cless the med~(ical prcofessioni can clean tup its own backyardl then it enan expect the federal govern mcent to (1o it for them. A meri- D cacns do noct like monopolies today any better than in the early part