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Post Offc On the front page of last week's issue The Gamecock staff reported a story con cerning mail pilfering on the campus and those Carolina students involved. Hopefully may we say that the latest "crime wave" at USC has reached its cli max, and has passed us by, leaving in its wake the slight damages of demoralization and the light winds of warning. Even more hopefully, we urge an investigation on the part of the administration into the possibk purchasing of roughly three thousand items which will prevent such future incidents - namely new mail boxes. The present condition of the almost twenty-year-old postal boxes is pitiful. Their locks don't even offer a challenge to any prospective mail thief. All it takes is a twist to the left with one knob, a twist tc the right with another and presto - the privacies (and finances) of a fellow student are just an arm's length away. These boxes, opened and shut at least two or three times a day by the over four thousand students who have on - campus mailing addresses, have seen their better days in the basement of Maxcy College. Upon the completion of Russell House, they were dutifully transported to their new loca tion. Although still in serviceable condition when moved, they have begun to decline Athletics: No Win, Competition in athletic events among col leges and universities has become a thing of the past. Few care how the game is played, but many, including the Board of Trustees, Treasurer's Office, etc., care whether it's won or lost. Anybody who says college athletics serves the sole purpose of teaching our young men good sportsmanship is either naive or stupid. Its purpose, like that of any big business, is to make money. To win means to fatten the bank account No win, no money. Therefore, the idea is prevalent among the slxyrts-oriented seg ment of the population that the end justifies the means and that anything goes as long as it brings victory to the home team. Witl this attitude come the illegal recruiting practices, the pep pills, and the arroganet of feeling that a hunk of imported beef is as integral a part of an educational institutioi as any ten faculty members. A University football player once said, "I we don't have a winning team, how's any body going to know who we are ?" What s. many people fail to realize is that the fain of the University will not rise or fall on th fortunes of its athletic teams. Carolinai supposed to be a place of higher learning not a YMCA. The sooner this idea is at cepted by those who pull the strings, so t speak, the better off the school will be. A GA4c CROWING FOR A CREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO Member of Associated Collegiate P Founded January 30: 1908, with Robert Elliott Gon Editor, "The Camecock 'is published by and for the University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, dui year escept on holidays and during examinations. The opinion. expressed by columnists and letter Letts to the Editor, but aD 1amv m.ust be signed. mot constitute an endorsement. The right to edit or publication any letter Is reserved. "I'he Gamecock" is represented nationally by Nati Service, Inc. The publication is a member of thme Asso< Press, The National College Press Service, and the intei Subscription rates are $3.00 per year. EDITOR .... .....DO] MANAGING EDIT OR SH E BUSINESS MANAGER LAI Assistant Managing Editor Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager News Editor Copy Editor. Campus Editor....... Feature Editor. Assistant Feature Editor Society Editor......... Sports Editor. Circulation Manager Exchange Editor. Chief Photographer Business Secretary. .. Chief Reporter. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Ralph Jarrells, Henry Gaskins. COLUMNISTS: Todd Wilson, Dave Henry, Car Narrow, Bill Savage, Julia Drake, Zazel i BTAFF MEMBERS: Kay Hughey, Virgimea Maxwell. Ifi ElUiott, Hesnry Eichel, E'ddie Hoffmeyer, Janie Smith,* M Clio,Betty Cs ton,. Em Heins, IJnda Martin, Lisa Edwd, Suasan Lndau, Efrid Keisler, Mike Camp. KatI Tay Harriet LaBorde, Linda Cordell, Carol Price, J, Ogm.Be. Joe Garrett, Barbara Moore, Eva Edrlesburj Durtos, D)an Pnau.et Deb watkins, Isabell Secrest, Linda Shan E.ss,b Weele.. Di.. visene, Pa.la Wam.. e Proposal rapidly from old age and constant use. It has been estimated that approximately 40 percent of the locks on the boxes are com pletely useless, while the remaining ones can be either tripped or pried open with relatively little difficulty. During the summer of 1962, six hundred new boxes were installed in the Post Office. These new additions, manufactured from superior quality materials, are provided with double-dial lock mechanisms which render them considerably more fool-proof. The need for a complete "redecoration" of the Post Office furnishings is balancing on the brink of necessity. Such an operation would entail expendi tures of approximately $25,000 - a rather tidy sum to be disbursed for mail boxes, it's true. However, when considering such a pro posal, not only the right of students to be assured of proper mail delivery must be kept in mind, but also the reputation of the University of South Carolina itself. Al though the existence of dishonesty among some students here is regrettable, it is not unique. It is an obligation of the University to curb such crimes as mail theft, through the elimination of the "ways and means" by which students commit such offenses. -Russell No Money Policy? Athletics do have a place on the college campus, but not to the extent that sports events are the center of all activity, upon which more money is spent than on any other single thing. There are more important improvements needed than that of the foot ball team's won-lost record, and there are personnel vacancies that need filling more urgently than the slot designated for a high-power basketball coach who will place the University in the Top Ten within two years. The frenzied drive to move the Uni versity into the Big Time is absurd and point'ess. Shall the school exist for the sport, or the sport for the school? If the state legislature, the board of trus tees, the president and all other concerned people in high places want a crack athletic program in order to break into the Big P'ime, they can have it quite easily. They can drop the University's admission require ments to one-half of what they are at pres ent, set up a no-holds-barred recruiting pro gram, and hire the most unscrupulous coaches available. Nothing to it at all. Then we can be on equal footing with those great institutions whose athletes never see the insidle of a classroom, and1 everybody will "know who we are." Is this best for the University ? Or should u we be more concerned with how we play the game ? -W. W. S., JR. oc Exchange Corner LINA Michigan State University: Men protest tA) having to dress *tdet ofeup for dlinnler by wearing their ins the college shirts, coats andI ties on back writer. ar o w ardi. They've g ot t en to the Pu"isenoges p o i n t where they dlon't know wit~~i ~ whether they are "coming or mail Advertising i~it.s Collgiatei nmiversity of Califonia: The Alpha Ph.i Omega frsa 4NA RUSSELL ternity is p 1 a n n i n g to enter LA REARDON Beatle Ringo Starr Cunningham tRY BARRETT .in their Ugly Man Contest. They H arriet Holland think Ringo -may Beat-all. Bill Savage Iiniversity of Denver: Wayne Weible Students~ held an auction last Pat Roessle month where they auctioned off Susan Lindau professors - the highest bid was Sara Elliott eleven dollars. Another contest is Carol Robinson being held there -- the centen Precious Zurlo nial Beardl-G;rowing Contest. RTba Huter (eorge Washington University: . To HuterI)r. Thelma Hunt i.s searching Carter Crew. for a way to censor books of an Winkie Young obscene character. Leon Bridge uthie Henderson tha.iversity of Texas: Sig Huitt A pie war was held on the Robertson, Bob Austin campus. Evidently, the administration was upset with I Hendricks, Ted thmeigetawssuct Vilde.th Malswl.Evro ry waldrp Dickie lm( to ipeSmn arias Dail c. Jackie BrwUnvsiy I,ennox, Nanc Jo leen Hii fins, wen Aviiisshde4ora yce It land, Andy CarolFrip. Ann eay oficlcoingueta a stuc dt PIES. Wthe Mall'snwallcs.sEFreecr yffanrs Solution to the Chain Letter Warning Editor The Gamecock Dear Miss Russell: As t h e r e have been several types of chain letters mailed in this area in recent weeks, your coorperation is requested in pub liciaing chain letter schemes and the penalties that participants subject themselves to under the lottery and mail fraud criminal statutes. A first o f f e n d e r convicted undery ad ma rtatute can be fined as much as $1,000 or im prisoned as much as two years. A person convicted under mail fraud statute can be fined $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Often a person operating a chain letter scheme violates the postal fraud statute as well as the lottery statute. I. G. McDONALD Post.al Inspector This Was The Week Editsr T he Gamecock Dear Miss Russell: This is not the first time I h a v e noticed in The Gamecock articles with respect to this mat ter, and with "This Was The Week That Was On The Rocks" by Drake in your issue of Feb. 21 1 can no longer hold my peace. Miss D)rake referred to the "two FM stations in Columbia" in the above mentioned article. There are in fact three FM radio stations in Columbia, and though The Gamnecock seems to forget, one of them is operated by the University Extension Division. That is, W U SC-..FM at 89.9 megacycles on the FM dial with a radiating power of 10 watts, sufficient to reach most of the Columbia area. You have spoken b) e f o r e of WUSC obviously referring to WUJSC-AM ignoring the exist ence of the FM station. WUSC FM, established in 1952, devotes more time than any other Colum bia radlio station to classical and good post-classical music, thus providIing a genu,ine service to the Univer.sity and community alike. We would like you to, at least, know that we ex.ist. HARRY BOOTH "Divini Redemptoris" Editor The Gamsecock I)ear Miss Russell: I have come across an inter esting part of a dlocument that may be somewhat enlightening as to the strange way world affairs are evolving today. Here is an excerpt from the "D)ivini Redemptoris" issued by Pope Pius XI in March 1937. One chapter of this f am o u d oeu m e nt reads: "There is a n o t h e r explanation for the rapnid diffusion o f Communistic Missing Mail? 1 ideas . . . A propaganda so trul3 diabolical that the w o r l d ha: perhaps never witnessed its liki before. It is directed from on common centre; it is shrewdl3 adapted to the varying condi tions of diverse peoples; it ha. at its disposal vast financial re sources, innumerable organiza tions, international congresses and countless trained workers it makes use of newspapers, anc pamphlets, of cinema, theatre radio, and schools and even uni versities. "Little by little it penetrate into the minds of all classes o the p e o p I e. Another powerfu factor is the suppression an silence on the part of a larg section . . . of the press of th world . . . we say suppressio because it is impossible othei wise to explain how a press usually so eager to exploit eve the little daily incidents of lif has been able to remain siler for so long about the horror perpetrated in Russia, in Mexic< and even in a great part< Spain; and that it should have little to say concerning a worl orgianization as vast as Russia Communism. The silence is di in part to short-sighted politic. policy and is favoured b)y varioi occult forces which for a Ion time have been working for tl overthrow of the Christian soci: order. "The sorry effects of th; propaganda is before our eye Communism has striven, as i champions openly boast, to d< stroy Christian civilization an the Christian religlion by banisl ing every remembrance of thei from the hearts of men, esp< eily of the young . . . In Spaii as far as possible, every churc and monastery was dlestroy( and every vestige of the Chri. tian r e I i g i o n eradicated. TI theory has not confined itself1 the indIescriminate slaughter bishops, and thousands of priesi and religions of both sexes; sea rches out above all those wil have been devoting their livesi the working elasses and the poo The majority of victims h a v been laymen of all conditior und classes . . . with a hatrc and a savage h a r h a r it y or would not have believed possib in our age. No man of got sense, nor statesman consc.ious< his responsibility, can faili shudder at the thought that whW is happening to-dlay in S p ai may be repeated to-morrowi o t h e r oivilized countrios. F< man, some restraint is nece*ssar as an individual or in socie'ty. But tear the idea of God fro the hearts of men, and they a urged by their passions to cor mit the most atrocious barbar Remember this was written 1937. 1 am reminded of Chin IIi u n g a r y, Cuba, and mai othe'rs. Christ said, "Know ye ti truth and the truth shall mal you free." Do we k n o w tl truth? JOE n. WLIArM Sa TODD Of TIME is really flying by this semester, and before long we will be voting for next year's officers in Student Government. It is already time to be looking around to attempt to find good candidates. This year's elections will be some of the most im portant in recent years, as we will be presenting things to the student body in the near future which will have to be carried out by next year's o f f i c e r s. Begin to look around; the time is near. AS I mentioned in one of my earlier columns, one of the best moans for presenting stu (lent viewpoints to the faculty and administration is through the Student - Faculty Relationm Committee. Several issues that have al ready been discussed are 1) the libraries, 2) time limit foi dropping courses, 3) the possi bility of having a holiday for homecoming, 4) securing th final exam schedule much earliel than in the past, 5) the possibil ity of having insurance on per sonal possessions of students it the residence halls, 6) comdition: on fraternity row. TOPICS w h ich will be pre sented in the v e r y n ea: future are 1) the proposed con Carl H4 What's Wronj With USC? [Part III S f d AST week we submitted t e this campus a newspape e article in which we tried to pr n sent as constructive and hones a critique of the situation exisi ing at the University as we pos n sibly could. Needless to say when one ali Stempts to "rock the boat," so t ,speak, there will follow a sur and immedliate reaction. The r< sponse from the studuent bod almost unanimously supporte' dour position and we are in grer appreciation for the attitudle thi n the student body has shown. le il REDICTABLY, the sources< a comment from the other fa< g tors of the University were les e enthusiastic but still appreciativ i r.f the intent or purpose of th article. Of course, sonme factor were openly hostile, but this soi of reaction is what we must dlea s. with. The purpose of last week article was to depict a situatio d at the University in a constru< Stive manner, blaming no onei Sparticular, and to point a nee for action to alleviate the lett argy we seenm to be in. It is ir h dlicative of the fact that ther dare good men in the faculty an in the administration when cor e structive criticism of the Un A) ersity can b)e placed in Tl1 fGamecock by a studlent for ope Sdiscussion and1 studly. t ~jANY people - students, fat lYul ty members, adnministrr tion officials, and alumni hay r. a s k e d that another article il wr itten on this subject and w S submit this for your considere study and leisure. Several topics have arouse p)art icular concern andl it is wit these that we shall deal with thi week. One such topic is the con munications on this campi t among studlents, faculty, and at nm inistration. A dmittedly, t h "University has grown very fat >r n rec'ent years and the resultin Y' "bigness" is a major factor t he imp)ersonality of the Univei n' siyt as e'videnced today. Ab<n re the size of the University thet '- is little to be (lone except tai '- them in andl submit them to td rat race -~ referred to as t} in f'eshman year. :A, STEP in the right directic l wudbe toraise the ei Ie trance requirements. Though th ke is easier said than (lone, it e necessry and a way shouldl I found to imple'ment it. Restrictir WILSON Time Draws Near 2 )r Student Election Next Year's Officers stitution, 2) having a reading day b e f o r e final exams, 3) quizzes the week before exams, 4) the three-day excuse period, 5) a counseling system for resi dence halls, and 3) recognition by faculty of unlimited cuts. All of these are issues of con cern to many students and we hope to have a concrete state ment soon as to the actual posi tion of students on the campus. This committee will be meeting approximately every two weeks until the end of the school year so if anyone has any suggestions for t o p i c s for discussion, we w o u l d certainly like to have them. Please see me or drop them in Box 4727 in the campus mail. L ET me also say one final word about this year's bas ketball team. We certainly owe to them a debt of thanks for the fine representation t h a t t h e y made for us all year long. It has been a rough road for them to follow, but they have really done well. As they go into the con ference tournament, be sure to wish them well. They really de serve it. And also be sure to e x p r e s s your appreciation to V Coach Morrison. He has truly done a good job, and we are fortunate to have him. Thanks to each of the Fighting Game cocks. Dndricks o prepared ast ud en ta coming to r USC, and would provide an ave - nue for other students to attend t smaller schools where greater in dividual instruction and coun seling could be provided. Another p o s s i b 1 e solution wouli be greater use of existing o .Junior Colleges or the establish e ment of such a state-supported Sinstitution to handle the load of y ir'coming students in the future. d South Carolina benefits when t more people become college ed t ucated andl this is an endl to wvhich the proper authorities should work. ESPITE the size of the UJni 3)versity, there are other areas ee 'o ne r niang communications ewhich should be probed. One Sprofessor has asked this writer thow to improve communications LIbetween student and faculty. This is not easy to answer, but if a faculty member or student ~ nhas asked himself this question, andl sought a solution, then the n~ major part of the battle is won. dI During a semester there is . p)lenty of time for a professor . to call a student into his office eto discuss a difficulty or to be-A conme better acquair.ted. Con v ~ersely a student should also take it upon himself to see his e prJofessor outside of class. With Sthis sort of relationship takinig p)lace we suggest that a big step wc.uld have been taken to effect a i general intellectual atmosphere ona this campus; concurrently the e reputation of the UniversitY ewould be greatly enhanced. i AS rosy as this prediction is we dlutifully admit that gen ei(rally the situation today is bad. h At- official reversal of what Sseems to be a University policy . of "don't get involved with stU ,a ients" seems to be in order. Another factor Is that the stU edents are not getting a fair deal there in many respects gThe following paragraphs rep n resent the opinion of, as far as (an be dletermined, the great ma t jority of the student body at South Carolina who are largelY e unheard. e QTUD)ENT morale is low and elaeneral lethargy 1s e I dlent. These are results of manY n inciden'fts and practices here which need to be changed. It aseems to this writer that stu * ients at the University, when ,.purchasing books at the Campus gShop, should be given a discount (uotm.. 0. page 8)