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The Letter Th4 The campus-wide stir caused by last week's editorial titled "Unscholarly Atti tude" has come to the attention of both The Gamecock and the students enrolled in courses in the International Studies and Po litical Science Departments. Once again we must reprimand a "num ber" of the professors in these departments for their latest display of unscholarly atti tudes. Rather than attacking them for at tempting to curtail this paper's freedom of the press again; we are compelled to ad monish them for using the classroom as a platform to visciously assail an individual. the individual in mind, is the editor of The Gamecock. While we neither object to nor pay heed to the criticism and condemnations hurled by these gentlemen we insist upon clarifying the matter for the benefit of any and all interested parties. Allegedly, members of the faculty in three of the social science departments wrote a letter-to-the-editor and sent it to The Game cock office for the expressed purpose of pub lication. When the letter failed to appear on the editorial page of The Gamecock the vitriolic vocal harassments began. The letter was read aloud to class members then fol Constructiv The ever present problem of stealing on the Carolina campus has again reached the pages of The Gamecock. This time the thefts reported have occurred in McKissick library; the victims plagued by the pilfering are graduate students and employees of the li brary. Each graduate student at the University is issued a carrell at the beginning of the academic year. These study rooms are lo cated on the third floor of the library and are supposedly off limits to undergraduate students. The occupant of the carrell is issued a stack pass which enables him to gain entrance to this area and make use of the study sections. According to library officials, these stack cards are supposed to be checked prior to entry, yet, a Gamecock reporter walked through the doors without being stopped and questioned. Stealing books, supplies and personal pos sessions from the library has been going on for years. Apparently more has been done to encourage the problem rather than attempting to prevent it. No measures have been taken to safeguard future stealing by bringing it to the attention of the campus police and other administrative officials. It appears that most of the stealing oc curs after 11 o'clock when the library of ficially closes. The supply room, the library employees' offices and the carrells, which are locked each day, are broken into and robbed night after night. Persons responsi ble for maintaining security measures in the library seem to have resigned them selves to the fact that this stealing problem cannot be curbed. Caroline When the Carolina - Clemson over a cigar sto game meant the biggest of the Gamecock crowir year in the state and was known (See story on fea as Big Thursday, it bore many grew into the traditions and rituals - some of burning. which live today. College studen The game was first played on students also fo Thursday in 1896 when the newly fight in an uans formed Clemson team declared There has hardi that although it did not intend to lina-Clemson gan play Harvard or Yale "it fully some kind of intended to beat the South Caro- quelched by city lina college." The only reference ficials. to this was found in the faculty In 1921 the minutes when they stated "the captured the G, Football team was allowed to and students rio play a match with Clemson Col- utes during the g lege on November 12." brought to the r What seemed to the faculty to rooster was foun be only a matter of fact became away in the stan, the biggest event in South Caro- tator's coat. lina. It still seems in 1901, as a foreboding of tradition to captu things to come, an effort was gamecock at th< made to change the game to captured chicken Thanksgiving. sonl boys have in 1902 one of the biggest tear it limb fr< tradIitions of this era began with the game. Needl a fight between the two colleges too has often cau Mt Never Was lowed by lengthy verbal attacks on the editor. The charges ranged from journalistic irresponsibility to the editor (and a north erner at that!) being antagonistic to ward the South. Surely a professor holding an academic position at this University is capable of more accurate allegations. We regret, at this time, that we are unable to print the above mentioned letter simply because we never received it. We hasten to add that our curiousity is indeed aroused over the contents of this much talked about epistle. If there really is such a letter, and we are assuming that it is not a figment of someone's imagination, perhaps one of the more vehement signers will send this office a copy and we assure you it will be given careful consideration for publication. Quite possibly once the mysterious disap pearance of the letter is solved and the con tents made public the faculty members involved will return to their primary pur pose of being at Carolina and that is, to teach. A very old and wise adage can best sum merize this latest outbreak of unscholarly attitudes in the classroom. Yes, may we re mind you that "shallow brooks gurgle loudly." - Reardon e Criticismn The installation of new post office boxes helped control the problem of missing mail that occurred on the campus last year. It was an expensive method but it was a pre caution that was necessary to protect the mail of every Carolina student. In view of the situation at the library, we offer the following remedies to alleviate this predicament. 1. It would be beneficial to change the locks on every door of the library. As it stands now, there are many keys in circulation, therefore making it easy to have access to one. 2. All library stack permits should be carefully checked. There are nume rous students on campus looking for part-time employment. Perhaps a few students could be hired for the specific purpose of checking all stack cards. In this way curious Gamecock report ers and unsavory characters will not be admitted to the off-limits area. 3. Each night when the library closes several employees should check all the rooms in the library. In this way no one will remain after hours. 4. A large sign should be posted in an obvious place stating explicitly what areas are off-limits to everyone but stack card holders. It stands to reason that since identifica tion cards are checked so carefully for foot ball games and all necessary preventions are taken to allow only I. D. or ticket holders into the stadium, more action should be taken to insure these same security meas ures in the campus libraries. -Reardoi Regina Galgan i-Clemson Traditi re display of a studlents. g over a tiger. Ironically enough, C ar oli n a Lure page.) This probably owes the selection of ~raditional tiger the Gamecock as a mascot to these gridiron clashes. Two weeks as being college after the fateful 1902 game lowed the 1902 Carolina met Furman. The Fur. poken tradition. man men rushed down the field y been a Caro- with a squawking cock - tearing e during which him apart as they went. riot was not But Carolina has always, in and1 campus of- anticipation, rung the death knoll of the Clemson tiger for twenty Clemson hand four hours before the game. This tmecock mascot is a ritual that still lives. Pledges ed for 30 min- from each of the fraternities take sine. A halt was turns tolling the bell in Rutledge ioters when the Chapel the day before the big d safely tucked event. The tolling of the bell Is under a spec- (luring the night has been known to irritate several people in the o he a Clemson area trying to sleep, and a few re some kind of years ago one tried to stop the game. If the tolling, but to no avail. is alive, Clem- And have you ever heard of been known to the "Tea Cup"? Well, back in in limb during 1948 the Blue Key fraternities on ass to say, this both campuses donated a loving sed riots among cun in the event in an effort to "The Fif V PTOMANE ?OLSONING? S Ut Ca THE JAMIE COCKFIELD A Man Ar J AMES STROM THURMOND was born in Edgefield County. the son of a farmer, in 1903. He scored his first real politi cal victory when he was elected county senator; he was later ap pointed to a judgeship. He re signed his judgeship in 1946 to run for governor and easily de feated the six other candidates for the office. He headed the South Carolina delegation to the Democrat Na tional Convention in 1948 and led the walkout of the southern delegates after the now vice president-elect Hubert Humphrey called for a strong civil rights plank in a speech before the plat form committee. After the walk out, Thurmond was nominated at the States' Rights Democrat Con vention in Birmingham, Ala. This States' Rights Democrat Party was largely a party of his own formation. Primarily the platform was one of racial segre gation, but there were conserva tive states' rights p r o g r a m s instituted also. He launched his campaign in Baltimore, Maryland and campaigned mostly in the South. W HEN the votes were counted he had carried four south ern states: South Carolina (by 70,000 votes) ; Alabama (by 130, 000 votes) ; Mississippi (by 150, 000 votes) and Louisiana (by 70,000 votes). In many of the southern states, he did better than Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican candi date. All in all, he made a good showing. He got write-in votes in such far away states as North Dakota, California and New Hampshire. As it was, Truman got too many electoral votes for Thurmond's 39 to do any damage. He ran for the Senate in 1950 against the junior senator, Olin Johnston. Due to a well-organized smear campaign, Thurmond was defeated. He did run again in )fls Observ< build up good relations between the schools. The winning team gets possession of the tea cup until the next year when the fates again dlecide who will be the bearer. The presentation of the cup has traditionally been made during half-time ecermonies at the Carolina-Clemson basket ball game. The cup is presented by the president of Blue Key of the losing school to the captain andl eo aceh es of the winning school. The scores of the games are inscribed on the cup. The tea cup has often been needed by the editor of the losing school 'for beve rakes, when the editor eats his editorial page. The losing editor has always been al lowed to garnish his editorial page with whatever spices andI herbs he desires, but he must con sume the page at a banquet given jointly by both newspaper staffs. Wonder how many editors had wished their words were not so stinging and a little softer? One of the newer "prank," th Cut" qOLE OPENVEZ 'MvY MIOTHF9HIl 010 PENT PROF, nong Men 1954, however, and defeated Senator Edgar Brown in the gen eral election on a write-in, some thing never before or since accomplished a n y w h e r e. Two years later, he resigned to force a general election in which he was unopposed. T HE next year in the closing days of the 1957 Congress, he staged a twenty-four-hour filabuster, ignoring pleas from his wife to stop for fear he would have a heart attack. This is t.he longest single filabuster on record in the U. S. Senate. This fila buster was informative and spiced with choice bits of humor throughout. Again in 1960 he staged a tilabuster single handedly, even when the bulk of the southern senators were willing to compromise, and again in 1964 led a vitrolic attack against the latest civil rights bill, ranging from T.V. debates to long filabusters. He enthusias tically endorsed Barry Goldwater, even to the point of switching parties. He is also noted for his out spokenness. He had hardly gotten comfortable on the side of the minority before he had invited two of his new partisan brothers, Keating and Javits, both liberals, to join the Democrats. S TROM T HU RMONID has always fought for constitu tional conservative government. He is admired and respected even in the camp of his enemies. Long after his resounding southern voice and his references to "mnah const'ution" have ceased to be heard in the senate chamber, he will be remembered as a cham pion of conservatism wvhen other names have been buried b)y the avalanche of time. We cannot begin to elaborate on his virtues; because we cannot (d0 him justice. we shall not try. We shall simply and humbly say, .James Strom Thurmond, the Senator from South Carolina, is a Man among Men. BEAT CLEMSON! played at a recent ball game was done by the Sigma Mu's in 1961. At this time the Nu's dlressedl like Clemson players andl prancedl out onto the field just before the Clemson team and1 pretended to he (doing warming up exercises. Guess what happenedl! .Just as they were preparing to go into the jumping jack exercise the Mu's b)roke out into the twist. This prank not only started qjuite a few brawls hut received na tional coverage by the wire serv ices andI several newspapers. The one big t rad itionr t hat still lives, anrd appa rently will nver die, is the cremat ion of t he nasty Clemson tiger. This year the pussy cat will meet his death in flames on D)avis Feield after a street parade down Main Stree't. It's go ig to be at wild we'ek - endl again as it always is. This is one' tradition that will ee keep the game the, biggest of the season -whether Carolina wins or loose's. READERS RANT Editor The Ga mecock Dear Miss Reardon: In your editorial on "Un scholarly Attitude," it is my opinion that you have unjustly criticized three of the University's departments. When you state that many of your critics are Fabian Socialists and ardent left wingers, you imply that all the professors of these departments are such and that the depart ments are teaching Fabian So cialism and communism. This not only hurts the reputation of these professors, departments and the University, but causes students to question the integrity of the material they are being taught. I do not believe that these pro fessors challenge your right to establish an editorial policy, but they do challenge your right to speak out on issues that do not concern the University directly. When an editorial appears in The Gamecock, people outside of the University community assume that it is the opinion of the ma jority of the students and the faculty when actually it is the opinion of one person who does not necessarily have the backing of the majority of her staff. In your editorial you say these scholars oppose the freedom of the press. By your own state ments in this editorial you do not challenge their academic freedom, but you do challenge their consti tutional right of freedom of speech. This right is just as im portant as the right to freedom of the press. As I see it you have done these professors just as grave an injustice as you say they have done you in speaking against your editorial policy. PAUL F. FELSBERG I' 0 0 0 (EDITOR'S NOTE: Ca in e, come, reader Felsberg! We hae nVeer accused (ly U'niversity professors in any deparbitent of teaching Communism. Fabian So cialists and ardent left eingers, maybe - but Coninunists? We'l check into it.) * 0 0 Editor The Gamecock Dear Miss Reardon: I am deeply concerned about certain accusations that you made in your editorial, "Unscholarly Attitude," printed in The Gaime cock on November 13. 1 think it only proper that you further in form the student body and faculty about the events which led you to make such a strong editorial sta temeniit. Would you please answer the following questions for the bene fit of all concerned? What fac ul ty members have denou nce'd The' Gamifleock' editorial p)olicy? What form (lid these denuncia tions assume? Who, specifically, are the "Fabian Socialists andl ardlent left-wingers'' who are fac ulty members of the H1istory, Political Science, atnd I nterna tional St udies D)epartments? MIost journalists believe that freedlom of the press should be (coupled with resp)ons ibil ity. I as suime that you h :e a re'sponsibile journalist andl that. you bielieve this too. You will verify my as sumption by mak ing every effort to bring all of the facts before your attentive readers. PAUL! XW. MASEMI * S S Editor The G;amneuock D)ear Miss IReardon: Let mec tatke this opport unity to applaudl your heroic standl on the freedom of the press in your editorial of Nove'mbier 13:, and your unc(asing, artful and self effacing striving after truth and j ustice which that vicious Fabian cabal is attempting to undler CHIOWING; Foil MembulerEof A,ociat, I l 'Ig sh. I.. u I. Nos pi th~ Aistn panaing Edtree op Eit r th h r.l t l ete SportsN EDitor ES mine from within. However, there are a few disturbing points about your unrelenting unmask ing of those malignant, atheistic, undemocratic and anti-libertarian perfidies. 1. Your editorial, attacking a letter whose contents most of your readers were not privy to, raises the question of journalistic ethics. 2. Having helped draft the letter, let me point out to you again that it was not freedom but license which was, and is, under attack. The letter criticized the peculiar addiction of The Gamecock to indulgence in fac tual distortion and its tendency to malign, in a most libelous manner, the character and in tegrity of many loyal Americans. 3. Why, Miss Reardon, did you interpret the letter as being an attack on the freedom of the press? Could not a countercharge be made that it was indeed you yourself who made the first thrust against such freedoms by refusing to print a letter of dis sent against irresponsible jour nalism? It is you, Miss Reardon. who enjoys the monopoly of ac cess and the dissenters who have been deprived of an opportunity to communicate with the campus community. 4. Surely you do not believe the tale that a Fabian conspiracy has been organized against you on this campus? Let me suggest an alternate hypothesis. Is it not possible that our letter was mo tivated by the concern among a number of faculty members with your weekly ravishments of their disciplines? 5. Fair play seems to dictate that you make known the con tents of the letter now that you have finished unburdening your self to your public. Besides, since your editorials continue to in dulge in those same practices which the letter found "distaste ful," there are still some benefits to be reaped. SPIROS J. CARAMALIS Political Science Dept. 0 0 0 Editor The Gamecock Dear Mfiss Reardon: It is all very well and good for you to criticize the views of a group of the faculty members in the social sciences, but it hardly seems fair or appropriate if you do not make these opinions public to the student body for us to judge the accuracy of your com ments for ourselves. It is my contention that you have distorted and misrepresented these faculty criticisms when you assert their denial of freedomi of speech and press. GINNY WAG;NER * . 0 L4E'ITER CRITICIZED The Gamecock Hear M iss Reardon: The letter in last week's (Gano - cock from Mr. Lunney and Mr. D)eloach prompted me to seri ously consider the lack of culture demonstrated at our concerts. It was suggested by these two de(serving men, who are obviously alnd seriously concerned about our University's lack of culture, that the cheerleaders who could be "persuaded to attend the con c-erts" sit in the front row for the* purpose of expressing "cultivated appreciation." It occurredl to me that anyone s0oIdevoted to our University meritedl attention. Please tell them for me that if they will make plans to attend1 the next pep~ rally, I will meet them there andl discuss their idea with them CORKY McCORtKLE Varsity Cheerleader HEAT CLEMSON A (dHEATERI to h 1,and for the studen',ts of the4 . 13n i aas hIuriung the ollehge ntmn,i.,II ho Nama Ad ertl'.nutI wmber. *of, the Asuied ,ob.te SHELllA REARDION HARRIET HlOLLIAND LARRY BARRETT Pat Roessle Sig Huitt Jim G;raves Mike McCarthy