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e 6-(A UNIVERSITY OF CROWING FOR GM The opinions expressed by col necessarily those of "The Gamec( Letters to the Editor, but all Lette not constitute an endorsement. T publication any letter is reserved. Start To Fin The workings, preparations and machin ery of this week's Student Body elections can be summed up in one word: chaos. From start to finish, the election process was misleading. Campaigning, in more than one instance, was waged with dishonor and plain juvenile delinquency. Monday's vot ing procedure was a tedious, time-consum ing affair all around. Campaigning dishonorable? Witness pos ters ripped, tape and all, from walls. Wit ness still other posters and handbills slashed, burned, covered by other posters. Witness posters decorated with profanity. Listen to rumors circulated about certain candidates, rumors you know to be false, and then ask yourself the question. Maybe not the candidates themselves, but some body. Yes, it was dishonorable. A tedious, time-consuming voting proced ure? Witness dozens of people huddled be fore printed posters, trying desperately to match numbered row and column with name before the next class bell. The truth of the matter is that many just gave up, voted the first blank they came to. Voting by IBM card might mean faster returns, but who cares to play mathematical genius on elec tion day? How many ballot boxes were stuffed? How often did you turn to find someone staring over your shoulder while A Circular It all started when we tried to get a little bit of information. The page one story concerning a police case was brought to our attention Tiesday night, deadline night for this page. That was simple enough. But then we tried to check the facts-Tuesday night. We started with a call to the campus police and were told that the chiof was not in, the detective was out of town fo: a week, and the sergeant in charg e at the parade on Davis Field. A quiek check of the canpus dirt.torY revealed that Chief Robison has no phone listed. That was fine, too. There ws al ways the city information niumber. But there we w ere stumped. Accor-' og o the operator-, "'I have a number listed, but he has requested that we not publish it.'' We naturally ask d, "Does; that m'eanr we cannot find out his phone number?" To which we received the tern' reply, The Recently a great battle in the Wr'Sntr. "war against communism" was hsgn ne won in the State of South Caro-cotiuonot lina. Most of the people of thepel.Th M state were unaware of the sig-famr-aye nificance of the battle. Like so psdtesa e manyothe heoesn te "Cdpote tee forathbe may thrheoe i he"Cl no benfo1h "Thenoue tht rfresesi SOUTH CAROLINA EATER CAROUNA Limnists and letter writers are not ock." "The Gamecock" encourages rs must be signed. Publishing does ie right to edit or withhold from Ish - -- Chaos you cast your vote? Yes, it was tedious and time-consuming. Our election process allows candidates to campaign no closer than 50 feet of the polls on election day. Did you make it through the mass in the downstairs lobby of the Russell House Monday without a broken arm or leg? Lucky you. Conduct in that area on election day closely resembled that of animals in a zoo. Many would-be voters simply gave up when they saw this crowd, returned to their rooms, didn't vote. Out of more than 7,000 students, some 2,200 voted. Wonder why? And finally, when it was all over, did any one know who won? The winners maybe, but certainly not the student body. Election returns were never posted in the interest of those who went to the polls. Maybe we don't count, though. We simply do the electing. This week's election was the most mis managed affair imaginable. Changes need to be made in several areas, from campaign ing regulations (and their enforcement), to campaign conduct, to IBM voting. In short, the whole election process this spring was chaos, a shambles, an insult to intelligence. -Ford Situation "That's right." 0. K., but we don't give up that easily. A call to the Columbia police told us that the detective who had worked with the University on the case would not be in until the next morning. A check with the police mn Davis Field again led to nothing. The police there said to contact Chief Robi son for the information, again the next norniner. .% circular situation. Oar pmint is this: If the President of this University lists his phone number in order to be available to the Carolina Community, why cannot the police chief do the same? Likewise, we have called the Dean of Men, the Dean of Students, the Dean of the Uni Sersit-, andl the Director of Admissions and Riegi.4tration. They have, in all cases, been most cooperative after hours. The late chief of police also had a residence phone listed. Why not the present one? --Holland /9aut KIdem Seat Belt Plot Ralph Gasque appeared to be a seemingly in 'arded for his nocent bill might have been en he good of his acted into law and South Caro r i o n County lina would have taken a long - legislator ex- step down the road to socialism. t plot. If it had Most South Carolinians are Senator, what aware of the communist threat. It is common knowledge that the ~ / /entire Negro civil rights move ment is communist inspired. Every true patriot is aware of the floridation plot. As one alert SuhCarolinian pointed out a local radio program: "floride at / ) tacks the part of the brain which resists domination." What most South Carolinians do not know is that the men ance of centralization has gotten a strangle hold on the Palmetto State. Representative A. W. "Red" Bethea tried to _______warn the c'itizens of the state - that the renaming of Clemson College would encourage the in flux of "foreign ideology," but his warning went unheeded. Sen ator G;asque was dletermhined that his warning would not be dis -- regardetd. - Those who have been thorough ly indoctrinated in the dogma - of the "mistaken" have already -- begun to discredit the fine fight which Senator G;asque staged in the State House to prevent fur thter centralization in South Carolina. They say: "How could a perfectly innocent safety mea sure such as seat belts further the cause of communism?" They are the same individuals who imply that every "true patriot" ~ thinks that there is a "red under every bed." (This is a ridiculous statement. Every truly loyal "Amean" knows that most of | Ltt Editor The Gamecock Dear Miss Holland: I would like to briefly com ment upon two letters referring to me which you printed in The Gamecock last week. The first by Miss Tobie Owens expressed a belief that I was misinformed concerning W.U.S. (World Uni versity Service). I have no deep seated grudge against W.U.S., Miss Owens, I simply protested Martin Price's unfair and un warranted condemnation of Blue Key because Blue Key "discrimi nated against independents" and "turned W.U.S. out in the cold." Mr. Henry Sanders very ade quately explained Blue Key's position regarding the College Bowl and I shall not go into that again. In regard to W.U.S. I stated two weeks ago that Blue Key's primary obligation is to the Uni versity of South Carolina. Through this obligation its mem bers seek to serve and that is the major reason Blue Key de clined to participate in the W.U.S. campaign since its objec tives are off campus in nature. By not sending a representative to the W.U.S. meeting we felt that in no way did we injure or aid W.U.S. We felt that it is primarily an individual matter whether or not students at the University of South Carolina c h o s e to participate in the W.U.S. Campaign. If group action was desired in Blue Key, we felt that our own campus li bh aries could better use our sup port. It was a matter of choice and policy, Miss Owens, not a case of rank repudiation. I did not deny that W.U.S. has had some good accomplishments, Miss Owens, I personally feel that W.U.S. is somewhat super fluous when you consider that our foreign aid program is de signed to encompass a far broader scope of service to other people. I am satisf ied that though there have been abuses in this program that there are many tangible and intangible achievements for our foreign aid program also. Perhaps you detest the thought of charity, Miss Owens, but if donations are given in the proper motive I don't think a n y o n e should feel ashamed of the term or the aid. As for Mr. Williams and his letter, there is very little that I care to say without descending to his level. Mr. Williams, you appear very much to me to be of the same nature as an emo tional liberal. A true or rational liberal, Mr. Williams, would cer tainly be willing to listen to the ideas of another without first the redIs are employed by the NAACP, the State Department, or are marching between Selma and Montgomery.) They are blind to the very real threat that the recently debated seat belt legislation represents to "our way of life." Once the good citi zens of South Carolina allow the "pinkos to strap them in their cars against their will, it will be only a short time before they willingly surrender them selves to the communists. No one can deny that it is time for the citizens to come to the aid of true patriots such as Senator Gasque and Representa tive Bethea. These so - called "safety experts" who misled us into thinking that seat belts were designed to save lives, rather than to spread com munism, should be investigated. Something must be done about those legislators who consciously or mistakenly voted for the seat belt legislation. The former must be part of the "plot," and the latter must be too incompetent to hold office. If only we still had the late Senator McCarthy with us. We salute you, Senator Gasque. Keep up your good work. Con tinue to tight the good fight. When you are through exposing the seat belt plot, why don't you start a crusade to eliminate those freedom restricting white lines that the state paints down vs To condemning that person as "ridic ulous" and using other terms of discredit. Incidentally, emotional conservatives are pretty much guilty of the same errors as emotional liberals. Political dis agreement, Mr. W ill i a m s, is hardly an accurate basis for con tempt or ridicule of any person. As you will recall, Mr. Wil liams, the major theme of my columns last spring, aside from a three-part series on the Uni versity, was a call for a stronger stand against the spread of Com munist influence and domination in Asia generally and Viet Nam in particular. I felt that it was necessary to stop the spread of Communist influence once and for all and Viet Nam was and is as good a place as any. I recog nized and you should recognize that we are in a protracted struggle with Communism for the very freedom of the world and it is no longer a matter with which we can be philosophically unconcerned. One - sided negotia tion is nothing less than appease ment and we should not forget the bitter lesson Adolf Hitler taught us just one generation ago. Now that President Johnson is pretty much in accord with the ideas which I espoused a year ago, I just wonder how your position has changed, if at all, Mr. Williams? It doesn't appear that strong action in Viet Nam i.i just so ridiculous after all. Permit me one transgression, Mr. Williams, since it was you who mentioned defecation, that i.; an exerciFe which you could perform more frequently. CARL HENDRICKS . 0 * Editor The Gamecock Dear Mixq Holland: Herein I will refute the unfair and erroneous statements made by Mr. Ashley and Mr. Johnson in the March 26 issue of The Gamecock. Some of the issues they mentioned clearly showed a lack of understanding and com prehension. Progress may rarely be "a result of being narrow-mindedly obsessed with the good old days" hut can it come from the force of the federal government on millions of unwilling subjects or the antics of frustrated college students, n'er-do-well preachers, and thousands of hymn-singing Negroes who constantly break established laws? Mr. Ashley criticized Mr. Kelly for using "stock phrases." Mr. Ashley uses "left-wing" "stock phrases" like "reactionary, ignor ance, fear, hate, and prejudice." He further spoke of our future teachers leaving South Carolina for better paying jobs in other states. South Carolina has a per capita income of 63%4 of the national average and pays its teachers 67%~ of the national average. This, in itself, is worth noting. Furthermore, our legis lature is constantly striving for their betterment. The "problem of human suf fering" is not nearly so large as the reformers would have us be lieve. The real problem is that some of the third class citizens, benevolently treated as second class citizens, suffer from delu sions of grandeur and desire to be treated as something they're TH E GAPl CR~OWING FOI UNIVERSITY OF Member' of Assocli Founded January 30 3908, witl Editor, "The Gamecock1' is puiblisi University of South Carolina weell year excepe on holidays and durng1 "The Gamecock" is rersented Service, Inc. The publicatfon Is a Press, The NainlCyl i rs Subscription ratese Coller y EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER MANAGING EDITOR Assistant Managing Editors News Editor. Copy Editor Campus Editor Sports Editor Society Editor Feature Editor Exchange Editor Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Cartoonists Chief Photographer Photographers Columnists The E not. First class citizenship must be earned - not given. THOMAS D. WHITE Editor The Gamecock Dear Miss Holland: Another morn*ng has passed and so has my nine o'clock class. I missed my class today, just as I have so many times this se mester. But even though I didn't make it to class, I learned some thing. I learned what is is to really hate and despise. The straw that broke my back wasn't that there was no place for me to park. It wasn't that U. T. parking spaces were only half full as is the casc every day. Nor was it the fact that I actually saw one of our campus policemen out in the rain installing a ticket for an elapsed meter. What really did me up fine was that lousy little parking space which is reserved for facutly mem bers in front of the B. A. build ing. There I was, missing my instruction which I had to pay through the nose for, and there it was, empty. I only wish it had a neck. I would have choked it to death. Every day I ride back and forth by that space trying to find a place to park, and each time I go by I notice that pre cious little space is vacant. I ask myself, if the instructors don't want it, why won't they give it to me? I need it. I didn't just bring a car to ,chool because I happen to own one. With me it was a must. The University didn't have a room for me so I had to rent an apartment. I couldn't find a suitable place near the school so I ran into a transportation prob lem which required me to bring the car. I might add here that this was at a considerable ex pense to me. And now that I am here, car and all, there isn't a place to park. That is unless you work for the University or live in University Terrace. Before I came to Columbia this fall, I had occasions to visit many of the schools throughout the Southland. I know that any one who has ever visited the Uni versity of Georgia will recall that there is plenty of "FREE" park ing. The same is true at The Citadel, at the Medical College in Augusta, and at all the schools I ever visited. When friends visit with me here in Columbia and I show them around the school, they al ways ask the same question. "Where do you park?" I smile andl say, "You don't." Whenever I feel mean and want to show friends how really backwards my state. and my school are, I take them over to South and show them the space those girls have to park in. There we have one of the finest new dorms in the nation and not one single park ing space. To add to this we are presently erecting another new building right beside South. Where are the girls going to park? One thing is for sure. They won't park in that sacredl space reserve.d for the faculty. I close with this question. When will South Carolina, as a state and as a University, open her eyes to the fact that this is a new world and a new age which requires change? Very truly yours, THOMAS G. HEY WARD I|ECOC K I A CREA'TER OUTH CAROIJNA ed Collegiate Press Robert Elliott C.o,zales as the ftrat ed by and for the students of the ey.onarnias, during the college nationally by National Advertising neier an the Associated Colle0ate ear.ie adteIntercollegiate ress. HARRIET HOLLAND NELLIE MERRYMAN PAT ROESSLE Sig Huitt and Jim Graves John Arant Al Dozier Lee Wilson Ernie Trubiano Kit Soasamon Margaret Shaleuly Beth Brown Carter Crew. Kathy Leland Rick Amme and John McCravy Bill Campbell aeon Bridge and Eddie Mcllwain d. Pault as.. ditor Editor The Gamecock Dear Miss Holland: I wish to commend the hard. working individuals who applied themselves 3o diligently in their support of the 1965 WUS car. paign at Carolina, and at the same time comment on Mr. Carl Hendrick's letter in last week's paper. To compare what World Uni. versity Service does, with the expenditures of the U. S. Gov. ernment in the field of foreign aid is quite irrelevant. WUS is not a government agency and has no connection with any gov. ernment agency. WUS is a stu. dent organization, working only with students and for students, and its chief support is from students (although we gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the faculty). WUS is not a "new cause" but was established back in 1920 following WWI to assist s t u d e n t s in the war-ravaged countries of Europe. Today this assistance is world wide and it is given wherever the need is greatest. We have such things as the National Defense Student Loan in this country but there are many who have nothing, not even the textbooks that we had hoped to supply. We are also in need of any and all textbooks. These can be left at the Russell louse in. (Continued on page 10) Exchange Corner The following letter was re ceived by the editor of The Daily Reveille at LSU: "So you wish a settlement of the Middle Eastern problem, try this recipe -if carried out with sufficient vigor, it would prove to be the most honorable of all solutions: 1. Move the Turkish Cypriots back to Turkey; 2. Move the Greek Cypriots back to Greece; 3. Move the Jews from Israel to Cypress; 1. And give Israel back to the Arabs." e * * From the Clemson Tiger comes the story of "A Super-Cool Is A Swinger But He's Hung On Himself," by Frank Pearce, As sociate Editor. "See him swagger by the coeds. Hear him cuss to show his im punity. He is Super-Cool. Watch him stroll into class ten minutes late. Watch him give the pro fessor an indulgent smirk. He's a swinger, man. Cool him, baby, as he drifts into the lunch line, swinging on up to the front. Let the deads wait like they've been doing. He doesn't have to, because he swings, man. See his feet. Cool enough. lHe doesn't wear socks. See how his ankles must shed soap. And dig those fagged jeans, man, blue like blue. In fact, like black. Keep away from the white pay TV that washed, man. Note the white on his jeans. That's not paint, daddy, that's him. Ain't that the digginest? Watch him stride . . . oh, too cool, too cool. See the flutter. That's his shirt tail, baby. Grab all those wrinkles above the flut ter. The greatest man, and watch out you don't smooth that rag with an iron. No belt, daddy. please. Let 'em hang loose. Let 'em be hip and almost slide. See the crust on his fingers? Under that lies the real him. Too much. Watch him smile. Nice, huh? How about his neck, did you catch that? Hair, curlee, baby-o, all the way down to no body - knows - land. Grab the cheek lining. SwingerOO, huh Leave the blades go, cool one. And his pad's seen no roll-on an many times five days. Don't crowd him, baby, he's too cool, and you can't nose the same atmos he does. Hie's way out . . - the further the better. This piece of "r om a ntic jumble" comes from Wof ford's Old Gold and Black. "SliPpery ice, very thin; pretty girl tumbled in. Saw a boy upon the hank - gave a shriek, and then she sank. Boy on bank heard her shout, jumped right In -- helped her out. Now he's hers -. very nice; but first she had to break