Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Founded January 30, 1900, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the fI University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during the college I The Gomecock is represented nationally by National Advertisin legiate Press, the South Carolina Collegiate Press Association, the N< tion rates are $3.00 per year. SIG HUITT PAT R( Managtg Editor EMor-h News Editors .........................................JOHN ARANT, AL DOZIER Sports Editor . .. ..ERNIE TRUBIANO Society Editor .....................GINNY CARROLL Advertising Manager ... ......... .CARTER CREWE Circuiation Manager ................ .KATHY LELAND Staff members: Jonean Mann, Obz Oberly, Pat Mallon, Linda Jo Barry Briebart, Jim Graves, John Russ, Chips Chaffin, John Lottich, D Will Balk, Caroline Gilcrest, Margaret Shaleuly, Tom Pruti, Kathy J The Great W Carolina has something that nobody knows about. Everyone would rather complain about not having it than find out or admit that we do, so to preserve this close-knit spirit of resentment, we shouldn't mention it. But our administration deserves some recognition for the openness and personal contact it tries to maintain with the stu dents here. Especially now that we've spilled over the 10,000 mark, and are bigger than most of the towns we came from. Every week Deans Clotworthy, Cooper, Witten, Brunton and President Jones him self let Gamccock reporters barge into their offices to collect news to keep the campus informed of what's to go, is going or has gone on. This is unthinkable on many other cam puses. Their deans are The Untouchables. News is not obtained FROM the administra tion, but submitted TO the administratiorn, for censorship. The University's cooperation with The (7ameccock is just one example though, of the personal consideration given any student who comes to one of the deans with prob lems. Oh, sure. we can all cite instances when somebody's secretary didn't smile at us, and we got all wound up in red tape trying to drop Math 11, or the Big Machines left our name off the History 22 roll. This doesn't mean the administration is cold, calculating and callously out to get us. It should be so obvious that these people couldn't run the University without caring 1E f3To R's (ongratulations to our winning football team, who couldn't have felt very pepped upl by the piddling turn-out at Friday night's pep rally. Several necks were nearly stepped on in that night's scramble to get a football. The tackling took pilace not on the field, but in the stands, over those p)riceless rubber foot balls the cheerleaders throw at the crowds. Seve n hundred seniors and graduate stu dents had Pictures madle for the yearbook on schedule, that's 200 less than last year even. This kind of cooperation is hardly going to help the Garniet and Black win All American again. * * * WCLSC . . . calling WUSC . . . over;... we can't hear you; . . . over . . . wish we could . . . hinlt hint . .. over. The Ga me'o(k Rtom and South Cafeteiria are endearing less people by no longer mak ing grilled cheese sand(wiches; they mess up the grill, you know; and the fixed-to-order ham, egg and tuna salad. T[hey still make those hamburgers though. And W'IIY . . )idn't t hey pai nt the inside of Pres ton dorm this summer when it was empty? ...Was the student union calendar p)rinlted for months so far ahead that most events could lie sc heduled on them ? Espe cially if they are to still come out every rnonth ? ...Don't they install inside and outside phones on every floor of the incommunicado freshman boys' dlorms. Or train some car rier pigeons to reach them? And WHEN ...Will The Citadel paint be at least scraped off the windows? (And wish some thing could be done about "DOGS" labeling all the women's dorms.) rcjGCASC SOUTH CAROLINA rot editor The Gemececk is published by and for the students of the rear except on holidays onamrn ex0minatiens. I Service, inc. The publication ii a member of the Associoted Col ,tional College Press Service, and the intercollegiate Press. Subwip IESSLE NEILIE MERRYMAN a.Chiet BHusnes Manager Art Editors ........................................RICK AMME, JOHN McCRAVY Feature Editors ..........BETH BROWN, LEWIS LEVY Campus Gditor ................KIT SOSSAMON Exchange Editor ..........................................................SUSAN KNIGHT Chief Photographer ................................................JOHN ROCKHOLZ Mangum, Mock Lundy, Pat Dillingham, Anne Simms, Diane Wilson, )nut Richardson, Terr Price, Randy Loney, Merle Gibbs, Joy Jones, 3nitos, Patty Oliver, londy Huggins, Richard Morrell, Mimi Wilkinson. bite Fathers about everything that goes into it. How many deans of men would lead the college band all over campus before a pep rally ? How many deans of women would choose to live in an unair-conditioned girls' dorm? The Administration is not just a big meaningless word on which to heap our petty daily resentments. They are PEOPLE who have purposely not set themselves so far out of reach that we can't work these resentment-causers out with them. Comedy Of Errors Faster than a speeding bullet, greased lightning, Gemini 5, etc., came the 1965-66 student phone directory to us direction-de void students. Its compilers . . . be they homo sapiens or IBM, deserve credit for record-setting pub lication. But the student union office is 3976, not 3460, the downstairs lobby phone. Dial "Student government, 3161" amd an office in the Business Administration build ing will answer. The home phone number listed for Ed Hendrickson is really the housing office. The South Tower main office is 3207, not 4706. University Terrace numbers are missing, dormitory rooms are wrong or omitted. People that moved out of a state three years ago are still listed with their original home address. Take one girl who came from Ridgewood, N. J. her freshman year; her family's moved twice since then and she's now a senior, still listed from Ridgewood, N. J. Her sister is a freshman correctly from Rye, N. Y. Could get confusing for their parents. Mistakes happen every year. Last fall the information numbers had to be hand stamped on every copy before they were distributed. But this MANY mistakes indicate plain carelessness. What good did it (10 to fill out a dozen registration cards with names, addresses and phone numbers? What good is the directory going to do us if wve can't trust it? VET' *I COLLEGE d INCENTI Exchange Corner "Blessed are the students, for they shall inherit Wall Street ... when they've returned from the rest farms!" This bit of philosophy comes from the Southern, of Florida Southern College. Along with this comes a plea to professors for a "Be Kind to Students Week" on campus, to provide for a basic right of scholars - the right to loaf just every once in a while. A description of one of East Carolina's recent football games, for the East Carolinian shows a striking similarity to the impres sion one might get from a Caro lina game: "All in all, the game was very enjoyable. After all, we won, everyone's special brew was con sumed, the economy of the town was raised by at least several percentage points from the sale of certain 'chuggable liquids,' and lots of tension from school was released. Just like the book says: 'There's nothing in this w o r I d like 7,000 staggering idiots'." For the bulletin boards of all pessimists (or "realists" if one prefers the term) The Yellow Jacket of Randolph-Macon Col lege cheerfully predicts: "Man is in a bind. He can continue to improve his technology, hoping that in this an answer will be found, but if the search is futile, at least he will do the most noble thing possible under the circumstances - he will destroy himself." A little food for thought, n'est-ce pas? To the Editor Dear Miss Roessle: There are few if any college newspapers in the country that manage to maintain an editorial page that not only clearly states a sound editorial policy, but also contrasts this serious material with a brilliant touch of humor. The editorial page of The Game cock this semester had the po tential of being perhaps the greatest of the select few. I was shocked to see that the first edition of The Gamecock this semester was printed with out the most famous of all humorous columns, "Dave Henry's, TH INKING OUT LOUD." To think that The Gamecock, representing an institution that refers to itself as an university, should stoop to such a repugnant example of prejudice by refusing to print Mr. Henry's scintillating column, especially in this age of civil liberties, for the sole reason that the author dloesn't enjoy the privilege of attending the University of South Carolina, is simply disgusting. I refuse to watch as this se mester's Gametcock plods down the wide road of medliocrity; VE:' Where Hai Crowd seenw at Saturda From I By JIM GRAVES Student 1kuly President People naturally cringe when someone says, "I've got some ad vice for you." So this column, though it may sound like advice, will be called instead "sug gestions." At least one of the two suggestions in ' t h i s column w i I I apply to e a e h member of the C a r o I i n a student bo d y. r h e Gra*es first is addressed to thos,e stu dents who have in the last few WI to tA e C cancel my subscription! Sincerely, DAVE' HENRY Clemwson University ( Editor's ni mi : Ion't . . . <on't bc bitter, . r. 1lv irY. .- t l11.s 1e y1 YoU're gtlil yo IMw 111 ill Print.) 0 0 0 To the Editor I)ear 1iss Rocsslc: I write this letter not only for myself, but for many concerned students. At the N. C. State gamE our head cheerleader looked --- there is no other adjective to describe his appearance --- "sloppy." Ilis shirt tail was hanging out of his trousers, and his vest was un buttoned as compared to the buttoned vests of the other male cheerleaders. We thing he did not make a very goodl impression on the visiting peCople from North Caro lina who came to see the foot ball game. We sure hope he looks better than he did Saturday night when we play our out-of-town games. Thank you, NA ME WITlIIIEI,ii BY' REQUESTl To the Editor I)Ear Aliss Roessic: In the first issue of The Game cock this fall you asked for anyv comnRnEts, idleas, etc., that would be( of interest to the studlent byody. Complying with your' reqIuest I've enclosedl an excerp)t from a news broadcast that Paul II arvey used on February 10, 196J2. A H(C in C'hicago sent me the excerp)t and( it is entitled "A Letter From "My name is Ge(or'ge. I'm an all-around hlandyman, andl I'd like for you to feel free to use my services for anty and aldl chore's, errandls, duties which you may be too busy to perform. "I'll write to your congressman for you; Ill write your news papewr edi tor; I'll serve on t he school hoard in your' plae; I'll do anything you're too tiredl or toE) pre'occ'upiedl to (10. "'You haven't time to vote', let G;eor-ge (do it. "TIhere is ce'rtain ly no need for youR to concern you rse'lf with at tendling union me'etings. You don't want to acce'pt comm it tee assignments and extra responsi hilIitie's, anyway. You let old Geo'(rge' tend to those th inrgs. "Now, you ask, why shoul you le'ave important jobs5 to somebhody y'ou've( ne'ver me(t ? W/elI, that's a reaisoniable queR(stionR, so let mue put your mind)( at ease. I'm no begin ner. Maybe I'm not as famous as Khrushchev is, but if it hadn't been'i for meu - y~ou'd nelfEver have' heard of him. And that goes for M ussolini and Stalin and liitler, too. I made those guys! And the big tinme racketeers in the United St,ates. You n amle 'em ;withbout me those' guys would ble nothing! "Don 't feel li ke you 're i mpos - ing. I'm glad1 inb of nrvi,,e. ie All The Pec (Cat n diglt's pre-N. C. Slate gime pep ra rho GravE days become members of USC social organizations, along with those students who are already members of these groups; the secOnd is meant for that large number of students who have no affiliation or. iemibership in these groups. To the first group, those who participate in fraternities and sororities: think seriously about what you have done and what is invoilved in it. It is a privilege to he a part of a (;reek-letter group, but there are also resJonsIibilitiCs inuvolveil. First, your grades must he kept up, for you goiII and the good of the group. Second, and very iniportant, take pridv in your i.r lelping you, I'm1 really helping myself. low d() you think I was ale to take over aol run a third of the world alrcly. Bicaluse nobody else wanteid to bother. They said, 'L't George do it ' So I did it. "Ntjw I'm taking over in lts of cities andI (cotilItic's in the lI 'nited States, and I fi gu re it's just a matter of. tinme until I'll take( over this country toi. I want to thank you fir nmaking it possili. "liemIber ni v if there is evil any way in which I can he of help, I'M at your .servic'. You just have fun and dn't worry aboumit a thinig. I'll cdI vourl worry ig, t0o). I'll bill you later. Sincerly,lv (;'or'ge" I biclevVV aiitinal -cpies if thiiis co mmeury al can lie olitainedi from the American icasting ('ompany, ( 'hicaugo, Ill. If you 51end fcor them11. Sinciere ly, I True Ec Ih ,JAM ES ('OX Senior I am deep in a typical sen ior's though ts concerning the final semeicsterI hi' is taking at US(' alndc the impre'(ssiton hi' has jgo ttn c'ofi the' crotwds of new students here' who will be ging through most of the sa me struggles that he has al most passed th rough. Anld I am11 coniincid that these new studien ts shouldi f'eel f'ortut nate ini comling to the Unive'rsity. Even for those to whom this will bei only a short visit, the daily paice andl the qtuality of experi ences in a large univ'ersity repre sent a s ubltle sort of education in themselve's. Right hire ont campus we are brought into intimate contact with the same currents and changes t hat ar i modvinig tihe whole worIld; lrather thIazn gettiig the soi-c'alledc distorted uand shel1 t.eredi vi'w of life, many oif us are 'onitinutally struck byv thIe impact iof such v'itacl issuecs ats the piopula tion expilos iln. the re'vulutiion in zamtioin ill our1 inistituitions. lint perhaps it is alnmost futile tic trly to chiallenge freshmnecn withI hi' <puest ion iof whlat the' icdea of iidutcat ioni i real/y meanls. Whet heri thi' new st uden t is here fill Cccuri years or four months, it seemlls only fair that someon(ile shiouldl warn him now of a real danigir that may iln son:e ways hce mitre alarming thnn the thought ocf flun k inrg ouit : that danger is bceinrg finail ly awakenid tou a zealI for li'arn inrg andi con scienlt ious scholairsh ip, su rvi vinrg the' dlemnsc of .apa..ndcn ple Gone? a tecock Staff Photo by 1twkholz) ly at the field house. 1syard group; work for it; give it your loyalty; but don't allow it to take away your independence. Don't become a "frat rat" or a snob. Remember that most independ ents are independents by choice. Perhaps most important of all, don't allow the fraternity or sorority to narrow your outitlook. You'll get to know your sorority sisters, sure; but don't forget those friends in the other fra ternity or the guys you played football with on your hall while you were an independent. To those on campus not in volved in Greek - letter social groups, another "suggestion.'" I'ut up with these people who are Greeks. Realize that these people are not attemptiing to be cool or part of an exclusive set. It isn't something that can he easily explained. For some people the whole idea is a ridiculous one; it seeis absurd to spend $10 a month just to wear a little Jeweled pin. To others, this little J.eweled pin and the things it r-epresents are of inestimable value. In short, tolerance and a spirit of cooperation are the best roads. As students at Carolina, we're all in this thing together. We're 5 all searching for something, though we're not all searching for the same things. So let's have a go at helping each otfher. It can't he done by ostracizing the other guy because he's a Theta and not a Beta; it can't be done by not speaking to that girl be cau.se she's an indepenwdent; it can't he done by disliking the fellow on your hall simply be cause he's a fraternity man. And yet it can be done. If each of us will honestly an(l sin cerely' taIkO an aittitudle of respect andi concern for our fellow stu0 dlent s, rega rdless of social affilia tin-- then there's no) problem. lucation eIsm), and then graduating with the illusion that he has "gotten" 4 ain educJ(ation in the pro0cess. Indeed, the character of college teaching and its curricula has changed adiirably with the spi rit of the times, but the university remia inis no less the (de ified p)ower st.ructuire that it has always been. TI'he u niv~ersit y has been roman - ica lly called "'the servant of en l ightenment. But more realistie al ly it can he said to retain all of the qutalit ies of a social struc ture, which man ages to suirvive' from year to year largely Ibe cause it (does not have to always .justify itself precisely to "eni lightened" ideals. From one perspective college might be seen as more like a four-year long aptitude test, a machine for stratifying andl label - ing people for a more efficient selection of manpower for the operations of society. But what about the precious knowledge they struggle for? Is it in vain? Not necessarily, if we ac (cept Woodrow Wilson's observa ion that true education in itself is a process of disillusionment. When in later life we have "come to ourselves," it will then be clear that way back in college the sup posed p)resence of a mystical ex Iperience called "'education'' is a kind of myth. More truly, we will see, these four years represent, rather than a unique experience, a concent rationi andI abstraction of the experiences that, we hope, characterize the broader, more dliffulsed streams of life after college. And it is the relatting of these abstractions to the b)roader streams, using themi as guides in a life-long struggle to live life instead( of letting it live us8, that is the neenneofn true neduattion.