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Editorials Friday, May 13, 1966 Memorial Hall President Jones' announcement Wednesday of the Uni versity's plans for Memorial Hall construction formalizes a project that has long been a dream of the Carolina Com munity, The multi-purpose structure will fill a crucial need for modern facilities aiding academic, athletic, and entertain ment endeavors. While benefiting USC primarily, the building will also prove a boon to Columbia and this area of the state which has such a serious lack of decent large-capacity facilities. We hold the building forth as a prime example of the forward movement of educational thought in South Caro lina. At last, notable conscientious efforts are being made by the state to meet present needs and plan for the future. With buildings such as Memorial Hall augmenting the magnificent residence halls recently completed on campus and the physical science center now under construction, the University is insuring its position as the "faithful index to the fortunes of the state." We salute President Jones and his four-year administra tion for their efforts. Journey's End It's over, it's over, it's over! A semester's journey has ended. To those asking "was it worth it," the answer is "it was!" To those asking "what did you get from it." the answer is "a lot of everything but money." It's easy to say you work at The Gatmecock, but even now as the semester is ending it's still hard to say what you do there. On the other hand, it is easy to realize and easier to say that The Gamecock takes you over; that this newspaper dominates your life. You don't edit the paper; it edits you. One semester of school life (following five other semes ters of near total devotion) was devoted to the weekly rat race that produces a paper. You find yourself eating with Th( Gamecock, talking with The Gamecock, vacationing with Tite Gamwcork, and sleeping with The Gancewk. Everything else takes a back seat as the paper fully possesses you-an obsessed editor for a semester. For this semester and its opportunities for service thanks must be given. Appreciation goes to The Gamecock staff, Hoard of Publications Chairman George A. Buchanan, friends, neighbors, and family. The aid of all is greatly --ppreciated. Special thanks go to the University administration for their increasing cooperation and for their allowance of a free, totally uncensored press. Free press is a reality at the University. But like all other power and authority, our free press has its corres)onding responsibility which must con tinue to be met by the students who conmand this power. Looking to the semester ahead all looks well. The Game rock has a good staff to perpetuate the "Crowing for a Greater Carolina." There are many more things that might be said, but there is no time or space. Read back over the p)apers of this semester and look between the lines--maybe there is some thing there. The time for good-bye to 208 Russell House is here. The old order has changed. An Editor? Selection from the editorial col lect.ion of William Allen White. Which reflections make it in order to ask what is the edlitor's office ? What is he created by the civilized forces to do0? It is certain that the editor is not a p)reacher. If he preaches too much he is closed out by the sheriff. It is certain hat the edlitor is not a teacher. If he teaches too much he is closed out by' the mob. It is certaini that the edlitor is not a giver of lawx, nor a ruler over the people. F'or if he sets him self up) as an autocrat, there is an atmospheric uneasiness and p)laces that knew him wxill know him no more. Yet in a measure the edlitor must be something of a p)reacher, some hinzg of a teacher, somnethinzg of an autocrat. Chiefly and on the face of' it the editor's business is to print the news, just as a in zister's busi ness is to preach the gospel. But xxhat gospel anid what news shall be preached and published -t hese are inud ividual (juest ion) s. The editor must be the judge of hiis news, of how it is told, what is recitedl and what is om1ittedl. iIe must in terpriet it. iIe must take a "sidle" in everything. Nothing fails so rapidlly as a cowarlyv paper, unless it is a paper that confuses cou rage with noise. The (ditor must not expect political preferment or worldly power. Virtue is its ownl rewvardl. The editor in politics for his own advancement generally makes a sad mess of it. iIe must not znly hew wood, he must saw wvood. iIe must dIraw water, but hie must take water in politics ; that is necessary andl proper. T[he editor must be guidle, p)h ilosop)her, andl friend to all-the rich as well as t he poor. He must be executioner andl under taker, promoter anzd herald. It is a new office-this office of edlitor-b)arely t wo 'enitu ries old--anid its duties are not all s(et andl described'(. But these are some of them. Others will follow as the centuries roll on, and the world grows wiser. But in the meantime the editor will have to grope along in heathen dlarkness, following the light given to him, only re membered, after all, by what he has (lone. f/e GA cocic SIG HUJITT FAitor-in-Chief BARRY BRJEIBART JANEAN MANN Business Manager Managing Editor UNIVERSITY "Crowing for Gci r1'a" ~~t * -* O. "I'sGo .1 **"'d D REEep DerM. ut: ins My cncer wih wrt.in yo wll thslte stecoc fpr h It s m st-nestfeeingth t'se thslte stchoice of Geer-lWsmrln ths nsot uonly a travei,ty on the Univer sity and( any honorary degrees I)ear awarded but also on the South as Abe a whole. studeu1 The awarding of this degree minec, must refleet those pursuits and piassed activities which the University Aft sees as intellectually commend- pathy able. If this is true in the case a lett of this specific degree than I contai (an only hope that the great con- She 'susG Thspast week eleven of your perso studeunt edrstooik part in the this Southern Uiversity S tudent G;ov- raiaset ernmiient Asso~,ciationa's a nt n u a I .J udici sprinag leadership training con.1 probb ferenice in Jacksonv,ille, F-la. Each this did an excellenit job. in preparation. it to i for work ini his fickd for the com.- to sp ing year. factot Attending were Jim Mulligan, tr-atio) presidIing officer for next year's (On student senate; Itod Kinard(, in- *t, coming student body treasurer; inte P at Naylor, incoming Junior how (lass President; K it Sossamon, muitch studlent senate secretary for next coudI year; Andy Smith, c-hairman of o,f ti next year's dance and concert doiesni committee: lharriet Hlarter, sec- up. A retary of the senior class and studet Kappa D)elta president, Craig ame. a Evans, Sophomore president andl 'ear representative on the Men's Ju- gin a dicial Council; Sig hluitt, editor At of The Gam,~e'ock; Sherie Stock- of se man, cheerleader and Chi Omega dicial president; Janet Selman, vice- ('otri president of the Associated moun Women Students and myself. b)ody 'This year's conference ran from Itegu Wednesday through Saturday; each (whi< day was replete with panel dis- gethe cussions, Presidents Councils, meet- the g ings with various dance and book- than ing agents, state caucuses for the the" election of state officers and a Judie general reunion with friends from bt other states. of th Perharwa te chief gwd fo.. me has t OF SOUTH CAROUNA a Greater Carolina Since 1908" S . U.. .It Wi N 41., na Be A Rough Gamel" rary southern preoccupta- to a--k %4n ltat we have beeiv ,ith a heligerant. militarism %varchieig for the isl Pictire we >oi go the way of its cause. had of Dick ich sho%rd him i ivil Wa.-- A l r r I .. CilAlLES W. HATCH 14ki akt cu~liil at HELP, PLEASE mthmgotiswudoubgti SIfr. Iouit t :soahI)le skmw ut a mnoncth or 50 aigo a L:SC~lctn tfr n huh g who was a classmate- of ta o a x fgethl Rtichaiem (D)ick ) Guaerry, i rnigti nTeGm c away. frh- ae Lr sendling a ntote of sym- Aiimesitkaold fth toi his parents, 1 received itr aicntctmwt78612 er- from his mother which Tamk'a eimat- o oa ned a reqo~uest. 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Ernest F. lollings, Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate. Tilt subject of the iiterview wa% Iigher education, muil lollitigs was quite frank and candid inl his con memts. liolliigs is a graduate of the USC law .chlm, aml while here lie served oin the staff of lite S. C. Law Ieiew, was a m14emb1jer of the Wig anid Robe lonor Society and president of the Student Bar Association. When we questioied lollings about his views on higher educa tion in this state, he responded enthusiastically and with an obvious feeling for the subject. "1 ha-e alway felt that higher educatioit was one of lie most im portant problems faciuig our state," 1lolings said. lIe pointed out tiat while he was goermor he created the Advisory Omimittee on Higher EdcAtionai especially to deal w ith this problei. 1his cominuksionl wa. abomli"lhedl bv (;o. Itip-mell and1 then-1 reinstituted by (ov. McNair. We then questioned llollinig! concerning his charge tlhat the state has inadequate graduate facilities in the field of space age research. "Se%erafl .%var, ago, D)r. Wernier Von Biraun told me that the !pace age belonlged 1 the South. 'lie extensie facilitie. inl the states of Florida aimd Alabama hear this olt. Realizinig tile treioesdou.s op. portliity for South Carolina, I establisheld tile S. (:. Nuclear En. ergy amd Space (Ommlsission. 'lii. (OMilmissioii was later abolishedI b then (ov. )onald Bisell." Mr. Hlollings then poiinted out that South Carolina was recently eliminated as a site for the new $300 million Nuclear Reactor and he cited a lack of adequate re search facilities on the graduate level as a primary cause. The Gamecck almp qlestiolned 16lolliigs almt li, ilan, for higher eduAcatitin if he it e ecte-d- N. th I . S. Senate. "'As yotur senator, I would lend my full support to legislation p)roviding a tax break for the p)arents of college studen ts,"' Ilollings said. lieI noted that legislation of this sort (The ibicoff Amendment I had been defeated recently anrd that Sen. Rtussell voted against it. "This amendment, which w a s co sponsoredl by 34i senators, wold ( have p rovidled a tax ceredIit to piarenits of college students. TIhis w ould have amnoun ted to a aav Fhe Closing By BII I wvould like to relate that the (1) Studenit/FIaculty R hitaions 'ominittec forl next year has beena selected; in the first col - umnil for next fall I will give a biogr~,aphi cal sketch of each of the members and t heir work for the comning year- (2) pilans have been finalized for the Student GoI vernlment A ssociat ion on the state-wide le-vel as promised ea rlie-r. At Si S( ;A thiis past w eek, I was chlose.n to serive as I 'resident for the St ate's Student Hody l'residents in thijs associa tion. We will meet as often as possile nex't fall and the results of these menetin gs will be. statt ed in this column. I.. thei cloiii 5 week% of thei termi, the. Stiiuet Affair. (:43m-3 mliitter ( consii,t ing oif fomur .sudenats anad six facult.s admnistrationu rep. resenitautiive') ha,i been1 meeit ing toi he4ar thei haulget requests for thoise st luet oirgiaiatio,i ml,ing '1,itn ar~ti. iie's fee... Eh'. groupij staites' iteml. I have per'sonially been'f imi piressed( withI t hie needs of each groupj arid am quite wor-ried abiout the inevitable prolemn we as a co4mmiittee4 must face: lTe totalI budget requests fo r niex t yeari am1tounti to 14o ver $1 7'7,000 andiI the commrittee' has $142,000 to work with. tmentary blumbia, South Carolina JOY' nt view ngs of approximately $200 per rear for the parents of Univer ;ity students. Fully 62 per cent >f these tax credit-s would have ,one to families with incomes in he $:3,000-$10,000 per year -ange." Ile also noted that a )oll conducted by the Citizens National Committee for Higher Education showed that college >residents and trustees favored Jhis amendment by a margin of 1,056-401. lIollinigm alko urged greater LtiliZatiOnl of Federal Education 1"i--tance programs. "Few states need financial help to upgrade their educational facilities more than does South Carolina. Since the Federal Gov L1rnment is grabbing all the available revenue before the states ,an get it, then the only alternative is to get some of that money - our money - - back." Wheni the problemt of S, C.'s col. It-ge- graduites leaving the state %Iv. -o4d to llolliigs, lit ga%t thi "S. ('.'s primary resourue is its young people. It is imperative that we keep our young people if' we are to continule to progress. I think that a broad and compre iensive industrial expansion will provide more career opportuni ties for college graduates and will help us to keep our tal I-1nted young people. I have ad ways worked to promote thli. type of industrial growth an( I Ahall continue to do so." lollings added that it was important to keep our educator in the state. lie noted that the salaries of teachers and college professors were raised 30 per cent during his term as governor. In the past few weeL- this re pmirter has atiended manty political fuitunt111i Such ag 14tump11 s1peaking%, rallie% utif bartcue. Ont each of these occaimns foriier Cov. 111 iling, ha-, cnitietued t4o hammer away 4 al 4one battic it%-.ne - edIuca tion33. Neither timelt, plae. nosr audi potinhting out1 the in~adtequcie's andt sl 34tem1. Ite hams consistetlytI ralled for iNmp3r31emen'3t inl e'ducationl 433 Iltollings is particularly 'ont c'ernedl with ad(vanc1(emen'1t in thte field of technical education. Of c'ourse' t.his is only logical in view of the faict that Ilollings inst i tulted the Tech nitcal iCdutcat ion Centers whic'h have e'njoyedl such sucles '.s in our s,tate. Weeks...' EL YOUNGBLOOD ..tuden'tt ativtlities. fee4'! $5 per" stu1 dent3 passed4'( ini the spring elec'ttiont had14 sumfficientt fund4s to3 rut its or gai zattion3 and34 se'rve the. itudtI1 As we stand1( nowl, all1 of uts tmutst suffer fr'om the lack of funds41. One4. solultion to1 this probIl lem11 was5 broulght to mly atten-1 ion this past week while wt' we're in F'lorida. The Stude'nt Ii(ody President att the U nivers1'ity oIf Mliami told tme that his stua den'ut boldy had14 run intol the samet' pr'obltem and1( had soIlved' it ( par t ial ly ) by raising the student ac tivitites fee onily $1 with tht' guarani'tete tol the studlents that thIiis i ncrea3se' wouldt be used4 st rictly for two't dancles. In this waty, the Student Unrion31 1)ance1 Commh1I~it.ttee was3 relie'ved oif a big part ion of its budget needs and1( te other organizations benefit - tted Fly r'ece(iving this overblls from the Studlent Un ion's bud1 I would14 like to3 hear some34 emn-31 thtis tsolutioni and34 others on1 tii ma13tter4 43f 441cocern for all of1 us3. S'ulic opjinionl is the stongest voice that you1 have as stuidet'ls goiverning. tk.' use oIf it. Goodl luck tol alIl of1 you (includling pro4 fessors ) ont ex amis; mnaybe. next year will be the year for Stul 41i'tnt govrning.