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Editorials Commentary Friday, May 5, 1967 Columbia, South Carolna Southern Justice In light of events on campus in the last two weeks, the Great Issues program next week on "Southern Justice" should be a meaningful one. The topic is intended to include discussion of the exercise of rights and the administration of justice as they relate to the South, and particularly in regard to racial problems. However, the scope of the topic is broad enough that there should be discussion of the problem arising out of events on campus recently. Tolerance. the right to dissent, police actions, proper con duct and many other subjects could and should be explored during this series of programs. Questions have been raised and answers should be sought. The program begins Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Russell House with an address by South Carolina Attorney General I )aniel R. MeLeod. There will be discussions and addresses Wednesday and Thursday nights, with other notable speak ers to include Charles Morgan, representing the American Civil Liberties Union; Gedney 1Iowe, former Charleston solicitor; and Matthew Perry. prominent Columbia attorney. The subject and the speakers indicate that this will be a thought-provoking session of the Great Issues program. It deserves the participation of the student body. Teacher Award As in years past, the University will presnt at commence ment its Russell )istinguished Teacher Award. To quote the USC Faculty Manual: "The University con ceives of itself as a teaching center and feels that a major responsibility of its faculty members is for thorough and effective teaching activity." Each year the University recognizes one teacher for his excellence in the classroom. The award includes a $500 stipend for the professor. Selection of the distinguished teacher is made by a com mittee, which is composed of taclty members and students. Nom inat ions for the award are accepted, and encouraged, from the students and faculty. Student participation in the nominations has not been good in the past, and this is regrettable, for they should know better than anyone else the quality of the teacher. It should be noted, however, that the measure of the teacher is not merely personality. ("lassr olm presentation, klnowl edge of his subject, personal counseling and other qualities must he co)nsidered. To make a nominati n, use the form below, being sure to include the signature. The form should be mailed to 1)ick I'.1liott , Editor-i n-( 'hiefi, The Ga n cock, ('am pus M1ail. The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. M1ay 1 5, 1967. RUSSELL DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD Mly nomination for the 1 t)7 Rtussell I )ist ingu ished Teacher Award is 1)ate St rIdent. Sign:rt uo ~2AGA4Mcocz Fournded Januirar - :)0, 10 wnsithr Hihert i.ihonrt Gonza,.les as the, fast ri<htnr. Ihre Gamecock is pubbs it by .uni fir the simienrts oft the tivers.ity of Sonthr ..arirhn Awekly drinrg the college' year es ipt duinntg hiohdayse .ui reiiriantmoirs. The opinions expressed he-rein ido niot nir<essamrily refleet tthe news ot the i<hmn istratri>n, thre fatulty r thre simntiili bodiy is a wholei. ()tfices if T[he Ga,meerck are. mi ttuom 105 it the Huissl HIIiouse n thre iiinersity campu~is. Phones are 7r;5-1249 (WItr. 7i5 12'.1 (tisines aiiii .W rtsirsinig) ari :;6-s178 (Newsroomn). Thie G;aecock is repreunitedi na.tinaly> ty Na,tionarl A<he rtsing Sirs ie, loci. IThe pubhcae~.tinr is a emener of the. Assiaitit Cotlegiatre P'ress, the iiithi Caeriih, n i C l legiate Press Associartion, the NastrinaI CollegQ P'ress e,rnte an iid the I laer<o llegrite P'ress. Subtscriptionr rates ire S-t0 pe ~rr yr.r BUISINE.SS MANAGER . C.AlTR (;REW1E MANA(GING; EDITOR . .GINNY LARIROILL Assistant Managing Editor CrlMlia News Editor ..SlyZli Sports Editor lo tiha Assistant News Editor Beth rw, 'taMdi,ayItnto Social Affairs Editor idJ0Mgm Faculty Editor .hiteCre Chief Reporter .alStp Exchange Editor Iy Jrno Editorial Cartoonist iarStal Chief PhotographerJonRkhl Advertising ManagerMayWliso Staf Mmbes: ayardAdd. KteSley.JoeHiChraHry mmolnax Jimm Wanamker Mary An Brnet. Mke rormaiy. ay akigne Wilar, onaGalt ChrlneSeaso. ohnDaidSpd ornn Sittomn.E Fin. Cate Crwe.Chi Galowy, iane Mlso, in, arr HenWilas. mRichard Bhe,ary WO "No riot, just Our Mai The Day Phynki< Ilirew it h is another unwritten chapte- r in that stanlard unlpuh Iished reference work, ".A 1Iis tory lof the World, 1950-1999.'' The title of this chapter is, "The liatt that Smiled." The failure of the major pow ers in the late 19(ts to sign a treaty against nuclear prolifera tin iroluced the Iredictel dire results. Germany, which had blocked the treaty because it wanted bombs for peaceful pturposes, got Itheirs. It was touch and go whether the Israelis would 'ontseqIuently3 get theirs. Hlut, tort unat ely, t hey dieveloped a nuclear det err'ent in the nick of So it wenit. IEvery time one nation got the hbomb, its neigh bor's perspiried until they got theirs, tooi. limbs proliferatedl l'verywhere'4. Yelt an une'asy pe'acel prlevailed. I''or 'ac'h nation feared tol unlleash its hombs, kntowinig retaliation would lbe instant. Andu thus thel the'ory of heac' through nucliea r det errenc'e reached its ult imate' flowering. IThent Phynkia got till buomh. Now Phlynkia conisisted of 1 3.61 sqIUur miles of absol uely 17 eked out a mttiser'able exis ten'ice forging dirt y F'rench ipostc'ards antd expor'ting lice for use inscenifc pri Tlhir he'r'd it a r rulIr, or Taitt, wats huaih-di by~ his pleil, as hi' inv~arialy was as "The4 Gre'.ate'st itatt in HIistory." bomb111 (in a swayiJ withI ant unlml Jliyed camitel dIriver for 1.8 k ilmi olf adltltratd ro nt ),h' sat for a lonhg timE loolking at this, the '"Only I,"' 1he satid, "undelr stand t he t heory of pea'ice throughI n ucleari delterre'Ene'4." .\ndi he' fir'ed off a dIirt y post - card (r'egular' mtail) to 1114 '.S. State l)epartmtent, de-* mantdintg ant immnediate sur' finally loc(at ing Phyntkiai In m 411old map, displatched'i an :unhlas sadoril. "'I fear voli lld>iJi't undeIrstant ol chap,'' tihE ambassadori full the' Iatt withI a patroni?izin; Net concrete!" a Hoppe By Arthur Hoppe Got The Bomb hlow us up, our swift nuclear retaliation woulh reduce Phynkia to an absolutely arid lesert." "Iiig deal," said the Ratt, look ing out the window. "You must think of your peo ple," said the ambassador nerv ously. "I am," said the Ratt, ducking a rock. "And your loved ones and frienis.'' IIOPPE "Hlow do0 you spell that last ?" asked the Itatt, leafing through an -:n gilish-PIhynkian dlittionary. liut it prioved uni translatable. A week later, the U. S. sur rendeItred(. Rlussia, after si milai negot iat ions, fol lowedl suit. Ami so the Htat t came' to rule th< worl. lit piledl all the bombs in heap andI carried the dletonatol arun h001lis nieck. Tlh is dlete'rre< reformetrs f r o mn ove rt hrow~'ing him. Or even jiggling him gently liut in the end, a lasting petace was finally achieved thbrough ni u c I e a r deterrence. 'Te first to sense its coming was a holy man who visited the hiatt on his deathbed and said, "Itepenit, my son. For though you have gainedl the worIld, rem)ember: You can't take it with~ you.'' It was then t hat The Greaktes ltaott in 11 istory, for the firs time in his life, smiledl. (()ur .11an, IIoppet is S,/ln<lica te nat ion li U >I11ho ('hron)11icle 'ci Fe turi LeN Does Hi! I)ear Mr. Elliott: If there is one thing that his tory teaches us, it is that man does not learn from history. History has yet to teach man that he cannot rid himself of un wanted ideas by censoring those who harbor these ideas. One only needs to note the earthshaking social movements in the life of this nation to understand this fact. The de termination of the original colon ies to gain their independence, the determination of labor to or ganize, the determination of the American Negro to obtain poli tical freedom are only a few among many examples. All of these causes at first were espoused by a minority dedicated to the immortality of their ideas. In restrospect it is ironic that history seems to have been on the side of the minorities. I am pleading to you students of the 20th century with the elo quence of l)ag Hammarskjold's Wor(ls when he wrote, "wrestle with your problem until its emo tional discomfort is clearly con ceived in an intellectual form and then act accordingly." Fellow students, most of you have learned from your classes that absolute truths do not ex ist. Your very presence at this university attests to the fact that you do not accept blindly, and that you want to come into con tact with as many ideas as pos sible in an effort to be able to choose intelligently. Yet, paradoxically, you are willing to lie supinely on your backs and to glorify the propo sition that man is an infalli ble being. I don't necessarily support what those protestors stood for who picketed last Wednesday, but does this give me the right to suppress their thought? Who knows, maybe in the in finity of time these protestors will be proven right. Can we af ford not to think so? .IAMl,S 1. COWI:RS Dear Mr. Elliott: Mrs. Sahli, in her recent letter expressing indignation that the USC student body did not receive the tortured convolutions of her soul with respect to the legality and morality of the American position in Viet Nam in the same spirit of objectivity as, say, her confessor, made the following statements: 'Th.ose c"onc('rn(l with academic freedom and the ro)le of the University cannot fail to be concerned with a war that is sappling our country's moral andl economic strength.... When the University becomes the anxious suitor of the mili tary indlustrial establishment our dlemocratic society will then be well on the way to unholy matrimony. Quite so. I would not be so bold4 as to dleclare causal ityv, but one may determine exactly wvhere the moral strength is, in fact, totally sapped by marking the fey husks, as they protest the bat tle fought by others to post - 1)one Ragn arok. Acu e i?l(st <1e re pul4blie and NIrs. Sahli offers' us warmed-over C. Wright MIills. .IAME F,I). (C,I.ARK Tear .Ir,. E .lliott: As I watchedl the conferring of the honorary I )octorate' of L aws I >4g ree4 upon)1 Gefneral Westmon4re land, I had mni xed( emiotions. We', as a great University, honoredl him for hiis efforts in leading 0our t r4ops inl combhat in V iet INami. Ceortai nly, ac'ting as a Uiniver sity, wo' woub14 not dem'Iandl that all me'mberVs off the Carol ina (Community agree that he is jus t ified and carries the "'I anner of Freedom.'' Tlhere is some)4 pos sibility that future generations will accuse him of being a mere pu Jppet ini carrying out 1)4)1icifes off "immlature4 dliplomlacy" andl childl Ii ke~ arro)gance( ats direcfte b'1y the t 'erhaps f u t u r e' generat ions will laughingly ask why the pres enIt admn)in ist rat ion in Washing tn u)104ss the t radlit ional methbod o,f ''force'" to Solve inte'rnat ional ...roms in an age in which Lers To The Edit ;tory Tec 'vely sphere of life claims to be 'I naking "progress." Could it be that man and his b nstitutions have inherent frail- t< ies and are inevitably doomed to espondl to emotion and self in ;tenl of intellect and commun ty? THOMAS I. KIN)I,, I Graduate Student icar Mr. Elliott: C The theme of "Year One" in t u (I e n t government concluded his week with Bill Youngblood laving built a firm foundation or student government and USC :o grow on for many years to "ome. We can not say that Great Is sues, Teacher's l'valuation, Stu lent Speak-Outs and other ihievements have been out- 1 tanding successes but at least t we can say that an effort was made to start these programs. The year has been a challenge so let us continue. As a personal friend and a member of the Carolina Com munity, I say "thank you" President Youngblood for your efforts and your sincere work. Peace Marc) Dear Mr. Elliott : Since I was one of these stu lents who picketed the ceremony honoring (;en. Westmoreland, I feel qualified to state certain facts in order to clear up in accuracies and to make some ob servations. Our group consisted of roughly 35 people, of whom all but a few were students. A prominent local lawyer and politician and at least one faculty member walked in our midst. Many of us were graduate students. All of us agreed in preferring negotiations for peace to an escalation of the war effort. We met as a group near the chapel where the ceremonies were held, and began to walk quietly in a circle showing our signs. In accordance with previous planning, we were well - dressed, well - mannered, quiet and orderly. At first, the crowds only stared and made jests. But their behavior rap idly became loud and violent. Two or three hundred strong, they rushed toward our small group and threatened us with physical harm. They booed us, disturbing the ce.enimon inside the chapel with theirm up)roar. Theli female stu~ <!ents amoiing us were jeered in a p)ar'ti(ular'ly o15 b s e e e manner. 'When he police came forward Praise Tingec To the Editor: We are writing this letter to heartily endorse the manner in which the University, students and( adm flinlist rat ion!, 'ondlucted it self in the presentation of an honorary doctorate to G ener'al William WVest moreland on A pril 26;, 1967. As5 st udlious, patriot ic, young A mericans who hold (lear (our an cient l ibert ies, such as free spe4ch1, andi thuts supplIlort our na tioni's commitment to V'iet Nam, (ourI studlent body threatened to4 hod ilyv dismember a handful (of their fellows who dlaredl to ex prless a contrary view. Their chants o)f "l.et's get themu," "string them uap," and "Cops give t hem hell," all of which indicate the superior in tellectual capacity (If the (Caro lina student, further- demon strated the lengths to which the majority of those p4resent would go to p)rotect A merican liberties, such as free speech. Such dlevotionl to the ideals of the founding fathers, such in tellect ual comnmit ment to lib ert y, freedom, and j ust ice, among the lIniversit y's studoenit body is indeed reassuring. TIhe pol)1ice were it<jualy mag - iificent . Oblv iousl y, the 1'n iver sit y's adomiunistra~tioni wais confi lent that t hese gentle men would neverI allow at smaill, inlsigniificat mllinoority of the tll studenitt bodyl t(o renu)ttionl orl in ian' vwav' bo. or ch Us? 'o the Men and Women of Caro na I say the foundation has pen laid - now let us continue 1 build! JOE HOBSON, Press Secretary Student Government )ear Mr. Elliott: As a member of the student ody of the University of South larolina I feel compelled to con lemn the actions of Thomas T. ridwell, a member of our chem stry department. His r e c e n t Lctions during General Westmore ands visit to our campus were rresponsible, crude and embar- r -assing to the University, the tate, and the nation. As an American, I will never -ontest his right to protest; but f he were a mature adult, which sincerely doubt, he would realize hat the place to protest was out tide an:d not inside the Rutledge 'hapel. In conclusion I would like to my that in my opinion I feel that le should be severely censured for :he "'black eye" that he has given .he student body and faculty of his university. CHARLES A. McGEORGE Defended interpose themselves, the rowd chanted, "Cops give'em iell!" The police marched us iway from the scene, telling us o put away our signs. The mob rollowed us to the edge of the ampus, still shouting wildly. Within our group there is dis :igreement in regard to the police. There is no legal doubt about it, the police had no legal right to make us leave the scene or to destroy our signs. Any arrests would have been il legal. I personally feel the police did the only thing they could have done. had they not been present, I feel sure the hecklers would have attacked us. I am glad that there were no fights and no arrests. In closing, I cannot believe that the depressingly animal istic behavior of the hecklers is characteristic of this cam pus. Surely most students dis agreeing with our point of view would simply have ig nored us. Those students who jeered us had supposedly come to honor Gen. Westmoreland, yet when they saw us they im mediately forgot their original purpose, and took off after us. This shows rather clearly that those students had a clearer idlea of what they were against than of what they were for. SUSAN M. WALLACE I With Irony smirch the reception of the gen eral. The police amply demonstrate d that such confidence was not mis placed by tearing down the peace demeonstratoirs' signs, forcefully ejecting them from their own campllus, urging the studlents to give their attention to Westmore land, who "deserved it," and threatening to arrest any student who dared question their ac Certainly the police were correct in removing these ob noxious students rather than attempting to protect them and allow them to present their views. Such police action will always reassure the right thinking students and allow thenm to proclaim their views without bothersome opposition. The foresight of the Ujniver sity's administration must also be praised. Aware of the im pending protest, they took ab solutely no action to protect those unpatriotic few from the righteous wrath of those whom they knew might not be ale to contatin their platriotism. Indeed. the entire spectacle of April 2f, I 97, p)roved the mace to be a most appropriate symbol for the U n iversity of South Carol ina. IEL.TON A. McL,AUI(IN WILLIAM M1. SPILL,ANE TihoMAS C. KENNEI)Y l.OWl L SATRtE lt()IIERTA MILLERl P AU . MlcCA RThIY