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EDITOR. Carol ) ASSOCIA TE EDITOR Don Caughman Page Ten - THE GAME Sounds ( Article V, Section 3 of the Student Body Constitution states: . . . spring election to be held annually during the first week of April on such day or days to be established by the Elections Committee, unless changed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. April 1st is 16 days away. From the Elections Committee, we have the sounds of silence. However, from the recent action of Stu dent Body President Sammy Drew, it is ap parent that the Elections Committee has its problems. Drew has appointed three new members to the five-man committee be cause of resignations spanning from six months to two weeks ago. What's Be Parking at Carolina is in a transient stage. Right now, it is inconvenient. Next year, it will be critical. The administration began an intensive study of the parking problem a year and a half ago. Even more recently a student Executive Parking Committee headed by Alan Thames undertook a similar study with the aim of improving parking facilities on campus. These were projective studies. They ex amined not only the existing situation, but the trends that would develop with an in creasing student body and expanding cam pus. Future trends point to three main areas of concentration on campus. One such area is the developing west campus. With the construction of Memorial Hall, the Schools of Journalism and General Studies will be moved to the west end of the campus. A proposed new law school will also be constructed in this area. Me morial Hall itself will function as a center for athletics and other student activities. A second concentrated location will be A Principle In regard to Negro activities at the Capitol Wednesday we have only one thing to say: It is easy to become so preoccupied with carrying out the mechanics of a principle that the principle itself begins to fade. Open Letter Dear Miss Mullinaz: bility of unive I write this letter with some concerning the reservations, but in spite of cal issues of ou these reservations, I feel that as professors, ht someone must point the accus- bility extend(ing~ ing finger. The luxury of man- acea d emice "u ners has past. civi Irights ane To begin with, I dlon't hon- volvement in Vi estly know what is the responsi- Time after t The opinions expr,essed herein do not necessarily refieet adrninistration, the faculty or the student body as a whole. Offices of The Gamecok are In Room 305 of the flusse University campus. P'hones are 777-4249 (Edito,r-in,-(hiefi. 77 and Advertising), and 777-8178 (Newsroom). BUSINESS MANAGER................Mary ADVERTISING MANAGER ................i ASST. MANAGING EDITOR...........Mary NEWS EDITQR........................... SPORTS EDITOR...................Jimmy EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS .John Carbaugh, Mar ASST. NEWS EDITORS.........Sherry Brown ASST. SPORTS EDITORS......Heyward Addy FACULTY EDITOR ...... ..............Mike SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR ...............N CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER ................. CIRCULATION MANAGER ................. CARTOONISTS ............. .....Kate Sally, OFFICE MANAGER .................... J REPORTERS-Giunny Carroll, Jerry Calabrese, Steve Kelly, Jay Hodge, Susan Rosa, Susan Tannei ~aaLinda Jo Mangum, Ken Hare, Don Hulh PHOTOGRAPHERS-Bob Benson, Elliott Boren Crewe. Charles Keefer. Warren Hudson, Mike Ty Ediorlals C%W UtUIRT IN-CHIEF dullinax MANAGING EDITOR Sally Zalkin COCK - March 15, 1968 )f Silence This gives the committee two weeks to reorganize itself in the face of the coming elections. It should not be a matter of two weeks. It should not even be a matter of five weeks which the committee will have if the Senate Rules Committee passes a proposed bill to delay elections by some three weeks. The chairman of the Elections Commit tee, Charles Brandenburg, was appointed last year. He has had a full semester and six weeks of another to get his committee in order. Spring elections are dependent on the action he has taken. And so, we ask, what action have you taken, Mr. Brandenburg? ing Done? the expanding east campus with Capstone dormitory on the periphery of this six-block area and a second proposed dormitory in the same block. Also included is the Humanities Center complex, presently under construc tion. The major area of concentration is mid campus, just to the south of Russell House. Proposals from the parking studies point to high rise parking lots in these areas as the ultimate answer. Construction would be undertaken on a long-range basis. The first of several multistory parking lots could be located directly behind the Russell House with the first level on Devine Street and the second level elevated above Devine. This construction would align with such priorities of the University as a new infirmary, a new nursing school and law school: Funds are dictated by priorities. On a short-range basis, stop-gap m'ea sures are being taken. The University is acquiring central land that will eventually come under the building program and using it for temporary parking lots. Three lots on the Capstone block (be tween Barnwell and Hlendlerson Streets) have been bought and will be used for stu dent parking. Other lots will be leased with money from dlecals, meters and parking fines. The essence of the studies, the long range proposals, and the stop-gap measures is that a growing parking problem is being dealt with before it reaches the crisis stage. The essence, things are being done now. ro Professors rsity lresPs Ihv er professorsevd ocial andl politi- thsisusainprrae r time. D)o you, frcasomdsuso.Ti ve any responsi- mabepoewihnten beyond mere vriycn(x.Ilaeti riderstanding" of foeahposortdci. the U. S. in- lIVf(th casro,ow etnam ? veIseantiellslnc ime in lectures, onteprofniritpof themelvewonshof thees i'iavheoraw. Oe,nherhae noten2gh rofsuosianesrs anne uficenlycolsneoaon theenseusHenogaizean Wannamakersoe ot.ofsatmet anymoeet tisNiceetloneo ,. Mn an hiGaurfesrsituivr ,Jae Henstdsekouencrenrsus Wannmaerddcusoin fe ha ti tip Galloway lry Peggy Simh hnte"epnil"ed Milton Capps erinteuiestcriieth ihn Rockholz "irpr.id"atosakny Steve Crick, a 'rfecorgostuns , John David onticapsrembrhy ,Bill Jones, aei atrso(igt h itein, Coates vcu fslnecetdb ler.youthe "rsesposiblepropriaty. verit context IlaeiNsN Rulir By DON CAUGHMAN Associate Editor When the U. S. Supreme Court issued its historic decisions in the Danny Escobedo (1964) and Ernesto Miranda (1966) cases, a storm of protest was raised over such a "blatant" action. The fact that the decisions were reaffirming basic rights granted by the Constitution seems to have 0 C7 "PLANS Fees Con J)e'ar Miss Mulalina.r: The Student Senate resolution for control of the Student Ac tivities Fees is ridiculous. The Senate has no conception of the complexity of budget con trol. If they want control the Radio Diet D)ear MIfissg Mullina.rx One p)articular organization on cur camp jus, WUSC, is sup posedlyV run by USC students for USC studlents. Many times I hav'e calledl the radio station to req(uest songs. Many times I have been told that the station wouldn't play that particular type of music. My gripe is simp)ly this: Who is WUSC directing their music too? Most of the resi dents of my dorm favor more current music such as rock. If our et ation is for us, then it's about time they play the music we want to hear. On Sunday afternoon I turnedl on WUSC and was greeted by classical music. I'd venture a guess to say that no more than three people on this entire cam pus were being entertained by this music. If anybody from WUSC both ers readling this letter: I'm not alone in my gripe. If you want to increase your listening audlience, why not listen to your audience ? Until we can listen to one of our requests on one of your "request shows," WCOS and the good guys are good enough for our (ears. WII,1IAM GRAHAM AlI (We do not know who wrote this protest; we found it in North Car~olina Education.) Hey, Uncle, how much does it co(st to rear a child? You allow us taxpaying parents only $600 a year to feed, clothe, house and train a youngster. In your Federal .Job Corps you spend $7,000 a sear! This is quite a differ ence! Now, which is the correct fig ure ? Either we're allowing too much or you're not allowing us enou gh. You allow taxpaying parents a $600) deduction for the care andl feeding of each child.... Yet under the Cuban refugee program you assume minimum By Don igs Af been ignored. Ask Roger Dedmond of Union how he feels about questionable "confessions" be. ing used as sole bases for con victions. Dedmond was con victed of killing his wife last year and sentenced to 18 years in the Union County prison camp. But his guilt seems h i g h 1 V,z WE GOT! MONEY WE 4 trol Not I Senate must also collect, dis )urse, andi account for the $250, 300. Is the Senate foolish enough Lt believe this an easy task? Ask the Vice President of Stu dent Affairs his opinion. The Senate almost blamed the student members of the Affairs Committee of feather ing their own nests. However, the Senate neatly overlooked the University members of the committee. I doubt these able representatives would allow $250,009 to be squandered. The Senate had better be care fuil about screaming "unfulfilled promises." The n u mn b e r of promises I've heard in the past f<,ur years from hopeful Sena tors is phenomenal. What right dloes the Senate have to look into charters of campus organizations to see if University p)olicy is being ob servedl? If the resolution is ac c'-pted, e a m p u 5 organizations will have to walk on eggshells, o' the Ges;tapo-like Judicial Committee may withhold their Appreciation iur Minn Mulili.r : We would like to e'xpress our dleep)est thanks to Coach Frank McGuire, Skip Hiarl icka, Jack Thompson, Frank Standard andi G;ary Grxegor for giving us the priv'ilege of seeing, for the past three seasons, the greatest bats ketball in the country played by the greatest players. It was fantastic IHRUICE B(OWDLER RlD HI. MONTGOMERY JR. Letter 1k i'nd if the Cuban boy or girl is. attendling school - an extra $1,000 a year. How come you shortchange the home folks? In the austere environs of a Federal p)rison you have' discov ered that it costs-to maintair ene person, with no frills, nc luxuries, and no borrowing D)ad'.s car-$2,300 a year. By wvhat rule of thumb do you estimate that Mom andl Dad car do it for one-fourth thai amount? Under Social Security you will pay $168 a mnnth to main tain the elderly. What makes you think we can maintain our young'uns on $50 a month? And, Uncle, your VISTA pro. gram (Volunteers in Service te America) spent $'3.1 million lasi Caughman firm Ri doubtful in view of evidence ob tained in the recent investigation of three similar slayings in the Gaffney area. In fact, he has been released from prison camp. Someone else has been charged with the mur der, and the fact of Dedmond's conviction on the basis of his al leged confession has brought to public awareness the issue of UN'Til" Easy Task The past record of the Sen ate does not show the maturity or the capability to handle efficiently $250,000 of the stu dents' money. TERRY WEILAND Graduate:S Dear Mliss Mlullinax: I would like to exp)lain to Mr. Melvin Hlanks and those who read his letter of March first why The Graduate is an awardl winning movie. This film merits pr aise because it is a humorous y.et sadly ironic satire on the standards of A merican society today. The revolution of the story around an act of adultery and then a search for genuine love serves well to suppJort the two major themes of the movie. First, that our culture has be Come characterized by an ele ment of deception in that its members live by a double standl ardl, p)rofessing one belief in pub lic while holding an opposite standard for themselves. Second, that when one discovers some thing which h~e considers of true value in life, he should strive for its attainment. One need not condone adult - ery in order to realize its value as an instrument in the film for executing the above themes with impact. Indeed, had any lesser moral offense been chosen, the presence of these themes would probably have gone unnoticed by a per centage of the audience much greater than Mir. Hanks. Uncle si year to train only 202 trainees. That indicates that the cost of maintaining and training one youth for one year is more than $15,000. Then how come we taxpaying p)arents get an exemption of only $600) to maintain and train one .youth for the year? Or let's see how much you spent upkeeping one youngster in military uniform. House, $55.10 a month. Food, $30.27 a month. Clothing upkeep, $4.20 a month. That comes to $1,074.84 a year. Are they not cheaper by the dozen? How in the world do you ex l-ect parents to provide all these things, p)lus clothes, recreation, books, medicine - for $600 a year? With your figures you ad ghts accused persons' rights. It might be useful to ques tion how this particular inci dent happened; but more im portant, we should concern ourselves with seeing that it does not happen again. The Miranda and Escobedo deci sions, if always adhered to, are a sufficient basis for pro tection of individual rights. The only thing really new about the rulings is that they require the arresting officer to inform the suspect of his rights. For years before the decisions, the FBI had been informing arrested persons of their right to remain silent. Orison S. Marden, last year's president of the American Bar Association, said after the Mi randa decision: "The knowledg able crook a I r e a d y knows his rights. The ruling won't affect him, but it will help those who know nothing of their rights. It should help balance the scales of justice. Why should a person ht% denied counsel because he is poor or ignorant?" Barry Kroll, the lawyer who defended Escobedo, said of the Miranda decision: "This deci sion means that the poor, un educated and unknformed can now enjoy the rights that were previously only enjoyed by the wealthy and sophisticated." The major criticism of the de cision is a justifiable one - some persons who are guilty of crimes may not be convicted. But what about an innocent person who IS convicted b e c a u s e he was not aware of his rights? About 60 per cent of the crimi nal defendants in the U. S. can't afford lawyers. And for a suspect without a lawyer, interrogation is the most crucial phase of his case. No doubt there will be guilty persons who won't be convicted because of the decisions set down in the Escobedo and Mi randa cases. But in a society where everyone supposedly is endowed with the same rights, is it fair to chance sending even one innocent man to prison-or maybe even take his life? Ask Roger Dedmond how he feels. ocial Satire One might tend to criticize The Graduate saying that the protagonist was portrayed as be ing unbelievably simple and naive. Here again, one of the most urgent messages of the picture would be missed, for in the end the graduate dlisp)lays genuine wisdlom when he sees through the false standlardls of the society aroundl him and de cidles not to let these standards rob him of the only thing he has found in life. The Graduate makes no "mock ery of respect for God and Coun try"; but, through the clev'er Use of satire andl irony, points to the mendacious andl hollow nature of certain institutions of our so ciety. The church scene gave no expression of any such ideas. Quite the contrary, it was in the church that the graduate morally raised himself above society by preventing the "truly moral senior citizens" from commiting a truly im moral act. I see nothing ur.patriotic or irreligious in the philosophy that although one's society is based up)on hypocracy, it is not necessary to become a hypocrite on.eself. RO(BE~RT E. SKENES Is it p)ossible, Uncle, that you expect us parents to manage more efficiently than you, be cause we usually (do. With all our expenses, we A merican individuals h a y e more than enough savings to offset our debts; you don't. With all our prosperity, you. Uncle, are still spendling per year $2.9 b'illion more for relief than dluring the deplths of the deC pression. So it may be that you are uncommonly extravagant. But however we try to ration alize and explain you, it is still a hurtful affront when yo~u allow u.4 hard - working dues - paying home folks only $600) a year to rear a legitimate child-while ' you, under ADC, will pay more than $800 a year to upkeep an illeg-itimate on.