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EDITOI Carol ASSOCIATE EDITOR Don Caughman Page Eight - THE GAA H'Igh Presider He can blaze a trail of ideas and prom ises for a campaign, but can he get alonl with people? He can point out a deficiency in one areq of student government, but does he have ar overview of the framework? He has goals, but are they defined, ap plicable and workable? What has he got to offer you? Ask yourselves these questions aboul Don Koplen, Clyde Livingston, Denny Royal and Tom Salane, candidates for studeni government president. Then wade through the campaign handbills, advertisements, and posters until you get to the candidate him. self-find out the answers. Study their platforms, and listen tc their campaign speeches. Ask them ques tions and make them answer. You must decide who will be the next student government president. The stand ards are high. A president must know himself before he can lead others. He must not falter over what he believes. Yet, he must have an open mind when modification and com promise are necessary. With a solid con ceptual framework, he will have the foun dation and self-confidence for decision making. There is no place for stagnation or dull Last Plea Allow us one last plea. Elections are Monday. We have tried to stress the importance of reviewing candi dates and casting a responsible vote. It takes very little effort to get to a poll. It takes even less effort to mark a ballot. The initial effort is the important one: REMEMBER TO VOTE. That is our last plea. Faculty Member D)ear Miss Mullina.r: unless there is Friday afternoon, I lectured lina students c or, more accurately, I led a (is- (1) You cai cussion at a nearby Negro col- the Metropo lege. The recent tragedy in Foundation wI Memphis set the background. education proj The blunt questions of the stu- from poor hon (dents madle the experience far bia area. from pleasant: why do white (2) Carolina men hate black men, wh}y should fraternities c I fight for a country that classi- segregated pr fies me as I-A for Viet Nam university shio andl second class at home, why those groups will whites let us cook for them change their rs b)ut not associate with them ? I (3) Carolina felt very white, very inadlequate, can make a sin and very ashamed. out what the f But millions of a g o n i z e d ances of Negr wordls, such as these, are wasted are. D)on't go Founded Jan. 30. 1908 with Riobert EllIott 4.iotnles, The Gamecock Is publtlsished by and for t he stotlets of ther CarolIna weekly duinring the eollege year exeptit diuing hotlI lIons. The opInIons expressed hereIn dto not necessarIly reflei admInIstratIon, the faculty or the strident hodly as a whole OffIces of The Gamecock are In Room 300 of the IOu. UnIversIty campus. Photnes are 777-4249 (Editor-in-thief). and AdvertIsing). antd 777-0178 (Newsroom). The Gamecock Is reptresentedl natonally bty Nattlial &i Ires ServIce. Inc. The pubhlicatlIon Is a nrembetr oft Assotiat and the 5. C. Cotllegtate Press Assoiarltin. subsirliption rat, BUSINESS MANAGER.................Mar ADVERTISING MANAGER................ ASST. MANAGING EDITOR ............Mar: NEWS EDITOR .......................... SPORTS EDITOR....................Jimm EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS .John Carbaugh, M ASST. NEWS EDITORS ... .......herry Bro, ASST. SPOR TS EDITORS. ...John David Sih FACULTY EDITOR ......................Mi SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR................ CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER.................. CIRCULATION MANAGER ................. CARTOONISTS.................Kate Salley OFFICE MANAGER ....................... REPORTERS-Ginny Carroll, Jerry Calabrese Steve Kelly, Jay Hodge, Susan Ross, Susan Tanr Spade, Linda Jo Mangum, Ken Hare, Don i PHOTOGRAPHERS-BSob Benson, Elliott Hor< Crewe. Charles Keefer. Warren Hudson, Mike' EdIterfals Comnnlry -IN-CHIEF Mullinax MANAGING EDITOR Sally Zalkin fECOCK - April 18, 1968 itial Standards ness in a president. He must be dynamic, agressive; yet he must chain his passions with responsibility. Out of his insight into the social, intellectual and academic needs of Carolina must emerge creative action. He must initiate action and see that it is fol lowed up. A deficiency in one area is a weakness in the framework. Therefore, presidential action should be made with an overview in mind that will strengthen isolated areas as well as the existing system. A president's actions will be integrated into goals. Perhaps he will choose improved communications as his goal. It must be de fined-relating to individuals and organiza tions; it must be applicable to existing problems as a solution and within reach of those working for it. A president is a leader among people, not removed from them. Without help from fellow students, faculty members, and ad ministrators, his ideas and campaign promises will never be implemented. His executive appointments are of utmost im portance. The efficiency of student govern ment will depend not only on the elected leaders, but the appointed ones. A president must show respect and com mand respect. He must be able to com municate on all levels. In short, he must be able to get along with people. A student body president must be able to offer you these things, as well as deal with the specific issues that are so preva lent--parking, Bill of Rights, Great Issues, athletic facilities for students. There are four candidates for president of student government-four individuals with varying capabilities and leadership qualities. Monday you will vote for one. The future of student government rests upon your de cision. Calls For Action action, andl( Caro- ignorance. Ask in a genuine an act. spirit of seeking to know and give money to understand. .tan Education (4) All Carolina students uch w:ll provide cain refuse to patronize segre ects for children gated institutions. es inthe Clum. (5) Carolina students can ac sororities antd tively dlemandl quality education rn cease their for all people in South Carolina. ictices, andI the Finailly, I sincerely hope that uldi not support the faculty will join the student which refuse to bodly in efforts to help our state .cist habits. andl nation b)ecome a just society. wv h i t e students TOM E. TER RILIL rere effort to find History Department selings andl griev- ----___ -- o students really on guessing in -~- re i OPEN COLUMN By TONY CHITTY Recently, an article appeared a te nst <tior, in The Gam necock, entitle'd "Hig -nlteruly or souh g<..a Probtlem Negroes Have Is IayRt elltxamhina. White Man." Last fall, a white t th de then student said to the writer, "White studlents at Carolina in 7774"2 liuiii general seem to feel that the biggest problem they have is the iEilEiitiAd trts- Netgro." It is not unreasonable si ar S er yeaer. to assume that both statements y W. McMillan ar ail representative of eac(h groupII. But the quest ion is, who D)ianne Wilson is right ? You be the judge. Jane Henston Hawthorne said, "It con ..Carl Stepp t ribautes greatly to a man's moral r' Wannamaker andI intellectual health to lbe irgaret N iceley brought into4 habits of compian en, Mona Gault ionsh ip with indlividluals unlike de, Jay Btende'r himself, who care lit tle for his ke Krochmalny pursuits, and whose sphere andi Nancie Meddin abail ities he must go out of him Chip Galloway self to applreciate." .Pe'ggy Simms If this stateme'nt is a truism, Milton Capps then we. of lUSC art' indeed in John Rockholz a promising situation: we Steve Crick, seem to carte so little for each er, John D)avid other! We refuse to look be. It, Bll Jnes. yond our immediate whims and *nstein, Coates intterests. All we seem to care viler. aoti h Wa' ni o The WF WASlift USC W14 It% ON I Infamc Dear Mi.'s M1ullinar: I am writing in regard to As sociate Editor Don Caughman's column of March 22, entitled "Lyndon's Bridge Is. Generally, Mr. C a u g h m a n showed astuteness and a keen understanding of the 1968 politi cal situation (which, of course, has now undergone a radical transformation with L y n d o n Johnson's withdrawal from the presidential race). However, when he says, "Regardless of what might be said of his past actions and ambitions, it ih hard for one not to admire (Robert) Ken nedy's present devotion to principle," someone must stand up and yell "No!" I for one find it rather difficult to stomach S e n a t o r Kennedy's "present devotion to principle." Robert Kennedy has, in his manner of entering the presiden tial battle, showvn little regard for any principle other than that of self-advancement. Where was he, for instance, in thle weeks prior to the New Hampshire Pri mary when it looked almost im possible to topple LBJ? He cer tainly wasn't listening to his conscience. Kennedy let Eugene McCarthy go out and make the fight alone. Senator McCarthy's lonely and heroic victory in New Hamp shire showed that there wvas a market for candidates opposing both the war in Vietnam and the p)owerful D)emocratic ma chine. Kennedy saw this - saw Johnson down-and decided it was safe to join the attack. m Sat me right now." We seem to be, as Emerson said, "Afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death." We are timid and ap)ologetic; we dlare not say "I think," "1 am." We are afraid to standl up] for what we believe, and lastly, we are afraid to believe! We gc along with the crowdl because they are our buddies; we are in dlifferent; we don't care if the guy next to us falls on his face just as long as he dloesn't get (lust on our shoes. I love Carolina! I want her tc grow and become something really meaningful to her stu dlents. I want Carolina to be known as -.hter than just a p)arty school. L et's face' up to the facts. Some of the school's p)olicies are downright disagreeable to a majority of the students, but we never act to change them. All we do is gripe, gripe, gripe! The Student Union can't even sign up enough peo ptle to p)lan student activities. Oh, hut we do too, p)articipate, you say. There are some of us who haven't missed a single Answei WILt THE FOUP Letters To The Edito ous Oppor Jr His entrance into the race will remain one of the most in famous displays of opportun ism and political gracelessness in the already shadowy history of American politics. I hope for the sake of our coun try that Robert Francis Kennedy is never elected President of the Showcase 1 Dear Miss Mullinar: I read with much interest your article on Carolina Coliseum in a recent Gamecock. You have somehow managed to capture in capsule form what it has taken quite some time for us to ac Radical Newspaper Dear Mliss Mullinax: When I started school last fall, I decidled I would save every week's copy of The Gamecock. I felt it was one of the only true representatives of the Carolina Student Body left on campus. But in the latest issues I have readl, I feel this is no longer true. Reading the latest issues of The Gamnecock is like reading the edlitorial page from a left-wing radlical pa per. I have thrown away my old copies andl will con tinue to criticize your p a p~ e r everywhere I go. DANNY S. BROWN isf'ed\ But, did we help plan the (lances andl concerts? All too often, the answer is a most em p)hatic "No!" Tell me, fellowv studenft, are you satisfied with Carolina ? Some of us dIrive to school. Many of us have no other way of getting here. The administra tion has not providled adequate parking facilities, not for stu dents anyway. Some of us might want to pick something up o' dIrop something off, but if,we park, even for five minutes or less in an "unauthorizedl zone" (especially an empty faculty or visitor parking zone), we are lucky to get only a ticket. Many of us seek an audience with faculty members and staff from time to time. We find it difficult to corner these people. Sometimes we need desperately to see them. We may even corner themi, but all too often we don't see them. No what if we have to wait an hour or two or four. That's not so bad. How do we feel when, after catching them, we are either referred to someone K SIs Sin rrA\m LIE ss r 'tunism United States and that the 1968 campaign will write 'finis' to his political career, repudiating the philosophy of "Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you."o JOHN LOTTICH USC- '66 o The State complish. I wnnt to thank you for an objective, informative and im partial view of the Carolina Coli seum operation as it now stands. I would like to assure you and all the other members of the great Carolina family that our one objective will always be the welfare and protection of all of the things that the University of South Carolina stands for. Our Coliseum should and must serve as a showcase to our State and Nation of the fine and honorable progress being madle on our cam pus. It must and will reflect the nleedS, desires andl asp)irations of all members of this family. LEE HERBERT DIR ECTOR CARO(LINA CO)LISEUM In Regard T( Dear Miss Mullinax: In regard to The Ga.mect Trid,well concerning his conldut land's visit to Carolina: can t graduate education does not mon sense nor develop good Vith C "about this time tomorrow"? How many times have we had to run from office to office for signatures, only to find a starry eyedl coed say, "I really don't knowv what this is all about, but I guess it's O.K. to sign it." Tell me, my fellow student, are you satisfied with Carolina? We cry about not having this andl that, but, what do we do0 with what we have? What hap penedl to the furniture in the Gamecock Room ? Vandalism ? Certainly not! What happened to those metal signs, ponters, p)arking meters, curtains, pieces of furniture, glasses, cups and spoons, balls that were on the p'ool table, basketballs, base balls? Theft ? Certainly not! Hlow (lid all those trash cans cat ch fire ? A r:on ? Certainly not ! Who's been reducing the number of library books? When are we going to wake up? Must we always blame our deficienCie's a n d inconlsisten cies on others? When will b~e reach out beiyond ourselves ? When will we find ourselves ? ipl e By DON CAUGHMAN Associate Editor The question of what to do with the Field House after fire struck the 41-year-old structure last month was solved Saturday by another blaze which left it beyond repair. There was noth ing left to do but raze the build ing. The question of what to do with the site on which the Field House stood has an equally simple answer-build an all-purpose physical educa tion building. That is, if the University plans to continue Q its requirement of four se mesters of physical education for its students. Or if it wants a decent place for its basket ball team to practice. Or if it wants greatly-needed recrea tional facilities for its stu dents. Before the Field House was destroyed, there were nine bas ketball goals on campus. Three were on the outside. On rainy (lays, there were only six. From October through March the Field House was occupied# most afternoons by the varsity and freshman teams. Peabody Gym and the old gym were occu pied by the phys-eal education classes-or either locked much of the time. On a typical weekend-when many students had the time to use the facilities-there may have been five goals available. If it were raining, there were only two. There are two alternatives for the site being considered by the Administration-using the space for parking or building another science classroom building. Both would be putting the land to good use. There is a desperate need for more parking space, and an ever increasing enroll ment creates a constant need for more classroom space. But what about the non-aca demic needs of the students? Are students expected to spend all their free time with their books? How can a school osten sibly stress the need for physical education and then not provide even adequate facilities for their required courses? The Coliseum will do noth ing to alleviate the problem. It will allow more persons to see the Gamecock basketball team play, but the team won't be able to practice there. Nor will physical education classes be able to use it. Before the Field House burned, the problem of inadequate physi cal education facilities was great. Without the Field House, it is at the crisis stage. It is almost mandatory that the Administration take action immediately if the physical edl ucation program is to continue. And if the basketball team is to have a (decent place to practice. And if Carolina students are to have adequate indoor recrea tional facilities. >Dr. Tidwell ek interview with Professor :t during General Westmore 1ere be a better example that necessarily confer good corn nanners. HARRY WONG troIina~ concerning our first question? Are we justified in saying Whites are right in claiming that the Negro is our biggest prob lem. Are wve justified in saying Negroes are right in claiming that Whites are our biggest problem ? Have not both exaggerated? Are we not our own worst ene mies? Why have we been so complacent, reluctant and indif ferent that we have ignored for too long our state of affairs. We have allowed prejudice, hate, bigotry, pride, and inaction to dlictate an uncompromising andi deplorab)le situation. Some of us have high as p)irations for Carolina, and really want to eliminate, or at least, lessen the problems. F"ear of ostradism, loss of friends, and other factors in. fluence people not to get in volved. But we are involved. The situation will get better or worse in proport ion to our ef fort or lack of effort. Who is right ? Who is our big gest problem ? Tell me, felloW studlent, are you satisfied with