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EDITOl Carol ASSOCIATE EDITOR Don Caughman Page Ten -THE GAMI Refusal To The racial crises of past weeks have subsided. The fear of real and potential violence, the mixed feelings of sympathy and anger, the obligate insight and theories that grow out of a crisis-these have sub sided also. Once again people can look away from the ghettos which have so often har bored the trouble. But a few have chosen not to look away -they have chosen to attend to the prob lems. April 6, the USC student body president and student senate established the Metro politan Educational Foundation. The pri mary objectives of the foundation were two fold: "To engage in the necessary activity for the purpose of obtaining funds for the operation of recreational and educational projects in the economically deprived areas of greater Columbia and implement pro grams to educate USC and the non-campus communities to the facts of the economic and racial problems of the Greater Columbia area."o There are fifteen members of the Board of Directors: five students, five representa tives from the faculty-administration and five community representatives. Establishment of the foundation is a move to DO something. It is a move from "humane theories" to personalized action. It is a move to establish local ties between segments of a community divided by pov erty and race. It is a move to alleviate the Encouragement For many months now students, ad ministrators, visitors and faculty members have been complaining about the acute shortage of parking facilities near campus. Much research has been done by both the University and by students. Plans have been reviewed. Ideas have been discussed. Parking facilities haven't come. Last week a University student, Allen Thames, presented the USC Board of Trus tees with a specific proposal for a multi story parking garage. Thames had researched his idea well, and the Board was very receptive . . . so) receptive they voted favorably on the plan. then asked for a bond act to finance it. It is a tribute to Thames' hard work and to the Board's concern that concrete action has been taken. We commend them both and hope the parking spaces soon will come. -Stepp 57/e GA4$Aco< Founded Jan. 30, 1908 with tRobert Ellthit G onzales as The Gamecock Is published b y and for the stude(nts of the 1:ri Carolina weekly dturing the college year e'wept dIuring holidla The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily refleet admInIstratIon, the faculty or the student body as a whole. offtees ot The Gamecock are In Room 308 of the Ru'Ss University campus. Phones are 777-4249 (Edttor-in-(Chief), 77 and AdvertisIng), and 777-8178 (Newaroom). The Gamecock Is represented nationally by NatIonal Edio ing Service, Inc. The publicatIon is a member of Assotlatedt And the S. C. CollegIate P'ress Asnlation,. Subscriptton rates BUSINESS MANAGER.................Mary ADVERTISING MANAGER .................) ASST. MANAGING EDITOR...........Mary NEWS EDITOR l............................ SPORTS EDITOR....................Jimmy EDITORIA L ASSISTA NTS .John Carbaugh, Mar ASST. NEWS EDITORS .... .. .. .. Sherry Browr ASST. SPORTS EDITORS. ....John David Slad FACULTY EDITOR .....................Mik< SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR ................N CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER ..........C CIRCULATION MANAGER ................. CARTOONISTS ..... ............Kate Salley, OFFICE MANAGER......................J REPORTERS-Ginny Carroll, Jerry Calabrese, Steve Kelly, Jay Hodge, Sdsan Ross, Susan Tanne Spade, Linda Jo Mangum, Ken Hare, Don Hull PROTOGRAPHERS-Bob Benson, Elliott Boren Crew., Charles Keefer. Warren Hudson. Mike T) -IN-CHIEF Mullinax MANAGING EDITOR Sally Zalkin COCK - April 26, 1968 Look Away economic and racial problems that are here . . . now. It is hard to look around us and realize that we have many slum areas and ghettos in Columbia. But we do not have to look far to see poverty-stricken areas such as Camp Fornance (commonly referred to as Black Bottom) or Liberty Hill. The needs in these areas for better hous ing to combat critical shortages, adequate parks and playgrounds and summer pro grams for the youth are blatant. These needs call for strong, well-knit programs of recreation and work that require money and qualified manpower for implementation. The Metropolitan Educational Foundation can help initially as an outside source, but the core of such programs must come from the inside. The foundation is striving for "self-help" programs. They will sponsor recreational programs in hopes of building community interest from within, in hopes of opening a door to mutual effort, and trust. Recreational programs can lead into work and educational situations, and it is with a summer recreation program that the foundation plans to begin. Carolina students involved will roll up their sleeves and pitch in. They will go to the ghettos, they will work with the people. By so doing, they will show that they care. The quality and dedication of the work ers will determine the fate of the founda tion's efforts. A few have chosen to attend to the prob lems, but they will need support. They will need USC students willing to show that they care, not by talking and theorizing, but by working. Little Mistakes A little mistake can lead to many long hours of work and sleepless nights. Ask the elections committee. Somebody forgot to use red ink when having the ballots printed; they used black ink. The computer must have red ink. So, the ballots from the Monday elections hadl to be counted by hand. The elections committee met the crisis responsibly and after many sleepless hours turned out the results. A lot of work has been done and the elections committee has come a long way, but the little snags are still there. It's not too early to start checking them out for next year. Fair ~1 the first editor, fly DON CAUGHEMAN iversity orf south Associate Editor vs an,t examina eviews of the WVhile the nation's newspape.rs Oattack the "unfairness" of the i n tnh, American llar .Association's so 740 tuies called Reardon Report andi its ationjai Myertis- suggested curbs5 on p)re-trial p)ub ('I."iut " .*r {r a" ihity, most of them are. at the same time dlemonst rating why W. McMillan the report was made in the first ianne Wilson place. Jane Benston Pictures of James Earl Ray, .Carl Stepp alias Eric Starvo Galt, have Wannamaker been splashed across the front garet Niceley pages of the country's papers, ,Mona G;ault along with detailed accounts e, Jay Bender of his life and how he came to Krochmalny be~ the FBil's prime suspect in ancie Meddin the assassination of [Dr. Martin ip Galloway L,uther King. For the average eggy Simms newsp)aper or magazine reader, Mfilton Capps there is left little room for >hn Rockholz doubt that Ray-or "Galt"-is Steve Crick, the guilty person. , John David B ill Jones. That's wvhat U.~ Reardlon Re itein, Coates port is all about. weC MAY$ StOW, SLEEPIN Sa y, eut wem CoMIn! A THr GALANT PwINCe HIS WAY qMR"OG 1 "M OF ROFRi 7O .$SEC d4$TLE , ,. What Sei By MARGARET ANN NICELEY Editorial Assistant You can spend four years at the University or any school and learn how to solve complicated equations, manage an industrial complex, or teach someone else how to read, but there are some things about living it takes years to learn. The Gamecock talked to sev eral persons around the cam pus who have had time to learn some of these facts of life and got these pieces of advice for seniors who will graduate in June: -How to sleep. President Thomas V. Jones told seniors, "Your principal mission and dis tinction as an educated person will be in making decisions. The easy ones, those of little import, can be made with the snap of a finger. The tough ones usually must be 'slept on.' "No one is exp)ectedl to make decisions in a vacuum so you have a right to studly and get advice (and never hesitate to seek the views of others, espe cially those who will be affected by your decisions). Having madle a tough diecision in a p)osition of resp)onsib)ility, you will sleep well providing your conscience is satisfied that you did your hon est best in deciding and acting." Jones said graduates should be optinmists, hoping for and expIectinig the best. "One must have great faith to be a true opt imist. The great religions are helpful in having this kind of faith," he said. Mlost of the graduates will be going inito jobs based on their studlies in school. The President advisedl, "When you choose a job, choose carefully. One should feel and express genuine en thusiasm in his work life andl in his ipivate' life. If he does this, he finds~ his~ enthusiasm is inf c rial Vs. of distinguished jurists, headed by Chief Justice lea rdon of the M lassachusetts5 Supreme Court (and includ ing D ean Rtobert AleC. Figg of the USC School of Law) were ajppoinOtedl by the A BA to study the matter of p)re-trial pulicit y. The committee re'leasedl its report in February in which it reconimended restricting re lease of pre-trial inform at ion' by law enforcement officers and by lawye'rs. The press, as was to be ex pect ed, dlenounicedl the report as an infringement on the puli c's freedom of informaition. Sigma D el ta Ch:i , the professional journalist ic soci(ty', cuirrenty isV~ conduIct ing local camnpa ign s to4 preiven t ad opt ion of the recomi m:endaotions lby indiividual states and courts. The i.ssue of pre-t rial pulici'y was birought to the forefront last year when Sam Sheppard, who had been sentenced to life in nrison for t'nn 19r4 muarder of UP AOAINST HACKS NOG OCAU1Y iiors Sho tious-his associates become en thusiasts and the world is a won derful, exciting place where things are continually happen ing." -How to have a good con science. "There can be no greater reward in life than the 'joy of a good conscience,'" s a i d Presbyterian chaplain Jerry iammet. "It is worth pursuing throughout your life course. The good rewards of life conic with perfecting the art of creative living." Hammet said part of the pur suit is tackling every task "with all your ability, for it is in doing the small thing well that we are prepared for the greater oppor tunities." "Find a cause to give yourself to. If we have nothing that we are willing to (lie for, we really have nothing to live for," he said. "Choose you this (lay whom you will serve, and when the whole world seems to be against you, smile andl remember that God loves you as if you were the only person to love." -There is more to learn. "I think that graduating seniors are going to have to be pre pared to deal with a world of revolution and our universities are increasingly going to have to acquaint them with the revolutionary forces which are grasp)ing the world," said Rich ard L. Walker, head of the In ternational S t u d i e s Depart nment. "We are caught up in an exp)losion that involves a tappling of energy-not neces sarily nuclear energy alone, but all fornms of human energy forces. It involves an ex plosion of pop)ulat ion, urban crises, an America that is in volved around the world, inter woven relations of peop)les an~d nat ions." Walker said the lives of grad uates in 1968 will be complicated by the fact that interactions of humanity are groiwing deeper Free hswife, was released from prsnbecause of unfair p)ub licity during the trial. lefore and during the trial of the Ohio p)hysician, court room proceedings which were supposed to be p)rivate. were overheard and reported by the press, and the noise of news nmen moving in andl out of the courtroom mnade( it difficult for counsel andl witnesses to be heard. The trial judge made no e'ffort to control the release of information and gossip to the press by the prosecuting at torneys, the coroner, police of ficers, or witnesses('. Shepp,ard's p'etit ionf for release in 1966f was grainted byv the Court o'f Appalsl' aind uphldli by the *'. S. Supremein~ Court. Te ma:jority o pin ion of t he courti, dIel i vered by Associate' .1ustie TF om' lark, obse'rvedl that "edl amin reined at the cou rt hoEuse. duiring t he trial and news men took over practically the ntire cnurtroom5 honngn mos uld Know and closer. "It seems unlikely to me that the education and values and mores of the Western society from which we spring is alone adequate," he said. "Only with an awareness of our role in the world are we going to get away from the stupidities of racism and prejudices and attain the achievements that o n I y America can give the world." Hie emphasized that seniors learn to use the leisure time that will be available to them with shorter working hours and a tighter knit world. "It's all right to be radical," hie said, "but you have to get rid of the vested interests that so many of our campus radicals have. Their energies should be channeled to ward revolutionizing the college curriculum. This is the kind of change that is really needed. We aire living in a different world today and educating our youth to face the old one." -HwtArw l."o' giveadvie," aid ean . A Ruhaa, etrd ea f6h uldugh." anCosen cItemr nlikel oi>e rm whlicha.r: in i Alon dequate,"aht Fidy,Only widan aolwangtessassinatirole in Ithev world Mari wLunto Kig,t Iawent from the Campidts ofbe racis loaed prjicte andusteai Ho;three ieemvteta or nsix Amhericsa there, cuting world."t and brephsizd ta.eir leane tofus the tuetsur tooime tat wilheGavailak'e stor the with shore, womrkein aor mand ae tihrich woarlen"t'syall him hand th et ri(t of the vested intert that eve manep ofith) Janu ad"icas hae Tereee ePre sshud ecanee o curriulue partipns i the ril, echae thi ealrd." dd.W tlark an dedc hat ouregaut tbeface therough theue fh gieti-ae," shadi Dand theA pruchananteirdda of the cey a avled tohet campaign awains them beingdan bieore I "srge any priserve adve. ubi'm nogt o enoug." beConcebu rneo F Aonfdmaton lst Fociay, tlohas day foigh t e assassintatione of Rev. memrs arill nte ding Iae tay thampuse arber Shotermiaed gint b the rssl hue; hnes wre fie ora six ots uity here ctere astudenat Oe of tlihetuhanethat heoking nrwcht.parnlyt hianldnthe ret ofs h the op rirh in n is wan grt( Suppress Students Dear Miss MuUinax: I have noticed that there is a growing undercurrent of "stu dent freedom" present on our campus. If this irresponsible movement is not ruthlessly sup pressed at once, I predict that chaos will result. The most in sidious proposal I have yet heard is that control of the Uni versity government be relin quished to the students. I say that we should leave the control of the University government in the hands of professionals. After all, what makes students think that they can run a University better than archaeologists, nuclear physicists, and experts on 17th century metallurgy? I heartily recommend that we hire military men to run our campus. Just think how effi ciently our academic community would run with Gen. Westmore land as President of USC. He would immediately organize an elite "Gamecock Guard" to patrol the campus to run off activists who would disturb the tranquility of the status quo by attempting to infect impressionable young freshmen with their subversive ideas. There is a growing laisez taire attitude among USC ad ministrators. They want to give students too much responsi bility too soon. College stu dents are not mature enough to handle the little responsibility they have already been given. Cuts should be reduced to two per course per term and in structors should be compelled to take roll at all classes. Just because professors com plain that it takes 20 minutes of valuable class time to call roll at each class period in our over crowded classes is no reason why attendance should not be taken. Students generally are so juvenile that they require con stant supervision. Most of them spend all of their money calling their mommies and daddies for advice. Therefore, what students need i.- more rules! I am amazed at how small our book of rules and regulations is. I urge that this book he greatly expanded, be cloth-bound, and have giltedge pages. This would cause profes sors and administrators from other schools to be ravished with adlmiration andi envy. Of course, the objection would be raised that its length would discourage students from readling it, to which I would reply that wve should make "Rules and Regu lItions" a required course. DON THOMPSON r Humanity by chuckles, guffaws, and gen eral approval. After bandying this idea about, another remarked: "They had to shoot him three times, be cause the first bullet only hit him ini the head." At this, out raged and furious and despair ing, I got up and stalked out. I hope the five or six noticedl this: not because I had exp)ected thenm to be impressed that I was out raged and despairing, but be cause I do not want my despair andl outrage to be cmltl lost andl wasted. cmltl* I do not know whether Martin I,uther King was one of the greatest leaders of men since G;handi, or was a Communist puppet; that is not my concern. I know next to nothing about politics. Hut I do fancy I know a little hii, about, have a little bit oft feeling for, humanity: the kind of humanity we mean when we speak of the University system, the liberal arts; the kind of hu mnanity that delegates to compas-~ sion, understanding, and love, the burdensome task of imp)rovinlg the world; more: of convincinIg he world that the world can, in - deed, he improvedl. And I know that no humniist ever ambushed another human being, b)e he President or ('ivil Rights leadler. And neither dlid one make the kind of statements that are the basis of this lett'r. But these five or six know they are and my dtesp)air is imi portant only to me. Perhaps they even know why they are the way they are. If so, then they are their own judges, andl God~ pity the man who judges him self. If not, then maybe it is not asking too much for us to pity them.