The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 13, 1968, Page Page Two, Image 2
Editorials Commentary
Friday, September 13, 1968 - Page Two Columbia, South Carolina
Give A
Give a damn.
The words that Mayor John Lindsey is
trying to make the slogan of New York
City might serve equally well at the Univer
sity of South Carolina.
The beginning of the fall semester brings
a new academic year. And we wonder what
it holds. . . .
We are not alone. University teachers
and administrators throughout the nation
are wondering the same thing. After last
year's "Battle of Morningside Heights," as
the student revolt at Columbia University
has been called, a chain reaction of student
revolution spread throughout the country.
This semester, says Dean William Ferm of
Mount Holyoke College Chapel, administra
tors are determined they will get through
the academic year without another round
of crippling sit-ins, barricades and blood
shed. "Their business is the exchange of
ideas, not the exchange of flying bricks."
But what about the students? How do
they feel?
To answer, we must first ask what the
students really want in their thrust for
power. Their demands vary from campus to
campus, even from student to student.
The issues cover everything from racial
injustice and the war in Vietnam to age-old
campus complaints about curriculum and
food service and curfews. But the students
seem to all agree on one thing-they want
changes.
To many a student, God is dead, Dad
doesn't understand, and the university con
siders him no more than an ID number. But
these are not new feelings and students
have tolerated them for some time. Why
the recent student rebellions? Not long ago
today's youth were known as the apathetic
generation.
Perhaps the turning point was the fall of
1964 when a new activist group emerged on
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Damn
the University of California's Berkeley cam
pus. Their chief grievance was a univer
sity so big that mass instruction was replac
ing inquiry, and the IBM card was becoming
the symbol of change.
The Berkeley students coined the slogan,
"I am a person. Do not bend, spindle or
mutilate." They established the pattern of
drawing attention to needed campus re
forms through massive protest-and they
were successful to the extent that such pro
test set many reforms in motion.
They dared. They cared. Now it's your
turn. Care. Get involved. lie concerned
concerned enough to act.
We're tired of talking just to hear our
selves talk. We're tired of an ineffective
student government. We're concerned about
the communications gap between the stu
dents and the faculty-administration.
There are some members of the USC ad
ministration who say they are willing to
listen. But two University vice presidents
told us last spring that they had learned to
"handle" students. Their formula: pacify
the ones who are here now until they grad
uate, because then a new group will be here
with the same complaints. Does it never
occur to these men that if they would listen
now, that new group might not have the
same problems to complain about?
Concern often leads to protest, but pro
test. need not lead to violence. "Any mad
man can terrorize a city or kill a Senator,"
says columnist James Reston, "but remaking
a society into something even a little more
fair, decent and compassionate is a much
more difficult and complicated job.
"It is hard work. It takes a very long
time. It requires a great many patient peo
ple sticking with a great many tough jobs,
but the greatest ally of the militant minor
ity is the indifference of the majority."
Are you a member of the indifferent ma
jority?
Give a damn.
We dare you.
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ten and Women of Carolina:
I speak to you of challenge, of
iange, and of commitment.
The challenge of which I speak
not academic, nor social, nor
it conforming to pre(le.erm
ied standards. The challenge of
rhich I speak is infinitely more
omplex than all of these-yet
aradoxically more simple.
I speak of life.
College is not a preparation
jr life but rather life itself. For
iany of you, the decisions you
,ake during the next four years
-ill be for the first time, your
wn decisions. In the final
nalysis, there is no higher
uthority.
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with varied and even opposing
ideas, sets of moral values, and
interests. The results of these
things will be to affect a change
in you, your own standards, your
1:eronality, your. values. This
change is not to be feared but
rather welcomed.
Without this change, there
would be little value in attend
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rumulated or grade point ratios
but in termis of change.
The most important thing of
which I sPeak is commitment.
Etach must make an individual
and personal commitment to
graduate within four years. Your
admission to Carolina is pre
dicated upon the assumption that
yvou are capable of this goal. Al
though your IQ may not be as
high as others, what you lack in
native intelligence can be mior.e
thanl offset by desire and moti
\ ation.- If You wvant to graduate
ink four. years, if you wantl to
meet the challenges that con
front you, if y*ou wwnt to benefit
from chan11ge, yo'l will for you
Canl Malke the future today.
Welcome to Carolina.
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