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Editorials Commentary Friday, Septesmbe 20, 1968 - Pa Columbia, South Carolin Thanks F( Congratulations. Congratulations to faculty, staff, and administration who could still smile after 48 hours of registration. Registration wasn't easy. It never is. There were still long lines and short tempers. There were still hours of waiting. There were still seemingly unnecessary steps-like the long lines to pick up regis tration materials that could so easily have been avoided by using campus mailboxes. The Gamecock A new semester. The start of classes and the end of regis tration lines. A new football season full of hope and promise and Go, Go Gamecocks. New courses, new faculty, new students, new buildings. Signs of growth and progress every where point out the effort of the Univer sity to stay in the mainstream of a fast moving twentieth century. And The Gamecock. We, too, have made changes. We, too, are working to keep Carolina in the main stream. We are publishing twice a week this semester for the first time in our 60-year history. USC makes headlines almost daily, and as the student newspaper, we want to report the news to the Carolina Community. We feel The Gamecock can help, too, in closing the communications gap between the students and the faculty-administra tion. The University family-students and faculty-can use the paper both to keep informed and to express opinions. Our aim on the news pages-objectivity. To report to the reader the news, all the news. Our editorial policy, if there is such a thing, has but one purpose: a Greater Caro lina. Tribute I The University loses a friend in many areas with the resignation of Vice Presi dent James A. Morris this week. Dr. Morris has proved valuable to Caro lina not only in the field of education but in athletics as well. He has served the University as professor, dean of the College of Business Administration, and in his present position of vice president for ad vanced studies and dean of the Graduate School. In addition, as faculty chairman of ath letics, he has aided the progress of sports at USC. President Thomas F. Jones said this to o '-ICa, :r Smiling And the hours wasted (we know one stu dent who waited in line three hours at the School of Education) waiting for the dean to personally stamp his signature on the appropriate line. But the registration process was better than last year. And somehow the lines weren't quite so bad when the secretary or adviser or staff member at the end could still smile. Students found they could smile back. Someone remembered what the students themselves had almost forgotten. . . . They were still people, not just registration num ber 6589, social security number 250-87 4289, alpha number 958361. Congratulations. And thank you. Mass Confusion If the boy sitting beside you in the senior section of the stadium at the Duke game is four feet tall and his date is hug ging her Teddy bear, don't be surprised it's simply the new system for handing out coupon books, called "mass confusion." The system, of course, still has a few flaws in it. For instance, some seniors actually got senior coupon books. Some weren't so lucky, and their places went to juniors and even less desirables. The reason the system works so well is that students who paid fees in advance--no matter what their class standing-could pick up senior coupon books. Others who didn't have validated ID's bluffed their way through the lines, others found that ID's weren't necessary. The system, we hope, is on the way out, and a little planning would help elimi nate the inconvenience and injustice to upperclassmen. -Krochmalny Fo Morris week: "Dr. Morris has given twenty-one years of outstanding service to the Univer sity. We, at the University, deeply regret losing him as a faculty member and a senior member of the administrative staff. On the other hand, we are proud to be the source of the educational leadership which our state needs and must have. We are confident he will give his characteristically excellent service as Commissioner of Higher Education and we look forward to working with him in development and refinement ol higher education in South Carolina." We wish him much success in his newl position. olinSkethboo Politics -'68 Lull Bel BY WILLIAM G. ALLEN Guest Columnist Now that the Chicago catas trophe has passed, and its news worthiness has withered, a cold lull seems to hover over the po litical arena. That Democratic calamity cre ated a maze which has silenced even the m o a t astute political prophets, at least temporarily. McCarthy and Wallace have brought about riddles which will not likely be solved until after the votes have been counted in November. McCarthy has broken with the Democratic Party and has bitterly vowed to support no one in the coming election-a de cision which thereby increases the value of the stock held by Nixon and Wallace. Hubert Humphrey has tried to appease McCarthy's dissident sup. porters by picking up a Northern liberal (Muskie) as a running mate, and by promising them a "New Day" and perhaps a new Fore The lietnam policy. By condemning iolence, "whatever the source," he J&o sought to woo the multitudes f Democrats disturbed by the reakdown of law and order aeros ke nation. At this point it would e a hazardous speculation to a&. wne that Dr. Humphrey will be ble to heal the wounds of bitter. iess before November. However, t would be somewhat less hazard us to predict that George Wallace a i n e d millions of fence-riding otes as a result of the inability i the Democratic leadership to naintain order at their own con ,ention. The Vietnam situation will con inue to be a factor until the last rote is counted. However, should mnother tet offensive cause a se rere U. S. setback, Nixon might vell be swept right into office. 'here is also the reality that a ew more "Clevelands," "Chica os," "Newark," and "Wattses," ombined with a close Republi an-Democratic race, could do the mpossible. Yes, it could bring eorge Wallace the victory which ie has for a year, spent over $60,000 a (lay to achieve. After all, who would have be ieved that LBJ could h avye, or voukd have bottled his ego, swal owed is pride, and pulled out >f the Presidential race? W h a t Town S )ear- Miss Zalkin: As president of the T o w n Mden's Association, I welcome the freshmen to the Carolina Coin munity, particularly t h e fresh man town students. As town stu tents they will encounter many complex andl sophisticated prob lems unique to town students, such as securing a parking space each morning, deciding what to do with themselves, their books, and assorted1 paraphernalia be tween classes. Another equally sophisticated dilemma'is whether to starve or incur aching feet fronm walking several long blocks to the near est establishment serving edible food at a reasonable psrice. The budding town student can not presume that these will be the only problems. For he will soon (discover, after he has left his um brella at home, that being a town student means being a meteorol ogist as well. The dorm students will call the town students Townies, D)ayhops and mama's boys andI girls. They will generally he ostracized~ by the d o r m inaudnt.a nd teated. .. .4)r- 1 ON\ Storm soothsayer envisaged that McCarthy could have started with no funds, no organization, and little support, and built such a mass loyal fol lowing? 'IMus caught in his own wake, he was left no choice but to advanee uncompromisingly u p o n the Democratic Convention, open ing Pandora's box of dissention, divisiveness, mistrust, and bitter ness. What Democrat would have dreamed that the most liberal bas. tion of democracy in the United States - the Demo)cratic Party - would be dealt perhaps a mortal blow by those whom It sought to defend? And what prophet gave even a second thought to the pos sibility that the liberal landslide of 1964 would, in only four years, backslide in the wake of a Repub. lican two-time loser and sin Ala bama reactionary? indispuable. Wh a t illreul Storm til ti o al no oranwruca qetion itesuot,a logus Thuw cught el hi s gown ake he waes left dny bfoe btheo teeocranthic Convuentn oer-o in adr' o fdsetion ivisivens stut,il andbttend cnsses Wand Deocrate would have pti ipatincrac in the Un 1itnea womuldty. heal ners andota ideaswi thoewmait souhtl tat eveniasTeon though receive os-hl siilt eduatn the lieal landsided ofi 96 wetou ,inolsfu.yas backlie infte ake oyf why.b bamasefact ion thry? 'eoy answrcnconceiv mose, per-a has inse,ult neethelessm-do nadistblenW oranitillnsudt frothed mknmstryo which haf plonitic prdoeared Who will sureien the U miniNvember o som? Certainly wicho perlyte touansere such qesetos,bu. ouended might30 well bthRoertoEd ais uesshthe dayeg efre stdent eletion the t turbuetdea boyf soesrtofaks. anincm Register Here BY S'EVE H""R Guest Columnist "Allright, if your last name begins with a letter between G-K and your social security number's last two digits are between 0-50 you must line up between 8 and 9:30 between the posts desig nated. This of course is all con tingent upon whether or not your hair is sandy brown and you are between 5'8" and 6'2" in height all being dependent upon your hour credit as opposed to your status and living quarters." (Please check for specifies on opposite page) "Sorry, son, your group was sup. posed to be here 10 minutes ago . . . can't help you out. Come back tomorrow between . . ." -"nope, that's closed out . . -"sorry, all filled up . . . -"that course has been filled" --"no m o r e sections in that course . . ." -"can't do it, too many al ready .- ." -"why, yes, I can give you all eight o'clocks in nursing seminar and four o'clocks in herapeutic Physical Science. Does that suit you?" -"Any conflicts must be re ported and cleared up by use of a Drop-add card. These timesav ing devices must have the signa ture of almost every professor at school." -BOOK LIST-. . . Physical Science Ierapeutic, The Way of Co. Sys. Inter Comp., Srison Jones $8.95. Gen. Adv. Sci. 'Mer. . . , Smith $17.95. -"uh, I bought this Gen. Adv. Sci. Ther. . . . , Smith, yesterday for $17.95 and I found out my section isn't using it and . ." -"we'll give you two dollars for it ...... Letter To The Editor Dear Miss Zalkin: I would l i k e to protest the right of a senior to obtain his athletic coupon book and Duke tickets before underclassmen. Just because seniors have been here for several years paying fees andl yelling to support the team, this should not give them seating rights. Show me a college with Seniors believing this and I'll show you a college with no esprit de corps, no.pep, surely no school drive. I am a five-year engineer with seats in the end z o n e-and I DON'T LIKE IT. NAME WITHIHELD BY REQUEST roblems Until two years ago, there were no organizations through which the ideas and complaints of the town students could be channeled to the faculty and administration. I know that the town students who become involved in a campus organization quickly f e e I that they too are a part of the Caro lina Community. The student or ganizations on our campus in clude professional, religious, so cial, and interest groups. Some where within these organizations, any town student will be able to find one or perhaps asevye rsa groups w i t h which to discuss their interests and to express their ideas. JAMES W. OORL.EY President Town Men's Association lott GJonsates as the first editor, TheOs of the University of south Carolinflse ng holidays and examinations. necessarily reflect ths views of the adSiDis a whole. BUSINESS MANAGER Linda Del Rosso