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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSOCIA'I Sally Zalkin Mike Ki Campus Last spring a Carolina coed and her date were attacked one evening in the park be hind South Dorm. They were robbed and the girl was raped. Not a very pretty picture. And in the name of good taste, we did not publicize the incident. There was no front-page Elections Again It's hard not to be trite about election confusion. Confusion during campus elections is old hat at Carolina, the "in" thing. It happens every fall-and despite promises and good intentions, it happens again every spring. Chairman Mike Thomas and the Elec tion Commission did a commendable job this fall. We're not blaming them. It's a difficult job-one with little praise or re ward-and they worked hard. But many of the same mistakes were made again-and we added a few new ones. Study after study has been made-with few results. Let's DO something this time instead of studying the problems again, and do something in time for spring elections. We suggest using voting machines in stead of the present computer ballot. They can be "borrowed" from Richland County. High schools throughout the state use such machines in student council elections. Voting machines would eliminate the problems involved in printing ballots names misspelled, names omitted, etc. Last year the Elections Commission used black ink on the ballots. The computer must have red ink, so the Commission spent several long sleepless nights hand-counting the' ballots. Machines would also cut down on the "stuffed" ballot boxes that seem to be a way of life in USC elections. Little, if any, control is maintained at most polls to see that students vote properly. Since the machines would count the votes, much time could be saved. This year the computer broke down, leaving the Com mission helpless and causing results and run-offs to be delayed. Last year, because of the ink problem, the ballots had to be counted by hand. Also students have to be educated in the process of marking the ballot correctly, or the computer will spit it out. Voting machines would add prestige to an election. In the words of one freshman, "They're impressive. They make me feel that the election is important." That's one suggestion. The Election Commission has its own suggestions for improvements. Let's do something before spring elec tions. Ready To Make A cvc1zinforlaft Commentary 'E EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER -ochmalny Linda Del Rosso M Insecurity story. In fact, there was no publicity of an kind. Campus police locked the Pickens ani Blossom Streets gates to the area in an ef fort to keep students out of the park. Bu students were never told why. A few rumors were circulated, but ni facts were made available. So student jumped the fence or removed bricks an( continued to use the p-ork. Last Saturday night a similar inciden occurred. Perhaps publicity last time might hav prevented the recurrence. It's too late t wonder.... But it's not too late to preven a next time. About 9 p.m. Saturday a Carolina stu dent and his date decided to take advantagi of the poorly lighted area behind South Unfortunately darkness also invites danger The coupie was jumped by three boys non-students-and robbed. The 'gi'l wa threatened but not harmed. The area behind South is not the onl3 danger spot. Campus security men repor incidents involving couples parked in cars particularly near the tennis courts or Wheat Street. And last Sunday night four Carolim boys were assaulted and robbed in thref sepnrate incidents. The robberies occurret between 8 and 8:30 p.m.-one in front o: Davis College, one at the north end of Mc Kissick Library, and one between at Colleg( and Henderson Streets. What can be done? Lighting was improved last year, but il is still inadequate in many areas. A bus service was initiated last yeai from Capstone to Sumter Street but ha. been discontinued. Perhaps such a servic( should be started again to eliminate muct of the need for students to walk alone ai night. Three campus policemen now patrol US( on foot at night, in addition to one patro car. Supervisor of campus security, Georg( Key, said a fourth policeman will soon b added. Key told The Gamecock that the gates to the park behind South are locked at darl to discourage students from using the aret and to keep out the "undesirables." We feel more might be accomplished b3 making students aware of the danger. We urge that inhabitants of University city bi aware and on guard. Do not hesitate to report "suspicioul characters" to the University police. If ai area is inadequately lighted, report it ti the proper authorities. And do not ventur, out at night alone. Incidents such as those of the past week end are not reason for panic-but the; should induce alarm and caution. Conet Run For The Dorm? Stuider By ROLLIE WATERS Editorial AssiFitant "The internalization of ex tremely rigid parental values leads the child to be critical and severe in evaluating his own be havior-to develop a severe con science. Often, too, the result is an 'infantile conscience,' in that the individual blindly accepts the moral rubrics he has been taught and does not attempt an evaluation of their merits." The preceding quote is from I the abnormal psychology textI taught here at the University.i This particular quote is under the subtitle, "Rigid, unrealistic moral standards," and is ex tremely applicable to the atti tude of a minority. of USC stu dents as in regards to the so called "Beer Legislation" that j Dying Un By A LLEN G. PITTS Guest Columnist Once upon a time, sitting in Russell House cafeteria, Ralph sudeny uredtomean sid "A,Imari* hsuiest tStatmn,uosderigrh dtoria Aus,i stlant e ldw the cild toice cia gand seer wi.h eaating his suppose tohassor-t devmonad an veen _scienc.On toogtdeepeint his satemnfntil. osinc, nta the indviua blnvesy acceptsth moalia rbicsht? 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Of course, everyone who is tgainst the drinking of beer is iot mentally deranged. Con ,-ersely, all those in favor of ierving beer in the Golden Spur tre neither drunkards nor im noral. The Student Senate exhibited progressiveness in judgment ind a high level of confidence n the student body by unani nously voting in favor of this ill. This in itself should make is all extremely proud of our ,-epresentatives. Howevether dre is a lack of :onfidence professed by some of nur fellow students which is -ypical of the logic found in ;ome of the fundamentalistic groups within our society. These groups have developed a strong iversity? liful new library full of Dr. 3euss books. There's too few ,eat books in there, Al. It's the ibrary that runs a university. 1urs can barely crawl around in liapers with books like that. "It's a question of where do we p)ut our values. This isn't a chool, it's a bloody day camp! At the rate we're going we'll have the world's most beautiful YMCA in about ten years." With that statement I let out a long sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't the food that was kill ing me I wasn't too concerned. Like I guess I can still live hiappily ever after-I never used the undergraduate library any way. L Weapons Dear Miss Zalkin: A matter of importance to all Carolina women occurred this week, but is known to only a few. A resident of Capstone was "bothered" by an unidenti fied male at night. Fortunately, in trying to escape she ran into a campus policeman near the Administration Iluilding. How ever, the assailant was not ap p)rehendedl. The U n i versai ty Police have filled out an "of ficial report." As an interested friend of a young lady who is also a Cap stone resident, I phoned the Uni versity Police, the Columbia City Police, and a local gun shop in hopes of learning of some kind of weapon, other than a pistol, which could be employed by a young lady in self defense. I learned tear gas is illegal. andi to the best of my knowl edge, possession of a pistol in a (dormitory is against USC regu 4itions. Thus there seems to be no means of giving Carolina women a weapon. However, the gun dlealer suggested that a whistle used by an official at a ball game be employed. The cost, including a lanyard, is ap proximately $2.00. Yet in order for this to be e ffective a police man must be within earshot. I know, the nD... -f W--e trapwrweh it bt ~L Wors h ie or aoleg cetch book Handli tendlency to demand authori tarian power; whether it be the c~ourts, the police, or a college administration, to censor the temptation of "evil" that wil! surely corrupt us all. This lack of confidence is com pletely unjustified. Beer is as available as drinking water in 'The Lai Get Out I With Tom Jones as Marshall Dillon and Eugene Cooper as Fetus, USC professors are get ting the hell out of Dodge. What is the reason? Money. scratch, gelt. beans, coins, bills, bread, green, gold . . . you name a coin and everybody knows what you're talking about. No one here has any money but other schools (state schools in cluded) have money enough to buy our professors away. So we have fine Gamecock spirit with no professors. We've lost quite a few recently . . . the scent of money seems to have ov-ercome the perfume of ideal ism . . . Well, money isn't every thing and the Pope isn't Catholic andi SIater food is dlelicious all are as veritable as the nex'. So, what to do? USC should realize if we don't spend money we might as well close up shop and merge with R icehl1a nd Tec. Listen --new~ (dorms are fine and the Coliseum will be out of sight, but if you're going to spend millions etters To The Edito For Carolir has encouraged girls to travel in groups after dark. But a girl masy have to go to the library or another building at a time a friend cannot go. Thus the questions remaining in my mind are: Does anyone know of a real weapon which can be employed? With the modern science of dIrugs andl chemistry it certainly seems that there Is some kind of prodluct on the market which wouldl render an assailant help less, yet not mortally woundl him. If no weapon is available, could the possibility of campus wide use of whistles he ex plored? Perhaps the mandatory p)ossession of a powerful f lash light might he add(edl. In summation, this campus saw a series of unfortunate in cidlents last fall. An "official rep)ort" has been filed on what almost was another such inci (lent. But really, what has been done, what can be done, and what will be done? JAMES IRVIN WALLACE, JR. Dear Miss Zalkin: As a 36-year-old bachelor freshman (and other things un saidl), I have a definite appre hension of approaching in a serious vein matters political and social at USC. Nevertheless, haveot noce anon fallin WI* I*~ Yo Beer the campus vicinity now-but I have not no'icedl any~one failing out of their chairs lately. You see, the ov(-rw helming majority of our stuidents are re sponsible people - even though we (1o like to raise a little hell now and then. I'm sorry some of you can't see this. necock' 3f Dodge - By Steve Heller to house people, you ought to spend more to educate them. Free concerts are fine, but I'd rather spend a buck to go and have the money go to a worthy professor. I came here to get an education, not learn the proc eas of elimination. The industry of colleges is just as big a rat race as the next business. It is a known fact that South Carolina is twen'y years behind the Union. And, if we keep going the way we are, in fifteen years we will be forty years behind. That's groovey--I'm going out to put on my raccoon coat and curse the Japanese. No alcoholic beverages are served on govern mnent g roperty--we'd rather yol drive somewhere to drink there's always the need for more room space... ...andl, as the faculty piark ing lots are slowly openedl up for student use and the sun low ers in the east, the shadows of an old institution crumbles to the ground in a heap. a Women have some comments on Student Power. First, I think the concept of Student Power is a ridiculous denial, a conscious negation, of two important, essential facts: (1) The faculty had to go through the same thing we are now going through when they went to college, andl (2) The fac ulty are teaching us and giving us gradles on the bulk of our knowledge concerning admimls trative and sociological affairs. If it is suggested that a student m a k I n g outstandingS grades in business adminlistra tioni be appointed to the businleI committee, does It not stand to reason that If he is making out standing grades he is but learn ing and using in the same man ner the knowledge of his po fessors? Likewise, etc., other subjects, other fields. It seems to me that needed more than studlent power over the faculty is a sense and fel' ing of unity with thenm. With unity, the studlents automatically have a strong voice because theY are a part of the whole. Iii other words, we and the facult? comprise the University. W then, under unity, do not ne studlent power because we have Carolina power. GERGEn E. WHEELER, JE