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Editorials
FrIday, November 22, 1968 --Page Two
Keep The Faith
Although letters, petitions, and comments lamenting the
Board of Trustees' refusal of the student beer proposal
continue to pour into our office, we can point to another
action taken the same day with approval and pride.
The Board of Women Visitors approved Saturday a
proposal to operate a second coed residence hall under the
same liberal regulations as Capstone.
The Board of Women Visitors gave the women of Caro
lina a chance last year to prove their maturity and sense
of responsibility when they approved an AWS proposal to
make Capstone an honor dorm.
The Board showed some faith in the girls, and the girls
lived up to it. The new system has not been without its
problems, but the students have grown to meet their
responsibilities.
We commend the decision for another honor dorm. With
the action, the Board of Women Visitors clearly expresses
their belief that Carolina coeds are mature and responsible
young women.
Crazy Kids
We had a most unusual visitor in The Gamecock office
this week. A student came in who wanted to do something
instead of complain.
And he did. Or at least he's started.
The student was the president of the freshman class, and
Wednesday night he called an open meeting of the entire
class,
Joe Usry and the other freshman class officers are full
of ideas and enthusiasm.
They haven't been around long enough to know that
Carolina students are apathetic. They haven't been around
long enough to know that we criticize, not act.
The freshmen have started a fund-raising drive. They
have some crazy idea about something solid to build on
when they're seniors, so their senior class project will be
worthwhile.
And they're taking part in Operation Gratitude, a na
tionwide program to welcome the veterans home from
Vietnam.
And they have set up a grievance committee for their
class. The executive council has sent letters to all freshmen
with the names of committee members and frosh senators.
They were introduced at the meeting this week. They
want complaints-and they want to do something about
them.
Crazy bunch of kids.
Oh, well, they'll learn. Just give them another semester.
Crackdown
Congress has become increasingly edgy about spending
taxpayer money on college students who indulge in the dis
rupting capers which have beset many institutions in recent
months.
The prevailing congressional attitude seems to be that
if a student prefers troublemaking to getting an education,
why should the taxpayers help him out ?
It is a reasonable question.
The latest proposals would deny tax assistance, through
loans or grants, to any student convicted of a crime-such
as inciting to riot, to any student property, or assault.
College administrators also would be given discretion to
refuse tax assistance to students who took part in some
of these "militant" movements if the college officials
thought their conduct was disruptive and disqualified them
from such favors.
Most students by far go to college to learn, not to wreck
the college. If they are in serious need of help, they also
need to show evidence of deserving it, by their personal
conduct as well as by scholarly achievement or ability.
We don't normally pay a burglar for committing his
crime or reward rule-breakers. There is no equitable reason
for rewarding the college-type hoodlums, just because they
are students.
-From THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS
Carolina Sketch book
Lettei
Dear Miss Zalkin:
I am writing this letter be
cause I am in doubt as to what
the All-American rating your
newspaper receives each year
really means. Your policies are
anything but American. The
Ganecock is both guilty of slant
ing the truth and withholding
major facts.
To be more specific, look at
your coverage of the recent con
troversy in the Student Senate
over the Statement of Student
Rights and Freedoms within the
Academic Community. First of
all, there is no such thing as the
Bill of Rights at Carolina. Why
do the headlines and the articles
in your newspaper insist on call
ing this piece of legislation a
Bill of Rights?
In President Salane's speech
he said that it was not a Bill of
Rights, and that it was simply a
quote, "statement of policy."
This seems strange to me in two
respecta. First, Salane, the chief
advocator of the legislation, calls
it a policy statement, and you
call it a Bill of Rights most of
the time. Second, you and Mr.
Salane don't agree on this mat
ter.
My second objection is to the
implication given by your write
up of the Student Senate meet
ing and the caption under the
picture of Sen. Magner and my
self. You make us appear to be
against a Bill of Rights, and
make President Salane appear to
he the defendler of a Bill of
Rights. The real truth of the
mattei is that we were in favor
of a Bill of Rights, and that
T< m was in favor of a state
'rent of policy.
Thirdly, I have been misquoted
by your newspaper. But, since
this is only a minor offense comn
paredl to the other infractions. I
prefer not to go into it.
Fourthly, I feel your news
paper plays a one-sided role in
p a r t i a a n legislative politics.
There is nothing wrong here, ex
cept your newspaper deliberately
makes anyone who doesn't agree
with you in the wrong.
Fifthly, why did the coverage
of Wednesday's Senate meeting
fail to include that Senate passed
the amendment in favor of ani
interpretive body B E F 0 R E
Salane's appeal, and AFTER
this they revoted the amendl
ment, striking it from the body
of the legislation? The entire de
bate was over whether or not
the legislation needled a section
on interpretation, and you failed
to include the basic facts about
it.
The next area in which you
fail to live up to the responsi
bilitires of an American news
paper is your coverage of the
fr-aternmit ies. Why do you insist
on printing dlerogatory remarks
4Wk;
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etc., while you give little or no
coverage to the campus achieve
ments and the community ser
vice they (o? Just last Monday
the IFC gave $100 to Operation
Gratitude. Did you know that
the Inter-Fraternity Council is
up for the National IFC com
munity service award? Who
sponsors the Blood Drive? Who
has gotten over 100 percent in
the United Fund Drive for four
years?
Also, many fraternity men are
outstanding campus leaders and
contribute much to Carolina. I
am not trying to blow my horn
as a fraternity man. I know
perfectly well the fraternities
have their limitations, but it is
unfair and unjust to print the
limitations without the achieve
ments.
While I'm here, I might as
well get a few other things off
my chest. The first is my feel
ing about the letter of John C.
Galloway- Jr. in your last issue.
Here I mean no criticism of
your newsp)aper- since the opin
ions exp)ressedl in the letters are
not necessarily yours, and that
you print all requests. That is,
if you don't change your policy
when you see mine.
Like your newspaper, Mr.
G;allowvay fails to realize that
there is no Bill of Rights, only
a statement of "policy." There
fore, how~ can the "titanic trio"
decfendl the Bill of Rights against
the studlent, when there is no
Hill of Rights? None of us in
the "titanic trio" were trying to
make a name for ourselves. We
were only standing up for what
we believe.
It is my sincere hope in the
future, The Gamiecock will live
up to its responsibilities as a
newspaper, a dlemocratic one. I
dlon't feel that your newspaper
is all bad, though. I like the car
toons. And I can't (10 better
either, b)ut I dlon't claim to be a
newspaper man.
PETE McCAUSLAND)
D)ear Miss Za1kin:
I would like to congratulate
the Carolina Board of Trustees
for rejecting the proposal for
experimental beer sales on camn
pus.
Again, faced with a chance to
display real leadership, the Uni
versity has chosen to follow its
own outmodled path.
The sale of heer itself was not
the prime goal involved in the
decision. The University has
shown that it, along with its re
ligious co(unterparts, is reluctant
to enter the twentieth century
where the rest of the nation (ex
eluding South Carolina'. sisters
in the Con federacy) has al readyv
begun pre.paring for the next
Like most religious organiza
tin, te Univ.,.ity f.al. to
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realize that a human being is an J
individual capable of thinking tl
for himself and able to arrive tl
at decisions with the use of his o
own facilities. An individual does tI
not need some obsolete faction to c
tell him what to do. y
Once the University realizes tI
that the twentieth century will b
not wait for it, and that the c,
only allegiance the University t
owes anyone is to its students- d
not to a group of pseudo-reli
gious zealots, then and only then c
will Carolina really advance and
surpass those who feel that a
change or updating is never
needled.
GREGORY KILBURN r
Dear Miss Zalkin:
This is a letter congratulating
the trustees on their lack of in
itiative, the inability of foresight
and their lack of courage to pass
the Beer Bill.
Their actions exemplify the
stagnation andl regression found t
in South Carolina andl the ma- b
jority- of southern states. Theyi
ask why we fail to have a dy
namic campus with dlynamic c
personalities, that leads other
edlucational institutions.
It is your fault, Gentlemen, for
it is you who fail to insist on
higher entrance requirements. J
you who fail to give your fac- c
ulty academic freedom and you
who fail to insist and support c
request for budget increases and
see that this money is spent to L
the advantage of the acadlemic
community.
If you need a model may I
suggest you look at [Duke, NYU,
Brown University, Rutgers Un i
versity, University of Virginia
andl Ohio State.
Yes, Gentlemen, I congratulate.
you once more on your ability
to stagnate South Carolina and
her finest educational institu
tion.
MICHAEL, R. HRANNEN Ill
Dear Miss Zalkin:
In the Nov. 12 issue of The
Gamecock there was an announce
ment about 1968 studlent basket
ball ticket information and the
procedure to secure reservedl seat
tickets was outlinedl.
As I understand it, there will
be 200 tickets sold to married
studlents for their wives, but no
provision was made for those
marriedI studlents without wives.
Was this a discrimination or just
an omission?
1IRIS DAYOITB
I)ear Misq Zalkin:
I was looking at lasit Satur
uday's VPI game, fending off the
rain like everyone else, when the (
band struick up our new fight
song, "L,et a Winner L,ead the
Way."
When the hand had finishe'd
playing. director of hands, M.
LLiC4Gr SOJMEOMJE
%NCJAL SITUATIO
No
JoKE.
litor
ames Pritchard, requested that
he cheerleaders lead the fans in
he song correctly, which obvi
usly they were not doing. At
his simple request the head
heerleader replied with "Damn
ou" while looking squarely into
he face of Mr. Pritchard. The
and kindly sent the somewhat
onfused cheerleader the words
i the song which he turned
own with "Go to hell!"
I'm not sure what chip the
heerleader had on his shoulder,
ut a suspension from the Clem
on game as cheerleader is one
f the kinder things I've heard
hould be (lone with the "young"
ian.
C. M. (MACK) AMICK, .JR.
School
)ear Miss Zalkin:
We the undersigned would lik
o the Student Senate's request f,
er 23rd. Why is it that member:
proper to hav-e all of its edu<
sst moment for the p)urp)ose of
urricular function ? Is footballt
f South Carolina ?
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AMES MERIWETHER T. M. HINES
ICHARO GUNTER CLAUDE Mil
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L. BRADLEY MORSE PECl
RIAN O'FARRELL R. A. REMPI
ONALD GREINER PETER BECI
ENJAMIN DUNLAP R. B. PATTE
IALCOLM WARE R. H. CHOW1
ARRY ANOREWS R. M. WEIR
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Competition
By ALLEN G. PITTS
Guest Columnist
A meatball by any other name
would taste the same---or would
it? Call it a Slater Meatball and
somehow the taste Is immedi.
ately transformed to cardboard.
My purpose here though is not
to praise Slater, but possibly to
bury them. There are those who
say that Slater food is atrocious,
and if it is so it is a grievous
fault. I do not need to go into
the many detailed accounts of
the voyages of Slater into the
twilight zone of kitchen cuisine.
Just by recalling to mind such
items as dishwasher-bolt cassar.
ole, broiled hair-burgers, snail
salad, or concrete whipped cream,
I can achieve my purpose. Each
of us who has ever eaten at one
of our cafeterias can add to the
list of complaints.
But why has this situation de.
veloped? My personal opinion is
that it is because Slater has a
monopoly on campus. They art
firmly entrenched in the dorms
and Russell House and have
warehouses loaned to them by
the University. In short, they
have become a permanent insti.
tution on campus. They .re safe
and secure in spite of any stu.
(lent protest for they have be.
come as much a part of the Uni.
versity scene as our fraterni.
ties.
The question then arises, in
the light of this situation, what
can be done about it? The an.
swer to this I feel is not new;
it's not even profound. What It
is is COMPETITION!
I call upon Tom Salane as my
friend and as president, and also
upon the Student Senate, to in.
vestigate the possibility and pro.
cedures of getting a local firm
to take control of two cafeterias,
truck in their own food entirely
independent of Slater, and offer
the students a choice.
If carried out, this experiment
will provide the competition
necessary to raise the level of
the quality of the food on cam
pus, lower the food prices (which
Slater claims are already low, to
the amazement andi disgust of
most students), end the caca
phony of complaints on campus,
andl at last prove Student Senate
can respondl to studient need.
Spirit?
e to pose tw&o questions in regards
or suspension of classes on Novem
of an educational institution deem
ational activities suspendied at the
vicarious p)articip)ation in an extra
he raison di'etre for the University
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