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Can Anyone Control Registration? It seems to be a good idea to let students handle regis tration since they are the ones who must endure it twice each year. Registration is hard to predict, it is true. This can be seen easily in Carolina's registration history. Our experts have failed incessantly to bring it off successfully. Com puters have failed, mixtures have failed and the students themselves have failed. Not only do most advisers (and the term must be used very advisedly) not know what they are talking about, but students seldom listen to any good advice and even less to registration rules. Registration, to be controlled by anyone, must first be studied, defined and categorized. Why should students re peat the mistakes of their elders? Why not take a look at registration before attempting to control it. The bill before Senate implies that we, the students, are wresting control from the administration, but the truth is that they have not gained control of registration. Surely more stations for the deans' signatures are needed. Also needed are better methods of giving out card packets and signing for individual classes. Another critical need is for an efficient working advising system. This requires registration officials - student or admin istration - to look at school requirements. Many courses required by schools are congenitally overcrowded and open to only graduating seniors. Those who are scheduled to take these classes in sophomore or junior years are closed out and the cycle repeats itself. Is this an intelligent way to run a modern university? One provision of the Senate bill must be studied very closely. That is priority groups. Athletes being necessary to any institution of higher learning, and training being necessary to athletes, we cannot argue that they should not be given special status, no matter how much it rankles us. However, we can argue with the establishment of pri ority groups on the basis of holding prestige offices. The people enumerated in the bill are just a few of the many who serve the University. But do any of them have a func tional need to register under special conditions? Do they, simply by holding office, have greater need than the average student? There are people on campus to whom the right to register early could mean a great deal, even whether they could come to school or not. They are the people who must work to con tinue their education. They have not the time to engage in the activities mentioned in the bill, but they have real need of being able to regulate their schedules. Registering early should be based on the need, not on the office one holds or his friends on any committee. -KROCHMALNY Founded Jan. 30. 1908 AIlth Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first eaitor. The Game cock is published by and for the stii<lenms of the vni%ersity of couth (arulina semi weekly during time college year except duriig hiollays ati examitiations. 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Tuetsay, November 26, 1 Letters To The Censori Dear Miss Zalkin: In regard to the question of Larry Newton concerning the censorship of movies offered for public exhibition in Columbia, the "narrnw-minded group" (in his words) is none other .than the local branch of a group called "Citizens for Decent Literature," known as the CDL nationally. The Columbia group has added "and entertainment" to this title bringing movies under their scrutiny as well as literature. This group is evidently derived from some power of municipal government as they use city hall and have the police at their in struction. Concerning the movie in ques tion, Theresa and Isabelle, mem hers of the CDL were among the first to view the film. At least three of this group filed com plaints with Columbia Police Capt. Snipes, charging that por tions of the film were obscene. Capt. Snipes then viewed the film and suggested that certain por tions be removed or the manager of the theater would face possi ble arrest and prosecution. Thp scenes were removed. I have not seen the movie, gelded or whole, therefore I can not comment upon the merits of this particular case. However, it is very unsettling to me to realize that there is interwoven into the Satire Satirized Dear Miss Zalkin: I would like to thank Mr. C. Manning Howell Jr. for his pene trating satire ("Tragedy of Tragedy," Ganceock, Tuesday, November 12) of Professor Ham ilton's lecture on Black Power. The insight that Mr. Howell has shown cannot be measured! All the time I thought Prof. hamilton was talking about black uen acquiring political power in this country, andl the results of Lhis acquisition of power: the >ower to live where one chooses; ower to acquire the skills rhich black men want to acquire, mdt the powver for black men to ell white men where to head in f they get too pushy. Being a white masochist, and lot a supremiist, I had been Iluped into thinking that the free md( open society to which Prof. lamilton alluded earlier in the lay could, in some way, offer to il men something more than our -reat society presently offers us.I F'ortunately, before I was led o far down the path to rape, lunder, and flagellate, Mr. Iowe'll rippledl this veneer of hetoric from Prof. Hamilton's aitentions. Mr. Howell's insight ndl command of the English Ian auge is seldom enceounteredi in a niversity. To this I can only dd "Yes, Jesus loves you more' han he ('an say, Mr. Howell." D)AVID L. MILLER tLS tEE with or without you are 18 or older.) p.m. 0 Per Lady see the fluorescent glass nd dance to the pulsating Cream . . . Total environ tions . .. Itsall here in ~you wntbelieve it... ur sexiest miniskirts and turn yu on . . . ..e 968 - Page Two Editor ng The governmental structure of Rich land County a group of individ uals who upon their judgment can suppress a portion of the national media. Some investigation into the makeup of this organization has shown that the connotation of the terms used by Mr. Newton - "prudes" and "pseudo-intellec tual" are not entirely accurate. The members of this group are classic "pillars of the commun ity" and even boast of at least one member of the state legis lature. Unfortunately, like all censor groups, they are closed to general membership and seem to view their task as the struggle of good vs. evil. It is thought-provoking to note that with the recent popular trend toward freedom in the movies and the court cases over ruling suppression of printed matter, some CDL groups have attempted to turn to more politi cal fields. Cases in point would be the attempted suppression of two anti-Vietnam and Johnson films by the Denver chapter be cause some of the demonstrators depicted "used dirty language" and the confiscation of a book let called "Black Rebellion" which reportedly was pro-Wallace?? On no grounds except that it "stirred up trouble," this bit of genius was credited to the Newark chap ter. It is my opinion that these people should be given a right to express their views, but on a level with the rest of Columbia and certainly not through a po lice captain. 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Editorials Comentary Columbia, South Carolina Censors of expression to sooth their owl twisted desires and fears. RICHARD BONNETT Am-Asians Dear Miss Zalkin: The many favorable letters an comments I received from Carc lina students and faculty mem bers concerning the last letter o mine published in The Gamecoci have led me to believe that m; letters have at least some influ ence with my fellow CarolinianE With that in mind, I wish t, ask the student body, staff an, faculty to join with me in writ ing to President Johnson letter asking him to initiate a polic; that would allow all Am-Asians choice of citizenship not only ii the United States but in Eng land, Australia and New Zealan as well. Because, as Pearl Buck said Am-Asians are recognizable oi sight, such a policy would not b difficult to carry out. The policy could be made ef fective in individual cases whei each Am-Asian reaches a certah age, say 18 or 21. This woul certainly give even more signifi eance to Pearl Buck's benevolen foundation, dedicated to educat ing these young people of tw< worlds. Such a policy would give i very much needed significance t< our country's overtures of worl< peace and understanding amonj nations. Let us here at Carolina show the world that our horizons art not limited by stupidity and sim. plicity of mind. Let us use oui Carolina Power to right some ol the world's wrongs! Let's begir with this one. Fourteen thousanc USC students cannot be wrong! GEORGE E. WHEELER JR , Mathemati >ur successe cope of systems. You may also f's related studies of eleci n direct propagation, upper atn s. phenomena, and solid le for using the latest equipr cure/ advanced research wit s and EDP fully instrumented iabc and MATHEMATICIANS most vital and solve complex coi technologies related problems. Stati i that mathematics, matrix al beyond combinatorial analysis andaries of the tools applied by , your mathematicians. Oppo less are contributions in compt uccess. theoretical research ai Career Benefits ,hich is NSA's liberal graduate devices permits you to pursue being full-time graduate stuc mnco of any Nearly all academic cc sgency NSA, whose proximity research, universities is an addil ana Starting salaries, de large-scale education and experia EDP $8845.00 to $15,000.00 Whose Priority? Dear Miss Zalkin: This is in reference to an ar ticle which appeared in Nov. 22 issue of The Gamecock - the proposed registration bill passed by the Student Senate. This bill provides for two priority groups of students who "because of their position in the student structure, need to ar range their schedules around their duties . . This, in itself is fine, but it is with the qualifications attached to the bill that we quarrel. According to The Gamecock, Sen. Chip Galloway, sponsor of the bill, enumerated certain "stu I dent leaders" by office who should be included in the two - priority groups. In addition to f the class presidents, all of the e Student Senate, and the Chief I Photographers of The Gamecock - and The Garnet and Black, we would like to add some other 3 leaders. '1 They are as follows: the pages - in the Student Union, all AWS s hall chairmen, the president of the marketing club, the presi I (lent of the American Pharma I ceutical Union, the president of - the Freshman Y, the president of I the American Society of Civil Engineers and anyone who has been on the honor roll for more I than one semester. There are no limits to the heights that this bill can go. Per - haiis someday the priority groups I will encompass the whole stu I dent body. This will be the new I goal at Carolina - instead of - aspiring to Phii leta Kappa, the t incoming freshman can strive to - achieve the loftier heights of PRIORITY GROUP A. CINDY SHAUGHNESSY ADAIR WATSON Letters Policy Ti GAM:cOCK Welcomles let ters on any subject pertinent to and involving 'niversity stu dents. 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