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Editorials Commentary Friday, December 13, 1968 -Page Two Safety 1i Last week three girls incidents on College Street in the early evening. The girls were not hat nothing as serious as a mur years, according to police fil But how much longer a and robberies and attacks o The pledge class of Alph that it's up to the students police are trying to make tf limited force and limited eqt at once. The AP0's want to set u coeds from 7 to 11 every n the idea for the week of Jan The boys are still in ti talked to lorm presidents i have their approval. They and11l set up a route from 1 campus. It's an ambitious plan. It and work and it will t. cooperation. The APO's deserve high willinness to do somethini for soiiine else to do it firs And they deserve the coo m11ake the service work. The bus service run by t cohnined because too few st it worthwhile. If the test week is SUcc vice, if the dorms will share will express their approval iniistration-we can make Calende Sonebody did a beautifu year. What value could anyoi Thursday and returning on We suspect they iever b6 lar, but jjust wrote down tarted and ended last year We're not mentioning an' sets up the University cale they're going to change it. The alendar mainly aff( factilty and students are the about it. So the only solution we to put their heads together It, a pr)fessor (lecides to Friday or Saturday after N pr('fessor and his class. It would make a lovely C WF All campus~ prob)lems sool the same thing-a lack of c We overheard a statemen whole thing in a nutshell: "I know you believe you said, but I am not sure you noit what' I meant.'' With such comm u nicatior F'imi.eid Jan 30. 19ii08i with Rtobert E cock tN I.u.lshi..I i anelfo t hie stud'ent ut ek ly tuing t ccg year excepnt thi 'I he opini.n exre,t-d herini don not nrit. ii thn fanulty *r the stuldejtnt) y ffe fThe Gamecock are inn Henoi . mtii'he are 777- t219 (Editor-n* .n i 777-5iN7 .Newsrinom). The Gamecock In repirn'eent nartioina i*isle,ine'. Thei, pubientionn la a mnembelr ii 4 ohenglate Press Anniietatini. Subalscrliptsion EDITOR-I N-CH IE F Sally Zalkin MIANAG;ING EDITOR ......... ASSITANT MANAG;ING ED)IT( ASSOCIATE E[DITOR ......... NEWS EDITOR ............... ASSISTA NT NEWS EDITOR.. ED)ITOR(IAIL ASSISTANTIS .. SPORTS ED)ITOR ............. FAI'I.TY E'DITiOR ........... sOC'IETrY EITIOR ............ EXCIEA NG E EI)ITOR ).......... CHIIEF PHIOTOGRAPHIER .. ADVEFRTISING MANAGER .. .ASST. AJ)VERTISING MIANAG;I CI,ASSIF"IEI Al) MANAGE'R. ASSISTANT fl1'SINESS MANAC C'IRCIII,ATION MANAGER ... STAFF--irby Koon, Ed Pinion. Candy S Eddie Chen. Anne Caveny, Susan Fouche. Nolmes, Ron Miles, Jean Neal. Susan I Surrat?. Joe IJsry. Carol Wilson. Harold Truedell, Bruce Honick. David Johnston. Elliott Borenstein. Charles Keefer, Warre McMillan, Jim Gordon. Will Peters. Chls Roland Cmare fauBav. T.. Mills. aad Li ni Escorts &ere attacked in two separate within a block from Capstone med. In fact, there has been ier or rape on campus in recent es. re we going to allow muggings n the Carolina campus? a Phi Omega decided this week to do something. The campus *e campus safe, but they have a iipment and can't be everywhere p an escort service for Carolina ight. They have decided to try , 5 and see how it works. ie planning stages. They have Lnd administrative officials and plan to rent a Volkswagen bus :he dorms to various spots on will take a good bit of planning Lke a lot of people and a lot of praise for their initiative and r instead of the usual waiting peration of the other students to he University last year was dis udents used the service to make ssful-if the girls use the ser operation costs, and if students to APO members and the ad the service permanent. C 0 r Crisis I job of calendar bungling this ie see in leaving school on a .t Friday? >thered to even look at a calen the same dates that vacation r names, but the administration n(lar. And it doesn't look like Cts faculty and students. And main ones who are complaining see is for faculty and students Lmd do something about it. give his class a free cut on the ew Year's, that's between the bristmas present. kat? ier or later are boiled down to r)mmunication. t this week that expressed the understand what you think I realize that what you heard is s difficulties, is it any wonder itt G;on.aes as the first editor. The Game of the University of South Carolina semi ng hulblays and ex aminations. necessarily refleet the views of the adminla a wholie. 308 rf the Ru'ssell hiouse on the University ief). 777--4220 tlnusinese and Advertising) ly by National Educationial Advertising Ser rAssuetated toilegiate Press and the S. C. rates are S6 uer year. BUSINESS MANAGER Linda D)el Rosso .............Mary Jane Benston R....................Carl Stepp ................Mike Krochmalny ................Jim Wannamanker .............Jim Haney, lKen Hare ....Don Caugh main, Rllie Waters ...............John David Spade .....................Mona Gault ....................Angie Haker ....................onna Scholl ..................Chip Galloway .....................Jay Bender R ...................obby Hhitt ..................ancie Meddin ER ..........Robert Scarborough ................Ell'ott Borenstein river. Jo Bland. Sue Tanner, Mike Creel, Nathan Goldman, Stanley Hensley, MaVk ross. Tony Stokes, Jeanine Smith. Karen Ward. Fred Monk. Kitty McCaskill, Mary Shirley Cook, Debbie Knight, Bob Benson, n Hudsnn. Mike Tyler. Bob Seidel. Dick Abernathy. Edwin Rosves. Lira Fricks. Letters To T Greeks. Dear Miss Zalkin: Never has an occasion occurred which has upset me enough to write The Gamecock. There have been times when my remaining impartial on a topic or letter printed in the paper proved to be extremely difficult. However, I feel that this matter is of grave concern. I refer to an editorial in the Dec. 6 Gamerock by Mr. Spade concerning the "Greek G & B." I realize and respect the autonomy of your newspaper and the freedom of article selection to which your newspaper con ristently adheres. In a time when student activism is "the thing of the day," when "student power," as such, is useless without stu dent organization, I find it diffi cult to understand the reason for Mr. Spade's invective of the (;reek system at the University. Perhaps it wasn't so much the accusation that the Greek system should pay for the yearbook. What upset me the greatest was the direct attempt to incite nont Greeks in taking a direct stand against their fellow students yes, Mr. Spade, their fellow-stu dents. Remember, that all Greeks were once non-Greeks. The rea sons for not joining a fraternity are many and varied: economic, academic, etc. These reasons may aptly apply to not joining Uni versity-sp)onsored organizations. I repeat-Student Unity is the key for the achievement of estab lished educational gains. IHAlRIY W. KNOIIE!. !)ear Minn Zalkin: In regardls to the article in the D ec. 6 Ga mecock, I feel certain .tatements made by Mr. Spade nleed( to b)e corrected. I have allowed 20.4 per cent of the boo0k to e d (evotedl to G;ree'ks. TIhis was increased over last year's section so that any thing that was Greek oriented could he included in this section. L,ast y'ear Greek pictures were' scatte redl throughout the year bo)ok--causing the percentage or Greeks in last year's boo0k to be in reality greater than that ail lotted this year. The '"lavish sp'readl fo the~ yearbook staff" that he refers to "quals the spreadl for Th/e (;ame - cock staff. F"or the 1969 Garne and Itlack, I cut our staff peages in half and cut The Gawrecri; section by one-th ird .Mr. Spadle. are you suggesting that Th. (hiam"rock is having a "lavi-Sh sp read''"? lie also states that the "Greeks should pay for it." Each fa ternity pays $90 for two pages, $140o for four pages. Most or ganizat ions were charged $25 For one-half page and $50 for a rage. When these organizations eouild not afford this we tried to mnake some excep)tions since we Felt they made a considerable ~ont ribut ion to the campus11. 'The statement that ". . . the ~taff of the Garnet and Islack i ilmost entirely Greek . . ." is rrevelent, b'ut for clarity myi taff is 54 percent Greek. The.e t aff members were selected he auWse oif t heir e'xper)i'Fe in yeara 'Ook work, their nhuility, :a Carolina S he Editor Yearb( their interest, not because of Greek pins on their clothing. Mr. Spade also made the con ment that ". . . students paid for their 'free yearbooks.' . . There was a charge of $2 to re serve a book and to also cover the cost of the student's portrait. A reservation fee was charged so that I would know how many books to order. It would have been impossible on my budget of approximately $43,000 to have printed over 10,000 copies since each book costs about $10. To cover the "entire Carolina story," I have allowed 18 per cent of the book to be student life. This section is strictly de voted to the student's everyday activities. Also 11 percent of the book is devoted to sports. It is our privilege and duty t< present a yearbook that the stu dent may always like and he proud to show his parents and friends. In my opinion the 19(69 Garnet and Black does exacth. this. NIARGARET CR.AI'T Editor-in-Chief, 1969 Garnet & Black Pear Miss Zalkin: I have felt for a long imie that the truth about Carolina's Greek letter societies should he told, that the camouflage so expertly arranged by these groups shouo be torn away so that Carolina's indlependents could finally see the b)lat.ant stup)idity of these Grecophiles. Mr. Spade's editorial (I )ee. fi concerning t}ie G~& I andI it:. Greeks section) has opened t he dloor for ex posutre of the G reelk junta with its effoertle'ss comp lre hension ot the facts which sur round( so) v ital an issue as t he n'ttnbe'r of peages in the y.earbeook. It is mnerely another examitple of The ;~ o G erock's utnpIarallelled edlitorial freedom that this paper can produtce so cou ra geohus and unprejudiced a writer as Mr. Spade. The thesis of this letter is sima ply that the Gree4k are Utt dum. and I feel that I can prove i ea:ily. They at're 'InulnaIdb to attack that I cant hardly eli tide which flank to challenge. Itut, to hegin-our dleat Greek are entrenched in tradlit ion teo such an extent that th1ey have nt yet realized that the moette i method of cha nge and prlogress i the qutite-futntioena~ldemonstrta. ion-cumti-tiot rathetr than the Xmas Tree Ilea r Miss Zul kin; Thle Yuletide sea-ont is upeon us. It is unfortunate that the resi lent s of fift.h flooar '"11' are somewhat amiss in their celIc brat ion oif Noel this year-; the pe renn ial ('h rist mas 'Tree, t hat haes symblol izedl t he Nat iv for gener'tatiotns, is issin51g. We fmdit thFat college men'l have b,een d. niedl the right tee dispelay een an atluminumt, Underwriters5' I. I ree. It is absurd that a flamte-proofe "trtee'' suchF as t he one s tnd itt in the mnhlt e f or t .. I .... ptte ketchbook >)ok Del hopelessi.y-antiquated " v h a n g v within the order" of the past. The Greeks are unfashionably aloof from the popular practices; of the day: the beneficent de struction of anything which dis pleases. TIhey continue to try to do0 things by Using popular Suip port, which we as knowledgeable men recognize as a1 hopelessly eccentric practice. The Greeks are also dumb in that they have failed to itealiz.e that true sympathy for mani is now out of style. I mean, one just does not go out and collect money for the indigent, the underprivileged, the crippled; nor does one give blood which may save anlother's life. The GreVeks imust he duimb, hot. CaUSP We, atS un1prejudiced and open-minded mnen, haVP trited to tell theml th11is t hrough the m'lediumil of ourl own unpre)1.(jukdiWeq and open-minded Gmrc.\e Ias uprejudived and o 1 n - mlinded mcn, have4 tried to toll thenm th;at tOr Is no room in OUr fre Society for grokps which SO bull-headedly insist onl doing what they wish. .\lso, while I woAbdn't for the Worbd begrudgie the Greeks thir odd lifestyle, i must Say it too is ol fashioned. .\lany of Us have thl thom ty hat 1 lifg filued with Studying, party ing, and ihl clothl's i e as hI e e ecetri was tice.nitrs n "Grek Gekare l odu."i that tle hae faile tha my puri tost tnritin y ths fettr mas inl mniecy freltd the editoria ueried the janj1968d and doetswu onelyv boodu whchurtay sao aaithrplifenta. euta Thsoe sort fromt the Gliih and 1 caurch befor aking irect' e com tell o the toi o the0 e rl4ia: aloction ofn space4ji the toithed mact tha te tre aesit(l inr that 196 Gr and 0) r spresented a'4or en 4)(t inrfs vr Is vim~'i har hla't s in the 'vol7 din rung inth eeks'hysical 41 Iciences l ig mnt she trittoo i "41l" tDshorme. Thne(I u.\dminitratosl themtihat a ie filled with stheig parot of (-bis tma ,s l k-nt h t w It was tithplae iteca rean rith nmpl sprtieht lin t read that et m ay amntae nrvm Olrinm writ.hslte sol ilis st lv'lte -: t4 ediTtial --s eieate1- ctin at n .ero -gthe 31\ nII 6 n H.I ol \o-Tl hedecuts fended of fashion as last year's heads but do they listen ? We have tried to tell then. We tried to tell them that it is, quite simi.ly put, against the natural order of things for man to choose his friends as he sees fit--but they don't listen. We have tried to tell that one should not feel the need for deep and abiding friendships, that it is better to go it alone during these years which can be the most determining of one's life, that it's better to criticize at second-hand than to involve oneself at first hand. )o they listen? They do not! WV, aS uprejudl iced and op4n minded men, are merely trying to tell them how to run their lives, and what happens? They go right ahead and accept the ;& I's offer and commit the blood-chilling crime of buying space in the yearbook just to re mind us that open-mindedness on our part has failed some where. All of this is such blatant stu Vidity on their parts that I'm sure that all of us, as un prejudiced and open-minded men must agree that Carolina should raise its entrance requiriment in order to keep such obviously destiructive people out. G. M1. BL.ACK mrd Critic cut from two pages to one page an obvious 50 per cent decrease) - -still 2001 pier cent of what editor Nancy F-ranklin o r i g i n a l I y wan ted to allocate to organiza io ns that "ddin't do anything."' This negligib)le amount of space was only obtainedl after much dis cussion1 and interve-ntion byv the office of st udent a ffairis. I )ue to this conitroverSy, sev eral risidfencie halflipresiden-fts met last spri ng a ndI sen t letters to the 'I) ditor, .\argairet Cra ft, re qfuest inrg two pages per d ormn. Latir in the sununer, they met with .\iss ('raft tii further ex plain the dlorm situation and to rii-un;hiasziz theo request for an i c r a s e in the allocation of pa~ges. By Clair Food For *e * l'a !I'u hel inq Ilying Uhin II' .\ii,v,g lu' h last two) sqof<di l''o iureules.s net'e item : "'' ~l i'c' ue'ofl~ido((-i1 r Student Crt CIZes Tickets Dear Miss Zalkin: As in other areas of student life at the University, it appekre that we, the students, have once again been "sold out," this time by the athletic departnent. For some unexplailied reason, the ticket policy ni.,kers have seemingly forgotten that athlet. ics should be for the student body first, and the Pu!)lic second. Consequently, we've been given the first class shaft by the ath. letic department. It's interesting to note that a seating plan for the Coliseum was never released before it was almost ready to open. We, the student body, never s:-x the seat. ing setup. Members of the V'niversitv's Century Clubs, Ro-,md House Clubs, or other such lofty ant euphiniistic sounding e i q u e, never saw the setup. But, for some mysterious reasi)ni, the poli ticians and blood (n.ney) don. ors ended up with some or most of the better seats. Carolina students nt)w enjoy breathing the rarified. smoke and heated air at the uppwr reaches of the roof. If the :- hletic de. partment wants to imake extra money, why don't they rent out binoculars to the Unfortunate souls perched up in rows AA thru Al? I'm sure tho demand will be great, especialy by the student body. One thing that could be done to slightly improve our chances of getting a good seal would be to arrange the student tickets by sections, with the court seats first and moving upward from that. As it stands now, the rent-a cops, who carry the tit ;ts to the back of the Russell o lvue over the students heads Iill. lannibal crossing the Alps n%i; his ele phants, have a mixe I ariety of tickets. Every letter - r the a phabet is represented 1 26 dif ferent places. Such a ;ot pourri only adds to the rviiiifion of trying to get seats to:ther with f riends. Maybe the name of .he bruld ing should be "Corr; i-n Coli seuM." It would i nitely be more appropriate. BOB W'KI-:FVI, JIM ized As is my und ers' a nding through Beverly Ear, . organi zation editor, each res: -neeP gov ernent has not f'ear fi fths a p a g e but merely ompicture. This is absurd' when :': typiial dorm government has .. Il10-mem ber executive bodly, a . nmember governing council andi 1 0-mem ber judicial board. Since Mr. Spade us's .;tatistics~ in his editorial, and sti:.stics are funny things which cani be con struedl in many ways, 11 am par ticularly interestedl I lw theY ight be construed in .a reply or rebuttal, if one is forth,oing. CL.YDE B. l.1V IN(;STr President, P'rest or Woodrow Res-idencfle Area Horner Thought ngq dead (1/ead. le counftryJ you lire for? 4 feel safe? 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