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Friday, February 28, 1969- Page Two Columbia, South Carolina Ray Of Hope Out of the chaos of Sunday night came a light. The light sprang not from the ticket office, the office of the president or even SLED. It was an idea. It came from a member of the administration. In the tumult and drunken confusion of the ticket line he gleaned something construc tive. Our friend called the manager of our Slater neighbors and asked them to perform a service to the students. And they did. Slater, much ridiculed, served hot coffee and rolls to the students. The University Union showed El Cid to the frozen audience. If anything came of the events of last Sunday night, it was the obvious need for change and a little better feeling between students and some campus services. This was not much, but it was a start toward Slater's finding a more significant role than merely serving three meals a day at times sometimes not too convenient. It showed most of all the need for a new system for giving out tickets. The present system was drawn up before the coliseum and all its problems were constructed. It is about time we looked around to find out how other large schools are handling the problem of seating in an inadequate facility. Time Flew Remember when you had time to run into Russell House and grab a snack in the 10 minutes you had for the change of classes? You could leisurely walk out to your horse, untie him and ride across the horseshoe to your next class. Those days are gone. As a matter of fact, those days are gone and the 10 minutes for the change are still haunt ing us. Like the ghost of Christmas past this antiquated and inadequate period of time hangs on. Why are we held to this 10-minute period? Are classes so precious and sacred that they must last at least 50 min utes? Most professors would probably be glad to limit them to 45 minutes if they thought it would stop those stragglers from entering the room ten minutes after the class begins. These interruptions waste more class time than would be lost by expanding the break between classes to 15 minutes. If history dictates that we must live with this golden rule of 10 minutes, doesn't it also say we must live with the same bounds? This would mean the elimination of the Coliseum, the Humanities Center and McMaster College. Maybe it is good to honor the past, but we should re member that clinging to the beliefs of the past may prevent the future. Founded Jan. 30, 1908 with Bobert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, The Game. esok is published by and for the students, of the U'niversity of south Carolina semi weekly during the coilege year except during holidays and examinations. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflert the views of the adruints tration, the facuity or the student body as a whole. Offices of The Gamecock are in Room 308 of the Russell House on the University campus. Phones are 777-4249 (Editor-in-Chief), 777-4220 (Business and Advertising) and 777-8178 (Newaroomti. The Gamecock is represented nationally by National Educational .Advertising ser vice, Inc. The publication is a tmember of Associated Collegiate Press and the S. C. Collegiate Press Association. Subscription rates are $6 per year. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mike Krochmalny ASSOCIATE EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Mary Jane Benston Jack Padgett MANAGING EDITOR Carl stepp ASST. MANAGING EDITOR .. Jim wannamaker NEWS EDITOR Ken Hare SPORTS EDITOR Jim Haney ASST. NEWS EDITOR Fred Monk, Donna Scholl, Eddie Chen ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Diane Claypoole FACULTY EDITOR Susan Ross SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Sherry Shealy CHIEF OF REPORTERS Rollie Waters CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER Warren Hudson ADVERTISING MANAGER charles Alexander ASST. ADVERTISING MANAGER Bobby Hitt CIRCULATION MANAGER Chip Abernathy REPORTERS: Bill Altman, Shirley Buchanan. Randi Cabeli, E. Ann Caveny, Shirley Cook. Walter Derrick. Gerdon Dudley, Barbara Lee Elkner, Susan K. Feuohe, Stephen Gardner. Nathan Goldman, Stanley H4ensley, Franceise Hips, Mark Helmee. Jerry Calabrese, Susan Jacobsen. David Johnston. irby Koon, Kitty McCaskill, Rem Miles. G. Martin Mobley, Pat Muthig, Jean Neal. Ida Prince Nelsen. Jon Newman, Edward PinIon. Candy Silver. Uecky Stone. Jody Stonestreet, Jane Stewe, Mary Trues dle. e DrUsry, Ralph White, Ann Winters, Alyce Youman, Jan Surratt, Lynn Ring. Students Deplore Slat Dear Mr. Krochmnalny: a es iueprsuet A few months ago some stu- Ohrmmeso h mzn (tents wvere very concerned about Sae tf euet ato the poor service received from mr hnoesueta ie Slater Dining Service. A petition B hsw ente iltk was signed by more than 5,000 anodrndwiutlits students protesting Slater Ser- raybfr hywl ato vice. The administration, along aohrsuet wvith Slater, pro mised better ser- Th aeokomhstre vice. But have the students re- botsiwhcSatrcou1c ceived better service? NO! We seethsrvc,btinehy haven't,.r rigt aea"atbc, For instance, c o n s i d e r the olytoaeprtd(uinth Gamecock Room. If a student Gaeokhusantetid wishes to buy a coke and a sand- onjuticaehressmoe wich, he has to wait at least 15 arudBttoopial,Str to 30 minutes. This past Sunday prvdsntigfrak ou (Feb. 23), they had no coffee odr.Ntol te ilhv after 8 p.m. Ordinarily, the tables t atfrhl nhu ohv are covered with used cups andc e re ild u h utcr hamburger bags. r ieo i as ildwt Another thing is the people ti lp nlabxwt he who serve the students. Not only orfudinsnit are they slow as snails, but are Nertls,th adisr actually incompetent to work at to n ltrsilpoieta such Job Onepersn avra B thil e vmean they wiltae ISEEN M N 7ER1, What D Dear Mr. Krochimalny: I was delighted to note the ac quisition of the meter maids to the campus police force. Evi dently, this is a measure to en able the policemen to more thoroughly patrol the campus at night, while at the same time furthering the enforcement of parking tickets. I commend the high-minded person who is be hind this movement. Now if it had just done any good, it would be even more commendable, but the policemen on this campus ap parently either concentrate their efforts in the same area or make a point of being invisible. It seems only reasonable that the police officers would make some effort at patroling the streets where cars are parked. After coercing those of us fortu nate enough to have cars to park them in the dimly-lit and un metered section of Green St., it looks like they would assume some of the responsibility for protecting our property. The meters installed on Green St. were more or less a stab in the back for us driving citizens of Carolina. Not having complained about that, I feel more than ob liged to voice my opinion of the negligent police officers on this campus. When a car is parked and locked, one can usually feel as suredl that his car is safe. But alas! That is not the case on Green St. It seems that there is a ring of thieves who excel in getting insidle locked cars and stealing whatever is available for instance, a factory-installed stereo and the accompanying tapes. Now I'm no mechanic but I do know that it takes a good while to enter a locked car if one dloes not have a key. It is blat antly clear to me that whoever broke into my car did not have a key, for I would no longer have a car. So, assuming they took the time and the patience to work my lock open, they then faced the problem of removing a factory-installed s t e r e 0-no simple trick. So let us now as sume that it took them roughly an hour to conduct their business and be gone. I don't want to ap pear unreasonable, but it (does seem that one policeman would have come by (luring that time and noticed something amiss. I admit that I was more than a little angered when I found out that this had happened. After er SerVICe have promised us every year that there will be better service. How long will it be before we receive the service they promised us? l)o they not realize it is we who pay their salary? How much longer must we put up with this harass ment? Every year the students pro. test against Slater service, andl every year they promise a n dl promise andI promise. We, the studlent body, show the student government that we are behind them and support them. Shouldn't we show the adlministration that we IEMAND) better sevc now rather than asking for it? CHARIES HI. PADGETT G;ARY W. COOKE BRUCE A. SCHMIIDT JOSEPH E. NIX KENNETH T. THUIRMON FRANK H. JHAUKNIGHIT D)ONAILD F. ELIAS JIMMY McKEEVEn 110 ;(T OFW .,* SEEN '6M Letters To The Edite o Poicen all, I'm very fond of my car and I don't like to see it gutted like a piece of junk. But I'll get an other stereo and I'll get more tapes because I am lucky enough to have insurance. What appalls me is that I will never be able to have my car on campus again because the negligence of the police force prevents me from ever having any peace of mind where my car is concerned. In short, there is absolutely no pro. tection when it comes to private property. I'll admit that the number of rapes and attacks have decreased on campus. We now have an escort service to protect the vir 'Dixie'An Dear Mr. Krochmalny: As a Southerner dedicated to the progress of our nation and our University I feel compelled to comment on the tension pres ent on the campus. Our presence at the University should be testimony to the fact that we are committed to a rea sonable, rational understanding of the larger nature of con temporary issues. While the singing of "D)ixie" and the wav ing of the Confederate flag bring to mindl fond recollections for some, for others these actions seem to glorify a bleak period in our national dlevelop)ment. The success of the University or its ball team is not a function of the traditional symbols under discussion, but is a product of the dedication andl efforts of its 'SC Clarified Dear Mr. Krochmalnyj: There has been much confusion about the constitution of the In ternational Students' Club. As an acting president of the club, I w~ant to make the following points clear: 1) Mir. Geor-ge Tien was the official rep)resentative of the club last semester. This semester, neither the executiv-e committee of our club nor the general body of the club has appointed him (or anybody) as rep)resentative of the club. 2) There has been talk that the International Students' Club aisked for help from the inter-na ional committee of the Univ-er sity Union. To the best of my knowledge, only the corre'spond ing secretary out of the five offi cers of the club requestedl this help. The corresp)ondling secre tary (lid not ask permission from the executive committee of the club to ask help fr-om thle inter national comm itte-e andl has acted alone. t ) As for the legality of our (-onstitution, Mir. D ave Ph ill ips, dlirector of the University Union andl Secretary of Student A ffairs Conmimitt ee told one of our nmem heris Tluesdaty that (ouri co~n;titu tion was temiporarilyV in effect after the meeting of the Studaent A\ffa iis C.omOittefe Wednesd~p ay. With these clarificat'ins, I want to point out that the in'er naiit ionalI commniit tee of thle Ui versity U nion has no bulsinless in interfering with our const itu ion and should there for-e ste p out of the issue completely. STEVE (CHAN Acting Pr~ieanno at ' r THE LEFT of ME... ien Do? tue of the young damsels on cam pus at night, which would seem to enable the policemen to con centrate their efforts on patrol ing the streets where cars are parked. But the police obviously have other more pressing com mitments. Maybe when enough people have decided to take their cars off campus and the shiny new meters have rotted in the ground and the meter maids have been fired because there aren't any more cars to give parking tickets to, the police will find i necessary to adopt a new policy, for they certainly have none at all now! ELIZABETH MARTIN tagonizes students, athletes and all others associated with the University. Apparently, the singing of "Dixie" and the waving of the Confederate flag antagonize a valuable portion of the Univer sity community and are there fore counter-productive. As you deplore the burning of the Confederate flag, remember that your reaction holds the po tential for destroying the classi cal freedom of dissent and with it all hope for the future. STEVE STEINERT Letters Policy THE GAMECOCK Welcome, let ters on any~ subject pertinent to and int'olv'ing University stu dents. The Editor-in-Chief re ser-esu the right to edit letter, to conform to style, good taste, apace limitations and libel Laws. Letter, should be sent to Tus G A MECOC K, Box U-5131, USC. But It 4 By FRED MAGNER Columnist The frequency of campus dis ordlers is on the increase. Caro lina has been relatively free of dlemonstrations, but the possi bility does exist andl must be con sidleredl. In spite of recent incidents which seemingly would evoke concern, the general reaction to the possibility of an activist movement achieving success is that it can't happen here. This is an overly optimistic conclusion since the possibility dloes exist, as has been dlemonstrated, andl it can happen here. The University has previously and is presently employing a policy which relies on the apathy 1 of the studlents for its success. University policy has been the < use of supp)ression as a solution to p)ossible pro)blems. The lack of conceCrn on the part of the stu de4nts is regarded'( as an omni-t present factor and has permitted the rejection of various student dlemandls, some of which, for a i time, had wide(sp)read supplort,. One difficulty of the Univer- i sity has been the failure to place f po4licy in proper perspective with regard to outside groups. The e administrat ive h i e r a r c h y has placed itself in an unfortunate t andl unnecessary position of vul nerability both to attacks by these various groups and eco nomic pressures while still fail ing to satisfy anyone because t of a re'fusal to take a standl. An ( enforced nolicy of ambiguity has Racism Is Dear Mr. Krochmalny: After reading your editorial en t i t l ed "Premature Burial" which appeared in The Gamecock issue of Feb. 21, I was concerned lest some of the comments you made be misinterpreted. I certainly a g r e e that "the burning of Confederate flags on campus and the reaction by all students indicates one fact-rac ism is not dead . . . ," not dead at the University of South Caro lina. Certainly racism, be it "black" racism, or white racism, is not dead at the University. T h a t the Confederate battle flag has become a symbol of rac ism cannot be denied-but for whom is it a symbol of racism? A close scrutiny of the facts might provide us with the proper answer. The Afro-American club-de fined as a "black" racist group by the very nature that the basic criterion for membership in said organization is that the member be of one of the so-called "black" races-petitioned the University to ban the playing of "Dixie" and the use of the Confederate battle flag at University events. , This act of petition falls well within the rights of any individ ual or group of individuals to petition against alleged griev. ances. Yet, by the nature of the sentiment expressed in the peti. tion of grievance-that is, that the "flag and Dixie" were signs of a racist past-and by the na. ture of the organization which presented the petition-that is, a racially based group - the flag and "Dixie" have become the symbols of racism for the "blacks." This forced many whites, for whom the Confederate battle flag and the song "Dixie" are symbols of an agrarian and sectional tradition, into the re sponse of viewing the Confed erate battle flag in terms of a reaction to racist overtones placed upon it by a self-conscious group of "blacks." About this time, the militantly irresponsible and confrontation provoking element in the student Ticket Polic The Department of Athletics requested that a student commit tee establish a ticket policy for the new Carolina Coliseum be fore the building was finished. This was (lone by a committee compoed( of the presidlent of the student body, the Pan Hellenic presid:ent, one representative of each class, Dean Cooper and D)ean Witten. They established the policy that we have been using. The Virginia game is the first game that we have not had tickets left over at the end of the day. Our problem is that our bas ketball team has done a great job and we are really pleased that they have created this tre mendlous interest and demand for ickets. There just are so many an Happei tot and will not achieve any hing. The failure to take a standl isn't even appeasing people nymore. Another problem is the con tant misinterpretation of na ional trends andl University is ~ues by the local press. An edi orial policy should be more than statement of what the readers vant to hear. The purpose of iews mledia should be enlighten nent of some sort rather than a egurgitation of what is assumed o0 be majority sentiment. The ocal press frequently r e I a t e s -arious events to group labels in in effort to establish a clear cut goodl guy--badl guy relationship, )ut is this relationship valid ? WVhat is referred to as "leftist >rientation" seems to place vari >us groups automatically in the ad guy segment before goals ire even considered. This idea >f the means, or what is thought obe the means, eliminating the >ossibiility of an advantageous nd is not valid. The local press s pursuing a policy of often un ustified criticism of the dissent ng minorities, but would be the irst to rally behind them in sup >ort if such a position would in rease circulation. The sign out front says that he University is "a faithful in lex to the ambitions of the tate," but it really is not. The tate dloes not need machine pro ucedl, thoughtless and insensi ive college graduates. South ~arolina needs concerned indi iduals who ave om unde.. Not Dead body, hiding in part behind the faqade of the student organiza. tion AWARE and backed up by non-students f r o m outside the University and by recent transfer students, decided to bring matters to a head by the inflammatory act of burning a Confederate bat. tle flag in front c' the home of Dr. Thomas Jones, USC presi. dent Not only an act of violation of school rules and of state law, this act, as harmless a protest as some participants may have thought it to be, aroused not only those students who legitimately held the Confederate battle flag as a traditional symbol, but also those white racists who would use the Confederate battle flag or any other symbol for that matter-as a symbol for the fur. therance of their racist beliefs; much as those "blacks" who are "black" racists employ the harm. less universally used black arm band of mourning as a symbol of their racism. And so, we are now at an im passe. It is certain that students who view "Dixie" and the Con. federate battle flag as symbols of a valid agrarian and sectional tradition will continue to do so, and it is just as certain that white racists will continue to use the Confederate battle flag and "Dixie" as symbols behind which to cloak their racist beliefs . . . but only as long as "black" rac ists and racials continue to con sider the same Confederate battle flag and the same song "Dixie" as symbols of their own racism and of white racism. Only when whites and blacks realize that appeals to one of the m o s t barbarian and primitive emotions of man-that of racism -are deterrent of the advance. ment of all individual human be. ings; only then, with equality before the law, justice for all, the preservation of order and the orderly changing of inequit able laws by majority will with protection of the Constitutional ly guaranteed rights of all, will all individuals in America work and move forward together. JOHN CARBAUGH State Chairman S. C. College Republicans :yExplained tickets, and when the tickets are gone, they are gone. We have arranged for closed circuit TV throughout the campus for the students' convenience. Please keep in mindl that many of our faculty and administrative staff are also unable to attend games. Of course, we have thou sandis of alumni and fans who are unable to secure tickets. We are sorry that we are un able to completely satisfy every one. RAY FAIRCLOTH Ticket Manager RALPH FLOYD Business Manager FRANK McGUIRE Basketball Coach PAUL DIETZEL Athletic Director i Here standing of the world in general, an awareness of what is happen ing aroundl them, andl a great deal of concern for their fellow - man. Universities cannot be run like factories. Each product requires almost individual attention and the diploma must be more than a certificate of endurance and toleration. As long as the intent remains to give a mediocre andi strictly regimented brand of edIu cation for as little money as pos sible, the system can never hope to be much more than a failure. Unrest exists andl disruption is a reasonable likelihood because p)eop)le are being stepped on. Violence is a possibility when ever idleas are mercilessly and tactessly trampled. University officials refuse to answer re (luests even when placed through proper channels. A list of thir teen reasonable requests sub mittedl in a very legal manner by a minority group last Spring still remains on the dlesk of an admrinistrator while the students await any sort of reply. The local press unjustly condemns any group dliffering from its con ception of what is proper for the college student. The educa tional process is being corruptedi so as to attempt to produce thoughtless conformists. D)issent exists now, but how long until there will be action ? It's hard to say, but it is coming. The pathetic part is that the present situation actually war rants it.