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iAe A4rxw,t~ Zdllorluab Cqoentary Tuewday, March 18, 1969 - Page Two Columbia, South Carolina Open Affairs? One of the ironic facts of University life is that a com mittee concerned with "student affairs" will not open its meetings to students. The "Carolina Community" handbook describes the Student Affairs Committee as "composed of five faculty and six student members. This committee examines requests for allocations from student activities fees, conducts hearings concerning chartering of new organ izations, and keeps under review all phases of the student activities program at the University and makes appropriate recommendations." By request of students on the committee, representatives of The Gamecock and WUSC were invited to two recent meetings where the fate of AWARE was discussed. Even then, students in general were not allowed to attend and press representatives were asked to leave before the meeting ended. At the latest meeting of the group Wednesday, a Gamecock reporter was asked to leave before the meeting began. This is another example of the failure of student and administrative leadership to relate to students. For some unexplainable reason, the committee studying student af fairs deems its business too sensitive for students them selves to hear. It works in secret, its members sometimes instructed to "make no statements" to the press. Clearly somebody does not trust the press or, more im portantly, the students. Somebody feels that student busi ness should not be open to student scrutiny. True, students sit on the committee; but instead of allowing these closed sessions to continue, they should demand that their con stituents have access at all times to meetings concerned with student affairs. This is only sensible. Students have a right to know what student-faculty administration committees are doing. When student alloca tions, new organizations and "all phases of the student activities program" are discussed, students ought to be able to listen. Meetings shrouded in secrecy are suspect, to say the least. Students on the committee include Tom Salane, Barry Knobel, Clyde Livingston, Sally Zalkin, Philip M. Grier and Pat Emens. We urge that students contact their representa tives and strongly urge them to see that the committee meetings are opened. -STEPP Cafeteria Closings Now that students are neatly signed onto the board plans for another semester, the Slater-run food service has come up with another attraction for its customers: it has closed all but one cafeteria on weekends. It continually amazes us how regularly the food service can disregard the people who support it -students at USC. Closing dormitory cafeterias on weekends makes students walk' across campus in all kinds of weather for a Russell House meal; makes it much less appealing for seven-day board plan students to eat breakfast or even to eat on campus; contradicts published University claims that five cafeterias are open to students (since a cafeteria closed two sevenths of the time can hardly be considered full-time). More importantly, howev'er, these closings show a dlis appointing disregard for studlent convenience andl a frus trating reversal of what seemed to be an attitude by the food service of trying to help please students. Even though at least one cafeteria of fered a snack bar menu this weekend, the food was sparse and the service' was poor. Last semester students were provoked into near rebellion against the food serv'ice here. If Slater can't show it is getting serious about considering studlent interests, another confrontation may be in the making. - STEIPP Founded Jan. 30, 1908 with Robert Elliott C.onzales am the first editor, The Game eock is publishied by and for thme students of the U:niversity of South carolina semi weekly during the college year except during holdays and examinations. The opiion,,s exp.ressedu herein ib> not ncessa rily reflect the views of the adiinis tration . the faiult or i te stralenat bodyi as a whole Offices of The Gamecock are in Room 303 of the Russell House on the Uiniversity campus. Phones are 777-4249 (Editor-in-Chief), 77-4220 (Business and Advertising) andt 777-s l8 (Newsrooma. The Gamecock In repire-sented niationalily by National Educational Advert-ising Ser viee, Inc. Thae pubiaio hn is a miembier of A ssociated (oliegiate Press cand the S. C. Collegiate Press Association. Suibscriiption 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 Fred Monk SPORTS EDITORJiHny ASST. NEWS EDITORS...onachl,dieCe ASST. SPORTS EDITORDieCapol FACULTY EDITOR SsnRe SOCIAL AFFAIRS ED)ITORShryhey CHIEF OF REPORTERSRoleWtr CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER CukKee ADVERISIN.MANAEon arho l,Edere CIVRCLTIONG MANAGER Chrpe Abexander REPORTERS: Bill Altman. Shirley Buchanan, Randi Cabeil, E. Ann Caveny Shirley Ceek, Walter Derrick, Garden Dudley, Barbara Lee Elkner, Susan K. Feuche Stephen Gardner, Nathan Goldman, Stanley Hensley, Francelse H4ipp. Mark Heimes. Jerry Caiabrese. Busan Jacebsen, David Johnsten, irby Keen. Kitty McCasklill, Ren Miles. G. Martin Mebiey, Pat Muthig, Jean Neai, ida Prine Neisen, Jan Newman. Edward Pinien, Candy Silver, Becky Stone, Jody Stenestreet, Jane Stew'e, Mary Trues. dle. e D r R anp VWhith. Ann Winters. Alyce Yeuman, Jan Surralt, Lynn Ring, PHOTOGRAPHERS: Bob Bensen, Elllett Berenstein, Larry Clark, Ralph Jarrelil. Dick MoMllan, Beb Seiel Jehn Sade. Mik, Tyler. Steve C han, Gene Haney, Tern Letters To TI Ombu Dear fr. KrochimIny: Since it is apparent that the (oluninist in last Friday's paper is lacking much factual knowl edge about the ombudsman sys Poor Ci I was shocked ani amazed at your completely inaccurate cov erage of the recent lecture on "Loneliness" by Professor Kap Ian. You quoted him - or mis quoted him- -in both headline andi story as declaring religion a "cure" for loneliness. Was your reporter really at the same lecture I attended? It is hard to believe, since one of Prof. Kaplan's strongest points, and one which he went to great pains to develop and drive home, was precisely that religion is not an an(Ayne for loneliness. He declared, and documented by quotatifos from Psalms, that religion, at least Christianity and Judaism, (ontains passages in which the felt presence of God is a coInmfort to the lonely, but also passages expressive of intense THE Southern FRI 8 Pri'e hu Fried CI Three Ve< Iced Bread & TUESDAY, FRIDAY & The Girls Are3 629 MtAIN STffT RIGHT ACROSS m Your Psy professo with his r Think it over, TheThink<Dr SPEAK WiTH )RKED TONGUE! ie Editor ismen ten and how it works (and inso far as I know has made no attempt to obtain any such knowledge). I wonder how he places himself in a position to evaluate the performance of average loneliness: e.g., Christ's cry: "31y God, my God, why hast thou for saken me?" Hie demonstrated that loneli ness is an existential fact, a part of the human condition. Since re- I ligion embraces the whole of life, it is bound to include loneliness as well as comfort. Your misleading story cheap ened Prof. Kaplan's talk and made him sound like a monumen tal prophet of goody-goody senti mentalism instead of a moral philosopher conscious of all the overtones and undertones of ex perience. I hope you didn't send him a copy. He'll hit the ceiling. What Prof. Kaplan actually did say - in case you're interested -- was that religion helps us "face up" to our loneliness but does not "cure" it. DOUGLAS F. ill Professor of German ED Chicken 5. iicken getables rea Butter ATURDAY 5-8 P.M. hnvited Too! COtUM8B A, S. C. DM HONEYCOMBS chology r lives nothier? over COrree. QLi Defen something he knows so little about. So that he be informed and Ihat others increase their under standing, let me briefly explain ow the system works. Problems .f students and faculty members ire brought to the ombudsman, who acts as a go-between and a source of information. The ombudsman does not make policies or decide how things will e done (i.e., ticket distribution). What the ombudsmen do is to nvestigate complaints, suggest nethods for resolving the diffi I)A Ai'o LuL..Y 39 led culty, and report the act ion undertaken to the students in volved I the study hody in the case of ticket distribution) and the appropriate policymakers (in this case, Coach Floyd, Paul D>ietzel and( President Jones). It must he rememhered that factual information that would substantiate the ticket report was kep't confidential because prior permission to use the facts was not obtainable. MICIAEL. A. MICHAE,SKI Chairman, Student Ombudidsman Committee IL th / /y / ~ fashi or jabot plea dan ra nc A TIred Student Dear Mr. Krochmalny: I am tired. I am a student who pays his money and taxes to go here, and I am tired, I am tired of having to fight and sign pe. titions to have adequate food facilities on this campus. I am tired of fighting and standing in line for tickets I have already paid for. I am tired of inefficient registering procedures, of second. rate learning facilities like Davis, Barnwell, and LeConte, of sewer smells by my dorm, and of in. adequate lighting. I am tired of an administration which says whom I may or may not have speak on campus. I am tired of an administration which fails to respond to our questions, and which ignores us. I am brought here to grow up and learn. But I think things have changed. I call upon the president of this institution to grow up. I call upon him to open this university to a process of learning, to demand more money and acquire conpetent professors. I call upon him to inform the legislators that the University is a minimum of five years behind the times because they failed to act intelligently. They failed to budget money for adequate fa. cilities; they failed to provide money for competent professors; they failed to see that an aca dem ie community was built. I am tired, and so I shall rest. And quit striving in vain to create a better Carolina. . . I would guess my friends are right, what Carolina needs is for a bomb to go off, or a building to burn. NAMIE WVITHHIEL.) BY REQUEST ress for ood life. .. with the total look of >n's romantic best. Here, ir Edwardian collar with yields to empire shaping with fly-away accordian s. A dress just made for :ing 'til dawn. Acetate! 'on crepe in white with vy; jr. petito sizes 5.13. Davison's Jr. Dresses, 2nd floor. 28.00