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Tueslay, March 25, 1969 - Page Two Columbia, South Carolina The Beer Case PODUNK -Well, folks, we sure can see what's on the minds of those kids down at USC -all they do is think about BEER. Now the student senate is considering it again, and one of the dormitory councils is after it. Don't see as how it will ever get past the Board of Trustees, though. Now, if the students passed a bill to allow brownbagging in the Coli seum, the board and the whole city would get behind it. Guess people get more liberal the closer they get to liquor. Guess the brass down there know what they're doing - sure don't think the kids realize what's going on. After all, they got Don's and all them other places where they can get beer. All they got to do is stumble home after a night of it. Some of them got cars, I guess. Sure wouldn't want to be around there when they get ready to drive home. Besides, if the kids got beer on campus, a lot of them bars might go out of business, but I guess they ain't got much to worry about as long as they got a "dry" nightclub. Maybe it doesn't have a lot of business, but that isn't the fault of the administration or the board, is it? Maybe all the kids go up to Clemson, that den of iniquity, where the students have liquor in their rooms. Of course, cows don't object to spirits like the Columbia residents do. If I'd wanted beer in my room, or in the student union night club, back in 1903 they'd have knocked me over the head and told me to shut up. Sure am glad to see college ain't changed much since the good old days. Sure, we had our beer, rules or no rules. They got it down there, too. If they don't, students have changed since my days. But when you get big you like to make the kids re member their place. After all, a kid's a kid, whether it's 1910 or 1969, ain't that right? A Case Of Power It used to be that the executive department of govern ment implemented the acts passed by the legislative branch. Now it seems student senate is both enacting and imple menting student body systems. The bill they passed last week to "implement" the ombudsman system was both out of order and a bit ludicrous. We have already said they usurped the power of the executive in the bill, but the way in which they choose to implement the system makes one wonder about the extent to which the senate thinks over its decisions. The bill calls for an ombudsman to sit once a month in every dorm. There is only one question. Why? The nc,ple who have major grievances will not wait for the ombudsman to get to their dorms, and those whose grievances are minor could find the time to stop by Russell House or mail them in any time during the period the om budsman is not in the dorm. The ombudsman, now, is centrally located and available to all. Moving them about will cause them inconvenience and probably decrease their availability to all the students. We can give your organization better coverage . .. ...if you help us. Send The Gamecock the info on youw next activity. ~What's u) .---.-- - - --- - --__ What oraizto Who can we get further info from Fournded Jan. 30, 1903 with Robert E.lliott Gonzales a. the first editor, The Game cock is published by and f.or the students of the U'nt'erstty of South Carolina semi weekly during the coltege year except during holidas a nd examinations. TIhe opinions exprened herein si nt ne'enajrily reflet the ' ews of the admuinis tratlon, the fasuLy or the stdnt I iay .*, a whole Offiees of The Gamecock ace to Ronm '30R of the Russ~ell liouuse on the U'niversity campus. Phones are 777-1249 IEditor-in-hief), 777-4220 (Business and Advertising) and 777-8174 (NSewurooms. The Gamecock is repuresentedl nationally by National E<luuationial Audvertiing Ser vie, In.'. The pubIlication is a nember of Assoiated 'othegiate P'ress and the S. C n'lieglate Press Assouation. Subscriptimn rate are S$*icpr year. EDITOR-I N-CIEF Mike Krochmalny ASSOCIATE EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Mary Jane Benston Jack Padgett MANAGING EDITOR Carl stepp ASST. MANAGING EDITOR Jim Wannamaker NEWS EDITOR rdMk SPORTS EDITORJi ae ASST. NEWS ED)ITORS .. )naShl,EdeCe ASST. SPORTS ED)ITORDinCapoe FACULTY EDITOR SsnRe SOCIAL AFFAIRS ED)ITORShryhal CHIEF OF REPORTERSRoieWtr REPOTER: Sil Atman hrleyBu.an. Rnna coll, Eddien Chven ShileyCoo. aitr Drrck.(lede Duley Brbaa Le i anK eChoe Jery alaree. usn Joeson Dvi Jonson.iry Ken KItyMuCskan Rons EdwrdPiio. Cnd Slvr. ecy toe. od Senstrot JneSer Mry Tresl Leslie DuekorliVn Watuch CIPHOTOGRAPHERBno.EletBrnti ar Cla k p Jarefer DVERIn.BSeid JoNAE Spd.Mk ye,SeChalee AHeand er Muile Cieek a ter. Larriek W ard uly abr .e lnr ua .Fu Anothe An open letter to the student body: Members of the Carolina Com munity, we have been raped. Several years ago there was a "reflecting pool" built in front of the Thomas Cooper library. At that time the question was asked why the University was building a reflecting pool when there was a lack of books in the library it was supposed to reflect. This question was never answered to anyone's satisfaction. TIckel Dear Mr. Krochmalny: John David Bernard's sugges tion for ticket distribution (The Gamecock, March 4) is a rather good one. One modification should be made: students should not be al lowed to resell their tickets. They should be turned back in for sale to the general public. No season tickets should be sold. Student tickets (even undir the present setup) are sold far enough in ad. vance to offer those left over to the general public or Gamecock 'Dedicate( Dear Mr. Krochmalny, The following news article has come to my attention: New Works of New Nuns, edited by Sr. M. Peter Traxler, has been published by Herder of St. Louis and was a November Book-of-the. Month by Spiritual Book Asso. ciates. The hook consists of 17 re sponses to calls from our troubled society. One chapter is devoted to work of a University of South Carolina student, Sister Mary Anthony Monahan. Captioned "A Presence in the Ghetto," the section consists of two parts: (1) a reprint of an article on the nun's involvement with the poor of Charleston's Mall area by Warren Koon, News and Courier staff writer; and (2) a letter sent by Sr. Anthony to the National Catholic Confer ence for Interracial Justice de scribing her efforts to bring about better racial understanding in the greater Charleston area. The first paragraph of the above chapter contains a direct utiote of Sen. Ernest F. Hollings. After he and Sr. Anthony toured the impoverished Mall area last January, llollings stated in a piress conference: "It is not an expilosive situation because we have people like Sister Anthony. Go~d bless her." The C a r o I i n a Community should be proudl to have such a The R The University of South Caro lina has requested that AWARE dleclare its intent to obey the "rules andl regulations" of the University, and we presume the laws of the state of South Caro lina as well as the federal govern ment. AWARE has difficulty in re plying to this request when the University itself denlies its stu dents many of the rights that are guarant(eed by the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court has dleclared that students shall have the same constitutional rights as o'thIerI citizens are af for-ded. But here at the Uni versityv we arec ex pectedI to bec'ome secondlary citizens, and are de nied many of our fundamental rights; the right to privacy in o'ur dormitory roomis (we are sub ject to illegal searc-h andl seizure., the overt denial of a fourth amendment right) ; a speaker con trol policy whic-h violates our first amendlment right of free speech, is cle'verly hidlden in the bureaucracy of the administra tion. The University also fails to p)rovidle its students p)rotection by "dlue process of the law" in its judlicial p)roceedlings. The student or organization in question is give-n no opportunity to confront witnesses, no right of cross-exam ination, dleniedl trial by a peer group), subject to double jeopardy by U:niver-sit y and civil authori - ties. and the mo.st flagrant viola tion of all is the assumption that the student or organization is summarily guilty and has to go forward to pirove its own inno (-ence. And yet AWARE finds itself being asked if it has the intent to obey the University's illegal and invalid "rules and regulations." AWARE's intent is to obey all jnst rules andl regrulinsn pr. r Reflecti Apparently it is important to have a beautiful campus in order to attract people and get them to enroll for the purpose of receiving a higher education. It seems to m6 that a person who is truly interested in an edu cation would be more interested in what was in the library than in a pool in front of the building. The reflecting pool hasn't helped to educate anyone, but it has provided a source of enter tainment for the study body. It has been the subject of many Plan Club. Please give my regards to Ralph Floyd and Paul Dietzel. It was nice of them to give away 500 of our tickets to those en thusiastic legislators. I sat next to them and they really added so much to our spirit! Ha! Also, a bushel of thanks to them for those 100 tickets they offer students of the ACC. Imagine - 100 whole tickets - They are so generous! Date tickets should be sold for the same price as regular season tickets. JENNIE HAMMOND f Student dedicated individual on its cam pus. The innovative work of sixteen other American nuns is related in New Work for New Nuns. M1ARIE M. FLEMING, FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR Sena (Editor's Note: The following is a reprint from the New York Times of Feb. 23, 1969. It is an excerpt from a speech by Sen. Phillip A. Hart of Michigan at ceremonies at the L'niversity of Michigan inaugurating a "Pilot Program," described as an. at. tempt t. establish "meaningful connection" for students between t heir classroomis and dormitories.) Things change. Sometimes too fast. So I have come to the campus today with a list of de. mands and it seems appropriate to me that they be deposited here. Aly first dlemandl is that the university set up) a special (de p)artment dlevotedl to the studly andl understanding of middle aged Americans and their role in ight T mulgated by the University, state andl nation. We sincerely, for the sake of humanity, hope that the University will dleclare its intent to (d0 the same. It is in acknowledging the fact that our universities and even our federal government were founded( and continue to operate under the control of men, who by their very nature are susceptible to error, that one realizes the right and (duty of the individual to question "authority." HIowardl Zinn, in his book IDis obedience and D)emocracy, argues for civil dlisobedlience measuredl to the size of evil it is intended to eliminate. "Outbreaks of either civil disobedience or disorder we have had in the Unitedl States have been not the cause of our troules, but the re'sult of them." The disturbances that have be come p)revale'nt upon campuse's across our nation andl throughout the world are the result of so ciety's dogmatic perpetuation of the status quo, and the resulting slowness in the solving of our social, political andl economical problems. Civil dIisobed'aience is an organ ized( form of what could be cha-. ot ic r e b e I I i o n. The positive aspects of civil dlisohbedience must he stressed. "D)emocracy must im p)rove itself constantly or decay. If citizens maintain a universal re'spect for human rights, rather than for law, the society can change fast enough to meet the swift-moving expectations of p)eo pIe in this century,'' Zinn states. It is good for citizens to learn that laws, when they seriously e'nc roach on human rights, shouldi be violated, that somne condlit ions are so intolerable that they may re-quire violations of otherwise reasonable laws (like the dlesecra tinn noe muntilation of flas) to ng Pool Jokes on campus, and has pro vided a place for the fraternities to throw the pledges and brothers who get pinned. It also makes an excellent wading pool. Is it really possible that the administration has deemed it necessary to build another reflect ing pool? Apparently it is, be cause there is one being built in front of the Humanities office building. When I asked President Jones what the need for another pool was, he said, "It is im portant to have a beautiful cam pus." I wonder how important he feels it is to have classrooms in which people can get an edu. cation. As students we are being robbed of the chance to get an education, but at least we have a pretty yard to play in. If you are more concerned about getting an education why not write President Jones and tell him you would like something more prac tical than a reflecting pool, per haps more books in the libraries or a place to park your car so we can get to class for an education. BILL McCABE USC Stude Dear Mr. Krochmainy, Our hard working but thought. less administration has done it again! I'm referring to the 1969 70 University calendar which will allow most students to remain in Columbia until the completion of exams June 3. This, in my opin. ion, isn't too cool for the student or too smart for the administra. tion. USC students had troubles tor Says the development of this country. I noticed that Pilot Program students live in the company of graduate students who, according to the literature, bring their "va. ried resources, interests and in. tellectual commitments into the Pilot Program houses." That's a quote. Well, no wonder that harmony is breaking* down in this nation. Those graduate stu. dents tend to be full of new ideas and it's been my experience that new ideas are almost always troublesome. When I went to school here, there were a lot of new ideas kicking around. Radical ones. Social Security. Medicare. Mini. mum wage. Idleas such as those, all of them troublesome. I intend to suggest that the Pilot Program get rid of those graduate students and substitute the intellectual commitment of Revc dIramatize them. If the effect of civil (disobedience is to break dlown in the public's mind the totalitarian notion that laws are absolutely and always to be obeyed, then this is healthy for the growth of dlemocracy. It must be noted that the edu. cational process in a democracy should be threatening and renew. ing. Threatening in that it should critically examine the deepest undlerstandling of life, confronting taboo, habit, ritual and personal ethics with a withering "why," unearthing the values that so ciety buries for security's sake and exposing them to the sun. light of the inquiring mindl. We must realize that while our nation stresses dlomestic tran quality, it continues to not only allow but to promote disruption on two other levels of our lives. One level is internal: the dis. ordler within the person, the vio lence to body and spirit that may come from ill health, unemploy ment, loneliness or many other dlegradlations that are imposed upon the p)eoples of this country by a society that has placed the value of the dollar bill above all aspects of humanity. The second level is external: the dlisordler abroad, inflictedl outsidle this country against others. This level is most easily seen by the contin uation of the Vietnam war against the expressed wills of both the American an(l Vietna mese peop)leS. "Ilndeed the state tries to pacify us on the national level precisely in ordler to free it to maintain disorder on those other two) levels. Unless we are aware of this, we will n(ot see the value o)f civil disobedience; andl we will shortsightedly condemn its dis o'rder as a blow to peace andl tranquility," 7inn ays. Room nts Will Be enough last year finding a job dluring the summer basically due to competition from other stu dents who were let out earlier (Clemson or just about any other school in the nation), but now we have to contend with com petition from the high school set. Apparently the administration didn't take into consideration that unless we have good jobs dluring the summer many of us won't be 'Get Invo people from the mainstream of American life. Certainly, I wouldn't dictate the individuals who should come in but they ought to have varied resources. I would suggest a past commander of the American Legion Post in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, a lumanities advisor from the International Basiness Machine Co. General Hershey's adjutant, a naturalist from the Union Oil Company in Santa Barbara, the American Medical Association's staff socialist, and maybe a political scientist from Mayor Daley's office. This, it seems to me, would be te bet wa to eve sh alintrnswseonac capstda.Eeyweew turn we ee sudens wh ar losig fithin soiet tht w mideae oitcashv a boedsohad o ak prfct I eO We mut unerstad an edu ernts areisitte amon menorls erinding amog (lurin te lifemmiert baanydue puto ofhapiiness;m thertuen (entr a goverenlt beomes eaie (Crmonrjut abuty otherlet school in abolishion) but own wen has o yontmous with cohe petitio fom the haion; scto iset. Artiicarentlvice, administrathe ci(ttken no ctaidepratoses ta unlessowed have goo jsace (luring rthesur, tn tof us wothe changed frod evnoethemisrmon Anderpcae lifen eesay ertainlyrint ioldntinaof the indiaviuals woiahuldpoeI resoures. no old uggfibes au pascsa(wen of thedAmerican Legion right in ateisbr,n whency lealuantes aiade from stte wotrnational iter. rmen-in Co. Gnerlmentshey's Uones Oiandp intuin Sata Acitiny, haffete saliset aour mayen por,tbcalusentis roth maost dpable dndns offie "bae ths ay to rtherscon laringth tredhw eeo acht campuste twiny Eerwhere staye turn, y andchatuvilenct whomae long athoi avoidetyatin war abrolad soliticians hao ap uti oto n hioreso We musuneposiltand andu tacmtis otret institued aonak mien forertuan endrs ang othes are thife learty conclude puritn. pins;tat~hn eve aovrET becomsYI e, ispection Late Again able to afford the luxuries of university life. Luxuries such as paying for basketball tickets and not using them or even getting them, or buying a parking decal which usually means you end up feeding the meter. All these lux. uries cost money, and the only time a student can earn money is (luring the summer, but now even that looks dim. 13. J. STEAIRMAN Ived' Students are upset because they live in a society that talks peace but drops napalm. Their youthful and inexperienced eyes seem to see an inconsistency in that. I've met young people who are irritated because our system can build luxury apartment build. ings so high that they can be seen from slums miles away. And there are even some students who wondered how our system could send men to the moon on Christ. mas Day while on earth thou. sands of homes went unvisited by a kindlier aeronaut, Santa Claus. College students are members of this nation's elite. They have always been considered junior mlemb)ers of the establishment and only recently have they rejected membership. You are already members of a privileged class. In all likelihood, you will live well, travel the world and sell your adlvice and services for useful sums of money. Recognition and self-esteen will be easier for you to attain. The only advice I would give to any ball of fire is not to fall into the trap) of believing that he is in sole possession of the truth or that his logic is so evi (lent that it must totally prevail. Certainly one mark of the non. arrogant applroach is a ,!a ness to present p)ositive alterna tives. It is not enough in my mindl for studients to rule out workable alternatives by simply saying: that's not our job. He loud and vocal, but also lbe cre ative. The p)olitics of harassment ---in andl of itself--is neither an end nor is it the substance of meaningful change. Somewhere, somehow, the ma(chine needs new parts. An 111someone n(eds to de sign them, hu ild t hem, miake themn work, andI keep them running. So I guess my message in miy homily woulhilbe the. very old1 one: get involved. I )issent but remn her that arrogance only dinmin ishe~s e'ffectiveness. Find failings in thle system but reember that there are some. problems that are nobody's fault-and thlat alterina t ives aere welcomed. Letters Policy T ne GAMI-coCK welcomes let ters on any suabject pertinent to und inviolring Univ'ersaiy stu dents. The Editor-in-Chief re screes the right to edit Letters to conform to stjyle, good taste, space limiltations and libel laws. Let teris should be typewrittenl and should not e.rceed too words. No unsigned letters will be p)rinlted, but names mayv be with heldl upon request. L.etters should be sent to TuHE GANInroex-uK. o U-se is ' SC