Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MUe Kms,Esalsy ASSOCIATE EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Mary Jown Baetne. J"ek pedgmU Quo Vadis? Before we forget the recent elections, as many of us are wont to do because of many distasteful and haunting memories, we should again ask ourselves which came first, the rotten egg or the ugly duckling? Our "rotten egg" on campus is the elections system we have been fortunate to have been dealt by the fickle finger of fate, an uphappy witch or just plain bad luck. After changing the election date a few times (that really keeps the candidates on their toes), we decided Wednesday would be a good day, probably because elections had been scheduled for Monday. The elections got off to a bang-up start when posters were molested and finally people began appropriating one candidate's posters for the use of other candidates (who were no doubt more deserving). Then came the big election day -the absolute bottom of a campaign that went down hill all the way. The number of voting machines, at what would seem a rather exorbitant price for such a small plastic apparatus, limited the number of people who could vote and discouraged a great number from exercising their constitu tional rights. Another small point of the election was the fact that some people were not allowed to vote in the first election for senate seats in some of the honeycombs because the election commission did not know a senate district was abolished two years ago. Add to this confusion the fact that the Honey combs were turned into a postman's nightmare with personal invective and character assassinations and the elections pic ture is pretty complete. Our "ugly duckling," of course, is student government. It is a castoff and an anachronism, and why not? Whom does it represent? The president-elect has the support of ten per cent of the Carolina student body. Will student government ever mean anything if more people do not care enough to get out and work for better candidates and a better election? Disenchanted Prince Our fairy tale begins many long years ago in a small-to middling educational institution of fair-to-dubious potential in a positively regressive kingdom. The tale, like all tales, concerns a prince-a charming and noble fellow only recently changed from a frog into a prince by the fickle finger of popular electoral processes. The prince, unfortunately, had the support of only a fraction of his people and the outlook was dim, to say the least. His predecessor, of whom many laudatory praises have been raised, was much the talker, but he managed to keep from dirtying his hands in the trivia of actual government. Our prince, then, had a problem even the greatest of public re lations agencies could not solve. Pity the poor prince-what could he do if no one recog nized his existence or the value of any kind of government? All the enchanted frogs in the world could not help him, and though he did his best to bring the people into line and get them working together against the mean, cruel sheriff, a likeable old gentleman who favored Saint Nick to a great extent, but who ruled with a hand of iron and loads of red tape, his efforts were in vain. Our poor prince was in a quandry - his gold reserves were gone and all his loyal noblemen scattered in fear of the sheriff. The people could not be mobilized and the dragon was snatching able-bodied men right and left (though those on the left took a little longer to snatch). Finally our gallant knight faced the music (though he couldn't bear to listen to it) and faced reality-his govern ment was for naught. He and all his work accomplished nothing, for what could he do? His attacks on the sheriff and the vice-sheriffs got him nowhere and he could only wait until the fickle finger pointed to some other who would spend his time charging windmills. Our tale does not have a happy ending, it really does not have an ending. The poor people of the educational kingdom lived in doubt and wonder at the fact they had a wonderful prince to lead them on their long, arduous battle to ignorant mediocrity. And they complained, mostly about the bread and circuses they received and the number of tickets they got to the beheadings and royal matches, and were happy they had the wonderful prince to complain to the sheriff for them. Ladies' or Men's ACME WESTERN BOOTS Levis -Lee Riders Wranglers or Most Anything MOE LEVY'S Letters To The Edii Electior Dear Mr. Krochmalny: Last week, a week which will live in infamy, the political sanc tity of the University of South Carolina was wilfully and sud denly attacked by the covert and malevolent forces of the Empire of the Corrupt. Congratulations! men and wo men of Carolina. Finally we, too, have joined the ranks of voters duped by the tactics of not-so-noble politicos. Finally we, too, can participate in elections wherein: -campaign posters of the op position are torn down (in some instances the backside of those same displaced posters were apparently used for publicity for the candi date of the vandals' choice); -"scare tactics" were ap parently used with great success to cajole a large por tion of the student citizenry * Dear Mr. Krochmalny: Now that the elections are com plete, let us offer our thanks and our congratulations to all the fine letter-writers, whoever they might be. Between Thursday evening and classes Friday, the Honey combs outdid the U.S. Post Office in the delivery of letters. To start the evening, Jim Nantz (Towers Government Vice-Presi dent) had a letter delivered ex pressing his endorsement of Pa tricia Emens in her bid for the office of University Union presi dent. Unfortunately, while it did not state such as fact, it was written in such a way as to imply that president-elect Knobel had also given support to Miss Emens' campaign. To complicate matters, the workers delivering this ma terial made direct statements to this effect. As soon as Mr. Knobel became aware of this situation, he issued a statement re-stating his position of neutrality in all remaining races. President-elect Knobel also stated: "Any statement to the ef fect that I am directly or openly endorsing a single candidate for office has been grossly miscon strued." To round-off an enjoyable eve ning, another letter was issued from a yet unknown source that had been signed as "Towers Council." This letter was pre pared for the purpose of slander Bone Of ( Dear Mr. Krochmalny: It is interesting to note that in your publication of April 18 you state in regard to the new ticket distribution plan that IFC wvill make "further suggestions" on said plan and that "fraternities will be able to obtain tickets in bl ocks." It seems that the married stu dents at Carolina have become, in the terminology of the new poli tics, "second class citizens." Mar ried students have as usual been thrown a bone and wvill not be able to purchase tickets until late in the afternoon when there are usually no tickets left, or only mismatched tickets are left. This will leave the married student WE HAVI National A N Cash [ GENTLEME D SVACATION RESC Work with studeni LFOREIGN JOBS Gain valuable ex LICAREER TRAININ Start your career ElSPECIAL 4 tains all ti ment for location - or i Lives In into voting in a manner in which, under normal circum stances, they may not have voted; -"The smoke - filled room" with its political alliances and quid pro quo promises apparently were used to great fruition; -lastly, add to these charac teristics of the recent farce a totally inadequate poll sys tem (which resulted in re duced voter turnout). Yes, Carolina, we've made It. But how can such a charade be considered acceptable? In an at mosphere of insult ranging from slap-in-the-face invective to anti semitism, how can the results be considered valid ? Must we spend the next year or more living in doubt and suspicion: suspecting that per haps our vote didn't count at all; suspecting that perhaps the votes tr * ing Mr. Knobel, Miss Emens, Mr. Dallara, Mr. Nantz and even Miss Eslinger in that it was writ ten so as to falsely imply that it had come from her corner. It is truly unfortunate that such in dividuals as were responsible for this outrage feel they must stoop to so low a position in an attempt to discredit the elections and then hide their acts through anony mity and the unlawful use of "Towers Council" as a supposed authority. With this example of an in volved Carolina, one can easily see the potential if all actions were properly directed; however, it is equally easy to understand that the return to apathy by much of the student body will at least give a brief but needed rest to our government. CORWIN M. ROBINSON II Letters Policy THE GAMECOCK welcomes let ters on any subject pertinent to and involving University stu dents. The editor-in-chief reserves the right to edit letters to con form to style, good taste, space limitations and libel laws. Letters should be typewritten and should not exceed 200 words. No unsigned letters will be printed, but names may be with held upon request. Letters should be sent to THE GAMECOCK, Box U-5131, USC. with his little fee card, one ticket and either no ticket for his wvife or her sitting in section G and him sitting in section M, if he is lucky. This does not make for to getherness and provides a very aggravating situation. My question is, is it the Uni versity Union or the student gov ernment wvho makes all the de cisions for all the students? Why not let the married students pur chase tickets in blocks and buy their tickets before or on an equal basis with the fraternity men who purchase (late tickets? Who gov erns, the studlent government of all the students or IFC of Caro lina's "elite"? What further sug gestion do they have in mind? MATTHEW M. PREUITI SUMMER JOBS A SPECIAL JOB JUST Fl gency of Student Ei P. 0. Box 52492 ew Orleans, Louisiana 7015 )Check fl Money Oi N: PLEASE SEND 1969 SUM RECTORIES CHECKED BELO'A IRT JOBS ............. ... ta at America's finest Resorts. poriences abroad with pay. G OPPORTUNITIES ......... working with America's best comy: )ER - Our latest bulletin ree job fields plus a special you. Please state interest ( Infamy of others-or our own votes I may haye been affected by the smutty ploys of candidates and would-be supporters ? No! Instead, we must proclaim the results of the "election" void and establish yet another "Great Day at the Polls"-immediately! We must take this opportunity (we shall have no other!) to re dress the wrongs of the past few days. MEN AND WOMEN OF CAR OLINA, the integrity of our school, the value of our opinions, the future of free elections are at stake-A NEW ELECTION! There is no alternativel NAME WITqHELD BY REQUEST More i Dear Mr. Krochmlny: As a concerned alumnus (Class of '66), I should like to express my views concerning several items in the 13-point Afro-Ameri can legislative program currently pending before the Student Sen ate. Most of the proposals in Baran Rosen's bill are quite appropriate, but a few border on the absurd, and should be stricken. The rec ommendations with regard to re vised curricula in black history and black literature, and with regard to an exchange program for black scholars, and so forth, are sensible recommendations and should be followed up. I wish, however, to take issue with four specific proposals in the Rosen bill: 1. To expect the University to increase the number of black stu dents to a percentage reflecting the state's population is unrealis tic. Only qualified students, who measure up to the University's standards should be admitted. 2. Neither Mr. Rosen nor any one else should propose to tell Carolina's athletic coaches which players they should recruit and Dea,r Mr. Krochmalny: I was glad to see Mr. Herb Reeves concede that races differ in innate ability. His honesty is commendable. I read with interest his state ment that the principle of racial equality" . . . is a social and ethi cal concept, not a biological one." This neatly removes the discus sion from the real world to a dream world where various ethi cal views join in battle. Mean while, dowvn on earth, our cities burn. I fail to comprehend the im portance to society of the fact that ". . . the differences in intel ligence, inventiveness and imag ination between individuals of ai single population are larger than those between populations." This, says Mr. Reeves, is the point. We are not confronted with excep tional Negroes only. We are con fronted with twenty million Ne groes. The average individual in the white gene pool has an I.Q. slightly above 100. The black gene pool consists of individuals with I.Q.'s slightly below 85 on the average. The creative record of the Negro throughout history is vastly below ours. If we are to maintain and advance our civiliza tion we must acknowledge racial realities. PALMER STACY 3R YOUI ruployment der {~~ MER JOB ............... $3.00 ............... $3.00 anles. which con job assign mnd desired ........... $4.00 Y4 WKNNA A Night Ir lack And which players they should play. When Mr. McGuire and Mr. Diet zel, et al., are ready to recruit black athletes, they will do so. 3. Fraternities and sororities, by their very nature, are discrim. inatory - not only to black stu dents, but white as well. Not everyone fits into the Greek Sys. tem, but this does not mean the Greeks have no place on the Uni. versity campus. 4. "Militant black students" have no place at USC. They have no right to complain of harass Dear Mr. Krochnany: This letter is in response to the article written by Sherry Shealy ("Is Blackness 'Color, Culture, and Consciousness' at USC?"). Miss Shealy posed some very in teresting questions that were not answered in her article. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the information she based her article on was not studied closely. It is quite obvious that she purpose fully took quotations from Black Rap (published by and for black students) out of context and dis torted the actual facts. If Miss Shealy was sincere in wanting to find out precisely what the state of affairs is con cerning the black students at USC, she should have taken the time to consult the organization for a press release and not stop black students as they passed through Russell House. She stated that "concern was expressed several weeks ago over the exclusion of black students in fraternities at Carolina." This concern was submitted last year to the University along with sev eral other important issues but it has only recently been decided that they were worthy of "con cern." It should be noted that "black students have moved to a new and higher level of con sciousness and political maturity. This list has been revised and so Rev Lipsi 'Uin-Lipstick'? It's [ there. Pale, but the b)lushy litt le mloutlhi Froste4; Polar Bar-e Pithy Pecd(h. Al! c!ea, gleaming with fresh y Natural Wond4 A vai la The Campus et-O 0o Morel ous/Da 9-69 i H Dorm White ment when they themselves, a vocal but miniscule minority, are harassing the vast majority of students at Carolina. When they realize that their role in the Uni. versity Community is not to ef. feet social change, but to get an education, they will be better off. Further, the University media should issue a statement condemn. ing racism only with the under. standing that it is a condemnation of black racism as well as white racism. JOHN T. LOTTICH r* in reality Miss Shealy was re porting on information that is now obsolete. Miss Shealy further states that as far as culture is concerned black and white students are of. fered the same activities. Aca. demic courses are offered to all but it is white history, white liter. ature, white music which is of. fered. This is not black culture, which is based on our African heritage-before slavery. Included in this article was a statement that black students have "built a wall of isolation around themselves." This wall was constructed by the white stu. dents at USC in their refusal to react to the black students as human beings and so it became necessary for us to align with each other in order to survive the physical and mental pressure with which we are continually faced. Obviously Miss Shealy has a very elementary understanding of what blackness really is all about. I therefore suggest that she refrain from printing her petty analyses. However, I think her attitude is typical of the staff of a newspaper (all-American?) which would label a group of hard working, black men as "greenbeetles." SISTER BEVERALY BELLINGER Ion nits are, but the color's shine won't fail. 20 Volors like Nothing sink, Grapevine and ras tinltedI glass, and oung color. r'Un-Lipstick' b)le at: (In Ruselli Ho..se\