The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 22, 1969, Page Page 2, Image 2
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RyCARL STEPP
Editor-in-Chief
It was one of those dreams that
still seems real when you wake up.
A dozen men crowded around a
table and wanted to remake war in
their own image. They wanted to
remold the armed forces or abolish
them. Most of all, they didn't want
to go.
What made it slightly unreal was
the background music. From a few
rooms away filtered the soft
melodies of sorority rush songs
gentle songs of sisterhood and
companionship.
It was the smart clothes and
parties and Saturday-night-date
set invading the bearded. wire
rimmed world of the cause man.
the antiwar warrior. It just didn't
belong.
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corner. a film was showing bloody
stumps of war victims and little
children burned and starving. A
guy was calling himself a com
munist and hoping the VC won,
and a heckler in the back was
disrupting him with nonsense
patriotism---the kind that just
disgusts you, the "love it or leave
it" jazz.
The nervous middle-aged man in
the neat suit was pretending to
enjoy pictures in the lounge, and
the other cop---the one with the hat
was even more conspicuous.
All the assistant deans were
there, and you wondered where the
Big Boys were. You figured they
were huddled around some table,
smoking sweating and worrying
about their university and their
image and probably about their
students, too.
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While traversing the ever
widening gyre that is our campus
on the way to my class from my
parking place in the Sears lot (for
which I did battle with spry, but
overmatched Volkswagen which
bit off my left fender in the heat of
battle), I began thinking about
education and universities, two
seemingly unrelated subjects.
I have been associated with
institutions of higher learning,
("higher," in this case, should not
be interpreted as meaning more
meaningful or more beneficial),
and I have been led down the
primrose path of academic failure
to one concludion: universities
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The assistant vice president kept
being called to the phone, and it
had to be for instructions from the
Big Boys.
LIVING MAN
The rally had been going on for a
couple of hours, with the loud
music and the kids sitting on the
floor and thinking---hoping, too
that they were in, man; living. And
the outsiders timidly stepping
inside and listening and watching,
not sure what to think, whether to
love or hate.
They had been cutting the War,
the Establishment, all the others.
They had been hating for the cause
of Love, and talking about killing
for the cause of Peace.
Then they tried to knock the
Speaker Rule. With the assistants
right on the scene (closely followed
'by worried, trying-too-hard
Student Government boys), they
tried to sneak in
an "unregistered" speaker. But
the assistants talked it over and
before she (the speaker) could get
going, one was on the stage and
"requesting" her to leave and
threatening her with prosecution.
The kids didn't like it. They
shouted "Sieg Heil" and ob
scenities. The leader said they had
been through hell, and he unloaded
a broadside against the Fat Cat
University-runners who "make
their living putting people down."
He was aroused, committed, the
words gushed out. The words like
bullshit and goddam and the other
shockers. The worse words, like
racist and imperialist.
They came out, and the speaker
came away. It was all sort of
sickening. The vileness of it all, the
stupid "speaker registration" rule,
the assistants prowling around
protecting their Kids.
It was a scared overreaction by
the Big Boys, who were trying to
help their school, and by Student
Government. trying to do the same
but mostly just following along.
MAYBHE JUST
!t was a kind of paradoxical,
perverted way of education with
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exist to support otherwise needless
bureaucracies and to give the
young adult one last swat in the
pants before he becomes a
member of gainful society.
The first reason is, of course., the
most important. Without
bureaucracies the world as we
know it would not exist. We would
simply wither into several
peaceful, independent, financially
stable nations.
And what would we do with
people like Lyndon Johnson, Billy
Sol Estes, Lester Maddox, Adam
Clayton Powell and Strom Thur
mond? As a matter of fact, what
would we do with the entire United
States Congress, not to mention
Lawrence Spivak? These are
qION
eed
the educators compromising for
the "public opinion" and "ap
propriation" and "good of the
whole school" guys. And they kids
-the AWARE-types---looking for
the Answer and the Way and trying
to love and maybe being mixed up
and maybe, just maybe, being
right and ahead of you and
everybody.
And it was kind of funny when
the leader said he felt sorry for
Tom Jones, the president, and his
position. You could just bet the
president felt sorry for him. And
you felt sorry for the world, in such
a screwed-up state of love-hate,
pity-everybody, political
prostitution.
It was all confusing. You hated
the War, but couldn't stomach the
"let's destroy this whole country"
bit. You respected the ad
ministration, but couldn't like their
policy of containment rather than
live-and-let-live.
It stayed confused all day. The
war, the soldiers, the Establish
ment-haters, the gung-ho guys
with their emotional blindness and
right-wing non-patriotism.
You wanted to love them all, and
the little burned children, and the
University president slipping
along that thin line of state
University responsibilities. You
wanted them to love each other
and you couldn't tell--the bad
words and scowls and talk of peace
and gentleness and harshness all
came together and you wondered
just what the hell it would all bring.
And then the speaker, from the
audience, burst out, "my blood is
boiling inside me," and told about
her childhood, her burned home,
her beaten child-who-was-black
when he shouldn't have been, her
walks to school when the others
rode, her two little dresses, her
having to work for a white master
instead of going to school, and the
tears and raw emotion when she
said "but I don't want violence."
After all that, she screamed, "Kill
Il me kill me...'cause it's not what I
die with, but what I die for."
And there were a few drops of
tears in your eyes as you slipped
out the door, in a daze. You didn't
know what to write or what to do or
how to love or when to hate.
You didn't know You just didn't
know.
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cracies
questions we liberal
revolutionaries must ask our
selves. (You conservative
revolutionaries must ask your
selves who would we get to replace
such great men as John Birch,
Gore Vidal and Bill Buckley.)
You wouldn't hire these out-of
work bureaucrats, would you? Not
unless you needed a large cor
porate loss to claim on your in
come tax. And what would our
country do with all the money that
getting rid of bureaucracies would
put in the treasury? Why we would
spend thousands of man-hours
searching for new ways to lose
money that would make the C-SA
look like a dime store toy.
Well, these bureaucrats have to
eat, so we may as well get a few
laughs out of them in the process,
so we allow them to act out their
morality plays in the thespian
center of our country-Washington,
which no state will claim. What
would our favorite deadpan
comedians Huntley and Brinkley
do if it weren't for their heroically
comic antics? Just what would you
do from 6:30 until 7 every night?
Bureaucracy and politics are
good things--they protect us with
the F-111 and they keep us happy
by keeping the cost of living down.
In case you hadn't noticed, the
college campus is the training
ground for future bureacrats. Here
they can maneuver, guile and
impede thousands of scurrying,
naive students. Here he has the
protection of many safety factors
campus police, IBM computer
cards, the Selective Service and
thousands of well-meaning, but
misguided parents.
On the campus the bureaucrat
indulges in his favorite game -
stomp the student. He prints
reams of forms for every
imaginable purpose, and some that
are beyond imagination. He makes
rules no one in his right mind
would abide by, and he makes
punishments that, outside the ivied
halls, would be unconstitutional.
He does all this with a smile on
his face and a gleam in his eye.
You see, by the time he was
graduated, he was learned in the
ways of the world, and anxious to
mistreat others to avenge his own
servility.
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it will be far more difficult for
student radicals to disrupt or shut
down the nation's universities this
year.
The reason, quite simply, is that
presidents, deans and faculty
committees of most universities
have used the summer respite to
good advantage in coming up with
sensible overall approaches to the
troblem.
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including Carolina's, have moved
to seize the initiative in identifying
and seeking solutions to legitimate
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forums has been expanded. Also, 4
the competition among most
universities to recruit black
students have, if anything, in
-tensified
Clearly, administration
proposals at Carolina and other
universities across the country
cannot please everyone.
At least this administration has
shown it is willing to cast a critical
eye on Carolina's traditional ways
of doing things. And the stakes are
high.
If universities can prove that
constructive changes are
achievable through peaceful
clann11els as the Jones ad
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in itself will drain away much of
the tacit support that they zealous
fringe has been able to count on
within the ranks of the so-called
silent majority.
However, most university ad
ministrations are not so naive as to
suppose that constructive changes
alone will prevent buildings from
being seized, officials' papers
rifled, and deans ejected from
their offices.
Guidelines must be issued to
spell out with precision the limits
to which dissent may be carried,
some administrations feel.
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injunctions as a way of ending
disturba.ces, a. tActic, which
requires students to render an
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conservative constituency, will not
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