The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 03, 1969, Page Page 2, Image 2
Degrading the class
The next time you're in class, watch what happens when
the professor begins his lecture.
Notebooks pop open and students write furiously,
struggling to record every phrase which might appear on
the next test.
It all seems efficient and educational, but how many
students are really listening?
How many students are concentrating on the words, not
the note-taking? How many are weighing the instructor's
comments? How many are thinking?
The answer, in many classes, is very few. Too concerned
with grades and quizzes, students are afraid to relax,
listen and learn.
There must be a better way. Cramming facts into your
brain before tests is no inspiration.
The concept of grading should yield to the concept of
learning. Students should forget note-taking and strive to
think and learn.
We propose that Carolina consider replacing its system
of grading and testing with one requiring written papers
and class participation. The modified "pass-fail" system
has been a step forward. The second step should come
now.
A rote system of testing and letter grading is not
stimulating. It places the student on the defensive.
What the student should concern himself with is lear
ning--digesting the information in a lecture, mulling it
over, THINKING about it.
We would like to see students listening to their
professor's words rather than writing them down. We
think writing essays and defending ideas in class is the
best way to learn, much better than fearsome, trivial
multiple-choice quizzes.
We think classes should be thought forums, discussion
seminars, not mere practice in speedwriting. Replacing
the present grading system would be a needed second step.
Peaceful protest
The term peaceful protest probably sounds incongrous
to most of us. We are used to the ones which erupt into
clashes between and among protestors and their establish
ment counterpart -- the police.
The plans for the October 15 moratorium on the war in
Vietnam are for a protest to demonstrate the peoples'
desire for peace, so it is aptly planned to be peaceful itself.
Chances are strong it will remain peaceful, at least
among its real supporters. The plan is not to wreck,
destroy and provoke, but to calmly and deliberately. prove
to the administration that the desire of the American
people is for peace.
To abhor war is indeed admirable, but to prove it
peacefully is noble.
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The Age of Aquarius, when
"peace will guide the planets.and
love will steer the stars," may
seem to be turning into reality to
some people.
Yet on a broader perspective we
could not at this moment be much
further away from its "dawning."
The ideas behind this concept of
Aquarius illustrate the continuous
necessity for man to formulate
certain concepts of apparently
transcendental importance and to
channel much vital thought and
action into them, thus avoiding the
basic needs of the day.
These thoughts and actions in
turn acquire certain necessary
aspects which give them a touch of
credibility, thus limiting, although
in many cases augmenting, the
hidden potentialities of the human
spirit. The comings of political and
religious messiahs, world
cataclysms and feelings of
"manifest destiny" are but a few
examples.
We as human beings have in
ourselves latent potentialities
which if channelled in a more
humanistically inclined manner
could produce brilliant results.
Yet we dwell in the common
pettiness of low aspirations, so
undignified of our human stature
such as the control of basic
freedoms in Czechoslovakia, the
manipulation of peoples' destinies
in Viet nam and even the fight over
censorship in our own University.
I believe it is time that we
realized our potentialities as
Homo-Sapiens-.human beings of a
higher intelligence than other
a nimalIs.
There is much to be done: much
inhumanity, much spiritual and
material poverty and much in
difference that must be conquered
in our world, instead of the petty
pace that presently occupies our
time.
Let us all elevate the caliber of
our aspirations by raising the
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Dear Mr. Stepp:
It cannot have escaped your
notice, nor that of your readers,
that the American flag is being
debauched.
This is clearly discernible in the
rear window of any police car. By
the actions of these "flagbearers,"
one can divine what they flag
means to them.
Black men have been heard to
say, "When I see that flag in the
window, I know that man is not my
friend."
And those who use the flag that
way have said, "It means I'm
against those long-haired commies
and niggers."
Clearly the flag is being abused.
I dare say Mrs. Ross is turning
,over in her grave. In the words of
that "great American" Marshall
Parker, "Something's got to be
done."
My suggestion is this: Every
man who loves his country
(regardless of how he feels about
the police, racism, war, bigotry,
graft, and the other ills that
bureaucratic flesh is heir to)
should fly a flag decal. No expense
is involved.
Blow your service station man's
mind----ask him for a decal.
Especially if you are black or have
lots of hair--or both.
Then ignore the insidiously
subtle message of the oil company:
"Place in right rear window."
Instead, put it on the left side of the
window. Just to the left of center,
or on the far left. The possibilities
are as*infinite as the colors of the
political spectrum.
In this way, the extremists of the
right can be deprived of a symbol
which they have no right to
arrogate in the first place. They
can be told, to paraphrase Bible
scholar J.B. Phillips, "Your flag is
too small."
JIM TURNER
Crusty matter
Dear Mr. Stepp:
Another semester has started
and Slater is up to its old tricks. A
lot of students thought that after
the "December Revolution" of last
year, Slater was going to give
decent food, competitive prices
and, at least non-committal in
stead of antagonistic service.
We got it, too, for sixteen weeks.
Well, prices are up, food quality
is down, and the help is down-right
bellicose. Witness: The scene is
M&N cafeteria. Close-up of two
students eating (?). Student A
speaks.
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Student A: What's that?
Chicken?
Student B: I guess so. What have
you got?
Student A: Well, I asked for egg
salad sandwiches so I guess that's
what it is.
Student B: I have news for you.
Egg salad isn't all you have on that
bread.
Student A: What do you mean?
Student B: Take a look at that
bread crust. Isn't that a mosquito
baked into it?
Student B: By golly you're right!
I guess they missed it at the cash
'register 'cause they didn't charge
'me for it.
Student B: That's not the point!
That's an insect; they carry
disease...
Student A: So does Slater. No,
I'm going to go complain at the
counter.
Student A moves to the counter
and overhears another student
complaining of something in his
Coke. The student moves away;
Student A speaks.
Student A: Look at this sand
wich. That's a mosquito in the
bread crust. .
Slater attendent: Don' show me no
bread, boy
Student A stumbles back to his
seat.
Student B: What did she say?
Student A: She said, Don't show
me no bread, boy!
I think it's time the students at
Carolina demand $49 worth of food
for $49. I think that it's time Slater
pretended students had someplace
,else to eat...'cause they do.
I have a theory. Slater charges
so much for food first semester,
that no one eats at Slater second
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