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Editorials Moving governr Last spring Barry Knobel, candidate for student body president, promised that if elected he would relocate Student Government offices somewhere "more acceptable to the general % student body." Late last summer Student Government was promised new offices by Sept 1. New furniture was ordered. Today Student Government remains cramped into two small offices on the third floor of Russell House. It isn't their fault. The fault lies with an inefficient administrative process. Slater's old offices, on the second floor of Russell House across from the information desk, have been vacated, and Student Government has been granted those offices. :: Student Government was told it could move Carelessness Campus elections traditionally are marked by fraud, inefficiency , carelessness and voter disinterest. People traditionally don't vote because they don't care. They don't care about the Student Senate. "Everybody knows," they say, "that the Senate never does anything." They don't care about class officers. "Everybody knows," they say, "that class officers never do anything." They don't care about Homecoming Queen. "Everybody knows," they say, "that only a popular sorority girl will win Homecoming Queen.' -They don't care because elections do not mean anything personally to them. Voting isn't worth their while. Student Government is viewed skeptically, and class officers are viewed laughingly. The elected officer means little to the student. Nobody ever accomplishes anything, the students say, so why should we vote?. That is why disinterest was a prime factor in this week's elections. Tradition being what it is, however, fraud, inefficiency and carelessness were also evident. NEEDED 10 Volunteers for PUMPKIN C1 CONTEST, 5 'til 7 p.m. Wedi Oct. 29, 1969 Judges from Student Food Service Committ REGISTER WITH RUSSELL HOU 1ST PRIZE - Dinn< 4 Any Nite At To1 Carolina 2ND PRIZE - Di: For 2 Any Nite A1 Of Carolina NOW THERE ARE -INTERNATIONAL House of Pantl TO BETTER SERVE YO * 14 DIFFERENT INTERNATIONAL I * 1-7 EXOTIC EGG DISHES e 24 PROVOCATIVE PANCAKES * 7 WONDERFUL WAFFLES * 14 TASTY SANDWICHES 4467 Devine St.-Ph. 787-8586 gg (At Ft. Jackson Blvd. o"BrI" BUI 1031. Assembly St. - Ph. 254-5666 .-~ -(Opposite Hiway Dept.i ... the nent n by Sept. 1. The offices were not ready, so a iew date -- Sept. 17 -- was promised. It Is Oct. 24, and the offices still are not ready. Moreover, furniture -- ordered Aug. 12 -- has iot arrived. Painting has not been completed. Telephone Ines are not in. New locks have not been in talled. Student Government has pushed for its leserved new offices, but it has been con 'ounded by University inefficiency. The new offices are needed and deserved. As Knobel points out, Student Government's duties iave expanded with school enrollment and its 3resent offices are not adequate. We hope the University will soon see fit to <eep its promise to Student Government, so Student Government can assume its rightful oosition in student affairs. and apathy For example: ---Fee cards were marked in pencil when a student voted. As a result, it was easy to erase the mark and possibly vote a second (third, fourth?) time. One student, in fact, voted once,. erased the marks on his card, picked up two sets of ballots, and turned them in to The Gamecock. "Honest people voted once," he said, "but how many times did dishonest people vote?" ---Ballots for Wednesday's Senate-At-Large election were mimeographd. Anybody with access to a mimeograph machine could have copied them easily. --in one half-hour span Wednesday morning,. a student walked into the Student Government - office twice. Both time.he found a box of ballots opened on a desk, with no other student in the room. That is careless and inefficient, and may well have led to fraud. Although Barry Knobel, student body president, says such human errors are inevitable, we feel they are unnecessary. Such carelessness is but another discouragement to students, another reason for doubting the value of Student Government. Another reason for not voting at all. WE HA ARVING ONE WO ENGINI GRADI SE MGR. --Oppor e~r For >Of. nner Top. /, Oppa involved in eartE Opportunity to ap; a wide range of challer shipbuilding, nuclear pr O !generation, and heavy Opportunity for ac research work with leo< and universities. k And opportunity t( Rakes country's most pleasani areas. U . .. Find out about immedia Mechanical Engineers NINNERS Electical Engineers Marine Engineers Industrial Engineers See our representative He'll be interviewi Office and will answer THE OPPORTUI NEWPOR T NEWS. A Manon connoIat < ..A n eqalO ODDOffunefv emnDN SG Letter 'Non k Dear Mr. Stepp: Last Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18, I was witness to a scene which I feel should be brought to the at tention of Carolina's student body. In the lobby of Sims Dormitory I observed a black couple quietly watching television in the TV room. Mrs. Kimes, the house director. entered the room and asked the girl if she was "a Sims girl." When the girl told her no, that she lived in McClintock, the house director told her that she would have to leave. She also stated that only Sims residents and their dates could use the TV room. When the girl told her that McClintock did. not have a TV room that she and her date could both watch, the house director said she was sorry, but there was a rule that only Sims -residents could use the lobby. I was not aware that any rule THE GA Carl Stepp Editer-in-Chief E JUST RD FOR IEIN:G PATES. runity. rtunity to become deeply s last frontier, the ocean. >ly all your abilities to ging assignments in opulsion, nuclear power ndustrial equipment. Ivanced degree or Jing research centers > enjoy one of the living and vacation to career opportunities for: Naval Architects Nuclear Engineers Civil Engineers Metallurgical Engineers :>n Tuesday Oct. 28. ng at the Placement your questions about: JIlTY COMPANY -WING 1RGINIA 2360? 4 I('i'co office: cramped, dii 5Ims girl' such as this existed, and I cannot find any other resident who is aware of such a rule. As the influx into the television room is so great, especially on weekends, I per sonallv have seen many other girls from other dorms on campus watching TV in Sims' lobby. They were never questioned as to their right to be there. Even if there were such a rule, it would be unfair, for McClintock dorm has only a TV for the girls, and not one that can be viewed by a girl and her date. Got a question? Ask Inquiry Hox 5131 The Gamecock MECOCK Jack Padgett Business Manager ThE ER111S on main * Downtown * Richlond Molt . - Gene Haney rty can t watc After a while and several more conversations between the couple and the house director, the two students left. His opi*ion was that if they had not been black, their right to there would not have -been questioned. I agree with him.. I realize that this letter will not' Submarine Sand Ve Mtbr #Z1 ..,4nj, Beer o POSSESSION & CONSUM SET 1632 SUMTER STREET I Downtown Spatial, Spir EXCLUSIVE A BERRRY i0 SAIr%A * 0 ~1Setito th sprtd/ Setrto bro 160? Main St. Columbia, S Item Si.e Color 2nd Add 754 postage -4%S.C. Name................. Addressa............. City................. State ................ Gamecock ignored professor Dear Mr. Stepp: Dr. Tom Temple was a professor at USC for 23 years. He started teaching at USC in 1946. He was not only a teacher but he was also a Gamecock supporter as he had attended the home games of Carolina this year and the other 22 years also. Professor Temple was 65 and he died , Sunday, Oct. 12, the day after he had seen Carolina beat N.C. State. He died of a sudden heart attack. The Gamecock newspaper only dedicated 4 column inches to a man who had taught at USC for 23 years. A long time to work, only to be ignored by the students that Tom Temple had worked with. ROBERT D. HUGHES h TV change the situation as it exists, though I wish it could. My sole purpose in writing this letter is to inform others of such an incident in hopes that it might bring to light some of the prejudice that exists here on our campus. 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