The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 24, 1969, Page Page 2, Image 2
Editorials
Moving
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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