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Joy, sadness mix at Thanksgiving Despite all its joy, there is something sadly depressing about Thanksgiving. Surely no college student can help being thankful--his very existence at college is worth thanks. But when you slide up to a table laden with a huge turkey and overflowing with meats and vegetables and good trimmings, it seems somehow wrong: you can't eat all the goodies at your table...and in your own city people will be lucky to eat anything at all. You drive home in your shiny car or fly home in a sleek jet. Beside the road a child, shirtless and sad-eyed, wat ches you speed past. The Wheeler Hill families huddle together in their small homes while the well-dressed students leave their dorm, "the ultimate in dorm living." You put on your tie, your prettiest dress. You slip on an overcoat or a heavy sweater. And the same shirtless boy shivers. Thanksgiving becomes a time for you to give thanks for your blessings. And, in some perverted way, it becomes time to be thankful that you aren't one of them, that you aren't starving, freezing, friendless, ill. It becomes the ultimate in arrogance, a selfish frill. You sigh momentarily for the shirtless boy and thank God you have your new, bright shirt and another rack in the trunk. What man can pass that shirtless little boy, with his big eyes and cold'body, and ever forget him? What country can go to the moon, fight wars in Asia, subsidize farmers for not farming---and give a food stamp or two to the poor? The extremes, the rich and the poor ...and we are the rich. We have forgotten the poor. And Thursday we will be thankful for not being poor, and never help those who need more than our thanks. Socialism, communism all the other doctrines that proclaim themselves the poor man's friend are no better. It is not the capitalistic system, so often downed. Man has a right to pursue a profit and*to rise on his own. The fault is not the system, but the man. It is what he becomes once he has the money. Once he owns a car, fine clothes, good food and a country club membership. It is the contrast, and the hard heart and decayed soul of the man who is insensitive. That little boy is hungry and cold, and we give a can of soup for a food basket and that saves our conscience. Look around you. Don't be the callous patriot 'who sees only pretty red, white and blue. See the red eyes, and the white toes and the blue face. See and open your heart. See, and at Thanksgiving give thanks. But be a little sad. Remember, when you stuff in that last bit of turkey, what one bite would mean to a starving child. Remember. At the country club, in your car, taking a hot shower, in the shop buying new clothes. Remember then, if you can, the cold little boy. And promise yourself that you personally will help him get warm. And then we can all be thankful. Without sad ness. Revision needed Student body president Barry Knobel has taken a needed step by forming a residence halls association to consider housing problems at Carolina. Composed mostly of dorm presidents, the association intends to scrutinize housing rules, many of which are outdated and ridiculous, and to make suggestions for rule revisions. For too long, Student Government and residence hall governments have worked separately, without the cooperation and unified efforts necessary for ef fect iveness. Housing rules are changeable, as new alchohol rules and new curfews and new open house rules attest. But someone must take the initiative to review them and suggest what may be wholesale revision. Student Government and dorm presidents, working jointly, plan to make such a review. We hope they are thorough and speedy, and hope to hear their specific recommendations soon. We urge students with complaints or praise about housing rules to contact Student Government or their dormitory association. With student help and plenty of work, the association may bring beneficial reform to the USC housing. Panty rules petty Students being held prisoners in their dorms? Check the rules coeds face during panty raids and you can easily think them prisoners. The rules are archaic, senseless and arbitrary. They protect no one, but bother everyone. Carolina women don't have to be shep,herded into the halls.or forced to huddle in dark rooms during a distur bance. Such petty regulations deserve immediate death. Carolina women, on their own, know how to act during panty raids. Fo,unlded .1an 30 1906 with Robert Elhiott Gonzales as the first editor. TilE '''''nll.'E K .. publbshed by and for the students of the University of Sr,ath Carolina trtweekly dlurmna ibhe co!lege vear e xcept during holiday s and e xaminations Then .pnmton% expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the ad misri%r.aif on the~ facult v or the student body as a whole OfiI if '.s f Till: fa t5lEcfM'K are in Room 308 of the Russell House on the University campu% Phones are 777-4249 r Editor.-m-Chief >. 777-4220 i Business and Advertiinmgn and 777-ti7R 'Newsroom I TIll;f (.\llECocK is represented nationally by Nhtional Educational Advertising %m'rnee( Inc The publication is a member of Associated Collegiate Press and the S C (ol in.I e~j Press Association Subscription rates arc' $8per year E DITOR-IN-CHIE F Carl Stepp ASSOCIATE EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Mike Krochmalny Jack Padgett MA NAG ING E DITOR.................... Jim Wanna maker A SST. MA NAG ING E DITORS.......... Ed Chen, Fred Monk N EWS ED0IT ................................. Martin Mobley SPORTS EDITORS..............Scott Derks, Bruce Honick A SST. N EWS E DITOR........ Susan Ross. K ittv McCaskill Outsi ...while inside Letters. Coeds fi; Dear Mr. Stepp: We the undersigned would like an explanation for the absurd restrictions that are imposed upon the coeds at this University with particular reference to the rules governing mandatory procedure during panty raids as regulated by the Carolina "Coed book of rules and regulations." Standard procedure as strictly enforced by "house mothers" is as follows: all doors will be open. all lights out, all blinds and windows shut. all girls must seat them selves in the halls for the duration. Any infraction of these rules themselves results in date night restrictions. Any girls asleep when the raids begin are awakened by the hall counselors at the direction of the house "mothers'' and are re(tuiredI to go into the halls also. What is the reasoning behind these rules? ts it regard for our safetyv? Is someone afraid that we might loose our "virginity"' from the lofty perches of second story windows andI above? We sugge'st that the rules be modified so that with doors opened, lights out we' can remain in our rooms at the windows and participate in a time honored college tradition. Our parents were niot iinacqluainted with this aspect of college spirit and fun. If the boys cause any' damages to the g rouinds surely it cannot compare to t he damage done after important football games when we arie' v ict orious No one would i'onsider dloing away with en huia~st ic celebration after a nameii ''o w~Vhy 0r to)ut a stop to Itanu \ckermoan . .Iaimeio Itiddloe. ('aondls ; itoe mian. Te'ores.~o a lnsen. \1errr (t'harm . Sha,ron \I . iIa rver. K'le Tc ea''ue. fIrenda, I bra ke. I .vusn Itat mona.; \Vi%e. ('a rot K erekes. i.inda (\'ngar' .' nthia Finklin. . '. it oIi hin . Sail1' I.ache'. I.ia Iittler. t'at ttom''.ell. I'at li;onmann. \toos (sentir'. J'n.le n ti;a' i%. \nodre'' t)iIiltinghuam. l.odio 10'aimoer. 'ic kie Taler' . Sousani Spor'.. S; aah Itinhm.~ A ll time low Dear Mr. Stepp I think the dormitorv rules have hit an alt t ime low A student is not atltowed to burn incense oin hiis room Watch and Jew Free Monograming 1221 Tayle. St. Welte... $tud..ts. Credit .sas... . le the raid goes o4 outdated rules keep coeds "pr Oht pant because the smell supposedly stays in the woodwork. The punish ment for burning incense is study hall. another blow for con servatism. I live in Bates House and always feel like Big Brother is listening to me. le is too! If one wants to carry on a conversation that he does not wish the hall counselor to hear he has to slink into his room and whisper. If one shouts at someone in his room in comes the counselor telling him to shut 'up or else. Bates House is the ultimate in college living except for the ad ministration acting like a bunch of tough guys. Don't get me wrong, they're niot bad all the time, just when they feel they have to enforce the tiniest rule. You would act like a dict ator too if you could get away with it. If one calls any floor on the quadrangle lie usually has a hard time understanding the person on the' other end because of the noise the girls are allowed to make. Why dloes Bates House have to be any different? Why aren't listening devices installed in the other dorms? They really work. Why not have everyone equal? Its the American way, right? .Just like people don't stand( for invasion of privacy. TIhe campus is get ting more conservative with the aid of the workings in Bates House and who wants this place to get more conrservative? G;ive freedom to the mnmates oif this place. BY RElQ1'I*sT Letter policy Letters to the editor should be brief, typewritten and about subjects pertinent to USC student. The editor reserves the right to edit letters for style, good taste, space limitations and libel laws. No unsigned letters will be printed, but names may be withheld on request. Letters should be sent to The Gamecock, Box U-5J31, USC, Columb$a, S.C. 29208. dry Repairs with Purchase Brench .Resewe'd Shappling .Center l- aph Jarrells -otected." Y rules Loud silence Dear Mr. Stepp: On Wednesday night, Nov. 19, 1969. the Silent Majority spoke. STIE SKEI.TON ROD NEIA -A IN SOM[ONE'S SH1ADOVw of the most direct, touching colle< tion ofI love poems by In diary form it chronicle's al oif love, the duration of an af taking. Using the seasons of )laittormn to speak eloquently wVordIs inl Ihis boiok unde(Irsco Rod McKuen has become no influential andl best sellbng p, but quite possibly the best s( all time. In the words of D)r. Frederi literary editor of the LOS AN Br The R.L Knobel i SG tean (The following is the te.t of a speech delivered Wednesday to Student Senate by Barry Knobel, student body president.) Members of the Senate. Recent occurences have caused me to come before you today to speak on a topic which I feel is crucial to the success of the remainder of this year. As president of the student body. I come before you with the express purpose of redefining our specific areas of government. The legislative branch, you. the Student Senate. proposes and passes legislation for the bet terment of the students at the University. The executive branch may also present legislation, but must be primarily concerned with the execution of your legislation. Remember. senators, these two branches of government are on par with one another...they are egnals...they are equal in im portance and each should not be considered as a single. separate entity of power, hut rather as two arms of a single body: that body is Student Government. Our two branches of government must work together.. we should work together... we should function together and for one reason only...the improvement of student life at the University of South Carolina. In no way can one branch of Student Government attempt to "show up" the other. attempt to coerce the other. attempt to. and in words which I have heard uttered frequently. "steal the thunder" of the other. I am sick of power plays which accomplish very little aside from (he fact of creating discord. Your branch of SG and mine adhere to the policy of "separation of powers of government" and operate on a system of checks and balances. If the executive branch gets too far out line. I expect a Senate rebuttal...but the case should equally hold true for the executive branch if the Senate misuses it s authority. I have said over and over again that the student is the all important element at this Ui'iversity. I have stressed this point to You and other students. to administrators. and to faculty members. By virtue of the very fact that we were elected by students, we here gVe.tipplpyed by these students to ser ve them and to do a reasonably McKL lEST... is quie imlyon of mn' nedh -i qulythe imost02 EXMNR 't, ndeutflsellbng poet ml Ane' )n Aerian pet. because imply he mnenss,the omig m America -and it I far n h ev- thousands, not just, he y('r as apoet when theyv reat of mn'sneedthe In Someone's Shado only thmost ilher rules )et f or lie tme, Listen To The Warm 11mg pet ofListen To The Warm Stanyan Street & Otl ck Soyer theLonesome Cities. . GELES HERALD The World Of Rod P an S Bryan Company ' NSTREET C OLMi. S.un C. irges twork capable job of it.. and we must never forget it. I am president of this student body and a graduating senior from Carolina. I run for no other office on this campus.. don't have to backslap people and please everyone..but I do have to get things done.. we both do. I ad monish you to never forget how and why you are where you are. We work with (he administration and with the faculty...but. Senators, we work for the students...and I will gladly tangle wvith inyone tooth and nail who forgets that. SG is on the upsurge.. much to the joy of some, much to the dismay of others, much to t astonishment of many. We are moving ahead with Cons(itutional Revision (in cidentally. I personally don't think that it will die in the Senate. as some people do.. .I don't see the purpose of the Senate to\he muf fling needed changes in an out dated Constitution hut rather gee (he Senate as a leader Ia revisional ideas.) The General Welfare Com mittee, and myself have come up with a bill for establishing the Constitutional Committee and specified time periods which must he met in order to have the new Constitution enacted before the spring elections. This Senate committee has done a tremendous job in researching the bill. considering various plans. and establishing a sound plan which will call for hard work. a Lreat deal of time, and most of all dedication. I wholeheartedly support the efforts of the general welfare committee and urge passage of this hill. If passed. I am certain it would mean a great leap forward for S; on this campus...however. if defeated. the setback would he disastrous. Of course. the decision is yours to make and I am con fident that you will make the vorrect one. To satisfy some of ou' fellow student constituents. we will work within the framework of the existing. outmoded Constitu tion . . . and we will be successful. cessfil. We work as a team this year.. .for the students and for the establish ment of SG as the driving force on campus for student involvement and for student action. 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