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Holiday
They say a university is
believe that, of course,
The fact that students hav
the combined branches of the
thrown all over campus lool
administrators to sign all sor
not prejudice this conclusior
The Thanksgiving holida'
student who had to stay on
In the first place the stude
nesday - get your money ea
start the holidays.
A minor inconvenience to
over the Thanksgiving holida
not boxed--the post office wi
Thre real kicker was the fi
cafeterias open over the holi
who were on campus didn't
that most private establishr
ployes come first.
Another kick in the pants v
efficiency. Slated to open at 1(
1: 15 Sunday--enough to caus
siderable inconvenience.
The students have been rep
the fact is the administratic
somewhat immature idea abc
are due to the people who pay
South Carolina.
Dump h
Over the years there has bi
The Gamecock to greener i
We have been shoen offic
and numerous other places.
there persist rumors that we
the process of moving.
At the present these run
be given absolutely no creder
you and whisper in your ea
housed in the attic Qft LeCor
you should ignore him and s
sidious rumor monger.
However, we have made
living style. We have a new
who are interested. We are
opposed to our old box. C
spacious and allow us to h
number of letters-to-ther-edi
newspapers. We welcome yo
now in process in Drawer /
Letters
Dear Mr. Stepp
C'ontary to R{ev. Brown's
assumptions (Gamecock. 21 Nov.)
women are not commodities to he
sold or bartered to the highest
bidder: I am not now, and never
have been, available on in
stallment. layaway, virginal or
any other purchase plan I deeply
resent being warned (as a "girl")
of "men who are willing to try you
out on the installment plan before
buying the equipment:" it is
demeaning not only to me and my
sisters (presumably all ignorant,
inert, prone masses of protoplasm)
but also to those of brothers who
are healthy. caring, sexual
humans without being ravenous,
uncontrollably appetitive beasts.
To refer to a coed as "equip
ment" is little different from
refering to a "broad" as a "piece
of ---:" both label women as things
-whether to be used or protected
That is not what the new sexual
freedom is about. For many of us,
the fundamental issues are of
respect and human dignity.
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Carl St
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
MIke Krochmalny
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blues
;or the students, and we all
to face more red tape than
government or that they are
cing for various and sundry
is of redundant forms should
I.
e was no different for the
campus.
nt bank closed at noon Wed
rly, kids, they can't wait to
those who stayed on campus
y was the fact that mail was
is closed--Saturday.
ict that there were no Slater
days. Of course the students
want to eat. It didn't matter
nents were closed - the em
vas the usual Russell House
, it finally opened its doors at
e a number of people con
eatedly called immaiture, but
n and staff seem to have a
ut what rights and privileges
to come to the University of
Rre
?en much talk of the moving of
)astures.
?s in the basement of Maxcy
We have not moved yet, but
have moved or that we are in
ors are fallacious and should
ice. Should anyone come up to
that The Gamecock is now
te or under the Field House,
ee him for what he is--an in
one slight aberration in our
box number, for those of you
now located in Drawer A, as
'ur new quarters are quite
andle a substantially larger
tor, junk mail and irrelevant
ur contribution to the land fill
IaCre.
Everyone knows sex has long
heen exploitative: men with little
to risk (or gain> trying to get ap
petitive releases and pleasure
from protesting femal objects;
women, terrified of the shame and
responsibility of an unwanted
pregnancy. denying their own
sexuality and striving to protect
themselves from threstening male
objects. Then comes marriage.
and people are to ccompletely
change overnight--see sex as a
sacred, holy. (and fun?)
sacrament.
Adopting the persona of benign,
sadI-wise fatherly figure. Dr.
Burnet te captured the old terror
stricken atmosphere and tried to
reinforce ti (Gamecock, 17 Nov.):
"i( has been my lot to diagnose
pregnancy...dark cloud of
numerous complications and
d i stturbhi ng u n
pleasantries .. unfortunate comn
plications which sometimes last a
lifetime."'
ife never mentions that he has
the knowledge to prevent such
tragedy Uiis monolithic and
int Gonrales as the first editor. ThF.
dents of the University of Sw..th Carotina
nK holidays and e xaminations
ecessarily reflect the views of the ad
a a whole
10 of the Russell House on the University
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BUSINESS MANAGER
Jack Padgett
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Under my breath
War ain
By MIKE KROCHjMALNY
Associate Editor
It is an unfortunate fact that the
war - the one in Vietnam - is
becoming something of an
American pastime or American
institution.
Twenty years from now kids will
ask their fathers, "When the was
the War incorporated?" and
"Were you a charter member of
the War?"
Today's horror movies are
tomorrow's fairy tales. "Daddy,
will you read me that funny story
about General Westmoreland?" Or
"How about that old country
humorist Lyndon Johnson, wasn't
he a roit? Almost as good as Will
Rogers."
History will remember the Great
America of the 1960's in a way not
quite like the way in which we see
ourselves.
"Say, can you tell me The Man
On The Street who succeeded
holy an
moralistic view of "mod concepts
of free love, carefree romance,
sexual revolution" is that they are
all so bad that he will not move to
present the tragedy of further
unwanted prega ncy by including
any information on contraception
in his column. Sisters and
brothers. Columbia has a Planned
Parenthood at 1845 Assembly St.
(253-7737 or 253-4384). It is an ef
ficient sympathetic and concerned
organization.
Dr. Burnette and Father Brown
are weilding the old bludgeon of
intimidation to frighten women to
an acceptance of the ethic of the
double standard. Dr. Burnette is
asking us to harter sex for
security, to not sleep with anyone
until we are married on pain of
fearful retribution: pregancy and
public shame. Father Brown says
much the same thing, to "catch a
man" stay out of bed, no one wants
"used merchandise." Both are on
the defensive. Ed Chen provoked
them hy saying women need on
longer fear those threats. Ed Chen
is right.
Yet Mr. Chen's viewpoint was
scarcely more imaginative. Freed
of the old threats we can all
become hedonists physically ex
pressing our "passion to live only
for today." At best, he sees the new
freedom as providing room for
"trial marriages" to give people
an opportunity for knowledge of
self and greater experience with
the world to bring to life-long
bonds.
Dr. Burnette was provoked by
the apparent callousness of Mr.
Chen's viewpoint. As Dr. B. un
derstanids. sensitive people do not
move in and out of bed with one
another easily or without pain. The
blithe hedonism Mr. Chen
describes is only one facet of the
sexual revolution. The pill has
made room for promiscuity. But
far more important, It has made
room for meaningful human
contact (in several senses); new
avenues to discover who we are
and how we might live.
Perhaps ironically, I speak from
the far side of the "sexual
revolution" and the other side of
the apple. I am a married woman
attending the University. I chose
PW
r education c(
9od spelling u
t hell, it's
Richard Nixon?"
"Well, considering the general
tendency of the presidency before
him, I'd have ot say he was suc
ceeded by either Maxwell Smart or
Clarabell the clown, no, Clarabell
preceded him."
"Great, you have just won a
twenty year subscription to Time
magazine. Now back to our studios
in downtown Long Biinh where the
'Name that Wat' show continues."
"Hello again, folks. As you might
remember, just before our com
mercial for the Colt Manufacturing
C.ompany, who brings the War to
you, Miss Ardelle Floarmaup won
a three-week campaign in the
Cambodian border sector. Now
Miss Floarmaup, you have a
chance to compete for the weekly
prize of a slightly used F-273 jet
bomber which was phased out last
week when the F-274 was put in the
war. The 273 holds a longevity
record of fourteen days in the Air
Force inventory."
d fun
marriage not because I was sex
starved or future-frightened, but
because I believed the institution
to have many vital and unexplored
possibities, and to be a life option
in a world overwhelmingly
manipulated by the forces of death
and destruction.
Questions of sex role remain
open and complicated. What can it
mean to speak of liberatec
women? Liberated men? What is
the future of the nuclear family?
What new ways of relating to and
taking care of the needs of one
another can we evolve? How can
we make more room for respect,
ioy and human dignity--as well as
fun--in relations between people?
Kudos AWS for SEXPO. Kudos
Mr. CThen for your column. We
needI more free and open
discussion of sex, but on a more
sophisticated level.
BIARBiARA lIEBIRfiiT
Goodbye Columbus
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"Gee Whiz, gollee...."
"Thank you for those en
couraging words, Miss Floar
maup. Now tell me, who was that
wonderful man who got us into that
glorious war that has boosted the
American economy to its highest
point in history?"
"Wow, somethin' else, yippee..."
"Yes, I realize it's a hard
question, but do your best now."
"Warren P. Harding."
"No, Miss Floarmaup, I'm
afraid you're wrong. Even though
it does seem quite a long time since
the beginning of this war, it was
not Warren PF. Harding who
began it. So I'm afraid we can't
.give you the F-273,.lut we can give
you the consolation prize - a week
of R and R in the battle-scarred
hamlet of your choice. It says here
on your little card that you would
like to go to Alberquerque, New
Mexico, but I'm afraid we have
just received word that they were
blown off the map this morning, so
please make another choice."
"Sacramento, California."
"Very good Miss Floarmaup. As
you all know, Sacramento was
repatriated last weekend when the
latest Gallup Poll showed only 79
per cent of the natives favored
Communist rule. Thanks, Miss
Floarmaup, and have a good trip.
Speaking of trips, we're proud to
say that our program is brought to
you by Light Speed Drugs, the
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market, and remember, "LSDMF
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Trips."
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By SAIFU A. KACHWALA
Guest Colunmist
It was an hour before sunrise.
Everyting stood still in an
ticipation of that touch of warmth
and grace. The dawn was creeping
over dark clouds, and occasionally
John heard a bird whistle on a tree
top. He took a deep breath and
exhaled it with a soft murmur,
"Peace." The word didn't weight
much. He repeated it,, this time
inhaling deeply and exhaling with
force. He kept doing it for a while,
until he realized the "Peace"
sounded more like a word that
parrots prefer. It was no use
repeating it.
He had been all his life an
idealist, seeking solutions to his
problems in the mysteries of
nature. He thought he smiled but
found no peace within. The future
seemed so obscure. Was life a
paradise or battlefield. It surely
wasn't made up of apple pie or LSD,
There was some mysterious
element in him that made him feel
restless. He stretched his right
hand and plucked some half-dried
leaves from a nearby tree. He
twisted and scattered them in tiny
bits.
Love, his friend had convinced
Womens
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him, was that condition of mind
when the mind was out of con
dition. After all, he wasn't even
prepared to think about marriage.
Besides, who wanted to bring up
kids in this crumbling world? Safe
be their souls in heaven. The most
important question in his mind was
how to attain peace. He couldn't
picture himself as a flower-child.
Apost of an army officer would
never suit his behavioral pattern.
He didn't believe in uniforms. It
was no answer to his inner self.
A yellow butterfly carried his
eyes away to a flower bed. What
dress must lie put on today? His
blue suit with a turtleneck might
do just fine. He mus' participa
the rally. He must Link of a
slogan. The old s.ogans had
orobably lost appeal.
The human conscience, he
thought, needed a new awakiening.
He couldn't think of any new
slogans right now. Maybe "Peace"
would do. He had altogether
forgotten to see the sunrise. It
didn't make much difference. y
There was always tomorrow.
(All contributions to this column
must be sent to Margarita Martin,
No Boundaries, care of "The
Gamecock.")
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