Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE GAMECOCK3 Carl Stepp) .ack Padgett Editor-in-Chief BusinessManager Priorities battle needs defusing The building priorities battle has erupted into what threatens to become a major altercation. Center of the controversy is the proposed expansion of Carolina Stadium. While few persons deny the need for a larger stadium, many feel it has no business sharing number one ranking. Law students, some faculty members, Gov. Robert McNair, certain legislators, local newspapers and a growing number of students are flatly opposed to ex panding the stadium before several other.academic needs are met. We aqree. Academics must come first, and currently Carolina's academic needs desperately outweigh her athletic needs. The stadium should take its rightful place lower in the priorities list. As opposition mounts, the administration has noticeably softened its cries for a new stadium and is now talking about the total needs, regardless of priorities. Just possibly, a priority change isn't unthinkable before the situation flies out of hand. We wish, most importantly, for the University to obtain as much of the proposed $112 million expansion as possible. We plead for the state to realize the crying need for quality higher education. We urge members both in and out of the University community to avoid a damaging rift which could jeopardize the entire expansion plan. The quickest and fairest way to avoid such division would be for the Board of Trustees to reorder the priority list, placing stadium enlargement below immediate academic needs. With this question properly settled, the Carolina com munity could embark on a unified effort to achieve required growth. We hope such realignment will be forthcoming, in time to head off a major conflict. Neither stadium nor academics will gain from a statewide political war. Both will benefit from a concerted expansion drive whose priorities and visions are shared by all concerned. SG has chance to prove self Whether students may keep privately owned refrigerators in dorm rooms may not be a crucial world issue, but it is raising some pointed questions. Just what influence, for instance, does Student Senate have? Week before last, in an "emergency meeting," 19 senators demanded that the administration rescind its policy prohibiting private refrigerators. A few days later the administration-appointed refrigerators committee met, disregarded Senate's demand and secretly voted 7-1 to maintain the policy. Jack Brawley, men's towers president, was the only com mitteeman to stand up for privately owned coolers. Deans Cooper and Clotworthy, Jim Cooper of the Housing Office, and student members Sarah Bryant, Janie Dugger, Julianne Lewis and Burt Rosen voted no. A second question concerns the legality of the com mittee. Since it includes students, is it therefore under Student Government's jurisdiction? And if it falls under Student Government, why didn't SG have a voice in the selection of members? Reasons for disallowing private refrigerators are specious. That the University signed a long-term contract is immaterial; if University sponsored refrigerators are allowed, all should be. The trouble involved would be minimal, the power drain acceptable. The question now becomes: what wvill Student Govern ment do? Or, more cynically, what can it do? It can, we hope, back its earlier ''demand'' with action. It can rally refrigerators owners in mutual agreement not to relinguish their coolers It can promise legal and financial hacking to students who fight to keep private ref rigqer ato rs. It carn consider taking the matter- clearly a monopoly and possibly a violation of an ''equal protection of the rules'' nature to court. It can qet touqh, prove itself and mean something. We wait for its decision. Letter Football still at Dear Mar. Stepp: a i otuhlc ieae I u ndersta nd that planus are Teehsnvrbe lc madle by the umave'rsi ty to spendl aimte fh ae-' othl almost $20 millhon for diltions ta and imonproverments to the Carolhina Fee irta S'i t e Stadiurm 1 d1( bel ieve that a spotdsho hs or r umnversi ty athletic program offers opntardeeuscletd a tremendious opportunity to its fo 5prcn lc tt stuident biody anrd cit i/ens of the ouatinawtheesnonewh area inl providlinig a spirit, pride th les inrstnaheic wo and1( whol'somie diversioncadeyttblkaheesn This year we can indeed point to evrmaospteclbthi a number of distinctions for the nme n hlt thsbe Gamneocks --first ACC title first pteni u itr htmnrt (USC perfect record in the ACC, gop aehdterfrtoe post season howl invitation and a do nteetranetfed thrilling game against highly ardaheisbfebinalet ranked Tennessee, to name a few,. oewtotrsrcini te The squad and staff are to be ars highly commended for this mar- ThfathtComiai veloius record gnrlya xrodnrl I feel at the present time, though. pesn n nbaiect n i t would be very out-of-placebp htUCismkn intsrdsi spend a whopping amount of the euainmk hsplc ii' state's money for this purpose. cmo rcieaplc" l h Even though this has been a year mr'prlxn of many distinctions, the USC Iamraneofapidabu foobal prgra stll s rmis in 10Reaersg when myS naivea state Actions belie 'New] By BEN WYNN Columnist This column concerns a situation .vhich should not exist. There is a rising element of intolerence at Carolina which has begun to openly infringe upon the rights. of others. Our Carolina radicals are noted for the persecution they allegedly suffer at the hands of the establish ment, such as the police. The last chapter in their story is not widely known. even aiong tfie radicals. It tells of the logical but undesirable societal disintegration resulting from such doctrines as civil disobedience It tells how civilization can't exist without authority and how the new society the "New Left" is tinconsciously producing is an anarch.* leading to dictatorship of either the left or the right. It shows that opening the floodgates of "any means" warps the individual and creates throughouti the movement Letter USC: So 'largest Dear Mr. Stepp: I have refrained myself on many occasions from speaking ot against the appalling inadequacies of academic life here at Carolina. I can hold hack no longer. ' Since comling to this "Univer sity' it is now my contention that this is not an institution of higher learning, but rather a playground for tlose desperate high school students who found themselves with no other institution willing to hrden themselves with these i.utu1r-ally deprived individuals (9(x) combiIned SAT scores for ad lilssion 1. ('arolina has now become the hir est Ct A In tihe south. only herv at Carolina we tend to be a bit more extravagant ini our athletic expenditures than most YMCA's 'u%itIISs our. nlew tmulti million dollar ilcoliseum I I haId alwa v ndl llider the imlpression that .1 1 'niversity was a bast-lion of knowledge at the ftigertlIps of the student. Ilere at C.arq)lilIa %%( are but a histion of archmc trtuiions. in which the admilimstrationH MI(quivsces to thle whims of the igoranit taxpaver, the I 'niversity. the strident. iut alas. h'residen-rt ,iones is not complletel.\ de-at to the wants of the sI tdent body lIe has now initiated a (iliommos room11 where hie will be able to moll.\ and( appease the studentit byV allowing himi to enrgalge in mieainugless rhetoric 'remembehr r Speak ( t Sounds Ilave' youi ever mart i'lled at the( w~ ar Vor friendts refe'r to ('ar-olina as a "third rate inst itrutioni'"" Stop anid think what kind of a 'ive r ityV refurses t hi' Studenit access into( the iralm1s oif knIowlrdge'. by closing all of it's libraries at p im 0on Satrrdays, not1 to b(e openiied iuntil late Sunday ti-lbnig ther studenot hody riot to mquliire- into aicademiric p)roblemris aiftir 7 Saiturdaly aiternroon, but raither spendilViiii you r'iimrgs at D on dulilinig your mind, thus conibiiiui ting Ito theii econmi,ci growt h ot ('oilumbihia Wei( ar ~ plgue'd Ihv re-fl'ct ig w"'hit doi thiisr poioils reflert"' A p)rolgre-sive irnstitutiri whichi is moiii'd at htigher ediucatiuon ~and truith or do thei reHflect di d(adent white of I.ouiisiana had the horrible ilistmr et ron of hi'mrg thi' on ly state' o pass a law wichr-l forbade athIilet ic con tests mi whi-lh therre wais any race- mixmng <as the spoisor of the legislation Willie 1lamirai-h ri'fe'rr'd to nterra(-ialI act ivi ties> Tila ne and I,SI! had to schedule all-white squads and Texsas leagui's teams stopping in Shreveport kept t heir black athletes on thi' bench The shameful fact is that if the Supreme Court had not invalidati'd this oppressive law the 1969 Gamecocks would probably be the only te-am in the nation eligible to get a Suigar Bowl bid isincere'ly feel it wouild be most utnfortunate to use these funds (so hadly needed in SO many areas) to glorify an activity which despite vast improvements is still 100 per cent racially restricted JOltN Wr-f.A fmS words Left' lek a lack of respect for the rights and person of others. fn other words, flower children become practicing Machiavelians. The whole blooming patch of petunias meshes into a wild hybrid in which deviation is not allowed. In other words, the hippies become pigs This is seen in the harrassment of conservative tables in the Rtussell louse lobby. This is especially the case with Young Americans for Freedom, which is cited because it is the most obvious example. Since the middle of the summer. Yaffies have found found that almost invariably when the table is left unattended their posters are taken. their mailing list is stolen, and vulgarities far exceeding ordinary profanity are written on their literature. Are these individual, secretive acts, or do they symbolize the politics of radicalism? 5uth-'s YMCA' and regressive institution producing the cogs for the wheel of society? We are confronted with a situation in which the psychology department is forced to share it s facilities with the AFROTC (in deed a sad contrast), while we consider building a new football stadium to house our beasts of hurden engaged in masochistic sport. And finally. yesterday I took the occasion to visit our infirmary iwhich by the way does not issue contraceptives to married students. because we all know sex is dirty even if you are married!) onil to find that one of the peridicals subscribed to by the infirmary for the student in his never ending quest for un (lerstanding and truth was Modern Screen Magazine. I doubt that whether or not .Jacqueline Onassis slept with her chauffeur will aid us at Carolina in understanding the felt necessities of our times' When will the in sanity end? IMBERT ANTHONY GOLFF Nothing career like Which is an to fail now mistakes. At Weste recruited en imimediatel) cisions. Leal Don't gs tds to( The latest incident occurred last Thursday when extremist signs (i.e. "Kill Babies For Christ") were illicitly placed on the table being manned as part of VAF's "Tell It To Hanoi" project. A photographer suddenly appeared, and the next day these pictures Were displayed on the Student Moblization Committee table. Then, on Friday. a group of The Gamecock reporters and Iidgeville advocates pretended to man the YAF table, banging their fists on it and shouting "Kill for peace.'' It is ironic that these are the very leftists who so publicly fight op pression and intimidation. Actions such as these reinforce the theory that New Left actions belie New Left words. These protagonists are delivering the unavoidable political articulation of annihilistic philosophy with implications extending far beyond the YAF table. The danger of the violence of The Revolution and the simplistics of the MORE is not in the specifics of occurrance. but, like lynchings. in the trend for tyranny an( naivete to become par for the course. The danger of inilmorality isn't the shame brought to one person. but the possibliity that rationalization of guilt will eliminate shame as an inhibitor. This is a dissillusioning reaction to the poli(ical and practical bankruptcy of Roosevelt liberalism which promised so C Caroling coeds always bring romantic and there's oniy < You'll never get any helps a young enginee'r's being given a challenge. other way of saying a cac and then. To make his own rn Electric we give our newly gineers responsibility almost t .They make their own dle-( -n from their ownl errors. 't us wrong. We eepn our ictators much ad accomplished so little Instead of questioning the basics, activists of 1he left say we have not given enough, that we are not really interested in human rights. rhe last statement has much -'alidity. However, the proposed solution of public lamentations. of a mystical mob, is hardly a !;,lution. Instead of reversing the trend, today' V's left favors plunging further into the quagmire of government action. It is not unkind to compare the results of this action to the situation in many of our churches today where the group effort ac tually stifles individual Christianity. The result is that the problems grow more acute; blind charity accomplished through govern mental domination becomes a way of life, causing, worst of all, loss of individtual identity and personal pride. IHaving established an emotional state wherein sole relevance is coistituted by lthe ends and our highest idol is the Self, it beconies okay to use violence on the pigs. After all. they are pigs. But how many of us stop to wonder if its also okay to lie about the morality of the American committment in Vietnaml. low many of us Stol) to wonder wy. %%here Vietnam is conceied. Young Americans. inl attempting to rationally counteract leftist drivel which has been regarded as UFO Bible in some circles. is met iroling by candleligi Christmas a little closer, e$p andlelight---and the moonlight. JRE} where without it. emnand., reaIsonab)le enough so t hat et ruits (an make their dettesions at I 'wi J)ace. BIut our thinking' is, a r eel., awfully good about even a sr lecision when it's, his. If you're the type who'd like the tha a make your ow[n moves, see our re( ru it write ( ollege Relat ions, 222 lire vay, New York, N. Y. 10038. A lot of hard work never hur tay @WstrnElectr hip with smears. intimidation, and tastless humor by members of the Russell House resident element? What does a group such as Young Americans, which has steadfastly represented responl sible conservatism against liberalism and right wing ex. tremism, do in such a case. It doesn't have the ACLU or a powerful liberal press to dramatize is plight. Its treasury cannot combat childish destruction of unpleasant stimuli with an adequate supply of babyfood. The jumbled political terminology of the day would label administrative discipline as facism. Responsible liberals seeni to be nonexistent or unwilling to provide a curative. Perhaps the day will come wlk conservatism and its expressions, such as the "Tell It To Hanoi" project. will be countered with rational discourse, or else its opponents will, foregoing illegal channels. keep quiet In the meantime, it seems the good old days when a table wtvkI be left for five minutes are gone. Now if one does that, everything is. In the meantime. the perpetual opponents of tradition seem In willing to allow others the human rights for which I hey so righteously parade. They march steadilyv into a utopia of hell from which salavation will be escape. Flower child---does any of this 1pply to you? S -cUef photographe Chjck Keefer ecially when it's cold and our le ir lan nce t er ad- ,