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live With
SMv Student
thas shown more
'0' yar ago. It has
Iseted on a fair and
system, worked on the parking
turned inate Into an orderly and
Snd generaIly spoken out when the
vesinent has as failed. It has not suc
istivng and Siater efforts, It has wielded little
4 refsigerat dispute, It has not effectively
steuntsity lood up for blacks and other campus
It has done little toward Instituting such
Sas optional exams or pass-fall grading on a large
also failed in some intangible areas. Students still
to identify with Student Government, and ad
ftators and- faculty members listen without sub
lal respect.,
V pressing need is to combine all the student govern.
on campus into a united, powerful Student
Mont. Dorm governments, AWS, University Union
other student-power bodies should be organized under
ra and effective Student Government system.
*0 be truly influential a government needs respect and
Albe00ne. it Is doubtful how much of either Carolina
S6dent IGovernment has, for to have resped and
*tegiance a government needs to have power and use it
Wisely. At Carolina, Student Government has little power,
-,and consequently not enough respect.
Within the traditional framework of Student Govern
ment, the Knobel administration has been reasonably
successfuL. What is needed is to transcend the "traditional
framework," to unite the students and their organizations,
to demand and acquire power over the non-academic
aspects of campus, and to use it wisely. .
Knobel and company have a semester. We wish them
luck.
New seats are
for standing only
Some of the people you saw standing at Saturday'i
- basketball game weren't on their feet to cheer the team,
salute the flag or stomp around for "Dixie." They wert
Standing so they could see.
W tt09ts for the more than 250 new "seats"
uddld Ah the top corners of the Coliseum. But
when they 4rled to sit, all they could see was the tops of
peoples' heads and one small corner of the court.
The seats are atrocious. Even when there's no one sitting
in front, they don't provide an unobstructed view of the
court.
We realize people are clamoring to get into the games,
but we doubt if they appreciate getting third-rate seats
which aren't seats but far-off standing room. It isn't good
public relations to stick our fans in such places.
We know several people who've been upset at getting
tickets' there. Their enthusiasm for Carolina basketball
has fallen off..
There is a point where seats are no longer worth selling.
The new ones are probably doing more harm than good.
Better mail service
should come soon
A study of the campus post office, scheduled for next
week, is welcome, but is comes a couple of months late.
in October The Gamecock ran a series on inefficiency in
the local postal operation. An investigation was
promised, but it was put off until now.
Now that the study is finally set, we hope it is thorough.
Problems obviously remain. Saturday, for example, we
got about 15 letters addressed to AR A Slater (we returned
.them unopened). Several days after we returned from
vacation, we got some pre-Christmas mail.
While we realize that postal service across the nation is
in a mess, we hope Carolina can be the efficient exception.
The upcoming study, we feel, should be thorough and
conclusive.
* if more personnel, better management, speedier ser
*vice, additional training are needed, we trust that the
University will move to acquire them. If the survey in
dicates the University is no longer capable of operating the
service, we hope it will relinquish it into more able hands.
At any rate, we welcome the study and hope that it wIll
be an exhaustive and open one, resulting in the better
,oetal service to which students are entitled.
THE GAMECOCK
Car StepP. Jack Padgett
FASI.eriCMet RNIUHinssManager
F SHOPPE
Photographer Chuck Ke
teresting view of the heads
but he missed most of the
Under my b
Final
Systery
By MIKE KROCHMALNY
Associate Editor
This is the sad odyssey of Barney
P. Thermund, a regular guy of
average wit and intelligence, who,
through his association with the
system of higher education,
reaches a conclusion which evades
many of us because of its sim
plicity and common sense.
As he was studying for his final
quiz in Philosophy 387, he noticed
an irregularity in his schedule. It
was not so much an irregularity as
an abomination. The fact was thal
he had three final quizzes on tht
same day.
As he thought this over, he begar
1 .qnder, *Aout t4e. ,entir4
situation. Now Dr. Schweitznick it
Rudimentary Anthropological
Biochemistry (meets eighteer
hours a week and has one and one
half hours credit) had thought tht
best thing to do for the student was
to give him a "last chance" tc
make up for the other seven testi
he had failed by falling another the
week before the exam.
Professor Clotzfatz, an Angry
American who taught History 34.5
American Sociological Progresi
from the Summer of 1934 to the
Winter of 1935, felt the exarn
schedule to be yet another vestige
of the "repressive and over
organized bureaucracy whici
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professors, but felt they migi
resent his intrusion into their are
of authority.
Barney wondered right up to th
time of his exams, and he didn't d
too well on them. As a matter c
fact, he failed miserably and wa
soon sent on his way. After a shor
time, about long enough for him t
get to the corner, he had bee
drafted and was on his way to a
oriental paradise over the sea.
The recent events in his il
caused him a lot of thinking tim
on the way over. The dim prospec
of a future caused him a littl
worry, too. As he reflected on hi
past he realized that his past wa
not his, but now belonged I
someone else, for he had. becom
anotier peilson - som'eie wh
probably wouldn't last too long.
He began to see, for the firE
time, the possibility that he wa
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TICK.ETS IEFT
This morning about 2,200 tickets
went on sale dor tonight's
basketball game with Virginia.
Y Students may still pick up tickets j
at the Roundhouse. According tc
Ray Faircloth of the ticket office,
about 2,900 tickets were left after (
distribution to students on Friday
and about 700 tickets were sold
Saturday. D"
The next home game is with Pe
Virginia Tech Jan. 28. Tickets for Slatq
that game will be distributed to
students on Jan. 26. t
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in concert tomorrow night in --A
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HOMELESS GIRL
homeless Indian girl has been
pted by the International
fimittee of the University
udents, cast penny votes to
de which of four chdren
Id be adopted In the "Uttle
" contest during International
k In November.
sonsoring a child for a year
ugh the Christian Children's
id, Inc. cost $144 and includes
I, housing, clothing and ed
tion.
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mit me to compliment ARA
r Services on their
,ration with the Commons
i Committee in establishing
Student-Faculty Commons
i in the Golden Spur.
ey provided, gratis, both
e and donuts during the
k's first week of operation. For
emainder of the experimental
d, they continued to supply
e and donuts at a price well
v their costs.
ie Commons Room experiment
ars to be working, and recent
tiations for continued coffee
ice resulted in Slater's
eing to continue indefinitely
iding coffee at a rate below
e next time you stop by the
mons Room remember that
offee you are drinking is being
e available, at least in part, by
much maligned organization
1A Slater. They do, it appears,
C.some literest in
e to the Pvofty without
ig a money motive.
WILLIAM H. CALDWELL
Common. Rooma Committee
cannot grow In
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in front of him, added to th
game. He was
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rules this country to the point of
destruction." With this in mind, he
decided to have his final on the
week before the period began.
Reginald Wierd-Smythely, who
liked for his students to call himp
doctor, said he had his degree, and
acted as if he never got through the
tenth grade and talked as if he
barely got through kindergarten,
took a poll of his class and found
that most would rather have the
final before the exam periodl and
be able to go home to rest up for the
next semester. Finding the results
very much to his liking, he decided
to hold it the next week, along with
all Barney's other tests.
Now Barneq had nothing against
tett, g Il fet, he likd
m. He loved em. oilever, by
this time he had been sated, nay,
glutted.
He thought there would be some
rhyme or reason to the madness of
higher education, but, as usual, he
was wrong. Poor Barney was the
victim of disillusionment. He was
cornered -- a scared rat in the
maze of education.
He thought of taking his own life,
but soon realized that that was
against the law, and breaking the
law was against his conservative
background.
Barney spent a lot of time
wondering about his predicament.
He thought about going to see the
Night is...
TUDENT NIGHT
(5 P.M. to Cidsing)
C' SIRLOIN.
DINNER
i'sirloin steak servedylth
ldand barlis toast.
BRUSA
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