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The student a You C (CONiued from Page 2) what makes this particularly grim is that the student has less chance than the black man of getting out of his bag. Because the student doesn't even know he's in it. That, more or less, is what's happening in higher education. And the results are staggering. For one thing damn little education takes place in the schools. How could it? You can't educate slaves; you can only train them. Or, to use an even uglier and more timely word, you can only program them. At my school we even grade people on how they read poetry. That's like grading people on how they fuck. But we do it. In fact, God help me, I do it. I'm the Adolph Eichmann of English 323, Simon Legree of the poetry plantation. 'Tote that Jamb! Lift that spon dee!'Even to discuss a good poem in that environment is potentially dingerous because the very classroom is contaminated. As hard as I may try to turn students on to poetry, I know that the desks, the tests, the IBM cards, their own attitudes toward school, and my own residue of UCLA method are turning them off. Go! Gameo WE A Numb FO QUAL - SER\ CONVEI LAUN 3 Locations near L 601 Main 2000 Bloss 1415 Gemv 0 Beautifully handsome the library, ment, new the fightin1 on the sidi created by TRADITIONAI ~R8IT A8 s ngger an ed Another result of student slavery is equally serious. Students don't get emancipated when they graduate. As a matter of fact, we don't let them graduate unti they've demonstrated their willingness - over 16 years - to remain slaves. And for important Jobs, like teaching, we make them go through more years, just to make sure. What I'm getting at is that we're all more or less niggers and slaves, teachers and students alike. This is a fact you want to start with in trying to understand ...a vast number of proft well what is happening ar the high schools, you can wider social phenomena, say, politics, in our country and in other countries. Educational oppression is trickier to fight than racial op pression. If you're a black rebel, they can't exile you; they either have to intimidate you or kill you. But in high school or college, they can just bounce you out of the fold. And they do. Rebel students and renegade faculty members get smothered or shot down with devestating accuracy. In high school, it's usually the student who !ocks! Go! RE er R .ITY ICE 41ENCE b DRY & CLANERS I.S.C. to serve you Street om Street is Street NEW SIGNET designed, this ring shows Maxi Monu coliseum and a gamecock foi L SIGNET foi Carc Lucate a gets it; in college, it's more often the teacher. Others get tired of fighting and voluntarily leave the system. Dropping out of college, for a rebel, is a little like going North, for a Negro. You can't really get away from it so you might as well stay and raise hell. How do you raise hell? That's a whole other article. But just for a start, why not stay with the analogy? What have black people done? They have first of all, faced the fact of their slavery. They've ssors, who know perfectly 9 copping out again. And in forget it. Stillness reigns. stopped kidding themselves about an eventual reward in that Great Watermelon Patch in the sky. They've organized; they've decided to get freedom now, and they've started taking it. Students, like black people, have immense unused power. They could, theoretically, insist on Confer4 by StLl( By CHERYL MANNING Staff Writer Carolina student leaders who attended the Governor's Leadership Conference last weekend "hope it's continued." "I am in favor of any conference in the state which brings together college studentz.'There aren't too many opportunities like that," stated Jim Bradford, a student senator. DIVERSITY "Most conferences are for in terest groups of more narrow perspectives," Bradford con tinued. "This group was not made of any one segment of the student population. The students at the conference reflected how con cerned young people are in this state." "The quality of the speakers was excellent," Bradford emphasized. "Vice Mayor Jackson from Atlanta was dynamite. Black students and white students were enthusiastic about what he had to say." ore Unvestyo Trade in your old USC rinl a new one. Your old rini plus $15.00 is all you neec a new University of Souti >lina -ring of the same styli and construction slave participating in their own education. They could make academic freedom bilateral. They could teach their teachers to thrive on love and admiration, rather than fear and respect, and to lay down their weapons. Students could discover community. And they could learn to dance by dancing on the IBM cards. They could make coloring books out of the catalogs and they could put the grading system in a museum. They could raze another set of walls and let education flow out and flood the streets. They could turn the classroom into where it's at - a 'field of action' as Peter Marin describes It. And, believe it or not, they could study eagerly and learn prodigiously for the best of all possible reasons -- their own reasons. They could, theoretically. They have the power. But only in a very few places, like Berkeley, have they even begun to think about using it. For students, as for black people, the hardest battle isn't with Mr. Charlie. It's with what Mr. Charlie has done to your mind. I mnce pr lent lea "Overall, the conference was well set-up. Gov. McNair by his presence both days seemed to indicate interest in creating a student forum," Bradford said. Barry Knobel, student body president, was on the steering committee for the conference. "The conference in general was excellent," he said. '1'm prejudiced because I helped set it up." KNOBEL CHAIRMAN Knobel was appointed tem porary chairman of the S. C. Student Body President's Association which was organized during the conference. He said the Association may. sponsor similar conferences in the future through the governor's office. "One of the major things which I thought significant about the conference is that it happened," Knobel remarked. "College leadership and students in general have not been utilized by the state to the extent to which they should RING I February li Campus Let the Buyer OFour-week shij . 0 One-piece con! 010 karat or 1 OWhite or yolik oChoIce of foui Meet Budd Cronin USC Alumnus John Roberts Repros $" AM 16W aised ders be. If the voting age is lowered, government leaders must cater to students." John Blackshire, a student senator and member of the Towers' Government, said he thought the government people in the discussion groups were im pressed by the students. "It was a nice place to meet people. We have to have communication between schools." Phi Delt pledges Phi Delta Theta, social frater nity new members are Joe Rogers of Greenville, Tommy Fields of Raleigh, N. C., Phil Finley of Greenville, Kenny Williams of Hgttiville, David Grimm of Cockeysville, Md., Ronnie Fulmer of Greenville, Tom Glen of Berkeley Heights, N. J., Danny Hellams of Clinton and Greg Schneider of Atlanta, Ga. )AYS , 19, 20 Shop Be WISE ment truction 4 karat gold w gold constructions mntative Id odkiu "isW aaw COR Movie: "Birth of a Nation," Russell House Assembly Room, 3:30, 6 and 9 P.M. Men Residance Halls Presidents Adivisory Council (MAHPAC), Dean of Men's offlee, 3:30 p.m. Feshnman basketball, USC vs. Citadel, at Varsity basketball, USC vs. N.C. State, at Verws, Baptist Student Conter. 700 Pickens St., rides leaving at 6:30 p.m. for film and discussion at Columbia Cote Fo b. W-19 TI lAmon-Lyme, Golden S., two s per night, S.50 per Person rAt the moves . . . . . . . . . .. X 1 1 - l t Yes, Jimmy Brown was a I Jimmy Brown will not receiv latest effort, "Tick, Tick, Miracle Theater. Overall, Brown Is a fair t Tick, Tick," is a fair film. The basis for thi s story is th the election of the fIrst blacks Brown, of course, is the new cossonted with a copious a Kennedy plays the old sheriff, the -r y old en t sho theic aprtthvmie muTo tious. T iecaa latet neffrt,eTiss, Tck, h ik,i"i a fair-at fie;tl. rhe bsois rtistory dest t thepeflnteion wc the fi l Bmrobabni ofus, the ain doesfofferdawetphoricopnterpr Kennedyo pla the ol,ad rffe fathecrsy old ancitent.ay Topikngart the andtieI much ten graedos. The chavrascr bt an.ehless, wstck The haoeu oee one whic teeryl negrt wfhoe owvedr i Christifean.'' rc err seier'tevsation intesuh on f th ifas ow apeca thec enteaingmefno and tyhen, ChricCistannw.la" Selrs . dEveta.o of the entrtanmnt ndtuly ed ese CeCelu. 0919 l!i g?" W Ca.s MA WWO ftW' Strawbvry Marm Cck,South Cafeteria, MW11:30 p.m. $1.50 p Person. one ID per Roller Derby, San Francisco Bay aembers vs. Northeast Braves, Conesum, a p.m. Chess. Room 105, Currel Colega, 6:3 p.m. Al beginners and advanced players are woknme. Feb. so Speed Umit 35 and Patti Scho. Assembly Room. Russell Houe. 6-12 p.m., Si Feb. 55.2 Rting &=.. Barn and Bailey Crc s, Coliseum. Feb. 20-nl ck, Tick Jay Calabrese Ieck-a-va football player; no , the Academy Award for his rick," now showing at the hespian, and so too, "Tick, e racial tension generated by heriff in a deep south county. sheriff and he is, of course, mount of difficulty. George and Fredric March portrays r. flaws in this film would be ters are stock, pleasingly so, y telegraph their intentions raphs his punches. 1e heartwarming humor and m ends. is worth seeing despite the and its outcome. The movie station of the evolving racial r ail, we could do with a little Peter Sellers who every now een with his talents has done help of Ringo Starr, reeks ring from big business to the i his latest film ''The Magic e ''establishment's" moral o rock unturned and no one mbination of truly hilarious rved insult, don't miss "The ig at the Fox. u SUN. FEB. 22 COLISEUM . C. ,. Ce. Free with Eeh TIe&e* e sT.Sese A S:0A a.de