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Editorials Open US( The first outlines of a new student judicial system were given to Student Senate Wednesday in the form of an article in the proposed new Student Government con stitution. Good. A student judiciary system is needed here at Carolina. Too long have the students of the University labored under a series of quasi judicial bodies from dorm mothers and assdrted hall counselors to a varied lot of residence hall courts, judicial councils and the deans of men and women. Two things were always clear: secrecy and the overlooking figures of these deans who set the procedures and decided what jurisdiction what body had - where to send a case. Students weren't to be tried twice for off campus offenses - ''institutional authority should never be used merely to duplicate the function of general laws,'' states the Statement of Student Rights and Freedoms within the Academic Community. But, there is an out ''when the institution's interests as an academic community are distinct and clearly involved.'' Then the University can move in -- in secrecy, as usual, to protect the student from undue exposure, or is it to protect the institution while doing what it pleases? When the court operates in secrecy we have no 9tay of knowing whether or not a student is getting a raw deal. Open sessions would insure that students would have a chance to see how their court The Gamecock is published tri-weekly during the fall and spring semestel Universit y holidays and exam periods. Changeof address forms suscrpti mail items should be sent to Drawer A.iUSC. Columbia. S.C. 230. Stuci year or 53 per semester. Buik copies are N6 per 100. 'The Gamecock thiu from the student activit y fund entitling full-time students to a subecriptio about 51t.75 per semester per student. Officas of 'The Gamecock are in Rc Russell House on the University campus. Phones are 7177. 77-424 and post age paid at Columbia. S.C. 'Iheed tor in chief is.im Wannamakel published by the University of Soth Carolina. COLUMBIA I Senate & B Friday, Mi O~- i 0 00 0 4U/ 1!/ 7 0 Justice system is working, whether it is shafting them or giving them justice. Seeing justice in action is reassuring. Secrecy is not. The new constitution should provide for open trials. It's only right. The new con stitution should provide for single jeopardy only. It's only right. Lamar Lamar. It sounds as peaceful as any small, bright, southern town. Like the beginning of summer, the excitement of new life everywhere. It is also the disquieting reminder that Americans live under a double standard. Freedom of Choice is the phrase we currently use to defend ourselves against the realization of our hatred. Integration means the end of our lies - we must realize that we hate the Negro, don't want to see him and can't admit that he exists. The Nazis couldn't live with their enemies, so they exterminated them. Are we so far removed because our murder is psychological, erupting physically only when our- judicial system ''fails us.''? Orangeburg. 7 ACADEMY Al s with the exception of on requests and otherM " ription rates are so per I year reived 627.000 ri to the paper. 1blis oms 3(3 and 310Oof the 77-. Sed clas r. 1e Gamsecck is AL1 IUSEUM AE PAl u* sts. NOI SS Letters to the editA Facts Dear Mr. Wannamaker: It's nice to have your work aised, and all of us who worked "Th. Pirates of Penzance" are glad that your Mr. Hope, in his review in the issue of March 2, liked the production as well as he did. But, for the sake of praise and quotations falling where they are due, we wish he had read the program more carefully. From It, he would have learned that the part of the Pirate's Apprentice was played by Jimmy (not John) Ferguson, that Anita Stonecipher's name is not spelled with a y, and the Stage Director of th production, with whom he had the conversation about the lack of orchestra, was not Jack Shirk (the Technical Director) but myself. On the subject of the orchestra, I should like to make it clear (whether or not I said this to Mr. Hope) that my "they couldn't hack it" had to do with the too-small amount of time available for or chestra rehearsals rather than with the apparently excellent capabilities of the musicians who showed up. The chief misconception to which Mr. Hope's review (and, in fairness, others) added fuel was that the production wos presented solely by the Opera Workshop. It was, as -the front of the program stated, a joint venture between the Opera Workshop and the University Theater, the latter of which supplied not only all the production designs and backstage work but almost half - eleven out of twenty-five - of the cast itself. It seems unfair that the great con tribution of the Theater people to the success of "The Pirates of Penance" should go unnoticed. STEPHEN C. COY Associate Director Shanghaied Dear Mr. Wannamaker: I must take issue with part of Mr. Harry Hope's review of the opera "Pirates of Penzance." In that review Mr. Hope described the performance of "geology teacher John Carpenter." To the best of my knowledge I am the only geology teacher by that name, at USC anyway. I was not performing Saturday evening; I was not even in the audience, although apparently that was my mistake for missing what has been described by many, outside the Gamecock staff, as a delightful performance. Unless my memory has failed me, I was home watching the basketball game on television with my wife and neigh bors. My most serious concern is that the performance was not properly credited. I think that more careful research should go into your articles. .JOHN R. CARPENTER Acting Head Department of Geology Anti anti-South Dear Mr. Wannamakter: It has long been evident that as a matter of policy The Gamecock has taken an indubitably adverse attitude toward the South, but this Want to really impress that special gal? Promise her anything, but take her out in a clean car! Delta Z eta's will help you out! Bring your wheels down to Shumpert's ESSO, 830 A ssembly street, March 7, between 1 and 5. Show her you.-care. She'll thank .. you for it_. NARD NOM INATIONS! U AGES MITTED ENfTAL CE ADVUSED PLAYING of 'Penz UWreseved dislike (hatred?) has usually been confined to the editorial page. It has now e3caped. In the March 2 edition of your publication, I discovered what .could easily have been one of your lashing editorials disguised as, of all thigs, a recond review! Mr. Hope could easily have been content to review Simon & Gar 'funkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water," but he was not. Although he was obviously pleased with this recording, he allowed what seems to be an all-consuming liberal (?) fervor to distract him from the record and I wonder whether or not Our man Hoppe Save A deport By ARTHUR HOPPE Congress, which worries con stantly about our health, is budgeting $2.6 million this year for nagging us into quitting smoking. Of course, Congress also worries about the health of the tobacco industry. So it's spending $73.2 million this year to promote smoking. The lion's share of this, $31.3 million, goes to buy up surplus tobacco which we ship to poor starving people abroad under our Food for Peace Program. Including $31.3 million worth of tobacco in our Food for Peace packages may seem heartless to some. There, for example, is a spindly African native tottering down the C WAriTP,, .WACO 1u0n We 're . Left: flower child dress in a very proper estab lishment way. Corn plete with flowers and k a purple wide- wale . ton/rayon crepe. 28.00 Right: Young Victorio * suit in fown (rayon/nylon/acetate) the right shoping and trim. Pants. 20.00. Jaoe e The perfect long sleeve, inec Aed suAnny rib A nit s underpinnings. 18.00 All items from Our 8 - collection. Second Floor Junior Dept. ance' cla the record was so poor that it could not hold Mr. Hope's attention. Having heard the record, I gm amazed that Mr. Hope could think of anything but the outstanding work of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Lashing out at the "Deep-South Bible-Belt-George Wallace South", Mr. Hope tends to distract the reader from his review. He takes a swipe at D.J.'s, The Beatles, radio in general, and, of course, the South. May I suggest that Mr. Hope is egually as narrow-minded as those whom he puts down in his review. merica - tobacco jungle trail in the last stages of starvation. He stumbles on a package labeled: "U.S. Food for Peace." With trembling fingers, he tears it open. Inside, is a carton of Winstons. With dimming eyes, he reads the legend: "Winstons taste good -- like a cigarette should." So he eats them. Naturally, eating cigarettes is not going to help our starving friends abroad. Nor, if they don't get hooked on cigarettes, is it going to help our tobacco farmers. What is obviously needed is a vigorous technical aid program to teach the underprivileged, back ward peoples of the world to smoke: (Continued on page 6) dd Bodkir L4 rust Bursting with A ows on Ii cot n pont twillj brossy .38.00. 1 turtle hirt for ultie ~ rified If Mssrs. Simon & Garfunkel were to read Mr. Hope's review, I suggest they would be disap pointed at having their material used as. a part of smear editorial. R. ROBERT BIGALKE 'FPR' now! Dear Mr. Wannamaker: They've done it again. Spon taneity personified - a panty raid - and it's "turn off your lights, shut your blinds, don't look out at the boys. (Lie on the floor, cover up, put on your helmets, don't touch a single bra or pair of panties...) For the boys, it's "show your ID's, move along, quit laughing so loud --" and blah, blah, blah. Why not the panty raid? Afraid of a riot? Not hardly, with the spirit of fun that abounds. (Maybe a scuffle over who gets the hot pink lace bikini panties.) Afraid of keeping someone from getting in on time? It's no curfew, for the most part. Afraid of corrupting coeds? Are you kidding? It's harmless. Really. It's also getting tiresome to keep appealing for FPR (free panty raids). They hurt no one - they're fun - and they are spirited. Isn't that what everyone wants here - spirit. It's sad to look out the window and see deans circling around in their cars, policemen hassling boys and asking for ID's and people with cameras taking pictures of the girls' windows to catch these peeking at the scene below. It's like Arlo in "Alice's Restaurant" - before you know it, they'll be taking "dog-smelling prints, pictures of the NW corner, the SW corner; NOT TO MENTION the aerial photography!" CORIN KENNY is us H A TIA AWS PAR Arpeja