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Editorials
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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
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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.''?
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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_.
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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
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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
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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.
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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:
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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!"
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