The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 20, 1970, Page Page 2, Image 2
A University is a funny place. The
bure&ucracy doesn't seem to respond to
anybody. 1
UniversIty President Dr. Thomas F. - Jones frie
W%dn0sday was discussing his desire for better Wh
empus recretiOnal facilities for students, ma
Basketball being popular and putting basketball dep
g0015 up In faculty parking lots being in*x. at I
pensive, Jones said that he recommended this a it
While back. True one goes up each semester, but wer4
nothing has really happened - not even for the beca
president. He then ventured that, withi the help of glar
The Gamecock, the project might have enough forn
publicity to go over. beat
So, here is our request. The University should M
put up, say, a half dozen goals with half-courts coni
marked off in the lots, all to be used after the You
faculty retires at 5 p.m. We think they would be T
used, even this late in the season, and would give it pr
the bureaucracy an Idea of what is needed for dep
next year. of C
But, the bureacracy moves slowly. asic
Theater closed
went Columbia's best selection of movies - the If
foreign films, the 50-cent classics and the in- side
tellectual movies. A few may show elsewhere. too ;
"Z" - probably the best film of the last several Bu
years - might be shown at one of the other local balk
theaters, but few other Five Points films would Easi
be. pare
So, for Columbia it's back to a selection from and
the likes of Russ Myers' "Vixen" (suitably but- - ai
chered by fear of the local censors), Walt dorn
Disney's "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes," to tt
"The Impossible Years" and the latest Elvis Th
Presley flick.
Well, that's business. . . and alrei
Lamar (
Nothing diffe
By HARRY HOPE Some inhabitants poi
Staff Writer pride that merchants
Lamar, S. C., on a Saturday will not sell highway
afternoon, is a quiet bucolic anything - meals, dr
crossroads town. Farmers mill cigarettes. So the patrol
about the street, hang around the to Hartsville, or Darlin
stores, and buy their supplies for So far, the Klan has
the week. silent on the court
Children wander in and out of the inactive in the county. B
stores, buying candy and looking speculation that this
at toys. Housewives buy groceries, people who raided the s
and the town's gasoline stations do really members of the
a big business. Klan. operating out o
But this is a nervous town. There
is tense atmosphere. The black
children stare nervously at any
car carryig whites, and when you
ride dowfft he ret fi the black
neighborhoods, all seems too quiet.
Try to talk to the black children
about the incident. As soon as they
see your car pull up, and see that
you are white as you get out of the
car, they run from you.
Finally, two boys allow them
selves to be questioned. They talk
to you, but only after you promise
them no one will know their names.
"No, no, nothing's changed too 0i
much. No no." They look at each
other nervously. You can't talk
with them. They are too scared.ByJM ANA
Pass by the site of the white Eio nCi
attack on the buses. There is one Oc pnatm n1
highway patrol car packed on the ln fClmi,S .
school grounds. The officer inside aUiest ihlt
is spr'awled on the seat, hat off and suet.Nwsm
yawning. All seems quiet.stdnsin'lkeh
Then you remember that one weebigtaedTh
morning children were on their weebigtaedlk
way to school. An angry white mob Thycamdtt
appeared. They turned over the stesoncmuhac
school buses . . .jutlkthsinheh
It had been quiet, but not now,. ee' ace iet
In Lydia, an even smaller negbrgKido
community nearby, "Mr. B's Ra eepthd
Seafood House" stands by the Tehlsrmne
roadside. Local radio and ofselheswihrm
newspaper ads call attention to the 0 nte ae-aVe
'excellent seafood." The place -whcmaetm
looks clean enough. It doesn't have
a sign on the front "We reserve the Eenwnthhoswe
right to refuse service to anyone." bymgcAgra
But it is owned and operated by maeasuybcr
Jer'yl Best, leader of the white mob ludafwsud a
which attacked the buses.AdoehlsinW
In Hartsville, 14 miles away, bsd h apspl
tension has been building uip for Trehlsi h
some time. L.ocal parents are Sre rsigo h
saying that if it can happen in IaIod
Lamar., Hartsville is next. They Thedonhlear
a'e af'aid to send their children to
school, and the children are afraid Hue
to go.
But thei'e are those who claim Rot
the news reports are unfair - that o eieSre o
the highway patrolmen and the tni ors
Dar'lington County sleriff are all ''ehchlswr
"nigger-lov'ers." And Best has sm eeams
achieved a kinid of martyrdom by ''ivddwnest
anytsngarreae,sd
ciaets otepto
toHrsile.rDri
So far, the Kla has
sietontecor
e it
is slow
. and some more
o say that the Five Points Theatre was a
rid would be more than an understatement,
It it was .. . well, it was like a brother or
ebe that old girl friend - someone you could
Dnd on when the times were bad and you were
he bottom.
Nasn't beautiful. You didn't go because you
attracted by the shiny surfaces. You went
use it tried to pleas. You didn't see the
our trash there. You saw meaty per
ances which were polished with subtle
ty.
hile you were there you weren't self
cious. You relaxed and put your feet where
pleased.
ie theatre was more than all the many things
esented, it was someone who could take your
ession and smother it with the "Umbrellas
ierbourg" or take the loneliness and toss it
L with "Goodby Columbus."
USC provincial?
Vou live in a town where they roll up the
valks every night, you might not find USC
rovincial.
t anyone who expects any consideration will
at the idea of rolling up the dorm rooms at
r. If you can't stand your siblings or
its for the entire time, you can come back
pend your time in the beautiful tenements
$2 per day. So what if you are paying for a
room already. Maybe they've rented it out
BPOE or the KKK.
a point is, should we have to pay extra to be
d out of our rooms for which we have
dy paid? The sensible answer would be no.
ruet
rent, is it?
it out with and, as one Hartsvillian put it,
in Lamar "They're trying to make this seem
patrolmen like a group of normal citizens."
nks, even But these "normal citizens"
'nen come have put Lamar into the national
ton. news - and with it free publicity
remained for Mr. B's Seafood House on such
rder and well-known news spots as the
at there is Huntley-Brinkley Report.
group of Natives of the town will tell you
bool were nothing has changed, but it has.
Ku Klux There will be more. The growing
uniform pains in the South have just begun.
n and holes
IKER alignments of the students'
carriages.
e far-away Finally the editor of this great
there lived paper called city hall about the
and lots of holes. They switched his call from
of these office to office untill someone in
way they the Street Department said they
rsaid they had not heard about the holes, but
'niggers." they would check today.
ven their Moral: Call the Street Depart
iuckholes, ment when you encounter a
ttos. They chuckhole. Have your campus
se in the police call the Street Department
of Adger when they encounter a chuckhold.
And, if the Street Department still
e students doesn't do something - maybe
ided them they don't care; or, maybe, they
iam story have their truck stuck in one; or,
very sad- maybe, they are out rescuing
a patched, Volkswagons from the holes. -
ere, as if
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By ARTHUR HOPPE
Columnist
Herewith another unwri
chapter from that unpublis
textbook, A History of the Wo
1950 to 1999. Its title: "The Se
Fanatics."
The trend toward the aboliti
privacy became apparent in
1970s.
Congress passed the historic
Knock Law," allowing polic
break into private homes if
householder were suspecte<
smoking pot. The Attoj
General announced his right to
the private conversations
anyone he felt was up to no g
The Army deployed hundred
plainclothesmen to investigat
private political beliefs of
citizenry. And one-way mir
became common in men's roc
Until then, however, no one
spoken out against privacy.
public,,hpd lleen, cpnditionet
believe that privacy in tl,h
was sacred and secr6ey
government was awful.
It was at this point in hisi
that the bold idealist, GriE
Grommet, formed The Commi
for an Open Society.
Un.der the motto, "What H
YOU Got to Hide?", Gromi
organized a nationwide camps
to stamp out secrecy in the ho
Attacking what he called,'
privacy pree-verts," he pointed
that the sole reason any r1
wanted privacy was to do things
was ashamed of.
"We can never build an o
society based on freedom
mutual trust," he told rallies co~
to-coast, "until we abolish secr
in the home. How can you tr
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racking the land, fear and un
on of certainty reigned. Conspiracies,
i the subversion and strange sex
practices seemed blossoming
"No everywhere. Never had Americans
e to distrusted each other more.
the "Giving up our privacy is a
I of small price to pay," said a typical
-ney middle class matron, "for insuring
bug our cherished American
of freedoms."
ood. So bonfires were held across the
s of country. Good Americans burned
the their curtains, their doors, park
the shrubbery and men's room walls.
rors Privacy pree-verts were hounded
Ms. and villified. "Secrecy," cried the
had crowds, "is subversive!"
The The campaign culminated with
to Tke National Home Television Act
in of '!J974, which some critics said
ini
was ten years ahead of its time.
ory Under the act, television cameras
Uley were installed in every nook and
tee cranny of every home so that every
moment of every American's life
ave was on public view. t
net "At last," said Grommet, "we '
ign have achieved a truly Open
ne. Society."t
the The results were mixed. The sale
out of hair curlers fell drastically. A
an number of spinsters developed
he impetigo from failing to bathe. The
birth rate plummeted to near zero.
md Conspiracies and subversions
1st- became a thing of the past. So did
acy picking ones nose and holding
ust unpopular views. E~very
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And, within a year, every
American was nuttier than a
ruitcake.
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co.. 1970)
Who is I
)ear Mr. Wannamaker: I
Who belongs to AWS? Why all
he women attending U. S.C. Or do
hey??
Tuesaay elections were held for
kWS officers. One of the can
lidates was in charge of the actual
,oting and counting of the votes.
knother candidate picked up her
iwn ballot box along with the
atlots! ,Fiye hunrid, sixty
iomen voted out of all the women
t Carolina and many refused to
rote because they had no earthly
dea who the candidates were.
Thursday AWS had a meeting.
'here wasn't even a quorum and
biey wanted to decide on hours for
isitation!
Women of Carolina, who belongs
o this fantastic organization?
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Dear Mr. Wannamaer:
The Student Senate has made
two motions and passed them both
unanimously. One motion con
demns the Board of Governors for
totally disenfranchising the
Student Body from the election of
the President of the University
Union. The other mction calls for a
referendum within two weeks to
allow the students to vote on how
the election of the president should
be handled. The Board of
Governors has placed the election
in the hands of the "active"
members of the Union.
I strongly feel that the
organization of the Union is
disintegrating. Many chairmen
and co-chairmen have been
selected not by qualifications but
on the mere basis of presence and
friendship. Their attitudes have
become self-centered. They have
formed cliques and are indifferent
to the student government
organizations that represent the
students which the Union
hypothetically serves serves.
Several members of the
executive board of the Union have
called the Senate "a Mickey Mouse
Club" and have stated that the
Senate does not represent the
students. If the Senate does not
represent the students, who the
hell does? Members of the board
have shown themselves to be
narrow-minded and biased. I
therefore contend that the Student
Union should revamp its
organization according to the will
of the people it serves.
RICK BATY
Senator, District 24
Bates House
n AWS
Think about it.
Name withheld by request
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