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not being 61Oed
'vpst while cooling his
.,befre the open one, he
Ion he didn't questionmthe
Outd w1thout comment. By the'end
So ush.forth In praise of the
tIunication." Then he said, that
thin his graduation is that he will
QR tk~rd.
when the board was back in.secret
fo deploring the board system of secret
hibility to be in them or even to get the
-.inutes or agenda.
we think that-the time and place to bomplain
was in the boeWh meeting. Much better than
~ mpiiment cdtest with Board Chairman
95t$ Osborne.
Pat-.time thinking
Mg
-n Its continuing canVipaign to cleanup and sanitize the
University, the administration has uIred another
weapon..
The Board of Trustees last Wednesdy passed a policy
Aptement on part-time students. It permits the University
to reject part-time students without giving reason. It limits
part-time students to class attendance and "access to
learning resources related to the course."
Ah, now. We tan keep those long-haired part-time
students out of the Russell House if they can stay In as
part-time students. .They should be so lucky, we lust won't
let them in the University. After all, this could be a private
club.
S.C.'s Vietnam
COUNCIL CURRENTS
S. C. Council on Human Relations
in the pre-dawn darkness the order was passed along,
Move outl" From half a hundred secreted bunkers they
came, bone chilled, jittery, and with that special tenseness
that goes with lack of sleep. The operation was effic'ent;
each platoon knew precisely what to do - it was a routine
"pacification" action. (That's the name for it *In the
Pentagon and the papers; the guys call it "search and
destroy.")
Between buildings they crept warily, then into the
dwellings. Just like in training, a door is booted in, then the
rifle thrust, finally the body is eased up to peer into the
dark room.
It was quick. In twenty minutes sergeants were
fr qutXffs. And In half an hour the entire
casualties. Only two prisoners. One was taken asleep in a
cgv, anto dd o afa in the 11vin. room of a
native's house.
How do we get involved in such an operation?
Well, some time ago the rQative government called on us
in case there was any native uprising. You know, the fear
might of the great bald eagle. So our military, with its
superior peace-keeping force, is equipped and ready to
move arnywhere at a moment's notice.
And it's not so much that these natives whom we hunt
down are our enemies - we don't even know them, or
what's bugging them - it's just that their leaders are our
friends .. . and we wouldn't want to be those leaders down.
New and again some egghead raises the question about
what these guys are struggling for. Seems it's for a more
representative government, more responsive to their
needs, more democratic and all that. (''Sounds reasonable
enough. But why are we called in to ''pacify'' that?'')
Because our commitment is to the established govern
ment, dumb-head I We're for law and order no matter how
corrupt that law and order is. We just keep the peace I
Oh. So that's how mighty South Carolina got involved
with Voorhees? .. . Sort of our private Vietnam???
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By MIKE KROCHMALNY
Associate Editor
I was not always as you see me
now-- broken, bowed and without
joy. I was once proud. I walked
around with my head up. I was
proud to be a human.
I was a happy baby. I played
with my toes and barfed on
everyone. I threw my food
everywhere and still managed to
get fat. But I grew older and finally
got my first bitter taste of
education-kindergarten.
Still relatively happy, I played
along at the game. I ate the cookies
and learned to barf more selec
tively. Then one day, during the
post-nilk-and-cookies nap, the kid
on the next pallet rolled over and
whispered, "You better watch it.
They got somebody watchin us and
the computer's gonna tell 'em
every thing there is to know 'bout
us, even what we're going to do
when we grow up."
Well, I might have been young,
but. LiMmedittky s4U70d -whe
NO~V no9
WI yet
whether to be a railroad engineer
or a bank robber, but I didn't want
So I set out to confound whoever
was telling the computer about
what I did. I washed behind my
ears, wore both socks the same
color and always flushed the toilet.
One day they tied a string around
my neck with a note to my Mother.
To this day I feel that the greatest
injustices perpetrated on
Americans are in the name of
education. I was being made. to
carry my own death sentence, dig
my own grave.
Tihe next day my Mother showed
up at kindergarten. She was in
formed by the kindergarten
bureaucracy (I've since found that
no level of education can function
without one that the computer said
I. was a "schizoid neurotic with
paranoid tendencies." They
predicted that I would go off the
deep end, drop out of school and
become a bank robber.
F"rom th'at day I have hated
computers. Somewhere, residing
in a Junk yard, .or land grant
university laboratory, is a rusted
computer which was responsible
( or the death of the greatest career
in crime since Billy Sol Estes.
So, from then on, my life was a
tiesert of "Dick and Jane" and
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nputer wor
Cowboy Sam" books. Jane ran out
of my ears in monosyllabic
madness. I didn't know what an
adjective looked like until I was in
the seventh grade. I was force-fed
knowledge.
That same year, at an assembly
program, we saw a computer that
sang "Daisy" and did
multiplication. This did a lot to
change, if only temporarily, my
view of computers. The gravelly
voice enthralled me. To my un
trained and untuned ear it was real
music. The multiplication was
even more impressing. I was the
last in my class, in not the whole
school, to learn the multiplication
tables. I saw in the computer a
friend-- someone to help me, if not
do my work.
After the program I walked up
and looked at the machine. Then I
heard someone whisper, "Hey,
kid." I looked around, but there
wasn't anyone around. Then the
computer winked-- all fifteen eyes.
"Ya know what, kid. You're a
silbid neerdtf w hs.4hoid
ran Everyw a
machine of any kind, I beat it and
kicked it until it wouldn't work. I
twisted the mampr ,f wait
ches and wrenched the handles off
pencil sharpeners.
1 eventually calmed down and
got to college. I felt like a
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today.
This year, three debates will be
held to increase interest and
knowledge in the presidential
contenders. The first two will be
held before the primary In Cap
stone and one in the Men's Towers.
Following the primary, a third
debate will be conducted in the
Itussell House Assembly room.
Last year, only 2,000 students
voted in the election or about one
sixth of the student body. Student
Body President Barry Knobel said
there would be an active campaign
by his staff to increase voting.
Students will be asked to pick up
voter registration cards, punched
by a computer, and a student must
have his card to vote in the elec
tion. Knobel said that these cards
would prevent cross-over voting
and avoid election scandals. The
student's name and address will be
marked on the card.
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conqueror when I beat the co
puter and got in. Since then t
computer has never gotten r
GPR right. Last semester I I
credit for only one course, and tt
one I wasn't enrolled in.
Yet the final blow came onl3
few days ago. Until then t
computer was only a menl
challenge, not a physical terr4
Stepp back
Doubl,
By CARL STEPP
Associate Editor
"Say what you mean and mej
what you say," is wh,
everybody's father once told hir
"Baloney," everybody probab
thought.
Everybody was right.
It is difficult in these fast-movir
days to determine just what peop
.are saying, much less what- tht
PSnn. Each fleidhas its jargpon
key code words intelligible only
initiates.
The University too has ii
call it.
So, for those of you who remal
uninitiated into the cryptic worn
of the University, The Gamecoc
provides this handy glossary<
bureaucrese. Today's selectiori
come straight (.?)from the moutt
of USC officials:
"Management functions." Ex
students weren't consulted abot
fee increases because "it's largel
a management function." Wha
this really means:
"management function" is
decision made privately by tt
administration with advice froi
whom they please; it usually ii
volves a controversial matte
where administrators feel they ar
more qual1fled to decide tha
students, taxpayers and othe
interested persns. . so.t
.Ses,
8att expl1ppd thte's beun on
f board ftoet 2yars and
Verved - Several ft its com
,ft , he sId, have held open
meings. "I don't ink that it was
inkeping witb that ... to go into
what happened at the committee
meeting. We never haye."
0 Blatt declined to say whether the
request for access to.the financial
*data or Possible rules changes in
the Atlantic Coast Cnference
Were discussed by the committee.
The PrOPOsed Policy change for
susPension was introduced by
Trustee Michael J. Mungo. It was:
"The President of the University
is directed to suspend indefinitely
iany student who is charged with
knowingly possessing illegal drugs
or who is charged with a felony or
misdemeanor the penalty of which,
upon conviction, should - carry a
sentence in excess of ninety (90)
days in jail.
"The President shall make a
report to the Board of Trustees on
all such cases. Students suspended
under this regulation shall be
reinstated only the the President of
the University upon consultation of
the Board of Trustees."
Present during the closed
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M- But a few days ago the computer
he bit Alyce.
fy My God! It's after me, now. I
Iot know it. I can hear it sniffing
iat around the door at night. I've been
getting computer cards in the mail
'a with "I'll get you" and "See your
he Prudential man" on them.
Al If you have any decency, you'll
r- unplug the computer, please...
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"management function" is a
power arbitrarily defined by the
in powerholder.
at "Administrative function." As in
f. a recent Student Affairs Com
y mittee meeting when one professor
said deciding when to punish
student organizations is an ad
ministrative, not judicial function.
le The argument runs that charging
groupp w' rule infractions, trying
them, ding their g ('andl
settinip shment is not Jdlcial *
matter at all, simply a decision the
s8 administration must make. Thus,
, an "administrative function" is an
n powerholder without regard to
d fairness or standard procedures of
k due process.
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Mungo said, as he left' the
meeting, that the atter bd been
referred to committee to in.
vestigate its legality. "We $10 not
run a reformatory, we run a
college," he saidi
"I don't want convicts going to
this school. perhaps it should be
changed to "convicted" bit' the
wheels of justice t(irn extremely
slowly."
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with girls in hand -and tried to look
smug and self-assured. Sometimes
they had a beer in one hand and a
cop on- the other, sad testimony to
the fact that one doesn't drink beer
on the sidewalk and get away with
it.
Walking through the amusement
centers you saw every kind of
person who, for whatever perverse
reason, shifted through The Beach
on Easter. There were little girls
whose only ambitions were to
catch big boys and had no idea
what to do with them when they
caught them.
There were boys looking for that.
elusive "dream walking,"
someone who would blind them
with beauty, charm them with wit
and seduce them with a smile.
Others sought more elusive and
ephemeral things. Some drove up
and down the six-mile traffic jam
hoping somehow to prove real
manhood through chrome, bright
paint and slicks. Others tried to
beat the odds at the machines,
having struck out at the other
games ...
alk talk
"Not in the best interests of
Carolina." An obvious one. This
means simply, "We have no rule
against what you have done, but
we don't like it. Therefore, it's not
in the best interests of Carolina."
"When I was your age, I was
idealistic too." This one comes
from many persons besides
University personnel . It is the
most pathetic because it serves as
.a Jame alibi f'MN j.qatone \Who
knew what he shoud ddo but didn't
have the guts to do it. It reflects
jealousy and a rather pitiable hope
that you---the idealistic one---don't
h-ave' the~ t ~VwherewIa to se
that vital changes are made before
you sell out to middle class com
tort.
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