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ttitwlh pla r te proposition evrso long laa waste of Vw the nature of the debate used against coeducation hi I If they didn't come from men respMil e positions. instead, they are t. C.oper, D-Lexington, has SiOrousiy against admitting males , throp le sees horrid consequences if the Of V001hee0 and the USC are allowed to kii (0 with the neat Winthrop ladies. With C", ducation, he predicts, would come .0ghaired; dirty feet, no-shoed'' youths ugh the majority of Winthrop students 00wno doubt, are longhaired - except that they are girls, which somehow makes a difference. Cooper drew support from Rep. E. Juette Wright, D-Anderson, who could report after a personal fact-finding mission to USC: "It was hard enough to tell the girls from the boys until I looked at their feet. They had on dirty breeches. If I were Dr. Jones, I would tell them to 'shape up or shiplout.' And, as The State reported, his remarks came "amid applause and laughter." Defending a student's right to dress as he pleases, grow a beard or hair if he pleases, and go barefooted in the spring -is not necessary. No oneo- at least, no sensible person-can seriously equate.a person's appearance with his intelligence, his learning. capacity, or his desire for an education. Empty promis By CHIP GALLOWAY three candidate d Guest Columnist be held prior to tht In the.next few weeks, you will last will be just be be hearing office-seekers promise April 22. anything and everything in an These debates effort to become elected-you may help in picking th even be making promises yourself. want to serve in Student Government won't last ment. One of the I much longer if offices are filled on will be to see whic empty promises. Qualified persons interested enougt can't be selected solely because of debates. a pretty face or because the In the. past se% candidate is a member of a parties" have be selective group. with on campus Candidates must be elected on doesn't seem that the grounds of experience and So it won't be gr platform. Experience doesn't mean membership, but action. Phi Beta Phi, in conjuction with Student Government, will sponsor (Continued h M c Charles Fellei L ColI IaI fislly getting a who worked at c sundeck ...after almost three places during months of requesting...Isn't that referendum, ha( wonderful!! influbnce voters. The best part about this is that the residents will be "allowed" to Spay for % of the maintenance of Sthe present sundeck. An amount Sthat may come to $225.00. How lucky to be able to pay for the maintenance of the building, So, Instead of having to get rays In the By W. D. CHI parking lot...the pale Columbia Guest C< Hall girls will be out earning The Academy money, for maintenance. - 70: no doubt tha PA T LITCHE~Y on TV last night President. Columbia Hail your set with satisfaction that Auditions Asfo ms Auditions f or "The Li berty pointed in the eni Tree" and "Annie Get Your Gun," best picture of to be produced this summer by the which went to "1u University at Sesquicentennial Here is the thi State Park, are scheduled for around In my Sunday. April 12. sounds and far ft Green said actors, singers, why in the world dancers, musicians and get the best ai technicians, including some parts award? bor children, are needed. If you think abx Tihe tryouts will begin at 10 a.m. it is really not tli April 12 with registration in though John Way l)ray ton H all. Auditions for the act in the true sen actors and for the children's parts has been around will begin at i1 a.m. long time in the Singers will audition from 2 to Maybe he deserv :1:30 p.m. and dancers from 3:30to longevity if nothi . p.m. The fact remai F'urther inf ormation is available "The Duke" just Iom Rtussell Green, USC Theatre, with Dustin Hoffn Columbia, S. C. 29205. in the acting dep -,PIPES and ACCESSO SF OR THE PIPE SMO I * FINE PIPES * IMPORTED TOBACCO * PIPE REPAIR SLE ANING SER RVK HOOI O$5**to South Carolina's pipe and acc --selection camera shop, i, * COLUMBIA, s.C. j40 MAIN ST. PHONE 2! LtlCs tragic INether can anyone but the most narrow. minded question the individualls political and personal rights, which shouldn't affect his chance for an education. If the legislators are upset by ideas, cultures, oppearances or viewpoints which differ from heir own, they are short-sighted indeed. If they want to Impose their standards on college-age adults, they are incredily presumptuous. At any rate, their antics in the State House are amusing for a while. But taken seriously, they are wasteful and alarming. We trust most legislators aren't susceptible to such drivel. USC 'progress' What is "progress" - USC style? Part of it is building new classrooms, big buildings, a bigger stadium . . . and part of it is bulldozering black neighborhoods. The displaced are given first priority on public housing . . . which Columbia is only beginning of late to construct with any sense of the crying need. Of course, that means that others who need the low-rent housing must look elsewhere. "Tough." the University seems to say. The displaced are moved away from jobs many walked to. Take the bus if there is one that makes connections. And their homes ... remember your home? ... are razed while they are forgotten, handed a check, or shipped to a project or another slum. Tell that to friends who are separated when'a neighborhood is "improved." Progress may come, but something is lost. Something which often means very much to those who are losing it. Think about it. es worthless ,bates. Two will that will elect officers, but the election and the individual student with his or her Dre the runoff on single vote which will pick next year's leaders. an be of great But voting does not end your candidates you responsibility-you have to stay tudent Govern- involved, keep aware of what is uings to look for going on. Once, for example, candidates are you've elected the senator from to attend the your district, remember who he is and take your problems to him eral "apolitical that's what he's there for. n experimented In fact, that's why Student This *year it Government is there-to help you they'll be back, with any problems you have ups of this kind connected with USC. 5enate meeting om Page 1) Miss Jones flatly denied the charges. "Only after the ballots baum testified were in the,box did I discuss any tha$ Miss Jones, Isaue V hesal . ask ie of the polling qis a what y were Wednesday's voting for and we merely answered attempted to those questions. But no issues were ever discussed." SAcademy Awards s appoQinted LMBERLAIN "The Duke" .does, however, Awarso represent for a great many people, Awars of1969 a bigger- than- life hero of the you caught them mom, applepie, and America but did you leave generation. I imagine that it would any kind of be quite a blow to the older faction he best films got in our country if some puny anti ed? hero such as Ratso Rizzo won the , I was disap- highest award in the nation's the yearsawr greatest communications field. dnight Cowboy". Could it be that this year's g that is kicking awards turned out to be a sellout to ead. Odd as It "the establishment"? A sort of ched as it looks, replacement or substitution of did John Wayne acting ability for a superhuman tor of the year image. Besides, who wants the gold man to go to a sickly, weak, it It for a second tragicaldly realistic nogoodnik, at strange. Even *even if he can act? ne cannot really ie of the word, he for a heck of a movie Industry. d something for ag else.I is however that Ioesn't compare an, for example, rtment. R IES 1500 lorgest ssories Do unto othe Weeke By MICHAEL BALL Columnist At 4:48 a.m. Saturday one student senator and one Gamecock columnist appeared in the garden that is Atlanta's Emory Univer sity. Among the stodgy buildings and flowering plants, the Southern Trotskyite socialists were holding their annual conference. With no Trots in sight, John Dore and I slept in a dorm snack bar. I was awakened by the rustling of refuse under my nose, as a janitor broomed by. Approximately 150 stalwart socialists gathered for the first meeting, where Jon Rothschild explained why socialist support the Arab revolution. He successfully blended reason, dogma and rationalization, all of which held up to dissent. After a brief break to rally with the garbage workers, the af ternoon lecture was droned on by the national organizational secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party. By reading a selection bf disjointed media clippings, he proved to hip wn satisfaction that spoke, ha ers were oeh sumed, frisbees thrown, and yawns stiffled. That night the contigent from South Carolina, both of us, were assigned floor space in the apart ment of two very healthy looking women's liberationist. I could have easily mistaken both women for bull dykes had I seen them in a Manhattan bar. One token black socialist ap peared, then one male and one female indocrinated comrade. Dore had been silenced earlier by the superior will of one of our hostesses and dozed on the couch, knowing enough to keep quiet. Meanwhile I attempted to explain to a woman Trot how South Carolina was a matriarchal society. She responded with dogma I had heard too many times before. When I told the same woman who had out-emoted Dore how boring I had found the afternoon session, she replied with incredible sincerity. She gfind her struggle right and just, she gg excited to hear how her work wna being d wih u n ' m " whenI s taterw sayo ist te CMri Obther rs metn haI I knwi0 en o nd with i rewarded (i.e. current strikei); she AUg believe Trotsky's in terpretation of history. The next morning when I saw the tattered socialist banner in the meeting hail, I knew it meant a lot more than a reaffirmation of location. The women's liberation panel Sunday included Lynn Wells of the flag incident at USC fame. She spoke calmly of the Revolutionary Youth Movement IS stand on lib and how violence may be justified in their action.' The ironies of the conference stuck in my mind as much as the speakers. The apartment we slept in was next to a dirty mag mart which made profit from selling pictures of women's bodies. The woman I was debating started misting tears when explaining how women were not more emotional than men. The Emory newspaper which claims to be "the most in dependent In the South" sent a white photgrapher with a black lackey to hold his strobe light. A cameraman. for a local TV station *~e dVhy' the he had been on a garbage truck in the morning and was covering the lib panel then. Cups of Coke (which has been target of imperialist accusations by the left) cluttered the table in front of the panel. Somehow Rosa Luxemburg has become one of the standards of these Trots. Beyond these cute things, something substantiated this conference. The Gamecock The Gamecock Is published trl-weekly during the fall and spring semesters with the exception of University hofldays and exam periods. Change of address forms, sub scription requests and other mal.ltems should be' seat to Drawer A. Usc. columbia, S.c. 23256. subscription rates are $6 per year er $3 per semeester. Bulk copies are $6 per tes. The Gamecock thIs year received $37,506 from the student activity fund entitliag full-time students to a subscription to the paper. Offiees of The Gamecock are in Rooms 386 and 316 of the Russell House on the University camapus. Phones are ?778l?17774243 and 77-4220. secoad class postage pai at columbIa, S.C. The editor in chief is Jim Waanamaker. Although The Gamecock is published by the Uaiverstty ot South Carolna, the splals. published herein do sot mecessarUly represeat those of the University, the studeat body or the staff of the paper. Stebc critisidng unpleasant aspects ol life is one of the journalist's chiel Jobs. Unfortunately-or perhaps not his contact with various areas of life introduces him to problems others are often unaware of. And it falls to the Journalist to draw attention to those issues which his unique position exposes. However, in addition to problems come many positive qualities and today we present the following selections of "good news" -The intense interest in ecology evident among college students, including those at USC. University Union's "Environmental Issues" series of six lectures, S. C. Collegelate Press Seminars on the BASF controversy, and the general awareness of en vironmental problems shown on campus testify to local-concern.. ---While Greeks often come under sharp criticism, their annual celebration of Greek Week he-e has some excellent features. First, he Trots John Dore is a senior in history, I in journalism. We both believe that women deserve equal pay and human rights, we both believe the black man has been smothered too long, we both believe that changes are coming. But not like these people. Most of these socialists (primarily Atlanta Socialist Workers and Young Socialist Alliance) are college age. These people are organizing daily. These people are preparing for a long and bloody revolution. These people know they have the answers. These people are every where; they will be heard. These people will have their way --if at all possible., 'Progressive' 'A bore The following is reprinted in abridged form from Your Schools, a publication of the American Friends Service Committee here in the state. The report Is one adult's ation -to *o.. of . he (tats's .~st*swtabiloelg dfstwidfb. ft's Os. The nOme of the dli*Wf and the names of the persons involved were deleted by the publication to "protect the innocent." I already had gotten a good idea from adults of what the X schools are like...Y telling me she thinks they will have to put their two elementary-age sons in private schools before their minds are ruined by regimentation. Y also telling me of two black teenagers she knows who have been suspended from school ( for being on the playground at a forbidden hour, the other for smoking) and left in the miserable and hated environment of their home for a week with a mentally retarded mother and little food. SEXUAL R NEW M PLAYBOY I IS THE CH THE BIBLE RE WHO HAS 1 Jack Wyrtzen, who has high schools and colleges, looking for answers... looking for a way out. "Young people are frust Wyrtzen, "and the intel 'BOOK' most people igno answers." Over 300 from the Southe weekend which Includes Join the crowd for Spring Columbia B Located just north of Colusl APRIL 10.12 lewS noW By CARL STEPP Associate Editor 0 / opening the "Chicago" concert to non-Greeks is a move toward in tegration of Greeks into the total campus life. Second, Greek humanitarian concerns evidenced by March of Dimes collections-are commendable. They should be full-time concerns. -Hard work has gone into the proposed new student body con stitution, a Student Government effort to update the basic statement of student status at Carolina. The new document should be studied, as it proposes major innovations while giving added responsibility to students. Students who have spent many hours working on the construction should be saluted. ---The "People for People" Week planned next week by campus Baptists and Lutherans is. q refreshing, If somewhat inef fectual, idea. Making students nore aware of their individuality, as well as generally promoting love and understanding, is seldom undertaken In an organized way. It should be. ---The Student-Faculty Com mons Room, an experiment where the two can meet on common, informal grounds, is a fine idea, for which University Union can be congratulated. Most meetings in the room are informal, but such am officials as Paul Dietzel, Harold Brunton and President Thomas F. Jones have dropped in for informative freewheeling discussions with students. -Spring. Beautiful. S. C. schools or a riot Z telling a PTA meeting that, "it is absolutely necessary for these boys and girls to be in school every day, and when we find truancy, we are gQi4 , sus nd them." i!he i 1tpid public 04titWA te4egdr vind P'e1atle b the (local newspaper) which has probably led many students who never thought of drugs to setting up their own LSD labs as a sort of In tellectual rebellion. To get the students' view I decided to talk to just one or two persons.These boys' story is both funny and horrible. It's typical of the American public high school ("what's bad is that X Is supposed to be one of the best high schools in the state," they said several times), and that's the horrible part. At least H and C (high school students) have a sense of humor I t ont inued on Page -3) EVOLUTION, 0 RAITY, "HILOSOPHY URCH AND LEVANT TODAY? *HE ANSWER? spoken on these topics in believes young people are looking for absolutes... rated and perplexe," says esting thing is that the re -- the Bible -- hAs the east have registered for this seminars and fiscussions. I Conference at: ible Collegej ibia on Monticello Road (215). 7:45 P.M.