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b- toxole the and selizures... and mprWIeties" that Jones' Acj n information, then they should i eir charges of University collusion and The University can not 10aize w or, set itself up as an extra-territorial ry for its use or that of any other drug. doubt t*Nt the Board of Trustees, state Iftislature or people of South Carolina would if they could. t groups have shown admirable restraint in their actions over th last few days. Jones and his administration left the Russell House open; the protestors have not resorted to violence or disruption of the campus. Let everyone say their piece and let it be considered on its merits. Commendation Members of the Men's Towers deserve com mendation for their firm stand against the considered housing regulations. Led by Towers President Ed McFadden and Vice President Joe O'Shields, the Towers residents brought enough pressure to bear that administrators backed down on several points. First, the administration dropped its requirement for an immediate $100 down payment on next year's dorm room, allowing a $50 deposit with the rest due by July 15. Second, a student who decides to move off campus during the fall will be allowed to do so if he meets one of several criteria and will get a $45 refund. Third, several vague points In the housing policy were explained by authorities who had neglected to fully inform the students. Behind the concessions .was diligence by Towers officers and some 500 names on petitions collected in only two hours. The efforts show that Carolina students are Letters: Dear Mr. Wannamaker: unless they are ii Tuesday night I attended the act of dealing: I student demands meeting and, to using these drui say the least, I was disappointed. I do comment Cantey Wright, the leader at the their behavior ir1 meeting. presented a list of This is the onl5 demands which had been com- problem solve p'tely Ignored by President behavior only s Jones. Vne ot AiWe demands administration seemed"fF&dunableW and some' movement. seemed outrageous. I believe thE President Jones did not com- know what the: ment on this because it is not his don't know exa4 job to cope with dissenting Thus far they h students who don't like the way the for all concer police handle the drug situation on tinuation of these our campus. We are supposedly way to obtain tl here for an education not to I commend F present a problem to the ad- his position in ti ministration, only hope that Personally, I feel that the drug too much att laws should be as strictly enforced students. I resp< as they are now, If not more so. as a view from That is the only conceivable way to Thank you. get this problem curbed and headed in another direction. This whole meeting of con- Mc u cerned students began in the firstUJ place simply as a request to have a Dear Mr. Wan member of the administration Dr. Marshal] present during a raid and to visited Columb eliminate the John Doe warrant SECA-NAEB. being unfairly presented. widely renown4 This whole affair grew way out provocative ot proportion and now some twentieth centl outrageous demands such as the or the Center university posting bond for the Technology at people involved in a bust are being Toronto. He st pressed. University wh Students know that drugs are Ph.D in Engli! illegal as of now, and that they are D)r. McLuha subjIect to punishment if they are spired debat caught while dealing with them. thinkers < Why are all these students so revolutionary concerned about the drug busts electronic cor They said we couk Peace faa They said that we couldn't do our moral it. victims of A three-day fast for peace? committme Surely we'd give in. What good destruction would it do. The war wouldn't caused by end the next day, they said, more aware and it didn't. The fast here and sense, we fel in the state didn't draw any We hope the multitudes. Despite a lot of more aware letters around the state and Jing some talk by -the Vietnam Edii Moratorium: Carolina, only a few people abstained from Th ( eating.Th ( People like EdItor William -r m M. Lee of the Scandal Sheet at dab. fa, a. USC-.Beaufort; like Editor emrpd...f r . James Brannock of the Journal Q"'* at Wof ford; lIke myself, a, eens e.o Gamecock Business Manager mesn. N.teripIl Joe Riley and Assistant """"'"t"- "vl Managing Editor, Alyce ui,*.laetv. Ymans; like- Garnet and .:4..... 1k Editor Adair Watson, o'rTe U...n, IlUttence Editor Celeste "',,",' Wliams and Business see. . e.p. Manager Ron Lasils; and the ?* .1. 0theaVy... we fasted. AUnsbTr er The war has not ended, but ,.u.4e newse. Wi have demonstrated 3"fV96 ~*e~sonab1e n that og ist 0 andU lobbying prduce results. Unfortunately, to efforts Weee inCom lete. The *4miniqtratlons concessions on housing amount to ititle more than tokenism. For one thing, the full-year housing contract remains. Most students who sign up in the spring for a room, then decide the next fall that they want to live off campus, are still stuck. No refund. This is especially unfair since so many plans change from spring to fall. The University should reconsider this poiicy. For another thing, a $100 deposit should not be necessary. SW is sufficient, since the University has a waiting list for dorm rooms in the fall and therefore stands to lose no money. The Towers action was encouraging, but inequitjes remain in housing regulationi. We hope further attention is brought upon them. 'High School' Tonight at 8, the S. C. affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union is presenting the con troversial film "High School." They almost couldn't at their chosen spot - Dreher High School's auditorium. It seems that they felt this film - which finds high schools to be very lacking - would be disruptive In nature if ac tually shown in a high school. Yet such fringe groups as Truth about Civil Turmoil have been allowed to use district school auditoriums. The district wisely backed down after the ACLU drew up a suit against the ban on the film's showing in a school. The film is controversial because, as Harvey S. Cox found in his review of it, "something is grotesquely wrong ... The business of Northeast High School seems to be chiseling the rough edges and recalcitrant bumps off adolescents so they fit easily in the coffins waiting for them in Vietnam . . . But cheer up. Maybe they'll drop out and really make something of themselves.' We're not sure that will be our conclusion after seeing the movie, but we think that It should be a must for Carolina students concerned about American education - or miseducation. We're looking forward to the discussion. Demands reasc outrageous; en i some way in the man and the twentieth century. uying, selling, or However, whether or not one s? agrees with Dr. McLuhan's ideas, the students for few would disreguard or refuse to this whole affair. acknowledge their importance or way to get any impact on contemporary thougtht. I, as irrational Not only did the Gamecock refuse !rves. to turn the to acknowledge his importance, it against such a sent ai sophomoric journalism st*Adent ,to inflict tire readers of-the t these students Gamecock with his facile views. want, but they Judging from Mr. Ball's column, tly how to get it. which contained no factual in ave done the best formation and, what is worse, no ted and a con- creative thought, it is doubtful that 'tactics is the only he has read any of Dr. McLuhan's eir goals. works. If he has, it seems that he resident Jones on has no capacity to criticize in uis situation and I telligently. One would think that Le doesn't weaken The Gamecock could find someone se mercy of the among the student body or faculty ctfully submit this intelligent, or at least competent the "other" side. enough, to criticize Dr. Mc Luhan's work. 50H1 McCLEAREN In Mr. Ball's column, he seems to be denegrating Dr. McLuhan's an a an talk because his topic was con troversial. This seems to be tamaker:- charactieistic of the Gamecock4 McLuhan recently and the University in general, ia as a guest of the Because it is controversial does not Dr. McLuhan is make an issue either valid or in d as one of the most valid. However, an issue that is thinkers of the more than superficially con ury. He is Director troversial, as Dr. McLuhan's for Culture and certainly is. deserves more thar the University of superficial criticism. udied at Cambridge BR ENIDA BEARI re he received his ('IIARLES HIOLME h literature. i has certainly- in onc:rni'g""hs R evolution iew of the effects of Dear Mr. Wanna maker: umunications upon The revolution has finally com to South Carolina. Many will thin lnt :oncern wIth the' he war and our nt to end the p~ and suffering U,T? he war. We are of the war. In a it for three days. t you are a little of it, too. I WANNAMAKER R'j~ i.'. or, The Gamecock famecock k Is published tri-weekly ~~T~ ed spring semesters with the lversity holidays and exam .6e address forms, au6. s and ether mall (tems should ,er A. UnIc. Columbia. S.C. u rates arc 36 per year or s3 ik eopies are S6per tOO. 'The gI'-MFAP lE par received 137.060 from the AAf o 4CM O fused entlitlng full-time gy s s.i ceriptles to the paper. Offices fppg AFts are la Rooams aos and 3216ef r on the University campms. 1m17u, m44S and ??-413. age paM at Columbia. s.C. 3~ hief Is Jim Wannaabogr. msesek is published by the ute caeauU. the epinlos dent eoelyyrprsu lissy. heCstuest bod or th ;4Oh Wha A Be D jig' Do unto othe The c By MICHAEL BALL Columnist While we were walking to the Baptist Student Union Saturday to bum a meal off Hillel, John Dore made an unusually clever pair of statements. He said, "If you're freeloading, you have to be amusing," and "We should spend our weekends going to crackpot conventions. One weekend we were at the Socialist Conference, the next at onable, force law that we are a disorganized group of long-haired, alienated freaks fighting to smoke our grass, drop our acid, etc. But the issues range much broader than that, for we are fighting to change the very essence of the university. In simplification, the issues may be synthesized into one general question: is the University of South Carolina an institution for students? Apparently, the administration cas demonstrated through action and attitude) does not think this should be the university's purpose. Rhetoric has been useless, so dynamic action must be utilized. Hopefully, the administration will redirect it's thinking and purpose. Power to the people. Right on! ANTHONY HERMAN Stanley Chu contest semifinalist Stanley Chu, a senior at USC, has been selected as a regional semifinalist in the fourth annual Book-of-the-Month Club Writing ) F'ellowship Program. He is one of S live semifinalists chosen from South Carolina. Deleware, District or Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina. Virginia and West Virginia. National winners will be not ilied in early May and awards 01o $:1.INXI each will be given in June. Odd Bodk agf qv4U 6 T -E A ue-m j. H'aF . EtsmoMt 'rASK FOAce S- leeas,a n.. IASA.a 'To no R K AT, . MD&T ~aft hgA RIans6.. gg A css.o i Ag50 cosAsA!! Sicu, steer 2utifual FronO? Eugene Payne In the Charlotte Observer rs rackpot o the YAF statewide leadership conference. Somehow I, a State-Record proclaimed campus radical, was chosen to be the heavy in a debate with the former editor of "New Guard", the reactionary's rag. I arrived in time to catch the last of Al Watson's student activism speech No. 8. The debate followed in this man's hollow footsteps. The YAF 4ifer had a degree in economics and I had visions of a continuing trend toward socialism. The lifer opened with a roll call of the famous New Left radicals he had debated. I opened with the statement, "I'm more interested in th4 aesthetics of revolution than the politics." I tried to be humorous by saying that after hearing the credentials of my debatee's opponents, I felt more like an anticlimax than in terrupted sexual intercourse. Either the thirty odd people didn't hear me or' they didn't un derstand; the crowd leaned for ward, furrowed their brows in unison and nodded as if to say, "Yes, I see." My debatee did make perceptive statements, such as facism and socialism being different sides of the same collectivist coin. But he did draw the conclusion that anything wrong with this country economically is the fault of an interferring government. In the afternoon all interested liberals had been bored out of the room and much more was agreed on. The debatee, Arnold Steinberg, gave a brief talk, followed by, theoretically, a panel between the two of us and the heads of YD and YR. The debate, the talk, and the panel were all continuations of the same. By lunch I'd been treated to coffee, doughnuts and dogma. The entire conference looked to be a deleted chapter from an Ayn Rand fable book. The afternoon was the same. "At one point Steinberg said Y A will start using the successful leftist tactics. It will start selling one point on their line, like a volunteer army,and push the rest or the line through the buyer's head. ins FrAV ANeJ MCA A N tl Our M yARTHUR HOPPE Columnist tt Oneupon a timie there was a young man named Irwin who tc devoted his waking hours to J Gestalt jogging, transcendental massage, elementary I Zoroastrianism, advanced U astrology and mastering the 9 Double Lotus Position. 14 Naturally, his parents didn't n understand him. t "Irwin," his .father would say d wearily, "I know there's a generation gap. But all these weird U religions! Why can't you be more I like your mother and me? What's wrong with Christianity?" I "I guess it's that I never tried it, a Dad," said Irwin. And being a V dutiful son at heart he actually 1 went down to The Billy, Graham s Crusade the next time it hit town. e He came home a drastically changed young man. i "I've heard the call, Dad," he a said, his eyes shining. "I've a become a true Christian." c "That's great, son," said his ] father, clapping him on the back. V t C t t aircut Steinberg said that national YAF policy within two years would include pushing for complete private ownership of schools, roads and possibly police forces. The school issue was backed up by a text on eighteenth century education that said the poor were willing and able to pay for their dwn schooling. May Marx help the people who I swallow these laxatives! For an hour I was forced to defend The Gamecock, labeled a revolutionary leftist propaganda sheet. and myself. The convention seemed to think the student body should be offered pure objectivity on every page, except the editorial, 4 no matter how boring. The con vention did not believe the trend in journalism could be to interpretive reporting. The convention went on and on and, right or wrong, it was I their meeting, all twenty-five owned it. I thought Southern con servatives were playing parts in poorly written, Faulkngr, , novels, but.the,dogma here.was too,g1inIlar to the indoctrination of the Trot skyites. These people are straight from Rand. Have faith, South Carolina, supermen and superwomen are on their way to save America from the chains of history which has bound it to the wheel of change! shop in THE H1 The Hong-Up Shi an Hoppe win At last we see e to se on ings." "Right, Dad. And you'll be proud know I've Joined The Juniors for sUs. "It's a Christian-action group, lad," said Irwin, bubbling with ie enthusiasm of the Young. "Our oal is to see that our loved ones .ad true Christian lives so that we iay all enter the Kingdom of leaven together. Now how much id you give to the poor last year?" "The poor?" said his father neasily. "Well, we gave $50 to the Inited Crusade." Irwin shook his head. "Look, ad, we've got money in the bank nd more food than we can eat, ihile. poor people are going ungry. Rember what the Bible ays about a rich man's chances of utering heaven." So. to encourage Irwin in his ew-found faith, his parents greed to give half their savings nd ten per cent of their income to harity. It meant they had to giive ip their trip to Europe. And Ir ein's father did miss his golf club, ut it seemed worthwhile. The next week Irwin's father ame home to find his new $35 lacks missing. "Irwin gave them D a magazine solicitor," explained iis wife. "The poor man did look a it threadbare." Gradually, the family's war Irobe diminished garment by arment. "Actually," explained rwin happily, a true Christian eeds only wnough to keep himself varm." And then half the furniture anished. "What is a man profited F he shall have two sofas, three nd tables and 16 chairs," said rwin. "and lose his own soul?" They lost the family car after an iccident in which Irwin's father vas painfully injured in the left uip. The other party, though learly in the wrong, sued. The suit vent uncontested. For as Irwin ointed out, it was his father's 3hristian duty to "turn the other heek." Fortunately, just as his parents vere reaching wit's end, Irwin >icked up a copy of the I Ching, ecame converted to Ecumenical raoism and went off to Katmandu o chew betel nuts and see how long ie could grow his toenails. His parents heaved a collective ;igh of relief. "Of course, it was our fault," his :mother 4Ald -his ather. "telling him he ought to be i Christian." I meant," said his father efensively. "a Christian like us." Moral: Don't worry about oday's generation gap. It could be Aorse. M-n ECopyright ('hronice Publishing Co., 1970S if -you have fashion hang-up.. ANG-UP shop p-First Floor ea On.ly