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Dear Mis Manning:
In regard to the Monday, Oct. 26,
issue of The Gamecock and John
L. Soukey's asinine letter, let me
say, "Wake up, John. This is South
Carolina." And I can assure you
that education in this state does not
rank in the top 10 per cent in the
country. Nor the top 20 per cent,
nor the top 30 per cent, nor... The
problem does not lie in the fact that
these students are of "lower
ability," but it lies in the lack of
quality education. Many of them
probably have more ability than
quite a few of us. But it does no
good to learn every word taught
you If the teaching is deficient.
As long as our state schools are
at fault, how can the state
ltiversity "penalize" them? A
college community provides a
student with sufficient opportunity
to better himself academically.
Once a student is admitted he's on
his own. If he doesn't keep pace, he
falls behind, then out-whether his
CB's were 700 or 1300.
Lowering admissions
requirements does not lower the
level of classroom instruction. And
I think you will agree you can't
judge a good student by his college
board scores. [ also feel that giving
the "socio-economically deprived"
the chance they deserve may
eliminate some of the apathy
found In most under-privileged
people.
Sorry, John, but for once I have
to go along with Michael Spears.
FRANCIS E. SANDIFER
Afro policy
Dear Miss Manning:
I should like to Inquire about the
policy of the Afro-Americar
Student Club which meeti
regularly in the Russell House i
refusing admission to theli
meetings to anyone who Is no
Negro. Some Interpret thi
American Constitution *al
guaranteeing equal treatment ti
all citizens regardless of race
thanks to whom many of th<
members of that club attend USC
Is the Afro-American Club th
only USC sponsored group denyini
admission to its membershIp a
the grounds of race? Why does It d
so? Is the only way It can maintal
Its identity through the process
discrimination which we have bee
told Is Immoral.and degrading?
Or Is It trying to reverse the role
of our race problem so that not
blacks who attempt to attend the
meetings will understand how
* feels? Or Is It afraid? Of wha
subversion? Competition? Or frei
* discussion of the Issues?
JAMES C. MARTIN
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ader: this
has been started to raise $360,000 to
carpet Carolina Stadium with
synthetic grass. Could somebody
please tell me why we have to
carpet the stadium. What is wrong
with the real stuff?
Why doesn't Coach Dietzel start
a drive for some useful purpose?
Thousands of people are living in
poverty in South Carolina, the
schools are in trouble, a ridiculous
amount of people can't read or
write, and they want to improve
the Stadium.
.RUT MCGHEE
Synthetic turf
Dear Miss Manning:
The situation concerning the
emphasis on athletics at USC has
now reached a new level of insane
ludicrousness. The lack of
adequate , library facilities con
tinues to be displaced in the ad
ministrations priority set-up.
Instead of shelves for books we
will have synthetic turf for Tommy
Suggs to scamper about on. What
is happening is really too absurd
for proper expression.
JOH N C. WOOTEN
Election dy
Dear Miss Manning:
The day picked for the recent
student elections was indeed a poor
one. The Monday on which the
elections were held was also one on
which students bought football
tickets. How may a girl vote when
her date has her fee card in order
to get football tickets? Looking at
the few that voted, this female
vote for which I, as a candidate,
pushed could easily have meant
the difference of being in the run
off election!
NAME WITHHELD
BY REQUEST
Concert
complaints
Dear Miss Manning:
e Oct. 23, my date, a Carolina
g 'coed, and I attended the concert
a given by the First Edition at
o Carolina Coliseum. We, as were
ra some of my friends, were quite
af disappointed with this concert
n as we have been with some of the
concerts in the past for the
s following reasons.
i. First, for the weeks preceeding
r the concert there was a big
it publicity build up that The First
t, Edition would be on campus, live
.and in person, to.present a concert.
But when they came they did
something else. They tried to
present a comedy hour with ex
tended jokes during their
presentation of the members of the
e group. This attempt at comedy, in
'amecock
y durin the fail and spring 6me7sand weekly
scepti of University holidays exam veriods.
mets and other mall Items suld be ent to Drawer A.
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s are W6pet I00. THE GAMECocK this year received
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the University of Seuth Ceroihia. the opinions ex
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and not for student relaxation.
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ihonesty. In this decade indiana
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ruiting dishonestly. USC lost
age of basketball in 1967 for
ng irregularities. With our open
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the opinion of my friends and
myself, was fair at its best.
We wonder just why this group of
musicians felt, as apparently other
groups have felt, that they must
become comedians when ap
pearing before a live audience.
Why in the world did they think
that they had to be comedians,
when this is not their talent?
There Is a second argument
against their amateurish comical
attempts. After a group has played
a really heavy sound or a slow soft
number the audience naturally has
a certain mood. Thus, the following
comical routine breaks the mood,
which is in turn again broken when
the group begins playing again. In
summation, I maintain that the
audience came to hear the group
give a concert, they expect a
concert, and this is what they
should get.
Secondly, the concert started at 8
p.m. with i fifteen minute in
termission. I walked out of the
Coliseum at 9:45 p.m. Thus, the
concert consisted of only two forty
five minute sessions. For $2 per
student and $3 per non-student, I
simply do not feel that the
audience got its money's worth.
This has been my opinion over the
years (I was a Carolina student for
three years), and I feel that the
average group which performs can
do better, can perform longer, for I
have seen the Lettermen and
Steppenwolfe present a show
which was much longer than the
average show.
When I come to hear a big name
group I expect to hear them and
not some other group which was
the case last spring when the "so
called" Dionne Warwick Concert
consisted of Wildfire, a group of
young unknowns and then Dionne.
L.ast Friday night intermisslor
ended with the turning off of al:
lights with no warning whatsoever
As steep as the Coliseum steps are
it's a wonder that someone did not
break a leg. It's common courtes)
and consideration to warn those ol
the audience who have left theli
seats by dimming the lights once
leaving them on for a few mor4
minutes, and then turning them of
completely.
I hope that these criticisms wil]
be taken Into consideration by the
Concert Committee by future
groups of musicians, for I intend
them to be constructive and
because I feel that these opinionm
reflect the feelings of many USC
students.
JAMES IRtWIN WALLACE. JR.
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A letter
'Back door' is out
Dear Black- Brothers and Sisters:
Not long ago we were slipping in through the back doors of
colleges and universities (black) and making our exits
through the front doors (white), if not by "passing" (if we
were liqht enough) then by adopting the social mores of
the Man.
Of course, I could understand that and actually dug it; for
I realize that to get that break was all important to deter
mining who would teach in our little one room shack school,
and who would be the garbage man or who would be the
cook or clean-up girl. So with inadequate credentials and
qualifications some of us sneaked through that small
opening in the back door.
Now togo through that back door in unthinkable; for now,
no more do we go squeeming up to some white minister or
good samaritan with our inadequate qualifications, we go
directly to the admissions office or the president if
necessary and show our college board scores of 800 and
"right on" to 1600. But, then, the right to achieve those
scores came from the effort of a black minister and two
white samaritans. Do you remember them? All of them
suffered for trying to balance that scale the Man calls
"justice." in fact, two of them died from the lead that had,
and still has, justice tilted.
So, now here we are. Martin wasn't black enough for us,
but he died for us. John F. was white, so he wasn't right, but
he died for us; and LBJ didn't go all the way, but he is still
being persecuted for us. I wonder what it would have been
for Ole Humphrey. But, we are here in the best that South
Carolina has to offt-,_going to and from clas"4,verWay,
learning the Man's Tricknology, preaching Black Power,
Black Pride, and Black Unity.
Black Unity? I gather that it means to socialize (or
fraternize) in order to ostracize; however, there is a
prerequisite - ya' gotta be black for this one, baby. Then we
can come out one night a week and invite all of us to the
Afro-American meeting; and later do what the Man's sons
and daughters are doing at the ''frat'' party-ostracizing and
socializing; although they're doing it a little differently
from you. Whereas you are ostracizing your brothers and
sisters, they're ostracizing you and your brothers and
sisters.
But, what the heck, Black Unity doesn't mean that the
money we are spending to become fraternity brothers could
be used as a contribution to the Broadwater campaign; it
doesn't mean that the money we are spending for the next
fraternity party could be used to set up a scholarship fund
for some black boy or girl to enable him to come to school
with us; it doesn't mean that this past summer the Man's
trick economy failed and some of us ain't gonna make it
because we didn't get jobs and our bellies are gonna tell it
about mid-semester because we don't have money to feed
them, that we should set up a fund for that We're gonna try
and hide that, aren't we? But everybody knows that a lot of
our parents are in that median income bracket for blacks in
South Carolina which is less than $2,000 per year. No, that's
not what Black Unity means.
And when our four years and many summers have ended,
we get our degrees in the various tricknologies and we do
like our ''frat'' counterparts (white). Since we have had a
well-rounded education, with the ''frat'' and all, we have
grown accustomed to our little special groups, so we go to
our special little homes in our special little neighborhoods
and there the cycle starts again. Is this Black Unity showing
itself before our generation even leaves college? Are we
going to force our brothers and sisters to come through the
back door like we were once made to do?
Watch out ''Sisters," the ''Brothers" are gonna get you a
sorority, and then we'll really be in shape.
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By CONNIE COYNE
Guest Couadst
The University Union and
Stdnt Goyerrment are really
psychsd up on sensitivity and
leadership training this semester.
Several weekends ago, for at least
the third time since school started,
a big red bus and a number of
carloads of student leaders took off
for Bonnie Doone plantation
outside of Walterboro, to picP up
now ideas-on how to plan senting
arrangements and how- to detect
peer emotions in abstract palinting
-to the tune of $48 per person.
The theory of National
Leadership Methods, Inc., seems*
to be that through a relaxed game
situation, dealing witi simulated
problems in small groups, with
extensive analysis of each par
ticipant's motives and methods
and techniques and signals to the
group, the participants will attain
a better understanding of the
nature and operation of leaders
and leadership.
One of the more interesting
things about the conference was
the last activity Saturday evening
the simulated agenda deter
mination of student senate.
Each eight-person group chose
an issue of current major concern
on college campuses and for
mulated a motion regarding this
issue, to be presented to the entire
120-person group.
The expected topics arose, and
the motions were presented.
"Moved: that colleges accept the
idea of coed dorms." "Moved: that
social regulations apply equally to
girls and guys." "Moved: that the
University should abandon the
concept of 'in loco parentis'." Very
good, precise issues for debate.
Some of them, of course, were
more specific. "Moved: that civil
authorities not be allowed on
campus." (Does that mean the fire
department can't come on?
somebody asked.) "That the
University Health Service provide
contraceptive and birth control
services to any female student
upon request." "That the
Indian sem
explains go
By T. S. SWEENEY
Columnist
.uotable unquote: There are two
1ds of people today: Heroes that
are Hangmen, and Sphinxes
without secrets. Spiro is neither of
the two.
P. Gaggar was elected to Student
Senate last spring. Twelve con
scientious electors provided him
with victory. Gaggar is an Indian
national working toward an ad
vanced degree in engineering. His
manner is charming and easy
going. One could hardly mistake
him for the "regimental bista"
immortalized by Kipling, and he
seems rather part of a "new
breed," very English in con
versation but also very Indian
beneath handsome dark eyes.
One of the major factors con
tributing to Gaggar's decision to
run was "to learn first, hand the
workings of student government in
this country." During his younger
days in India, Gaggar was active
in school politics, achieving the
post of chief minister-a sort of
coordinator among the various
student officials. In India there
was no pretense of designating
policy making power to the student
body politic in sharp contrast to the
situation here.
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leaders
University Health ServIce
maintain a confidential post.
abortive service available to any
student." Predictability can be
reassuring at times, can't it?
Then there were some motigns
evidencing some thought.
t'Moved: that a University Senate
be established, with both
.legislative and executive powers."
"That academic credit be witheld
for grades less than C and such
grades not be included in the
GPR.."
It was possible that the trite
controversies would win the
greatest interest as each group
cast one vote for each motion,
other than their own, that they
would most like to see added to the
agenda. It was easy to visualize the
next several hours spent in
fruitless rhetoric of rights and
oppression and injustice. And
there were a number of votes
scattered among such bills. But the
two motions to receive the greatest
number of votes were the
University Senate and the
academic no-credit, with the latter
being placed first on the agenda
and voted upon shortly thereafter.
This is interesting, for a number
of reasons. Does it indicate a
greater concern among campus
leadership for academic affairs
than for current campus issues?
It would be interesting to
speculate whether this motion,
passed at the end of the course,
would have won similar interest at
the beginning. The whole course,
after all, was aimed at developing
concrete resolutions of problems.
If the students acted this way at
the end, there is a chance that, still
being leaders when they came,
they probably had such in
clinations before ever being ex
posed to NLM.
So many things are of the
moment. It is reassuring that there
are some students who can resist
becoming caught up in momentary
issues, "involved" with the
transitory present, and forgetting
the reasons for higher or tertiary
education in the blaze of extra
curricular enthusiasm.
Itor
als
Another of Gaggar's avowed
purposes for running for student
'office was to try to achieve,
through Student Senate, changes in
exam policies in graduate classes.
When asked if he had made any
attempt to bring his ideas con
cerninag such changes to the at
tention of graduate represen
tatives last year, he readily ad
mitted he had not. He further in
dicated that he was hardly aware
of such representation until
election eve.
This seems typical of student
politicos. They run for an office
despite having never availed
themselves, or attempting to avail
themselves, of the same
representation prior to running. It
leads this writer to wonder if
stated purposes for running always
coincide with the facts.
In his short experience in the
senate, Gaggar finds a tendency to
mimic the characteristics of state
and national political bodies
particularly disturbing. "Most
student representatives seem to
argue and vote, not in the interest
of reason or constituency, but
according to the various party
dogma. Just a few meetings in the
chamber suffice to reveal the
political conservatives, liberals,
middle of the roaders, et al."
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