Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4e seies of life SYMICHAEL BALL late Editor Alt semester li'v und myself musing about the death that has smother is place. Students droop a over the floors and chairs of the Russell kouse, their im pqtent psyches bled to death somewhere Inside their skulls. A thinking professor told me she couldn't find anything to put any life into her students and nothing to prove there was life in them. People come up to me and ask, "What's going on this semester? I've never seen such a dead student body." And, today, the University of Delaware newspaper of Oct. 22, 1970, came to my desk. It was an obituary edition. The linside page contained this funeral notice: The University of Delaware died today. Who killed it? Some thought it was the "panty-raid" mentality of the students. Those were the "concerned" students, faculty and staff. Others thought it was the "apathetic" ones. Those were the "luiced" ones. The alumnl blamed it on the chicken. The students blamed it on the SGA. The faculty blamed the students. The administration blamed both. The Board of Trustees said it was still alive. And Newark blamed It on the university. It looked like business as usual on October 23, 1970. Everything was the same as always. But nobody knew that was why it was dead. And that's what it's all about. . The primary function of education is to crush the person. Beyond basic literary skills, education, at best, serves as an insurance of mediocrity. And those too afraid to examine whit they're about say, if you don't like it here, why don't you leave?" And that's death too. But people have a natural tendency to adapt to poisons. It's harder in these big, grind-em-out universities, but people adapt, sometimes. The more simplistic of the analyzers say that the fire of last spring depleted the fire of everyday student life--that students have nothing left to give, now. But it isn't that simple and it isn't that temporary. We live in a laded nation with a jaded education system. Perhaps, as many seers have prophisied, we are on the edge or deeper of a new and more splendid dark age. ' If we are truly on a non-stop vehicie to the land Of re inforcing our Ignorances, nothing can stem the tide of the Mnass spirit. But, for each of you, think and feel before that blackboard 'becomes a mass tombstone with your Identification and sanction on it. T he Gamecock . TIlE GA MECOCK Is publiahed i-weekly during the fall and spring semesters and weekly durIng .the summer semester, wIth the exceptIon of UnIversIty holidays and exam periods. Change of address forms. subscription requests and other mail Itema should be aent to Drawer A. USC. Columbia. S.C. 2920K. SubscriptIon rates are 17 per year or $3 per fall and apring semesters and Ii .fr both summer sessIons. Bulk copIes are S6 per l00. THE GAMECOCK this year receIved $38.000 from the student sactiity fund, entItlIng full-time students to a subscription to the paper. Offices of - Til E G AMECOCK are In Rooms 308 and 310 of the Russell House on the UnIversIty campus. Phones a re 777-MI7K. 777-4249 and 777-4220. Second class postage pa Id at ColumbIa. S. C. The edItor-In-chIef Is . (Chery.l Manning. Although TIlE GAMECOCK is publIshed by the UnIversIty of South CarolIna. the opInIons expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the UniversIty or the student body Letters a.etter% to the edItor should be brIef. typewrlitten. and about matters of concern to tC students. All letters must be sIgned. but names may. be withheld by. request. for .4tyle. good taste, and lIbel laws. Send letters to The G;amecock. Drawer A. USC. Columbia. . C. 2920K. ______ UNCLAIMED . FREIGHT 2 New 3 piece bed room. sets,wh $89.95 ea. 3 New Stereo Consoles M with AM-FM radios, $89.95 ea.pa Singer Touch sewing machines,Ov t7). $39.95 ea. 5 piece Stereo so Component Systems (3) .hi complete with AM-FM am pliphier. BSR changer, ac speakers, and desk cover. Additional jacks for tape deck, microphone, guitar, and speakers. These Solid State component sets will be sold forMOACNTE$104 only $87.00 each. We also have living room furniture, small EC OAC household items, etc.acoisbogphofheutr (Monthly Terms Available) wr,Ifune nhswiig OPEN TO TH E PUBLICofcaaer.*eiwqusos 9 A.M. TO9 P.M. ttdbbIgahc ugse MON. THRU SAT. Unclaimed cm Freight By 1211 Bread 'RIwe Rd. 'h. t . Ivs (hwy.176)1440 ain treetn 'snent oo 00 00 0 0. 00 0 0 - Letter to You are Dear Miss Manning: Enclosed is my reply to a Carolina student's letter. I hope these statements prove helpful. Everyone has grown sick of the word "communication," but no one can deny its importance. The letter reads as follows: I am quite appreciative of your concern that the "proper chan nels" for problem solving and for redress of griev.ance be made known. Many other students have asked members of the Student Government Association this same question. The first link in the com municative process is you, and each individual member of the Carolina Community. Have you personally identified specific problems you would like to see solved? Are you aware of the reform efforts and channels which ire discussed in campus >ublications and in the media? The second Iik iry the com munications network is Student Government. Each student is ,represented by senators from his residence area or school of study, 000 0.o0y.0eutv stdntbd fic. 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The president of the student bod and his staff are concerned wit] University-wide problems and wil direct your input to the faculty o: to the Board of Trustees. He an4 other members of the SGA mee regularly with key -faculty com mittees. The president is a tarticipatinj member in all meetings of thi board. The Russell House offices o Student Government are alway: open to you. The president, vice-president, oi someone who is specialll knowledgable on the problems tha concern you will be glad to tall with you. We do not promise instan results or your total satisfaction On the 'contrary, the tougher th( problem, the longer it takes to de with it successfully. We will provide straight answers and all the help we can, but chances art good we will ask'yon 'to assiMe 't least some responsibility for solving your own problems. JIM BRADFORD Student body vIca-nraeident -------------- L e lIn del Dear MIss Manning: In a column entitled "Law a Order With Justice," guq columnist Trotter accuses liber of being "soft on crime" because their "myopic (sic) view of hum nature" (I assume he mea "myopic," or "nearsighte( view) which nature he defines "basically, good, basical rational." Barry Goldwater and Willial Buckley argue that men are i "Dod" and so "rational" that the do not need government to te them how to live their lives. The s4 called "liberal philosophy" I actually the American creed. w have no feudal tradition, so we ar all children of the Enlightenmeni all "liberals" to a degree. Mr. Trotter asks why it is tha liberals do not defend "law an order?" The answer is that liberal do defend it, that in fact they en force it. But liberals, like con servatives, enforce the laws the3 find most in accord with theii concept of justice. There are laws against slum housing which fall below minimum standards. Liberals enforce thesc laws. Conservatives tend not to There are laws against not selling a house to a black man. Liberals tend to enforce the law; con servatives tend to ignore it. Mr. Trotter asks, sensibly I think, why Dr. King sanctioned disobedience of segregation laws and then condemned Governor Ross Barnett for counseling defiance of integration laws. Dr. King will tell Mr. Trotter himself t 9( Trade C youca for bank BrE They're young. Our aiverage ni The kind who rush out to mi Because they know si We neced managers. You needs to you? Why not1 see C&s. (:rossroads of thea South? 11.S. comi CaS' Don Rochi camIpus to,:,mrro Check with your p The Citizens and Sou tters to the edii lense of liE in "Why We Can't Wait" ("Letter nd Fvtn a Birmingham Jail"). at Dr. King believed in the Natural jls Law concept which holds that of there is such a thing as justice and an that laws may or may not accord ns with it. Put simply, segregation by I" race is unjust. No law can make it is just. ly Who determines justice? Each individual. It is one of the difficulties, one of 10 the beauties, of a free society. y Even those poor folk, so iacking in Mr. Trotter's concept of "moral character," have the right to s determine when they are being e treated unjustly. e Mr. Trotter is concerned that ' simple-minded do-gooders are t going to upset our society. But he I ought to ask himself if there is any 5 real "order" for the poor blacks of Beaufort County, or for harrassed long-hairs at USC, or for poor white laborers all over S.C. In sum, liberals, unlike con servatives, offer solutions. They may not work. Often they fail. But liberals do operate on the assumption that rational men of good will can solve problems. Intellectually impoverished by their cultivated pessimism, con servatives can only offer watered down liberalism. Mr. Trotter ought to examine President Nixon's welfare program (on guaranteed minimum income) and find, if he can, a couple of new ideas. Stale liberalism is the best the con servative can offer. Mr. Trotter claims that liberals CAMPUS WEDNE 5 P.M. TIL ( MONSTER BU OMBINATION "Monstrously Good" Monster I Crisp, golden French Fries . . Fnink N 409 Bloss AT THE BI marks licensed by Univers,al Pictures C:1969 f an ualify ing's New ~ed? ewv officer is4 20. Th'ey're flexible. atgnationi is not 01ur style. a job. I)ats this snggest atnyt hinog the hilliont-dollar~ bank at the Where 80I ttut oIf thle top) 100 stnies banik. w will be oin your .Like to meet hutn? lacement office now! RS thern Banks in Georgia always side with the poor, the black, the young against the "rich" and "established." The distinction between "rich" and "young" is very unclear. Most young liberals do not come from the "lower classes." Further, how many "rich and established" business men were killed in Watts, Orangeburg, or Kent State? American society is in turmoil not because liberals caused it, but because Mr. Trotter's con servatives ignore the turmoil and concentrate on liberals. ROBERT ROSEN Omnipresence Dear Miss Manning: The Gamecock quoted Doug Dent at the SCSSL thusly: "Students are often condemned for their failure to work through the system and for going into the streets to redress their grieviances. By-damn this is the system and, if we can't redress here, we must go to the streets." Does this mean if Mr. Foard is not censured, then we have riots again? I'm reminded of the little boy who takes his ball home if he can't be captain. If we do have disorders again, would Solicitor Foard be blamed again by Mike Spears? I thought the nationwide troubles were a reaction to Cambodian intervention first and then next a result of the Kent State oc currence. Mr. Spears has a new interpretation---Mr. Foard is 'everywhere" like "Turkeyman." LEO I-OSCHIOCK NIGHT SDAY PLOSING RGE R PLATE89,; With Student ID lurger, Tossed Salad A $1.19 value. Dm St. U|DGE 'ra nk N' St ein systems, Inc.