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h* phaes is almost trite a 490epi behind it is still a pl TWre is disagreement, a' In " rsity setting. 10 Ias not been very obvious kthe ide of student power is In any manor decision by the sh faculty or trustees involving c dy rights and privileges. ~ pr WpOnept must also pervade the thinking of if Government on all issues. The big m ketions which must be constantly re-anOwered ' y Student Government are: 'Why do we exist" and "Of what real value are we?" FOr the most part, Student Government func- fa tions only as an advisory body, representing the ti student viewpoint to the groups which have the policy-making power. Student senators have complained that bills which have taken hours of preparation and undergone even longer hours of . debate sometimes get no farther than the trash N can of a minor administrator. p if this is frequently the case, then the senate a and Student Government as a whole are merely political games devised by someone to appease I children. We do not say that political games T are useless, however. They do afford those who vi actively participate a chance to learn in a mock v, government modeled on the real thing In other s com munities. sr 8f Though political games do little harm (except In perha4 that operating expenses may be out of proportion to actual accomplishments) they do little good. U: The most frequent argument for denying ar students any power is that "Students are tran- al sl n ts . 0' "Students who know that they will be here only in Letters to the editor Pakistan surviv Dear AMUu: lower requirements I would like to bring to the at- brought no similar th tentian of your readers the recent s,af of y tragedy that has struck the Eastern; prt of Paistan. It is iein a estimated Ihat 300,000 people may have died due to the cyclone. Help hire a team. Yet agai is urgently needed for those who survived the experience. Any' i a contributions that your readers fact that you support can make would bm of immfnte help in providing for the survsienvors.ae We hav bee Mr.lSparatiytgIIn ternational Week on the campus wyshud'heg wih th thm-Peace through matrwyuod' wnderstanding." If In any sma e"loslI t mieasure we have learned and' oenet understand others In their joys as well as their tragedies, this Is the Thatlicdp time to show it.tknteamrbe No matter how small the con- bektemnyu tributlon you can mnake, I hope yioiu n~est ntef will do It. Please make checks bycpeigtesa payable to "East Pakistan Relief Ididulontn. Fund" and send it to the address t e n te r given below,.apsruhn o NAIM AHMED tknfo h nv Dept. of Economics College of Business Administratlon h otbl ez besides aeqoimnts A ti~i~i attitrdehateo simiurn t i Dear lau Maning:The donaimensto di P~~~~~~~~erhaps weaentUSCmetn ,Jhwmn hol you stff,ye asmemersofthe a bkincsiteybaryin CaroinaComuniy, e hve fasttt selousupporth sau~oundIththeppoliies oheoS athesetent.eWertavet. f.Wear, yt wih he You edtoral ag ha taen liray should ego hostle atitde twar the coater That shouldn' lowerng of admision he siplyrould Ik requiemens forstudnt atlet athletic tnepo acto woul havethe efect akeYo thae adtatl releatig acdemcs t a eck ac ethdeal money u seat po ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ niesiti in the fnvriy t rprsnsapo et seemsincosistet tht proosal cret,gin you tailt to lwer cadeic rquirment lae aonts othe mr forblaks d hebil prposd i itoke fromdthe Uni thestuentsente astyea to Tefootbll tarn Thanmacit.Thsea you saff, et s membrsof thwe returni tob thUiv Caina Community,. wehave aboom. th liary.~ i becoe ineresed i thema lst ellumin t surround...g.the.po..c.e..of.our.a......... .th.et.c.departmn................ ............... We.. do... not.. wish....to Yoreioia aehstae; bay hudbc adrs Yo stte tha this. acin w ud hv1h!fec f Y uh v adta nes lish littk Wr years don"t tae the time to, get the ove, cture of things," say those who use gument, "therefore, they will detract from Nogrange goals of the University." We disagree with the Idea that students arq ort-sighted. Certainly individual stude me and go, but the student body remains, v any of the same interests--including getti actical education, discovering and develop e goals, and being able to learn in an osphere of personal and academic freed Most students realize that the University o on after they have left and are willing to w r improvements which will go into effec rne to benefit a younger brother or sister. The question of ultimate importance hether or not students actually want pow iost students do not know. One answer i Povide them with some real power and se id how it is used. A logical starting place is to give the stuc Ody president voting power on the Boarc ustees. As the representative of the stuc ewpoint to the board, Mike Spears can c present the student viewpoint and g ggestions. With full voting privileges, Spea fectiveness both in his relationship to )ard and as student body president, wc crease greatly. Such a constructive step would begin to SC in line with many major universities wh 'e being realistic about student power. It ml so help Student Government to grow up, oviding it with a genuine, though limited, vc the governance of the University. ors need hel for senators organizations. We have yet to ade from the 43,000 people attend any of t offerings. This leaves us to bel that perhaps the University ha. pyeared that abbt to aid"'cadenics as wel go pro and athletics. This is evident by n, we find an new academical buildings an from the increasing enrollment with a I in increase in headed approach while tudent Body Gamecock seeks to create i o bones with troversy. is to be paid, aro. For that We do not favor the degrada we pay all. of academes, but we dofeel he Student athletics do perform a service much larger section of Carolina Community than rteths other part of the Univer. tep of paying Therefore, we feel that ed from M criticism Is somewhat of loans pa vehement for the threat preser liu thM by athletics to academIc e We have yet munity. naeonROGER COUCH 'eaIn on CH AR LES RUSH1ON raity's funds. npublicity De i arcl e campus for to al e the alumni t service in Dear Miss Manning: e University I have read in The Gamec them enjoy from time to time statemi ~rsity to read which seemedJ to me to be tot Then was the asinine. However th edi McKissick entdted, "Death--way of lie" I them all say that th 'The perpetuator of this piec ne handball writing was one Michael I elccrs. Now, I ask myself; how could 2 touseerohat rational human being come M tom se ta with soethng like that? Well, for one thing, Americ obviously love to gripe: whatu Cu pend su happens, they'll find fault witi on athMetics Also, one can find evidence tot, ofirtes up anything one decides be wi CrItCIZethe o believe. Besides which you Se te Mr. Bail and the liberal and c on, Sthdert servative elements in this coui i other are all equally insane, I everybody else. us me wiey. Still, I find It incredible that i a nes Ball can make a statement uts rwrA this: '1be primary function -sm mmees education is to crush the pen byumA,gi Beyond basic literary ski "A education, at best, serves as me.-Ma s.c. insurance of .mediocrity." a .ghbs .- believes this, and yet he enroUi w es a University! Exactly whal -nr sesag would have done! (Note the i ausbed as cma.) Maybe he took the wn Ub namw coaz'ses? Maybe he misses aanneas? Maybe he took too mn __ acdd? And he tells urn that eene es..rechan is the first of a series! ba.lmsea It's anough to- aae mne was~ aab ck to being a lgh-w resetwNary '-eli this the Iso nts fith g a Ing at Wm. will ork in Is Ver. I if lentSix dollars a I of Two boys found themselves 4 ny cellent view of the Carolina-Clei Mye out if they were satisfied or disu irs' the You ca gi By ROB BIGALKE Feature editor put Thanksgiving is Thursday. ght Every year there's an exhor ght tation somewhere to give thanks by for your country, your loved ones ice or your health. But you can give thanks for other things. You can give thanks that you are still in school, or that you are out of school. You can give thanks that you haven't been drafted, or you can give thanks that you came back alive. see heir eve You can give thanks that a friend eve came back alive, or you can give sth thanks that he doesn't have to the worry any more. I in You can be thankful that your ve hiher has a job, or you can be l'he thankful that he doesn't work and can spend time with his family. Letter tion ha Law studer explain pet too ted un Dear Miss Manning;, In the November 18 issue of The Gamecock there appeared what wuas supposed to be a news article entitled "Law School petition new name needed". The article was r lacking on several points of in formation. Since we were e signatories to the petition involved ' we feel some obligation to "help" the staff, editors, or what ever you r are of this propaganda sheet of the a pink, irrational, irresponsible left r ock to correctly and factually report the news. ally OUTST'ANIEN( LAWVI-:R James Petigru was indeed an outstanding lawyer ol his day. Yes, L she did oppose secession as did ( many other Southerners all across the , Confederacy. But after of secession James Petigru, like' all many others, followed their State. any The most known example of this up type of feeling was General Robert a E. Lee who opposed secession and slavery but followed his noble a Virginia. s Let me also point out to you that F James Petigru actually made t.financial contribution to the as k Confederate Government before W his death In 1863. The main reason 'for our effort to change the name of ne on- the Law School is not to adversely tO e reflect on Mr. Petigru, but simply w that we are of the opinion that the State Law School should be named ni after what we feel is the most outstanding lawyer, stateman, -i' and gentleman ever produced by cc South Carolina, and that man is C of John C. Calhoun. -nn SIX NAMES Ils' Fis it seems we should clarify Sthe reason why obly six names 3 in appeared on the petition. The Spetition was posted at 9 a.m. on -Theursday November 12th. By 9:301 em appeared and thereafter it was defaced by false names and comments. At this time the petition wasaremoved and at a.m. on Friday a new peItton was put - up which was stolen shortlyu to thereafter. . kig ltbsund bemnoted that thse e expression, ee inposoh, esItMn an annas..md thessle..a.reMsit e. i vantage point with an ex nson conflict. We didn't find ippointed with the outcome. ve thanks You can give thanks that your family is still together or that your parents had the wisdom to separate. You can give thanks that you have a job or that you don't have to work. You can give thanks that you have friends to help you or that you are so strong a person that you don't need help. You can give thanks that someone is concerned about cleaning up the environment or you can give thanks for the Military-industrial complex which s responsible. You can give thanks that we are ighting to keep Southeast Asia tree, or you can give thanks that we are getting out. You can give thanks for mything. But'give thanks for something. Lts iton student body from signing the petition by defacing it and making it appear that it was a joke. We can assure you there was no joke. We don't know just what a staff rember isat the Law School.Is a 3 taff member one of the faculty, a ecretary, a placement bureau vorker, a custodian or what? At a ny rate, whomever the staff i members are we would like to ssure them that our effort in egard to this petition was no joke. PER PETR ATORS R EVEALED Secondly, It was stated that the erpetrators of this petition were nknown. In the Interest of helping ;amecock staff, editors, or ,hatever you are, and the Law chool Staff whoever they are...we 'ould like to disclose the names of te perpetrators. Their names ppear at the end of this in tmative letter. Aiso in the interest of the news ar new dean Is Dean Robert cster...so that probably accounts r the fact that Dean FIgg was not railable for comment. Finally, e hope we have been of same sistance In the gathering of USC ws. And therefore, we each wish apply for a reporting position ith the Law School Gamecock aff, whoever they are. Also If any embers of the Law School Staff, toever they are, wish to sign the hn C. Calhoun petition please ntact a perpetrator and reveal urself. DAVID MAKING JOhN BRADLEY I. WAYNE ELLIOTT policy PS'Im. abou mae,r of esieem a Ne eiasr be am bees he eS, mweve me e ua bo MTenwe be be nbe msmea, sbmwe A, ac,' maaa. a. c. UammL Death By MICHAEL BALL Associate Editor Meoftneb word Is "ennut," and It's here. "Ennui" Is boredom. But bredom with a sgs of anxiety, frustration, dissatisfaction. And that's what death Is about. People too jaded, too filled with ennui to think, to feel. It didn't just happen. Death didn't just come along and seize the University of South Carolina. CREEPING Death came creeping, crawling, .'belching along the Horseshoe very slowly, nibbling away the souls in classes and in dorms. The riots last spring didn't burn c out the spirit of the students and v school. The riots merely were a burst of emotion and thought that emphasised the unhealthiness of s suicide. a The suicide of ennui is not quick c and not painless. The anxiety of c knowing you and your en- U vironment are sinking into the n grave of reinforced ignorance is A slow, aching and complete. It may be that the lecture is boring because you are not listening. It may be that the k professor no longer has the wil to 0 think and express. If so, he's a probably doing it in the name of e reality or reason or some other excuse for dying. si ni FATAL si But don't believe it's temporary or mild. Ennui is !stal. The zom- ha bies that occupy the desks, lee- d terns and offices at USC have no nc more in common with humanity than the automobile. Both the yo Nalking dead and cars have been be round so long many people think br hey're necessary. A review 'Good News "Good News for Modern Man" is a good news for organized religion in 0 this country. It means that I organized religion's more con- b eientions segments are making an C attempt to reach theM general reader by other means than folk nasses and church gatherings. Jc Those other segments. com monly grouped together under the e beading "fundamentalist," find a that "Good News"is bad newsand h tave been spending a lot of money e trying to tell South Carolinians that dea. These large ads In several Ca lewspapers have stirred uP gr 'ontroversy which has helped the go istribution of the streamlined an Jew Testament. If you dig organized white Anglo- S axon protestant religion and re onsider yourself fairly liberal, - ou will like this book. It is streamlined, easy to read. nd in a paperback version. And It' a book about Jesus Christ. w' The Lord's Prayer in "Good the Jews" reads like this: bir for "Our father in heaven: may your name be kept holy., may your Kingdom come, hit may your will be done on earth bol as it is in heaven. esi Give us today the food we need; Bit "org,ve us the wrongs that we Ma have done, tirn c~ny U' And assumhn I kow what In talking about, what's to be done? On a very eleIentary lne you, a a student, can stop whinning about nothing to do. Three are nore and better lectures, aims and events than ever before, more and better than you are likely to see in your daily life when you're away from USC. LISTEN More important, you should pay attention. The teacher and students who say something in lass may not be handing out junk; hey may be saying something that ould help you stop being a legetable. On the other hand, you an better the condition of those within and without you by lemanding. Demand that the professor or tudent talking support what he Mys. Demand that an idea in any onversation be able to withstand riticism and laughter. Demand sat you get something for your ioney and time--that's an merican ideal. LET YOURSELF And the hardest of all, you can eep yourself from dying on one .her level. Allow yourself to be ware of an entity without assifying it. That is, allow yourself to hear a nging bird without calling it by ie and thinking, "That robin is riging." Allow yourself to talk ith someone without being aware at you are trading words. If you ive to rationalize everything you , there will be no beauty, no joy, spontaneity. rhe last time you allowed urself to think and feel may have en the last time you took a eath. And that's a long time ming and a long time gone. really is s we forgive the wrongs that thers have done us; lo not bring us to hard testing, ut keep us safe from the Evil "e." hn 3:16 "For God loved the world so such, that he gave his only Son, a that everyone who believes in Im may not die but have ernal life."j rhe big gripe against the "Good ws" version began in North rolina a few months ago. A >Up of fundamentalist preachers their congregations together i held a massive Bible burial. mue reports say they burned the bles. The Charlotte Observer uorted one minister as saying, fhen Jesus was on this earth, he -ried the King Jambs Bible." [heir main objections stem from at they consider to be the ecularization" of times. Also, re were no references to "virgin th." There was no Greek work "virgin". Good News" is bound to be a After all. controversy seems to ster new publications, ecially new translations of the le. "Good News for Modern n" should be around a long e.