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Chn*sums '.k what Santa left us Te hiM to take It back right angle Cpitalis of new R By. DAN TROTTER Guest Columnist "I swear by my life aud my love of It-that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask onother man to live for mine." "He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar." So begins the pamphlet recently distributed by a group called Radicals for Capitalism, votaries of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Ob jectivism. Universities are traditional breeding grounds for crazy ideologies, but they're usually of the leftist variety. The Radicals for Capitalism have earned for themselves the distinction of being the first group of right-wing kooks on the Carolina campus. Basically, Objectivism is a materialistic, super-rational, anti spiritual, anti-Christian theory of ethics that has selfishness, rather than altruism, as its basic tenet. The philosophy stresses in dividualisin to the paint of anar chy. Capitalism is its god. The difference between Ob jectivism and orthodox con servatism Is the. same as that between conservatism and *liberalism. Objectivists and liberals believe that man can engineer his secular salvation, -while conservatives know that he can not. To the liberal, the state is the Messiah; to the Objectivist, it *Is capitalism. A conservative - knows that capitalism wili not produce chiliastic results; to him, capitalism Is simply the best method that man has yet devised to meet his economic needs. The rhetoric of the Radicals for Capitalism is not nice. YAF Is denounced as totalitarian, no doubt because they believe in such "statist" propositions as govern ment control over the armed forces. Liberals are termed "collectivist pigs." Now, there's probably a great deal of truth in that last statement, but there are a lot more polite ways of saying it. The rhetoric rivals that of the barbarians of the New Left. The Radicals for Capitalism *have made the mistake of con fusing the realm of practicality with that of morality and theology. Laissez-faire capitalism may feed one's stomach, but it won't save one's soul. The virtues of self-pride and ambition have been twisted into egocentrism Jhd greed. The capitalist ethic has been perverted into a monstrous religion of sorts, with materialism and hate as its mainstays. The high priests of - I at Slater this year, Hon." , Dear!" m is god' adicals radical libertarianism have mad selfishness a virtue, and altruism a sin. They desire a society free from coercion and intolerance, yet they want to rid the state of even the limited power that is absolutedy essential to the maintenance of a free and ordered society, while calling their enemies totalitarins and collectivist pigs. Carolina students would do wel to reject these fanatics. .The Ga THE GAMECOCK in publiMhed tri-weeMy dut during the swnmer semesters with the except Change4A.ddress forms, subscription requests a USC. (loimbia, S.C. 2U0. SubscrpUon rates aft and $1 for both summer sessions. Bulk copies are M3.000 from the1tud@W activitv fAentkf f Offices of THE GAMECOCK are in ] s a .campus. Phones are 77-4178, 74s0 and 77 'Although THE GAMECOCK Is published by the pressed herein do not necessarily represent those Associate Eder . . Besys Maager . MWagSg Edij6rs . Chief Ptgailpber........ News Editers . . Fetr Editor 2....... Mertisag Mane......... Cireultae Maager.. the Ca Revel .study for exams You'll never went to Each cassette is a full one-ih tant content material taught is most widely-used textbooks. 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More FoWoMy, the South C n 0f SIdet Delature saw fit to declare itself in executive session during discussion of a situation invotving the UniN4dW. hI the later in steme, I eamet find fault with the SCSOL decision to go into executive session. V0 Ose 06n ns whe, in *e bMaaft of qpa and bulk isussion, n entive sessiln is .m astions, however, bng the fe and rn Wf9Igtrs and weeltly on of Unayrstv mbidava and eam verlods. ed oher m0 Itan dhould be smut to Drawer A. V per year or W per fan and sprkng semester 86 per 100. Onf GAMECOCK this year received 0. ISmd ewdas poo paid at Cohmnbla, S. C. Uwiveraity of Sculb Grollna, the opnnms ex ttbeUniversty, * chlek 'pi tesii - . . . . . . . Cheryl Rann Jleb ftsl - - - - - . Mihe Bat . - - - . . . . Uso"e m Jim Farrell Tedfy Hefter - - . . . . . . . Gene Hamey - - - - - - - - . . Charles Beebe Che*Keefer. ea.Penesmbaum - - -. . -- - eb -Wgnen eeNee eentes, tase onath e P o Psychooy PhyciS. Economics Philosophy overnment sposition tics Sociology Anthropoiogy opment ge contains: ones-hour outlie othe cdet s a , and adtaie glossary 3M Modison Avenue. New Yoru 10017 ESMAY P~a a stems, ine. D ts trial By MICHAM BALL ASsClate Editor N ever mindful of the needs of otil od John A. Pinckney asked of God umked the Chamber of Commerce In terms of a city being its people. met "failures of responsibility." He nmunity oriented objectives." In a very gentle but very real way, see people. He told them that the it plan was the most important thir S city. k any of us are naive enough to jst a group of concerned citizens % kmbla's public relations. The Ch the rich and influential people of people who can make the Doxiac hor d faculty s became questionable when they n decided to make an exception and r admit the representative of a local ir television station "on the basis of their past news coverage which g has supported the student I viewpoint." Such selective access e amounts to little more than blatant IT censorship. a In the case of the Faculty Senate, n I strongly suspect that many of these who voted against allowing T representatives of the student and W professional press to attend senate ti meetings would be among the first w to raise a great howl of dismay if s4 the U.S. Senate and House of r Representatives suddenly h declared that henceforth they a, would conduct all their business in seerecy, and the results of their a detiberations would be made o known only if they decided to make a] them known. p1 Several of my fellow senate w members raised the ancient st hobgoblin of misquotation. As one ni who has been both interviewer and fu interviewee on numerous oc- C casions, it is my observation that p most frequently the interviewee p has not been misquoted, but has or made some ill-thought-out hi statement that he wishes he could call back, hi It is far easier to claim nc II $3,0 PE4P, n o unto other b ep s begin work and m live and wc lers," the John Wei in his in- members d redevelopm o do just West will u. this plan Isi He talked When i se talked In blights that change durl laid It on The only Doxiadus dinner to th ig ever to sir." I hope'l John Wes think our January. W ho are in terms of mi amber is state. the city. ihopeJoh Jus study the state. TI * kisquotation than - to accept .sponsibility for one's verbal tanities. I have been present at several atherings during the past six ionths where one of the main Dncerns was that "com iunication" between the faculty nd student body and ad iinistration needs to be improved. The University's Board of rustees has matched deed to ords and opened its meetings to ie student and professional press ith the exception of executive ssions. The Faculty Senate, a !presentative body, once again 3s seen fit to block a valuable venue of understanding. It causes me great concern when group zealously guards one kind freedom, the academic variety, id denies another, freedom of the -ess. It causes me equal concern hen a group of young persons, tch as the SCSSL, among whose .mnber surely are many of the ture leaders of the State of South arolina, seems to be saying to the ess: "You may report to the .ople on our deliberations if, and ly if, you agree with what we Ive to say." It would seem that neither gher education nor youth cessarily imparts wisdom. S@6IAL RUEsaw I COLUMBIA kees a TeybFe in Jani ake Columbia a decent place for al irk. it Is In a postition to se that. t o their Jobs in Insuring a rapid. a ent of Columbia. If he is more thar e his influence, legal and social, i Vt defeated by racists and entre; ? Columbia, I see a city on the verge infect other metropolitan areas. I I ng the West administration. students I saw at the meeting v influential and saying only, "Yes, his will change, as promised by We t Is on trial as a human beinj est has stated his views. West he nding the needs of the people of n West doesn't fall his promises to iey'll be watching. lock a chaj I do not claim perfection for the press, either student or professional. Mistakes can be and are made. But, consider the alternative. HENRY T. PRICE Assistant Professor College of Journalism Controversial row Dear Miss Manning: I am a sophomore. Last year, in order to get good basketball tickets so that I could see the game I waited until 3:30 to pick up my tickets. I employed the same this year to get my ticket for the Auburn game. However, Mr. Faircloth, the ticket manager informed me that the procedure of putting all tickets remaining at 3:30 up for grabs had been changed and sophomores could only pick up tickets which extended from row Z to the con troversial row AK. When I asked him what would happen to the tickets that weren't picked up, he told me that at 5 o'clock they would become the property of the University. For the Auburn game any person in the city of Columbia could buy better F BISTINCTI@I MMlm Shlp, Lary I I Its people to he Chamber nd thoiough I a politician, 'o make sure orenuers. P of the urban iope this will vere serving sir,' or "No, 'st. , beginning is spoken in this city and the people of mel tickets than any freshman or sophomores and m'any juniors and seniors received. All students pay a $200.00 University fee which "in cludes.. Student ac tivities.. Athletic.. Fees." It is unfair to the students who are underclassmen to be forced to either take sorry seats or else watch television. Many students took their chances on not getting tickets at all so that they could possibly get better seats. I'm sure that there are many people who are upset about this new distribution process. I am just disappointed that the general public is getting a better choice of seats than the studen body. HERB SCHULKEN R J' 50* See Ad on Page 4 WE DELIVER Phone 256.7179 TICKETS ALSO AT THE DOnOR.