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t*A 16 Reality is alu What Is emotW Liaion C, to Improv( "*No one really understands what we're tryng to do ...the state legiblature has been presented with a distorted view of student goveknment and the Carolina community . .. we have no way of following UP on the bills we enact . . we need a kind of public relations program' to improve un der6tanding between the student body and the general public..." These were a few of the criticisms and observations made by Student Government officials last year.. But although it was easy enough to determine that lack of com munications was one of the major problems facing Student Govern ment and the student body, providing a solution to the problem proved to be something of a Herculean task. The Student Senate Liaison Committee, created by a bill authored by Senator 'Emily Wheeler. wa-s j,_Li:i i. perform 'that task. At the present, the Liaison Committee is concentrating its efforts on improving relations with thestadin eiltre. thephtuent bodyh a stuen genao publc... pagesie state aegieature,twa ritcntmy anctd oberaiosmadte Bualhoughom ittwease og originamine that laksof Com muniations wasonh the majra polmaigStudent Govern- eti enteavndsthn soctudn body providng suiot.o,pgsi thebe Hercuean Ask.bl The Stdet Stuents Liaipsona Comttsein create Hous awere authred byus theitr nfly inhbehler of Sn Govermt performtha sk Atotevr preently the Liaison Committee as coetg more muniatsons roig rltion wtht teselegislature. Stpe Arcthi anl. a studentseaoan a paentr, statisature, was resetly eleed iran therp Liin Cnomi te. re"' rially.pried. Liasnel said. miteerybodem tor imprnoving Degr isos expaningth Grobes Jarodurenhs and-calsled "PorieStudentseti ceri ehnear typdcaoloftheyngth peolens suport Also. coalgesi tude Gressne,and Asembyhn at other "stdetslihn "pesina confcti th State Houst wneresugtso use thiluencoe in ehaofrtudChrent Heer, retlthe aisonu activeh an iso ef n asgi" in mr mgettionsh whr tter i legaiatre..Erocntueth ArhiearnedM. Jam stde snatr.sait adiithation ws eonderflly impresse, h adp itns norale atoshee. " relld snuried. Parsuggeshad eveybdsems, the enjoyinr a Jdime ed and thcle "Pogeive Studens for Cha geartyl of the y ouse. Apem hitive thinkin ashat around you mal security? Ie s ommittee 0 ^ himself and these men (the legislators) are really easy to talk n with." Stephen Smith labeled the T k i dron d a o sucs"adbada made a "big stride forward." rhe Liaison Committee is planning a number of breakfast -I meetings with the legislators in " late oebruary or early March. One person from the Liaison Com mittee will be in charge of each J breakfast. The scheduling for the breakfasts will be made so as not to conflict with events already scheduled on the State House calendar. .1 rhus far, the state legislators have responded positively, in some th cases enthusiastically to the af Liaison Committee's actions. In a b letter to Chairman Smith, House El Speaker Solomon Blatt said, "I te shall. be happy to meet with a group of students at any con- p vcniet date for ll parties con- te aerned and sometimes 1 hope I can " e yo'or' guest for breakfast. Should 01 you and some of those associated to with you desire to come to Barn- M well and discuss our mutual m problems. I shall be very happy to have you. b: In another letter to the Liaison Committee, Lieutenant Governor elect Earle Morris siad, "You are -- to be congratulated for the creation of a Committee to maintain liaison between your Dl student body and the members of the General Assembly. . .Your pa eff orts will be most helpful to all of G us." The students serving on the ti Liaison Committee were appointed o by Jim Bradford, vice president of rr the student body and president of nr the Student Senate. The bill which rn created the committee gives the pl president of the Student Senate this power of appointment. ui The hill also provides that the" president of the student body and hi the four class presidents serve as c; ex-officio members. t1 Tihe present members of the c< Liaison Committee include Phil Hudson. Steve Cannon, Clint Sloan, %i Stephen Smith. Julliane Still. Joe irl Usry. P'olly Spann, Jean Neal, al Mike Spears. Emily Wheeler, ni Henry Tecklenburg. Helen Long o1 and I)on Babb. ch allen when that oppressive old Board of ft Tlrustees feel they can set Si University regulations. but, as even you must suspect, the ye trustees are responsible to the I, taxpayers of the state of South w Carolina. not to the "Progressive rt ''' Students for Change." or I attended USC from 1962 through 1966, and while I wasn't happy with everything 'par ticularly women's dormitory hiours>. I feel that those four years were among the best, and certainly the most constructive of my life. r Not much need be said about the PSC platform. except to say that le several items: i.e. - removal of ii ROTC from campus: release of U draft dodgers from jail: and cc removal of all city. state, and federal law enforcement U forces - are patently ridiculous and J11 deserve no consideration whatever Cc from anyone. Mi The PSC platform is a case of the Ia twod three members of that group bi dictating to the entire state of cr South Carolina. andt fr that m.ae .. 01 By THE HOLLOW M We are the hollow n We are the stuffed r Leaning together Headpiece filled witl Our dried voices, When we whisper to Are quiet and meani As wind in dry grasi Or rats' feet over br In our dry cellar. T. Some of each generation I'd and. And it is a mystical expe Usually the people who fall uni )Iectivism are in the lower yeari hey are naive and sincere and eir emotional need to be right Rand's application of the iowledge comes from things ality can be determined by th ry emotionally fulfilling. Peopl ? right, can feel twice as right if I gic leads to absolute truth. At first glance, the Radicals I em to be these mystics who h and's philosophy wholly. They -e more mature and devious ft The Radicals area splinter grot mericans for Freedom. A year and one half ago when ti f the YAF convention remov orian" conservatives from the umber of dissident groups forr illitant rightists who want a ?rvative-lead revolution. There fpe youth. And there are the pu 'he existentialist WIayhem By HARRY HOPE Columnist (This didn't really happen, but it st might.) Confusion and mayhem ruled at a Carolina Coliseum last night 'er a remark made to USC sketball coach Frank Mac re by the coach oNhe Allburn im, Coach Lefty Oblinsky. WacFire reportedly com mented a player of the Allburn km, Epworth Fenmelt, on the reat game he was playing." linsky jumped up and ran over the Gamecock bench and told acFire "not to ever talk to one of y boys again." At that moment, star Round ller John Foac wa~ fouled and letter iaoncern mnak4 ear Miss Manning: Re. Lynn Galloway's letter on age two in the Dec. 7 issue of The amecock : There are a few who are alive in e Craft Shop and in student ganizations, but there are so any among the "14,000 very uch alive" students who are very uch dead -- humanly, not self easingly. Michael Ball, as I perceptively iderstood the writing in his leadness" series, was relating s sad observation on life around mpus which he realized lacked e essential element of hum'anity : >ncern. The death of the Question of the eek is due to the lack of concern the many readers who did not swer it. The death of the year *ng for learning is due to the lack concern in the many collegians 'ho cannot be affluently secure L4 ges Pr te University and the United ates what their policies will be. I think the difference between >ung Gary Jardim and me is that went to USC for an education that ould make me a constructive and sponsible citizen, while Gary is ly there to play games. Criticism and knowledge ear Miss Manning: In response to Mr. G;len Iamb's tier entitled "Fish Wrapper." in e D)ecember 7 issue of The amecock, I feel compelled to imment. According to Mr. Lamb. "The amecock is the worst example of urnalism I have ever en untered." It Is my opinion that r. Lamb is one of those terribly zy students who has nothing 'tter to do than sit around and Iticize something of which he ally has no knowledge. bjec -Mich Associato YSTICS wen men i straw. AlasI ether, ngless I oken glass S. Eliot iscovers" Ayn rience. Jer the spell of i of high school. they are filling theory that observed and a mind can be e, who need to 'hey think their or Captitalism ave swallowed are not. They ian that. ip of the Young 1e big walk out ed the I'llber Drganization, a ied. There are i bloody, con are John Birch re libertarians. 0 reigiu fell, but was chargec member of the Alibi Striker of USC wei Allburn bench and something is amiss The Allburn cc Striker was cursi promptly hit him. then stepped over,.r patted Striker on asked if he needed a Danny Trailer walk both of them on the position on top of the offered his assistant The Allburn tear outdone, threatened "instant death," checking the heigh statistics. decided as us ali without a degree. grass sections is d concern in the mai who will not walk a the corner of the si The death of seni morale of workers lack of concern patronizers who d< thanks upon accept from the servants t counter in the cafett yourself. Lynn, are since you showed a when you referred 1 as a "morbid, idioti We need not only "a card game or jus self-pleasure; but a writing a letter c thanks, for other p< really be alive -- bot self-pleasingly. PAUl,0'G ?tters to ogre Mr. L,amb stated paper was interest hold my attention." terrible bore who interest in anything have found some newspaper to captu D)oes Mr. hamb I about journalism? ii EAl)Ii,f? One aim of a goot to have articles cos interests. No newsj from beginning to reader. Headlines e: reader an idea of w will cover. Even if t skims over the hea determine what he read and what is him. it is very obviousi knows nothing repor ting. In his opli part of The Gan reading is the letter which are writtE sturdents and ~tivism e: ael Ball y Editor (For a report of the split, see the March 1970 "Playboy.") While it is a simplistic view to say the Radicals are disgruntled YAFers, the two spokesmen for the group locally, David Kennison and Mike Oliver, are ex-YAF leaders, one from Con necticut and one from Furman. Kennison says that, nationwide, his group is one-third ex-YAFers. He added that, unlike the militant conservatives, his Radicals want "to win an ideological victory first, before a physical revolution becomes meaningful." And the Radicals for Capitalism seem to be gaining converts to their mysticism daily. Most people outgrow the susceptibility to Rand by college; apparently the need of Carolina students to have absolute reality develops more slowly than in other places. Whether the two spokesmen of the group are sincere believers is in doubt. They may merely be disciples of Rand or they may be using the philosophy to gain membership for their group to the ends of their type of ideological victory. Either way, they espouse the belief that mpn's logic is as absolute as the laws of physics. They say that the state on all levels should and can be replaced with a laissez-faire economic system that will extend from personal relationships to International dealings. Happily enough, most people outgrow Rand they see the role their emotions played In the choice of this philosophy and they see that a man can balance his mind, emotions and body more easily than living by logic alone. In short, most of the high school students who become infatuated with objectivism realize that they were having a mystical experience and disguising it in reason. We all have our areas of hollowness. Some of us are just more stuffed than others. at Coliseum I with fouling a MacFire instead. irn team. Tom When they threatened MacFire, it over to the the entire USC group in attendance said "Verily, promptly attacked every Allburn here." team member, fan and sport ach thought swriter in the Coliseum. Eight ig him, and campus police tried to stop the Fohn Seablock violence, but disappeared and are -eached down, assumed to be missing in action. :he head and Meanwhile, students on campus ny help. Then who were watching the action on ed up, patted television swarmed down to the head from his Coliseum and joined in the fray. Coliseum, and Two hundred-thirty-nine highway !e. patrolmen, 15 city police, 18 deputy i, not to be sheriffs, 3 meter maids and 37 the three with members of the American Legion but after were called in. t and weight Meanwhile, USC athletic to pick on director Paul Pretzel appeared on the arena floor, waving his arms and shouting "Comc, come--verily, yea, verily I say unto thee, this is not the Christian Way." V e An anonymous USC fan promp The death of tly threw Pretzel to the rafters. ue to lack of After the fight, the casualties iy pedestrians totaled 45 Allburn dead, 133 little longer to missing, and 4 captured. USC's dewalk. casualties were 2 injured and one sitivity for the missing athletic director. is due to the Other casualties reported are 239 in the many dead highway patrolmen, 45 dead not express city police, 18 dead deputies, 3 ing their plate raped meter maids and 37 dead ehind the food members of the American Legion, tria. Even you as well as eight missing campus humanly dead police. ack of concern Also among the missing is the o Ball's series entire Allburn team, its coaches c philosophy." and all male cheerleaders. Female relaxation, in cheerleaders were abducted to the t a break," for USC War Memorial grounds and lso concern, in assaulted. r just saying .Joe Betty of WHIZZ-TV and Bob ople. Then we liton, the "Larynx of the h humanly and Gamecocks " commented that "any man would have to be an RAI)Y absolute fool to yell at MacFire in the Carolina Coliseum."~ the editor ssive Stude 'nothing in the creativeness than anything you ng enough to and your staff can comprehend." He must be a 4'. ,, ,,l'lY doesn't have .or he~ would Mr. Lamb, it is true that letters ehig in ete to the editor can be creative; but it Cnowi inthn isdferest,t with news articles. Prowbabnythntg News articles must consist strictly Probaly no of news facts; and it is the wrong Splace to expect creativity. Inewspaper is Believe me. Mr. Lamb, news ering varying writing is one of the hardest phases >aper is read or jiournalism. We journalism end by any majors often want to be creative cist to give the and put our bits of opinion In a mat the article news article, but It is not correct. If he reader just you want creativity, turn to your flines, he can reviews. editorials and advertising would like to cop.v In a newspaper. interesting to The Gamecock is a paper for the hat Mr. Lamb students of Carolina. The editor about news and staff are working hard to in iion, "the only form the students: to present the iecock worth problems of the students and the * to the editor university; and to give the n by other students a chance to expr-ess their show more lIefs. if you can not see this, wake wnLei Ayn Ran Dear Miss Manning:. Mr. Trotter made some mistakes in stating the positions of Ayn Rand: I. He stated that her philosophy "stresses in dividualism to the point of anar chy" and would "rid the state of even the limited power that is absolutely essential to the main tenance of a free and ordered society." I would refer Mr. Trotter to "Capitalism: The' Unknown Ideal," pp. 331-336. 2. Mr. Trotter indicates that Ayn Rand's objectivism opposes such "statist" propositions as government control over the ar med forces. I would refer Mr. Trotter to "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," p. 47 (at the top). Iirom the two passages made reference to above, Mr. Trotter may find that his own views of law and order and those of Ayn Rand are not as variant as he would have his readers believe. (Compare those passages with Mr. Trotter's guest editorial entitled "Law and Order With Justice" in the November 13 issue of The Gamecock.) Now to pinpoint some of the viewpoints Ayn Rand does ad vocate: First, she would have us reject all forms of statism, whether fascism or socialism (and most especially, socialist Communism), and instead dedicate ourselves to the proposition that individuals should remain free. (Refer to "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal." the essay on p. 202.) How un-American and intolerant can a person get! Secondly, she believes that Capitalism should be recognized as a moral, positive alternative to statisi, and not merely as a ten1porarily expedient means of sI ing down the Who's th Dear Miss Manning: I would like to congratulate you for once again making your paper suitable for wrapping three day old fish. My objection is aimed at the article by Dan Trotter on the Ayn Rand objectivist philosophy. First, why does he call them "right wing kooks" when he would never use such a biased, degrading term toward the Yippies, the Weathermen, or even the Gay Liberation Front. Is it because these warrant some special reverence because they are such a minority generally unpalatable to the public, and incompatable with our social structure? Mr. Trotter obviously has little comprehension of the Rand philosophy and his article consists The Ga. THE GAMECOCK is published tri-weekly durir during the summer semesters with the exceptio Chnof ddress forms. subscript ion requests an. USC. Columbia. S.C. 29206. Subscript son rat es are and $I for hoth summer sessions. Bulk copies are?0 539.000 from thie.'itu(let. activity f d, entitling ful Offices of THE GAMECOCK are in ~ ms 306 an campus. Phones are 77-8178. 777-4249 and 77-4220. Although THE GAMECOCK is published by the (J pressed herein do not necessarily represent those of Editor-in-Chitef. AssocIate Editor . . . . . . . tiusiness Manager . . . Managing Editors . . . sports Editor. Chief Photographer News Editors. Feature Editor.. Adv.ertising Manager.. Circulation Manager . . . . . . mnts' plj You remind me of those " dead students" who sit around in a classroom when the mood hits them to attend Class and have no interests in college life on campus. If students could join in and take part in worthwhile organizations. attend concerts and athletic games and take interest in administrative plans and changes. you might find that there is plenty in The Gamecock to captivate your in terest. lcach of us has an opinion. Your stated opinion has been printed. Mr. L amb. But before you continue to criticize the editor and staff of Tihe Gamecock, please realize thatI if you are not willing to be a, "living student" with enough energy and intellectual interest toj take part and put forth an effort to be a part of a very much alvej college society, then you won't get very much of interest out of it. Its like the idea that your must forget~~ what the wno-led owes yu and ed mters i's positon inevitable dictatorkhip by the statists. In addition, she believes the bloody Communist and socialist dictatorships -should be openly identified as such and openly condemned by freedom-loving Americans. (See-"Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," pp. 135-149). How on earth can anyone suggest that those realities exist, and that practical, moderate Americans show such gall! We must instead further cooperate with the Soviets and others so that we might learn of the "virtues" of their practical, socialist alternatives to our practical, "mixed" government. (Witness the recent turning over of a defecting sailor and Soviet brutality allowed aboard our own military ship). It is apparent that Mr. Trotter chose to do the unforgivable; he set himself up as a critic of that which he either did not read, or did not read well. Carolina students would do well to examine the philosophy of Ayn Rand themselves before they either reject or accept her viewpoints (and those of the *"fanatics," as Mr. Trotter's rhetoric "politely" refers to her local advocates). Such may be done most effortlessly by reading: "For The New Intellectual," pp. 10-57. For those who wish to analyze Ayn Rand's philosophy more closely, I would recommend "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," with reference to the index for her viewpoints on specific areas that the particular student may be interested in (e.g., the draft, Vietnam War, rights, values, "extremism," etc. RfnE,,RT NIXON e fanatic? merely of irrational opinions of the few shreds of information he managed to glean, no doubt from an article in Readers' Digest. In other words, his approach towards objectivism was equal to calling Christians cannibals because they 'feast " on the body and blood of Jesus Christ. I would recommend an interview with the organization Mr. Trotter is so thoroughly denouncing to calm his anxiety, if nothing else. What is Mr. Trotter really afraid of'? That the "fashionable" left may be facing a real challenge? I Tlhe closing line in Mr. Trotter's -' article was particularly ironic in that it easily applies to him: "Carolina students would do well to reject this fanatic." rnecock ig the fahi and spring semesters and weekly' ri of University holidays and exam Deriods. d other mall items should be sent to Drawer A. r7 per year or 53 per fall and spring semesters I per t00. Th E .A MECOCK this year received lIAme studentx to a subscriotion to the paper. d 3l0of the Russell House on the University Second class postage pid at Columbia. S. C. niversity of South Carolina, the opininns ex the Universit y. the::tudent body or the staff -..-.-.-.-.-.......heryl Manning ...-..-.-..-..-..-..Michael Ball - - - . - - . t uckabee - - - - - . scott Derks .rnm lFarrell - - - . . . Teddy Hefiner - - - - - . G ne Hlaney - - - . . . . Charles Beebe Chuck Keefer Chas. Fellenbaumn - - - - - - Rob Bigalke . - . . . . DavId i.undgren . - . . . . 'teve R-anger atformIe concentrate on what you owe the world. fly the way. Mr. Lamb. Miss Manning is not only striving to earn an All-American rating 'for The Gamecock this semester: btt she previously led the Anderson .Junior ('ollege newspaper to an All-American rating in 1969. her Sophmore year at Anderson. At that time she had little help from her staff publishing the newspaper. ft appears that she knows what whe is doing. Ifl:kggIIANNOIN R J's 50* See Ad en Peg. 4 WE DELIVER Phoe 2567179