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by DAN TROTTER
William F. Bickley predicted in
the fifties that rational debate im
America was doomed; and I thirA
that subsequent events have bon
him out. Debate today is no
ilational dialoge; it consists o
empty rhetoric and mindlesi
sloganeering.
SST POLLUTION
For instance, The National Ob
merver reported that various en
vironmental lobbyists, in their zea
for defeating government fundin,
for an American Stapersoni
Transport, claimed that the SS1
would "pollute the stratosphere
bring on a new ice age, melt th4
polar ice caps (how could the SS1
bring on a new ice age AND mell
the polar ice caps?), cause skir
cancer, deafen the public witt
sonic booms, and burn up the eartt
with ultraviolet radition..."
Mr. Karl Hess, a conservative
apostate who used to (thank God)
write speeches for Barry Gold
water, now writes: "It now seems
impossible to say that all of this
horse.--(by which he meant
America) is just somf
aberration..."
RADICALS FOR CAPITALISM
The Radicals for Capitalism
print brochures, calling for a
society free from coercion and
intolerance, and then heckle Rita
Fellers so intolerantly that she has
to cut short her Student
Mobilization Committee meeting,
thereby.. abbreviating an op
portunity for someone to perhapE
isolate ' a ' new strain of SMC
irrationality.
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the Star Spangled Banner on it to
prove my patriotism?
THE CLASSROOM
The situation in the classroom is
not much better. Last year, I saw a
political science graduate student
tell his class that Nixon had sent
troops to Kent State to kill anyone
who dissented with his Vietnam
policy. The instructor, exhibiting
prudence for perhaps the first time
in his life, mildly reproved him.
This same instructor one time
excoriated student rioters, and
then in the very next breath,
blasted Nixon for calling student
rioters "bums." I kindly suggested
to said instructor that he was
making a fool of himself, to which
he replied, dammit, Mendel
Rivers' hair is long, too.
TIRED
Personally, I'm tired of
professors whose attitude is that
the University is some kind of
laundromat programmed to mass-.
produce little liberals, lightly
starched and on hangers. I've had
two courses (in International
Studies and Economics) in which
both sides of the ideological coin, to
some extent, were fairly
represented. It w9uld be nice if the
facul,typs a whose AOopted that
attitude.
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By MICHAEL BALL
Associate Editor
The long awaited drug survey has been
sketched hastily for public view. But the picture
is very hard to see with all the whitewash in the
background.
Since the survey is based on scientific
measurement and since I have a spark of
niceness In me, I won't call the survey a lie, but
theform in which it is presented ISa lie.
PUBLIC RELATIONS GENIUS
Whoever designed the report form is a public
relations genius and belongs with some ad
agency. It is a subtle lie.
On first reading, I noticed that the conclusions
of the committee had been soft-peddled (which Is
not unusual for a USC report), but it took two
readings for me to see that only "students
reporting often or regular drug usage" appeared
in the report. That means the "occassional and
seldom" students, who have the potential of
becoming abusers, were not mentioned.
ONE-SEVEN4TH
Approximately one-seventh of the student
body responded to the survey. It is doubtful thatd
many drug users would trust the testers enough
to respond or respond honestly. Even if they did,
the first ''basic fact'' cited by President Jones'
office hardly seems honest.
The statement that incoming students bring
with them a knowledge and experience with
drugs implies that USC is not a spawning ground
for drug usage. The numbers don't say anything
of the kind.
MARKED INCREASES
The student body as a whole has marked in
creases in drug use in almost all categories, and
huge increases in barbituate and narcotic use.
Either this last freshman class is amazingly
innocent or drug habits are picked up at USC.
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Radical
D.ur Miss Mash8;of
As a WOrkig xponent of
Radicals for Capitalbam and for
mer member of the AWARE
socialist coalition, I am compeled
to protest the Ban editorial of
December 9th to create an Illusory
concept that Radical Capitalists
are comprised exclusively of YAF
defectors.
AWARE, and its IdeologIcal
stepchild, SMC, are philoso
phically indistinguishable from
their YAF brothers who mutually
provide for the initiation of
physical force to subjugate in
dividuals in the name of God or
"the people".
I did not join Radicals for
Capitalism to trade one brand of
statist oppression for another; I
did so to exclusively provide for a
rational defense of my rights to life
and property.
The unequivocal attempt to
pervert my rational desire for
freedom to imply an endorsement
of the fascist YAF should ef
drug survey
The next "fact" in its nebulous entirity reads,
"'The scope of hard drug usage on the USC
campus has not reached serious proportions.
However, the samplings do suggest the potential
for a serious drug abuse problem." With the
limitation to hard drugs and the qualifying
words, these statements are as meaningless as
any other public relations pamphlet.
EDUCATION PROGRAM
If the problem is not serious (as it is generally
acknowledged to be in the rest of the nation),
why is the next "fact" the admission of a need
"for a concentrated education program?"
Massive drug education programs on campus
were the major emphasis of the committee t
report before it was doctored by the *Ad
ministration.
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That same section in the final report claims S
USC officials have recognized that need. I %
suppose the same way the king recognizes the t<
existence of his serfs--with the nod of his head. rr
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PIDDLING EFFORTS
The Administration's piddling efforts amount
to one week-long drug symposium, one course
limited to 300 students, one brochure by Student
Affairs, one drug section tucked away in a
library and USC agencies' "increasingly
reflecting a University-wide concern for drug
use and abuse.'' i suppose that's what's called
meeting the problem head on; damn public D
opinion I
The University has once again convinced the fi
moneyed alumni and the students, who don't -
know better, that everything is for the best in3
this, the best of all possible universities, If Nixon
can ignore the conclusions of his commissions,
why can't Jones twist the findings of his?
R EWRITE JOB
Again, I would like to compiment the author of
the final drug report. It is one of the most
creative rewrite jobs I have ever seen.
If you are considering a career in advertising
or fiction writing, get your hands on the report. It
makes amusing reading, especially if you don't
mind washing your hands afterwards.
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could Mr. Ball hope to effect such a
travesty with impunity.
WALTER H. AMMONS, JR.
Radicals for Capitalism
Physical force
Dear Mwe mannmng:
I just got through reading the
interview with the Radicals for
Capitalism in Monday's edition.
Quote: "It is our urgent task to
achieve this intellectual
awakening in time to avoid this
wide-spread use of physical force.
But, if this cannot be prevented, we
will couple our intellects with
physical force."
I would like to remind the
Radicals for Capitalism of what a
few others have said. Quote:
"Words are very fine things, but
rifles, machineguns, warships,
airplanes, and cannon are still
finer things. They are finer
because right without might is an
empty word." (Benito Mussolini,
Premier of Italy, 1930).
Quote: "All potential dissidents,
especially Jews and Marxists,
nust be liquidated; and, in ac
:omplishing this task, all
iumanitarian and esthetic con
diderations become absolutely
neaningless." (Adolf Hitler,
,hancellor of Germany, 1933).
Quote: "1. War preparations be
nade against America.
"2. In parallel, the negotiations
vith America be pushed very
tard; and
"3. In case no prospect of an
imicable conclusion of the
iegotiations with America come in
ight by the tenth of October,
apan shall make up her mind to
vage war with America and
Iritain." (Resolution passed by
he Imperial Japanese Conference,
September 1941).
Radicals for Capitalism: note
ny similarity? What they're all
iying is that if you don't agree
'ith me then I'm just going to have
i kick you so you will agree with
e! If this is what America is
)ning to, then God help us all!
JAMES A. MCASKILL
WILLIAM R. ALLEN
KENNETH T. GAFFEY
MIHAELC. HAHR
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lystic definitions
ear Miss Manning:
It seems incredible that a
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rior quality as The Gamecock,
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could employ (that is use)
someone so lacking in the un
derstanding of precise and proper
definitions as Mike Ball.
I am referring to his recent
attack on the Raticals for
Capitalism in,which he continually
referred to the members of the
organization as being of the
mystical persuasion.
I have followed with interest the
several articles which have ap
peared on this group in your paper,
especially the interview, and afte
reading the editorial submitted by
Mr. Bail, I found it necessary to
consult my dictionary as my
general understanding of the word
"mystic (al)" in no way applied to
this group.
If I may quote from Websters
New Collegiate Dictionary, "i.
having a spiritual (incorporeal)
meaning or reality that is neither
apparent to the senses or obvious
to the intelligence. 2. a. of, relating
to, or resulting from an in
dividual's direct communion with
God or ultimate reality b. based
upon intuition, insight, or similar
subjective experience. 3. Unin
telligible or cryptic. I have in
cluded the total presented
definition in order that Mr. Ball
cannot claim any other definition
for the word.
After carefully rereading what
has been printed on this group, if is
obvious, even if one does not
concur with Radicals for'
Capitalism principles, that this
group espouses the antithesis of,
this definition. It would seem that~
Mr. Ball did not understand either
what Radicals for Capitalism was
saying, or that he does not un
derstand that words are man's
basic tool of communication, and
,therefore must be used carefully
and precisely.
If either or both of these ob
servations are true, it is obvious
why Radicals for Capitalism is
demanding that The Gamecock
profit or perish for only in a sub
sidized newspaper would such a
poor student of journalism attain
the status of Associate Editor.
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