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Tower, run b The open dorm regulh ministration are not desi students. A progressive n ministration in an effort t4 little more palatable. On an expermental basiq able to visit each other I times on the weekends. 1 survey purposes, which I determining how many s parental permission stipul University from off camp old ladies attacking the umbrellas should not be c super progressive society liberal. Residents of the Men'. hostile attitude toward the hours and effecting certa To be very blunt the Tow good thing when it sees I more than reasonable in perimental basis. This is a more freedom, and it wot this campus ten, five or I For once students are ni administrative pastime) t good sense, grace or intel MyC By ARTHUR HOPPE Columnist . The radio this morning said t allied invasion of Laos had bogg down. Without thinking, I nodd and said, "%Good." And having said it, I realized t bitter truth: Now I root against r own country. This is how far we have come this hated and endless war. This the nadir I have reached in tl winter of my discontent. This how close I border on treason. Now I root against my oi country. How frighteningly sad this is. i generation was raised to love o country and we loved it t thinkingly. We licked Hitler a Tojo and Mussolini. Those we our shining hours. Those were c days of faith. They were evil; we were got They told lies; we spoke the tru Our case was just, our purpos noble, and in victory we we magnanimous. What a wonder country we were! I loved It so. But now, having descended do the tortured, lying, brutalizi years of this bloody war, I hi come to the dank and lightli bottom of the well. I have come root against the country that onc blindly loved. I can rationalize it. I can say ti if the invasion of Laos succee the chimera of victory will dai once again before our eyes leading us once again into mi years of mindless slaughter. Thi I can say, I hope the invasion fa But it is more than that. It is tl I have come to hate my countr role in Vietnam. I hate the massacres, the be couits, the free fire zones, napalming of .civilians, poisoning of rice crops. I hi being part of My Lai. I hate fnct that we have now dEqpi s gov t idiots tions established by the ad gned to give the big shaft to iove is being made by the ad ) make dormitory life at USC a ; members of both sexes will be n their rooms during specified he sign-in - sign-out rule is for s the only effe:tive method of tudents are participating. The ation is for the protection of the us criticism. Little gray haired administration building with ncouraged. We do not live in a South Carolina is anything but i Towers are demonstrating a administration for limiting the in "en loco parentis" controls. Fers government doesn't know a t. The administration has been granting open dorms on an ex n experiment in giving students, ild not have been witnessed on wo years ago. :t being "ripped-off"' (a favorite ut some students don't have the ligence to accept it and shut up. 4oun try more explosives on these scrawny Asian peasants than we did on all he our enemies in World War 11. ed And I hate my leaders who, over ed the years, have conscripted our young men and sent them there to he kill or be killed in a senseless cause Ay simply because they can find no honorable way out -- no honorable in way out for them. is I don't root for the enemy. I 'is doubt they are any better than we. is I don't give a damn any more who wins the war. But because I hate Yn what my country is doing in Vietnam, I emotionally and often 4v irrationally hope that it fails. ur It is a terrible - thing to root m- against your own country. If I were nd alone, it wouldn't matter. But I re don't think I am alone. I think ur many Americans must feel these same sickening emotions I feel. I ~d. think they share my guilt. I thinx th. they share my rage. ~es If' this is true, we must end this re war now -- in defeat, if necessary ful We must end it because all o0 Southeast Asia is not worth the wn hatred, shame, guilt and rage thal ng is tearing Americans apart. We yemust end it not for those among out Syoung who have come to hati to America, but for those wh< e i somehow manage to love it still I doubt that I can ever again byv sat my country in that unthinking wa: ds, I did when I was young. Perhap ice this- is a good thing. -- But I would hope the day wil re come when I can once agabi us, believe what my country says an ils. once again approve of what it does bat I want to have faith once again 11 y's the justness of my country' causes and the nobleness of it gdy ideals. the Whatlwant so very much is t te be able once again to root for m: ate own, my native land. the (Copyright Chronicle Publishini YeS, Of/cER, r SuPPOSe IT Do ZooA' 6SSPICIOUS . . BUT MY G4*4A4446 A# V HAVE A SPAXi 0A6AavNr 4r DR4YrvN 4d4. - c Today revisited Studen By JOHN GASH Columnist I was going to write a column about President Thomas Jones' meeting yesterday with the Towers residents. What I wanted to say is said two-fold In the following quotes from students who attended the'meeting: "He (Jones) came down to appease us. He hedged on all his questions. We came sincerely and open-minded. For what? Nothing. All he did was give us pat answers."-Mike Bizon. "He (Jones) is a typical politician. He said a lot but actually not very much."-Ken Greene, social chairman of the Towers Council. "'Pres. Jones gave no definite answers. It was The Gutenberg experimen F rom Mrs. Dear Diary, Anyway, Jan Well, it certainly has been a poetry guarani lovely evening, what with the libido, but somi basket ball players in the backyard awful. He said t gone. And USC's poet-in-residence push through came to the house tonight, just to English Depart see us and to try and sell us a copy works would b4 of his new book. I really didn't know who he was But he's reall until he said "I'm James .Dickey his movie thot and I'm the greatest poet, in the going to wind up world." I knew right then that he the producer, thi was James Dickey. Maybe everybe Well, he tried to sell me a copy of him. "Deliverance" but I said I read it down at the Capitol News Stand. I haven't m Then he tried to sell me a copy of residence, Geor 'Self-Interviews"--which is the seems like st perfect title for any Dickey book-- though. He lool but I didn't really want to buy it, once saw of Jobr and I told him I would catch the really. movie. Well, he stayed--and stayed, and stayed and stayed. But it was really fun, what with him shooting flaming arrows and playing his .THE GAMEC' Sguitar. He's wrten hoewsog idays and ex I've Been Flushed Down the other mail item T'oilet of Your Love" but it sounds scription rates a sorta country and I didn't like it summer sessior that well. received S39,000 Tom was really worried. He had subscriptio to .just talked to those kids over In the 777-4220. Secon T Iowers about open house rules. GAME COCK is SHe's a nice man when he does that. expressed herel And I really wished he could have student body or Srested--except that Baby Darling Editor-in-Chief. aikywstee - detsn CN11MY, COMI Jfey ts tell it a typical political gambit. All he said was that he'll do this and this and this and that.' He didn't meet us halfway."-ClInt Sloan, Towers senator. "The students can see what the SGA con fronts everyday: administration bulls--t and run -around. "-John Blackshire, vice-president of the Towers. Overall , as the quotes indicate, the result of the meeting was that the students were listening to themselves talk. To paraphrase "Easy Rider," the students went looking for answers. And couldn't find them anywhere... t Jones' diary ies read us some Anyway, Dickey idn't leave eed to excite the until well past midnight. He was e of it was pretty reading us articles which Time, hat he was going to Newsweek and Esquire had a measure in the written about him--that was ater ment that all of his he read us 177 pages of required reading. "Deliverance." He promise'. to come back next week and show us y working hard on re-runs of the WIS-TV program igh. I think he's "Who is James Dickey?" I'm sure being the director, am lot of people want to know e star--everything, especially since he is getting a dy's quitting on really big salary for teaching once every two weeks. et that writer-in- Well, I guess I'll go now, Diary. I ge Garrett, yet. He wonder if those kids on the ich a nice manl, Gamecock staff will get into any ks like a picture I trouble printing this. I don't think n Lennon's father-- ' they're a hopeless bunch of kids. Mary dVMECOeKMI 3CK is published tri-weekly during the fall and spring semester s ing the summer semesters with the exception of University mm periods. Change of address forms, subscription requests and s should be sent to Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S.C. 29206. Sub re $7 per year or $3 per fall and spring semesters and S1 for both is. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. THE GAMECOCK this year from the student activity fund, entitling full-time students to a he paper. Offices of T HE GA ME COCK are in Rooms 306 and 310 >use on the University campu.-. 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