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010 Letters Directo: (EI)ITOR'S NOTE: The following is an intraoffice memo from Kenneth Toombs, director of libaries. to library department heads.) The following dress regulations are in effect for all student assistants: "Slacks, pantsuits, jumpsuits, or shorts are not acceptable attire for women employed in the Library System. Men may wear jeans. They may not wear shorts. Ex treme, attention getting, dreF, styles are out of place while working in the library." :1 I am asking your cooperation in making sure these regulations are followed." I)EAR MR. BEEBE: I would very much appreciate your printing this memo from the off ice of Kenneth E. Toombs, petty despot and Director of Libraries at the University. After working as a student assistant at McKissick Library since October of 1969, I quit my job on March 2, 1971, telling my department head that I would be happy to stay on for as long as it would take to replace me. The following day, the same day that this memo arrived at the student a desk in my department, I quit with onotice - my reason - I was sent home by Mr. Walters, chief petty officer to Mr. Toombs, because I was wearing a pantsuit. L ET'S H. MOTTEL SI ELECT h "Student Bodi Study break r forbid While it is Mr. Toombs' perogative to set up such rules, I do not think that I should be required to emidure being given the treat ment of a first grader who's wet his pants and sent home to change his clothes. Had he said that as of the next day, I could not work in pants I would have accepted it and waited for a replacement to be found. In reaction to his ban of pants as attentionj getting I should like to. -say that if Mt. Toombs has so soon forgotten that a girl's bare legs attract more attention in a skirt than covered up in pants, then he might well inquire around so that he won't make such em barrassingly ridiculous statements in the future. So that I should not be misrepresenting any of the facts let me add that Mrs. MacNaley who works with student assistants, directly under Mr. Toombs, told me before Christmas that women wearing pants (I never wore anything less dressed than a Pantsuit) was one of the Little Kahn's (my sobriquet) pet peeves. I told her that I would continue to wear pants until Mr. Toombs issued a formal dress code fr b i d i n - t OnStremy brakigrao WieisMr. Toombs'hsgvn o o wtoedrbing iven terat-i mtcy ofafirthe-raerd wh' wae his pantoan sera homen to hang his Toomb hasied tasowhensext day we sould not werki pants "I woul h Aveacpetadwie foCareaeTARYb oud InActontoHiAnfpnsa tnio: Sec etarIv"ul ik o %4 -Bill Norwood s pants want my women to look like women." If this piece of hearsay is true, I would like to reply to my former Director that I had not been aware that any of the women working in the library were his women. I wonder if he refers to the men employees as "his men." But perhaps he meant to say that he wanted his employees to look like employees. One statement makes just as much sense as the other. One last angry statement for Mr. Toombs. I find his gauche old office, decorated in "What gave 'modern' a dirty name," extreme attention-getting, non-acceptable, and, as a last resort, absolutely tacky. and what I think of his office is just about as relevant to business of running a library as what he thinks of my pantsuits. DELLA 10 MARSHALL Platfonn DEAR MR. BEEBE: In Friday's Gamecock, I feel that my platform was not given equal time. So, I am writing to you in order to clarify to the Student Body my intentions for seeking the office of Student Body Secretary. For the past two years, I have b)een a Senator from South Building and have also been an assistant to the Secretary of the Student Body. Having had this previous experience, I feel that I have recognized the numerous problems connected with the Secretary's office that have prevented it from functioning elffectively in the past. MARSHA MOTTEL See Walker on back page OFF-CAMPU! EL MACK SENATC Guttenberg Exper Skatebc The worst accident of the 1971 skateboarding season claimed the life of a pregnant German Shepherd today. Witnesses state that a frisbee was thrown into the open window of a car,stri king the driver who lost control and spun into a bicycle, which overturned into an 83-year old grandmother of seven, who screamed, thereby startling a passing skateboarder who swerved into someone's clackers and both of them rolled out into the street under the wheels of a passing Sherman tank, which went out of control, firing off two rounds into Longstreet Gym, causing the columns to collapse and strike the innocent bystanding German shepherd. Seven others were also killed. They were human. Columbia's newest supermarket opened last week on the corner of Sumter and Gervais Streets. 'he new market occupies a post Civil War granite building which was the scene of several meetings of a non-descript body of men who debated the questions of the day such as women, sex and booze. The shop's first items sold were a bottle of sherry wine, an apron, five quarts of buttermilk and a Ho0ppe 2.1millioi Ry ARTHUR HOPPE Columnist "I think the only way to get an all-volunteers Army," F. Edward Hebert, chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee said thoughtfully the other day, "is to draft it." Congressman's Herbert's plan for a volunteer Army requ' ', a great deal more study. It mie,.. be fitting for the Army to recruit volunteers in traditional Army fashion: "We need three men to volunteer for the Army," says the Draft Board Sergeant, you, you and you. That's an order!" But what Congressman Hebert and virtually everyone else is overlooking is the fact we already have a volunteer Army. No fewer than 2.1 million men in the U.S. Armed Services are genuine volunteers. Less than one million are in uniform because of the draft. Now that Mr. Nixon is going to end the war before the 1972 elec tions, one way or another, surely 2.1 million men are enough to defend our shores in peacetime. So, you see, we already have all the volunteers we're going to need. There's only one tiny, little problem. Surprisingly enough, virtually all the 2.1 million volunteers are either officers or' non-commissioned officers. It thus appears we can abolish Sthe draft solely by abolishing the 3 JUNIORS ECT AMICK R (District 16) iment ard kills poster of two bikini-clad women. Real Estate agents say that property values may rise since the building's former occupants have taken up a more worthwhile vocation. Right now, shopkeeper Sold Blot is busily laying in a supply of chewing tobacco, five cent cigars and cheap whiskey. All this week, customers who come into the new store will be given free autographed picture of Sen. Strong Thermal and his new wife, what's her name. In other news items, a small southern university reportedly lost an estimated of $8900 worth of toilet paper to vandals following that school's victory in the Atlantic Sports Spectator's (ASS) basketball tournament. The paper which mysteriously vanished Saturday night was found on campus the next day, along with a ton of beer cans, assorted items of clothing and two dead bodies. 'Te' reflecting pool was dragged and six bodies were found there. It is not known at this time how many students were lost to the alligators, sharks and wierdo skin-divers which infest those waters. volunteer ranks of corporal and private. But the question immediately arises: -Can an Army survive without its privates?" Fortunately, an interesting sociological study entitled, "The Function of the Privates in a Peacetime Army," provides the answer: automation. All that will be required, the study shows, is a relatively simple device that salutes on command and picks up cigarette butts. As presently designed, it appears to be a sort of vacuum cleaner with an automatic pump handle. A highly classified Army Or dinance report indicates these devices, known as ADX-14s, can be mass-produced with a natty olive drab finish for less than $34.97 each. Upkeep would be minimal. Nor would anywhere near a million ADX-14s be required to replace the million elisted men we would be losing by abolishing the draft. There is no reason, says the report, that up to 100 officers couldn't share one ADX-14. "Snap to, soldier, and pick up those butts!" each officer would cry on passing by the device. Its pump handle would salute tirelessly, its vacuum would hum faithfully night and day, and its two glowing red lights would shine with respect, admiration and dog like obedience. Here is precisely the Ideal private every army has long sought--never disrespectful, never grumbling, never questioning, always neat, stiictly regulation and quick to respond to a simple command. How happy any officer would feel to be in the Army. How happy any draftee would feel to be out of it. The only remaining objection to abolishing the draft has already been raised: ap all-volunteer professional Army might endanger our traditional civilian control of the military. (('ontirnued On nae9a