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J1W FARRELL EDITOR LUCREVIA.,JONE9 DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED BUS. MNGK. EDITORIALS Welcome We would like to welcome all of the Carolina Community to the 1971-72 academic year and to the University proper. There is much to be done by the students on the USC campus and the need for participation by most is essential for the goals that are to be achieved. Besides gaining knowledge through the channels of the classroom, we must also strive for a strong cohesiveness with each other. This can be done through many different directions, but the final outcome will the deciding factor in this test, not what you can remember, but what comes as a part of your character, personality and your social min dedness. It's time that all sides worked together for the good of the University and possibly come up with the right an swers to some of the problems. A special welcome to the freshmen class, which will be here for the next four years and perhaps furthering their education beyond that at Carolina. The job is that of everyone, but the freshmen are the new blood on the campus and hopefully vigorous enough to learn of the past and take heed for the future. May this year prove a rewarding one for all involved. Let's all take advantage of the opportunities that stand ahead. Letters The Gamecock, in trying to give more space to our readers, has adopted a new letters policy. All letters submitted will be printed. To do so, the letters must be either typed or neatly hand written, (handprinted is preferrable) and the reader's name must be included. If the reader wishes to have his name withheld, he must itnosa a very valid reason. Faculty and administration members are especially encouraged to write since letters in this area have been lacking. Changes USC is an established university with close to 20,000 members in students, faculty, administration and staff. Yet, with the established prowess of its title, growth continues nn a mnu~mental scale, giving a new look to the campus as a whole. With the completion of a new parking garage, a new women's dormitory, Capstone North, a new physical education building and the continuing construction of a new medical infirmary, business administration building, stadium expansion, and a new law school the campus has taken on a new look. All these improvements are for the better we hope. The most important factor to keep in mind, however, is that the student attending the University has an education to attain and, in most cases, has a limited source of revenue. We hope.that these additions to the overall scene on campus do not block out the fact that education should not be ruled by the overpowering arm of capital. Indeed, the campus has changed a great deal since most of us went home for the summer. Even the new bike racks are a welcome addition. The little things, like the bike racks, along with the big improvements should make the campus that much more liveable and en joyable. However, we hope that the progress will not conflict with the. environmen9t."r': o n'a s' ''''' - i'' Today revisited Solzhen By JOHN GASH Associate Editor The latest episode in the saga of Aksandr Selzhenitsyn seems to 4Nmx his previous na-n wiSV the Soviet Union state. The Iry, however, is hat this time the Soviet Union is not the villain: Sweden, one of the world's leading proponents of freedom, self admitted or otherwise, is. wnat nappenea: aozenennsyn had apparently sent a personal messenger to the Swedish Em bassy in Moscow to ask for a presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature which Solzhenitsyn was awarded in 1970. They wanted the presentation conducted at a special ceremony in Moscow. The messenger, journalist Per Egil Hegge of Norway, was refused by the Swedish Embassy. The reason: Guest column Presidei (Editor's note: The following column originally appeared in The New Yos h Times. It was written by Cyrus Eaton, who is a Cleveland industrialist.) To one who has survived all the financial panics of this century, has known all the presidents and has been privileged to participate in building up American industry and agriculture, the disgrace of the dollar in world financial centers is sobering. Who has the main responsibility for this economy debacle? In effect we have a Presidential dictatorship sustained by the greatest propaganda machine in history: nationwide prime-time television. The President ignores Congress, rarely consults his cabinet, bypasses the United Nations and aniounces his decisions over the air to the un sophisticated. In contrast to democracies such as Britain and Canada where members of cabinets must be either Members of Palrliament or the Upper House, and where Premiers and their advisers are always available for public questioning by their fellow elected representatives, American enterprises are carried on by our President in secrecy except for several cronies in the pertinent departments. The President has determined Our man Hoppe Pres. H by arthur hoppe columnist A new era in American foreign relations dawned with the over whelming election in 1972 of Hiram Farquahar to the White House. Farquahar was by far and away the most honest and patriotic Presidential candidate the Nation had ever seen. But what endeared him to all factions was his shining love of democracy. No President had ever loved democracy more. It thus came as no surprise that in his Inaugural Address, President Farquahar, like his predecessors, pledged to keep bombing the smithereens out of Vietnam. "As every President In the past "the sole reason we are In Vietnam itsyn and, "The, Swedish representatives said such a ceremony would disturb Sweden's good relations with the Soviet Union." This incideftt, the last in many, comes as another blow to Solzhenitsyn and his fight to be able to write what he wants when he wants in the Soviet Union. In deed the Swedish refusal is in fact recognition, and, apparently, approval. by Sweden of the Soviet repressive tactics used on the great author. A while back an incident in dicative of what Solzhenitsyn, who has given the Western World stirring picture of what is actually happening in the Soviet Union, has to put up with took place. The Soviet Secret Police were sear ching Solzhenitsyn's countryside cottage for papers apparently in contradiction to the official Soviet it as the C our disastrous financial policies and international relations. As Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, a position of power strangely out of place in a democracy, especially in this nuclear age when one man's fanaticism could end the human fice, he carries on illegal foreign wars with the aid of thousands of spies in all the nations. Three Wall Street lawyers, Nixon, Mitchell and Rogers are now spending the taxpayers' money around the world like drunken sailors. Now without warning, advice or consent, let alone consultation, they have overnight adopted sensational policies offensive to all other nations. These lawyers have no in .e"tories to liquidate, they have luci ative Wall Street practices waiting where their services will be especially in demand in view of the recent additions to the .Supreme Court. But many American corporations will have to struggle against the crushing burden of taxation, the high cost of money, and fomidable competition of foreign corporations that have been subsidized by American funds. The most obvious move to help the dollar is to cut out the expense of maintaining American troops. ram Far is to insure that the Vietnmese people are able to choose their own leaders in free and democratic elections. As one who worships democracy, they have my promise that they'll get it -- if we have to go on bombing them for another 50 years." The very next day the South Vietnamese Ambassador, Wone Gho Hoam, called on the ne.w President. "Sir," he said nervously, "I wish to express the gratitude of my peoples for all the bombs you are lavishing on us to bring us democracy. But we feel we are being selfish. "Selfish'?" said the President, surprised. . There are so many ..ations, big and srnal, tha nte,- nav. Sweden statist doctrine. A friend of Solzhenitsyn's happened to walk in upon the group. First the agents took the man to task verbally and then a few of the goons took him for a walk in the nearby woods and proceeded to beathim. Of course, after a prolonged silence, the Soviet Union official position is that the incident was indeed un fortunate, but when the Secret Police are on a "mission" they are given a free rein, especially against so-caled "subversives." Solzhenitsyn is a lonely man in a lonely battle against enormous and repressive odds. Tihe recognition for his contributions to literature, to say the least, was well-deserved. The recent recognition by the Swedish government of the Soviet Union's tactics is but an ironic slap in the face. Lictator wives and children in the style to which they have become ac customed all over the world. Future historians may use such epithets as dictator and demagogue to describe the President. Philosophers may assess his intellectual depth in terms of his association with Billy Graham, for while scientist and astronomers seek an answer to the riddle of the universe, Mr. Nixon apparently accepts - or wishes to give that impression -- Dr. Graham's naive theory on the origin and destiny of man. It, too, lends itself to distribution by television. No other man I have met has such an accurate and complete understanding of Richard Nixon as Premier Pham Van Dong of North Vietnam. He said to me, "There will be no end to the war in Viet nam while Mr. Nixon is President. He will use many pretexts for renewed military attacks on us. The war will end only when Congress refuses to provide the money for further 0articipation." The time has come for the Congress to accept its respon sibility and to act vigorously through the appropriate com mittes, bearing in mind in this time of our finalan:ial humiliation the injunction of ' te ancient prophet to "do justly, love mercy and walk nuuiy." uahar democracy these days," said the Ambassador with a hopeful smile. "Why pick on us?" "by Geoerge, you're right!" cried the President. And he called a meeting of his National Security Council. "Gentlemen," he said, "which countries have democracy and which countries need It? "Well, sir," said the Secretary of State, "Greece is ruled by a junta, Spain by the Falangists, Haiti by Papa Do. . ." "Greece, the ancient seat of democracy, doesn't have It?" said the President, aghast. "Spain, the land of Goya and Hemingway? Our lovable Haitian neighbors? How could we have forsaken these beloved Free World allies?" "'Well -sip,''- -said- -the- Defense --' ((Onlnueo on agme .1