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JIM FARRELL EDITOR LUCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED '-AD. MNGR. EDITORIALS All students can use ramps There are many persons on this campus wno are disabled. These people have a problem with the ac cessibilty of the buildings on campus. We are attending a public institution which is exactly that-public. That means open and accessible to all. There is a federal law which states that all buildings used by the public other than "privately owned" residential structures and "any building or facility on a military installation designed and constructed primarily for the use by able bodied military personel should be made accessible to all the public which includes the handicapped persons in this country. (Public Law 90-480, 9th Congress, S.222, August 12, 1968). This law also states that the federal government will finance the renovation of buildings not accessible to the handicapped "whole or in part by a grant or a loan made by the United States." It also states that "Every building designed, constructed or altered after the effective date (August 12, 1968) of a standard issued under this Act which is applicable to such building, shall be designed, con structed, or altered in accordance with such standard." There is a law in this state which calls for the ac cessibility of all persons using those buildings funded by the state, county or municipal governments, drafted January 29,1963. The University is a public Institution and Is paid for in most part by state and federal funds. Therefore, this In stitution should fall under the eye of these aforementioned laws. The buildings on this campus do not all meet the requirements of these laws. McKissick Library does not meet these requirements. The Administration Buildina does not meet these requirements. The list goes on. In a survey done in August of 1970, seventeen out of 44 buildings have ramps for wheelchairs conveniently located within 200 feet. Twn nf these buildings have laboratories considered accessible to wheelchair students. The leader of an infant organization on campus for the handicapped said that some buildings are accessible and that "We commend the administration for what they have done so far, but we feel that more can be done once the problem is brought to their attention.". It is our feeling that the problem has been given con sideration and the lawa are written as requirements for any ad all public buildings. These students are just that--students. They pay their tuition and they want an education without having to rely - on others to help them into and out of buildins. Why should they be made to wait until someone Comes along to help them up the stairs. Everyone can use a ramp, but there are many who cannot use the. stairs. Gamecock T HE GAMECOCK is puished tri-weekly during the fall and spring semesterd and weekly during the summer semesters with the exception of universit~ holidays and exam periods. Change of address forms, subscription requests an other mail Items should be sent to Drawer A, usc, Columbia, s.C. 29206. Sub scription rates are $7 per year or $3 per fall and spring semesters. Bali copies are 16 per 1W0. THE GAMECOcK this year received 539,00W from the student activity fund, entitling full-time students to a subscription to the paper. Offices of THE GAMECOCK are in Rooms 3S and 310 of the Russell House on the university .campus. Phones are 77-4176, 77-4249 and 77-4220. Second class pestage paid at Columbia, S.C. Although THE GAMECOCK is published by the student eMbhe university of South Carolna, the opinions expressed herein do no necessarily represent those of the University, the student body or all staff members. Associate Ed ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...John T. Gasi Assistant Managing Editr.. ---. ... .. .. .. .. . ...charles Felleunbauw Susieses MaWr. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....e nHckabm soors a erB. . .. t .'............ . .. .. . .....Teddh, Hefne Lettei Leon Claims misquote MR. FARRELL: The news item "Protest Silent" in The Gamecock issue of Sept. 17 has just been brought to my at tention by a friend. Needless to say, I was very suprprised to find myself supposedly quoted and paraphrased. I did not at anytime make the alleged statements to the press, as it would have been ex tremely absurd of me considering that I am due to have a Disciplinary Board hearing coming up soon in order to be able to get cack in school. I also would like to clarify that I am not con nected with SMC. Next time the Gamecock employs such tactics of Yellow Paper it better be ready to prove its quoting me. GONZALO LEON Gamecock deserves praise MR. FARRELL: The Gamecock has been a steady three-day-a-week irritation to me in the five semesters I have been at this University. Now, for the first time, our student newspaper deserves commendation. I con clude that the obvious changes in the GAMECOCK this year must be due to an open-minded, intelligent editor and hi- staff How many times have I cursed the student publication as un cooperative, unfairly and unrepresentatively liberal, and totally unconcerned about the welfare of the University? How many times have I been disgusted at scanty coverage of cultural and inte.ectual events? How often have I been forced to conclude that the student newspaper even goes to the point of making news, inciting issues, falsely creating an image of "the Berkeley of the East"? I shudder to think. The year is yet very young. Much has yet to happen and yet to be reported. But the first few issues of the GAMECOCK have so far highlighted concerns of the entire student body, issues per tinent to us all. A lecture, an ar tistic cultural event, and the coming academic conference have actually made front-page news in the GAMECOCK! Perhaps, could it be, we are finally in the begin nings of competent journalism? Mr Farrell, please keep up the good work. This is no time to rest back on your laurels. So far, so good. Will we see more? I hope the editorial of Sept. 20 is an in dication, not because I agree with it, but because It's there! DEBORAH E. WRIGH'I Frat ad 'crudely obnoxious' MR. FARRELL: I was somewhat dismayed by the Gamecock's recent full page advertisement paid for by the -s to the e solicit freshmen and its style can most kindly be characterized as simplemindedly lews. Beling less kind one might describe it as .crudely obnoxious or even pathetic. This ad pandered to the basest common denominator mentality. One must infer that the fraternities feel that the only men they want and are likely to get via this ad are mindless and grinning,- pimple ridden and ineffectual, walking libidos. (Thosese are the ad's categories, not mine.) This ad proudly acknowledges its fondness for bestial mediocrity, which I find objectionable. But more Importantly I find the ad to be abusive and offensive to women. A quick close look at the ad will bear this out. The references to women make them less than objects in that good-old rah-rah-boys will-be-boys contemptible mode which I find distasteful. It is disturbing to find this un seemly ad printed in the university newspaper. At the very least the! paper should have edited it and bestnot accepted it. (Perhaps the title of your newspaper is more emblematic than one might suspect?) In any case, good taste and humane principles should not be sold out so quickly, for $120, the cost of the ad. I advise that your staff read an excellent statement of advertising policy by the Boston paper Old 4 Mole titled 'No 'Chicks', 'Broads,' or 'Niggers' for Old Mole". (Reprinted in Roszak's anthology "Masculine-Feminine." The editor writes that from hence forth they shall. challenge the use, conscious or unconscious, of words, phrases (and imagery) that support the power structure in which men have power ovor women. Just as they would not print matter calling blacks "niggers", they will not print matter calling women "broads", or worse. The poor female, "Big Bertha" in the fraternity ad, for example, is less than a "nigger." Berta' is vctimo i. ti rauin", a slang term for serial sex involving several men and one woman. I resort to citing the particular example to indicate fhe fact of overstatement on my part. 'The Old Mole's policy is to return ads with male supremacist language to the sender with an explanation, since they think that "these oppressive thought patterns and values are not always con scious and deliberate." (Perhaps this is the case with the frater nities.) Why not, in any event, take the example of the Old Mole staff who say: "If we have any in fluence, as a newspaper, with anyone, we want to use it to say: male chauvinism is so intolerable to us that we refuse to print it for money." R.B. TENENBAUM What, breathing next? MR. FARRELL: We would like to express our most profound thanks to the University Motor Vehicle Registration Division Chief Joe N. Green for his thoughtful letter of Friday, the seventeenth. It does nur. hearta.-gogd._ to. see such ditor dedicated devotion to the welfare of the Carolina student. Mr. Green must have spent hours in researching old city ordinances for bicycle registration. We would like to suggest that if his pay were raised, perhaps he could overlook such trivial sources of income such as tickets on bicycles. If this could not be managed, perhaps this duty should be passed along to the University Man-Powered Tran sportation Registration Division which covers such important tasks as walking, running, and breathing. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN GREG HAMBY CURTIS MITCHELL BRAD WARING PHIL CROMER HOLLY RENFRO Another woman assaulted MR. FARRELL: It is my understanding that Monday another woman was assaulted on the Carolina campus. Who should I congratulate for it: our administration at the school, or the gentlemen institutionalized in the state house? Someone is responsible, and it isn't the campus police - they try like the devil to keep the campus cool. But what can they do without proper support? The guys playing with each other down at the stadium have more candle power than the entire main campus put together - but then our activity fees pay to see guys playing, not ladies being assaulted. Oh well! Praise Sol from whom all bessings flow. Praise him all ye creatures here below. Praise him all ye... Perhaps I should be thankful for the lights we do have. I don't want to be struck by lightning (There's still a statue on the state house grounds honoring the governor who shot the editor of tlhe"State for W110 511UL LIP L~IA Z 14 a an uncomplimentary editorial he wrote). But for a few lights? NEAL E. ROLFE Students are not silent MR. FARRELL: This is my response to the column "Failing to 'de-niggerize' " by Henry Ottinger in the Gamecock. Mr. Ottinger seems to be disturbed by our generation's reluctance to break out of the slave-mind which formal education has molded in us since about the age of five. Surely Mr. Otinger is aware that education is this dying society's strangle-hold on those who would strive to bring about a Moral Society and an Ethical State. How right you are, Mr. Ottinger, it most certainly Is not to our ad vantage to break out of the mold. Society does not reward the Imaginative, moral, ethical man. He Is -persecuted without mercy because never before in history have entropic bureaucracies been so powerful and overwhelming. * ..'(antinnedt on Pagea )