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JIM FARRELL LJCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING-ED4 AD. MNGR. ,lxP EDITORIALS Shut down Green Street Green Street is a major issue on this campus because there are those who consider it a polluting factor as well as a safety hazard to the student community. The University has tried to alleviate the traffic problems on the campus. However, there have been no real solid approvements. At the September Board of Trustees meeting there was a proposal to lower Pickens Street between Green and Pendleton Streets and put an elevated walkway over the street. The Green Street Traffic Committee, which is made up of faculty members, students and a member of the Traffic and Transportation Center of the Engineering school, is studying the problem and wishes to hold an origin-destination s;udy to determine the real percentages of student and city traffic using Green Street . The City of Columbia has told the Committee that they must first receive permission from the City Traffic Committee in order to hold the study. There will be a referendum held Oct. 27, the same day of the student elections on campus. The students will have the chance to choose whether or not they want the street closed. The city has stopped the planned study long enough so that the elections will be held before the study will be completed. Is the city afraid that the study will reveal facts that will support the student claims and that the student population may be too strong for them to fight? Green Street must be closed from Sumter St. to Pickens St. if this University is to be considered safe and for the University to show its part in the ecological moves of the present age. This is a very important thing to consider for the future of this country and this University is certainly not go(g to allow pollution to pass by without trying to advance in the control of the problem. .~A. 3, w ease o 2ie Gueg column At Bob ] (Editor's note: This column, written by Charlie Peek, originally appeared in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Journal.) "This school will spend the first year 'hosing you down,' washing you clean with water of God's Word, before dressing you in that wisdom which comes from God." So spake the third in a somewhat threatening line of Bob Joneses at the official opening exercises of the 1971-72 academic year at Bob Jones University. Bob Jones, for all you ignorant Radicalibs, is "a non-denominational, co educational, Christian, liberal arts university standing, without apology, for the 'old-time religion' and absolute authority of the Bible." Sounds like the beginning of a sermon or at least an ad monition. It was established 44 years ago and took on the righteous responsibility of providing for those students that are morally lost and are wandering around bumping into things. In other words, they "come with the defilement and pollution of a humanistic God-despising society upon them." Hence the hosing down procedure. From reacing things like this you get the idea that they are already so lost that all the hoses in the world aren't going to stop them from burning. But these words are not sur U e 1 Universiti We must start now to expand the capability of our schools to train young people for community service separate from their full time careers. With the advent of the four-day week, the extended vacation and the secure retirement, citizens are in a position to seek ways to put their new-found leisure time to better Idle hours are welcome as 'A (A [ones U., prising. They really aren't. Not coming from an institution of higher learning which is surrounded by a 7-foot fence topped with barbed wire. There is one gate guarded at all times. Very little seems to pass in but some very frustrated and confused people pass out of it. People who wonder why their children should have to go to to go to school with "niggers", or why those flag burning,. draft-dodging demon strators aren't shot on sight. At BJ, incidentally, they probably would be. Their campus cops are very proud of their gun collection and their mace cans. They have a radio stations, the only radio station, where national and international news is carefully "edited" before it is presented to the students. You must have a pass to leave the campus, alone or with a date, and you can only leave at certain designated times. That's what we like to see, Bob, a university that takes an~ integral part in com munity affairs and whose students are tuned to current events. But wait, a voice is crying in the wilderness again, "Some say this school is too authoritarian-tne students' liberties are restricted. Authority does not restrict liberty, for there can be no true liberty without the authority of law." Hear that! There's liberty here, as long as you look like they want you to and act like they want you to, and 0 res must e respite from the cares of the work day, but as the time allotted to leisure grows longer, many Americans will have the desire to fill those hours with meaningful service. If you schools have prepared them for a second career in service, our nation's untapped talent could then be unleashed. Because many of these problem areas require specialized traini Cwini 25- 0 it's 1984 think like they want you to. No halfway measures. Young girls' dresses must not reach above the knee at BJ. Military haircuts and white shirts are the vogue for men. Well-balanced, creative in dividuals who are not afraid to reach new levels of understanding. "You can be glad you're in a school where the administration and faculty think enough of you to put about this school and authoritarianism that makes this place well-ordered, well disciplined, steadfast, and con sistent." Consistent may not be the right word, Bob, try stagnant. So utterly stagnant and backward that a search of their University Bookstore shows not a trace of Hemingway, Updike, Salinger, et al. The raciest thing they have is "Leda and the Swan." Perhaps my adjectives aren't quite correct. This place isn't backward, it's dangerous. Dangerous enough to waste four years of an individual's life while it completely stifles his mind. "Our tongue is not black from licking the boots of potentates, be they clerical, political, or educational," said Jones. This is their idea of nonconformity. The Federal Government is bad, bad, bad, bad. But God is on our side, and Democracy will prevail. All we have to do is educate ourselves(?). Academia, you were never more perverted. I wonder if they have George Orwell in their bookstore? xpand our schools must take the initiative in structuring classwork to . provide training for part-time service after graduation. What youth today is questioning is the credibility of values which lead to the pollution of our en vironment, the imprisonment of our poor in ghettos and the per petuation of the cycle of poverty. The solutions to these problems are being sought in Washington, on campuses and in local com munities all over America. We are in need of men and women to provide supplemental health delivery services, to work In parole and probation work, to build parks, monitor air and water, plant trees...even to get the trash off the streets. But more must be done to in volve the young in these solutions. "University Year for ACTION" Is an important step In encouraging that involvement. 1320 Sala St Mes*at 7:30.6:00