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DeFrENSE BUD6 NAfdkE GONE WM C, C, 0000* 0 0p Let Comments MR. FARRELL: I would like to make a few comments on Mr. T.W. Thacker the III's exhortation concerning the belief of God. (Supreme being, the absolute, meaning, whichever appelation you wish to fix upon the theory.) Mr. T. W. Thacker the III, I would like you to disgorge the 'how and why' of God's alleged existence. In this problem, we are dealing with something that the human mind discerns as an irrational situation. (Un comprehensible). The hypothesis that man existed first is no less rational than the theory of God Help us help you. Send a news tip to The Gamecock. Drawer A, campus mail. Organization Event ,___ _ Time____ Date.____ Place ____ __ tummmuumuuuuun '/ /V leSC er curs fY TOO fR. 0 0 Lers to Thackej being No. 1. Why not, Mr. Thacker, which is more logical? Which is the horse and which is the cart? Tell us, why can't the universe be self perpetuating? Because it's not rational, what is? Tell us, Mr. Thacker, about the suffering of children in our world. Where is this kind and. loving God? Finally, when you state that the Christians may be wrong after all these years, I wonder how do you con sider yourself to be right in the first place. Right, what is right? These questions have been brought out so that you (all of us, as individuals) can find or attempt to find viable answers. But the answers, be they right or wrong, should be YOUR ANSWERS not someone elses. The vast majority of mankind is guilty of traveling through this lifetime with extrinsic ideas; and man is even content with this primordial state of consciousness. It seems to be a cheap ticket for a long ride, perhaps the only ride. It has been stated by many that man loathes freedom and actually runs at the sight of it. What does he hide behind, a future? Questions, questions and still more questions, but to all the T. W. Thacker's out there in fantasyland it's past time for you to incure the wrath of life's persistent perplexities. M.C. REID Senate-e The Academic Affairs 4 Senate, realizing that the f4 on a bill concerning form policies, would like to voIce effect this fall. They wot faculty to formulate a polic drop a course ten weeks semester and also. eliminatg fom the student's. 'rartrr Letter Kent petition MR. FARRELL: KENT STATE UNIVERSITY URGENTLY NEEDS YOUR HELP. Over 10,380 members of our campus signed a petition asking President Nixon to convene a federal grand jury on the Kent State affair. (To date, only a local grand jury, whose report was so biased that a Federal District Court Judge, upheld on October 22, by the U. S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ordered it expunged from the record and physically destroyed; has weighed the evidence.) Last Wednesday, Kent's President, Dr. Glenn Olds, flew to Washington and presented petitions at the White House. He was assured an answer by the end of November. Our mammoth task now is to get OTHER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES to support 'our petition. Would you please help us by printing this letter and the following petition in your paper? Dear President Nixon: We, the undersigned, support the over 10,380 members of Kent State University in requesting you to peconvene a federal grand jury to investigate the Kent State affair. Name Address 1. 2. etc. Please return, by November 22, to: President of the Student Body Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 We cannot adequately express how important it is that members of your campus circulate this petition (we found that moving about with it rather than merely posting it got us over 10,000 signatures in ten days) and return it to us by November 22. If we flood Washington with petitions, the President will be unable to ignore the tremendous sentiment in the country for a high level in vestigation of the Kent affair. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this urgent matter. BILL L. SLOCUM STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY Frustrated journalist MR. FARRELL: Eddie Fennell has struck again. God help us when a frustrated sco urages ommittee of the Student sculty will vote Wednesday alization of the drop date its support of the policy in Id like to encourage the y which allows a student to after the beginning of the 's any renrd of th.at,cemmee -s to the e journalist who has to be editor of something (The Towers newspaper, for instance) vents his rage in print at not being published. My, my, Eddie, calm down and try again. You're not even conservative. You're reac tionary. There is a difference and you know it. And I would be fed up with your little funnies like that letter if they weren't so damn amusing. Eddie, when you put your mind to it, you can write some really funny stuff. You see, Eddie, before I left the Gamecock for the editorship of a certain magazine, I had put up with so many little right-wing pranks: when over 200 copies of the Gamecock were dumped in the reflecting pool in Fall '69: This was a protest of our "leftist views"- and it was also theft and destruction of University property. You bitch about "unwilling sub scribers," so is this how their money is saved? And what about certain persons associated with the campus right wing going to a local service club with copies of last year's "red sheet",, and telling them that "this is what the Gamecock is printing this year. Give us money for the Rag." By the way, what happened to the Rag? I hear it's not going to be published for the rest of the semester due to lack of money. You know, Eddie, you just can't put out four bland little pages, sell it for a quarter and expect to survive. Really, Eddie, pay attention in journalism class. You can learn something about news judgement. William Kunster is a national figure, but who the hell heard of Josh MacDowell before he brought his middle-class hard-hype Jesus-Freakism here? This letter could go on and on, but maybe people want to read other letters or stories that don't have anything to do with this little bickering. Now that I've had my say, I'm sure you will want to write a reply. And if it doesn't get printed, try the State newspaper. Or better yet, mail it into Common Sense, and you'll get published in a magazine! How about that? Something to send home to all the folks. Speaking of which, we're off campus with no student funds. In fact, it is a capitalist corporation. If you don't want to go to work for the Gamecock and some day become editor, why don't you come over to us at 2016 % Green St. We Gain The GAMECOCK is published tri semesters with the exception of Uni' Changes of address forms, subscripl should be sent to Drawer A, USC, Co $3 per semester or $6 for both semest' GAMECOCK this year received S504 entitling full-time students to a subsc GAMECOCK are in Rooms 316 and University campus. Phones are 777-1 class postage paid at Columbia, S.i publication of the students of the Univ official publication of the University, not necessarily represent those of the staff members of the GAMECOCK. Editor......... . .. .. .. Associate Editor.... .. .. .. Assistant Managing Editor.. .. .. . Business Manager.... .. .. .. Sports Editors..... .. .. .. Asst. Sports Editor... . .. ... Chief Photographer. ...... News Editet. ,,.. .Feature Edfitor. ' '.' Circulation. . ditor could use a good copy-boy who could sweep the floors and go across the street to fetch us a six pack every now and then. And if the tone of this letter sounds arrogant, I am *only trying to match your deathless prose. Keep up the good work, Eddie, and some day you may wind up on William F. Buckley's staph. Just calm down and put your shoulder to the wheel. HARRY HOPE Eagle flys again MR. FARRELL: TO VETERANS: Have no fear! "Old Faithful" (the American Eagle) is airborne again, dropping those familiar and long awaited green things. Don't despair when you read a figure slightly under what you had an ticipated on your check. The Veterans Office here on campus has informed me that students are paid for a thirty day school month. For record purposes, September began with registration on the third, resulting in a decrease in amounts on checks for that month. This will not affect the checks for the remaining months of this academic year, as students who are not graduating in December have had their status certified through May 14. According to the Veterans Office, recognized holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas will have no affect on the amount you will receive. Thus, you may expect to receive the regular monthly educational benefits, beginning with the month of October, and running through April. Students will be paid for fourteen days in May. It appears that we have all been misinformed by the Veterans Administration as to the terms upon which we are paid. I've been told that the long delay in processing of claims is the fault of the VA. The individuals employed in the USC Veterans Office make every effort to assist us in any way possible. If you have any questions regarding your VA educational benefits, contact Mrs. Dalge of the Veterans Office (Ext. 5141). J. W. MENDEL ecock weekly during the tall and spring rersity holidays and exam periods. ion requests and other mail items lumbia, S.C. Subscription ratt' are ers. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. The ~00 from the student activity fund, ription to the paper. Offices of the 318 of the Russell House on the 1178, 777-4249 and 777-3888. Second .Although the GAMECOCK is a ersity of South Carolina, it is not an The opinions expressed herein do University, the Student body, or all . . .. . .Jim Farrell .... .. .. ....John T. Gash . .. .. .. .. ..Charles Fellenbaum .... ... ....Ut. Huckabee -..-.-.. .....Teddy Heffner and Doug Williams . .... .. .. ..Charlie Collins ...-.-.-.. ......ill Norwood - - -. . Pusty Robinson ,. . -.-, . .. ob0 Craft