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JIM FARRELL EDIT01K LUCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED AD. MNGR. EDITORIALS Carolina Cares? Today is "Carolina Cares." Does it? Five hundred students will go out into the city to collect what is hoped to be more than $15,000. Can they do it with only that few people? They are sure going to try and we bet they succeed. What about the rest of you, those of you sitting on your fat ones complaining there is nothing to do. Those of you sitting around talking about your generosity, about your willingness to help and rapping about how unfortunate those poor people in need are? Who the hell are you kidding? It will be.a while before the end of this semester. Why don't you get it in gear and give a little? Waste This school shows a great deal of support for the ecological question in this state and the country. The Administration shows this support also. Okay all those in the great 'ivory towers' of USC, try this one. Why don't you use some of the gratuitous brain power that you hire and figure out a way to recycle all the paper work we pay for when you are finished with it? Start with the examinations after they are graded (or before) and work your way through the tons of other wasted paper that is consumed here. 36/ E FENDANT6 M(ASE RME AND FACE 7HE JAY' Our times Ones BY SMITH HEMPSTONE Columnist Senators. Mike' Mansfield of Montana and George D. Aiken of Vermont have a point. They contend that it would be better for the President, Congress and the country - in short, for all concerned - if the chief executive were limited to a single six-year term in the White House. Their proposal, in the form of a con stitutional amendment, at present is bottled up in Senator Birch Bayh's subcommittee on con stitutional amendments. The idea is hardlyt original. In the past 183 years,-fiere have been no fewer than 160 similar proposals, none of which has gotten off the ground. In 1951, the 22nd Amendment, limiting the President to two four-year terms, was adopted. At least five Presidents - An drew Jackson, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes and the two Johnsons (Andrew and Lyndon) - are on record as favoring a single six-year term. Perhaps it is significant that of these only Jackson served two full terms. Advocates of a single six-year term base their support on the effect such a system would have both on the President and on Congress. Aiken, the. Senate's senior RepUblican, maintains that the proposal, if adopted, would "allow the President to make decisions free from the temptation Lette SCPIRG group brings opposition because of funds MR. FARRELL: With the arrival of a questionable organization on campus, otherwise known as SCPIRG, I find it necessary to express my doubts and reser vations about the possible use of mandatory student; fees to fund such a special interest group. I vehemently oppose any ad dition to student fees for the fun ding of any organization such as SCPIRG. Having attended the first two organizational meetings of SCPIRG, I discovered that a maximum of 10 people are running the show. I find it extremely presumptuous of this group to speak for the entire student body. Furthermore, it was apparent that, with the minor exception of doing menial tasks such as getting signatures for petitions, this group wanted no outside participation. The organizers of SCPIRG on campus claim that the money collected will be used primarily for research In environmental and consumer protection, but they themselves admit that there Is room for any number of other activities. Such unspebified ac tivities could lead to the furthering of the political futures of a few and would definitely, in my opinion, lead to the financing of goals totally unacceptable to the majority of the Carolina student body. There Is little reason to believe that SCPIRG will be either a student organization or a local organization. All major decisions aix-year pi of political expediency," per mitting him "to wear at all times his presidential hat and forget for a while that he also owns a politician's hat." Aiken further asserts that Congress could do a better job if it didn't feel it 'had to spend so much time preventing the re-election of a President." Mansfield, the Senate's Democratic leader, believes that a single six-year term would effectively remove the President from the "pedestrian partisan arena," allowing him to devote all his energies to affairs of state. There is just enough truth in the Aiken-Mansfield proposal to make it alluring. Flist-term Presidents, including the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, cer tainly do spend a disproportionate amount of their time and energy working to ensure their own re election, as indeed do senators and representatives. And congressmen of the opposing political per suasion, including those of the 92nd Congress, devote an equally large percentage of their time and energy to frustrating the President's design. And yet it is nonsense to suggest that the scheme would remove the President from partisan politics or that, if it could be done, it would necessarily be a good thing (Mexican presidents serve a single six-year term and are hardly apolitical animals). For the rs to the i are made on the state level and all money goes to the state organization. The result of this will most likely be a group of students being run by professional technocrats and politicians, both amateur and professional. Under the heading "Students to Tax Themselves" SCPIRG organizers admit they would forceably collect money from all students to finance its own operations. Under the smokescreen of being for the consumer and against pollution, SCPIRG would compel all students to finance its sectarian activities, if SCPIRG should decide to refund money to dissatisfied students, what would be the result? What is to prevent demands for such refunds from a variety of other campus organizations (the Gamecock, the Athletic Department, etc.), thus throwing the entire student fees system into Inoperative chaos. The vagueness of the entire SCPIRG organization disturbs me, for who knows what lurks behind a name like that. FRANCHELLE MILLENDER 'Silent' era being revived, says 'outsider' MR. FARRELL: It seems the "silent generation" is being revived again at the University of South Carolina. It is either being revived or an in creasing number of students are going under the alias of "name withheld by request." It is a sad commentary on the University if students have to remain anonymous to spakt n esidency? President would remain titular head of his party and the struggle would only be refocused on the question of the succession. In any event, the need to be responsive to an electorate compels a President to take into account public opinion in the country and the public Is not al*ays wrong. If Mr. Nixon were not' facing re-election In 1972, would he, in response to public opinion, be winding down the Vietnam War with the speed that he is? One wonders. Opponents of the proposal fur ther maintain that a President fimited to a single six-year term would be..a lame-duck from the time of his inauguration,.upsetting the delicate balance of the democratic process. He would in effect become (as Clark Clifford has put it) a glorified "County Manager," beyond popular reach and without popular appeal. Lost would be "a vital driving force for progres, for change, for recon ciliation of conflicting social forces." When all is said and done, the Aiken-Mansfield amendment amounts to a vote'of no confidence in democracy, the principal effect of which whould be to guarantee two additional years in the White House to mediocre Presidents and deny the country two years of service from those chief executives who had done their job and done it well. 3ditor apathy in a Spanish Club or will criticize an identified letter writer with anonymity to avoid criticism themselves. In the center of intellectual freedom in South. Carolina, it would seem that criticism, discussion and opinion should be practiced with a great deal more freedom than is now apparent. As an "outsider," I am con cerned with the influence or lack of it from the "silent snipers" when they graduate to the working world and are still afraid to stand up as men and women who think enough of their opinions to be Identified with them. 'TOM MACCA LLUM CHIERAW, S. C. News Briefs BAZAAR The Student Bar Association Auxiliary, the law wives organization, is sponsoring a bazaar this Saturday (Dec. 4) at Capstone from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Campus Room. Baked and canned -goods, Christmas decorations, floral arrangements and arts and crafts will be on sale. A white elephant table will also be open. Proceeds from the bazaar will go to the Hasford Poston Scholarship Fund, which provides a scholar ship each year to a deserving law student. "NIETZCHE" Professor Eugene Long will lecture tomorrow on Nietzche at 2 p.m. in room 201 of the Humanities Building. This is the last of a series of lectures entitled "Victorian Revolutina"