The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 31, 1972, Page Page 3, Image 3
For YAF
EDITOR:
In the Spring of 1971, I appeared
before the Student Affairs Com
mit tee to "defend" YAF's request
for an allocation from the Student
Activity Fees. The "expose" of
that widely known request (the
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second, in fact, of two) is indeed a
nice smokescreen for the SCPIRG
robbery presently underway.
Perhaps Agent Stirling failed to
find a copy of the prepared
statement I delivered to the
Committee.
"We are not going to defend this
request for an allocation from the
student activities fees...we do not
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expect it to be granted.. .we have
submitted it only to demon
strate... (by its rejection) student
fees are being used to discriminate
against points of view which are
not 'liberal'."
YAF made its request to prove a
point . We expected it to be denied.
Perhaps Agent Stirling should
reconsider her position before she
accuses YAF of hypocrisy. She
states that YAF, which at least
admits it is political, was "wisely"
denied its 'request,' but certainly
SCPIRG should be funded!
It's politically wise to thrust
when you're being hit in a
vulnerable spot, and that is, I
think, what SCPIRG is doing.
SCPIRG would like to hide its
sticky fingers by provoking a
liberal-conservative controversy,
or ANY controversy to take the
public's eye off SCPIRG. Hence,
Ihe ad hominem attacks upon YAF
and its members.
Instead of attacking the source,
let SCPIRG discuss the issues. Let
t hem talk about the way SCPIRG
manipulated signatures at
registration. No, in its collective
arrogance, SCPIRG prefers to
snub reality and stick to its
preconceived timetable of already
prepared press releases. The next
will probably announce success of
the petition drive. Well surprise,
surprise. SCPIRG badgered name
after name during registration,
claimed to collected 7,500, but is
apparently waiting for a respec
table time lapse to announce
success. Isn't it around two weeks,
gentlemen? After all, the longer
you wait, the more legitimate it
looks, right?
Yes, SCPIRGites, let us talk
about your petition drive, and
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about Oregon, and about how you
plan to rip-off U.S.C. students.
BEN WYNN
For SCPIRG
EDITOR:
According to YAFer Edward C.
Fennell (in his letter to the
Gamecock dated January 26),
YAF is against any student fees
which support "student govern
ment, unions, newspapers" or
student athletics. In short, YAF is
opposed to any and all student
activity - unless each group raises
its own funds. Thus, the student
newspaper would have to beg for
money, the student government
would have to beg for money, the
foot ball and basketball players
would have to beg for money - and,
of course, SCPIRG would have to
beg for money. This is not a very
realistic scheme with which to run
a university of 16,000 students with
diverse interests - needless to say.
For all practical purposes, the
radicals who comprise YAF are
simply against ANY constructive
extra-curricular activity, whether
it be basketball, journAlism, or
working for a public interest
research group like SCPIRG -
because they are against funding
these activities. One can easily
imagine what ANY student ac
tivity would come to under the
YAF theory: There simply would
be no newspaper, student govern
ment, basketball team, film series,
lect ures, sailing, SCPIRG, radio
st at ion, rock concert - or any of the
hundreds of activities that give life
at USC another educational and
social dimension.
Fortunately, few listen to the
YAF - including the YAF. They,
I oo, asked for a share of student
fees ($3,120.00 worth to be exact)
despite their rhetoric and
misstatements to the contrary.
FRANK GARY
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For amoebas
EDITOR:
Recently, Wagner Roberts wrote
a letter to the editor in which he
violently attempted to attack Mr.
Eddie Fennell and YAF. In doing
so Mr. Roberts succeeded only in
showing his archaic intelligence
rivaled only by that of the amoeba.
Any individual with any common
sense, while attempting such mud
slinging antics, would at least use
some sort of statistical background
for his arguments instead of
running off at his mouth. Instead,
"Herr Emperor" showed that if
common sense was manure, he
wouldn't have enough to draw
flies.
Emperor Roberts attacked
Strom Thurmond and Sol Blatt,
calling them powerful enemies
that don't want their "dirty linen"
aired in public. It wasn't my im
pression that the job of SCPIRG
was to adt as an investigating
committee for South Carolina
politicians.
Admittedly Emperor, you did
bring up a good point about the
athletic ticket rip off, and there
really should be something done
about it, but even in doing so you
couldn't help but brag about your
apparant apathy towards the
school athletic teams. I might add
that there is as much enthrusiasm
towards athletics at this school as
there is in a great majority of the
schools in the country.
SCPIRG, in theory, is great, but
until the money and experience are
put into SCPIRG to make it work,
squabbling over a few dollars isn't
going to make a bit of difference.
YQur real efforts should be in
raising money through voluntary
means, rather than by forced
taxation. SCPIRG could begin
their conquest of the world by
cleaning up all their publicity and
tires which have become eyesores
of litter on this campus, as a step
towards ecological purification.
FUNKY FOSTER
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