Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Woman-mankind is no no DEAR MS. MILLER: Oh really now MISS Miller! I hope to smuggle your correct title of address past your. baby blue editing pen. And I assume it is correct, for I am sure that no guy in his right male-chauvinist mind would take you on for a lifetime, without a whip and chair. Ac tually, I have a much better title for you than even Miss or Mrs., but I believe in responsible jour nalism, even if you don't. Well, as I was saying, oh really now! You certainly must agree that some things can be carried too far-- and your femininely fickle, ego-building slap on proper English usage that you buried deep within the editorial columns of Monday's GAMECOCK was one of them. I would normally wish that it remain buried in peace along with most GAMECOCK editorial matter. I exhume it here only for the sake of "mankind." "Woman-mankind." That's what you said wasn't it? Had I not suspected the identity of the author, I might have passed it over as a misprint of at best a misguided plug for Gay Liberation. But knowing you, Glenda Baby, I spotted it im mediately as one of your stylistic massacres. Okay, use Ms. if you want. That's what all of us Dixie boys have been calling our Southern Belles for years anyway. But please-let Daniel Webster rest peacefully in his grave and cease your semantic slaughter. Mankind means everyone-regrettably even, you. THOMAS H. ELEAZER Promising jobs, industry obsolete DEAR MS. MILLER: Concerning our local law student, one Raymond K. Benton, who desires a seat in the House of Representatives and who quite obviously desires the support and the vote of his contemporaries. His quaint remark concerning the educational deprivations in this state is a noteworthy one and certainly inspires faith and hope. His alert witty statement con cerning the medical school we haven't yet made use of shows without a doubt an awareness of G AME The GAMECOCK is published tri semesters with the exception of Uni Changes of address forms, subscrip should be sent to Drawer A, USC, Col $3 per semester or $6 for both semest GAMECOCK this year received $50, entitling full-time students to a subst GAMECOCK are In Rooms 316 anm University campus. Phones are 777 class postage paid at Columbia, S. publication of the students of the Unis Official publication of the University not necessarily represent those of the staff members of the GAMECOCK. Editor......... . .. .... Managing Editor.... .. .. .. Associate Editor.... .. .. .. Assistant Managing Editor. .. .. Business Manager.... . ... Sports Editor..... .. . ... Asst. Sports Editor.... .. .. Photo Editor.... .. .. ....-. Chief Reporter............. News Editors...... .. .. .. Feature Editor.... .. .... Circulation.... .. .. .. .... Classified Advertising... .. .. Staff Writers .. .. .. .. .. ...Lai Gilbert, Bob Grondahl, Julie Lump Ellen Murray, K ris Schweickert, Val Betty Woodruff, Charlie Fellenbaur Sports Writers.... .. .. .. .. Bill G Photographers..........Courtn Ste Advertising Manager . . .. the pitfalls involved in the bureaucratic life and not only that but a clever intuition that many of us out here are aware of it also. However, may I say that tran smitted through this aura of candidate in good understanding with the needs of his constituents comes quite a horror. One I'm not at all certain too many people will think too seriously about after having approved his initail, basic, stolid, liberal beliefs. While ob viously I can find no fault with his initial comments, to this one I feel compelled to make some plain down-to-earth screams. He states at the end of his comments and perhaps with good reason, "I think the South has to become the next Industrial leader of the United States since there is no place else to go." Haven't we made fools of ourselves long enough following after the damn yankees? Aspiring to every little piece of wealth and filth and corruption the smelly North has accumulated? Have you ever smelled Newark? Apparently not too many people in Savannah had until it was too late. Have you ever had a glass of water in Savannah or tried to when you felt you would expire without water? Did you know that we have so religiously followed the yankee that now 75 per cent of all the pesticides used in the nation are used in the South? Did you know that the Southern Black man's body has 60 per cent more DDT in it than any other man in the nation? But I don't suppose any statistic on him really matters, does it? Did you know that -the Southern white man carries 30 per cent more DDT than any other man in the nation? Did you know that the Savannah River sizzles with poison in such proportions as to give third degree burns? Many children have suffered this par ticular ailment while playing on its river banks. Is this really what we want-to continue to our final destruction pursuing the ghost of the North. That Beaufort rejected the Kaiser Chemical Company caused many outcries concerning the deprivation of badly needed jobs to poor blacks. There are always those who will use the blacks when they need the statistics and forget that the Kaiser Chemical Cor poration in other locations had an abominable record in employing blacks and that inevitably the COCK -weekly during the fall and Spring' versity holidays and exam periods. tion requests and other mail items umbla, S. C. Subscription rates are ers. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. The 000 from the student activity fund,' :ription to the paper. Offices of the 318 of the Russell House on the 8178, 777-4249 and 777-3888. Second C. Although the GAMECOCK is a ersity of South Carolina, it is not an .The opinions expressed herein do University, the student body, or all, - - - . . Glenda Miller -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.*Jim Farrell -.-.-.-.-.-. ..John T. Gash -..-.........eSharon Givens -.-.-.-.-.-.-.....Ute Huckabee -..-.-.. .....Doug Williams . . .. . . . Steve Parker -.-.-.-.-.-.-.........Tom Price -.-.-.-.-.. .. ..Rusty Robinson ... .. .....Karin Burchstead Vicki Thomas . ........... ..Bob Craft - -- .. .. .Monty Preston -.-.-.-.-.. ..Patty McQuillian "ry Evans, K. Wayne Ford, Armida kin, Ruthie Lyon, Hugh McKinight, Ti Steigliti, Lou Tenant, Ann Winters, n, and Fran Zupan. rant, Jim Hersh, Gary West, Teddy Hefner, Charles Collins sy Dicely, Doug Holladay, Alan Hui, ie Kish, Lewis Phillips, Murry Sill -..-.-.-.-.-.-....Art Frank ding staff organization. black who fishes in co-ops on the coast would be eternally ruined for the betterment of their brothers. Not to mention of course the ruination of one of the most complex estuary systems in the world. This is all irrelevant data when it concerns the luxary of those few who will gain. The political platform of promising industry and jobs is obsolete. If there are some who think it is not then they obviously value something more than their constituents. I hope for the sake of Charleston and for South Carolina that enough students on this campus and on every campus realize that the trimmings on this particular package are obsolete. We need representatives from this state and this generation who are going to take the inititive and the responsibility to find alternative life styles that deliver food, water and air. G. ANN SCOTT ELLIOTT Discovery of the no-sandwich rule DEAR MS. MILLER: Would someone please enlighten us as to rules concerning food at the Coliseum. We were all set for the big game with Notre Dame and as we were going into the Coliseum, we were stopped by a fellow in a snappy red jacket with black lapels. He inquired as to the contents of our brown paper bag. We assumed he wanted to check out the possibility of an alcholic beverage being smuggled in - we quickly pointed out that all we had was tuna fish sandwiches and chocolate cookies. Imagine our surprise when we learned that with beer - tuna fish was banned! We mentioned that we had seen others consuming home-made goodies before other games, but the red jacket was not moved - "No sandwiches allowed!" Now we ask you, what do you do with a bag full of tuna fish when it's game time and no trash can is in sight? As we sat on the sidewalk feasting, we pondered this discovery of the "No-sandwich" rule. Nowhere in the USC catalogue does it say "No sandwiches"; nor in the neato basketball progam we bought. Being enterprizing young people, Ta STER E( dei Craig, Lear Jet, El THIS WEEK CRAIG ( with pair of C Reg. $69.95 SAl Posters, Patches, Blacklig Necklaces, Sunglasses, Ti 2602 D 4 Blocks up BANNAMFRICARO Phone we brought our goodies in un detected and ate them anyway. Can you imagine being paranoid over tuna-fish? Perhaps it would be a good idea to inform everyone, that along with "No smoking" in the Coliseum, also "No Home Grown Eating!" ELIZABETH HOWARD JOHN M. TROTTI SCPIRG will succeed here DEAR MS. MILLER: Since some critics of SCPIRG insist that whatever happened in Oregon with OSPIRG or in Min nesota with MPIRG must happen here in South Carolina, we would like to submit the following ex tracts of letters from various persons and agencies in Minnesota describing the MPIRG group. These letters are on file at the SCPIRG office and are available on request to anyone. The reason the letters were written is that MPIRG applied to HEW for funding of an en vironmental educational project. The extracts that follow are in relation to that MPIRG request: "Both MPIRG and MECCA are to be commended for focusing attention on the possibilities of adverse environmental con sequences from inadequate regulation of copper-nickel mining and processing. I believe our state agencies are sensitive to the concerns of MPIRG and your willingness to participate on the Minerals Subcommittee will assist our state personnel in examining the various ramifications of base metal mining. Also, I look forward to the assistance of MPIRG and other citizens groups during the 1973 legislative session in im plementing any additional statutes... I want to commend MPIRG for the presentation made at the December 12, 1971 Executive Council meeting and for the fine work of Ms. Susan Kline and Mr. Jon Herman of the MPIRG staff. " Wendell R. Anderson, Governor of the State of Minnesota. "It has been a source of con siderable satisfaction to learn that the people who make MPIRG go are most able, proceed with a sense of thoroughness and resolution and wisdom beyond their years and experience and demonstrate an ability to stick with an issue...after the headlines have faded.. .So it is with un pe World Of Columbia I EQUIPMENT: Authorized ilers for Panasonic, ectrophonic, Toyo. S SPECIAL: AR UNIT rome Speakers. E- $5495 hts, Strobe Lights, Incense, pe Cases & Accessories. evine St. from S Points 252-676 1 tempered enthusiasm that I ttify to the ability of this organization..." Win Hartfeldt, Legal Chairman, North Star (Minn.) Sierra Cfib. "The support and cooperation of MPIRG has been out standing...Without the professionally coordinated in formation that MPIRG made available it would have been very difficult for the (high school) -students to obtain the expertise that was necmary to make a relevent statement at the Air Quality Hearings." Siirley K. Hunt, of the Enviromental Sciences Foundation, Min neapolis,Minn. Robert L. Herbst, the Minnesota state commissioner of natural resourses said that be backed MPIRG and that groups of this kind "have been very effbctive in the past and citizens and students can work together to find solutions" to enviromental problems. (DAILY MINNESOTAN March 10, 1971). We feel SCPIRG can succeed in South Carolina, just as MPIRG has in Minnesota. - CAROL ELKIN Ticket distribution major problem DEAR MS. MILLER: The distribution of student tickets for athletic events is a major problem here at USC. There has been talk on the subject, but no action. The time has come to quit talking and start acting. It appears that the ad ministration is satisfied with the present mode of distribution. Why shouldn't they be? Why should they seek a solution to the problem when they can sell the tickets twice-that would be poor economics. Normally, when one pays for something in advance, as we do with the atheletic tickets, one expects to receive that item.This is not so with our tickets. We are charged for them, but have no real assurance of receiving them. This practice must be stopped. I feel that I have a more suitable solution to the problem than the one presently used. I propose that the Universtiy, during registration, give each student a book of receipts. You would have a fair chance of getting tickets. If a person didn't want to attend the game, he could present his receipt for that game, and get a full refund for this ticket. The University would then be free to resell the ticket to the general public. A time limit for refunds could be set before each game. Any tickets left could then be sold by the University. If one wanted to attend the game, he could then go to the ticket office, and use his receipt to obtain his ticket. Date tickets could be purchased as they are now. The situation would then be more equally controlled by the students. This solution may not be the best, but it gives the student a choice to do as he wants. One would be guaranteed a ticket, or receive a refund for it. This method, or any other, probably wouldn't be acceptable by the University. Evidently, greed has gone to its head and fairness to the student ignored. Something must be done about the problem, and now is the time to do it. The University isn 't going to take the step to change distribution, its up to the student body to make itself heard and felt. -en WaOrs=