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Exclude illiterates from top classes DEAR MS. MILLER: Mr.White's discussion of faculty evaluation has suggested a fruitful corollary. An evaluation of students by faculty members, which could be published and circulated at least among faculty members, would be invaluable. Data included could be both subjective (ability to grasp con cepts, mastery of detail, ex pository skill or lack of it, ability to analyze and critically evaluate assigned reading material) and objective (grades in courses taken, language skills, travel experience, etc.). Information such as the above would enable professors to determine whether or not a student were capable of performing satisfactorily in upper level (500 600) courses. Of course anyone could still freely enter any in troductory course, such as say Serving Over 20,000 Satillie -WNG TAlt C uslon De.igner Mr. N . 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The primary effect of such a system of evaluation would be to raise the academic standards at USC some what. As a state university, the administration has to admit almost everyone, regardless of their ability to read, write, or think. So, if a professor could exclude the obvious illiterates from his upper level courses, some progress would have been made. (I wouldn't dare suggest that such students be assigned remedial work in English, as is the case at some )ut your head in our hands FIVE POINTS FOREST DRIVE ST. ANDREWS BERRY'S ON MAIN PARKLAND SHOPPING CENTER d Clients for over 10 Years --- - ORS lI COLUMBIA f Hong Kon g will be in Clumbia ED -- SELECT FROM OVER EAL 7.000 IMPORTED SAMPLES . . . it Get custorn measured for your tailored Men's Suits. Sport Coats, shrts-Ladoes Suits, .)re_r es. ~ornaiwear, C oats. .... S -.00 N111 SIlk \t, mil Sits It 16.50 pc.wt . 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Rusty Robinson .... .. .. ..aren Burchstead Vicki Thomas' ,.... .. .. .. ..Bob Craft - - - . .'Monty- Preston -.-.-.-.-.. ..Pat,, McGuillian ry Evans, K. Wayne Ford, Armida din, Ruthie Lyon, Hugh McKinight, Steigitz, Lou Tenant, Ann Winters, I, and Fran Zupan. ant, Jim Hersh, Gary West, Teddy Hefner,'Charles Collins 'y Dicely, Doug Holladay, Alan Hui, e Kish, Lewis Phillips, Murry Sill -..-.-.-.-.-.-....Art Frank Sing staff organization. Letters schools). Well, perhaps I would. Some may think this proposal reactionary, but it seems reasonable to suggest that if a student, who is not yet mature emotionally (and certainly not intellectually) can evaluate a professor, then obviously the reverse is true. J.M. BUTLER JR. GRADUATE ASSISTANT DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Convict wants to correspond DEAR MS. MILLER: My name is Don Jenkins. I am a convict confined in the Ohio State Penitentiary. I am serving a life sentence for my part in the killing of the chief of police in the city of Ironton, Ohio on Dec. 2, 1966. I am 30 years old and only have two sisters that write to me and then if I am lucky I get one from them about once a month, not because I have hurt them or made them mad, but because our family has never been what you would call "close." It is hard enough to serve time, especially a life sentence but without mail it is a lot harder, and that is why I am writing this letter to the whole student body, in the hopes that it will be placed on the school bulletin board or in the school paper or whatever it is that you have there that lets the students know what is going on. I would like a to get some nice people to correspond with me, to help me make this time a little bit more easier to serve, so if any of you read this letter and decide that you might want to write to me then here is the address that you should write to; Don Jenkins No. 125681 Box 511 Columbus, Ohio (43216) I hope that some of you will read this letter and want to write to me. If I receive any letters, I will try to answer them all. It may be a little hard, but I have nothing to do for 16 hours a day in this cell, so I will try to answer all that I get, if any. I want to thank any and all that M4 LIl U. C This is a chance to vi for a minimum have read this letter and do hope that I will be hearing from some of you in the near future. I also want to wish each and every one of you the best of luck in your future lives. DON JENKINS NO.125681 Draft dodgers copped out DEAR MS. MILLER: Re: " Strom for amnesty? " in your March 1 issue, you appear to equate standing up for beliefs with copping out. The Confederate "traitors" fought a long and bitter four-year war full of horror and self-sacrifice. If the draft dodgers were to stand up for their beliefs, they would have to stay and fight for them legally through the courts or join the Viet Cong. Running to Canada does not constitute fighting for a cause. H.B. HAYES ASSC. PROF. Concert ruined by two groups DEAR MS. MILLER: The concert two Fridays ago was very far from being any type of a "Superconcert." To be precise it was two groups removed from being such a concert. The groups which carried the ecstatic crowd into the convulsions of mediocrity were McKendree Spring and New York Rock Ensemble. Very few realities have sprung from Gamecock prose. But one did prevail last Monday - Mahavishnu was overwhelming. The group was composed of, by far, the best musicians present that night (unless Segovia were lurking in the crowd). And as it is, usually, with great musicians they were able to transcend the musical dictums handed down to you by such gladitorial crown squeezers as Grand Funk Railroad, McKendree Spring, and N.Y. Rock. Let us be honest, you get what you deserve and, by and large. you deserved that concert. None the less, let not greatness suffer your puny invectives. Mahavishnu did not play so much a type of music as they played a very inventive and talent-ladened music. It is time that you realized that music is not to be judged on its )NDAY NIG TH E )N'S H EAD 741 Saluda S. Choice Sirloin hioice of Potato alad Bar $2.99 ;it Columbia 's most exc n price "type" so much as its is on its brilliance, innovation, and execution. I mentioned a great man's name earlier - Segovia. It is my opinion that this man would not be condemned openly merely because his music and technique (his very performance) "went so far beyond the normal frame of reference of the audience that they lost cqntaqt with them," and it would ty6ur statement is just as nebulous in context!) I do suppose that Segovia would be applauded by you because of his awe inspiring reputation rather than because of his factual brilliance. (A very reduced case of this same phenomenon occured on Friday night). I am very much afraid it is also a fact that you will always be "overwhelmed" by brilliance while wallowing in mediocrity or worse. TALLEY PARROTT USC lights help pollute DEAR MS. MILLER, Since coal mining has been blamed for destroying a great deal of America's landscape, and burning coal for the production of electricity is one of the principal causes of air pollution, why doesn't the ecology-minded public start trying to economize on utility bills by cutting off lights, etc. when not needed? Many classrooms in the Humanities and other buildings of USC were left burning day and night during the entire three -week Christmas holidays--we should not be wasteful with our earth's resourses just because the public and future generations suffer the loss. B. STEWART Baseball today. USC vs. Louisville 3:00 at the Roost H T Reservations Please 252-5141 rusive restaurant