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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
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African History 106, but if said
student were to apply to African
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write, or think. So, if a professor
could exclude the obvious
illiterates from his upper level
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have been made. (I wouldn't dare
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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
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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
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"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
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