Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GLE INTE JIM FARRELL MGN. ED. EDIT McGov George McGovern's vic But the essence of his vict4 but with whom he did it. McGovern, garnering Robert Kennedy had, not also carried a lot of the wc that was Kennedy's sti segments of the populatii and the liberal, which is s4 Hopefully, McGovern iE charisma. As for Muskie, if anyone that he would have been rt fourth) at this point, we v the prophet. We are willing to concec he blows it, he is out of the The Pennsylvania and are on the same day, v strerigth. If he doesn't g( would have to say that he' As for second right nc Humphrey, who we thir unfortunately. Humphrey with whom the Democri and the other leftists wou so they say. As far as we best candidate. Behind Humphrey is W, listing the candidates z delegates, of which Mush right behind). Wallace may gain er Democratic party but h candidate. 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"...W/7A A W ./A/.9- |.. The capon Library ti By SCOTT DKERKS Columnist When Kenneth Toombs was hired as director of the university libraries in 1965, he was promised a new library. He was told by President Jones that a library had high priority in the University system and it would just be a matter of time. Bids for the $10 million project will be let this month. Construction will begin, Toombs hopes, late this summer, seven years later. When James F. Kane, dean of the Business School and Robert Foster, dean of the School of Law, were hired, they too were told that new buildings were planned for their areas of study. But then the Law School was told that Petigru was totally inadequate, a fact they were well aware of since the building now holds twice as many students as it was planned for, and they were told the law school would either have to make new arrangements or chance the loss of the ac credition--of the only law school in the state. And then Kane began his well organized campaign to drum up money for the new business school, The Err (Editor's note: The Emperor of North America has done battle with us time and again, but alas, he is leaving his kingdom. le is graduating. lie has promised us that this is his last letter. le also asked if it could be printed in its entirety. We shall grant him his last wish. Dear Ms. Miller: We thought that our patience had been plumbed well enough during the SCPIRG controversy and we swore that as ABSOLUTE MONARCH we would say our piece one time only toward the enlightenment of the masses on issues ecological and public truth through public research. We then left the stage to the vultures and the harpies who would turn any wholesome idea into carrion and went back to Versailles for further contemplation and to attend to our studies, but lo! The System's corruption pursued us even there where our friends were unable, even with OUR fee card, to obtain tickets for the games. It is obvious enough that his university, instead of being a great intellectual enterprise to instill HIGH CULTURE and WISDOM (Morse Peckham's definitions) into the proletariat, is kept running solely to support and maintain an ambitious Athletic Department (whose teams we are hysterically happy to see LOSING! Shriek! Scream!) for the entertainment of the trustees, redneck alumni and natives, and local grit politicos not the least of which being the moribund General Assembly--but must our loyal subjects, the men and women of Carolina, be forced to endure the humiliation of seeing their tickets sold yet again to the highest bidder? Tickets whch they have already paid for with their sweat-stained money? Have THEY no shame? How true--the passive masses-passive oppressed or better yet, student--NIGGER. Aain, reports of yet other c become calling upon old Alumni to con tribute to a bigger and better building. He asked them to help him make changes at USC. In the mean time the proposed $100 million Capital Bond issue for higher educational improvements across the state had hit a snag. Former Governor McNair even t left it out of his State of the State i address. Toombs said by this time he was disappointed so he went to I see the governor. McNair agreed to help push I through the bond issue, but i dropped the stadium addition from i the plans. He agreed to a plan that would distribute the money over a c five year period. That's when Kane and Foster c really swung into action. They were able to produce outside money. Foster saw his situation as urgent and a few architectual s problems arose with the library. h The law school and business v moved into primary positons and - their buildings were launched. Toombs says wistfully that the . library project will probably kill H him before it is done, but after all L the delays he is happy the way u things turned out. He said he had ti hoped for seven million, instead b he has been granted $9.2 million, d Lperor S la outrages reach my ears on the Throne of Light--the widening of Pickens Street. Is this the Highway Department's April Fool Joke? A four lane highway through the middle of OUR campus? A depressed street with an additional ten-foot wall to keep the WHITE NIGGERS from molesting the bourgeoisie as they pass by in their shiny, polluting, six-ton sedans? Hideous!! An echo chamber of noige and fifth!! Must the Highway Department pave every square inch of the Central City? Is this what the city of Columbia paid Doxiadis for? Certainly not. In deed, it is a flat contradiction to the spirit of the Doxiadis plan for the central city of Columbia.If Pickens is widened, Green Street will become its feeder and it too will have to widened. Now according to the Doxiadis model, these streets ARE widened but they are practically buried from end to end except for the intersections. There is no ten-foot wall and both streets are ex tensively landscaped--ALL IS LEVEL. However, knowing that the State and the Highway D)epartment in particular would make a complete mess of this area by doing only half a job to pinch pennies as well as adding a ten foot Berlin Wall, we suggest that nothing be done to either street and, at the most, to have them closed off. Put your faith and money in mass transit! Any other way is inefficient as well as ecologically inexcusable. The age of the private automobile is drawing to a close. Yes, yes, my children, it might not seem so, but remember--the candle always flares before it goes out. If that saying is not applied to the car, among other things, it will most assuredly be applied to the race of man. Now, my children, as Emperor I am duty bound to bring an un pleasant subject and warn you of its lack in us of late. Namely where a reality well above his greatest ex )ectations. "Sometimes I think the ad ninistration thought that I was )ushing too hard," Toombs said, 'but I really got a lot of :ooperation from buiness affairs." Vdany of Toomb's requests for such hings as additional parking and idvanced funds were granted. But roombs prides himself on being a ighter and enjoys winning. His reward will be a dream ibrary that Toombs has designed ifter touring hundreds of libraries cross the nation., The seven-story building will be onstructed as an extension of the Fndergraduate Library, in orporating that building in the ont portion of the total structure. hen completed the Central ibrary will encompass 278,000 quare feet of floor space and will ave a capacity of 15,000,000 olumes. Toombs says that a library is ist not as easy to sell as a stadium r a buiness school, but he is happy ith the results despite the delay. e predicts that the Central ibrary will increase the library ;e at USC greatly and he an cipates that the new complex will e able to keep up with most of the emands of the university. st letter *s our nerve?!! Where is the fire ind impetuosity of the great 60's? Have we lost all our causes to the enemy? And you South ,arolinians, must I remind you (of ill people) that you are neglecting your traditions in both areas of HIGH CULTURE and RADICAL POLITICS? Or have you forgotten your own history? And your children -- are they to be sold a bill [f goods (the Good Life a la American) or cop out into the passive wastelands of Bohemia? Or, slightly bloodied and bruised, ire they showing their true colors >y sulking off into a corner, or going after the 4.0 GPR like nice ittle boys and girls hoping that if hey be good, the AUTHORITIES A'on't spank? Have we come to :his? Living the life of a petty state olitician or walking away from he world and brooding at the first et back is not an answer--it will not mnseat the Tyrant Nixon and end he fighting in Vietnam, Cam odia, Laos, and Thailand or lestroy the entropic, cancerous :orporations and reform and place ur universities at the head of our ociety in the first step toward the Gthical State and eventually to the Wloral Society. (OH, GOD!! Where s the Man of Destiny to lead us out )f this wilderness of despair and indecision?) Let me tell you that the social 4 revolution is not a dinner party to be attended by ice-cream weather revolutionaries--one must, AB SOLUTELY MUST, have a sense if vocation not only for serious intellectual achievement but for sustained social protest as well. What will you tell YOUR children, my timid peers, when they blame YOU for their dying inheritance, this Earth. Will you say, "I was too busy being spaced out and-or joining { the System," or will you say, "There was nothing I could do." FOOl4! It may be that there is no (Conntinued on Page 3)