Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Gamecock worse than Albert DEAR MS. MILLER: Regarding your Monday's editorial concerning the new Humanities water sculpture, which you complained cost in the neighborhood of $10,000 and did nothing but regurgitate water, I can only say that there is a certain University of South Carolina newspaper that expends much more and regurgitates worse. For my erroneously saluting you as Miss in my last letter, I extend my humblest apologies to you and my most sincere condolences to your husband. THOMAS H. ELEAZER Women want unadulterated sex DEAR MS. MILLER: As a self-respecting masculinist I feel compelled to object to the current nude fold-out of Bert Reynolds in Cosmopolitan which women are drooling over animalistically. We me.n have always been cruelly subjected to sexual exploitation, and this is simply another blatant manifestation of the age old idea that the sole purpose which men serve on this female earth is for the greedy, perverted sexual satisfaction of women. All they want is our bodies! They ignore our other virtues. Raw, pure unadulterated sex - that's all the women of America want. What's more, these women are abhorrent hypocrites. They all claim that they want husbands who are virgins and pure in body and soul, but what they really want is sex with no complications or ties. I, for one, am tired of such abuse and exploitation. The double standard which we males have been laboring under for centuries must be terminated. ERIC PEDERSEN Across from USC ROUNDHOUSE 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 subsi GAMECOCK are in Rooms 316 anc University campus. Phones are 777. class postage paid at Columbia, S. publication of the students of the Unix officiai 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..... .. .. .. .. .ar Gilbert, Bob Grondahi, Barbara Niewiadomski, Ellen Murray, Krnis Wilson, Ann Winters, Debbie Krell, B and Fran Zupan. Sports Writers .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Photographers...........Courtne Sti Advertising Manager... .... OTemporarv positions pn Gamecock fails to inform DEAR MS. MILLER: I don't understand why the Gamecock even bothers to print articles that inform its readers about speakers the same day they are to speak. I am referring to Wesley A. Pomeroy, who spoke at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Since the Gamecock doesn't come out until 12or 1:00 and most people don't see it until after 3:00, why bother to print the article at all? It seems that a school as large as this University should be able to inform the students about speakers at least before they are to speak and not after they already have. LAWRENCE J. COLLINS Philistines have infiltrated Gamecock DEAR MS. MILLER: In regard to your editorial concerning "Albert the Drinking Bird," I am disappointed to see that the Philistines have also in filtrated the editorial offices of the Gamecock. JEFFERY GREENE Gamecock biased toward females DEAR MS. MILLER: Since returning to USC this semester after two years as a non civilian, I've noticed that the GAMECOCK, the "student" newspaper frequently assaults me with its glaring and overdone favoritism of the female sex. Now I believe in equal rights for everyone; I accept this premise as a fact of life. But nearly every issue of the Gamecock either has an editorial on the subject or a letter or two from both sides of the coin. And it gets sickening after a while. Doesn't every student by now know the position of the Gamecock on women's lib? I think so. It stands to reason, then, that all profound opinions which come from Ms. Miller have now reached a stage of redundancy. Of course, I expected a clam mering of insanity after Ran sohoff's remarks (when did people start paying attention to a raving maniac?) but some of the rebuttals V COCK -weekly during the fall and spring versity holidays and exam periods. tion requests and other mail Items umbia, S. C. Subscription rates are ers. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. The 300 from the student activity fund, :ription to the piper. Offices of the I 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 -.-.-.-.. .....OJim Farrell -.--..... ....John T. Gash . ....... .. ..Sharon Givens -. ...... .. Ute Hurkabee -..-..-.. .. ..Doug Williams ........ .. .. .. Steve Parker -....-....... .. Tom Price . ..... .. .. Rusty Robinson ... .. .. ..Karin Burchstead Vicki Thomas . .......... .. ..Bob Craft . ...... .. ..Monty Preston . ..... .. ..Patty McQuilllan 'y Evans, K. Wayne Ford, Armida Murray, Ruthie Lyon, Judie Schweickert, Sharon Edsell, Beth etty Woodruff, Charlie Fellenbaum, Bill Grant, Jim Hersh, Gary West, Veron Whitmire y Dice ,, Doug Holladay, Alan Hui, ye K i.sh, Lewis Phillips. Murray Sill ..-.-.-.-.-... ..Art Frank ding' staff organization. Letters were equally nauseating. I was subjected even further to an "old country saying"--not to be Found in the Treasury of Familiar Quotations--"boys are boys, but nen are dogs!" A very worthwhile The last (Continued from Page 2) hope but in so far as the weight on one's will is thrown into the scales of history, one must live in the belief that it is not to be so. And, in order to affect our national life, what better place is there than in ur own back yard? Let us look around us here in Columbia, South Carolina. It is indeed not radicalism, ;ocialism, or Marxism that hreaten our university and our iative city but corrupt and >yzantine politics especially of uch Southern Fried institutions as hat paradigm of hypocrisy and ride--Solicitor Foard. This man, his pustule, is the real parasite of 'reedom in this state. He is an ictive and dedicated agent to those >oliticians and ideas of repression ind reactionism. He would Jestroy all the rights and guarantees our revolutionary orefathers fought so hard for against the major imperial power f their day--some of them being he right of free assembly and the 'ight of the accused to be judged by rial and jury before his peers. , We all know what happened to hese rights in the Spring of 1970. kre we not also tired of having hose outspoken professors of alent and ability dismissed and >ersecuted not only by our self ;erving, political administrators )ut also by the States prosecutor hat swine of swines Foard!! That nuckraking mountain of -ighteous WASP blubber, that lorses ass--GOD'S DEATH!! Will io one oppose that creature and trike him down? Are we doomed o have our courageous teachers ntimidated and dismissed one by ne on mere rumor and planted or oought testimony? Oh yes, my hildren, our loving Solicitor is vell known for such tricks as some f you have found out, much to 'our pain and sorrow, and yet no ne dares to remind the public of it. Furman Unives GORDON I APRIL 21st 8:1 MCALISTER $5.00 per Send stamped self addressed en to Furman Univ. Social Board, Greenville, S.C., 29613. -frs drv-0 adesp Vou:"h0ed artyo Anbd0a O vo u , u c0 piece of literature, Ms. Miller. Just as women cringe at male chauvinism, men are likewise turned-off by the extreme female point of view too often exemplified in the Gamecock. Maybe we're all too sensitive, too worked up about a subject of which there is general, if not nearly total agreement. My point is--let's cool it. from the Unfortunately, the public thinks that its children and teachers are monsters, especially if they serve large state universities, and so condones this infamy, little realizing that THEIR freedoms are withering away with ours. They have all too soon forgotten the humiliation we and our con stitutional rights suffered in the UFO debacle where the State's star witness was bought off as would have been exposed in a higher court if those poor martyrs had taken it to the Supreme Court as they had planned. No. Foard proposed a deal too tempting for the harassed and imprisoned defendents to refuse after two miserable years of fighting it out alone. The State said it would drop charges if they would simply go away--leave South Carolina forever. The truth of the matter was that the State never had a real leg to stand on, as is the case more and more these days under Tyrant Nixon and his allies, and we instinctively knew this from the very beginning long before we talked to those who were intimately connected with the case. Yes, we ALL knew it, the naive but uncorrupted young who can smell a rat a mile away before it comes into view. Let us review the case of Jack Klontz, now professor of Philosophy in California studying under Mar cuse, only one of four professors dismissed for political purposes and departmental intrigue in almost as many years. Professor Klontz, a most able and talented teacher, was dismissed on Foard's persecution--some of the 'evidence' being obtained from his office trash can including a poster of Karl Marx ripped off his living room wall and passed around at a local Rotarian meeting for our aged Puritans to squawk at. He was considered to be a subversive element because he dared to go sity Presents .1 GHTFOOT )0 P.M. A T SU D. person velope with check enclosed Box 27887, F urman Univ. an 0.s opigcne0e * 0. @0 9 P ce npopu accepance al0 h ms e .g e Stln E!0 Rhetorical attack on either sex doesn't solve a damn thing. Can't we grow up and grow out of our prejudices and begin to respect people for what they are and not as they may appear to be. We are too conscious of our SEX. Let us be more aware of ourSELVES. DREW WILDER Emperor with us to the Peace Demon strations in Washington, among other heinous things. And so he was done away with in the usual manner-character n and the bribe of a "good recom mendation" if he didn't rock the boat. Yes, the definition of "solicit" is well written; "to entice or lure, especially into evil." And so, my children, you rioted in the merry month of May, 1970, along with the rest of your brothers and sisters over this and other incidents of national disgrace Kent State, the Cambodian in vasion, and the whole mess created by our corporation-owned and-controlled government the world over. And if you don't think the college and universities, our last refuge and hope, are not also owned, just look at any Board of Trustees--it's enough to make one vomit. I, for one, am tired of the con tempt and chastisement (through the National Guard) of these bankers, politicians, and real estate men towards their betters. I am tired of their god Oro. Oro whose eyes are the eyes of death in senseless colonial wars. I am tired also of their many gods to Money and their ingenious ways of taking mine from me, especially to no good end.But what's the use? You, my loyal subjects, and, yes, even I have apparently forgotten our heritage and those things which we have sacrificed and fought so hard for throughout the 60's and early 70's. Somber reflections and our personal safety have made Hamlets of us all. Yes, I.am truly nauseous and ashamed of such a promising generation and, of course, myself. Like JFK, we will be struck down by Mammon before realizing our potential. We will sit back and watch as they drag away, one by one, our intellectual and free-thinking professors, and replace them with mindless technicians of the disposable Plastic Age; we will sit back and watch, stupefied with T.V. Paralysis, as they draw away our brave, ethically concerned brothers and sisters who have something more on their minds besides beer and basketball; we will sit back, we cowards, and do nothing to defend them and our selves as they are incarcerated and dumped into the social gas chambers of ridicule and centempt reserved for dissidents by the unreflective majority. Now my children, I must go. This will be my last letter to you, ever as Emperor of North America, for I am graduating and going into (Continued em PageS) Across frou USC ROUNDHOUSE