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GLENDA MILLER INTERIM EDITOR JIM FARRELL ART FRANK MGN. . AD MANAGER ED.ITORIALS Students' paradox A recent survey conducted by the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, a . nonprofit organization founded in 1946 to help black high school students choose their colleges, found that two-thirds of graduating black high school students thought that "authorities" were not aware of the black man's plight. Of the 54,000 students interviewed, 67 per cent said that they thought integration was good. This appears to be a paradox. On one hand, the black students thought that the authorities, which we generally concede to be white, are not aware of blacks' problems and yet on the other hand they do think that integration, the intermingling with whites, the group of whom the authorities are composed, was good. While it is a. paradox, it is also reassuring to a degree. The black students are willing to admit that the "authorities" have screwed them over, but they are also willing to try again with integration. And what does this mean for whites? It means black students are open to find harmony within an integrated society. Thus, whites have to do their share. Virgin Lib arrives Virgin Lib has arrived. May's Esquire has an article on the hard core of the founding American Virgin Liberation Front. Needless to say, the members are liberated and plan to forgeon with the fight for virginity. And--get this--anybody .can join. You don't even have to be a virgin. All you have to do is believe in their motto: "Virginity is no laughing matter." Ha. Ha. - - . 7/G ut The capon mprovir By SCOTT DERKS Columnist The University is embarking ori two restoration projects that could have tremendous effect on the esthetic value of the campus. The largest and by far the most im portant program is the renovatior of the Horseshoe. For years administrators, faculty members and students have said at one time or another that something should be done about the oldest segmen- ' the campus. It took a coalition if all three to get the plan rolling, but the impetus was provided by a student, David Spinazzolo, student body president. Even though many of his ideas have not met with the full approval of the administration, many of Spi.nazzolo's plans are being followed and will mean a dramatic change on the Shoe in the next five to ten years. The plans include renovating the interiors into apartment complexes, Ms. Jones diary The Jon By HARRY HOPE Columnist DEAR DIARY: We all just got back from a dynamite trip to Ocean Drive. Tom and I went with Chuckles Witten Hal Brunton, Betty Clotworthy Bobby Alexander and theif families. We stayed in this real nice house behind the Pad, ot something like that - anywhere, z bunch of kids told us that it was a nice place. As soon as we got there, we a] got into our bathing suits. I'v4 really got to tell Tom that hi orange and chartreuse bathing sui doesn't go well with orange sockE wing tips and a bowtie. At least h got rid of that smelly cigar when h went into the water. Bobby and hi wife rented a couple of motoi cycles and spent the whole a' ternoon dragging with a bunch ( Hell's Angels - until they gc caught. It was really funny listening t< Bob trying to tell that sergeant h( was. an ordained minister and dean. They didn't believe hini because he had glued on hi; moustache sloppy that mornini and it kept falling off. Anyway they charged him $79.50. Hal - tha old snake-charmer - talked then into letting him stay in jail over night. Chuckles was off somewher4 in one of his rowboats (he used ti be in the navy) and had his copy o1 "Gilbert's Law Outline" so Ha couldn't go to court and defeni him. We wish Mike Grier wat there, but he got lost the other da; between the Russell House and thi Infirmary. Anyway, Betty said she knew good place to eat - and we woun up in the Officer's Mess at Parri Island Marine Base. A lot of th guys knew Betty, and she had good time drilling a company o boots (!) She really got a charg out of demnstrating then u,a o ig campus i refashioning of the drab green are exteriors into the motif of unil yesteryear and the building of a two well and gazebo in the exact places .pus they stood one hundred years ago. in c P The other restoration scheme, botl launched by the senior class as put their 1972 project, is the will beautification of the A. C. Moore nal gardens, the park behind South wa and South Tower. shr The Administration has ignored I the park for many years, partly out ga of financial necessity, but once 1e again students are providing the on] push to get the work done. The gardens were once owned by the the city of Columbia and contained cor nearly every tree grown in South it Carolina, but time and lack of care have reduced it to a homely patch ke of land, stuck away behind the women's dormitories. Un Both projects were created by ( students and it will take student. rer input to keep them going. New stu programs and shifting priorities me s go to the Arms - and all the Marines said tht Betty hadn't forgotten a thing. wa While we were there, Chuckles ne pulled out his old uniform and passed himself off as a commodore of artillery and we all rode back on h. a PT boat. hi The next day, Bob dragged in. ar He hadn't gotten any sleep in jail ov 'cause he was playing it cool with a I bunch of fraternity guys who were ea busted (that's what the kids say) ea for display. They deserve to be in jail if they run around displaying W themselves. He also lost $57 Ai s playing poker. As t Then we decided to really "get 0 ' into it," as the kids say. We all Gi e went to the Beach Party, and - W s well, before it was over, Tom, Bob, m Chuckles and Hall were standing N - on a pool table singing the Carolina f Alma Mater while Betty was over g in the corner Indian wrestling with a bunch of football players. Podie, 3 Leslie and I contented ourselves a with sitting outside on the roof and painting our intials all over the s place. That's when Paul Dietzel ,walked up, and I was never so t aghast in all my life. There he was T - in sackcloth and ashes, carrying a wF an lit up cross and a King James Bible ye Sand yelling "The end is near! The end is near! Repent, Ye Clemson fans. Repent!" I asked him how he 65 jgot there and he said he took a dot plane with University funds - just ,like when he went to Denver. e When we finally got back to the house, we found out we had lost a Bo gain. We went to the jail, and d were horrified to discover that ten police had nothing to do so they s e jumped him and beat the crap out of him (That's a lot to beat out). Anyway, the sergeant said those ca thi e ten had never even seen him ofi esthetics a fact of University life and !ss students stand behind the plans and provide the proper 1, changes may be a long time 3ming. lans have been drawn up for i renovations, but plans can be aside. The A. C. Moore project be done completely with ural material - wood-lined lkways, replanting of flowering ubs and rebanking of the pond. [he work day, Tuesday at the rdens from 12:30 through 5 p.m., one step in restoring and tutifying the campus, but it is y one small step. If a small wd shows up for the work day, ,n the administration will clude that the students are not arested in the project. r the Horseshoe project is not it in the forefront and is not intained as an important iversity effort, then it could die. 'olumns don't rebuild parks and ovate ancient buildings, but dent interest and university ney do. beach -y did do it, boys will be boys - it s a slow night and the guys ded $100 to bet on the Rebel 400. Anyway, when we got back, Tom id a bad sunburn and I smeared m with Noxema and ice water id butter. Bob and Leslie came er and we watched Walt Disney. thought Tom would go to bed rly, but I left him at the TV set cause he wanted to watch fikini Beach a Go-Go Peach a a-Wa Baby I Need You" with inette Funicello, Frankie ralon, Boris Karloff, Laurence ivier, Lon -Chaney, Kris -istofferson, Rod McKuen, Art irfunkle, Elliot Gould, Raquel elch and Faron Young. The ovie's a drag - I've seen it before. ghty night. MARY. Letters policy Ye print all letters we receive. e only thing we ask is that the iter include his name, signature :I address (this is in case of rification purposes). 'lease try to type the letter on a space line. The letter should be ble-spaced. 'o write to the Gamecock: The Gamecock Letters to the editor IDrawer "A" USC [For those of you who are on mpus, you can put the letter In a "campus mail" slot at the post :ice. You don't even have to have