Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JIM FARRELL MGN. ED. EDI Grav The recent escalai the quandary of ho' sanity. While we h, protests don't work, doesn't work, we ha% really know if it will % This suggestion v Alaska, when he pre! "lI hope those Amei concerned about the this Nation will atten< a politician or where\ this very simple que: Put aside the rhetoric rhetoric of convenien and put aside platitu< very simple question, "If we do want to ei in this piece of legil "'Ask them, 'How c not stand for ending proposal, then I woul, choose to end the wai because they do not < the government of th Gravel may be righ their precious positio, America doesn't want country we have no I 79E7E AAOTHYER JO E P TH P GLENDA MILLER INTERIM EDITOR ART FRANK AD MANAGER 1.04~ TORIALS el 's choice ion of the war has aroused once again v we can end that God-forsaken in ive seen that petitions don't work, violence doesn't work and praying ,e another suggestion, which we don't vork but it's worth a try. ias made by Sen. Mike Gravel, D ;ented a bill to end the war: icans throughout the country who are immorality of the collective action of I political meetings wherever there is 'er there is a candidate, and ask them stion, 'Do you want to end the war?' of presidential power. Put aside the ce. Put aside the rhetoric of the ego Jes and pontifications. Ask them this 'Do you want to end the war?' id the war, then we have got a chance lation to do it. lo you stand?' If the candidate does the war by this simple and clear d hope that those Americans who do r will not vote for those individuals, Jeserve to occupy a high position in is country." t. Get the politicians scared of losing ris and maybe they will realize that to continue with the devastation of a )usiness being in. /iTcACKER, OR KE7NNEDY DEC/Ix>ED 4I4AY/ES AT /1HE LA ST M/NMTE University analysis Give ul By CHARLES FELILENBAUM Columnist Occasionally a columnist is lucky enough to get a reaction about something he said in a column, thereby proving that someone other than himself reads what he writes. That happened to me the other day in the form of criticism about how critical the tone of this column often is, and a challenge to say something nice for a change. Challenge accepted. There are a lot of people who work for USC who never get credit for doing a good job, in particular that almost nameless group of faces lumped together under the term "STAFF." So today we will attempt to give a little: credit t where it is due, credit that will t never come from some place t where it really matters in terms of promotion or even raises. I work at the University Print s Shop, a big cream-colored building t stuck way over on Wheat and s Assembly streets. Printing is s probably one of the most S demanding industries anywhere, and most every order is a rush order, or so it sometimes seems. tl But all the print shop employes p work hard and just accept the rush s as fate, although not without an ( occasional very human muttering I about "If they wanted this thing a done by the end of the week why s didn't they get it in earlier?" which o is a good point and a justifiable I mutter. y Citizen Sanity Freeing fr By STAN SEARS fi Columnist at On Sanity's campus, a great uror arose over what was to be su aught and what was not to be ir aught. Freedom Of Speech ad- st rocated the abolition of certain re ourses because they felt that their th presence was contrary to what wi hould be taught on a campus. The ai idvocates demonstrated re igorously against the courses that sti vere taught that they did not arn ielieve should be taught. Sanity, if hough not enrolled in the courses inder question, felt compelled to le; oice his opinion in the interest of ou ane behavior. die "If you guys are so hopped up on fri ree speech, why are you afraid fig iat these courses will harm you -- iey aren't mandatory." bol "We don't want our university to tio: each people how to kill or how to thc ead Shakespeare. Both are fit relevant." pu "But suppose we want to study toy hakespeare, aren't we going to be ma ermitted to study what we Bo 'ant?" "No, it is irrelevant. We don't 'ant irrelevant courses to be ba~ ught on our campus." ag< "But who are you to decide what be1 relevant or irrelevant?" fre "We represent the self-appointed pre mmittee for the perpetuation of to ee speech on college campuses. tho te are unbiased in our decisions. adt e only wish to bring an end to An< ose courses that we feel are not in t to be taught on college cam- the uses." pro "But suppose I wish to take a rep >urse and you are opposed to att( wving it taught?" dar "Then, it must certainly be unfit edu be taught on this campus." the "Suppose that people disagree effe ith your interpretation of what s The S good nei The next department that comes g to mind is the Motor Pool. Joe Cook is the manager over there, and he's P one of the most pleasant people k you'll meet around here. He's got a h hard job. With a very limited 1 number of people to work with s' him, he's got to keep every single T university vehicle in good mechanical condition, filled with 0 gas, and clean. And that is one t ieckuva job, especially since many people who use university vehicles often don't take care of m hem, even though it's their tax W noney they waste. df The treasurer's office has arned a certain degree of . ioteriety as some of the people 15 here seem to have the hardest ar ime smiling, even handling all . hat money. But there used to be a ja irl that worked in the back named cr ,ois who just always seemed to k mile. Of course she's no longer ha bere, moved away I heard, so if or omeone would clip this out and cl end it to her we'd appreciate it. be he really set a good example. in ca There are a lot of secretaries I iat come to mind as deserving a ve at on the back. President Jones's m( !cretaries are always great, Mike off rrier's secretary Susan, Nicki and th( :ay over in Student Affairs, Chris I nd Pat and Terri down at the j- wo 2hool, and a long, long list of ha, thers. You know who you are, and wr m very sorry I don't know all us our names. But rest assured your pie eedom of t to be taught: are they you itomatically wrong?" cor "Of course not. They are just con ffering from a case of mental car regularity and need to be vie raightened out. They don't str alize that they have blood on ne eir hands, for example, if they ne sh to take warfare history or of tj rplane construction. You musf the alize that these misguided if w idents will be out causing warsou d destruction all over the world pur we let them get out of hand.' phil "But don't they have the right toph '1rn about these subjects? Willyo r Geology department be tyiu banded because a few of your tryw ends and mine had a rock ve 'Now quit using those hyper-lie es and Trix like rationaliza-.a 1s. We would only eliminate a ce se courses that we feel are not yo to be taught on a college cam- gu ;. Why, I'll bet you still play with ci guns and dress up in your old view n's uniforms. Are you still a 'Scout or something?" fend suh No, but I believe that you had a the ~ically good idea about a decade theg when your predecessors firstpr an to expound academic who edom. Instead of attacking the apro sent curriculum, in an attempt seek ibolish it, they sought to add on pae Its should be able to handle. gi I, they carried out their protests from civilized manner. They were fasc real innovators and notc gressives. You are not ntei resenting anything but a futile thei mpt to bring us back to the that k ages of education when Ifhat eators were afraid to educate inflsh people because they feared the ini ets of an educated population. A y feared comneion jus as ood-naturedness is appreciated. Most of the food service people ut up with a lot, and manage to eep smiling and slinging those amburgers at the same time. ucy and Kitty are two names that and out as menory fails again. he girls and ladies in the student iculty dining room are indeed ten "people pleasers" and so, tanks for helping make lunch a ttle nicer. The Admissions office is a !formed office ever since Art Iest took over, and they all !serve their share of the kudos. ianks people! And last, but certainly not least, another group of employes that e probably not even considered ;TAFF" by some. They are the nitors and maids and grounds ew who somehow manage to ep the dorms and the outside If of the university in pretty good der. Theirs is a thankless task, aning bathrooms and drooms, dealing with dirt and polite students every day. All we n say is keep on plugging along. 'Jo doubt there are quite a few ry deserving souls that were not !ntioned here. To all of you, we er thanks, and please keep up good work. Po all students who read this and uld like to add some names that ve been left out, I urge you to ite a letter to the editor and give some good news. Have a asant day! speech i do. If your viewpoint was so rect, you would welcome the ipetition of those courses on ipus that would challenge your 's, for this would serve to !ngthen your side, and bring ' converts to your morality." Now hold on, we are not afraid he competition. We will debate issue any time, any place, only e get a fair chance to expound views. It is fascist of you to not nit myself to expound my osophies." rhen talk. I'm not trying to run off campus. You are the one og to run those of opposing /s off campus, calling them :ists' and attacking them in graffitti. My side is more -al and tolerant than yours. I n favor of giving the other side lance to express their views. are the coward. How much does it take to slice up a calf or ken just to express your Ve are sorry if you are of ed by our actions. But, pigs, as yourself, that would foster propagation of murderous rams on our campus and those would participate in such rams are in desperate need of se of pacifism by shock. We to bring the war to your nts, sitting home with a bottle seer watching the football '. We seek to remove the war campuses where young sts are being trained to kill, nowing the true meaning of lessons. That is why we favor )ictures in your newspaper show children being bombed. ck is what it takes, we will t shock upon shock." iaah, but you wallow in (('ontinnedl on 1)1. m2