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Preston change not right DEAR MS. MILLER: The residents of Preston have received a copy of the proposed "Project Preston." We had heard rumors of this project, but this was the first real notice that had been supplied to us. Who are the people known as the "ad-hoc" committee? Can this be another effort of the student government to make us believe that they are doing something besides getting choice seats at all the athletic events? Are we going to be given a say in this issue or is the ruling body simply going to evict us from our choice of residence? Is this program going to benefit the entire student body, or is it just going to be an isolated sanctuary for the intellectual elites of this campus? Where are we, the people who wish to remain at Preston, going to live if we don't qualify for this program? Will we be forced to pay higher rates for the air-conditioned rooms at the Men's Towers plus the Women's Tower, Baker? Will we be forced to move into the tenements of the Horseshoe or to that tower off in the distance called Bates? As is evident, the circular passed around to us did not explain fully the consequences of this program. Quite possibly this circular was a preliminary release designed to soften the effects of the difficulties t that we would encounter when and n if the program is put into effect. We are presently residing at e Preston. We have found Preston l completely suitable for our needs t and would hate to have to move as a result of a program that we do not feel is beneficial to the student M body as a whole. However, it is vi clear that our leaders feel that they know more about our problems than we do. of We would like to suggest that one it of the dorms presently being h9 planned be used for this project. m This way the dorm could be built b according to the specifications be outlined in "Project Preston" and would better serve the needs of this foi new intellectual convent. Eg We appeal to the "ad-hoc" stt committee to re-evaluate their ha decision. Build a new dorm for this do project, do not drastically change dis GAME( The GAMECOCK is published tri-we semesters with the exception of Univer! Changes of address forms, subscriptiorl should be sent to Drawer A, USC, Colun $3 per semester or $6 for both semesters. GAMECOCK this year received $50,000 entitling full-time students to a subscrip GAMECOCK are in Rooms 316 and 31 University campus. Phones are 777.817E class postage paid at Columbia, S.C.i publication of the students of the Universi official publication of the University. Th not necessarily represent those of the Un staff members of the GAMECOCK. Editor .. ............ Managing Editor .. Associate Editor . .. . . Assistant Managing Editor..... Business Manager........ Sports Editor .. Asst. Sports Editor ... . . - Photo E ditor.. Chief Reporter ........... News Editors. .......... Feature Editor . Circulation... Classified Advertising........ Staff Writers..--.--.--.. ...Larry Ev Gilbert, Bob Grondahl, Barbara Ms Niewidaomski, Ellen Murray, Kris Schv Wilson, Ann Winters, Debbie Krell, Betty and Fran Zupan. Sports Writers..-.-.-.-.-.-. .. ....Bill c Photographers-..--..-. . .ourteny Dic1 Steve K Advertising Manager.. ....... ....Temprary,positons pendanaq a dorm that is working perfectly well at the moment. We strongly disagree with this effort to change Preston. DAVID CARVER FRANK LaBOONE BILL ROBBINS MIKE STITH GARY THIBAULT ERNEST A. KASTNER, JR. RICKEY LANKFORD JAMES SHIRLEY MIKE WHITE MAX DORSEY 'Students busy smoking dope' DEAR MS. MILLER: So, it's an early circus. Ever think about participating in an early circus rather than sitting back and writing scathing editorials? I was one of the par ticipants. I have a few comments on the editorial: 1) the reason students didn't join the march: they are too busy worrying about getting a sun tan, f -king, and smoking dope to get off .he gr(ass). 2) We didn't kill the animals to get the entrails we used. They were Acked up from wholesale packing louses. 3) I'm glad to hear that people ocused on the blood and guts, ecause war is "Blood and Guts." 4) It seems that being obnoxious s the only way to make people ware. 5) What the hell is wrong with iem (the protesting 13). Not too iuch I don't think. But there is Dmething wrong with an lucational system that produces tudents who don't concern iemselves with issues more ressing than themselves. 6) Reading this editorial has ade me feel vindictive. I am not a ndictive person. Now let me explain the purpose that demonstration. The reason wasn't publicized was that if it d been, ROTC wouldn't have arched. Our effect would have en lost. I guess that is a result of n ing paronoid in a Fascist state. V tj The people who marched worked t - weeks planning Earth Day and c Lrth Week. Only to discover that L idents didn't care (save for a ndful). So we figured its time to something drastic. We played Blood and Guts to try s SOCK ekly during thefall and spring p pity holidays and exam periods. requests and other mail items ibia, S.C. Subscription rates are h Bulk copies are $6 per 100. The If from the student activity fund, di tion to the paper. Offices of the di 8 of the Russell House on the ,777-4249 and 777-3888. Second di although the GAMECOCK is a Al ty of South Carolina, it is not an gr e opinions expressed herein do bi iversity, the student body, or all t - - - -Glenda Miller se -..-.-.-.-..-.-.-.JJm Farrell on -..-.-.-.-..-.-.JJhn T. Gash A -..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Sharon Givens -.-.-.-.-.-....te Huckabe e -..-..-..-...Doug Williams b -.-.-.-.-.-...StSeve Parker we -..'.. -.-..-..-.om Price -.--..-....R...R sty Robinson -.-.-.-.... arin Burchstea d Vicki Thomas - ' - - - - . Bob Craft. -..-.-.. -.-..-.onty Preston -..-.-.. -.-..PPtty McQuillian ans, K. Wayne Ford, Armida rray, Ruthie Lyon, Judie 'eickert, Sharon Edsell, Beth Voodruff, Charlie Fellenbaum, irant, Jim Hersh, Gary West, Veron Whitm ire ly, Doug Holladay, Alan Hug, ish, Lewis Phillips, Murray Sill - -- - .Art Frank $ Staff orgaas:ag.nn Letters and bring the war home. All t' rhetoric in the world doesn personify what a war really : about. Blood and Guts does! Doe anyone ever really think about wa until they themselves see th horrors of war? A secondary purpose of th demonstration was to get yet aware. I am trying to organize in( coordinate a Viet Veteran Agains War march on the 22nd with Mik< Kaney's March for Life. Any Ve interested in marching shouk contact me at 256-0196. One last comment for ya'll. almost believe students aren't niggers -- they're Pigs. Stop the madness. TOM HOHAN Citizens should support policies DEAR MS. MILLER: The first amendment in the United States Constitution protects the group who, here last week thought it was necessary to demonstrate against the war in Vietnam. This same amendment also protects me and I intend to use this privilege now. I will be the first to say that the Vietnam issue is a tiring political maneuver, and I don't like the idea of Americans being uselessly killed, however it is our respon sibility as citizens to stand behind our country's policy, right or wrong, giving these men in Southeast Asia moral support. Quite obviously, change does not take place unless people show disapproval. By the same token, bow do dissenters expect to be seriously listened to when they use mmature, childish tactics, which ncludes the disrespectful stunt of lying the American flag upside lown? It seemed from the gathering outside the Federal Building ;aturday, that the significant umber of participants mustered vere junior high schoolers, who hought they were mimicking the iay the "hip" college crowd acts. I an't believe the majority of the TSC students believes the war 'ould be over if President Nixon ,ithdrew all U. S. aid! One of the issues printed on aturday's posters concerned the lood of our servicemen on the ands of all American citizens. ere this group defeats its own irpose. Whichever course we ke as a nation, it will go down in story as the Vietnam bloodbath. we continue, more people will e; if we quit, all those who have ed will have so in vain. Our lemma: "What hands are here? i pluck out thine eyes, will all eat Neptunes' oceans wash this od clean from our hands? No, is our hands the multitudinous as incarnidine, making the green e red." (Shakespeare Macbeth tII Scene III). W1y outlook on the war is spurred the loss of several loved ones as 11 as close friends. Is there t 3LOOD DONORS NEEDED! IMMED,ATE CASH PAYMENT Agje Limitations, 18 60 NEW HOU RS :30 a.m. 'til6 p.m. Mon-Fri. 9:30 a.m. 'til16 p.m. Sat. CAROLINA BLOOD BANK 7 Taylor 253-6232 April 21, 1972 anyone who has not been directj3 affected by our envolvement! Nonetheless, it is of my opinion e that these "riots" do not produce t any beneficial change to the is President's policy. They do, S however, mar the significance of r the cause for which so many e Americans have died. e The question I leave to you and your conscience is: Are the e protesters (these veterans, S students, etc.) marching because t the war is morally wrong, and t based on your knowledge do you believe THEY have the best in terest of this nation at heart? DON K. SAVELLE 'Make friends with a rock' DEAR MS. MILLER: Although I am not a member nor representative of the A. S. P. C. A., I am at least a human being, and feel that to maintain my human potentials it is necessary to uphold certain principles, which may be called humane. One of these is respect for living creatures. This does not mean, of course, that all life must be preserved. My love is greater for people than for most other animals. And the survival of humans is more important than that of other species. Thus we need to eat -- and even vegetarianism destroys life. But, doggishly, I stray. My concern has been sparked, as has that of others, by the letter from Mr. Paul Ransohoff (GAMECOCK, LXII (22 March 1971)). Mainly I am upset that Mr. Ransohoff intends to acquire a dog upon whom to lavish his dominating affections and ten dernesses. "Please, Paul," I must 8 say, "do not." I suspect he is a deficient in Peer Love experiences f (see writings by Harry F. r Harlow); or perhaps he has just P begun flunking courses; or P something significantly traumatic A to bring on this cynical defiance of e the ZEITGEIST. fr But, dear Paul, I would pity the e poor dog who became leashed to e your diminished personality. Not to be acerbic (totally sincere, despite the rhetoric), but I don't believe you are ready for a dog. No, not yet a tree, either. I suggest you try to make friends with a rock. A big one. After all, if it was S. good enough for Carl Jung shouldD you count yourself better? No. Once you can commune with your rock, then you can attempt relation As with a tree. Then, after these po spiritual exercises, move into the mi animal realm. But you still need aw people, all along. You need persons att to become a person, Paul. And suj persons deserve respect -- as you idE do also. the As for sex -- I doubt you can separate it from your dominating '1 and disrespectful tendencies. If car ou get any count yourself lucky. If stu he world and others were just me -ather than merciful, the only anc exual encounters allotted to such stu< self-engrossed person would be RO hose completely self-directed and war cad biza Z pou Zip offe cad< th 1320 Main Street the * 1-HOUR CLE ANING unw *4-HOUR LAUNDRY SERVICE Fr Monday thru Saturday Fe -THE GAMECOCK- P-0 self-serving, yes, and self engrossed and self-meaningful, only, which is to say, 0miic. I. S.IELTON Veteran can't take it anymore DEAR MS. MILLER: As a veteran and an Amnrcan, I can take it no longer. Tbe time has come to take a public stand against the nightmare of American leadership that has led s and has kept us in Vietnam. I speak for al of you who think accondingly, for all of you who have wretched is or her insides out at the renewed bombing and slaughter in Vietnam -- what an infamous, earuriating national disgrace. The American people have no one to blame -but themselves. I aid to blame; you are to blame. We are an respon sible for electing this deceitful manipulator who has no better arguments than the word "f-k'' when privately counterig his opposition. Mr. Nixon's in tellectual capabilities are evident in his behavior. "...'The war is not ending ... the bomb tonnage is two and-a-half times Hiroshima every week. Babies are being born with flippers instead of hands, with soft skulls, with no tear ducts. ...These are the things our goverment is doing in our name." (THE VILLAGE VOICE, April 13, 1972) Conservatives and liberals alike will wear the stigma Of horror and shame many years after the last kmerican leaves Vietnam. For hose of you who find my letter offensive, my answer to you is imple: open your eyes and look round you. For those of you who nd my letter in accord with eality, my advice is to continue to ursue the elusive goal of im roving the lot of our fellow man. nd for the apathetic majority who )nsistently fail to press their -ustrations further than the coves of their minds, if nothing se, then think justice, freedom, id peace. KENNETH E. WILBURN, JR. 'ree ROTC ave students EAR MS. MILLER: I'oday the Vietnam Veterans ~ainst The War and their sup rters held a guerilla theater >ve on the Air Force ROTC 'ards program. 'This was an ack on some of the cadets' pre )posed and ROTC programmed as concerning what exactly ir duties will be if the cadets are it to fight in Vietnam. '00 long has the ROTC unit on npus symbolize the seduction of dents into its ranks by govern nt money (financial support ) I oppression of these same lents' (when they enter the TC) opinions about the Vietnam I personally talked to several ets today who felt that the rreness of the theater (blood red on a man and a woman who 'esen ted Vietnamese captives) red an alternative to what the ets are programmed and ex ed to think. is was the goal today. Shock ter to try to get people to think n --- especially before they ittingly support this war. ee The ROTC Slave,Students All Political Prisoners. LOUISA yyTOBA