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Voice Suspension unfair TO THE EDITOR: This is more to Coach Dietzel than to the editor. It regards the matter mentioned in Monday's Gamecock. I along with other students, think it grossly unfair that he suspend two players for smoking. Just two? Why not the whole Roost? I've been to the "Other Place", "Don's, and the "Campus Club" and have seen Dietzel's boys "boozing it up"! I've also been to a few parties with boys from various teams where "pot" or marijuana, whichever you prefer, was smoked by all! I'm not telling on anyone in par ticular, but I'm sure everyone in the beloved Roost has smoked at least once! If not, they probably have got ten drunk on their tails quite a few times! Also, don't you need positive evi dence to convict someone with? "Word of mouth" is pretty unstable. What I'm getting at is, stopping two people for something as major as smoking doesn't make the prob lem vanish! JO ANN BUCKLEY C raft offensive TO THE EDITOR: I find Bob Craft's article one of the most offensive articles I have ever read in my life. I take issue with every point in his article but will discuss only a few. He assumes that Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, and Gloria Steinem dictate their beliefs to the masses of women. On the contrary, the moment a girl begins to mature, she realizes that from the moment she was born, she has been oppressed. She begins to rebel in her own way, whether that rebellion takes place within her, or whether it be expressed. Sometime after she formulates her opinions, she realizes that she is not alone. She see others, both men and women, who hold her beliefs. It is only then that she understands Ms. Abzug and Ms. Steinem. They do not dictate, they merely express the ideas held by countless women. Mr. Crafts's statement, "Hast to thyself ever addressed, 'If I had Gloria Steinem's looks, I'd keep my mouth shut?' " is enough to make one sick. Obviously, that point is the basis for his degrading contest. He thinks that most women who belong to the women's liberation move ment ought notet elnga use. of the they will lose prospective suitors; as if a woman's only purpose is to please a man. He thinks that a woman derives the most pleasure from being with a man who is interested in her; more specifically, he implies that a man dates only good-looking women who are just waiting to attend their wishes. Such a male chauvinist has not spoken for many a year. Would that he had not! To know that there are still people like him in the world is disillusion ing. I have not met an attack such as his in a long time. Most men tend to mythologize the compassionate qualities in women as a standard method of gilding her cage. Only with difficulty are those men made to see the errors of their attack. Mr. Craft's position, however, is a bla tant attack which must be insulting to every woman and man alike. As to his proposed contest, what can one say? So that all may under stand the depth of the rage it caused, let it be compared to a con test among men to find the largest, most potent penis. Need any more be said? His most offensive point, even more so than the contest itself, is that women should go to college to get a husband rather than an educa tion. Women have as much right as men to go to college. Education is the key to effective participation in today's economy and education can only be serious where there is expectation that it will be used in society. To suggest that a woman's education should be used, as in the past, to catch a husband is to endan ger not only the advancement in world knowledge, but the whole economy on which society is based. D. HUNTER DAVIS Thanks, but TO THE EDITOR: Thank you very much for the excellent coverage you gave to Don Fowler in last week's GAMECOCK. However, you failed to mention the organization which sponsored the lecture, namely the University Union Short Courses Committee. The lecture was part of the Contem porary Politics speaker series and because it took the Committee time in scheduling the event and in poster-making and other details we feel it should be billed to the Short U Dray LaRoas *Fish i OPEN 11:00 Al S2005 Gr In Fit, >eople Courses Committee and not as a "speech Tuesday night." I don't understand how your reporter could cover such an event and not even know, much less print, who sponsored the lecture. Just in case the same reporter covers the Lt. Gov. Earl Morris lecture December 12 I'd like to mention that this is also University Union Short Courses Committee sponsored. CASSANDRA CHRISTENSEN ACTING CHAIRMAN SHORT COURSES COMMITTEE Why? TO THE EDITOR: Why does the maintenance department water the grass on the Pickens street side of Humanities? Don't they believe in the conserva tion of life sustaining elements? Why waste water on grass that is doomed. Who doomed the grass? H. Brunton and the highway depart ment and the city council, that is who doomed the Pickens street grass. They are only making Pickens twice as wide as the present street, only cutting down a few trees, only ripping up a little grass, only divid ing our campus with 15 feet of cement wall, 40 feet of pavement, only opening up a truck route through the middle of our campus. Why do men (that seldom if ever walk across Pickens at the student's crossing) decide that the road will be doubled in size-trippled in size at the Pickens Pendleton intersec tion? For what or for whom? For the automobile?-But PEOPLE! What about the students that walk on cam pus? Does the automobile now dic tate where we build our roads? The truck, the car, the bulldozer? Does the great bulldozer run the man? Nio! Let the students decide. Give us a chance to decide. Don't accept a B. S. compromise. CLOSE PICKENS STREET, plant more grass! CLOSE GREEN STREET, lant more grass! CLOSE these lamn little pollution lanes to ALL F'HRU TRAFFIC; and water the grass! We can do it! Drive to campus, walk at school. Demand adequate parking facilities in high-rise towers. Ask yourself: vvhy not close Pickens and Green Streets and save the campus for Future generations of students, or Let the bulldozer do its work and stop wasting water on doomed grass. Students Demand a Change! Staff and Faculty of U.S.C. Please ielp us close Pickens and Green. CHARLES B. BORTON t Beer t Beef e Chips W1 'TIL 12:00 PM een Street e Points CAUTION The Gamecock is published twice weekly on Monday and Thursday during the fall and spring semesters with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other mail items should be sent to The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S. C., 29208. Subscription rate is $3 per semester. 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