Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Winds The winds of but they now s best and may t We are not t but a general ti cant group of: who are dedic at USC. Most, if not now. They pe and intelligent has moved on point of a cych Concerned ft they. The blar it particularly In any organ for change, and ing a rather re President Jo a step in the i enough. But f through to a p( The greatest Roest's Reaction BY PETER ROEST Fascism has taken over the cou try! Personal liberty has bee destroyed! The free press is gon Peace is forever impossible! WHA HAS HAPPENED? Have tt Democrats been rounded up ar executed? Has the office of the Ne York Times been bombed? Has nuclear attack been launcht against Russia: The answers these and other burning questioi is "No." All that has happened that the candidate that some peop supported didn't win the preside tial election. That's all. The reactions to the election I Mr. Cleve Ard and the editors "The Gamecock" was, in a wa most gratifying. Anyone wl wishes to show that left-wit Democrats teeter continually on tl brink of hysteria needs look i farther than the editorial pages "The Gamecock" to prove th point. The editorial begins in ch dish vulgarity and then got downhill. Reading through ti editorial with a critical eye, 01 quickly sees that there is no wi to argue against many of ti statements; they don't say anythii specific that can be refuted. First the editorial opens with t! childish vulgarity mention( above: the editors compare ti Nixon supporters to a "coven sleazy whores" and says that th< "will be screwed." I can ju imagine some rabid McGove: backer grinning and thinking "y tell 'em!" as he reads this tripe. / the vulgar metaphor does is to s that the editors don't like Nixon, fact of which some of us mi already have been aware. They cc tinue and say that Nixon sent "1 surrogates to mouth the sari simple-minded phrases." Again, sounds very imposing, but in actu; ity it is quite meaningless. I woi press the editors for a definition what makes a statement simp] minded; I have a fair idea that will turn out to include all tho views not shared by the editoi Even leaving that aside, the stal ment is still overly vague. Noti that the editors have careful refrained from specifying which Nixon's utterances they foul simple-minded and why. As stands the statement cannot1 denied or refuted because it neith says of affirms anything. Then there is the invocation of t Watergate affair. Some Repub~ cans are caught breaking in D)emocratic headquarters and a lia st raight as a superhighway is dral bet ween them and Nixon. This ca ofch r change here were onc eem to have died down e nothing more than stz alking about radical po end among students, an< Faculty members and sc sted to improving the t all, of those concerned rhaps were part of one generation that, having to other things. Perhap of humanity. iculty cannot carry the b ne must be shared and i rests on faculty or studi ization, the power struc the administration here calcitrant attitude. nes is presenting ideas .ight direction, althoug] Dr some reason, they ai rceivable degree. plans will fail if they are n T ie d a to d -J ig le of 1 i ie 1e of s iy Is ie e te of e it se ly of itchiofraoig(su 1't eimeitele-loedb -s . Ian eent it q .d tosaht beuse agaiusb er- inmmediatel Soloe Cby ange ji e blowing strongly, b to a stiff breeze at tl ignant hot air. h litics or such stuff, I a small but signifi- ir ime administrators, ff ducational process w p students are gone ir particularly bright fi done what it could, a< s they were a high g] all alone, nor should Ne do not think that al ants. 1C :ture is the impetus CI seems to be display- lc P and plans that are t( h they don't go far A e not being carried e 1 not carried through h P -" "NOW CUT THAT~ OU cause the everywhere.(Another bea uing there seq uitor.) It is stated that This is dom of the democratic 1i a specter Amerika (sic) is waning 'v r'he Nixon second Nixon is in office.' threats in tainly sounds bad, doesn he editors what is it they are tryin like to see The implication of the sta ite a leap that, if McGovern had tion exists somehow to seize poweri it exists the fact that the majori st hot < y subordinate administrators s ie president, and more importa eads. Quite a few of these people ar ieffective, traditional ways of < )r rewarding innovative profe: hat they should be. They place apers, books and magazine at L themselves, but these same di il to see that work outside th :ademia has validity. And of reater impact and value than So the progress that has bee [he "progressive school" ima out USC is a sham. It is al ve with efficiency, has quick v rnnot or will not adjust to pr ye with God knows what, seer ut its money where its mouth > take a careful look at what pparently his admistrative r ffective as he thought it woul -e still needs to get his house is talk about innovative educal ./ "tefree- people don't want him, t somehow aid democracy rocess in words, if the democrati4 iith evey doesn't work their way,tt1 Tht cer- forced to destroy demi g tosay?order to save it. tement is The remainder of th managed foretells all of the horrit in spite of that will happen to the col Lty of the worldanth pre.s..m. uch as those directly under atly, deans and department e still hung up on obsolete, loing things. Their criteria isors, for example, are not great emphasis on research ticles. These are not bad bans and department heads traditional framework of ten, this outside work has the accepted productions. n made is being negated. ge that is being promoted so a shame. Business, in rays to deal with those who gress. The University, in ns unwilling and unable to is. President Jones needs is happening to his plans. 'eorganization was not as d be, nor near enough. in order, unless of course, :ion is insincere. now that Mr. Nixon has been re elected. The first one is a real winner. The Vietnam war will con tinue (notice, a definite statement). Nixon may revert to a win-the-war policy (now its a possibility). This, however, is "fairly unlikely." (Now its a negative statement) Second: the U. S. economic situa tion will worsen. Scare tactics. Most economists think that the economy is slowly improving. Third: "A tax increase very soon. " This is prob ably true, inasmuch as Mr. Nixon implemented so many proposals put forth by the Democrats. Inciden tally, when all figures were added up it turned out that, even after soaking the rich and cutting the defense budget, McGovern's prop osals would still have required $110 billion in new taxes. Even if Nixon raises taxes, the rise will benothing compared to what McGovern would have done. Fourth: The editors weep that Nixon may be able to appoint another Supreme Court Justice, which will create further "imba lance." As with the Johnson Goldwater example, none of the liberals complained when the court was unbalances (you may read that anyway you like) in their favor. As to the shifting of power from Cong ress to President, this has been going on a long time and it is histori cally the Democrats and the liberals who have done it and have applauded it. Five: Individual liberties will be in further jeopardy. This vague statement of a highly controversial issue is casually handled and dis missed as if the word of the editors is a Divine Revelation which does not require logical or empirical proof. Six: I must say that the editors are remarkably courageous in writ ing a piece like this in a country in which the freedom of the press is under such attack. Of course, everytime anyone even suggests that the press use its freedom and power responsibly, some cries "Censorship!" and makes rational discussion of the question impossi ble by resorting to wildly emotional diatribes. Yes, the country will survive, in spite of the apoCalyptiC predictions of the editors, who, by the way, have ___ a great deal of nerve, writing an article when a meatax is better". I hiis would would like to point out that Mr. In other Agnew often uses a scalpel and that process sometimes a meatax is better. (I t ey will be is a lot better, for instance, when ~cracy in cutting meat.) An exhortation to getting "on your knees", for prayer I supppose, also sounds strange e article coming from the editors Inasmuch le things as they, in an earlier editorial, mntry, the seemed to have declared God irrele unmverse vant or at least uncnsttutoa.-.