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Voici Apathy reigns TO THE EDITOR: Frankly, I don't see how it could have happened again. The student body, after repeatedly being fooled, has been duped once more. Last year, in my freshman naivet'e, I, and a lot of other stu dents were bowled over by the obvi ous sincerity and dedication of the Great Red Hair, Dave Spinazzolo. Thinking hhn the best man for the job, one willing to make something out of a powerless office, we colored in his square on the ballot sheet, thinking we were striking a blow for students' rights. Instead, we elected a president who finally makes headlines by resorting to leading "a small band of Russell House Regulars up and down the street, yelling obscenities at SCE&G bus drivers," to quote one of the few good articles in your newspaper. Rarely has his name been printed in The Gamecock -surely he has done something worth note? He is still alive? The Student Senate seems equally impotent, given to passing insipid bills in favor of such trivialities as parking lot bulletin boards. A vis itor to the University would think bulletin boards were absolutely and without a doubt the most important issues at hand to the students. Now, before all you loyalists jump on my back, I realize I'm merely an observer to the governmental processes, I don't know the intracacies, red tape, and power the President of the student body and his Senate possess. However, I do know that until the students get together with their backs up like adament lions instead of pooped chickens (sorry, Dietzel) Spinazzolo and his government and others to follow will never have any power. We should be able to control what courses we "must" take for a par ticular major, the registration pro cess, the physical dangers involved in simply getting to class and other problems far, far more important than those fat-asses on the Board of Trustees think we are able to deal with. What I'm trying to say is that no matter how good a candidate sounds in the spring, he melts away and is doomed to insignificance with the fall semester. This letter will not be noted except by a few zealous students looking for letters from Nazis, white racists, or abortion oppo nents. Apathy reigns. C. A. HENRY Zoll Speaks TO THE EDITOR: We take occasion to write this let ter to deplore the tactics and philosophy of Mr. Linton Admiral's National Socialist Fourth World Order (NSFWO). Such extremism, whether from the Right or the Left, can lead to nothing but totalitarian ism and the enslavement of mens' minds and bodies. Some may ask why we in Young Americans For Freedom (Y.A.F.) would write a letter like this. Well friends, Y.A.F. is the representative of the Conservative movement on the U.S.C. campus. While we may have the dubious distinction of shar ing the Right side of the political -Zir K LEEN 1320 Main Street 1-hour cleaning 4-hour Laundry Servic (3Mondav - Saturdav 3 of the p spectrum with the NSWFO, we hope they will not lay' claim to the hon ored Conservative label. Those of us in responsible groups such as Young Americans For Free dom intend to continue to speak out and lead the battle against the forces of the Left (anarchism, Com munism, et al). However, we feel it is as important. to know what you're fighting for as what you're fighting against. The forces of Hit lerian reactionarianism can hardly provide a comfortable banner for reasonable men. Adolf's adorers are not only outside the entire scope of American tradition, but are completely incompatible with any meaningful concept of individual liberty. Writing in the WINTER, 1970-71 issue of THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW, Prof. Atwell Zoll has made this perceptive commentary in stating that the Right's response to the Radical Left, and to the black banner of anarchism, must be one of two realistic possibilities: "...The first involves a strong rightwing 'back lash' with primitivistic and even neo-fascist (emphasis added) overtones. The second possibility is a rather mild but uncompromis ing shift to the Right, but dominated, at least intellectually, by a basically conservative orienta tion." Mr. Zoll goes on to say that "...unmediated anger and an enthusiasm for simplistic solutions are dangerous ingredients to stir into the public mood. They could well usher in a period of political repression." The simplistic, anti-black, and totalitarian impulses of the NSFWO are out of step with any ideal of Democracy in that, among other things, three key principles are excluded. They are, the primacy of order; aristocratic principle, and a dedication to compassion. The NSFWO seems blinded to the fact that, as the citadels of Liberalism fall, it is the responsibility of the Right to maintain not only a militar ily strong America, but also a sense of moral value and political involve ment which communicates with reality. As Mr. Zoll states: "What conser vatism must do is to control and modify the angry reaction of the Right. It must do this by the force of its moral arguments and exam ple. It must temper the repressive and anti-legalistic proclivities of the non-conservative Right by educating it-and quickly-to the necessity of order, the preservation of standards, personal and social, and the indispensability of compas sion and humanitarian concern. If a sort of neo-fascist excess is to be avoided (emphasis added) conser vatism must fight a battle on two fronts: The first front involves propping up a faltering society against the ravages of the new Jacobinism by reviving society's sense of honor and justice; and the second front requires it to trans mogrify the inarticulate emotions of the anti-revolutionary majority into a sensitive and bold regard for the qualitative reforms of society." Successful communication of such theory to large numbers of the citizenry would belie Johann Wol fgang von Goethe's statement that "...the man In the street does not notice the devil, even when the devil RESEARCH MATERIALS All T opics Send for your descriptive, up-to-date, 128-page, mail order catalog of 2,300 q uality research papers. Enclose $1.00 to cover postage and hiandlIng. RESEARCH UNLIMITED 519 GLENROCK AYE., SUITE 203 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90024 (213) 477-8474 - 477-5493 "We need a local salesman" eople is holding him by the throat." Let us hope that is not the case! Students should certainly value the lofty intellect of Mr. Zoll to iden tification with characters such as Tahamea and R. Linton Admiral. Both their letters could have well been written from the same pen. Both would lead to repression. Yes, Liberalism is dying. What will follow upon the collapse of the long Liberal domination of our country's institutions? Let us work for more constructive ideas within the experience of the American political tradition. Instead of the gory voodoo rituals of the Tahameas and Admirals, we chal lenge students to accept the bold Conservative philosophy of individualism, compassion, and free thought. CHARLES B. WYNN BRUCE G. DEW What has God done? TO THE EDITOR: What has God done to cause man to reject Him? First God created a beautiful blue and green earth with fresh air and pure streams. He pleasured in teeming the oceans with fish, filling the skies with every kind of bird, and populating the land with plenty of wildlife. God smiled on every thing He had formed, but His pur pose for creation was not yet com plete. All of this was made to serve God's ultimate creation, man. Whether or not man evovled from the ape is unimportant. However it happened, God initiated the pro cess. The importance lies in the fact that God created man with a mind. He did not create a robot or a pup pet, but a man with the power of reason. He granted man with the right of decision-the right to decide what to do and how to live. That is man's right and God will never infringe upon it. God offers His love but will not force it on any one. At the same time God deplores sin and, unless He is a liar, will never honor it. By examining the Ten Commandments, we can see how full of sin man really is. Common sense explains that God would like for man to live by those commands, but common sense also suggests that man can not always live accord ing to them. Thus God is in a pre dicament because He loves all men and wants us to fellowship with Him, but He said that he could never honor anything which is sinful. God knew that He could not let sin go unpunished, therefore He decided to punish Himself for man's sin. God offered His divine Son, holy and pure, as a final sacrifice for man's shortcomings. Jesus Christ, who conquered the same obstacles that we face today, volun teered His perfect life for our imperfect ones. After being socked in the face, shreaded by leaded whips, spat upon, stretched and nailed to a wooden cross, His heart cried out, "Father, forgive them since they don't know what they are doing" On that cross is more love than all the poets in the world could write about. And it is through Christ that we can experience that same love, as a free gift of God, from now through eternity. By offering our BLOOD DONORS NEEDED! IMMEDIATE CASH PAYMENT Age Limitations, 18-60 NEW HOURS 9:30 a.m. 'til 5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 9:30 a.m. 'til 5 p.m. Sat. CAROLINA BLOOD BANK 1317 Taylor 253222 Letters F The Gamecock welcomes le should be typed if possible and We reserve the right to edit To be considered for publica panied by name, address, and be withheld only in unusual cii hearts to Christ, we can all know Him as Lora, and friend and com panion. That choice is ours. Again, what has God done to cause us to reject Him. BILL PEEBLES Apollo 17 TO THE EDITOR: I would like, for a moment, to take your mind off R. Linton Admiral and the politics of paranoia and turn to something of much greater impor tance: the upcoming flight of Apollo 17. As you probably know, this is the last in the Apollo series, and, aside from the Skylab (or whatever its now called), there seems to be no coherent plan for future Ameri can exploration of space. I remember the first landing on the Moon back in 1969. I thought then, and still think now, that was one of the greatest moments in both American and world history. It is amazing how quickly we Americans become jaded: everyone (almost) saw that first Moon landing. From then on public interest has decreased with sub sequent Moon flights, until, after Apollo 16, large numbers of people complained that television cover age of Moon flights interfered with Love is a Many Splendored Thing or with The Doris Day Show. In other words, the American public had become bored with space explo ration. I think that there is some thing wrong with a society that can treat one of the greatest triumphs of the human spirit as if it were tri vial and common place. This is not, however, the worst problem afflicting the space prog ram. Like everything else concern ing government, the space program GAME Editor ........................... Managing Editor ................ Assistant to the Editor ........... News Editor ..................... Sports Editor .................... Asst. Sports Editor .............. Advertising Manager ............ Chief Photographer........... Copy Editors .................... Staff Artist................... Sports News Editor............ Circulation ................... Classified Advertising ......... Staff Writers.................. AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL. RESEARCH CONSULTANTS Largest avebSte testettien eireerence repars fee s3.9S pUr P.g. The mest qsWani steet er resar-wresss..esch and qelney meets.cest es een re9mbersed wehen yes erser. 202-7IR5- 4511 2430 Pmn. Ave. NW, Wash.. D.C. 0-44 20037 i... .9 i.e.. ine. e MasaETesWe NUSs. WANTUo 'olicy tters on any subject. They limited to about 300 words. letters for libel and length. ition letters must be accom phone number. Names will "cumstances. could continue even if the public becomes completely apathetic. But exploration cannot continue with out money and there are many people who want to cut out the space program and spend the money on t'-e poor. (We can go to the Moon iut we can't feed people, etc.) One can just imagine the French, Eng lish, Spanish and Italian kings say ing to the early explorees of America that they were sorry but they really couldn't spend any money on overseas exploration when the needs of urban London were so great. Maybe next cen tury... I am not saying that we should stop all welfare expenditures, but I hardly think that the addition of another five or six billion dollars to the approx $75 billion already spent on social services will wipe out all our social ills, The govern ntent should triple or quadruple the amount currently spent on space exploration, not only because space may be a military resource; not only for the immense benefits it will con tinue to bring to everyone, but sim ply because the need to know and to explore are both fundamental human needs and the basis for all the advances made by man since human beings first looked at the universe and wondered about it. The exploration of the universe is really an exploration of ourselves. As T. S. Eliot said "We shall not cease from exploration-And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started-And to know the place for the first time." Any nation that denies the funda mental human need to know, is, to the extent of that denial, uncivilized. 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