Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TO THE EDITOR: There are 165 courageous people at the.Dow. Chemical plant in Bay City which has been on strike for 14 months. They would like to enlist the aid of your newspaper and members of the student body so that we may survive. Dow Chemical is using its unlimited resources in an attempt to destroy us economically and eliminate the collective bar gaining process of our Local C Union which is 14055 of the United Steelworkers. Many workers and their families have suffered unlimited hardships in the loss of income and personal prop erty which they have had to sell in order to feed their families because Dow Chemical refuses to resolve an unjust labor dis pute provoked by Dow Chemi cal and its local management. In the interest of humanity we ask that you print this letter in your college paper and that the student body aid us by refusing to buy Handi-wrap plastic food C wrap and Ziploc bags which'are made at the Bay City plant. If there are individuals or groups on campus who would like to aid us in this humane endeavor, please contact me at the address which is given below. We request that they boycott the above mentioned products which are produced by Dow Chemical in Bay City and by any other aid or activities which may aid our cause. Please print this letter in your student newspaper and if possi ble send me a copy. MARTIN SCHWERIN TO THE EDITOR: Now that it appears that the Old Farmer's Almanac may pos sibly be wrong about a third South Carolina blizzard, I Letters Welcome Letters to the editor on topics are welcome but subject to editing and condensation to meet style and spaife require ments. All letters must be typed and must be signed with the full name, address and phone number of the author. Unsigned letters or those with pseudonyms will not be printed. The letters should be addressed to Letters To tle Editor, The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S. C., 29208. should like to congratulate Mr. Kenneth Tombs and our noble Library staff for keeping open during any and all winter emer gencies, even to the extent of shoveling off the steps them selves. It is cheering to find a group on campus putting first things first! ROSAMOND K. SPRAGUE TO THE EDITOR: We would like to place a for maj complaint against all can didates running in the Student Government %.actions WHO have distributed paper flyers heralding their so-called out standing characteristics, abilities, and qualifications. This paper trash is an infr ingement on the right to privacy because it is a pain in the ass to bend over, pick it up, and deposit it in the trash recepta cle. Furthermore, the content of the flyers (if one is so assinine and naive to read them) is an insult to the intelligence of the average student because after one has been a member of this farcical student body for more than one year, it becomes self-evident that all candidates are created equal liars. And from these roots that are estab lished in the college years grows the apathy that is so unfortunately apparent in national politics today. If the candidates must con tinue this absurd process for gaining votes; at least they should use recycled paper to insure the preservation of the ecology. DIXIE A. SWAIN SUSAN CRAWFORD KATHLEEN C. SMITH TO THE EDITOR: As regards sports editor Steve Parker's questioning of the selection of Wichita State University's Henry Levitt Arena for hosting the NCAA Midwest (not Southwest) Reg ional Quarterfinals, the answer is apparent in his own article. The "ancient" arena was built in 1954 and has served as a model for many later college basketball facilities. Wichita State began filling its 12,000 seat arena in the early '60's prior to USC's even contemplat ing a basketball stadium. Wichita's interest in basketball and central location has resulted in its hosting several NCA A Midwest Regional Quar terfinals in the past. Perhaps it is more the fault of the selection committee of the NCAA in designating USC to play in a tournament 1,200 miles from Columbia against another team (Texas Tech) who holds no real interest to Wichita or Kansas fans. As you might recall, we Gamecocks have only sporadically been ranked in the top twenty this year. To turn the tables, I ask Mr. Parker how many Carolina fans would purchase tickets to watch Ten nessee play Wichita State in an Eastern Regional Quarterfinal held at the Carolina Coliseum? As an alumnus and continuing student at USC, I would hope that the interest shown in the Gamecocks in South Carolina extended throughout the coun try, but unfortunately such is not the case. In vindicating Wichita, It Is only fair to sur mise the same results or even fewer could be expected in Des mrs To The Edi Moines, Kansas City, St. Louis or Oklahoma City with such a game pairing. It might be noted that in the Eastern Regional tournament at Williamsburg the attendance at the St. John's versus Pennsylvania game was 3,052 according to the Associated Press. Likewise, the AP reported that in the West Regional at Logan, Utah, both games recorded 6,706 in attendance. Now we come to a dilemma. Do we congratulate Wichita for its 6,389 fans or do we condemn all the NCAA quar terfinal site selections? DENNIS D. BLACK TO THE EDITOR: Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Lank and I am your average, or at least I thought I was, all American car. My slip from sanity began when my owner brought me to the University of South Carolina. The moment we hit the intersec tion of Green and Sumter, I knew my depreciation would triple and could feel the oil rumbling in my block. After a couple of days of rest, my owner sudenly materialized with a funny blue sticker in his hand that has a chicken on it. I quickly found out, that this is -not a self-preservation cer tificate, but a $10.00 "hunting license" to find one of the two parking spaces on campus. I heard a value stopping rumor that there are five thousand more stickers in town. Maybe I can contract some exo tic sickness like tireilitius so I will not have to commit myself to the Battle of Non-Existence every morning. As we have little to do while our owners finally make their last 10 minutes of class, we usu ally sit around and talk about what went on in the back seat last night. The subject was brought up one day about the $10.00 our owners have to pay for their "hunting license". I told them that someone has to pay those uniformed matrons that ride around in their three wheeled toys abusing our door handles. It was at this time that I met Jacqueline Jeep. I found out the poor girl had been abused five times in the first three weeks of school. She is damn sick and tired of being man-handled and wants something done about it. Do you realize that one of her so-called atrocious acts was touching a tree's zone. What in the hell is a tree's zone anyway. I never heard that one in the Facts of the Road. Maybe Jacqueline Jeep and I can get together one night and attack these zones together. Would you believe that just last Satur day night Jacqueline was ravished again. She was trying to park at the Coliseum when the parking attendant demanded a dollar from her before she could set a tire on his precious asphalt. And just last night when Jacqueline' s owner tried to park at this col iseum to attend classes, she was told that $1.00 would be all it took to park, as a basketball game was in progress. Jacqueline ended up being incarcerated in the Gibbes' Volkswagon lot for the night. Jacqueline's owner had to walk home that night and I wonder if she had been raped, if the school's administration would have any more feelings toward the problems at U.S.C. Finally, I noticed that the sticker which clings to my rear end says that something or someone is going to expire on September 1, 1973. Let's hope for my sake and all my friends that it is this idiotic packing Kids To M On Miste PITTSBURGH, PA. -- On Ma' entertainers, Marcel Marceau w TV for the first time in three ye You won't see him with Merv, Marceau will demonstrate his television show. The program: MISTER ROGE 36) a critically-acclaimed half self-discovery for youngsters 3 Broadcasting System stations. "I love children, and I love t< "In many ways they are move se of their fantastic ability to pro special regard for MISTER ROC Mister Rogers respects and en the playwright that lives insidh very assence of my art." Fred Rogers -- public televisi minister, musicologist and chil his seventh television season. "It's a great joy for me to pr( Marceau to children," Mister I we always underscore the poin certain goals in life. Our gue that wanting something is only achievement comes only with respect for our God-given abil our limitations." Does the art of Marcel Marc4 the art of Fred Rogers? -- Ye "We both use a certain 'dev It is the device of make-believe images are seen through puppe a puppet of flesh and blood. F -- but he breathes into them a and feeling as my stage persoi GAME Although The Gameco students of the Univers is not an official publicat opinions expressed herei resent those of the univ or all the staff members Editor ............. Managing Editor ...... Editorial Page Editor News Editor......... Copy Desk Chief ..... Sports Editor ....... Asst. Sports Editor ... Advertising Manager. Copy Editors......... Photo Editor...-. SNAFU at the University of South Carolina and not our own ers. FRANK B. DRAYTON. JR. eet"Bip" r Rogers rch 30, one of the world's great ill perform as "Bip" on American ars. Johnny or Dick. art of pantomime on a children's ,RS' NEIGHBORHOOD, (Channel tour blend of entertainment and to 8, is seen daily on 200 Public entertain them," Marceau says. nsitive to me than adul ts because ject their imagination. I have a ERS' NEIGHBORHOOD because courages the actor, the poet and every, child -- and which is the on's Mister Rogers -- an ordained d development expert is now in :sent a genuine artist like Marcel togers says. "On Mister Rogers t that it takes hard work to reach st artists personify the principle the first step; and that the actual practice, discipline and a health ities -- as well as a realization of Iau have any common bonds with s, according to Marcel Marceau. ice' to hold up a mirror to life. In both instances, the reflected ts. When I am in character I am red's puppets are wood and cloth reality that makes them as alive COCK ck is a publication of the ity of South Carolina, it ion of the university. The Ln do not necessarily rep ersity, the student body of The Gamecock. .....Jerelyn Eddings ....... Sybil Norwood ......Linda C. Owens ........ Patrick Tyler ...........Bill Grant ........Steve Parker ........... Jim Hersh ...........Art Frank .......Val McDonald Mary Myers ........... Tom Price