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NESDAY The problem Is simple...Con stabilize that country and the $5 million to over-throw it. Movies C Depict 'A BY FRANK R. BOWERMAN (NOTE: Professor Bowerman, Director of Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern Calffornia and Presi dentof the prestigious American Academy of Environmental Engineers Is the Technical Con sultant on MGM's science-fact suspense film "Soylent Green" t t Letters Welcome C Letters to the editor on topics are welcome but i subject to editing and I condensation to meet style and space require ments. All letjers must be typed and-must be1 signed with the full name, address and phone. number of the author. ' Unsigned letters or those with pseudonyms t will not be printed. The letters should be addressed to Letters To the Editor, The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S. C., 29208.4 gress gave us $3 milHion t State Department gave u )f Future I' World starring Charlton Heston, I.Aigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson.) Motion picture visions of th uture generally depict a shin luminum world. A world flanke oy an advanced technology i vhich, despite Orwellian ter lencies, physical comforts abounc 3verything works better and faste han it does now. Ilfe expectanc s vastly extended; basically it i ruly "a brave, new world." Not s a an about to be released film calle Soylent Green"on which I cor ented to serve as technical consul ant. I was more than willing to len may advice and counsel to this filr1 ecause I believe it offers a muc] aore credible portent of things ti ome. I am of the firm conviction tha incontrolled population expansioi nd its concommitant pollution o he air and the seas is the graves iroblem facing mankind. A pol uted, overpopulated world mus esult in a physical deterioration a Ife as we know it. Inevitably it musi oster a vast proliferation of rio :rime, murder, poverty and starvi ion. Picture New York City,if you will pith a population of 40,000,000. hat's what the movie "Soylen Ireen" does, and the implicatio1 hat this could occur within the 1if pan of many now alive is to me errifying. Unless steps are take oday, I see our cities teeming wit nasses of jobless, homeless cit :ens, existing on government sul idies. The facilities we take fc granted - power, light, heat - wi so longer be available, Subway vill be for sleeping, useless vehi :les will choke the streets,air tran port will be grounded. Soylent Green" will be more thar warning. It.could become th4 pitaph far' mank1ind's gravastone Letters TO THE EDITOR: This letter is a response to an arti cle headed "Improved Relations Sought By Graduate Organization" which appeared on the front page of the Monday, April 16, issue of the Gamecock. It is my opinion, as a member of the Graduate Student Organization in question, that the article did not reflect the real importance of the group. Also, the article did not rep resent the group's intent to improve relations in the College of Journal ism and increase student input into the College. The article made several accusa tions that a good reporter would have surely "bounced off" the people being accused. For example: 'There is a paternalism in the Col lege of Journalism, graduate stu dents are treated like underg raduates and undergraduates are treated like high schoolers,' Nelsen said." And, "'The most negative thing has been apprehension on the parts of some faculty members."' Both of these statements are broad generalizations that may or may not be true. But balanced i reporting would demand that some obvious questions be asked in order to inform the article's readers. Who are these students? Who are these faculty members? Do they feel this way? If so, why do they feel this way? Answers to these questions would have definitely balanced the article and would have given input 0 into these blanket stereotypes made s by Nelsen. An attempt has been made by this group to improve relations between faculty and graduate students. The officers of the organization met with the Dean of the College of Jour nalism approximately a week before the appearance of the article in the Gamecock. The officers reported to the group that the dean was favorable to the formation of the organization and that student input was valuable to improving the college atmosphere. In that report the dean appeared not to be e apprehensive and no mention of this y was made in the article. d It is my feeling that the new n graduate student organization does t- have a valid function in the overall L College of Journalsim program. As r a group we do have some valuable V input which, to this point, has been s accepted. D The idea behind the formation of i the group is excellent and the input is needed. Whether the graduate - student input will prove to be valu able will be seen in subsequent action. SDENNIS R. JONES GRADUATE STUDENT .IN JOURNALISM tTO THE EDITOR: 2 Dixon L.ee is either anidkot or a traitor to every student at Carolina! *t Why else would he want to hand University Dining Services (an t alias for Slater) another opportun fity to rip-off the campus? t I'll be the first to agree that a grocery store Is badly needed on or - near campus, but even a retarded fruit fly has more than enough intel ligence to propose, as Dixon Lee has, that a store be created and t turned over to Slater for operation. a 'The Gamecock says Lee "repre e sents interest groups" for the store. ~What interest groups? We have a right to know. Is he paid by Slater to put another wad of easy nmoney in~ Slater's hands? .- Obviously Mr. Lee has never r eaten atSlater's "Cafeteria" or tried LI to buy or sell books at The Campus s Shop, for most of us know that these I- university protected and regulated i- monopolias, despite their spick PR coverups, are costly jokes. As for a counter proposal, why not lure one or more private enter prise grocery stores to campus, and don't hamstrink their operation To The Editc applied to Slater and Campus Shop. i The university limits Campus Shop I and Slater profits and guarrantees them an on-campus monopoly. They don't have to provide low i prices, fast service or quality t merchandise. They extract their I profit quota and then don't give a t damn. A private enterprise store will t either give us what we want--or get c the hell out. r And Dixon Lee and his Student i Senate followers ought to do the t same thing. EDWARD C. FENNELL 1 TO THE EDITOR: In less than a month I will c graduate from U.S.C., and this letter t is to be my legacy to that part of this institution designated the "Edu- t cational Department". In the past few years this insipid group of c educators has managed to bore, anger, degradate, persecute, ignore, and misinform me. To be more specific, the courses which fall under the category of "education" do not, in fact, educate. I have been student teaching for a month and a half now, and have found that there is an enormous descrepancy between the know ledge required for teaching and the "pseudo-knowledge" imparted to t students in the Education Depart- t ment at U.S.C.. I am not the only one who feel this way; in fact I have i yet to encounter even one student r who feels he has learned anything at all of value in the Education Department. What little we may have learned has been idealistic, theorical know ledge which is of no use in actual teaching. They don't teach you how to maintain discipline (the greatest problem in teaching), keep grade t records, grade papers, make out tests, run memograph machines, t make stencils, deal with student hostility, write hall passes, or rush pregnant students to the hospital. They give you many idealistic and < euphoric theories on how to main- I tain discipline, none of which work. i For instance, the "only rewarding I good behavior" theory. Well, this r may sound fine, but while you're i busy rewarding the good-behavior l GAME< Although The Gamecock students of the Universit3 is not an official publicatioi opinions expressed herein resent those of the univer or all the staff members oi Editor ............... Managing Editor ...... Editorial Page Editor.. News Editor .......... Copy Desk Chief...... Sports Editor ......... Asst. Sports Editor...... Advertising Manager.. Copy Editor **............ PhOtEditor ..***** tudents,the other students are ran acking the classroom. The course in curriculum levelopment teaches you beautiful, teat theories on selecting courses o be taught in schools and planning essons. However, as a teacher you tave little or no voice in deciding vhat courses will be taught; this is he responsibility of principals and ther administrators. What You teed to know is how to plan what s to be taught in the course you're eaching. This curriculum course hould also entail workable know edge on planning lessons, which ricludes how to change your plans vhen the school decides to cut your lass in half so the students can go o a pep rally. There is another insipid course in he Education Department called 'audio-visual aids". Now, this ourse could be invaluable to pros Pective teachers, since knowing ow to run memograph machines, rojectors,tape recorders,etc.is an ssential part of teaching. lowever, this ridiculus excuse for n Education course spends a grand otal of about three days on learning D run these machines, which is too hort a time to learn anything. The est of the course is devoted to 'theories of audio-visual instruc ion". Mr. McLuhan's theories are aught over and over until the words 'the medium is the message" are ndelibly engraved in 32 very bored ninds. All the other courses I have taken n the Educational Department are is bad, if not worse, than these. lesides teaching you erroneous and mpractical theories, they insult ,our intelligence with an endless iarrage of idiDtic, imbecilic trivia. They take the simplest, one sen ence fact and expand into four tex books full of inane "educational heory". To sum it all up, I have learned ilmost nothing in the educational )epartment of US.C., and I know if no one who feels differently. Uducation students need to be pro rided with more practical know edge and experience. As it stands low, majoring in Education is a total vaste of time and money. IAME WITHHELD KK is a publication -of the r of South Carolina, it ' of the university. The do0 not necessarily rep sity, the student body The Gamecock. ...Jerelyn Eddings ...... Sybil Norwood ..... Linda C. Owens .......Patrick Tyler .......... Bill Grant ......Steve Parker .......Jim Hersh *. ......... Art Frank ......Val McDonald