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Letters TOTHE EDITOR: I read w ith alarmed interest your editorial-story and illustrated comments in the Gamecock,LXIV 7, for 19 July 1973, which I ob tained from our Branch Library at USC-Spartanburg. As typical of radicals, using scare-tactics, yellow-journalism, and obscurations, you glitteringly generalize the issue of the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision sup posedly regarding obscenity. Quite to the contrary, the deci sion was not involving either obs cenity nor the First Amendment to ,the Constitution; but was concered with restoring to the Constitution that Inalienable Right of the States: powers to govern things within their sovereignty. As a serious student of journa lism with a reasonable background in Constitutional Law and Political Science, I must object to using sen sationalism as a means of obscuring the facts. The Gamecock is guilty of this. GAME Although The Gameco students of the Univers is not an official publicat opinions expressed here resent those of the unii or all the staff member Editor ................ Managing Editor.... * Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Staff Contributors 0 STUDEN Pizza BUY ONE D SPAGHE Served with Serving 3P.M. Ti Located at the inter across from Question C Iho- illustration on page 1, which is Goya's "La Maja Desnu- t da", painted a*;out 1810-11, caused the young painter quite a bit of hassle with La Of icina Santa de la Inquisicion in 1812; but, in his defense he protested that the painting was for the Duchess of Alba herself and (in his words): "Not for the common jackal to gauk at and lust after" (which cer tainly could not be said for Play boy, Oui, Penthouse, nor Gallery, whose "studies" of nude women bringing themselves to sexual cli max is quite obviously for the "common jackal to gauk at..."). Goya was then released, mainly upon plea from La Maja D'Alba. But , your display of the painting was hardly printed'for the sam.e reasons that the great painter painted it; but, in a neo-nineteenth century. yellow-journalistic style, you use it-as a sensationalistic gim mick to attract attention. BADI Very BADI Respectable journalism has sufferedI ~CDCK ck is a publication of the ity of South Carolina, it ion of the university. The In do not necessarily rep versity, the sudent body i of The Gamecock. Thomas Anset Price II ........Betty Woodruff .........Ed Terrio ......... Larry Edmond ............ Bob Craft Harry Hope Marshall Swanson T NIGH T 1 T he House INNER-GET ONE FREE TTIIJ i ' garlic, bread and chef salad. MONDAY II Midnight section of 378 and I-26 ihe Ramada Inn oomecock Some of your quotes in the sec ion "THOUGHT FOR THE CEN OR", are also amusing. You quote Sir John Milton as a lefender of the free press. 'This is ill right except that it ignores a ver F important fact about history vhich is explained by Sandman, 3ubin, and Sachsman in Media: In ,roductory Analysis (Prentice -lall), page 23: "A victory for Parliament, the rev olution soon proved a defeat for reedom of the press. Its leader Oliver Cromwell, quickly established himself as a virtual dict ator of England. Unlicensed print ers were harshly dealt with, while licensed printers were subjected to incessant censorship. IRONICAL LY ENOUGH'IT WAS JOHN MIL TON HIMSELF who became the NATION'S CHIEF CENSOR un der the PURITAN REGIME. Placed in context with your quotation, it gives a different meaning to the alleged "champion of the free press," John, Milton. Gutenberg Experi1 Better BY HARRY HOPE INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUIV To: Dr. Thomas F. Jones, Ms. Rita McKinfrey, Vice-President C.H. Witten, Mr. Zane Knauss, Hon. Mike Grier, et. al. From: Harry Hope Subject: University Garbage I note with some dismay the lack of quality garbage being thrown away at the University of South Carolina. After a few plea sant afternoons rummaging through dumpsters, trash cans and organizational files, I can only con clude that the University is indeed failing to present itself in the best possible light to the taxpayers ol this state and the various and sun dry alumni who so willingly par1 with their money for tax purposes Osc (From page Iwo) But Osceola often utilized a sub jective and often no-holds-barrec writing style that may have turnet off some older, more conservative readers. "I don't deny that we're diffe rent and we're never going to stol being different as long as we're ir publication," said Walser. "We'r -SALE 5O~ OFF INNE R CITY QLA DRAGS 2016 G REEN STR EET .(4AT FIVE POlNTSa Professioi Journalists must be careful whom they cite and from where their quo tations originate. John Milton ob viously believed in Freedom of the Press-for himself-but not for his enemies. This is reminiscent of the Very Revered, Father Ronald ',nox, of the Scotts Romish ,hurch who said: ... Holy Mother Romand Church must demand freedom for herself and complete toleration; bu, once Rome is restored as THE religion, she cannot tolerate any other religi on, because Truth cannot tolerate error... Thank you for listening. Hope the next issue of Gamecock will present a more balanced view and will avoid obscuring the real facts with sensationalism. After all, by no stretch of the imagination can the recent ruling of the Supreme Court be interpreted as an abridge ment of the freedom of the press. But, in true. John C. Calhounian philosophy, the decision has rest ored a portion of those Constitu tional Inalienable Rights of the States to said States, which had been stolen by the Websterites and the Supreme Court in decision af nent Trash For It is appalling to think that thi phase--this most valuable phase--o1 public relations is being overlookec -by the powers that be. I therefor suggest the following remediesfoi this situation. 1. The dumpster behind th, University Dining Services Russel House operation is entirely too ful of common, ordinary, run-of-thE mill hog slop. I can get thisgarbag anywhere. I suggest that in th future such items ss filet of sole pheasant feathers and mortal re mains of Cornish hen be include( every so often to brighten the plac up. 2. The trash that is being haule away from the administratio sola going to be different for this are because we just don't believe thini have to be done the way they're be ing done now." Despite what may appear to t an approach in the paper that is di signed to appeal to a young andI beral audience, Walser said Osceo is designed to be read by anyor who lives in Columbia. "We try to appeal to everyone he said. "We try to be the kind< paper that a person who lives Columbia would like to rea< That's about the only criterion can cite. If they live here we wal them to read it. We want them (ti public) to be able to pick it up ar have something in there of interes That's all we're trying to do; wri about life as it e xists ir1 Columbi S.C., in 1973. No more,r rialism ter decision since 18651 Frederick {Freddiel Mauney USC-Spartanburg TOTHE EDITOR: This letter is to inform you o. our decision to resign from the staff of the Gamecock. This deci sion was prompted, in part, by the questionable journalistic tactics of fellow staff writers. Also, we can not comply with our own writing standards when faced with mud died editing and gross typesetting errors. We felt that the summer was not the time for deep, intrinsic re views,, therefore, we have kept our column in a light, if not purpose fully ridiculous vein. Unlike you o ther writer's, we refuse to wallow in the slime of synta%. Hopefully, ;n the fall, a new staff will help overcome the journa listic laxities now inherent in the Gamecock. Should this occur, we will reapply for a position on the staff. Until that time, however, we cannot allow our names to be asso ciated with such an unprofessional publication as now exists. David Simpson Terry Dugas USC! building is mostly white paper. What would HEW say? There is not I enough carbon paper being thrown away and absolutely no recording tapes of any kind. How about it? 3. There are entirely too many beer cans in the Student Govern ment trash. Can't these people af ford an empty bottle of Moulin a e Vent Beaujolais '70 every once in a e while? 4. Since the advent of the birth control pill, certain items are rarely found in our hallways these days. e This is encouraging, but I would suggest that fewer Midol bottles be found in the McKissick Library j trash. Letters Welcome 'a Letters to the editor on 1s topics are welcome but a- subject to editing and condensation to meet ie style and space require e- ments. All letters must i- be typed and must be Ia signed with the full ie name, address and phone number of the author. ~" Unsigned letters or f~ those with pseudonyms in will not be printed. SThe letters should be it addressed to Letters To ie the Editor, The ~d Gamecock; Drawer A, ~t USC, Columbia, S. C., te 29208, a,