Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Now, he reign: rely in the Pendletoi ling, shuffling hi: 's, nosing about i ersity politics- littl4 All the decisions flov i stream from his of His ace number ont d inquisitor, Bol mnder, does all thi in a case like this thai ometim es wonder ii Witten is employed >rs aweigh, Chuck the pirate after your DCK' nications and Publications ... . ... ... ..Patrick Tyler .. .. . ..... . ....ob (raft IIarry hlope .. .. . ....Illiami (. Grant . .. .. .. .Thomas A. Price ...........)oug W~illams ... ....... Tommy F'owler .. .. . ...Geoffrey Darling ................thl ..Ua .......ethG(ressmra. Craft Ebbin "Despite the fact I went to college, I still got an education." F. Scott Fitzgerald "Martha and I aren't having BY BO anything, we are simply walking Associt what's left of our wits." Edward Albee Woolf"~"Who's Afraid of Virginia Barmecide, name of an eighth century noble Persian family, one of whom served a begger an imaginary feast -in the Arabian Nights. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language It's over. As the last days of my US college years and experience slip away from me, floating into the Mel section of my memory marked "The Best Years of My Life," I stand now in a sweet and transient spot. The place is in twilight and before the whistle blows in the station for the train out of town, I have one last moment to analyze what theese past four years have meant. I have been to college during an he extraordinary period in American History. I have seen the pressures of th on a country that were awesome and how these pressures affected this University. I have seen riots and Guardsmen in the street. I have seen opened heads and have experienced pepper gas. nm And perhaps more interestingly, I The have ridden the wake of this and this ti have seen where it has taken us. about t It has taken us to the raw edge of too bus paranoia, where it is no longer near th possible to joke about phones being tapped and thus and such; we are This beyond that into Edge City where goes to every hand carries a knife and and tri where it is not safe to talk to paying anyone. We are on the plain where proces, paranoia and cynicism meet and realm shake hands; where we no longer distrac look forward but look back with downri fondness to the things we left i behind. That is too far afield, though. In t What has happened here at this sheepsi University? What has this ex- uK. Th perience. meant to me and those of Know 1 my acquaintance? pBeaut The University has not been able parts to arouse the mass studentry to dicativ anything approaching support or There even passive acceptance since the Tetre 3 riots on anything other than the fotred ) attendance of major athletic evenind events. eem There is no political con- followit sciousness or even consciousness This of academics. The continuing with an problems of organizations to is sha: recruit and keep new members in happen the ranks, the apathy that is spread imagin like thick fog over the campus is doesn't mute witness to this. Ther'e a This is a suitcase college. A 9-5 here wi Monday through Friday affair that is, if ti students come to. Weekdays are place. simply the links to the weekends, during Then it is in the car, home to staying Mommy and Daddy and the high your dE school honey for Saturday night that c and Sunday afternoon. This is an Imagin oversimplification, of course but are sac the' longing for weekends is very 114. real So thi As krmg a's this University con- little m tinues in this frame of mind, this bottom will never be a top-notch plete wi University. The desired ideal of a band ar cosmopolitan campus where This students want to stay, where the mean ti learning experience is exciting and sense; draws students to it, instead of shakin' driving them away will never be attracti reached. ---' necic Sol lot da bo< B CRAFT atol ite Editor Me Kn hai bre thih hea doii do, no: pla far peo C is not Dina any ny -ill in a negligee, que Don Knotts in a one eas; Puty's uniform po lari ving hysterics and ecause Otis vaT cn u broken out cme sms e Mayberry jail. s can drul God ' M M figh bec4 look revailing student motto at few ae is, "Don't bother me N etting an educcation, I'm hail V going to school." This is and e crux of the problem. ener and is a place where one comes, ener school, parties a great deal nail Ds to get out to get a better nil jdb than one's father. In the to e , anything outside of one's othe of interest of "study" is drop :ting, annoying and bar ght rude. with Iv s blindered clamor for the that in, a lot of psyches get shot and refrain at exam time of told where I can score some lear s?" is a hymn sung in all Igno f the campus. This is in- I c that not much learning is been in the Groves of Academe. little s no learning going on if an I h temester of study has to be knov down in one or two of ci (s. The courses in rule- acqu ig march on. at yW s not a campus for anyone throi imagination. If the student acqt p and finds out what's chan ing quickly enough, his I fi ation will be a suicide. If he been it will simply be murder. myst ire very few who get out of woul th their psyches intact, that e.g. ey have them in the first the L Chances are no. :After' en- a wo public school for 12 years, tions in straight lines, keeping news sk and locker clean and all have ther sort of nonsense. Moi ation and a sense of humor that I rificed on the alter of P.S. freak Craft a Univeristy comes down to I ri nre than a high school at Univ4 for most students, com- can. th football team, marching I t id cheerleaders. b ette is not a sexy place. I don't acqui iat in a strict biological laudi there may be a whole lot of Ant going on, but it isn't really Barr ve. When I say sexy, 1magn le an something that attracts, nething that is interesting on a of levels. Sad to say, USC sn't measure up. There are too ny rules, too many broken lies and trees lying around for it )e sexy. This place is not Dina rrill in a negligee, it's Don Atts in a deputy's . uniform 'ing hysterics because Otis has ken out of the Mayberry jail. nother disturbing factor about University is that you can't r it sing. When people are ig something that they want to you can hear singing. There is inging here. You can't hear this :e sing and it is disturbing. It is more disturbing because many ple can't grasp the concept of,a ring University or a singing thing. ,an you hear it sing?" is the stion that should be asked of ;elf and of other people. It is ( to be seduced by money or er on whatever scales whether e or small. Hear the singing it will never lead you astray. bere seems to be a per iveness of tone deafness on this Ipus.- The rules strangle the ody and the harmony is thered under the grade. udents run into whatever they find to help pass the time, gs, booze, sex; it is waiting for ot at any rate. any studentshave given up the t for their own heads and me boring. They are not ing for -anything they have dreams. They are sad. > music, no laughter in the s. Everything is deadly serious there is no time to see an ny perhaps as a pompous ass laugh at him, no, he is an ny who must be fought tooth , and to the death. ave had friends who have had scape from this country to r lands, I have had friends dead on the dance floors of rooms, I have had friends er away from drugs. It is sad. ras told when I was very young I was cut out to go to college so go to college I did. I was that it would be a feast of uing that would take me from rance to Learning. ame here. In.the years. I have here, I have been taught very , alniost nothing. Everything ive gained in the way of 'ledge, I have acquired outside ass on my own time. I have ired it at the Gamecock and USC-AM. I have acquired it igh reading. I have not ired it through official nels. tel that my college career has a success. I have exposed elf to numerous stimuli that I di not have gotten elsewhere; he many varied programs of miversity Union. I have gotten rking knowledge of the func and operations of papers. And to some degree, I learned to deal with people. it Important, I have learned could stop being a grit or a or whatever and become Bob at last. 1ay not graduate, but this hrsity has taught me all that it hink I have come through r than many of my lintances. I have not lost my or the ability to hear singing. I there was a table set in the ecide's house that was ificent to behold... -ewell........" "