Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ri opl "It is a newspc the news,< --Wilbur The Chico The H And The M The recent action by the the exclusion of the press mittee meetings makes it students at this school ar4 series of rules without knoo the alternatives to, such I The Board, operating il approved increases in 1hot at its Jan. 5 meeting. In granted the "privilege Carolina's sports clubs asI available. It appears that the Boai be called the "best inter large. For the University on a massive number of seems to be seeking more. the student at- perhaps finances. But these opinions are d the issue. Reports from mittees recommended th passsage easily. That is a] or hear. No access into provided. No one but the what questions arose. All and, like it or not,. they ha South Carolina's Freedc Section 2 of Bill 1396 that' in an open and public mar so that citizens shall be a public officials and the < public activity and in the The state constitution exceptions. Section 5, pa that material prohibited cannot be made public, committees to enter int majority vote of the mei The Gamecock was representatives at the col press had never been all members of the press we it seems highly doubtful I session was even consid This illustrates a brei level where neither the: can afford it. Simply be before" is no reason to even though an open me graciously provided, th4 body with the press rema If Carolina students ha Board, they have to be decision was made. T1 natives were available al This can only be gaine committee meetings. Not only will the cori unhealthy for Board-s create an atmosphere placin ggood faith in th obeformulated, witi every aspect considere must be made to the I rdon ,per's duty to print ind raise hell." F. Storey, go Times, 1861 igh ighty USC Board of Trustrees and from decision-making com all too painfully obvious that a being asked to adhere to a ving the reasons for, let alone policies. ri its rubber-stamp capacity, ising; and student health fees addition to this, the SAC was to continue funding Long as the needed money was -d is not acting in what might asts" of the student body at has enough money to carry F construction projects, but Furthermore, it is striking his most sensitive area: rawn only from the surface of the Board's respective com te measures and the gained ll the press was allowed to see the committee meetings was a committee members knows students see isthe end result ve to accept it. m of Information Act states in public business be performed iner as it conducts its business dvised of the performance of lecisions that are reached in formulation of public policy." does, however, make some ragraph _ (c), part 3 allows by law from being disclosed while paragraph (d) allows y executive session upon a nbers. told it could not have the rnmittee meetings because the owed entrance before. As no re expected at these meetings, hat a vote to go into executive ered. ikdown in communications at a :i versity - nor the student body cause "it has never been done continue this precedent. And eting of the entire Board is so a complete candidness of the ins in question. e to abide by the rulings of th( made aware of how and why a bey have to know what alter, id what, if any, conflicts arose. d through press presencew al itinuation of such practices b tudent relationships, but wi) that is hardly conducive t .e Board. policies are goin isubsequent Board approva d by the high and the might rotten few the student Wel Welcome back. This semester promises to be one of the most newsorthy times that Carolina has had to offer. And you will notice quite a few changes and some new names on the masthead of this spring's Gamecock. We'll be experimenting with a number of different ideas in Alfost every facet of the newspaper. The standing column on page four U U gbmmmm.mmmm. Psyched Out TO THE EDITOR I had the dubious experience of taking the orals for the Master Degree in GIS, and frankly, I barely passed them. But it did not go without giving birth to a few thoughts. In my opinion, the only purpose of the orals for some Professors is to psyche you out. It was ironic for me to be subjected to an inquisition-like-type of vulgarity by a so-called expert in In ternational Affairs. After going through the trouble of taking the orals, I cannot help but feel deep sympathy for the future students who are bound to go through the same ordeal. What should be surprising for an observer is not that students should perform poorly, but that they should per form at all. Editor............ Managing Editc Editorial Page News Editor .... Entertainment I Sports Editor... A'vertising Mai Asst. News Edit Photo Editor .. Circulation Mai1 Sports NewsEd Editorial Page News Staff..... Copy Desk,.... SportsSTaff.... Photoghra phy Prodnetion Rtn eome 13 )ffers every memner of the University community an outlet for his displeasure, creativity or )pinion. Furthermore, we hope to print a series of pro-con editorials Dn the major issues facing the campus. And there are a lot of major issues. We will attempt to give not only the facts of matters such as sports club funding, student m..mmmmmmmmmm mi )ur Mail Even the smallestr "positive" reaction from a student is already too much, in such an atmosphere where mediocrity is the main contributioin of so many academic people. If we are to find a fairly con venient way to locate that mediocrity I advance the following proposition which I tested as far as the GIS Dept. is concerned: the further the Professor's office is removed from the center of power, the more intellectually oriented he is. Thus, in my department, you will have to go to the third floor of the building and bypass the second floor, in order to find such people. Only there can you brteathe some fresh air. What is tragic in this situation is that the good professor, with in tellectual humility and the tradition of centuries of humanism, is overshadowed and out-talked by big-mouthed per verts who are nothing but self styled Gods. It is against these "Gods" that we should rebel. The students, like Sisyphus, are MECO( Ei. .............. 'gF do..................... ditr....................... r................................... ager....................... tor ....... ...................... St f... ........................ Suzy ................Dan Tower) Mari Mesng Hugh Mark Morrow LisaGardr .................Ernie Kasti ........... Billy Baker Bob GeorgeMorris Gary Jack Will taff.............Mike Ama ff...........Beth Caughman Kathy Mason Valerie Lingj Candace Miles Gwendolyn Ri Karen Wal iack government elections and Robert Clarkson's suit against the Board >f Trustees, but also to analyze and nterpret them. In addition to this, of course, there will be the standard fare of features, reviews and news ar ticles in an attempt to make this paper as professional as possible. So again, welcome back. It's ;oing to be a busy spring. mum mm mm mm U U mum. -. mm mm_ absurd heroes. They are con demned to an inhuman condition. Like Sisyphus, again who revolted against his "Gods" their only way to overcome their tragic condition is by showing o contempt, and this is the only purpose of this letter. Name Withheld 'Slack' TO THE EDITOR: There is no better word than "slack" to describe the student records department at USC. For the past few years, the records department has been in conveiniencing the students by mailing grades during registration. How is the student to know what to register for if he hasn't seen his grades? When the freshman first enter USC he learns there are deadlines for everything: Termpapers, dropdates, ticket pickups, etc. Why not put the records depart ment under these stringent deadlines? Arthur Liberman ...Doug Williams .........Bill Grant .....Vivian Cooper ....Tommy Fowler ...David Havird ....Steve Parker ........Art Frank .......Carl Baab .....Russ Jeffcoat .Kieth Gressman ........Jim Hersh ......ScottKearns Brown Bill Outlaw Frank DeLoach Belser Sid Griffin er Larry Edmond Merry Bateman er Sandra Hursey )un can Abernathy Odom Mark Leary West Fred Kierner son Harold Ream es son Dicki Trotter . Ann ette Goldstein SFelicia Moroviski ~id Dyan Schreiber son .Jndi Nelson