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CAN VOLI GUESS W14 TO IAUL IN A B1NDLE WHKki ONE k(DNAPS, , ?iSEL.ESS, NOB,E CAUS Shutt Free Q Wednesday's Record carrie titled "No Street Protests." editorial congratulated the cit demonstrations have never be, now "counter-productive;" uninterrupted by rabble, is democracy..." Since when has democracy b Since when has free speech bE and ignoring of everything els that represents the beliefs of become "counter-productive" The Record editorial furthei not be allowed to disturb the pe purposes of their own." And carte blanche, to citizens who i particular visitor to our comr the property of the public and to a whole host of disagreeat What The Record appears squash any sort of organized rights on which it bases its ar with the status quo. Aren't we out of the McCarth Why does a peaceful protes become equated with revolutio the student of today be given sense? Has the mass conserv politics become so strong that public information now condo Perhaps all the "disagreeab~ and exiled to Germany to join suggest the system might be deavors of this state could h complishments. While the resi Whether one agrees or disag other organizations endorsing peachment of Richard Nixon, t group is guaranteed in the U: These include the right to peacefully assemble, and per speech. The recent denial of sequent editorial in The Colum capacities of this city to uphold Closing Pendleton really is ni on both sides. However, to alli attack a group's character ar servative, undemocratic man cannot be tolerated in a free Although the GAME letters received, pref4 typed and under 20( anonymous letters, alt for valid reasons. WI letters will be printet letters will be printed awi'z CH ONE BELOW KIDNAPS ONLY IN RANSOM FOR HIMSELF AND 9S HE HIMSELF WILL-TELL OU, FOR ES WHICH 1ENEFIT HUMANITVYl " J "". "n Of ipeech? d an interesting editorial piece en lo summarize the high points: the y council on its actions; stated that en popular in South Carolina and are md most ridiculous, "Free speech, an essential component of our ecome a pick-and-choose operation? en dictated by what we want to hear e? Since when has a demonstration great many people in this country suggests that protestors "...should aceful assembly of other citizens for Public streets cannot.. .be delivered, >bject to the particular attitudes of a aiunity. ..Public streets must remain rnot parcelled out on an interim basis le dissidents." :o be endorsing then is an effort to disagreement: To deny the very guments to the people who disagree y days where everyone runs scared? :by concerned students invariably n, rebellion and violence? Why can't some credit for having a little bit of itisnm that has dominated Americass supposedly responsible channels of ne shutting out dissenting opinions? le dissidents" could be put in a boat mnother person who was not afraid to wrong. Then the journalistic en appily sit back, proud of their ac of the country laughs itself to death. rees with the goals of AWARE and (and demonstrating for) the im bere are certain rights that any such iited States Constitution. air their grievances, the right to haps most of all, the right of free closing Pendleton Street and a sub bia Record cast graves doubts on the these individual freedoms. )t the issue. There are pros and cons ide as The Columbia Record did; to id to operate in such an ultracon ner are things that should not and society. COCK will attempt to run all arence will be given to those words. We will not run, hough we can withhold names die we try to guarantee that L, we do not guarantee when 11 gammmoomm....l Concrete Mall Absurd To the Editor: This is an open letter to Dean Harold Brunton (I am sending him a copy, too). I really must take offense and, in turn, protest the article about the "Gibbes Green Mall" which ap peared in the February 28 edition of the Gamecock. Not only do I feel that the project itself is asinine, I also feel that the comments by Dean Brunton are absurd. In the first place, I do not appreciate being referred to as a "cow". Obviously Dean Brunton implied, that students created the "cowpaths" he spoke of in his comments to the Gamecock. I feel this shows all too clearly the at titude the Vice President of Business Affairs takes towards the students here--one big herd which he should hurry up and get through the corral. Insofar as these "cowpaths" are concerned, I also feel Dean Brunton is off base. It is no wonder that the area looks like a "mudhole". I suppose any area that was used as a thoroughfare for dump trucks, earth movers, paving machines and cement trucks would be barren and torn up. In addition, the University has not seen fit to plant grass in this area this year as they have in years past. And, with the con struction of the pedestrian walk way, the path a student has to take has been moved away from the brick walks, thus making it easier to walk where grass once grew. I also consider it absurd to create a "concrete" mall with concrete sitting walls. Why can we not have the grassy square which once existed? Why does the University insist in pouring more and more concrete? I feel that student consensus would be opposed to this. I do not believe that students or faculty would prefer a "classy" concrete mall. After all, is this campus for students and faculty or is it to be a playground for Dean Brunton's architects? And the architecture indeed! Just look at this campus. It has to be one of the most dehumanizing environments ever created. A prime example of this is the Humanities Office Building. The floor plan is in the shape of a H, providing for restricted interchange among faculty members, the idea being that each faculty member is confined to his cubicle and works away on his specialty, thus staying out of trouble. When it comes to architecture to ac commodate faculty-student in terchange and rapport, there is none. This situation is absurd. Obviously neither the architects nor Harold Brunton have studied Schinkel. Indeed, the above comments brings one to another question: How does Harold Brunton see the function of this University? Is it simply a place to turn out students piecemeal to fill the gaps in cor porations? It certainly appears that way. It seems that a man with so much power and, supposedly, concern, would be interested in creating an academic atmosphere at this institute. When one ob serves the utter lack of any at mosphere here, one can but be dismayed at the job the Vice President has done. And the comment by Dean Brunton that "acceptance of the Pickens Street Bridge has been 100 per cent -- this remark is just too completely asinine to even com ment upon. I request that the Gamecock withhold my name. I am involved in various nrniecs and wit sme Our Mail committees which Dean Brunton, in a reactionary way, could easily dispose of. More Tickets To the Editor: Well what do you kncw, as if to add insult to injury, the state house passed a resolution not only praising Furman University for it's athletic achievement, which is fine, but it also came %ut with a statement of their desire to see Furman emerge the victor of the U.S.C.-Furman contest Saturday. It may not sound like much, but to someone who spent the right at the Coliseum in order to pick up tickets for the Notre Dame game at 9:30 and who pays for his tickets in the mandatory fees, it is. By passing this resolution , this in trepid body has broken a law that had kept another organization, one nearly as old but infinitely more powerful, in the forefront of in ternational news. The organization of which I speak's the Mafia and the code is that of not messing up your own back yard. Opinion Another problem that arises is that of why the legislature gets free tickets. I'm sure that all of them do not donate scholarships. But to continue the story, I'd like to offer a solution to the situation which I have described. After giving the necessary thought, I propose this; why not simply give out 122 less tickets to this group. This seems only fair, as by the record of voting, 122 members of the house have shown their feelings. Why should these people get free tickets to the university's athletic events when they publicly call us bar barians and the university a jungle, and they should know, shouldn't they. Graned this is a little thing, but hey gang, we're getting the shaft and they're getting the tickets we paid for. Signed by 12 Students Delight To Ashes To the Editor: So goes Woodstock, so goes streaking. My delight turns to ashes. Simon J. Jester I-:d I)oug1 The Ga Although The Gamect students of the Univert is not an official publica opinions expressed here resent those of the uni' or all the staff member: %.:d lit \ l' le1:d it \sitn Nes -:dito, ('iruillation \tlan't.r *mmmmmommmmmq M l M MMIN Set Straight To the Editor: It has come to my attention that credit for the food, soda pop, and other items donated to the WCOS Heart Fund Radiothon '74 went exclusively to the national fast food franchises. I would like to set the record straight. " The Vikings Galley" was the restaurant in the Columbia area to donate to the Radiothon. Unfortunately we received no credit in your article. "The Vikings Galley" is owned and operated by a USC un dergraduate, myself, and I felt the record needed to be set straight. H. Frank Shealy Owner, Vikings Galley Bad Place For Play' To the Editor: On Wednesday, March 6, the day of the SGA runoff elections, some bright person in the University Theatre Department decided that the best place on campus to stage one act plays would be the Blossom Street lobby of the Coliseum. This last minute decision was based on the fact that the parti- in charge decided that their audience would not be clever enough to find Con derence Room D, the originally announced location. They figured that anyone who came through the lobby could not help but notice that a play was in progress. I'm not familiar with the intricacies of theatre production, but it seems to me that from the player's stand point, the lobby of an academic building would not be an ideal place, and it certainly is not from the standpoint of the students with classes in the building who, in walking through their lobby, suddenly find themselves onstage! As the elections commissioner in charge of the poll set up in the same lobby, I find strong reason to complain The polling place was legally set up in this lobby by the Student Senate and cannot be moved without a change in the laws. The theater people, with a few welcome exceptions, were very irate with me for not ignoring the senate statute and moving the poll to the men's room. It appears to me that there is a serious void in the collective minds of the theatre department's administration. Rob Schwinn itori .\d \lanager .\rt Friank mecoc k >Ck is a publication of the iity of South Carolina, it tion of the university. 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