Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WUSC-AM Non-existent To the Editor: My roommate and I are both fully convinced that WUSC-AM is the perpetuated joke of about half a-dozen assorted fruitcakes. Proof of this assertion lies herein. My fellow lodger, who has been at this school for three and one half semesters has spent his next 14 years tax rebates on various receivers, radios and divining rods ii numerous attempts to get a signal from this imaginary control board in the sky. I personally applied for a job as an announcer, and with my third-class operator's license, thought I ran an even chance of getting a spot. The only reason I can conjecture for not having heard anything is that WUSC-AM does, in fact, not exist. Being strong believers in the Flat-Earth Theory and the con viction that the astronauts walked in Disneyland, we now announce that we will soon be chartering an Imaginary WUSC-AM Club. To become a member, all one has to do is stand on the third floor of Russell House with a radio and SPORTSWEAR creates with Cone Cotton Denim flared pants for all walks of college life, from campus to sand dunes. Comfortable Cone 100% cotton denim. Sizes 3/4 to 18. Ask for Wrangler at your favorite campus store today. Cone mok Letters tune in. Anyone disproving this theory will be allowed to spend an evening on the town with an Executive Burger. Cheese will be an extra dime. Chuk Shipman Ray Woods Questioning AA Refusal To the Editor: This is a reply to your recent refusal to print our advertisement. In developing one of the largest libraries of research material in the country, Research Assistance, Inc. of Los Angeles has begun to fill the deficit that exists in available reference materials. This educational tool frees the student from much of -the tedium of in formation retrieval and allows more time to be devoted to creative learning processes. Our up-to-date, mail order catalog of 4,500 research papers is sold for research-reference pur poses only. We question your refusal to print our advertisement. The highest goal of education is to es fabdcs pe To The provide. the tools to enable the student to' think, evaluate, judge and decide for himself. Your exercise of censorship by not permitting our advertisement appears to be diametrecally op posed to an essential right of the student: freedom of choice. It is up to the student to accept or reject ; it is not the function of a free press or a free university system to arbitrarily decide tor others. We hope that you will present our point of view by printing this letter. John W. Spencer National Public Relations Director Research Assistance, Inc. Education Or Architecture? To the Editor: Often, I've thought how this university is a monument to man's insanity. Each day as I walk around campus, I see enormous amounts of dollar bills being made into mortar. The campus seems to have taken on a continual remodeling effort. Massive structures once huilt. enn dn Ff } pIe live In'. L LS 440BRADWAY NEW YORK N Y 10018 Editor nothing but stand. What is the end j we are seeking here? Where t should the emphasis be, on education or architecture?, Ic No Cultural tr Appreciation E th To the Editor: th I am writing this in response to Mr. Rob Schwinn's letter to the editor which appeared in the March 14, 1974, edition of "The al Gamecock." As is usual when little research is done, there are many inaccuracies in Mr. Sch winn's letter. First, Mr. Schwinn states that "some bright person in the University Theatre Department tt decided that the best place on campus to stage one-act plays I would be the Blossom Street lobby of the Coliseum." The students involved in the plays were invited to perform in the College of General Studies and it was cer tainly their privilege to decide where the plays would be staged. g It was felt a "theatre-in-the-round" s would work well in the lobby area. Next, I would like to assure Mr. t Schwinn that the audience was quite capable of finding the plays, wherever they were staged. Also, Mr. Schwinn questions V the use of the lobby as "an ideal place" and alludes to the fact that students walking through the area found themselves onstage. I am sorry that Mr. Schwinn's eyes were not open enough to notice that sufficient aisles were provided for students to walk to class or to vote, ' and they were not suddenly ap pearing on the stage with the ac tors. Mr. Schwinn concluded his letter stating that various people felt he should move "the poll to the men's room" and that "there is a serious c void in the collective minds of the a theatre ' department's ad ministration." I might suggest it that the most flagrant void in mentality be found in Mr. Sch- c winn's letter and that, perhaps, the c best place for Mr. Schwinn to have been that afternoon would, indeed, a have been the men's room. I wish to reiterate our thanks to the Theatre Department for a wonderful afternoon and am sorry b that there are those people who s have absolutely no appreciation for culture of any kind. Neal A. Harmand Student Activities Coordinator More Streaking To the Editor: d I am writing this letter to protest t the lewdness and immorality of the il so-called "streaking" on your d campus. First, let me say that I c am not a student but have a great 'i interest in the matter. A group of C gentlemen in my Sunday school c class appointed ourselves as a a morality committee to report back t to our church on the,.morals of your ( campus in view of streaking. This f was not an ad hoc group but rather C a committee which regularly views smutty movies and keeps a-breast r of such magazin~es as Playboy, Penthouse, and Playgirl to determine which addicting forces i are undermining our youth's t morals. We went to your campus Monday i night, the night of the "big streak". 1 In an effort to determine the a morality of the coeds, we scanned f the wi'idows of each girls dorm to 1osk for hanky-panky. And except for what we saw one coed doing, inside a third floor window in one >rm, (we straini ", ge't a better ok but she didn 1o what she as doing in front of the window ng) the results were in inclusive. As we were waiting around for e big streak, we decided to test e morality of some coeds who d lustful looks in their eyes as ey awaited the streak: we tested em by pinching them on the hind. In every instance, they ve as dirty looks, each mum ing garbled but filthy references >out old men. Because of this, we e considering making a report to ir Sunday school class on the -ofanity of coeds and the srespect with which they view eir elders. When the streaking began, I was e only committeeman to see a >ed streaking. The other com ,itteemen got sore necks and eye rain trying to verify coed im Lorality. At one point in the evening, there as a commotion as many ran to ,e a coed bare all. I had to run a ood distance to see her. The less pry committeemen couldn't run to ee her but when I returned to iem panting, they were panting )o after the disgraceful exhibition ut on by the university men. We returned every night last reek and even though there was !ss streaking than Monday, we onclude, and will report to our hurch that your campus is redominated by persons who are Dwd, obscene, filthy, immodest, xhibitionistic, peeping tomish, ustful, and voyeuristic. lot Responsible 'o the Editor: Two recent articles in The amecock concerning the Gibbes -reen project have referred to me s "the architect," mistakenly ferring that I was responsible for i is concept. Long before I came here as ampus architect in 1972, this roject was conceived by Richard Webel, a prominent landscape rchitect who has been a con ultant to the University since the residency of Donald Russell. My nly contribution to the project has een the attempt to reduce the ale of the mall and to give it a etter relationship to the buildings n the Green and to the bridge hich was designed under my irection in the Campus Planning ffice. Judy Corley's statement - "It ,as obvious to us that they (Bob tacNaughton, projects coor inator, and myself) were told not answer anything specific"- only lustrates the great lack of un erstanding which exists on this ampus. I have never been told by ice President Brunton or any ther University official what I ould or could not say about nything, as was demonstrated at he recent Horseshoe restoration onference. It was simply not my >rerogative to answer the uestions which were asked . Finally, as a former college tewspaper editor and the current ditor of a professional publications, I feel that the attack pon Vice President Brunton in he form of the unsigned letter ntitled "Concrete Mall Absurd" vas a personal lowpoint for its vriter for not having the guts to ign it and a journalistic lowpoint or The Gamecock for having >rinted such strong opinions without a signature. Iohn W. Califf, Jr. Campus Architect