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The E At a recent Sigma Delta Chi tc (professional journalism society) d convention, student media ti representatives from across the c Southeast were somewhat amazed that The Gamecock has a less- nr than-favorable relationship with it the university and the state of c South Carolina. They assumed p that because of this, the paper was v reactionary, politically - oriented it and made waves simply for the b sake of doing so. It was looked ti down upon. d Looked down upon? Were these people able to see the events that d surround this school, it would be g extraordinarily easy to understand 0: why the adversary relationship n exists. And through this e relationship, no matter how much b tension it generates, one can fully G see the true function of a campus m newspaper. ti This semester, The Gamecock, has been accused of being too of professional, too serious and too e: pessimistic. We have constantly u been reminded that our service is a4 Others Responsible For Cafe To the Editor: In your otherwise excellent coverage of the opening of the Humanities Cafe, the names of several of those most responsible for its existence were omitted. Recognition should also go to Vice President Brunton and to Bill Carter and Bob McNaughton, who are members of his staff, to Dean Beardsley, Dean Alexander, and the members of the Cultural Af fairs Advisory Committee, who q pushed the project for many months. Finally, special credit should go to my students and those anonymous walk-ons who spent last Tuesday erecting the stage which, incidentally, was paid for by Mr. Brunton. Benjamin Dunlap More Sewerage To the Editor: For the past few weeks I have C read numerous witty and sar castic letters and editorials about Gibbes Green that have polluted c (further) your newspaper like so t much raw sewerage (sic). r Well I have been at USC for four< years now, and until the university < announced plans for renovating the area I had seen no evidence of any students having even the slightest regard for the grass of Gibbes Green. Brick walkways criss-cross the area to provide means for getting from building to building without having to walk across the grass, but if one would only look at the area he would see many dirt path- t ways carved out of the grass by 4 students who don't care about "'green" grass. I have seen the University mail trucks and service vehicles crossing the area making concerted efforts to stay on the walkways instead of the grass, but student vehicles tearing across the j green with total disregard for the University's efforts to airate (sic)i and seed the area each and every spring. r Trash receptacles are located across the green but lay mostly s empty, I wish I could say as much about the Green itself. Cigarette butts, coke cans, and other n assorted garbage constantly l deface the beauty of Gibbes Green. If the student body at USC had ti uctio the student , not to grind in ividual axes or pursue con oversial matter out of our. uriosity . We have been advised by non iedia people to have more humor i the newspaper, as well as Dnsciously notifying the student opulation of approaching events ia a campus calendar. In many stances, these suggestions have een taken to heart. More ofteri an not, they have been isregarded, and with good reason. The average university person Des not realize what it entails to et this seemingly advertisement -iented publication out. He does At realize that if every campus ient was published, there would e no other space left; The amecock would become nothing ore than a social calendar, and ie function of a campus press ould be lost in the process. What has been done in the course this semester is to critically camine the workings of this iiversity at both the student and iministrative levels. A lot of hard i4 hown some regard for the grounds f this university by having used valkways instead of grass, trash ans instead of dirt, and by ap >reciating Gibbes Green for astetic sic) reasons instead of treating it inly as an outdoor biology class, hen I would think you had a easonable gripe, but as it is, you leserve anything the University lecides to do with the grasses of libbes Green. Ben T. Granade, Jr. [iraduate Blues'? To the Editor: I'm not a feminist looking for nale chauvinists under every bed, >ush and breakfast table. But I iad to say something this time: here was that ad again in the samecock classifieds: WANTED)! .iberalI-minded female to share partmient in C'ayc e with male trad student. (Call (...etc.). I'm not picking on male-grad tudents personally, and maybe, 1st maybe, I've inferred omething from this ad that wasn't ntentionally implied.. However, it seems to me that a riale grad student who wanted just rentsharer needn't have pecified anyone's sex in the ad but is own. If he wanted a female apartment late in particular because he's tboring under the notion that 'omen are neater and cleaner ian men, he wnould have dnea r. 0 amng Si work 'by some truly dynami< people has revealed a lot of thing that one might not like to see. An yet they are there , like it or no We have endeavored not to bree discontent or controversy, but rather to report ana comment o the actions of this school and th people involved with it. For sun we have made more enemies tha friends. But such is always th case when aggressive pres collides with a superstructur that is used to having its proposal and actions slide by, uncontestec About six weeks ago, a higt ranking official at the universit said the administration was scare of TheGamecock. In actuality, it i not so much a question of fearing student newspaper.it is the fear c having their every move criticall examined. Judging from this semester, it i understandable why a certai degree of contempt exists betweei the paper and the administratior To begin with, we must look a the resignation of Tom Jones a USC president. It was a cut-and netter to specify "housekeepei and offer free room and board. He either confused the issue < made it perfectly clear when I used the phrase "liberal-mind( female". Somehow, I don't thir he just wants to talk politics wi some girl who voted for Georg McGovern, either. Just what does this or any oth male mean when he decribes woman as "liberal-minded" --4 "liberated," to use another o1 bandied word? Several days ago a ma acquaintance of mine w~ speaking of a woman who is (ar this is putting it delicatel' "sexually indiscriminate." rr acquaintance said it this way: "She's extremely liberat( (raised -brow punctuation) if-yo know-what-I-mean." In a letter to the editor in recent Gamecock issue, a Narl Withheld suggested that the rani of female streaking reflects the lo self-esteem and clingirl inhibitions of the non-liberat( woman; the implication was th one could not possibly be a whol free woman unless one had fir dashed naked down a public stree How did the terms "libera minded" and "liberated" acquii these euphemistic, suggestis connotations. If you live with man, you're liberal-minded; if yc streak, you're liberated? Linkt now with bed and body-sharing, ti terms originally expresse woman's redease from preise1 hudent P dried operation, very slickly b handled. Important facts were P d successfully obscured at first. But t t. then people started talking, and d only The Gamecock attempted to w print some of the more sordid tr n affairs of a strange relationship P e between education and politics. , We have worked on the Jones s n story for three-and-a-half months. tk e Weekly, new information was s s given to us. But desires and 1e e political motivations prevented us 0 s from finding the truth. tr . And yet, despite the cries of w i- slander and muckraking, this was h y a time of superb responsibility on d the part of the newspaper. We kept 1 s in touch with lawyers and u a professionals alike before deciding f what to print. With one exception, tt y a story never saw print unless it r was confirmed and reconfirmed. ' s And we protected the identities of t n some of the state's most powerful n people. e There were others. The Gibbes a t Green project and its ramifications A s received a great deal of comment F in this newspaper. Students were P V P 600 d * g l tl C f4 t re a s a S 0 C e " those things as the central focus of r her life. Men aren't the sole S r abusers of the concept; Name te Withheld could very well be a t d woman, and I wouldn't be sur- d k nrised in the least at that. ~h The whole modern woman-man a e confrontation might be more easily ~ resolved by viewing it not as a i er matter of "feminism" versus '1 a "male chauvinism," but rather as 8 >r a matter "humanism." A liberal t t- minded,liberated woman strives to depend on her human personality ti Le and intellect rather than her a s feminine wiles; to use her human ', d brain to impress and not her a ') female body; to emphasize her p 'y human strengths and potential instead of her feminine e d weaknesses. She sees the male of s: u- the species as a human too, not in tI his separate or possible roles and ir a the liberal-minded, liberated man "~ ie sees this kind of woman as his ally, ti :y not as a threat to an inflexible it w opinion of what "being a man" and tU ~g "being a woman" entail, a d Liberation then involves at reciprocal acceptance of oneself pl e, and others as person(female) and nr st person(male). It's difficult if not ei t. completely defeating to try to 01 1- relate as person to-female, person- o1 -e to-male or combinations thereof. ei 'e But, as called for by each different w a situation and by the feelings of the u humans concerned, male-to- w d female and person to-person e relationships. are the most *d satifying and productive. Laurie Viiainnn ress eing run over by some powerful eople in business affairs, without ieir apparent knowledge. )mebody had to let them see what as going on, and it is certain that ie administration would have no art of it. With the help of a concerned law udent, we have been able to show ie student, the university and the ate that USC's health policy aves something to be desired. nce again, the student is bearing ie brunt of another university hitewash. Wallowing in apathy, e is not going to pursue the matter idependently. Someone had to. he Gamecock did. Now the niversity faces a $900,000 law suit. It might have happened without e benefit of the publicity the issue ceived. But then the students ould not know what is happening ) them. Perhaps there exists one shining xample of how effective an ggressive campus press can be. Ithough .no, one is admitting it ublicly, The Gamecock was the rimary agent in getting the ob ious conflict of interest in Mike rier's ombudsman-counsel osition removed. How else can ne explain the fact that less than a ay after one Gamecock reporter tarted questioning the attorney eneral, Grier's duties were split. Beyond this, we criticized our lain money source, the Student llocations Commission, for both e job it was doing and the ianner in which it is constructed. ne does not bite the hand that ,eds it, but the paper believed iere was a better way. We at acked the SAC, but offered a asonable alternative. It was not question of criticizing for the ake of criticizing; it was meant in constructive manner. There have been numerous hortcomings, to be sure. We iissed crucial meetings on the roposed second medical school n man'' instances, student rganizations did not get their vents publicized in the way we ould have liked. Production rrors have been limited, but they o exist, and undoubtedly will ontinue to exist. Some of the iaterial on the editorial page was hallow and ridiculous. But as strange as it may seem, his newspaper has geared itself irectly to the student in both news nd comment. It has not become n organ of the administration. We ttempted to encourage student aput through the innovative Page idea. Response was not always ood, but the opportunity was here. We have tried to convey the idea > the student that unless he takes n active role in the university orkings, he is going to be taken dvantage of. And that is the worst ossible form of human abuse. We will continue to'criticize and antinue to be criticized. That is mply the way things work. But ie newspaper is still the most nportant force in exposing public rongs. It is the responsibility of e university press to expose, form, comment and entertain, in te face of deceit, threats and ~cusations. But it is always done with the sople in mind who matter the ost: the students. If we can ntinue the struggle for the good the student, no matter how acrid ir relationship with the upper ~helon becomes, then the fight ill be worth it. In fact, it will be more than orth it.