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GAMECOCK BILL PRATT, Editor BILL OUTLAW, BILL GRANT, Editorial Page Editor Managing Editor~ Sept. 4, 1975 Editorial policy The Gamecock would like to take this opportunity to express its objectives for the fall semester of 1975 in the hopes that our readers will be able to understand not only what is being said but also why and how it is being said. First and foremost, the editorial page is to be the forum for expressing the opinions of the Gamecock's editorial staff. We would like to encourage our readers to contribute letters and ideas for articles on topics of concern to all students at USC. Letters will be run on a space available basis as soon as possible after the letter is received. We do ask that letters be as brief (about 300 words or less) and to the point as possible. If you have a lengthy letter or something that needs explanation or further investigation we ask that you contact The Gamecock office about doing either an article or column on that particular subject. The second point we would like to make about the editorial page is that we are striving for constructive criticism on all issues cited, not criticism just for the sake of it. All editorials and columns written will try to offer a suggestion to correct the problem cited in the editorial. The editorial staff will be composed of the editor, the managing editor, the news editor and the editorial page editor. Columns will be written by featured columnists Leigh Leventis and Patrick Pizzella and various members of the staff as well as guest contributions from members of the faculty, student body and ad ministrative staff at USC. This will not be a one-man operation. The staff editorial will consist of a consensus opinion of the editorial staff and will be run on the left-hand side of the page. Columns will be featured on the right-hand side and will appear with bylines indicating that it i s a personal column and doesn not necessarily reflect the views of The Gamecock. We hope to feature an editorial cartoon every issue which will be designed to comment on situations arising on campus. The cartoons will be drawn by different cartoonists but the ideas for the cartoons and their captions will be those of the cartoonist and the editorial staff. There may be times in the next few months when an editorial may not be written. We will use this op portunity to print letters to the editor. We do not want to write an editorial on a subject when we may not have adequate information on that topic to form what we hope will be an intelligent opinion. We do not want to be branded as a staff which makes wild accusations about situations they know nothing a bout. We will not, however shy away from writing on subjects which may become controversial. Finally, The Gamecock wishes to be fair in its editorials. An editorial can not claim to be objective, but it can be fair in presenting its side of the issue. We will try to present opposing views as often as possible in letters and columns With this in mind we hope to have an interestmng and opinionated year. Letters policy nThe GMECOC ies al esons iti the campus community to make their opinions weekly in our ''Letters to the Editor'' section all wettr areevedl. Minma atedttoint promised, and though longer letters Will be printed, letters of 2wrec s andindeare ied ng preference due to space requirements. And, it is the deCision Of the editors under ae gnou anonymous letters, though we will withhold names for valid reasons orthtwnorn Preferably, letters should be typed with name and address Of the authoinldd Pes 1< G as in Gran LETTERS.., TO THE EDITOR: As expected, the National Football League plans to wave the flag it disgraces by sabotage of military, taxpayer ripoffs, and player enslavement during the Bicentennial Celebration. No doubt the news media syndicates will be in the forefront beating the dollar drums and blowing cash fifes to the NFL money melody. And fans "must earn" the honor of having such a pro team in their beloved city. In England, by law, profit is limited to 7/2 per cent dividend per year per original cost of shares owned. Rocky Bleier probably will be the poster symbol. Bleier was the one (and only?) rated pro team player who served (after not being worthy as a 16th pro draft choice to protection in NFL military draft dodging system) in Vietnam during those tragic 10 years. Bleier deserves much better treatment than being exploited as symbol of NFL and pro team sports disgrace. NFL and sports media great patriotic contribution to Vietnam was that bloody money maker - Monday Night Football - and a cover for draft dodging. Howard Cosel, Frank Gifford, and Don Meredith had the honor of "telling it like it is.'' The President, Congress, the Pentagon, and the news media conspired to use the military reserves to provide advance amnesty and perhaps an extra pension to pro ahtletes whose peers were burning down colleges and cities in extreme frustration if not mental unbalance. Of course, the military reserve' primary and .z is next to H as in paid mission is to fight wars like Vietnam, but the reserves were never called. -Pro sports had a higher priority than w.ar The athletes themselves can hardly be blamed for their seduction by such powerful rapists, the latter having the unmitigated gall to sponsor and induce pro athletes to visit Vietnam veterans in hospitals. It would have been better if the country had had national V.D. instead of AP, UPI, TSN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NFL, NHL, NBA, AL, NL, and Washington, D.C. who pervet andproituema'ims naua isic frsotsitj whoedo ofioamnplis Spotswil srvve Th best ___that __can besid s not iha nexy oHsi neeraldin.oritrve ihBl thas n rthe Aug.l28eissuemoflThe canteriew benducted fot er th seucnomay suchge power rapits tuent atte havinge the umeitgateit glto spaoor rundnindcem pro inhoteiwal dffrntsudn stdt oul av ifeenbetter if wth couryn intret tha nainn V.D cntinuin otra UPf TSNe studen NLod Whintould D.C smwhat pergten and prosttt a's mos ntralitincIthn foists noudb a Te bestovatvenide i i Forv ,theGdrs hey knout eadng. Meyour instew wihyil creais in thmyg.2 fed-im-- cofider Has Been? outstanding, being involved in five film productions nominated for awards in the Eng. 565 film festival., In that festival three production won, two of which I wrote and directed. Also , I've been asked to write the film column for this year's Garnet and Black ,and I am trying to arrange a lecture at my home town high school and hopefully, I will be entertaining at next week's Preston-Woodrow cookout. Im pressive . huh? Granted. you may think me something of an egomaniac but even if you dlon't interview me, I still think the overall premise is legitimate. WILLIAM A MESC'E J.. Correction TO THlE ED)ITOR: My great interest in Dr. Thomas Cooper, the second president of South Carolina College, impels me to briefly amend the article relative to him entitled "History Behind U.S.C." in the Aug. 28 issue of The Gamecock. Dr. Cooper was born in London England (not a New Englander) in 1759. He graduated from Oxford and migrated to A merica in 1795. Hie became a judge in Penn sylvania, taught chemistry to D)u Ponts at Dickinson College and served as professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. - Thomas Jefferson said that Dr. Cooper was the brightest mind in America and wished to have him on the faculty of his own univer sity. Dr. Silliman of Yale and Dr. Plae See Pn. ..9.