University of South Carolina Libraries
The Guneeoek kJ D I I I I K I IM I I o N J Wilsford says charges wrong To the Fditor: I should like to inform Name Withheld and the rest of the student body that while I wrote the elections statutes he refers to, I did not write the amendment that limited campaigning to a week. That was added in a Rules Committee session by Off-Campus chairman Rene Spires, on hef own initiative. SGA records will verify this. I regret that this error was printed without having first been checked. I also fail to understand how my campaign "gained an advantage" from the one-week limitation. If any advantage was gotten, I feel it was because my campaign workers and I had prepared ourselves well. The other candidates were equally aware of the limitation and had the same opportunity that I had to plan their strategies. V?J , Dave Wilsford i game Frank DeLoa che Kerry Northrup LynrtMomgartiner f!t mmmm kAj%trrIx Tommy Fowler. Jotwny Drumming* CfKKfcCrom**; ! KtpBtevki SuunPwpfrt PtttrUHifte ucmrmiTm, Hilly tofcar. > Mk**y A A inILm rrMlfK Dwmfl ? * * i *? ?? . ? Voter turn Student Government run-o Wrvnofiilltr mill Kn o Kntt uupciuiij , niti win ut a ucn in the race Monday. A whopping grand total president in Monday's electio two thousand people are det< this campus. There should complaints from the othei thousand who did not have decisions are left to only two of students are being pushed The run-off for president is Jim Stuart. They received 50 For vice-president, the rur Mosley with 491 votes and F Coping necess< By I)r. William \1. Morgenroth I)r. Morgenroth is a professor of marketing in the I'SC College of Business Administration. He also holds the Citizen and Southern National Bank's chair of Business Administration. As I see it,the man"*"on campus today is stronger in most dimensions than his father on campus :H) years ago. He is taller, heavier (notwithstanding A.R.A. Slater), and can run faster, farther, play golf, tennis. football and basketball better than his father could. He has more brain cells and a better education and has a more i iininct ic iniuri Manuni^ oi i ill' dating and mating game. In one dimension he is deficient: coping. In the artificial universe of academe, this modern Oedipus may already be a tragedy. In simple terms, he is often unable, ana nence unwilling, to locate his niche in the real world outside. The outside real world looks complex, closed and frightening. The alternatives are few: stay in school and deep-freeze some growth, rohol iinH Hrnnnnf inin tVio corninn try to get a job and suicide. There is a case for rapport with reality. The logical catalyst is the professor/ He, again, is different Editor News Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor Editorial Page Editor riHin?j(r?piiycoi[W . Entertainment Editor Graduate Assistant Production Manager Advertising Manager Asst. News Editor Asst. Sports Editor Production Supervisor Cartoonist i J out slock ly spoi ff plopfinnc nrp tnHav anH M. M. VlVVVtVtlU MA Vx IV/V4V4J JL A VA j er turn-out at the polls than of 1,840 people voted for ms. That means that almost *rmining the governance of certainly be no gripes or * group of about twenty the concern to vote. If the thousand, the vast majority around from pure apathv. between Dave Wilsford and 1 and 513 votes respectively, l-off is between Gerald T. 'rank Shealy with 801 votes. - the UK ? Ul I # from his predecessors. The pedestal of Olympian proportions is gone: psychic distance is halved, and yet for naught. Professors are more approachable, less revered from afar and nonetheless deficient in the vital dimension. The concept "in loco parentis" has long since been consigned by student freedoms to the ash heap, or perhaps, at least upstairs, out of sight with "early attic" concepts of yesteryear. It might have just one virtue left: rapport with the student to overcome his dis-ease. To give it one name on our American campus: anomie. The rootlessness Durkheim characterized: when a man leaves a warm reality and exercizes meaninglessly in a sterile setting, he shrinks. Oversimplifying the philosophic differences between student and teacher, apart from their roles, leads to some understanding. Many teachers are Appolonians, cfiiHontc Hinnucinnc roflo/'tintf n major shift in American values: self reliance vs. government reliance, hard work vs. the easy life, religious convictions vs. secular convictions, husband dominated home vs. wife dominated house, parent centered household vs. child centered hntiKphnlf) rpuncff fnr individual vs. dislike of individual differences, postponed gratification vs.immediate gratification, saving vs. spending, sexual chastity vs. sexual freedom, parental values vs. peer group values, independence vs. security. While the criterian of "right" is generally applied only to one's own set of values, the need for rapport Is elec Only 1,772 people voted for ^ dwindles further for treasure 1,472 for secretary. Why did] president vote for the other Apathy is a killer and it s campus by storm. One could percentage voter turn-out in It is ud to each student on th the run-off to determine the r and vice-president. It's not to and vote. The policies of SGA don't QtnHpntQ thov nffnr?t PVPrun reason for the vote, to have around this campus by selecti do the job that best suits yo H 18 i 1111 10008?^^^ J ?/h is overriding. It could be based on accepting the other's values as a oasis for communicating. Most of the problems as well as the future holnno t? ? V-i chifln?? rpu~ UVlt/llf, iw L II V OIUUCIII, 1 lie problems of self identification, of socializing, of personal finance and the like are far greater than the nmfpscnr'c lr?f Arlmitlorllif r. ?w. I IV4II1HIVUIJ , lllU University has the job of integrating its resources of housing, counseling, medical services and others, but the professor, in my belief, should be the catalyst to prepare the student for.the outside world of reality. And the heart of me iuiure worici is me jod. tiacn student must know as he leaves campus that there is a place for him. a niche in which hp fan survive, grow and enjoy his opportunities. The job is the sine qua non. To serve in this capacity, the iinivorsit v miict Hnvolnn Ho , ^ V UV V Viv/p I in resources to help the student understand himself, understand the market for his potential and in terests and relate its curriculum, its athletics programs and its religious and social activities to the real world out there. If the professor is to be an effective catalyst, he needs be a contact with :tions rice-president. The number er with onlv 1.619 and onlv y / n't everyone that voted for offices too? eems to be taking the USC safely say this is the worst USC's history. is campus to at least vote in i -i. i l i i_. : J a lexi siuueru uouy presiueni o much to take five minutes just affect two thousandne of us. That's the main a voice in the happenings ing the person you think will u. ??? ~| fr.siR. eon lOTkOlNJfcr \ tSK. Yoo FOR) 5r&5 iro ft f?' > ~ZjC^S^\ J the student, the natural parent and the real world's job market as it is n?rl mo ; ...111 -~J -- " i?nv4 uii 11 win uc, ana iis ine rc3i world should be. Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and the coming world of the futurologists suggest that coping with change and the accelerating rate of change may be the student's major problems, as the siuaeni sees Jus newly learned techniques rapidly obsolesce. The case for rapport then still exists, after the student joins the real world to feed back his picture of change. Without such a coalition, a two way rapport on campus and off campus, we are in danger of losing a most important concept of mankind* thnf t^?o ?u-4 . vnut 11 V IUIUIC ID wiled we make it. -fA sanskrit derivative for mankind, the use here is generic, not genetic in meaning. Note: The Gamecock provides this space to USC faculty for expression of personal opinion on any subject. This is part of the Gamecock's policy to include a greater sector of the Carolina Community in its publication.