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The G< OdI I ' Student vague d To the Editor: If this letter had a title, I would professors I have had for subject: thus far, but I have encountered their explanations of assignmen English Professors whom I will < could write our final paper on any wanted. After receiving an ur Professor M, I received this res been a formal paper." If only I clarified the necessity of keepii plaining the assignment. It was have termed a murky professor, i courses. This history professor wl often gave essay questions on h points for answering the essaj received more than twenty-sevei questioned Professor N about wh, always got the same respons< question more directly." Howev French Revolution and discuss \ selves. I do not mind answering exams if they are addressed to i swer a question directly when questions that Professor N aske French Revolution were quite bri galore about the French Revoluti< figure out what did Professor N > exams. I must have written fou questions in my attempt to answ complain about students' inabili Although there are students whi who are good writers, readers, a students. J ust as there are students with are some professors with commu not have to make subject matte all, are not professors also teac higher level than high school teac "murky" when explaining assign wishes to do a good job, he must with his or her students. Sure stu not understand something, but \ university being so large, how ca for a professor to explain somethi students improve their learning Professors improve their com professors help each other more proved over all. fGAMI Geoi Mickey Trimarchi N?w? Editor ^ Ad Cafhrme Thrift Asst News Editor Aly Gene Gailiard Copy Photo Editor Mar? Karen Whitj?V?r /~r .m. Editorial Page Editor THE GAMECOCK welcome* letter* Ironr subiect and a maximum of 100 word*. T Pseudonym* or other aliatet will not tx circumstances warrant To assist u* in ve mailing address and a telephone numbei standing and maior," also We reserve the our space i mitations Address Camp Columbia. S C 29708 ValMnaawaBnna^NMHHMMBMnHn I't. . . ' ' ? ' ! ' i t- 1 t ? ' < I . . i ' . i f amecock N. n W 11 laments iscourse* I call it Murky Professors. Most of the s at this university have been all right some whom I thought to be unclear in ts. For instance, one of my previous :all here Professor M, told us that we issue we preferred and in the style we isatisfactory grade and questioning ponse, "But it was supposed to have his particular Professor would have ig the final paper formal when exnot done. Another example of what I came from one of mv nrpvionc hictrk lorn I will refer to here as Professor N, is exams. The student got thirty-five f question correctly. Since I never i points out of a possible 35, I always at did I fail to include in my answer. I j, "You should have addressed the er, to me questions like, discuss the World War II are not so direct themessay or any other type questions on ne directly. How can any student anit was not asked directly. I think <1 on his exams such as discuss the oad. We all know that there are books 3n and World War II. I still have yet to vant to know about such issues on the r or five pages on such broad essay er them. And todav some nrnfpsenrc * r- w ty to write well. 3 do not write well, there are also some nd listeners. I am speaking for those i learning problems, I think that there nication problems. Professors should ;r so complex, but just teach it. After hers, except they are teaching on a hers? All of them should be clear, not ments. In my opinion if any professor first know how to communicate well dents can ask questions when they do vith the size of most classes at this n all students find the time they need ing that is not understood. I honp that [ skills, but I also hope that some munication skills. If students and ;, then I think education will be imJOSE DUVALL sophomore iv rge Morns Editor Billy Baker ob King Sport* Editor Manager ce Ko/ma Mitch Sherwood Desk Chief Sally Wilson Asst Sports Editors luerite R van late Assistant Chuck Cromer Entertainment Editor i its readers. Letters should be limited to a single hey must be signed with the writer's true name > used, but the writer s name will be withheld il rilying the identity o< writers, please include your where you can be reached Please include class right to edit all letters, not for content but to meet ?us Opinion. The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC. ' i . i. i . J ' ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' A. i Press fail< By STEPHEN J. VALK Guest Columnist As campaign '76 stumbles its way along to Nov. 2, national surveys indicate there will be more voters than ever before staying home on election day. While part of the blame for this trend clearly falls on the lackluster performance of the candidates up to this point, indeed a good portion of the blame rests with the media who have submerged the issues and focused instead on the insignificant trivialities of the campaign. Last Monday's press conference with Chip Carter (Jimmy's second son) seemed most symptomatic of the press' preoccupation with the sensational rather than the informative. After the young Carter went around the room shaking hands, he opened up for questions. There was a conspicuous silence for several moments, and I finally blurted out the question that was uppermost in my mind at the time. Referring to the 60-Minutes broadcast from the night before, I asked Chip how his father, the man who has attacked the "unholy alliances" between special interest groups and politicians, could seek out the financial support of the Maritime kingmaker. After saying that no one could ever own his father and pointing out that his dad had talked to Walter Cronkite last Friday, (Dan Rather said Carter had refused to be interviewed for 60-Minutes, a charge which Chip Carter labeled assinine), the subject quickly shifted over to brother Jeff's derrogatory remarks about evangelist Billy Graham. For some warped reason which I have yet to Chinese Ross' abortion (< To the Kriitnr? In reply to the article written on the anti-abortion column, by Lowell William Ross, Jr., I found, at best, a crude attempt of the blind leading the blind. The assumption I arrived from Ross's article was that of Ross trying to justify the act of abortion on the grounds of the poor presentation of Morris's article. Is Ross in assault of Morris's poorly written article or is he trying to say that his opinion is the only correct side to abortion? Not once through Ross's article was there any means stated that there could be two equal sides to abortion. Ross also needed to state what he claimed fact, as an educated opinion on the subject. Mavbo lifo startc at conception and maybe it starts at five months after conception as the State paper's article claimed, but this iy not a reference to call fact. The last time the State told me to leave my umbrella in my room, 1 caught bronchitus in the cold rain, Damnit! edduty determine, my colleagues decided there was greater news value in the fact that Chip "never had anything bad to say about Billy Braham." However, once the snowball of irrelevancy started rolling, there was no stopping it. They asked him if he had ever smoked marijuana, to which Carter replied that he did not discuss his personal life in public. ^ One step leads to another, and from there the topic inevitably drifted into the infamous Playboy interview. For months we have heard from various members of the Fourth Estate that the candidates are not focusing on the issues. Yet, when they finally get the opportunity to quiz one of the political participants, all they are able to focus on are the yellow journalistic staples of sex and scandal. The press failed miserably that afternoon. Here we are in the midst of determing who is going to be our next president, and the most significant thing they can find is that Chip Carter has never read a copy of Playboy. Near the end of the press conference WNOK-TV, in their typical stumblebum fashion, arrived and needed to get something on film for the six o'clock news. Anchorman Jack Cook was there, and after apologizing for being late, he asked a question. He could have asked anything in the world, but like the parrot who is trained to say "Polly wanna cracker," he uttered the word "Playboy." Yes, it is true that many Americans will avoid the polls this year, but if they do, the press is partly to blame for not providing them with enough information to make an intelligent decision. fc >!l ll I handcuffs 3tter rebuked i - ? * ( I Near the end of Ross's article he makes an outstanding comparison between the human and the dog. I can only conclude that this is the best work of an intellectual genius ... This is complete stupidity! I have seen a human fetus that has been extracted by abortion. I am not an expert, just another uneducated pharmacy major, but I felt as if I were going to cry. Personally, what I saw was a beautiful work of God destroyed. It definitely looked as if it had been human life developing and not just a & l conglomerate of brainless cells. Please send (Doctor) Ross back his letter for a f] much needed revision. I do not condemn his opinion, \ just his lack of humanity and practically in his descriptions and conclusions. ;] V WILLIAM J. LPPKKSON pharmacy freshman ?' I f V v.) . >? .L.i.tofilV:;-. X*. i ? ; ' ?' -