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viewpoints Senate praised Bates chided GAMECCX Karen Lee Editor Edith McNeill Mark Alexander News Editor photography Editor Op Dan Palma David Shlngler Copy Desk Chief Entertainment Editor Kathleen Mclntyre Barry Glenn Asst. News Editor Asst. Entertainment Editor ' Barbara Mathews Karen Wooten j Graduate Assistant Production Manager THE GAMECOCK welcomes letters from its readers. Letters should I subject and a maximum ol 300 words. They must be signed with the Pseudonyms or nthpr aliiu< i^ni k- ' * ? ..... ..v. ?rc uini, bui me wrner's nami circumstances warrant. To assist us in verifying the identity of wri your mailing address and a telephone number where you can be reac class standing and maior, also. We reserve the right to edit all letters, to meet our space limitations. Address: Campus Opinion, The Oai ^ USC, Columbia. S C. ??30?. Queen snub < To the Editor: It was totally disgusted with the behavior (JSC's fraternit jpc rl o m iinclminJ ?< '? uviiivnaiiaicu dl lilt Homecoming Game Saturday. After their candidate, Carol Williamson, failed to win the Homecoming Queen crown, losing to Afro's candidate, Abigail Rogers, the fraternities resorted to booing and calling the winning candidate a racial slur. The fraternities demonstrated that they cannot take defeat. I'm sure the fraternities were disappointed that their candidate wasn't crowned on ABCTV. Instead, some made asses of themselves. Alf hniaoh I or>n~n ?D" vuihivi utvu.ic dll uieess oi sucn poor behavior, it is the actions of those Greeks at Homecoming that gives them a bad name. I thought we had come a long way since the 1960s in respect to race relations. Apparently, some people need to learn that defeat by a black should not be humiliating. I was also disgusted with an incident that occurred Thursday night at Cockfest. When the five Homecoming Queen candidates were nrcspntpH in iho ptaih/IO ?* ' , ? ...v viunuo at ^utMcsi, eacn woman was presented with flowers and was kissed by a young gentleman. Each woman was given flowers and each woman was kissed ? except Abigail Rogers. When the gentleman came to Abigail, he just handed her the flowers ? no kiss. How blatant can you be? This reminds me of Hitler at the 1936 Olympic By LLOYD WOODS . Opinion Page Editor It is rare on these pages that yo USC Student Senate being praii body has done something unique ' ucoci vca recognition. An 0\ majority of the student senators hi contrary to popular belief, they dless drones, blind to the wishes stituents, the students of USC. y handful of young politicos did their accordance with the popular belie be dealt with shortly, but for now 1 in the historical annals of this insti Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1977 the Sti refused to allow a minute mil members the opportunity to polit mail the University Union's Idea Committee. The senate soundly rejected inlrnHnrpH Qonotnr i n-' ..... wj ovuavvi IJCJJICI Ddll fresh from an attempt to force tl Issues Committee to conform tc introduced a watered down v resolution he had planned to pr ^ senate. The resolution voted on fc demanded that the committee prei balanced idiological viewpoint," ai ^ that the committee was not alread a balanced viewpoint in the speakers for the university. Few i were prepared to agree that thi uoydwood* Issues Committee was not beint ragetaitor selection of speakers. BATK'SOHIGINAL resolution <J the committee was presenting spe? vinceMoore "one idealogical viewpoint, < \sst. sports Editor phil sophy." Bates believes that tc the speakers brought to the univc BAH^f,pa,rlck committee have been liberals, a b< speaker, James J. Kilpatrick, v repudiate. wriur'Ttru*name! Bali s original resolution reques s win b? withheld if Studeiu Alocalions Commission "t h^d! pimm Include ensure that a more balanced 1 not for content, but rtrpsnntori " Tho pocnl"*!"" "1? ? jr- > IIV l VOUiUVIUII (ll&U I'C the Union "immediately initiate p remedy this deficiency." The reso ;ondemned I 1 Games! I am also disappointed that Abigail did not make the front page of The Gamecock. I'm sure S you've heard this complaint in years before, t and I know that your argument is that there a were more newsworthy things to put on the a front page, which is a valid argument, t; However, you don't have a valid argument this n ? r year. Your article on term papers is not frontpage stuff and your story on housing has made n front page before; nothing new came out in that u article. Also, no one wants to look at a half-page f< picture of a door. In fact, hardly anything s you've had on front page this semester is frontpage stuff. However, I won't go so far as to ? W f accuse your staff of racial discrimination, for I I< could not attempt to prove it. I'll give you the s benefit of the doubt that your news judgment is C of extremely low caliber; that I can prove with E the pitiful issues you and your staff have u produced this semester. This is the worst n semester The Gamecock has ever had, in my n book, and I think it can be attributed to in- u vwniiTciciicy un me pari 01 certain members of S the Gamecock staff. s Don't assume that I have defended Abigail C riogers Decause I am black. I am not black. I s speak as a journalism major who has had more s| training in journalism than the editor of this p paper. n a Name Withheld By Request c request was that making any p organization." u will find the Reoiganizing th jed, but that Bates dropped tl recently that Senate comment erwhelming House Universit; as shown that viewnolnt in t?i are not min- Though this st of their con- enough, the dem Of course, a more balaficed it best to act in was left in the res jfs. They will balanced viewp let it be noted resolution's chai tution that on senators not lacl jdent Senate nority of its ALL OF THE tically black- original resolutio s and Iccnoc hi-; tuhjuvo iui icdsunsaii ni: Ideas and Issue) a resolution blackmail the co es III. Bates, committee meml tie Ideas and but can be summ ) his wishes, my way, or you' ersion of a Bates5 power p eseni to the believed, but the ly the senate mittee members sent "a more heard of the res ti implication Bates would mat ly presenting abuse his limited selection of It is senators sue! n the Senate its, until now, ric e Ideas and haven for those v \ fair in its the student body But times are c senate. The voti leclared that majority of the se akers of only responsibility ent )r political body, and are r.ol > date all of Sen. Bates. jrsity by the .1! - ;nei mai one It is sad to note /ould surely attempt to contr mittee. Some int >ted that the but it is a credit ake steps to ber was so minis viewpoint is quested that AGAIN, THE s rocedures to for showing its 1U110I1 s iinal Bates III is to be < Union com condemns To the Editor: d, c< in me insipid annals of USC b< Itudent Senate history, a long b; rend of inherently dull and c bsurd issues has been tossed w bout by student represen- tY atives, with an apathy ap- bi roaching a comatose state, (g lo matter how bad the past d< nay have been, however k; - - ? f III ndoubtedly a new precedent r< or the unintelligent has been st et by Senator Lester Bates III. st Taking offense at the ap- st ailing habit of the Union's pi fleas and Issues Committee of s< electing "liberal" (rend ?1^ ommie, Pinko) speakers, Mr. w tates sought, through an aj ntactful maneuver to blacklail the hapless said com- h< littee. Assuring us he had the St nqualified support of the in enate and officers, Mr. Bates su ought to intimidate the 'fr< ommittee into bringing more uitably "conservative" m neakors r ai^umeni Ti roceeded thusly ? unless a ri iore equitable balance was f* chievea betweenjiberal and n onservative speakers, as m SAC "prevent the RHUU from >ayment to any charitable e stupidity of such "requests," hem in favor of "The Student ris anv pffnrJ hu tKo Rt?oo?ii V MJ iliv IlUOOCil y Union to present a balanced le speakers they engaged." atement appears innocent and "that a presentation of a lealogical viewpoint be made" solution, implying the lack of a ioint, and thus killing the tices of being passed by the irincr in inlnllirton/"> ? {, lllivlllgcucc. senators had a copy of Bates' n and were able to realize that 3 own, Bates was out to get the s Committee. His attempt to mmittee is best retold by the jers in a lettpr nn tH*?co nonoc IWgViJ, ed up here as "play the game 11 be sorry," roved not to be as strong as he re is no doubt that the comand USC students who have olution are sorry, sorry that ie such an absurd attempt to powers as a student senator. 1 as Bates who give the Senate :hly deserved reputation as a i/hn PQro fn camm * 1 oti vc iiicmscives, be damned. changing and so is the student e Wednesday shows that a inators care and recognize the rusted to them by the student willing to abuse it as fast as that Bates was not alone in his ol the Ideas and Issues Comhe senate did vote with him, to the Senate that their numcule that it was nonexistent. itudent senate is to be praised intplllOO""" nrtri C/>? * * anu OCII. lvCSier V hided for not showing his. mittee Bates efined by Mr. Bates, of aurse, the Committee would e denied funding for next year y the Student Allocations ommittee. Even though it as suggested to Mr. Bates lat he join the Committee and ring the speakers he wanted iomething anv student nan 3), Mr. Bates preferred to use s power as "an elected ^preservative of the udents." Fortunately for the udents, he did not have the ippori 01 I he Senate. In obably the only act of the jrjate we have noticed, much ss applauded, our Senators *isely voted overwhelmingly jainst Mr. Bates' resolution. The Committee would ?reby like to thank the udent Senate for their action refusing to contribute to the ippression of intellectual eedom. ike Stanley, Ed McCall, Ida Greene. I,ois Snvrs J.~t chard Moore, Dan Rogers, ?ye Flowers le Ideas and Issues Com- ^ Ittee