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Editorial ~ 1 ' :' ' '' 1 Honest Mistake The telephone calls started almost immediately. Friday moroinff. after the Gamecock nut out its Oct M edition, all kinds of people were calling to complain that in the "Homecoming 1961" section, the pictures of Mona Diaz and Karon Dawkins were placed above the wrong names and beside the wrong stories. I When told that a correction would be run, some of the angry callers became vehement and demanded to know why the Gamecock intentionally switched the pictures. ? ? iL. A * * ' ? * mviuucrs ui uie /vssociauon 01 Airo-American students charged that this paper, being primarily of an all-white staff, had made its mistake because we wanted to ensure a white homecoming queen would win. . ONE of the two girls whose picture was positioned incorrectly, stormed into the Gamecock advertising office ...uu tk ??. ?!?. 1 I a 01 a?1 I- 1? wiui uic |w|x? wavuiu in tier uauu. one wamcu w iuiuw a what would be done to rectify the situation. When told a I correction would be run in the following paper (today), .she asked why we couldn't put out a special issue Friday afternoon with the correct photos and names. 1 An AFRO member came up to the Gamecock office and demanded to know how a mistake could be made like the one in Friday's paper. Having been the editor of his : high school newspaper, he asserted that everything in his papers were checked with other sources to insure that no ;! mistakes would be made. His newspaper appeared four urnes a year. NEEDLESS to say, the comments that we received are not only confused rantings of people who have no idea that honest mistakes can indeed be made, but those racial barriers that we all hoped would some day ebb just a little ; are still in evidence today. It seems that while people deny that prejudice continues | to overtake them, situations like this.one rear their ugly heads to convince us that things will never be any different as long as ignorance persists. Let it be known in this editorial that whoever wins the position of Homecoming Queen, that USC female will not be featured on the front page of the Nov. 2 newspaper. The | Gamecock felt it would be doing the Homecoming Committee a great favor by devoting ope-t^ird of a 12 page paper to homecoming. As it stands now, there's very little | chance we'll do the same in the future. To the people who leveled the criticisms and those who are preparing to draft letters to the editor, there is one message we'd like to emphasize: It's too bad you have to. see everything in terms of black and white; colorblindness mixed with racial misconceptions hurts all of m MARK PLATTE Editor IIM Dtt . mm mm ? 'Political Jewel Pr< TO THE EDITOR: present national economy, and The headline description Congresswoman Chisholm of Congresswoman Shirley often been near the Chisholm in Monday's (Oct. forefront of this group. 19* nrnmnfc Clearlv she'll npver loin AM/ WWHIIVWVrV p* Vlil|/iO VI HO ** ~ " "" letter. The "political jewel" forces with the adstates that "There seems to ministration she is conexist at this moment some stantly condemning, but I kind of war on the people of think it's time for her to stop this nation." I would agree criticizing the cut-off of the that there is such a war. federal funding faucet and It is being perpetrated by wake up to the fact that the ultra-liberal legislators, well has all but gone dry. such as Ms. Chisholm, who A real, believable never tire in their efforts to program to balance the spend federal money that just doesn't exist, further unbalancing the budget, increasing both inflation and the economic instability of this country and the rest of M m the world. These liberal eg li minds remain convinced Hi? || jgnjg nl that the federal government Brfe BBS B can continue indefinitely spending tomorrow's money today. They have been blinded by the illusion of "the goose that laid the _? golden egg," the all- iMWt.'mim providing federal govern- I a* ment, and in the process have brought us perilously k close to the point where that government does not have pic the credit rating or qjj y,;n credibility to borrow any more money. THE fiscal irresponsibility of Congressional liberals has left the scars which disfigure tr YEAH..HIM... THAtSMONE f ns WHOMU66EPME./ MVi Letter To The Editor J u s- ReP- Shirley \ ^ 1 chisho,m/ D-N.Y., the ^ - MwlBiiHwiimiTifWP frb I / _< &. ! ^ | pumitdi jcwei hi mew a .sSj^f J York's 12th congressional JB^Ky district, was the featured speaker Oct. 9 at an P ^w s annual conference held T^ , v by the USC chapter of the Women's Law NjM^ V Association. jj imAtinn InctflkSIStu vHiwmaii iiitfiWIWllll y federal budget cannot be Reagan, as he endeavors to begun any sooner than the balance the budget for the present. I, for one, am ex- ultimate benefit of the tremely thankful that the country and at the expense present administration has of considerable popularity, undertaken that task. is the real" political jewel" today. His detractors are, Budget ^ cuts are un- quite often, the verv narHw comioriaoie, 01 course, and wh0 made his un- || there is an inevitable ten- popular policies so dency for each citizen to feel necessary that his benefits are cur- 'm tailed more than the next man's. But a bitter medicine , w?rw ? is vastly to be preferred to a ERIC STECKLE terminal illness. President Chemistry Graduate [O'l ?* w _ j GAMECOCKf University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Founded 1908 Newsroom: 777-71 at Advertising; 777-4249 Bulimy Office: 777-3M8 Production: 777-2833 ? Mark Ptatte Editor eth Sundrta Copy Ottli CMrt Tracy HeWrn Spom MM Of |? David Corvette Newt Editor !*?*? Codxtt Awt. 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