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Another Chan Seatins We were not surprised to find out that more problems have arisen in regard to the football seating situation. The reason we say that we are not sur prised is because the ticket distribution plan has been changed at least two times before this latest proposed change. We went on record in the Sept. 28 edition of The Gamecock in favor of the then new plan whereby a student would pick up his football ticket sometime during the week preceeding each of the remaining football game played at home. We would like to state again why we thought that was a good plan. First of all the new plan would get rid of the long lines such as the ones before the Duke game with the University. That line situation was a very unpleasant one, and we hope that Carolina students will not have to experience such as that again. Secondly, the new distribution system gave seniors, law students and graduate students first choice of the seats. The Athletic Ticket Office received com plaints last week from students concerned with having to walk over to the tkket office before each game to receive their tickets. The Student Council Ticket Committee is of the opinion that the tickets should be given out twice more: once before thhe Clem son game and again before the Maryland game. Dick Anderson stated that he received more complaints than compliments last week by students who were of the opinion that tickets for the remainder of the season should be given out at one time, making remaining trips over to the ticket office unnecessary for the remainder of the foot ball season. He further stated that help would be needed in his office for them to be able to give out tickets separately for the two remaining games. It is further Letters to the Editor: Students Student Cot Dear Editor: can take anoth What are the prerequisites for (ent card and ti being a member of the student t council ? From the w ay the stu- to make getting dent council has handlel the foot- inconvenient as ball tickets this year makes one students. ILIVil think one of the requirements is line for hours at to be a complete idiot. I can just to get a tic safely say that had the problem is the most id of ticket distribution been turned have ever.heard over to a group of grammar u(ntpiku school studlents they would have fothretf had to work overtime to make seontoet a bigger mess of the situation Soiofu than has been done already. woktbeal I am of the understanding that Oupaetar the whole idea was to keep non- usaalonc students from using studlent dnthv h tickets to see the games. Has stnignlne this objective been accomplished? th?etgm Are hestdu.TE A hullablooing fiend,ven-entoins merly studet at Slo sfehdeho. rIn~ vil summe to g toaschoo jus0tho getya tiye came to iarolna,"mssggesd we'reemplyingtoo mchhave- es,r hard boim inourcolun,therby fot only r of his tase is preeasoflkufro his eavebornhils, w offr rk tobe abl afte were amin orartcles anurparnatshar. at te Qsofseveal itellgen nh falowance circs flas,withprayrfuoin- t(ave. h and untng ong nouh t ch tandin inelie. enter ur cotest blow.e nxt gamCej Lt us almit theotr. nIes tonthean beut cock thre haWene ihare. E .I in dehloabalooinisticierest for-shol ineplitialudn ant ilomTch afwho t Aha fairs tdmittedlyn,"tewol suggss uae" lg blarge thn our fiveumns, anherebynofjt(l mdeliusa the onefaing manyce bnelone local nwspaper.relievsuswwit their rollickingrhumor In order t stimulatupolitiya interest or unrst,Ywe,re spon soring thefollowingcontest.ni hie taste isrere fou cuk rb his heaenbornhills,wedoffrr3. " h prongoraine apoliica voese U niv- st ad viewIQso Meel matcienha fih th ndhunting eang trnscrip bowa ."eiv bentder our coret polow.a vie-deIT R ge In Football - Sigh understood that the administration received letters from parents complaining about their students having to stand in lines so much preceeding each game. The Student Council Ticket Seating Com mittee thinks the tickets should be given out for the two remaining games separately. A good argument that they have concerns student dating at the games. They say that students who date for the Clemson game might not want to (late for the Maryland game or might want to date another person for the latter game. We must admit that some inconveniences might arise. The com mittee said they would help the athletic office give out the two tickets, but this would necessitate board of trustee action. After trying to weigh both sides we have come to the conclusion that both sides have about equal weight. Since either way the tickets are distri buted will cause some students to complain it seems logical to do the one that would cause the least work on the part of the ticket office and cause the least amount of unhappiness on the part of the students. But. do something that most of the stu dents want. And stick with it. We realize that this thing has been con ducted on a more or less trial and error basis. Such a proposed drastic change from last year's seating plan would necessarily cause some errors to be made. We hope that the University will profit by this year's experience. The students should be recognized in any plan that is drawn up for next year. About the only way to recognize student wants is by asking then. A good way to do this is to poll the student body. We think they should be given an active voice, whether it be in an election or in some other way, through The Gamecock for example. lerbryant Criticize mci Action nr person's stu- chaos. ket and get into Harry G. Sandifer only thing that Ten. 12, 4-A Ills been done is the tickets as Dear Editor: possible for the The Student Council has seen g to stand in fit to change the distribution of the Field Ilouse football tickets from previous ket to one game years, causing more work for iculous thing I an already overburdened ticket of. Why not let office and causing a satisfied all the tickets student body to become frus the games this trated. ime ? Since it seems that the Student tudlents have to Council cannot produce a feas to go) to school. ible solution this year, why n't able to sendi shouldn't bo0th the Clemson and each week. We Maryland tickets be given out time to waste together in the near future so Ihope that by that more line waiting and em a sensib)le solu- barrassment can be av'oided ? i to this state of Meyer Drucker mploying Sym bolism? WVe gotta hava ";tAed Wt .Fe heesus! Whatta Cuae"Orjde r hre a (d0 anywvay ?" releso tnRsac n is humane Thiam-s akdT.... also for his ~ilb ovnety pae unreconstructed yorntis was mah fatherFitPrz Their faith is Frtpi. ilb oyo ir idleals mah rk.. rhes'nw ovl rhat are you "O th WyDon"aer rhatever makes yugtaeeats h ee t's my motto." leretoetfidciknwh iendent.afokAmatrieeofcc blican. ln els,i a nnmul crat. acamdb h nls aut -ed.ofSl'lcha:"rliny he addressed to oiia ango tr With J. Fred ..falinlnwihtebs! 00 Swamp, City. Scn rz ilb oo es, we're afraid, gamdieik n 0cnoa ,Judgment will tinofmthn oherac rtness, sincerity, hie.(odlconyuwa amount,yoanontrietettownh G AGet Ahea Wi J.Fe CrSYOFS UHe. CAOrLudearchte ember ofmbers oa TritonlResetrch and nuSta,108 Ih otitcl. Horscithe Inc. Gamcok"isubisedbaond orthe camus ofo tecevn on hoiday and yorin ezmntris. Fireae b olsn st n lprize wi ll are amet o hos o "heGaecck"n tulihige Way Down,"taheart ait. yhengitraptoeeditist whoenevdr *..........ereT frieYhiknth "Er-Betty, what I've k MAC HILL Foot[ A Re "Oh, what a revoltin' develop ment this is," could very well have been, and was--the cry of many outraged Carolina students at the Fair Grounds stadium last Saturday. And the same lament was and could continue to be apropos as we wait in line to obtain our football tickets prior to each game this fall. The Student Council has worked hard to come up with a "workable" plan concerning ticket distribution, but with a mis-fire or two, plus a not-too-coopera tive administration, there re mains much to be desired. The many changes, adjust ments, or whatever you may wish to label them, in the ticket distribution procedure since last year, were infered by this humble scribe to have been designed to avoid the transferring of student ducats (Saints forbid) to "out siders." Well now, what was (lone at the stadium Saturday to prevent said transferring? Nothing! And not only have the alterations failed to accomplish that which was sought, but more over they have succeeded, for the most part, in creating one great big sloppy mess of the situation. At this time may we point out that this bit of journalistic ef fort Is not designed to frown upon a student who chooses to sell his tickets, but rather to make an attempt to point out some of the grave injustices that have been dealt to most of the Carolina students, and in some respects, an inconvenience to all students at Carolina. What we would like to knowv is-just what was wrong with last year's p)rocedure that mari tal status and academic classifi cation information on our identi fication cards would not have corrected ? With this informa tion what's to keep us from re CAROLYN McCLUN CIems Manageme The Clemson College Tiger, which lauds itself as being "The South's Most Interesting College Newspaper," (?) is appearing this fall under a new manage ment. This in itself Is nothing startling, as college newspapers appear all the time under new managements for this reason and that. The reason for the change in qluestion, however, interests us. It seems that when the board of directors of the college made a studly of the existing staff, they found that over half of the working staff had deficient gradies. They also found that this was partially due to the amount of work that certain individuals had to do because there were too few of them. Therefore, a new and, if grade. mean anything, quite intelligent l I 1" - I wen tryin' to ask you is-uhh-would you to )all Seating!-- mM voltin' Developin ceiving game tickets for all wl games instead of having to wait gr in line prior to each contest? gt That just isn't any fun (no mat- ceb ter what the scenery may offer), pr especially if one is unfortunate is enough to have morning classes. th Some few students were so dis- ce gusted that they just didn't to bother to attend last week's th game. And can you honestly Or blame them, when a senior who re has for three previous seasons sl' been seated no farther upfield wl than the goal-lt-ne, could be found jo somewhere between the 10-yard fe line and the double stripes? Mase Consumption Bad pl But, alas, the blame for this ar lies in a flaw other than the sh ticket-transferal mess. To add to of the student's misery, it is en- pr tirely possible and highly prob- ra able that after waiting long th hours for his tickets he will have su witnessed certain persons walk lir out of the ducat office with tva bundles of section 10- and 11 tyetcesadwl idta hehsbeIotnt nuh t toaqieatbs etin11r o conston asou ldnthbeol- yof scival oganizaticks or alle m in lie aprnttea co-t i Tht bjock isn't andu (nout ci tesin w a ound scene mapfer),ns wereoknow to have rbtcasses. te Some ratew chouetkts. sodsfc gustde that hey jst gidnt theoi botro scattn groust oneth's th gampus And than you onstyish tolsee anthmin taenor hm re thato theeeseviousn seasons . eenbsatenfartheryi ufe- w than thesal-lthat coul believe, Vo omewhere etwenth 10-a f land-- ole stripes Noastudynsuspteen Bade to 1 Btrin alas,ther blameock thma stafes akela gotherer thbhee ticket-radesfera mes. Towever toio that studet' amstudy,ul it isupen- pr abe nowtha aftrid hatn logth witesed certa pedtos wal bi oT he cant officae with in type icketd nd will flntyat tendacie ait bseton h1bs2 or or graybes even cat clsmester, eile w therpint is thatti ap tikt m consumtki o hout aersn be o andwe n tcomnal th tog Uderafo the peoe sysem dor soia organizatok, care aloweid de tieto ende repetteandverageif messingoarou these peonsth querynw hv obtaite- re soeWherchic ticketsto. a .t f re I s . Bf i1 " ke Virginia even?" that nient iether rightfully or not, these oups do deserve to attend the mes in block form if they so oose. But then, for this iviledge-and it most assuredly that-we feel most firmly at said groups should forego rtain choice seats if they wish take 30, 40, 60, or whatever e amount, at a single clip. As e should readily recognize, this presents quite an astronomical ce out of a section of seats and ien more of the organizations in the bandwagon that only a w thus far have . . . Oh, woel We can see no justifiable com Qint from the groups seeking d finding block seats if they ould have to forego the choicest choice seats in return for the ivilege of sitting together in ther large numbers. Surely ey would' be willing to make ch a sacrifice or if not, be nited to a choice between the '0. Don't Push Seniors It just isn't fair for a senior be given a seat in section 13 possibly being pushed on down section 14 while a frosh edge is all snug up around d-field. Allow us, in closing, to again ate that it is not the intention this cluttered bit of opinion discriminate against social ganizations, student govern ent, or the administration, and it has then it has sorely missed mark. For those who can't or won't ad between the lines, that orementioned mark Is merely request for a little more con leratlon for the majority of e Carolina citizenry. Lastly . . . andi far more im *rtant to me at the moment ..aside from who is to sit iere . .. Are we gonna beat rginia? . . . AIN'T WE! New id Grades sere have been many. Actually, don't think about It much any re because I can hardly think ck to when there wasn't a ~ket situation. I am resigned my fate, be it traipsing to the ket office every few days, or tting my tickets all at once; it a good seat, bad seat or an different seat. D)istribute for Both Gamea At Monday's meeting of stu nt council, as of this writing, is their last meeting, the com ttee on football seating re rted that the ticket office shes to distribute tickets for th the Clemson and Maryland mes at the same time. After some discussion it was cided that council would ask e ticket office to reconsider ing back to the last original an. We are breathlessly waiting to s what new and revolutionary bieme will emerge from this NANCY FOX Need Good Lectures Also The column written last week >y another columnist deploring he absence at Carolina of any cind of cultural series program -ontained a valid complaint. The eoid at the University in cul ural facilities is quite apparenID nd quite regrettable. But cultural opportunity is 1ot the only realm of sterility. Lecture series by leading in ellectual and political figures is amother need here. There have >een sporadic visits of lecturers At Carolina in the past few years, ut no definite program of the kind has appeared. Student Council has taken a 3tep towards providing one by astablishing a student union :ommittee to plan for and secure ecturers. This committee up until now has not formulated a plan and is without a chairman. The program is an ambitious Indertaking but a good one, a much needed one and, we think, i rewarding one. Expensive Buildings Sleek, expensive buildings, it has been said of another school, do not make a University a great institution. Such presumptions must not be allowed to be ap plied to Carolina. Nevertheless without the sti mulating influences of well informed persons and cultural and artistic presentations that a lecture and cultural series would provide, we cannot dismiss with honesty the threat of the icing getting thicker than the cake. For the benefit of freshmen who perhaps haven't yet been innured to the art of attracting friends and influencing profes sors, and for misguided upper classmen who uphold the crit erion of sedate conduct in class, we've found a set of ideas de signed to disgruntle the peda gogues, if not shake them com pletely. An Oklahoma college writer named Ed Turner has a theory which he calls "classmanship." Its object is to frustrate well meaning professors to the point that they'll want to quit as edu cators and go to work writing commercials for TV. The rules are: "First of all: always be late to class. Upon entering NEVER look meek or apologetic for disturbing the (class. A ppear sur prised that this section was scheduled to meet at this time or even look hurt that they could go on without you." Many an accomplished class man has causedi the professor to thumb quickly through his class roll to see if perhaps they should have met at 8:35 instead of 8:10. D)isagree With Prof. "Disagree openly with the professor. An economic instruc tor says in his most profound aind sonorous tones: 'The theories of Adam Smith are the foundlationls of our modern sys tem of economics.' You say in an audlible whisper: 'But that's so pas5se' . . . making him look as if he had an 01(d pair of plus fours and was shouting 2 skidoo instead of (delivering lecture.w "Leavemanship is another ef fective gambit that will add sparkle to every classroom. About 10 minutes before the class is over slam your books shut, zip up your notebook, tuck your pencil neatly in your pocket and begin tapping your foot spas modically, wvhistling to yourself, if you are a poor whistler. "At five minutes before the hour, scoot upl on the edge of your seat, alternating your gaze between the wvall. elock and you~Er watch, shouting 'X minus five, X minus four, X minus three' ..right up until the end of the hour." Quole3 The whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining ?flmonig face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. Shakespeare, As You Like It. * . * You cannot adopt politics as5 a profession and remain honest. - LouIs McHenry Howe. Pleasure', a sin, and sometimes sin's a plea.ure.' nyro, Don Ju.n I