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Friday, December 6, 1968 - Page Two Who Gets Athletics are an important part of the University of South Carolina. Pride in our teams promotes unity and spirit among the Carolina Community. Our football season ended in a burst of glory with our victory over Clemson. And our basketball season started in a burst of glory with our victory over Auburn. We're proud of our teams. And we have teams to be proud of. We're proud of our coaches. We're one of the only schools in the country where both coaches have won national champion ships. And we're proud of our new Coliseum. But while pride and spirit are running high among the Carolina student body, so is a great deal of dissatisfaction. The main reason seems to be the way tickets are handled for the games. The students dislike getting tickets in advance for games. But because the ad vantage of having a seat reserved out weighed the inconvenience, students coop erated during football season. Now basketball is here, and there are about 7,000 student tickets available, ac cording to the ticket office. Students are complaining, and we think they have some legitimate gripes. At present there is only one day for stu (tents to get tickets. We see the purpose so all tickets not claimed can go on sale to the public-but we firmly believe students should be able to pick up student tickets until game time. And there should be as many tickets available as there are students who want to watch their Gamecocks play ball. There should be a definite section of the Coliseum allotted for students-not scat tered sections around the court. And stu dents should have good seats. There are no date tickets available now and only 200 tickets for married students' husbands and wives. (We happened to be in line Tuesday behind one couple who ar rived too late. The husband was informed he could try to get a ticket the next day for regular price, but he could not get seats together. His wife glowered down at him and said if she couldn't sit with him, she wasn't going. "And if I don't go, you don't go.") Students should be allowed to purchase date tickets in the student section at the same time they pick up student tickets, Greek G Two years ago at a university in Florida the student body had a mass burning of their yearbook. Their reason was that the editor had her picture splashed through the publica tion 20 or 30 times. Something of this nature seems impossi ble at Carolina since students seem too dis interested to raise a ruckus about anything. But when this year's annual comes out, if it makes the deadline, some tempers are bound to flare. Last year the Greeks had two pages for each fraternity and sorority and 36 pages on Greek fun and games such as Derby Day and Little 500. That meant that the Greeks got less than 100 pages in a book with over 500 pages, roughly 20 per cent. This seemed only fair since the Greeks make up about 10 per cent of the student body and they have twice as~ many activi ties as the rest of the students. Walt 'til this year's G&B comes out though. Four pages to each social fraternity and sorority. That's more space than all Greek activities last year. Student governments will get four-fifths at a pa=e ach. Editorials Columbia, South Carolina Uhe Ticket? even if they must purchase them at regular price. We realize the tremendous problems in volved in seating fans at the Coliseum. And on the whole, Coach Ralph Floyd and his assistants have done a good job. But they're our boys. And we can find no excuse for letting politics and dollar bills fill seats that should belong to the students. State Of Union A resolution from Student Senate Wed nesday urged an evaluation of student re sponsibility within the Student Union. The Union officers reacted immediately. They made their evaluation and sent their conclusions to the vice president of student affairs in the form of a letter. A copy of that letter appears on this page today. Last month Student Union changed its name to University Union because they felt they served the entire Carolina Community, not only the students. The Union does serve the entire campus community. And it has grown tremendously in the last few years in its programs and services. The Union has the potential to be the most powerful student organization on cam pus if we use student power to mean student involvement. But something is very wrong in a student organization whose leaders feel they "owe the student body the courtesy of our resignations from positions which need not exist." We elected the Union officers in a cam pus-wide election last spring. They are our voice in the University Union. Do these people do nothing? "What is wrong with the Student Union?" asks the officers' letter to Vice President Witten. And they answer their own question: "It is not a student organization. It is just that simple." But the Union is a student organization. Or it should be. It is difficult for students to control something that requires University staff and funds. For this reason, it is practically impossible for students to run Russell House or Bell Camp or the Union Nursery or Print Shop. But we believe the students can-and should-run the programs of Student Union: the dances, concerts, lectures, etc. The Union's student leaders are asking that University Union be recognized strictly as a programming organization. They recommend that the Russell House and stu dent services be set up separately under University administrative employees. The students can handle the University Union. They want to handle it. And we think they deserve the chance to try. And B Then add Greek activities and about 40 per cent of the book is gone. Add sports, individual pictures, a lavish spread for the yearbook staff, and what is left for the other 10,000 students at Caro lina? Most of the non-Greek activities will have a cut in space from last year. Organizations such as The Gamecock, which has doubled publication, will get only one-third of last year's space. D)itto the Student Union. The Greek system at Carolina is getting better, but no matter how good it is, if it is to have a yearbook of its own, the Greeks should pay for it. Because the staff of the G&B is almost entirely Greek doesn't mean the entire stu dent body is. When Carolina students paid for their "free yearbooks" at the beginning of the year, it was to have a memory of these nine months for years to come. This memory will belong to all USC stu dents, not just the yearbook staff and the Greeks. Why not print the entire Carolina story ? -SPAD)E Student (Ed. Note: The following letter was sent to Vice President For Student Affairs C. H. Witten by Student Union officers in accord with the Student Senate Resolu tion passed Wednesday.) To the Vice President for Stu (lent Affairs: Of the three largest student organizations within the Caro lina Community, only two ac tually function as student or ganizations: on one hand, Stu (lent Government whose actions are entirely in the hands of elected students and The Game rock which is written and con trolled solely by interested stu dents; on the other hand, an over-worked, misinterpreted, and seldom understood misnomer, the Student Union. What is wrong with the Stu dent Union? It is not a student organization. It is just that sim ple. The undergraduates who work with the Union are not in the final analysis directly re sponsible for Union program Talk Abou By CLAIR HORNER Guest Columnist So far, freedom's ring has been worn chiefly in the nose. All through history idealists have failed to force freedom into a spiritless, disinterested, and in adequate populace whose capa bilities for self-determination have been permanently impaired from early childhood by their most dearly held conventions and institutions, as well as by their very bad biological heritage. The fact of their slavery has never been taken from them. All they have ever been able to dot is exchange one freedom symbol for another, while actually re maining as they have always been: spineless, immature, nearly m indlless, willing slaves, indoc trinatedi into the v'arious learned insanities, indlistinguishable from organic insanities in their effec's and equally limiting. Since the first Witch D)octor reared his ugly head, raising children has primarily consisted of preventing their full develop ment into healthy, free, adult in dividuals. Not until this chain reaction of compulsive training and brain trimming is brokent can any individual or any system "give" freedom to anyone. Founded Jan. 30, 1908 with Robert El cook is published by and for the students weekly during the college year except dur The opinions expressed herein do not tration, the faculty or the student body s Offices of The Gam.eock are in Roon campua. Phones are 777-4249 (E.ditor-tin and 777-8178 (Newsroom). The Gamecock is represented national vice, Inc. The publiration is a member el Collegiate Press Association. Subscription EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sally Zalkin MANAGING EDITOR ......... ASSISTANT MANAGING EDIT( ASSOCIATE EDITOR ......... NEWS EDITOR ............. ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR.. ED)ITORIAL~ ASSISTANTS .. SPORTS EDITOR ............. FACULTY EDITOR........... SOCIETY EDITOR............ EXCHANGE EDITOR........ CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER .. ADVERTISING MANAGER .... ASST. AD)VERTISING MANAG] CLASSIFIED) AD) MANAGER . ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANA( C:IRCULATION MANAGER .... STAFF-leby Koem, Ed Pinion. Candy I Eddie Chen. Anne Caveny, Susan Fouchi Holmes. Ron Miles. Jean Neal. Susan Surrat?. Joe Usry. Carol Wilson. Harold Trusdeli. Bruce Honick. David Johnston, Elliott Dorenstein. Coates Crew. Charies Seidel, Dick McMilian. Jim Gordon, WiI AmD PRAY TEL WAS THAT HIeS 1.0. CARP? Union Is planning, nor can they be held accountable for budget control. The structure of the Union is weak; its chain of staff and stu dent responsibility invites mis interpretation, and the delinea tion of student authority is dis couragingly unclear. Accordingly, we, the elected and appointed officers and chair men of the Union, cognizant of the Union's problems, (1o ask for immediate approval and subse quent enactment of the follow ing: --First, that the University Union under its constitution be recognized strictly as a pro gramming organization com prised of the existing eleven committees, autonomous under its student leaders, funded an nually from stduent activities fee allocations. -Second, that the titles of the Director and Assistant Director of the Student Union be changed to Director and Assistant Direc tor of either Russell House or t Freedom People don't know freedom or what to do with it except to pay it lipservice and then fall back into the rotten laps of the Slave makers. And not until a minority of high-quality, de-educated and very, very carefully re-educated and biologically rehred people replace the retrograding latter day, ape-man majority, will free - dom he anything more than a misundlerstoodi dream and sym.. ho0-tool for the Slavemakers to dangle before the hypnotized, faithful eves of these mass pro dluced idiot sons of Adam. U nivrsi 1y JOSEPH I,. CORDINA Guest Columnist "It is not easy to diescribe what a university is, because it is a great many things simul tane'ously. It is a p)lace where students learn, it is a place where research is (lone, it is con servative because it nurtures and cultivates the best tradlitions of past cultures andl it is radlical be cause it providles a forum for all voices andi all idleas. liott Gonr.aies as the first editor. The Game or the University of South Carolina semi ing holidays and examinations. necessarily reflect the views of the adminis a whoie. 308 of the Russell House on the University hief). 777-4220 (niusiness and Advertisingi ly by National Educational Advertising Ser Associatedi (ollegiate l'ress and the S. C. rates are S6 per year. BUSINESS MANAGER Linda Del Rosso ............Mary Jane Benston R...................arl Stepp ........ ...... Mike Krochmalny --..----..........Jim Wannamaker ............Jim Hansey, Ken Hare . . . . D)on (Caughmani, Riollie Watern ...............John D)avid Spade ....................Mona Gault ....................Angie Baker ...................Donna Scholl ..................Chip Galloway -------..............Jay Hender ....... ............obby itt .... .............Nancie Meddin ER ..........Robert Scarborough -----...........Eliott Borenstein ilver. Js Band. 8ue Tanner, Mike Creel. ,Nathan Goldman. Staniey Hensley. Merk Ross. Tony Stokes. Jeanine Smith. Karen Ward. Fred Monk. Kitty McCaskili. Mary Shiriey Cook. Debbie Knight, Bob Benson, Keefer. Warren Hudson. Mike Tyler. Beb ees. Chip Abernathy. Cymthia Baker, ARW BELoW.,A KoILAK APROACHET11 'Weak' Student Serv ices. As such, neither they nor the employees and services of which they are in charge will be in any way connected with the University Union. -Third, that the University Union budget as re-submitted for the spring semester, 1969, be entirely separated from the Rus sell House or Student Services budget; and that no category of expense or receipt outside the jurisdiction of a University Union committee chairman or officer he included in the Uni versity Union budget; and that the President of the University Union he held responsible for and his signature of approval re quired for every expenditure and resulting contract of the Univer sity Union budget. -Fourth, that the Vice Presi (lent for Student Affairs appoint an adviser to the University Union. If the enactment of the pre ceding points cannot he secured by the last day of the fall se mester, 1968, then we owe the Student Hody the courtesy of our resignations from positions which need not exist in the pres ent Student Union structure. RA BROADDUS, President RALPH HALL, Vice President SCOTTIE BARNES, Lecture Committee LINDA ANN HUGHES, Hosl)itality BRY(CE SM1ITH, Movies SHIA'ON lHOYD, Special Events MARSHA JONES, Night Club VICKIE ESLINGER International y Is Man) "A university, at its best, has no favorites, excep)t truth and intellectual accomplishment. A university is a unique institutioin in that it has a fundamental faith and commitment to the future and it is unique in that the whole world is its business. "But the most implortant asset of a university is the collection of peole it brings together.... "A university's principal obli gation is to the future and the obligation is met first hy the vitality, imagination andl inde pendence by which we go about our teaching and learning. . . . "Therefore the university, hi cause of its diversity, its com mitment to the future, its va riety of talents and its political neutrality, is oif central impor tance to society." Th is qutote is taken from t he inlaugurat ion address of Robert W. Morse as the first president of Case Reserve University in A pril, 1968. As Morse indicates, a univer sitv is the united effort of ad ministration, faculty, andl stu dents for the improvement of soc(iety through e di ('ea t i o n Necessary in this structure is the recognition of the identity (if the three elements. Without this idlent it y and united effort, the university sI lps from relative idiv idhial it y to obscurity - - mass pro d uctiorn. In ot her wocrds, the university beoe aemachie w ith the spe. ('ifile purpose. cif pircoducing ef ficient vie hIs, wvrappied in the "1984"' style. To retain a genuine concept of be sought from the admiinistra tion, the facuhyv, and most of all, from the student body. In too nianiy cases the latter is Auinaalyt. a.. e(.Te~au Pep Board Is Needed )ear Miss Zalkin: Football has concluded, but )asketball has started, so I be. ieve a comment directed at Caro. ina cheerleaders might still be n order. First, let me praise the stu. tents involved for what is a good ob under less than the best of !nvironments. (Apathetic crowds !annot be aroused by even the )est cheerleaders.) The VPI cheerleaders beat us a lot worse than their football eam. The Farmers also out. 'heered us, although it availed :hem nought. But this is an avoidable state >f affairs. A number of things :ould be (lone to improve "pep" it USC. First, the competition for 'heerleader should not he a popu. arity contest. Without naming my personalities, I object to heerleaders whose only reason ror being on the sideline is to iay, in effect: "Look at me. How retty and attractive and popu. ar I am," without caring about lootball (or any other sport) at Ill. A "pep board" should be set jp to assure qualified candidates. This board should include the in. :umbent cheerleaders, the cap. tains of the various athletic teams, the coaches, and some stu. ient officers. The board would :onduct auditions and name 10 nen and 10 women as nominees, rive of each to be elected by the student body. Sufficient knowledge of ath letics should be in evidence, so that cheers would he (lone at ap propriate times and not to the letriment, of the athletes. An xample would he yelling when A football team is in huddle to ret playing instructions. Cheer. leaders need to know when to shut up as well as when to yell [nthusiast.ically. New, imaginative cheers are nee(led. VPI had a number of three-word cheers (like "block Lhat kick") which were quite ap propriate. They would yell, ')amn good play, damn good play" when it was. ")amn wet ball, damn wet ball" got a lot of use. When it was the opinion that the venerable officials were in error, "Damn poor call, damn poor call" was what they yelled. The possibilities for such specific rheers is as endless as the situa ions in an athletic contest. The cheerleaders can do noth ing if we in the Carolina Coin nunlity dlon't lend1 them our en thusiastic support. JiM Tl'RINli Things lentIs will cooperae-or else! Here at Carolina there is a 'henomenon which dIetrac'ts from he true concept of the univer sity. We have three separate Vor-lds of oper'at ion-the admin stration, the faculty, and the ~tude&nt body-wvith the ad(mninis r-at ion holding final veto on 'veryth ing. In such a situation "student >ow4er" is a myth. Students can -ant and rave, approve all the >ills they want-only to have hem dliscardled if ''not suitable" .o the administration. Any stu k-nt proposal is but a joke, if he final sa~y lies in the hands of he administration, who can just hrow it out the window. The only practical solution to a powerless student goverfnmentl s to scrap it! Student govern nient is not the answer; student acuIt y - administration govern' nent is the sole solution to such I problem, if we intend to cohere 0 the concept of a university. kqual say of all three elmnts ma student matters is necessary, oasible only through improved 'ommunication, equal repreCsenta ion, and just rights for the shole. Presently there is the begin ling of an effort by individuals 0 improve the relat.ions of the h ree ent itie's and p)ut them on an quual footing in studlent matters' There is m uch opp)osit ion to he groups as a whole and for vhat they supposedt'4ly st and for, .e., revolution and explsJ1)ionf of han ge. liut if those who shudder at he thought their university se uirity inight lie cha1llenged,~ vould take a look at the not so mnreasonable desires of these re'volu tionaries,"' they would (1. 've r the legitimate necessity