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Unselfish Gift Wednesday is Legislative Appreciation Day. The University has set aside this day to show the men of the state legislature how much we of Carolina appreciate them. The administration has chosen a very fitting way to show the heartfelt thanks. They have made available to the legis lature 258 tickets to the USC-UNC basketball game. Since the University must be represented at the game by the usual faculty and administration, and we cannot afford not to sell available tickets, the students of Carolina have unselfishly offered to give up 258 of the tickets for which they paid at the first of the year. We commend the students for their unselfish attitude. Of course we are going to the game and did not give up our tickets. For those who made the unselfish gesture we state that The Gamecock will give the game thorough coverage and by Friday you will not even remember that you did not see the game. You will not miss the cheering crowds, the exciting plays and the fraternity of Carolina fans when the Gamecocks take to the court. If at any time during the exciting game you wish you had not so unselfishly given up your tickets, just think of all the joy these legislators are receiving from the expe rience. Maybe they will even return the favor by offering the students their seats in the legislature long enough for them to vote an adequate allocation to the University. Happy politicking! Busing Problems We have to admit that the USC bus service is a necessity to the expanded campus. It came late and it is constantly behind. By the time it is expanded by the addition of another bus, the two will be needed. While we appreciate the attempt to help students get to class, we cannot figure out what good the system is. If anyone has to get to class he, or she, may as well forget about the bus. No one knows when it comes or where it will go when they get on. Cases have been uncovered where the bus left while people were running to get on it. The bus system's greatest disadvantage is the fact that there are no announced schedules and no one knows where the bus will be when they are waiting for it. A strict sched ule should be set, published and maintained so the students can use the bus system with some sort of confidence. If the students cannot depend on the bus to be at a stop at a cer tain time and know when it will get to their destination, the system does them no good. They must leave early for classes and will miss the bus if it does come. If they wait, they could be late if it does not come in time to get them to their classes. LetterARE COUNTRY SET GIRLS Member Questions Procedure Dear Mr. Krochmalny: I am a member of the Inter national Students Committee of the University Union. In tihe corn. mittee meeting, one of the points/ discussed was that the constitu tion of the International Stu dents' Club (ISC) has many "loopholes andi contradictions." Mr. George TIien was appointed to call a meeting of tihe ISC of ficers to discuss the matter. In my opinion, this committee dloes not have this powver. If an organization or its constitution is in trouble, the Student Affairs Committee only can call its offi- - cers or representatives. Further, what right dloes this committee have ev'en to discuss the "loop. holes andl contradictions" in the constitution of the ISC, an alto gethler dlifferent organization on the USC campus? Furthermore, the chairwoman of this committee pointed out that the officers of tihe ISC should be given a list of their duties. I think they are already spelled out explicitly in their constitution and it is tile club, its members, who dlecidIe what their officers should do. I think it is none of the business of the International Committee of the University Union. So I have the following three questions (excuse me for repe- fsinmth leee tition, I want to be as clear as skrincsp eiw kl possible): --Can this committee call ISC stie inw t,3-5 officers' meeting telling their -Doenfthiionommitteeshaveethe power eventtindircssspthew"loop holes andrcontradictions" in1th constitution of the tro? ERus,A4 -Why should this committe have to spell out the duties ofONm the officers of the ISC when they already know them via their * constitution?I TEK CHAND ___________ ~es Tuesday, February 25, 1 'Distu rbin 'Disturbing' Ticket Distribution. Dear Mr. Krochmalny: As an alumnus of the Univer sity of Virginia, presently attend ing the law school of this Uni versity, I had more than a casual interest in the basketball game Saturday night. Having paid the so-called ac tivities fee, I rather naively be lieved that I was entitled to a ticket to all the home basketball games, so long as I fulfilled the single requirement of appearing with my validated identification card during the hours specified by the schedule for distribution of tickets. Appearing at 1 p.m. last Thursday, I discovered no sign of life behind the Russell House, with the exception of a single box top and several thousand "punch ings," presumably from ID cards. A sign inside proclaimed in bold letters that there were indeed no more tickets available for stu dents. Why not? Again, I rather naively sup posed that any Carolina student who fulfilled the above require ment was privileged to see his team perform, even if some in dividuals outside the Carolina community were denied seats. Missing this basketball game is not what primarily disturbs me, but the fact is disturbing that the athletic department and ultimately the University sanc tion a method of distributing tickets to athletic events that en courages unethical practices, such as the transferring of ID cards among unmarried students and the procuring by married stu (tents of ID cards for their non student wives. The system makes these prac tices necessary (married and sin SPOILED? ABSOLUTELY! In Asvest MandA-hae EdUiil Commentary f, 969 - Page Two Columbia, South Carolina Letter To The Editor u' Ticket Distribution gle students do want to sit with that every Carolina student who wives and friends) but they re- wants to attend an event has an main unethical. opportunity to gain admittance The athletic department, expe- and, second, that under any sys rienced in such matters as ticket tem, encouragement of evasions distribution, must re-examine the of the system is absent. present policies to ensure, first, SAM BANOV 5'A GAMkocc'f Founded Jan. 30. 1908 with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, The Game cock is published by and for the students of the University of South carolina semi weekly during the college year except during holidays and examinations. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the adminis tration, the faculty or the student body as a whole. Offices of The Gamecock are in Room 308 of the Russell House on the University campus. Phones are 777-4249 (Editor-In-Chief), 777-4220 (Business and Advertising) and 777-8178 (Newsroom). The Gamecock is represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Ser vice, Inc. The publication is a member of Associated Collegiate Preis and the S. C. Collegiate Press Association. Subscription rates are $6 per year. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mike Krochmalny ASSOCIATE EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Mary Jane Benston Jack Padgett MANAGING EDITOR ... ... ............ .. Carl Stepp ASST. MANAGING EDITOR Jim Wannamaker NEWS EDITOR Ken Hare SPORTS EDITOR Jim Haney ASST. NEWS EDITOR Fred Monk, Donna Scholl, Eddie Chen ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Diane Claypoole FACULTY EDITOR s.. Susan Ross SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Sherry Shealy CHIEF OF REPORTERS Rollie Waters CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER .. Warren Hudson ADVERTISING MANAGER Charles Alexander ASST. ADVERTISING MANAGER Bobby Hitt CIRCULATION MANAGER .............. Chip Abernathy REPORTERS: Bill Altman. Shirley Buchanan. Randi Cabell. E. Ann Caveny. Shirley Ceek. Walter Derrick. Gordon Dudley. Barbara Lee Elkner. Susan K. Feuche. Stephen Gardner, Nathan Goldman. Stanley Hensley. Franceise Hipp. Mark Helmes. Jerry Calabrese. Susan Jacobson. David Johnston. Irby Koon. Kitty McCaskill. Ron Miles. S. Martin Mobley. Pat Muthig. Jean Neal. Ida Prince Nelsen. Jon Newman. Edward Pinion. Candy Silver, Becky Stone. Jody Stonestreet, Jane Stowe. Mary Trues dale. Jee Usry. Ralph White. Ann Winters. Alyce Youman. Jan Surratt. Lynn Ring, Leslie Drucker. Van Vanuch. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Bob Benson. Elliott Borenstein. Larry Clark. Ralph Jarrells, Charles Keefer. Dick McMillan, Bob Seldel, John Spade. Mike Tyler. Steve Chan. Gene Haney. Tom Mills, Mike Sarver, Larry Walker. Go to your bookstore. Find the Scripto dis with a Scripto pen or pencil. If you win, you win tour ever put together. Fly to London in July. Spend a week diggii the bus that will take you touring discotheques, all over Europe. College students only. A bus load of peoplh been toured before. 4 weeks in Europe's groovi( Wined and dined by Scripto. Why No Dea,r Mr. Krochnulny: I want to know why. I demand an answer from whoever is re sponsible. Why were students denied tickets to the Virginia basketball game? The answer given me was "sold out." This is absurd and entirely unaccept. able. There are over 12,000 seats in the new Coliseum - enough for each student to have a ticket. Costs of tickets are covered by student tuition. Rightly, students come first - before faculty, be. fore anyone. After all, students are the team. Not all students can be at the Russell House at 8 a.m. to get tickets. There are such things as classes and exams. Evidently, someone is getting our student tickets. I want to know who it is and why. Some of us asked the Pinkerton men if we were not guaranteed a ticket. We were answered (and I quote), "You are guaranteed H 0 0 ippie Grads? Dea,r Mr. Krochmalny: I attended the fall semester graduation ceremonies in Janu ary of this year and was amazed at the fact that there were no hippies in the graduating class. Could you please tell me what happens to the hippies? )o they just attend school and never graduate, or do they clean up be fore graduation? TARLTON W. CAVE Sergeant-At-Arms S. C. House of Representatives 1411 GERVAIS ST. THE NEW & DIF Fiesta Columbia's Large Fine Food . . . ALL YOU CAN EA ply ili ytr Iu nr th mstmaicl muia,elcrc igEgad Shnfyt ai oji plywill in a Msedory ofEuroetr lik 'st cities. Bistros by night. Beaches b :o writing instrument is your magic ROuOnvY PwENS AN P Tickets? nothing at this school." I want an investigation and a straight answer - no running around with excuses the way the officials of this school do every time they are questioned. I want a good, satisfactory answer. This has spurred anger from a great many students. W. C. KIRBY JR. Comments 'Island Of Reason' Dear Mr. Krochmalny: It was with considerable pleas. ure that I read the editorial "A Casualty, Not A Fatality" in Tuesday's Gamecock. That edi. torial, together with the letters of Mr. Smith and Mr. Rowland, provided a welcome island of reason in a sea of irrationality. Such responsible comment in the midst of emotional over-reaction gives a glimmer of hope to those of us who favor "giving students a greater hand in the running of the schools of our nation." The pathetic point is that so many in our college generation are blind to the obvious fact that such trust will come only through the demonstration of maturity, not through childish tantrums, threats and displays of injured rage. The more we stamp our feet, scream and fight among ourselves, the less we will de. serve any responsibility in the administration of our educational institutions. 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