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etic epa, tiea new req 8yJU ANEy ean tickets sales, one of two 8P NW afte things candoe ENLARGEMENT The University Athletic ALTERNATIVE Desrtment, which has grown by First, the University could cut Wger and larger increments over the number of student tickets by th past fiva years, has now on-third and maintain the present tesehed a point where it must level of season ticket sales, or either tap a new source of revenue second, they could enlarge the or stop its present rate of growth. stadium, allowing both season According to Athletic Director ticketsales and the present ratio of Paul Dietzel, the University has student attendance at the games. about reached Its limit in asking Seas ticket sales, which have for alumni contributions, and one risen from 3,400 to 22,000 during of the other sources of athletic Dietzel's term at Carolina, have funds-gate receipts at football put the department's budget into gaes-i also a static figure. the black~. Dietzel also said that the The OFther sourcer revenue from University makes only a relatively student fees, will be raised by $4.50 small profit on basketball, since so that the University canl flund it general admission tickets were expansion of Carolina Stadium. sold only to the point of breaking Detzel said that approximately even. 12 per cent of present department With football the only profit funds came from the student fee, making sport, that part of the while 25 per cent came from athletic program must support all football gate receipts and 67 per non-revenue producing sports such t came from alumni con- as baseball, track, swimming and tributions.rThe stadium expansion tennis. and increasing student enrollment Dietzel said that al of the poses a problem for the athletic department's profit thus far had department, Dietzel said, in that to been plowed by into capital im maintain the present level of provements within the department ITHE NEWM& BUFFET ow openServing Breakfast 79:30 Lunch 11-2 Dinner 59 $10 .5 Buffet including d-ink & de&%er $1.00 Student Special including 1 meat, 2 vegetableE as b drink and desser $10.50 value4SlO.UK' Buffet offered each meal p s a la carte off the us f Breafas pren-9e:3o.0nog MLrchh21t,-too).ner u5-9n $1.0lStden wideyiael,wt .*1.5vl79. 50 bBrrfltorfFrenhdcuffs, meal k two houre, t'e liveis f u e mornhngnyou'rlnbainithe)spotlig MuiMa arch 28t,iol.dGarungn SUIT wiel OpeNld wt rtment ,enue s( and pointed to the new baseball field at the Roost, the new all -weather track at the'Rex Enright Center and the $70,000 worth ot fixtures for the Roost as examples of the department's capital in vestments. The fixtures at the Roost were paid for in full through athletic department funds. Dietzel said that normally the fixtures would have been paid for by the University the same as with any other residence hall, but that the department felt that because there were only athletes at the Roost, they would pay for the fixtures. LAST INCREASE As for the stadium expansion, Dietzel said the $4.50 per semester increase would be the last increase in~the student athletic fee to pay for the stadium, and that the fee would not increase by $4.50 each semester, as some critics of the proposal thought it might. The stadium expansion is a step in Dietzel's overall expansion program. As soon as 1979, he has scheduled such teams as the University of Texas and the University of Mississippi. The 1980 schedule has Georgia Tech, Michigan, Georgia and Vanderbilt, plus an away game with the University of Southern California. Carolin'a will play Southern Cal at home in 1983. "You can't get teams like that on your schedule unless you pay them, them," Dietzel said. Visiting teams get 50 per cent of the gate. ROCK Cl MYRTLE BEA( featt "TRACl straight from New Plus "WILD Columbia's nei Myrtle Beach Cor 2 BIG Sat. 8 P.M. 1 4:MA R CI Sun. 4 p.m. A C ADMISSION - $2.00 Sounds of, Inc. - a Peckrel tmusic Co., Salk SEE YOU AT h aid, once you've picked up a lack ies and slacks. All together inc . ( You'd look great at the Carolir muscular shoulders and high c the versatile pin-it-or-not A , and new brighter solids. Fashi to $11.50. e-knot neckwear, from $5. 11RWGE sihoNE I.DrAY NIHa LTS 'TIL 9 P.M. grows, )urce The decision to fund stadium expansion through a $1 seat tax, which the student's will not have to pay, and the fee increase was made by the University ad ministration, the attorney general and the state treasurer. As -fer consulting the students about the increase, Dietzel said that he did not think the increase was that huge, and that he knew of no time when a university ad ministration or board of trustees would consult the students about an increase. PAYS FOR ITSELF He added that if the athletic department.wasn't able to pay for itself, the University would have to start subsidizing them two years In advance. He repeated that he did not want. to raise the fees, but that it was either raise fees or limit the number of students at the games if the department was to keep making its necessary profit. The $4.50 increase will bring the fee to $13.00, Harold Brunton, vice president for business affairs yesterday told a group of students in the Faculty-Student Commons Room that the present fee was $8.50 per semester. The $13.00 fee, divided among the 5% home games per season (four one year and six the next) amounts to a cost of about $2.30 for football alone, $4.70 below general admission prices. Basketball tickets also come out of the $13.00 fee reducing the price to about $1.18 per ticket. DNCERT H EASTER ring OR" (ork's Fillmore FIRE" N rock rage rvention Center SHOWS I 28th, 29th - TICKETS FROM - 911 Sumter St. ida Ave. at Five Points IYRTLE BEACH et here, a shirt ne spot for the a Cup Races on enter vent, from ndover collar in snable two-button u se vouri, '-AMK:('T('K' ('harg~e Account. II you don't have one, easily open one |Weseliii g. y4Itir Si udent I . | c.a-i ta naUr rdaiat ofnic. Rugby i who like By JOHN GASH Sports Writer Take a dash of Lew Alcindor, a pinch of Joe Namath, a dab of Pele and a touch of the world's greatest kick-the-can player. Mix and stir gently. What do you get? A very ungentle rugby player. Believe it or not, the University of South Carolina has about 40 such athletes. They are unusual people in an unusual sport. Whether he is lost in a human mass of knees and elbows in a thing called a "scrum", or sprinting towards the goal only to be speared by an ex-professional football player (as is USC's Dr. Frank Walton, who was drafted by the Detroit Lions), the rugger has to love contact. He can't be playing the sport for the glory or the fame because there is none. "We're just a bunch of guys who like to occasionally bang heads," states Jack Clasen, a rugger himself. "To be a (rugby player, you have to be big, fast and a little crazy." Clasen couldn't find the exact words to explain how the sport is played. To define it the best he could he gave an example of what he overhead a spectator tell his girlfriend: you're out on this big field trying to get the ball (a pregnant football so called by the players) from one end of the field to the other , using anything short of guns. Rugby can be very bloody as was witnessed in a recent match in which a Gamecock rugger was kicked in the head. The blood completely covered his face but he kept on playing. But this type of injury is not so uncommon because the ruggers use no padding at all. When asked if they retained physicians for the matches, Clasen only smiled. He once tried to get insured, but the company said that the sport was too risky unless they insured the whole team. (TERRY ROSEN) GUITAR STUDIOS )HARRY CJAMES SA MMY DAVIS, JR. FRANK SINATRA NANCY WILSON JOHN GARY sO.ue, .s swIs eim i t Iuilunn 2b9 -5179 312 nUL=WrrKnem )ple eads Clasen explained how the match was going to be played when he said that they would need a big crowd just to carry the N.C. State owies off the field. In what may be the last home stand of the season, the match will take place at the Intramural Field B this Saturday at 2. Jim aney Sports Editor ll. able to change part of the ge baseball the Gamecocks e Roost, but maybe it won't t pageantry that is football curry that is basketball, the ays seems a little anti ds written about the causes i baseball in general. The es say, is such that the fans 3nd pageantry. nental attachment for the Aid who lived within walking :w pasture played baseball. not lie with the game, but it it's their fault that they aball that isn't there. They and that commodity at a infrequent at best. ~ball remains. Tomorrow at imber of frustrated former ol stars. They will eat their ilonger respond to the crack s5 their senses every spring. hat ''dull and boring'' game >n is here now, and his very >ack the stands with curosity Bobby Richardson really is resence to the USC program o add a lot of hustle and a lot les last season had little of uld add even more incentive armer stars may rediscover female companion and a ising combination. lEVER k PAIR 3UTCH HE KID ETAINMENT!" Y D THE KID Rugger in for a jolt eal for pe to bang hi Stnce rugby is mostly a European sport, many people don't understand what it is all about. But the team is making many strides towards becoming popular. Each turnout is larger than the last. The next home match should be largest to date because USC plays the N.C. State ruggers. H rhey call it dull and borin4 rhey call it college baseba Bobby Richardson may be situation. It will still be colle will be playing tomorrow at t be dull and boring. After a season of the violer and the breathless, relentless 4 college baseball season alv climatic. Fhere have been a lot of wor tor the decreasing interest ii temper of the times, the scrib demand action and violence, But the fans have a sentil game, nonetheless, for every I distance of a vacant lot or a c Perhaps the problem does rather with the fans. Not the expect something out of basi expect heart-racing action baseball game is sometimes But the attachment for bas4 the Roost there will be a nt Little Leaguers and high schc hearts out because they can nc of ball against bat that invadi And they might even enjoyi at college baseball. Richards< presence should be enough to I seeker s who want to see if T H I the baseball coach. Richardson has added his pl and hopefully he will be able t of wins to a team that at tin either. A packed set of bleachers cc to win, and those frustrated f that a spring day, a pretty baseball game Is a very ple4 Play ball. You" MET Il LIKEI AND TI "PURE ENTEI uAST ) ~ WEEK! A ENDS Tues. 24th BUTCH CA SSID SUN DANCE NOW PLAYING C 1-3-5-7-9B