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'COCKSI C e Gamecock sports, 'COCKS!see pages 5, 6 VO LX" No.3 Vniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29206 Friday, September 18, 1970 Rings to .despite o By SCOTT DERKS Asst. Managing Editor Despite the objections of the Student Government Association, the present student ring sold by the Balfour Company will remain the only ring sold on campus until Nov. I of this year: Since last spring SGA has fought to have another class ring sold on campus. Officials of the association said that they wanted a ring that represents the student body. One that is selected by the student government and not the administration. SUCCESSFUL RING A ring sponsored by the student government was sold last spring and was deemed a success by a student government official and SGA began looking for a company to handle the new ring. The present ring company, Balfour, will remain on campus until the cutoff date of Nov. 1, or until 350 rings are sold. After that date the student government will be allowed to take the actions they feel necessary. "We are acting only on the ac tions of former president Barry Knobel last spring. He agreed to buy 350 rings from the Balfour Company," Joe Usery, chairman f the %ring committee said. "Otherwis*e we would have gone ahead with our original plans. The administration has done it's best to put stumbling blocks in. our way. They know that these rings are only a start. We want to give the students a say-so on other issues. Shutter bugs needed Anyone interested in becoming a Gamecock photographer is asked to attend a meeting Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 308 of the Russell House. All present I stalf photographers are ex pected to attend. Staf f Writer' It's hard to believe, but USC has come up with three entertaining and stimulating evenings in a row. I'm referring to two delightiul evenings with the easy humor of .John Chappell's Mark Twain, and last night, the not so gentle proddings of Mort Sahl. SahI. a man who could easily be billed as the white Dick Gregory, had a lit tle to say about everyone. Some of it gentle. some of it bit ter , all of it was funny. SahI's humor reminds one of the man who has been kicked in the teeth all his life and still finds humor in the absurd fit of the oppressor's boots. (Concerning the Vietnam war, SahI was n& exactly uenign. Claiming to have ridden the plane into town with three South Viet namese army officers, Sahl commented, "So this general is telling me all about how well he's being treated in my country. Then he starts explaining some of the medals on his chest. He had quite an assortment there, including a few he got awhile ago for bombing his people for the French." Taking It a bit further, "All those brass buttons and red ribbns and gold be told bjections We want these things administered by the students and not the ad ministration. "We are tired of the ad ministration issuing binding contracts with companies when the rings are totally a student mat ter. " THIEE YEAR CONTRACT The Balfour Company holds a three year contract with USC extending through June 1972. Usery quotes a Columbia lawyer as saying "the contract is not valid, it allows no concessions to the University." The ring committee feels the contract should not be binding because the Boulfour Company has given USC inferior service and has not met any of specifications qualities they promised: price, quality, design, and service. "The committee feels they have failed on all four points," Usery said. During the summer the ring committee met with the four top ring representatives, who handle 95 per cent of college ring market, to discuss the possibilities of another company selling rings on campus. OTHEIR COLLEGES Also, the committee corresponded to 38 colleges and universities around the country for a comparison of the overall ring service. According to Usery the reports showed the Balfour Company to be giving inferior service. For these reasons the ring committee feels change is justified. Usery also said that the administration's action of giving a three-year-contract violates a trade agreement law. "A company can only be awarded a contract for one year, they can only monopolize the market for one year according to the trade agreement," Usery said. For that reason, Usery said, the student Government has been looking for a more suitable com pany to work with. He said he could not comment on the results of the search. Next time we will not give out a contract," Usery said, "only an agreement. It will say that a company can sell its ring on campus as long as the service, price and quality are acceptable to the students of Carolina." VIort Sa braid are pretty impressive....if you're twelve years old." Getting around to President Nixon's Vietnamization program, Sahi was a little less than fond of "Vietnamization. Isn't that what it was before we got there?" To sum up how he felt about the state of America's foreign and domestic affairs. Sahl said with a typical seriousness, "Sometimes the people who love their country the most have to leave it." If Mort Sahi doesn't like the war in Vietnam, he certainly doesn't seem much fonder of President Nixon. calling him among other things "The Agnew of The Eisenhower Administration." Linking Nixon with the great McCarthy Communist scare days, SahI termed Nixon "A perennial candidate." By way of innuendo, SahI scored Nixon on his lack of understanding as to what's going on college campuses. "Well It's obvious that Nixon has a rapport with young people. Didn't he meet with students from Ohio after Kent State.... and discuss their football tem?" 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Motandwsapine.Aln n differnce btee udism anfignthgatlures,.rcltr t (~Niont s thatoungwshat lihee oftemnisoiccsosad i no jutie,an forvioleansceliein mrsthtoulrosoedgre " Sahrc is note alwy thougtiat con- tus ecose od oih ender behind By CHAS. FELLENBAUM Chief of Reporters Dbert Bender, a local artist iing against Richland County Stor John Foard, held a press ference Wednesday and !aled what he called a "behind scenes attack" on him by es opposing his election. ender said his prime witness inst Jack Weatherford "was I that he had better not be in n when the trial of those in ved in the administration ding disturbance came up." He onducting an investigation of itherford. Several friends have "been advised to disassociate nselves from me," he added. ender also indicated the sibility of a framed narcotics rge. "I personally expect to be ested in the near future. It will e than likely be on a trumped narcotics charge. I expect to e dope placed in either my ie or automobile by state nts and then be arrested," he I. ender said his home has "been red and searched" in his ence. A sealed bottle of ,fever pills was opened, afeteria By IRON BIGALKE Staff Writer ter a semester of ex mentation with the M&N teria, the Gate House aurant declined to renew its ract to manage the facility this cording to Vice President for ness Affairs, Harold Brunton, a particularly bad semester fall, Slater declined to reopen cafeteria for the Spring ester, feeling that the ation was not profitable. At equest of many students, the inistration began last !ster to seek someone who d undertake the operation of 2afeteria from a local base. Gate House Restaurant was concern eventually decided i by the University ad stration. he University feels that the ce and food were extremely able, but when the University d them to continue the service, declined," Brunton stated. rold Taylor, manager of the 'itter, g or, pointed and bitter humor, nonetheless humor. SahI es no gun. only a rappier-like He has been branded vthing from crazy to a corn and still he speaks. aspite the quick wit and funny there is something a bit sad it Mort Sahl. He was once a of the lonely voice crying in wilderness. Now, though we still in the wilderness, there many more voices and the end i sight. Where does this leave I and others like him? 'here. Most people don't even u' who he is. guessing anything i comedian to football player. ,al, as others like him, is ob ed in the light of more recent esmen who to a large degree here they are on the broken s of men like Mort Sahl. It is a hing, but the men who do the to bring about change often [it least from it. rt SahI needs no sympathy, if he is bitter, he shows no es. Midway through the lec quoting Victor Hubert, he put s well as any man can, hing is as powerful as an idea e time has cme.a" charg -scenE presumably to be analyzei added. Bender has indicated that e he is arrested, it will not affe position. He said, "There i! message I want carried t4 solicitor and his agents of fea will not be intimidated; we wi be coerced; we will contin1 bring the truth to the p( Whether it be from the street meeting halls of this city or fr jail cell, this campaign will gc He called for the resignati Foard and suggested thal governor appoint a new soli as terms for his dropping out race and "ceasing all pol activity." Bender claims about 5,00( support already in his cami He also said that he has 10 cent co-operation from the I Citizens Party, which amou about 3,000 votes. He also ch that there will be cross voting by both the Republicar Democrats. Bender noted co-operatior many University related p and is counting on about I,00( from them. "There is a tremendous ni retury Gate House, said the resta declined because of "a chan officials and indecision aboL future of the corporation at a when the University neede immediate reply. This resulte refusal on the part of the House to renew the contract "As far as we are concerne, venture was entirely satisfac Nith the exception of brea we ran a break-even propos The last part of the semestei the most profitable, bacaus learned by our mistakes and better job," Taylor said. "You might say we were g( a college education," he e!luded. According to Taylor, the House feels it competed cessfully with the Slater s) and would gladly con recontracting the M&N cafe Brunton said that the Univ '...would give serious sideration... "to any request t Gate House to re management of the facility. Commenting on the progr ~en tie res s attack' 1, he of students who are going down to register. They have been calling us ven if to find out where to go and when ct his the deadline is," he noted. i one Bender described his campaign ) the as a "word of mouth" campaign. r. We "The solicitor has done some very l not good campaigning for us," he Lie to added. hople. s and He said that John Foard has om a been politically unwise. "When a on." politician is going to make political on. ohay from a situation, he knows on ot when to stop. Foard obviously cithe doesn't know when to stop. This of the makes him a lousy politician." itical Bender said that if he looses the election. he will immediately begin I vote work on a recall petition. If a )aign. certain number of signatures are 0 per obtained on a recall petition, the Jnited governor must call a special nts to election. All parties and write-ins timed are eligible to run candidates. ticket is and Bender was politically active during his high school years. He from organized the first 'Teenage ersons Republican Club in the state of I votes Oklahoma and was in Barry Goldwater's honor guard during imber the 1964 Republican convention. is to Slater urant the food program thus far this, ge in semester Jack Wertz. Director of it the Slater. said that he feels that with time the new redecorations in the d an cafeterias, the students are finding d in a dining more cheerful and thus Gate enjoy it more. Slater has reopened the M&N cafeteria hoping by a d, the package deal to serve 'more !tory. people faster and more cheaply." kfast When asked about Slater's ition. profits. Wertz explained that the - was University allows Slater only a 5 e we percent profit. Any left-over profit did a goes back to the University for improvements on the dining halls. "South, M&N. Russell House. tting and Columbia Hall cafeterias have con- all been redecorated." Brunton said. Gate .The decors have been changed suc- and they are physically better. ,stem This combined with a new and sider more aware management team teria. has caused University officials to ?rsity be extremely enthused. con- Asked if the Gate House iy the operation had taught Slater iume anything or caused any change in sof Slater operations. Wertz had no ~ f comment. - aanasegI