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~A dents 1,MOMon may consider tw fores tto the Carolina studen f in the grading systen -d 'fOrOiWness clause." A grade o wouldtV gNen in place of D and F. The N the student successfully completed th4 changes are sensible ones which we fee **,~oVesomOOf the tremendous pressure and fear o ht haunts the'freshman year of many students anc them to make grades instead of education their goa 'he University. CALENDAR A'change in the calendar of the University may be brought up at today's meeting. If it were approved, USC .students would be able to relax and enjoy the Christmas holidays without the dark cloud of exams above them. -E xams would be given before Christmas, as they are ai other schools which begin the fall semester in August and end the spring semester in early May. As it stands now, students from schools on the earlier schedule have a head start on summer jobs, as well as freedom from the gulli whl;h arises when one doesn't during the Christmas break. We think USC students would support this. The possible cpmplication would be one short summer during the transition of schdules; which could be lived with. Inertia-style of SG Student Government Ideally reflects the alms, wishes and opinions of the student body. The Student Senate presently has 62 members and the addition of a healthy sized executive branch furnishes Student Government with ample manpower, intelligence, ambition and politicians. Ingredients essential to a func tional, smooth running and efficient organization are in evidence. Despite a continuing effort on the part of SG to be inept, inert, nonsensical and less than mdiocre, a few gains have been made in areas of student concern that require comendation. Lines of communication for students between faculty, administration and the Board of Trustees are slowly materializing. A concerted effort is being -made by the Legislative.Liaison Committee to humanize USC students in the eyes of the state legislature, and pressure for a safer campus has been a factor in obtaining better lighting. .4- fortunately the accomplishments of SG do not out. weigh the excessive expenditures of student fees. The South Carolina State Student Legislature consisted of a four day cocktail party at the Sheraton Inn at a cost of $705. A total of $4,000 was spent earlier this semester for a weekend leadership retreat. An analysis of funds spent and the overall effectiveness of Student Government this semester is justifiable and in order. A sense of responsibility, awareness ef MUn needs and more fiscal accountability Is not a Cyclopean request. In fact it should not be a request, it should be assumed. r HE GAME COCK is published tri-weekly durmng the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the sum~mer semesters with the exception of University holidays and exam periods. 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Fully nao u.m0. st OAT Vi-I (A The existentialiE His 'cool' IAnother hypothetical incident Marilyn basketball coach Heft Drizzle told a press conferenc yesterday that he intended to figt USC coach Frank MacFire at th Cold Field House. the home of th Marilyn Terriblefins. "I've about had enough of tha guy's suave comments. If there one thing I can't stand it's someon who keeps his cool all the time, stated Drizzle. "I intend to fight him--man t man--at the Field House. Ain'1 nobody else gonna be on the floor. gotta get even with that man." Drizzle commented that he stil felt the pain from the alleged blom to the mouth from the alleged Johr lItibhock. Drizzle refused t< comment on the teethmarks onq reporter noticed on his left hand When Ashed for his reaction to E recent "Sports Illuminated" stor5 on the USC team, Drizzle rantet and raved about "that commie liberal Eastern establishmeni press." The grad studen Math prog Ky TI. S. SWEENEY ( ofuminist D)r. James Wahab has beer chairman of the Mathiematic: D)epartment for the past two anc one half years. "When I arrived,' says D)r. Wahab, "there was graduate program with little ac tivity aside from algebra. Now wi have six or seven weekly seminarn in diverse mathematical areas. ''his has contributed to ar increase in research with no les! than seven original papers giver b)y USNC math faculty this past yeai at meetings of the Mathematica Society." D)r. Wahab is par ticularly pleased with develop ment in the area or Foundations ' Which, as the name implies, is a study of the basis ~f proof ~i me.hematical theory.' Starting with a nucleus of ont member. D)r. H. Phillips. the ares now includes four active faculty and is rapidly becoming the center f or such activity in the deep south While D)r. Wahab is justifiably pleased with these developments in the area of research, he is alsc cognizant of the need to strengther1 the entire math curriculum. "We now have more Ph. l).s teaching undergraduate math courses thar ever before and have better than doubled the number of un dergraduate math majors." L E off D to $20.00' 60.00 k- . by hil Frank x sse* ft4 fYA 0(Mr!&W it. is too much At USC. Coach MacFire called y his own news conference. He and e athletic director Paul Pretzel, just it recently returned from a trip to the e North Pole, announced that e PEgmont Wade. Space Cowboy, would enforce the recent t$24'7%.'4N.72 grant to build the Paul Pretzel Basilica. s '"This is a contribution from the Marilyn student body to get us to put more emphasis on football," Pretzel grinned. MacFire straightened his cuffs. One reporter asked MacFire to comment on rumors that Drizzle had flown to New York and had I spent four days on the Lower East Side looking for (;' 10".* Irish Catholics throwing rocks at taxicabs. "I really don't know why," he said, slowly grinning. "And as for that alleged smack in the mouth from an alleged John Ribhock, it couldn't have happened to a nicer coach. And besides--I wouldn't want the dirt under his fingernails for anything, not even to plant my begonias." t ram growmng While muchofte peedn I r.Waabpanfll amid a iscutoo Thsmakufchm muicaown nees oeten. out-n e warothei dretofau tzel,ademi t reretely r .edfo W ahab. tot e Nh oe, nnne thatso woheatcsld enoceteremust ,7rk4togetherath to uinimu the ways is ancotribtingeo the lp marlsuent boddsipiay topetopse." pt morte fempn o his onte fotbal, psraghtesd is beuadeinshi dieon herthe kdepacrtmento eantcommetorumorst th Dizzl alown toderewor and hrad thsets fouary on the solerEst ('ofc thproing chairman. "Irell olnold y"h s slolyurinng. "And asove. thom Ald rsCack in hemouth ro anualitygad Jhibheaty i coun'te happeeton ice ontgotn o lantm begonia233 Whie wecof thet rcding tcnstr cas aroy klo moer th deporae lac of com Ge: Few gentle people are pub "leaders": they move away fri anonymous quotes and point deserve credit. The genuine concern Is pe portance and the desire It to hi change rather than to buy re( Letters to the ed ISC gr 'unsop Dear Miss Manning: It is indeed reassuring to note that the simple, down-to-earth, unsophisticated manners of Gamecock students and players have not been affected by national ranking and a "big-league" field house. The manner in which McGuire's New Yorkers handled Maryland's basketball team should further relieve any apprehension on the part of Carolinians that Nor theasterners are "effete in tellectual snobs" who might sully the reputation of our "hard drinking-hard-fighting-good-old. boy" student body. What is this nonsense that "Learning Polishes Men and Does Not Permit them to be Rude"? LAWREEN(': :. MIN-7T t1s(' 66 Assistant Professor 1iniversity of Maryland 'Glass Menagerie' Dear Miss Manning: I write merely to make public feeling too often kept private. The University's production of "The Glass Menagerie" was terrifically moving. Needless to say the choice of this play was important---the play is a beautiful one. However, without a good performance the play is plodding---lacking the superb performance that it was given on Friday night (Dec. IDl--the play fails to move. However, the performance was exceptional as was the play. Making what is called artistic experience a reality. I thank and praise those who afforded me such an experience. They are all too rare. TAL,Ik:V PABIBSOrT-I * si 3HOWS :00 JON 3:00-5:00 7:00-9 PM "RI I BEYOND THE VALI "RETURN TO P PMMOiACWi Ali MacUraw - A HOR6.MSK-Alm Jih Marley& ay Mill Adult. $2.00 Students $1.50 SHOWS (With Curd. 1.3.5.7.9 ntle peo icly regarded as Great strengtl wm cameras, give reflected In a quIs out others who no need for loud gentle person. People built cao pe-not self Im- and deliberately ip, to build and to foundations unde :ognltion. ad commer isticated m 'Goo' Dh-ar Miss Manning: I would like to comment on a certain letter or, rather, emotional wallowing of a certain Doug Williams in the December 14 I edition of The Gamecock. I realize that was sometime ago, but it's taken me this long to get my nerves back in ordjer after that moving little bit of goo Mr. Williams entitled "Starstruck." It dealt with the universal theme, universal for Americans that is, of meeting one's favorite sports idol in the flesh and groveling before n him in speechless adoration and K worship. I winced throughout the article ti as such horrifying clinches as ii "teeth promptly fell to the floor" a (when Mr. Williams catches sight c of John Ribock), of having U " asthritis of the tongue" (when he s tries to ask John Roche a question) 0 and much more flew by; the least e1 of which was, "There he was: John It Roche ...sitting on a stool. Not ni walking on water." If Mr. Williams fi would like a sacred relic I could M take him to a certain room on the IT ground floor of 'N' in the Men's V4 Towers, where Mr. Ribock was a i1 neighbor of mine for a full ai semester, and point out a trash can til I once loaned to him to keep beer fo and ice in for a small party. di 1 Now, it is not so much Mr. Sul Williams' atrocious journalism I' that moves me as it is the spirit of th the article--and Mr. Williams is not ar the only guilty one of this sort of b.% thing by any means. In short, I find th the spirit of Mr. Williams' article MCI and millions ' like it across the W nation, not only unfair to the rest of 0 JOHN'S NEWESTI N WAYNE 0 LOBO" LG} T-O-N-I-T-E EY OF THE DOLLS US ---NI Ryan Sisal R kI.ER Producion ERdQIUcSEGALAMR MIt\ER ple i and true leadership are t possession of oneself--there is ness or harshness. He was a ties in the air and very quietly Monty Macmillan put the them. ---A FRIEND its on anners' he Carolina Community (and >ther campuses across the nation, )1 course) because it eclipses all A.se that's going on, both on utmpus and in the world, but it is eally demeaning to those fine ithletes themselves by placing hem on a very high pedestal all ilone and sorely tempted into God nows-what because they must ucceed--if you'll notice it's not iow you play the game any more l's how many you win and that just bout applies to any thing in merica these days. We are estroying ourselves with these traditional" values--this lack of ioderation--and it's rather sad to ue America in such a condition. What I'm trying very awkwardly 3 say is that if The Gamecock isists on so much sports coverage nd the rehashing of stale news oncerning it over the many other iings that are aesthetically more itisfying and also insists on an verdose of clear-as-mud litorializing. then it should at ,ast make its comments on our )ble athletes of some an ropological worth (i.e. what akes them tick) and of somewhat ore humane and considerate lue than cheap orgasmic tribute. iey have feet of clay just as you id I do and I'm sure they must get 'ed of being treated as demi-gods r the full twenty-four hours in the iy--12 perhaps, but not always. it then again I can only assume ch things because not only does ie Gamecock not tell me such ings. but the people in question e separated from the rest of us 'that million dollar Valhalla-in e-Sky i the Roost I adi. as L have id. the gloriouil.. bo of Mr. illiams. 5* See Ad on Pag. 4 WE DELIVER Phone 256-7179 MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WITH OUR DOCTORS' umg. 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