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eion 4Whsa o may consider two r,est to the Carolina student n9S in the grading system &fqgiveness clause." A grade of -*Wld be given in place of D and F. The NC f the student successfully completed the Promoew changes are sensible ones which we feel some-of the tremendous pressure and fear of that haunts the freshman year of many students and 0 them to make grades instead of education their goal 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. Exams would be given before Christmas, as they are at 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 guilt whigh 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, ad~ministration 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. ____nfortunately 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 Ieadership retreat. An analysis of funds spent and the overall effectiveness of Student Government this semester is justifiable and in order. A sense of responsibility, awar.es gf U n needs and more fiscal aCcountability Is not a Cyclopean request. In fact it should not be a request, it sh~ould be assumed. riTHE GAME COCK is published tri-weekly durmng the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer semesters with the exception of University holidays and exam periods. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other mall items should be sent to Drawer A. USC, Columbia, S.C. 29208. Sub scription rates are $7 per year or $3 per fall and spring semesters and S1 for both summer sessions. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. THE GAMECOCK this year received $39,000 from the student activity fund, entitling full-time students to a subscription to the paper. Offices of THE GAMECOCK are in Rooms 308 and 310 of the Russell House on the University campus. Phones are 777-8178. 777-4249 and 777-4220. Second class postage paid at Columbia, S.C. Although THE GAMECOCK is published by the University, of South Carolina, the opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the University, the student body or the staff. Editor-in-Chief-..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.. .... ...Cheryl Manning Associate Editor-.-.-..-.-.-..-.-..-.-..-.-. ... .. 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Marilyn basketball coach Hefty I)rizzle told a press conference yesterday that he intended to fight USC coach Frank MacFire at the Cold Field House, the home of the Marilyn Terriblefins. "I've about had enough of that guy's suave comments. If there's one thing I can't stand it's someone who keeps his cool all the time," stated I)rizzle. "I intend to fight him--man to s man--at the Field House. Ain't nobody else gonna be on the floor. I C gotta get even with that man." h Drizzle commented that he still S felt the pain from the alleged blow S to the mouth from the alleged John C Ribhock. Drizzle refused to t comment on the teethmarks one reporter noticed on his left hand. S tl When Asked for his reaction to a recent "Sports Illuminated" story e on the USC team. Drizzle ranted c and raved about "that commie- y liberal Eastern establishmen't press." h The grad student Math prograi ('oliunist t4 D)r. .James Wahah has been d chairman of the Mathematics n liepartment for the past two and 13 one haif years. "When I arrived," d says l)r. Wahab. *'there was a rr graduate program with little ac- st tivity aside from algebra. Now we ft have six or seven weekly seminars rr in diverse mathematical areas. w "'This has contributed to an e< increase in research with no less rt than seven original papers given by USC math faculty this past year m at meetings of the Mathematical ,w Society." D)r. Wahab is par- b; ticularly pleased with develop- w, ment in the area of Foundations. m ' Which, as the name implies, is a It study of the basis of proof in pr mathematical theory. > di Starting with a nucleus of one Ie member. D)r. iR Phillips. the area ov~ now includes four active faculty fh and is rapidly becoming the center th for such activity in the deep south, of While D)r. Wahab is justifiably pleased with these developments in the area of research, he is also cognizant of the need to strengthen the entire math curriculum. "We now have more Ph. D).s teaching undergraduate math courses than ever before and have better than doubled the number of un dergraduate math majors." off to $20.00' - P.00 . . . by. hil Frank A. X.. 0U9 L M- .019r ftRWiRt/&Ti too much At USC. Coach MacFire called iis own news conference. He and .1thletic director Paul Pretzel, just -ecently returned from a trip to the Yorth Pole, announced that ,gmont Wade, Space Cowboy, vould enforce the recent ;24.79;,4(R).72 grant to build the -aul Pretzel Basilica. "This is a contribution from the 4arilyn student body to get us to itt more emphasis on football," "retzel grinned. MacFire traightened his cuffs. One reporter asked MacFire to omment on rumors that Drizzle ad flown to New York and had pent four days on the Lower East ide looking for 6' 10". Irish 'atholics throwing rocks at ixicabs. "I really don't know why," he iid, slowly grinning. "And as for iat alleged smack in the mouth 'om an alleged John Ribhock, it Duldn't have happened to a nicer oach. And besides--I wouldn't 'ant the dirt under his fingernails )r anything, not even to plant my egonias." n growing While much of the preceding 'nds to cast a rosy glow over the epartment of mathematics, this is t an entirely accurate picture. r. Wahab painfully admitted a eplorable lack of com lunication between graduate udents in the department and the iculty. Tlhis lack of com unication seems to extend out .ard to the rest of the academic >mmulnity, a situation much gretted by I)r. Wahab. He( feels that "users of athematics and creators must ark together with a minimum of Irriers," and that "we must find tyvs to encourage the develop ent or interdisciplinary people." is the feeling or this writer that ogress will be made in this rection when the departr. ent rns to communicate within its ni b)ounderies and most certainly ' responsibility for achieving is rests squarely on the shoulders the department chairman. VALENCIA SET God As enduring as your love. From ArtCarvei - hallmark of quality and beauty in wedding rngs.. See our complete cdlection. DIAMOND JEWELERS, Ltd. 1423 Moln St. Downtown Columbia Phone 2545337 Locally~ and. We welcome at egat accounts liter BankAmeri. urge -~ card Ge Few gentle people are pub "leaders": they move away frg anonymous quotes and point deserve credit. The genuine concern is pe portance and the desire Is to h4 change rather than to buy re Letters to the ed ISC gr 'unsopl 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"? IA WRE:N('E E. M I N'17 Lt ' 64; Assistai Professor iniversity of Maryland 'Glass Menagerie' Dear Miss Maiming: 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 Priday night (Dec. U)--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.L.EV PAnRR1 SI SHOW: 1:00 JON 3:00-5:00 7i00-9 PM "R [ BEYOND THE VALl """'-PL "RETOURNTO P PAIMOlmI PtIWm Ali MacBraw - A HOSRD6.MNWSK-ARTH Jib, Marlsy& ay Mill Adults $2.00 Students $1.50 SHOW~ (WIth Cored 1.3.5.7.9 ntle pec Icly regarded as Great strwnq wn cameras, give reflected in a qu out others who no need for lot gentle person. People built c )ple--not self Im. and deliberatel 4p, o build and to foundations unc :ognitlon. ad commei 1isticated r 'Goo' ihar Miss Manning: I would like to comment on a certain letter or, rather, emotional wallowing of a certain Doug Williams in the December 14 edition of The Gamecock. I realize that was sometime ago, but it's taken me this long to get my nerves back in order 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 him in speechless adoration and worship. I winced throughout the article as such horrifying clinches as "teeth promptly fell to the floor" (when Mr. Williams catches sight of John Ribock), of having " asthritis of the tongue" (when he tries to ask John Roche a question) and much more flew by; the least of which was, "There he was: John Roche...sitting on a stool. Not walking on water." If Mr. Williams would like a sacred relic I could take him to a certain room on the ground floor of 'N' in the Men's Towers, where Mr. Ribock was a neighbor of mine for a full semester, and point out a trash can I once loaned to him to keep beer and ice in for a small party. Now, it is not so much Mr. Williams' atrocious journalism that moves me as it is the spirit of the article--and Mr. Williams is not the only guilty one of this sort of thing by any means. In short, I find the spirit of Mr. Williams' article and millions like it across the nation, not only unfair to the rest of 0 JOHN'S NIESTI A N WAYNE? 10 LOBO" LG T-0-N-I-T-E .EY OF THE D0LLS ETTON PLACE" ES PMS(MIS Ryan0'Glut ple Ith and true leadership are let possession of oneself-there is idness or harshness. He was a ostles in the air and very quietly Y, Monty Macmillan put the ler them. --A FRIEND its on lanners' the Carolina Community (and other campuses across the nation, of course) because it eclipses all else that's going on, both on campus and in the world, but it is really demeaning to those fine athletes themselves by placing them on a very high pedestal all alone and sorely tempted into God knows-what because they must succeed--if you'll notice it's not how you play the game any more it's how many you win and that just about applies to any thing in America these days. We are destroying ourselves with these "traditional" values--this lack of moderation--and it's rather sad to see America in such a condition. What I'm trying very awkwardly to say is that if The Gamecock insists on so much sports coverage and the rehashing of stale news concerning it over the many other things that are aesthetically more satisfying and also insists on an overdose of clear-as-mud editorializing. then it should at least make its comments on our noble athletes of some an thropological worth i.e. what makes them tick) and of somewhat more humane and considerate value than cheap orgasmic tribute. They have feet of clay just as you and I do and I'm sure they must get tired of being treated as demi-gods for the full twenty-four hours in the day--12 perhaps. but not always. But then again I can only assume such things because not only does The Gamecock not tell me such things. but the people in question ire separated from the rest of us by that million dollar Valhalla-in the-Sky i the Hoosti ad. as Lhave. 4aid. the glorioug:. bo of Mr. Williams. 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