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Concert Committee planning The Concert Committee of the University Union will have its first regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Golden Spur. The officers - of the com mittee are Tom DiFiglio, Chair man; Kris Smith, vice chairman: and Andy Marquez, vice chair man. The committee will discuss the open April 30 Spring Thing date. Tom DiFiglio said that the com mittee had a letter of intent with John Sebastian and a tenative group that included members of Crosby, Still, Nash and Young but that the letter was cancelled because "the people running Spring Thing thought they wouldn't draw," and they hoped to get "something better." DiFiglio said that during the recent National Entertainment Conference Convention a group was being sought for the April 30 and that Kris Smith recommended John Sebastian. A letter of intent was signed. However, when the delegation to the convention returned, the letter had been cancelled. Other concerts already scheduled for the rest of the semester include Mason Proffit on March 26 in Township Auditorium. The group had been likened to the Gra4 iful Dead. Admission is $1 for students and $1.50 for non students. The April 29 date for Spring Thing will be filled by the Ike and Tina Turner Revue backed by the jazz-rock sound of Dreams. In early May the Concert Committee will present Sugarloaf. Kennedy (Continued from page 1) around the "unsettled issues of our time." Five challenges were cited by Sen. Kennedy in his speech. First of all, he called for an end to the war in Vietnam. "Second we must bring new life to our economy," the senator said. "For the first time in more than a decade, there is a feeling of desperation as men and women fruitlessly seek work. For the first time in more than a decade, men talk of 'If I find work' rather than when I find work.'" Sen. Kennedy said that the challenge of equal opportunities for all citizens must be me t. Tuesday Sizzlin' Sirloi STEAD Just preseni Our regular baked potat Come-As-YVo Joe Usry announces candidacy. Joe Usry. a junior from Aiken, announced today that he will seek the office of president of the student body. "'This is not a spur of the moment decision for me," Usry said. "I have been concerned about the needs of the students at Carolina for a long time." "All I ask the students of Carolina is a chance to implement programs which I believe will make Student Government relevant to the needs of the students." Usry, a history major, has served as President of his fresh man class and student senator for two years. While in the Senate he has served on the general welfare committee, finance committee, and is presently on the registration and distribution committee. He was secretary for general welfare in President Barry Knobel's Cabinet, served on the student affairs committee, food services committee, and the University parking committee. Usry has also been a member of the Arts and Sciences curriculum revision committee, and has worked on the Carolina Cares project. Life is full of little mistakes- send the Gamecock home your parents will hate you for it. Night is Studen 5 P.M. til Closing DINNER your student identification t $1.79 sizzlin' sirloin steak sei ~, green salad and garlic toa u-Are PNE BA 546 KNOX ASSOTY DI COMMentM -8-11 Concerts are not born; they are made. People are needed to make concerts, efficient, knowledgeable people. When one is such a person, he sometimes makes the making of concerts his business. He becomes a promoter. This is all fine, except that the business of a promoter is not simply making concerts, it is making money. The business of a University is not making money, but to educate and at times and of less im portance, to entertain its people. With all this in mind, we the students of USC might well ask why our university has not been as successful at entertaining us as promoters have -been at making money. At USC there is a special com mittee set up to book concerts for the University and present them to the students at lower prices. This committee and those involved with this committee have failed. The failure is not the fault of any S.C. bure get tips fi When a country treasurer has budget problems or when a town needs help in choosing a police chief, both may find help at the bureau-of Governmental Research and Service at USC. The bureau, celebrating its 25th year, was set up under the Department of Political Science at the University in 1945. Since then it has studied government prog blems, drawn up guide lines and held training sessions for city, county and state personnel. "We did our first study on natural resources in the state and the first study done for the state legislature was to find out how delinquent taxes on automobiles could be collected," said Robert H. Stoudemire, associate director of the bureau. "Since government problems often take a long time to be resolved, we feel that one objective of the bureau is to be a source of background information,'' Stoudemire said. Another objective, he said, is to develop training programs for governmental personnel. The bureau began its first such program on a regular basis in 194I3 t Night $1.19 >cashier. ved with No Tipping. I rts...Iac one man. especially the concert committee's chairman or the University Union's president. The blame belongs to a system that is as outdated as the padded bra. With few exceptions, the con certs this year were presented by outside promoters, businessmen. lhey have managed to book and present at high prices, the concerts the University wanted to present. They have beaten us to the draw time and again. These businessmen cannot be blamed either. They are only doing what they make their livings at, being smart. There must be someone or something to blame,. isn't there? Yes. there sure is. The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the present system that establishes no one man or group as the last word in University book'ng. The blame goes to the system that allows special committees which do tict fund the event, and know nothing of the proceedures and com 1aucrats 1om USC with a conference for municipal finance officers. Since then the bureau has set up seminars around the state ranging from a course for conservation officers to a program for building officials. "Many of our -studies have in fluenced government action," Stoudemire said. "For example, many business license ordiances have been revised according to our guide book on municipal business licensing." In 1968 the bureau began a special series of studies to revise ordinances in the state's small towns. "Many of these towns aren't financially able to have codifications made, and often up to-date ordinances are required before a town can qualify for a federal grant," said, Stoudemire. The bureau is directed by Dr. .James E. Larson, head of the USC D)epartment 'of Political Science. NOW PLAYING CO UMOS A 1-3-5 IJAcI ADRIEN .J .WECHS. I 806 RAF kof By Jerry Calabrse . plexifies of booking, to have the right to veto concerts they know not hing about. "Spring Thing" isapproaching. 'llie traditional "big" weekend is highlighted by two. events, usually concerts or dances. This year we have one booked and the other in doubt because the old trusty system has screwed things up. Last week the concert com mittee went to a convention where groups appear for the represen tatives of many colleges and universities. The purpose of this convention is to give these colleges and universities the first crack at booking the groups. Our delegation booked a number of acts including John Sebastian and an unknown number of well known people from disbanded "-super-groups" who would appear with him for the second night of ".Spring Thiig." Ordinarily, their approval or disapproval would be of little importance because the concert this situation, however, the Special Events committee has jurisdiction because "Spring Thing" is its pro.ect. In effect, what we have here is a group that does not at any other tirme deal with the business of booking concerts, knows nothing of the procedure an yet has the final o.k. for the biggest concert of the year. Is it any wonder that USC's competing with outside businessmen is nothing but a joke? Well, people, the real joke is on us. Not only does our present system insure failure, but it guarantees that we will have to pay outrageous prices to see en tertainment that we should be booking ourselves. Maybe John Sebastian, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and God knows who else wouldn't be a good show, maybe a committee that knows nothing of promoting can perform the job of booking better than the people who do it all year long, and equally as ridiculous, maybe the old system of shucking and jiving that we now have doesn't need vast and sweeping reform. )HN SCHUBECK. -GENE SHAUT?. WNSC-TV NIC HOLSON ~ERUM PIECES BLACK~.~ SUSAN ANSPACH DRIE N JOYCE s.-,s.000 RMFELSON ~. YC e ..B RAFELSON-.IC HA RO