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These soldiers are looking to. Commentmm Won't pec Friday night, the University will present Mason Proffit, a very good group that could be called anything h om country rock to a head trip. Mason Proffit will probably be as good or better than McKendree Spring, or New York Rock, both of which were very good concerts. Mason Profit will also probably play to a half empty house. Why? ickets are cheap, $1.00 with I.D., the Township Auditorium is an intimate place, perfect for a real concert and the group is good. The reason why ticket sales are slow is not obvious. What is ob vious is that most USC students don't care. The night after Mason Profitt, Blood Sweat and Tears will perform at the Coliseum. This concert will feature a group that is terrible in concert, is charging outrageous prices and is per V I1204 Main St UNITED 1211 BROAD ( Hwy C'OLUME OPEN TO'T 9 A.M.1' MON. TI .WE NOW STEREO COMPONENT S RECLINERS & S LIVING ROOM & BE SEWING MACHINES TAPE DECKS, REFRIGI WASHERS & DRYER! AND OTHER . STUDENTS Hot for lunch and someone to talk 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 'll I ........ . . . I . . . . ople attend? ""Jerry Calabrses forming in a place not really suited for live concerts. The crowds will probably break down the doors to pay to see Blood, Sweat and Tears and stay away in droves for a concert that may be one of the best entertainment bets ever to hit town. No more than 2,600 USC students have ever attended a concert, either in Township or the Coliseum. We scream for control of our coliseum, yet refuse to support it. We won't even support en tertainment aimed at giving us excellent alternatives to higli priced and small performanced concerts. 'T'he Coliseum is OURS. USC owns it, students theoretically should get first use. Who is willing to support it is the question. We deliver 4-11 PM USDA Choice Steak Sandwich 4-12 Weekdays 500FAl Day Sunday 50tF (TABLE SERVICE ONLY) 256-7179 FREIGHT E S RIVER RD. .176) IA, S. C. HE PUBLIC 'O 6 P.M. IR U SAT. HAVE! (STEMS & CONSOLES WNIEL ROCKERS DROOM FURNITURE & VACUUM CLEANERS RATORS & FREEZERS, , ELECTRIC RANGES ~PPLIANCES. WELCOME Soldier vI'E'ItitV('Alaiti,a Fea ture Ediffor Editor's Note: This is part two of a three part series called "Soldiers on Sunday". Part three will appear In the Friday edition of the Gamecock. :Friday various organizations like SMC. Young Americans for Freedom, Student Union officials and campus religious societies interviewed by the Gamecock will say what they do to help G.I.'s in Columbia. Some of the hottest issues on campus revolve around soldiers: the war in Indochina, volunteer military and beating the draft. Radicals and reactionaries march endlessly shouting concern for soldiers and politicians of all stripes can't do enough for, or to them. Soldiers are perhaps the most sought after and yet. avoided commodity in the entire country. P-ach month thousands of men are snatched from their private lives and inducted for abducted. ac cording to your personal beliefs) into the military. Soldiers can be seen almost This scene typifies the lonE weekends. HAR RY HARRY "Let's S on Si anytime. sometimes marching. sometimes dying. 'ew people realize that aside f rom marching and dying. soldiers have a hell of a lot of spare time to fill up. Various organizations like Ihe I ISO or [led Cross,get lois of publicity about all they do for G I 's. but one may question their effectiveness when so many soldiers don't even know or care where they are located. Any weekend you can see hun dreds of soldiers pounding Main Street being hustled by pawn shop owners and getting hassled by M f- 's and city police. Soldiers stare from behind filmy windows of cheap bars and resturants that sound like the penny arcade of any beach. Here in the honky-tonk at mosphere soldiers are welcome. partially because they don't mind paying a buck a beer and partially because they are not welcomed ,anywhere else. While soldiers usually frequent Main Street at night. they have shown preference for the USC campus. How are they received on the PbMte by Nil Nwoad liness of the soldiers on the WALKERx VOTE ~itdaywo and get things tos nday campus side of town? On the whole. it's safe to say that they are not as well received by student haunts like Campus Club. Don's and the Opus as they are uptown. While the Opus admits soldiers, bot h lion's and Campus Club have policies designed to keep G.I.'s out. The managements of these places have many good reasons for ex cluding soldiers. but it all boils down to this: soldiers don't mind paying a buck a beer. but all they really want to buy is a ticket out of town. headed for home. Soldiers usually don't care. They don't care if they insult your date. they don't care if you think the y're vulgar and they aren't atraid of getting into a brawl. All week long they train to beat ass and on the weekend. faced with the trustration of constant and universal rejection, they sometimes do. The most common complaint of near campus bars is that anytime there's trouble. it's usually t racea ble to a soldier. A bartender in the Campus Club said that in all the time he's tended bar. every light he'd been in involved a soldier. The complaint of the Campus Club is the same as all the rest ; soldiers have a tendency to get drunker. to be louder and be more beligerant than a student normally would. Everyone. including most soldiers. understands that GI's are subjected to intense pressure during the week. When they are able to leave Fort Jackson. they are anxious to blow off some seI am. even it it's at the expense of an innocent passerhy. When asked what he thought of some USC girls' lear -M soldiers. one G.I. said. "I dlon't blame them. I don't want to harm anyone. but there are a lot of guys who don't care." Asked why they tear or avoid soldiers. one coed said. "''hey always come on so strong. I'm not really afraid of them as much as I don't want to be bothered saying no." Some G L's aren't as un derstanding. "Four months ago I was a student. Now, though I'm ,till the same person. nobody'll even talk to me." ,AN DO will do rether"