Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Coach Dietzel the finest MR. FARRELL: In the recent issues of the Gamecock there have been letters questioning the capabilities of Paul Dietzel, both as an administrator and a coach. These letters have been written from the viewpoint of an outsider. We feel that the opinions of the football sqdad should be voiced. Coach Dietzel, as an ad ministrator, has accomplished many things to his credit. The George Terry building, a new track, a new coliseum, the Roost, and an addition to the stadium with an astro-turfed field have been the result of Coach Dietzel's ad ministration. Who else could have made such improvements in six years? As for Coach Dietzel's ability to coach, ask someone on the football squad, don't make hasty con jectures. We feel that Coach Dietzel has done his job well, both to coach and to inspire. One cannot ask for anyone who has more dedication and love for his work. During the season he is at the roundhouse at 6:30 A. M. and leaves at 11:00 at night trying to better our team. We feel that no one else could have done a better job with what he had. Many have forgotten that the team lost some of its potency with the injuries to Haggard, Mimms, Kuritz, Rice, Toy, Barfield, and Rowe. True the season wasn't a complete success but blame the team, not the coach. Coach Dietzel sincerely believes in his con victions and we sincerely believe in coach Dietzel. The Student Body may feel that the Gamecock football team is coachless but we feel that we have the finest. JOHN LE HEUP Coach Dietzel not finest MR. FARRELL: I must agree with your November 29 editorial entitled "Coachless." Indeed Carolina has gone coachless this season. Without the spectacular play of Dickie Harris, Carolina would have died a faster death than we did. On your suggestion, I have looked around. In looking around I've found ONE Carolina coach For Your B: Letter and team that has come through all season. The coach is Ralph Wahl and the team is the Carolina Band. The band has had the un canny ability to be "up" for every game. They were great all year and at the big 'games they were spectacular. As the football team was trounced by FSU (one of only two band performances I missed), the show with the formation of a man sitting under a palm tree stole the half time honors. I was told the Florida people loved it. At Tennessee in another big game, the football team was soundly defeated but the band "soundly" defeated Tennessee. With selections of foot stomping Hillbilly and Nashville sounds, the band won the hearts of the Big Orange. On the trip back from Tennessee a friend told me "I enjoyed Carolina making. fun of Tennessee's music, but I didn't enjay Tennessee making fun of our football team." Finally, as our team passed away in the "second half of the season", the Clemson game, our band came through once again. With "The Pink Panther Theme" and "What's New Pussycat" and with the beheading of a tiger, the band won their final half-time show. They held the tiger. This may sound bitter, but I can't un derstand how our football team (which grosses about a billion dollars a year) can be so inferior to our band (which receives little support at all. ) unless it's the coaching. While the football team ended up with a 6-5 (winning?) season, the band came through undefeated. I would like to conclude by saying, Congratulations to Coach Wahl and the struttin' Gamecocks. You were great. THANK YOU NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Ticket distribution on the decline MR. FARRELL: Since my freshman year, I have seen the student ticket distribution for football and basketball games steadily improve until this year. The student government has shown its ineptness In many areas, but this bungling usually does not directly affect the student body. Unfortunately, the student government has been given the power to distribute student tickets Christmas Sh Gam...ek Chaa-ge A....ut RIT TON to the and has shown disorganization, selfishness, a lack of common sense, and no concern for the welfare of the students it is sup posed to represent. At the first of this semester the student senate promptly voted itself the best seats in the stadium. The student body had to struggle for the remaining seats under a changing distribution system. Every week one could wait with anticipation to see what new restriction would be placed on the students. At the same time Clint Sloan, the chairman of the ticket committee, was strutting behind the ticket tables. He had good reason to strut, for he was sitting on the fifty-yard line. For the first four home basketball games, the Ticket Office had planned to distribute the student tickets before exams started. Sloan, speaking for the student government, dissuaded this move and decided to distribute the Marquette tickets during the last week of Christmas Holidays and the Manhatten and St. Bonaventure tickets during the orientation days- of Spring semester, when most students will still be on vactation. He also an nounced this policy in the GAMECOCK published the day before Thanksgiving, so that a majority of students were not aware of the schedule. It did not matter to him that this schedule placed a burden on most students, for he has to return a week early for the first week of law school. Now, the student government proposes to distribute the Marquette tickets on the first day of exams, in spite of the fact that most students have exams on that day or the next one and do not have the time to waste picking up their tickets. However, since he is a freshman in law school, Sloan does not have an exam on that day. Why should the whole student body be inconvenienced for the sake of one law student who should feel some responsibility toward the students? In addition the tickets to the other two games will still be distributed during the orientation period. It is obvious that student government cannot control their power over tickets in a mature and equitable manner. Perhaps the Ticket Office should regain control over the ticket distribution, for they seem to be more responsible opping Use L S 0 editorm than "our" student government. ROBERT FURR Before exams PLEASE MR. FARRELL: We the undersigned, from Bates House Dormitory, are in disagreement with the Univer sity's holiday ticket distribution policy, and suggest that these basketball tickets be distributed before final exams begin!!! 95 NAMES FOLLOWED Why not recycle exams MR. FARRELL: Since I have been working here at the University, I have quickly seen just how much paper is wasted in just one department. Every student generally gets at least 2, usually 3 multiple-choice quizzes a semester in each course taken in this department, of around 12 pages each, plus a possible 15-20 page final. Most classes in this department have from 50-150 students in it. Every piece of "quiz paper" is stored until it is taken to be burned, which occurs about once a year (air pollution and a fire hazard). Multiply this department by every other department and that's a right good bit of paper wasted. I have been told that quizzes cannot be recycled because of "security reasons." There seems to me to be a way of recycling this "confidential" paper and main taining security. Either the people who take the paper to be burned, or professors, could take the paper to whereever it is to be recycled, not to any distribution point for the whole town on "Recycling Day", but to wherever they do the recycling. That way students won't get hold of tests, and the paper will not be wasted. Also, at the end of each semester, there could be a place where students could drop off notebooks they used the previous semester and will not use again; and when new phone books are issued, the old ones could be collected and recycled, as well as calendars and even boxes. There are a right good many cardboard boxes on this campus, too, that could be reused - just pick up the old ones when new ones are brought in, and take them some place to be recycled. The problem seems simple enough to me, but I feel there might be a hassle about it, as long as there are people here, like the 'one who is preventing me from signing my name, who are so wrapped up in "security" and not letting anyone who hasn't been Remember T7k Home With From 1 South Carolin CORNER Garc "screened", even work-study students, get near quizzes, for fear of questions and answers getting out, and also those who talk all for recycling, yet won't bother to do any work (getting out and getting the paper and taking it someplace) to help recycle things. I would sign my name, but I am honestly afraid that a certain one of our professors would raise such a hassle about my radical and impractical idea that I would have to quit. NAME WITHHELDBY REQUEST Smash SCPIRG; don't sign MR. FARRELL: Are we to be duped again? Can we allow "SCPIRG" ( a better name would be "SPLURGE" on our money) to be given the chance to build a political machine composed of a group of professional men and a "token number" of students? (They still haven't explained HOW or WHEN those who didn't wish to support "SCPIRG" would be given back their money). I say no! Let it be known that one of the purposes of "SCPIRG" is to influence legislation, that is, to act as a lobbying agency in the state government apparatus. This is political, and I feel that it is wrong to finance such a political .agency with student funds. If "SCPIRG" wishes to fill its hidden coffers, let it solicit its own funds. Let the 100 volunteers canvass the streets, or if they don't succeed in this, let them set up a kettle in the Russell House Lobby - like the Salvation Army does. At present, if we wish to support a political group we choose to support. Help retain "freedom of choice" for the majority - "'Smash SCPIRG-Don't sign " BRUCE G. DEW Van Home (Continued from Page 2) mies, fired with bows and arrows and revolvers at paintings until they hung in ribbons, used Limoges enamels of the 16th century as oven dishes, used and then smashed the old eMna and glass, pocketed the Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins, and left everywhere.. .those heaps of ex crement which are the charac teristic German gift to houses in every country they invade." If visitors passing through the Kennedy Center can leave the great halls in a state of filth and near ruin, can you imagine what they would do if permitted to remain overnight, unguarded? te Folks At A Gift JSC a Book Store N & MAIN