Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Joint senate no joke' DEAR MS. MILLER: According to an article in the Gamecock of February 11, Julianne Still, Student Body Vice President, believes that "The Faculty Senate took the idea of establishing a commission to study the proposal for a joint senate as a joke." As the faculty members ap pointed by the chairman of the Faculty Senate to serve on that commission, we wish to assure the university community that we and the Faculty Senate regard the matter with great seriousness. We shall do our utmost to contribute to a careful and impartial study of the proposal, and we anticipate that the Faculty Senate Wi con sider our report with equal care. KENDRICK A. CLEMENTS JOSEPH E. BOWLES WILLIAM H. WESTON, JR. Media board, please listen DEAR MS. MILLER: In reference to your unattested article on Mr. X, I have been trying to decide why this particular ar ticle was published in the Gamecock before any charges were referred to the proper authorities. Your right to publish is unquestioned, for freedom of the press must be preserved in our society; however, your reasons for publishing elude me. The Gamecock supposedly represents an opportunity for journalism students to gain first hand experience and a medium for the student body to express its views, but some responsibility, discretion, judgement and maturity should have been taken into account in this particular matter. Is there no one on the Gamecock staff who had enough foresight to realize what kind of "witch hunt" this article would stimulate, or are you all too pompous and selfseeking to care? I must congratulate you for com pletely destroying any student faculty relations which may have existed on this campus and for GAME The GAMECOCK is published tri semesters with the exception of Uni Changes of address forms, subscrip should be sent to Drawer A, USC, Coi $3 per semester or $6 for both semest GAMECOCK this year received $50,1 entitling full-time students to a subst GAMECOCK are in Rooms 316 anc University campus. Phones are 777. class postage paid at Columbia, S. publication of the students of the Univ official publication of the UnIversity not necessarily represent those of the staff members of the GAMECOCK. Editor........... .. . ... Managing Editor.... .. . .. Associate Editor.... .. .. .. Assistant Managing Editor. .. .. Business Manager.... .. .. Sports Editor.... .. .. .... Asst. Sports Editor.... .. .. .. Photo Editor... .. .. .. .... Chief Reporter.. .. .. .. .. .... News Editors...... .. .. .. . Feature Editor..... .. .. .. Circulation.... .. .. .. .... Classified Advertising... .. .. Staff Writers ...-.. .. .. .. .. Lar Gilbert, Bob Grondahl, Julie Lumpi E llen Murray, K ris Schweickert, Var Betty Woodruff, Charlie Fellenbaun Sports Writers. .. . ... .. ..Bill Gi Photographers... .. .. .. .. Courtnu Stev Advertising Manager... .... * emrirar poitins.en giving those who prefer limited education the opportunity and excuse to purge the University of South Carolina faculty of all original thinkers. I would hope that the board of publications will take this incident of journalistic irresponsibility into account when they select the next editor of the Gamecock. VIRTA RAWL P.E. Center inadequate DEAR MS. MILLER: Anyone who has tried to play basketball on a Sunday afternoon in the new P. E. center knows what a pain It is to get in a game because of so many people and so few baskets. It does not help'any when a group reserves a full court for as long as two hours. Another court was reserved for a league game; that's ten people playing on the full court with glass boards on a Sunday afternoon! It was about time this school built a P. E. center and, of course, a good reason it was built was for the basketball team to practice on when they could not get the Coliseum. The team obviously did need another place to practice theen the Armory. If this school can spend about twenty-five million dollars on a stadium that is used, at most, seven times a year then why can't it spend more on a proper P. E. center. The center was built with about one-eighth the cost of the stadium and is used far more extensively. This center, in no way, has the facilities it should have. USC has approximately 14,000 students, not all of whom will wait to use the center, and the center has only four full courts (two undersized), three handball courts (always reserved), one squash court, and a few other facilities. Of course there are three outside courts built with an extremely smooth cement and covered with a gloss sealer. These courts are fine for those of you who want to practice your skating. And if it was not for McGuire's summer clinic the other courts, asphalt (good move), would not be built. They have a minor flaw, no baskets yet. Fortunatelv the law students, COCK weekly during the fall and spring' versity holidays and exam periods. lion requests and other mail items umbia, S. C. Subscription rates are ers. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. The )00 from the student activity fund, ription to the paper. Offices of the I 318 of the Russell House -on the 3176, 777-4249 and 777-3808. Second C. Although the GAMECOCK Is a ersity of South Carolina, it is not an The opinions expressed herein do University, the student body, or all - - - . . Glenda Miller -.-.-.-.-.-....Holly Gatling -..-..-.. ..John T. GasW -.-.--.-.-.. ...eSharon Givens a. .... ...Ute Huckabee ...... .. ...Doug Williams - - .. . . . Steve Parker -.-.-.-.-.-..........om Price~ -.--.-. .. .. ..Rusty Robinson .. .. ...Karin Burchstead Vicki Thomas .... .. .. .. ..Bob Craft - -- -. .. .Monty Preston -.-.--.-.-. ..Patty McGuillian ry Evans, K. Wayne Ford, Armida uin, Ruthie Lyon, Hugh McKinight, Sfeigitz, Lou Tenant, Ann Winters, I, and Fran Zupan. ant, Jim Hersh, Gary West, Teddy Hefner, Charles Collins y Dicely, Doug Holladay, Alan Hui, e Kish, Lewis Phillips, Murry Sill ' - -- - . .Art Frank ling staff oranaton Letters nurses, and BA students are finally getting new buildings. We can only hope that these buildings will be more complete than the P. E. center. It will be a miracle when, .or it, this asinine school ever completely helps its "normal" students, not just the athletic department. If that day should ever come it will be a day to celebrate, but don't count on it. JOHN LEWIS Love Carolina or leave it DEAR MS. MILLER: Recently the Gamecock has printed things about news all around the campus. Is it so bad for a group like SCPRIG to want to try to help the people here, people who will be running this country soon and who deserve to know the facts and figures that SCPRIG will supply? Or at least try to supply? (They are doing something complaining that we as people should be informed about our economy and how it effects us!) Why not give them a chance-next year isn't too late to complain if you're dissatisfied and you CAN get your money back. You could even try not paying your "taxes" like Joan Baez does. One article complains because we pay for athletics events that many students don't go to. What the hell is $12 dollars ( and even all of that amount doesn't go towards tickets)?! If you can't afford that you should go to a school where they don't have any athletics. You wouldn't be charged there for them-they would tack it on as something else. If you want to complain about fees try the coliseum itself. It's supposed to be for the university, but we all but practically have to rent it to use it. And how about the equipment in side? Have you ever borrowed a projector from there? No! You have to rent it along with anything else from there...Why not complain about that? And finally the boys from the STACI Red Ca, Monday ti 5:30 t Micheoll 3 Prime R Sandwiches. Sou 634 HARDE at F=ive Horseshoe don't want- the athletes to "crash" their parties. You think because a guy's a jock he's not human and subject to human motivations? Because he drinks beer and gets "outofhand" is he iny less a man or an athlete? Also, ,asey Manning didn't have to sign to go to Carolina. Him like anyone else, has to wait for his chance to prove himself on any great team. It really is funny to read the Gamecock. A few people get together and decide a few things. need to be changed and so they make news happen. Bravo! But have you ever heard anyone trying to change, for instance, the parking situation? What about all those off-campus drivers who pay 110.00 a year to have a hunting license (it can't be called a sarking sticker anymore!) What about their activities fees and the !ampus events they can't see )osted inside dorms because they ive off campus? 900 parking )laces for 15,000 students (or there abouts on both figures) is pretty idiculous. What about the 30 ninute meters and 1 hour meters vhen classes last 50 to 75 minutes? knd what about the silver Rolls Rtoyce that never has a ticket but is always expired? Think about it-the colieseum and he parking meters. Those could )e real issues. They have been ;een to be faulty and should be :ontested. I'm not saying that :ontesting SCPRIG or the ac ivities fees, or even the athletes is ad, for what is there without lifferent viewpoints? I'm sure here will be some who disagree with me too. But there seems to be ;o much griping all around campus about things and I think that if rou're going to take a stand you ihould be able to back it with logic mnd reasoning. It looks like a mini .lection around here with all the nudslinging going on. Playboy must have had ulterior notives in rating U.S.C. as a >rofessional party school. Like America-if you don't love ,arolina-leave it! Think about it. CAROLE RICHARDSON pet Hour tru Friday a 6:30 or Set-Up 0* ib Dinner ~25 s, Salads. Desserts N STREET Points Gamecock papers pollute, too DEAR MS. MILLER: Re: "Lobby Pollution," the photograph of Eco 70's paper-laden reclamation bin (The Gamecock, Mon. Feb. 14). Approximately six unopened, unread stacks of recent GAMECOCKS comprised a portion of that day's haul. Lobby pollution??? PEGGY O'NEAL The mighty pen of the policeman DEAR MS. MILLER: I would like to relate an incident that occurred to me within the last few days. Any criticisms are not directed against the personnel who I met and talked with; in fact, their cooperation and explanations were the sole redeeming items in the entire situation. Saturday night I received a parking ticket while I was inside Columbia Hall meeting a date. The violation checked was "Blocking Driveway"; the imaginative officer had refined and clarified this by penciling in the word "partly." When I ap peared at the Campus Security Building, 438 Main St., I was informed that I could not appeal the violation before the ap propriate appellate court because I had not registered my car with the University. I was informed that somewhere in the registration materials - and, more noticeably, in the handbook I would receive AFTER car registration - was the provision that any student who operates a car on campus regularly ooccasionally must register the car with the univer sity. "Occasionally", I was in formed had been defined in previous cases as "more than once." I am a full-time law student and live adjacent to campus in a privately owned apartment, where my car is parked exclusively, except when I stop in front of a women's dorm for a date. When the dust had settled, I was presented with two alternatives: pay the fine, or register my car, in which case the registration would apply retroactively and I would be able to appeal the ticket. It was pointed out tome that if Ichsethe latter alternative, the ticket and its fine would probably be cancelled due to clearly mitigating cir cumstance. Coincidence would have it, the amount of the fine and the cost of registration were the same. Fascinating. In closing, perhaps the source of the problem should be noted. I refer to the Imaginative officer, who in his discretion created a new traffic offense - solely a legislative function - by adding "partly" to "blocking driveway" JAMES G. BOGLE, JR. Subscribe 1K the Gamecock