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The joke called student election DEAR MS. MILLER: After observing the farce that occurred during election registration, I can see that the inept student government that is now in office will be replaced by people who are just as inept. The names of the officers may change, but the type of government now in existence will be with us for a long time. While sitting at the registration table, I learned of the following: 1. Kathy Jennings, who is running for the office of vice president, has already started distributing handouts. The rules plainly state that material such as this cannot be handed out until March 21. 2. One gentleman, who is an off campus graduate student running for the office of senator declared that the choice tickets offered to student to student government officers was his reason for seeking office. He thought the small Students to have pre-reg Joe Usry, candidate for studei students at USC will have a pre-r ''The system would be very siml student would have to do is go in the end of the semester and simp For instance, say a student want! o'clock and Eng. 311 on TTH at I writes this down, sends the carc computer center sends a sheet bai so many students want a particula 202 on MWF at 10 o'clock, okay, tP we need 5 sections, that way no c soever and the students are guar need. "Under this system closed past," Usry declared. Now, will this system work and i at UCLA, Notre Dame, Tennessee Florida State and the Univ. of Texi to prove it," Usry stated. It will work at USC too, accor ministration, "this plan is one of corporated at USC without any pr want it." You can have this kind of regis1 must get out and work for it by gei your friends to vote for the man can.... ...vote for the man who will elec Joe student body pi GAME The GAMECOCK is published tri semesters with the exception of Uni Changes of address forms, subscrip should be sent to Drawer A, USC, Col $3 per semester or $6 for both semesi GAMECOCK this year received $50, entitling full-time students to a subst GAMECOCK are in Rooms 316 ant University campus. Phones are 777 class postage paid at Columbia, S. publication of the students of the Unis 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.-.-.-.-.-.-.. .. .. Larr Gilbert, Bob Grondahl, Barbara Niewiadomski, Ellen Murray, Kris Wilson, Ann Winters, Debbie Krell, Be and F ran Zupan. Sports Writers.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Photographers............ Courtne' Ste Advertising Manager... .... eTemporary positions enn amount of time taken up by his senate duties would be much less than waiting in line at the Coliseum for tickets. 3. In many senate districts, people are running unopposed. Also, in some districts four senate seats may be open, with only two people running for the four seats. The above examples are typical of the way elections are run at USC. In the first example, you have a flagrant violation of the election rules. In the second example, you have someone who is running for all the wrong reason.) In the third example, you see apathy the student body has towards the election. It certainly seems as if the coming election will change nothing. Granted there may be people running for office who are truly interested in the welfare of the student body. But it is my opinion that most of the people running for office do so for personal gain, whether it be choice tickets or inflated egos. The joke that is called student election must be changes. We must have people in office who are istration next year-Usry it body president said today that egistration system if he is elected. mle to install,'' Usry stated.. All a tosee his advisor 2.3 weeks before ly tell him what he wants to take. to take History 201 on MWF at 10 o'clock, then the advisor simply I to the computer center and the :k to each department saying that r course; 400 let's say want history e history department simply says mne has to stand in any line what anteed the classes they want and out sections will be a thing of the s it feasible for USC? "It's worked , Ohio State, Marquette, Alabama, is and I have sample card packets ding to Jerry Jenkins of the Ad the best I've seen, it could be in oblem but first the students must ration system next year, but you ting yourself to the polls and then who can deliver what he says he bring you pre-registration t Usry esident on Mar. 21 COCK -weekly during the fall and spring versity holidays and exam periods. tion requests and other mail items umbia, S. C. Subscription rates are ers. Bulk copies are $6 per 100. The 000 from the student activity fund, :ription to the paper. Offices of the 318 of the Russell House on the 8178, 777-4249 and 777-3888. 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 -.-.-.-.-...eGlenda Miller -.-.-.-.-.-.-..Jim Farrell. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-..John T. Gash -.-..-...-....9 Sharon Givens -.-.-.-.-.-.....Ut. 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Let me also remind him that stated fact and fact and his stated opinions, when paralleled, do not necessarily go hand in hand. My final conclusions concerning the concert were based on what gave me the most listening pleasure. There is no denying that Mahavishau has some talent. Otherwise they would not have been on the stage at all, but I found them rather boring after the first 15 minutes or so. There were no real innovations as far as I could see. Personally I thought that McKendree Spring's violinist was more talent laden than the one playing for Mahavishnu, and I really didn't think that Mahavishnu's lead guitarist was of superstar genre. If Parrott's theory governing the judgement of all music were to hold true for anything that came along then perhaps one day we would hear a brilliantly BLOOD DONORS NEEDED! IMMEDIATE CASH PAYMENT NEW HOURS 9:30 a.m. 'til 6 p.m. Mon-Fri. 9:30 a.m. 't 6 p.m. Sat. CAROLINA BLOOD BANK 1317 Taylor 253-6232 Beer $.25 served with meal unique,amazingly innovatory, superbly executed instrumental imitation of a vomiting yak and, according to Parrott, these characteristics would constitute sound ground for immediate praise. Finally let me say that as a paid student, a registered voter, and a U.S. citizen by birth, my own "puny invectives" get just as many points as Parrott's do. JAMES E. BARROLL Ask your son for a joint DEAR MS. MILLER: As anybody knows that has ever smoked any grass, the main drug problem is people getting busted for possession of marijuana. I have been smoking for almost six years and haven't noticed any decline in my mental faculties or raped any unobliging females when I was stoned. All I have experienced are many enjoyable evenings sitting with friends and listening to music or going to a flick or anything that you do when you are stoned. Of course you can go overboard on anything. Some people will at tempt to stay stoned all the time and be unhappy, but the problem there isn't the grass, it's the people. If they were not smoking, they would probably be drinking which many peple can ittest is much worse than any amount of smoking. H ow long Joes it take for the lawmakers to Yet smart? Are they going to irrest the whole population of this :ountry and then change the laws? ,ome on, S.C. legislators, look at vhat you are doing. If you don't )elieve me, try it. Go down to ;LED and tell them you want to ee the latest batch of marijuana onfiscated. Then when they tren't looking, snitch a little bit - bout two teaspoons full - and go ut by yourself and smoke it. Nobody will know except you, md when you get high you'll say, 'Is that all there is to it?" Oh, and f you can't get any at SLED ieadquarters ask your son for a oint. Just about anybody these lays smokes grass. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST ALEX HP Restauran 988 Knox Studen' Moi 8 oz. ci For Res 796-5012 Well, ignorance strikes again DEAR MS. MILLER: Well,, Mr. No Name, ignorance strikes again. You attack Dean Alexander for performing his job and lump him into a faceless mom called the administration. It is so easy to verbally attak somene you do not know. This seems to be popular with some studenst. lt's look cool and bitch at that ad ministration for some inane act. Please don't misunderstand me. I am not attempting to defend in anyway the individuals of the administration. But I am saytng before you attack, know the peson who you are accusing and know the reasoning behind his acts. You said 'if' there had been a good movie and 'if' Dean' Alexander had stayed longer, it was no accident that both of those arguments are negative. It also seems as if you would be em barrassed to say, you were hdd up the great total of five minutes. In conclusion you should take some time to learn about 0ean Alexander, a man who knows his stuff. He applies all of his ability to helping the students in all areas of the university and outside if need be. Talk to him, another one of those 'administration' fellows. And if you are not proud enough of your name to sign it well, then why not change it? SAM BARBER Diary (Continued from Page 2) when he was teaching all those boys how to repair refrigerators at Purdue - and sure enough, there he was; blundering on camera with that bow tie, cigar, raccoon coat and yelling "23 Skidooo." I told Tom he ought to write in for royalties on that one, but he said no, he already had a sota enir. Then I remembered he got that piece of rubber from the monster's antenna. I asked him if he still keeps it in his office, and he right now it's on loan to Mike Grier because he has a thing about an tennae. Well, gotta go. Right off, you mail Chopin pigs. 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