Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Web We at The Gamecock always welcome fe new and returning students to USC. But in in addition to a welcome, this year we'd like to ti add a challenge-a seemingly superflous in one. We challenge you to get an education su here, an education instead of merely a at degree. There is a difference. te A frightening number of students manage at to graduate without having learned much at ea all. The present archaic education system here almost makes it easy, and is merely a pt continuation of the damage the public pU schools did to your head. Break free. You th can if you want to, in spite of the university. TI This year's Gamecock will be a different gi kind of chicken. Some changes-the dif A palatable Saturday, the Board of Trustees wil group's request for the university' collection agency to finance the SoL Interest Research Group (SCPIRG). A "Nader's Raiders" style organiza hire professional assistance to wor! consumer and environmental problem The money would come from student The original plan, presented last yec per semester involuntary assessment registration. If a student did not want his money would be refunded later by t This method of what some called "in raised widespread objections, althoug cent of the students here then signed a SCPIRG. The organizational plan to be preset Saturday differs significantly from ti raised such strong objections. Its con they are not final, should make it palatable to students. They include a o a contract to provide safeguards agaii activity, and broader student repres what some feared would be an organi, law students. Few students object to the philosoph main concern is the lack of choice it collecting the $1.50. No doubt a compromise is in the woi there isn't, SCPIRG should not be appi suitable compromise is worked out o procedure, the Board of Trustees shou in the best interests of the students ar Carolina. :ome. . .Chc ent headline type for instance-are mediately obvious to those familiar with e old Gamecock. But the changes we are the process of making will be more thar perficial. We hope the paper will be more bractive, more readable and more in 'esting-worth picking up. And you'll be le to find it in more places soon, and rlier. Perhaps the major change is ir blication frequency. We are now blishing two times a week instead of ree. The new days are Monday anc iursday. This will give us more time t< re you a better product. Dur editorial page is open and we want t< scPIRG I consider a student Wf s assistance as a fre th Carolina Public usc Cam ion, SCPIRG would part with students on anu s in South Carolina. was S. regu r, called for a $1.50 Th of each student at fnd :o support SCPIRG, to th e organization. way voluntary taxation" year h more than 50 per petition supporting ited to the Trustees e original plan that I promises, although sen considerably more Csho ne year trial period, "a ist partisan political the entation to prevent Om ation dominated by the 777 Alti y of SCPIRG. Their O s the procedure for opir uni ks there also, and if -oved. However, if a n the fee-collecting Id approve SCPIRG d the state of South NO1L 'SSE TH \30 nges hear from you. But there will be a change in the letters policy. We will NOT print EVERY letter we receive. Often we get a dearth of letters on one subject-so many in fact, that even avid letters-to-the-editor readers get tired of them. However we will not refuse to print a letter just because we disagree with it's author's point of view. The editorial pages have been moved further inside the paper which will allow better compartmentalization of the news. Other things will change in the next few issues, all hopefully will make the Gamecock the best it has ever been. If we don't succeed, at least we tried. Let us hear from you. -Voice of the PeopIe:. ['HE EDITOR: However, the above the ex :LCOME BACK STUDENTS! penditure from the student funds. bad you missed the free food, was more palatable than the bands, free transportation at appropiation of $750.00 to sponsor 's Summer Festival at Bell SPIRG, a socio-political group, p on the 4th of July. This free more than a thousand dollars to i was for Summer Session underwrite the activities of ents, their friends, and William Kuntsler, defender of the edy who showed up. The affair Chicago Seven, besides the paid for by funds from the "voluntary" athletic fees of lar term university fees, thousands of your dollars. The e main purpose of the Bell biggest farce is no longer on the p party was to expend surplus football field but in the Activity s which cannot be carried over Committee hearings which ap e next year, and also to make propriate your funds for various for the $10.00 increase this political, social, discrimatory, and in university fees, special interest groups. Name withheld by request. GAMECOCK e Gamecock is published twice weekly during the fail and spring esters with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. ange of address forms, subscription requests and other mail items id be sent to Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S. C., 29208. Subscription a are $3 per semester. The Gamecock this year received $38,000 from student activity fund entitling full-time students to a subscription. ces of the Gamecock are rooms 317, 318, and 319 in Russell House on University campus. Telephones are 777-8178 and 777-4249, news, and 3888, advertising. Second class postage paid at Columbia, S. C. ough the Gamecock is a publication of the students of the University outh Cirolina, it is not an official publication of the university. The ions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the rersity, the student body, or' all staff members of the Gamecock. Editor Charles Felienbaum Managing Editor John Gash News Editor Betty Woodruff roit ct a,oug Wsili s inuniveritfesin Mana ecia intrt Franks Naewthedb rqet GAECC IeGmcc spbse wc ekydrn h aladsrn eser wihteecpinofuiest-oiay n xmpros twsaneo drs om,sbcito eussadohrmi tm ddb1ett? rwrA s,Cluba .C,228 usrpo