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Power: BY BOB CRAFT Columnist The mantle of power of tl SGA was passed in a dignifit ceremony at the Rutledl Chapel Tuesday and by am large, it was similar to otht inaugurals. The outgoing PreE dent talked about his disa pointments and thanked peop and the new President outlint plans for the future. David Spinazzolo, from a pi pared text, stood once age with "mixed emotions" deliver his last address. With bluntness, he scrap across the old subjects of pc lighting, poor housing and pc libraries and complained abc the priorities,of the Universi and wondered aloud why t rest of the University was i aware of them. He stated that student si port among "the involved" s dents was riddled with fissui of "eternal dissention and b kering." All of this is true. Stude organizations contini The Gutenburg Exp Society Ac Fights Dre BYH The National Society for the began a national campaign to Locally, such celebrities as F. Jones and Mr. Knozit will I One commercial, to appear future, will feature USC Athl is surely his most stirring pu His commentary, in part, r "Hello, South Carolinians, t out against mononucleosis, or in some lighty circles, 'the ki "Mono Is transmitted by th to the lips of another, and I an evil disease. "It causes a loss of ener marijuana-it can cripple and you that mono Is a dread di my football boys catching it. 'beer, women, football,' but : three of them. "So what I want you to doi contact which is creating a let the Communists move in. disease, but with your help, v Speaker of the S.C. House "My fellow Southerners, we terrible disease transmitted 1 ing our fine schools in Souh haired, bearded unkempt 1I woman, you can be sure tha helping to stamp out this drea students out of our fine echo Dr. Jones' and Mr. Knozit' The Society hopes to raise to establish plush offices in., made by writing to the Socie Gamecock, USC. 4 Hackwor rivalries that weaken the effect of student organizations upon the administration. As long as this continues, "Student Power" le is simply a hackworn phrase to d be carted out at election time. re d We are transients here. We .r are here for a brief hour and 1- then we are gone; gone so that P- our only contact with USC is the le Sunday morning sports pages. ,d Bickering only wastes what lit tle time we have. re iin The Administration knows to that and knows it consciously. That is why they do not really take us seriously when we say ed something. They cannot take us or seriously because we are here or for so short a time and because out our petty internal dissensions ity and rivalries bludgeon away he what little power we have. iot "Many times you will shake your heads in despair because lp- of an uncaring constituency tu- unwilling to get involved, bic *es kering among those few who ic- are willing and actions by the Uni-versity that will subvert, divert and otherwise avert nt those countless problems that le you know plague students )riment ainst Mono ad Disease ARRY HOPE Eradication of Mononucleosis today call attention to this dread disease. Paul Dietzel, Solomon Blatt, Thomas be -spokesmen for the society. on radio sometime within the near tic Director Paul F. Dietzel in what blic relations campaign to date. eads: his is Paul Dietzel. I'm here to speak mono, as it is called. It is also called ssing disease.' Ssexual contact of one person's lips don't mind telling you that this is gy and is just like the evil drug kill. Yes, friends, I don't mind telling sease. I don't have to worry about All they do is wander around saying tever do anything about any of the is stop kissing. Stop this evil sexual disease which can stop us all, and There is no cure for this crippling vre can make it. Thank you." Sol Blatt says in his advertisements, cannot afford to fall victim to this >y the Northern students now attend-. Carolina...whenever you see a long oy with his shag-haired, unkempt at monumucleosis lurks. Join me in d disease by throwing all out-of-state ols. Thank you." i statements are just as insipid. $500,000 in this campaign in order Fefferson Square. Donations may be ty's president, Harry Hope, c-o The .opinions n Phrase daily," Spinazzolo sald*to the new officers. It's sad, but it's sadder because it's true. Rita McKinney stood up and said "We know our problenii and our limitations." She. sai, the way out was for students t4 realize that they had no inpu with a University Senate ant that the students should worl with the Board of Trustees. Both are logical and emi iently to be desired, but first students have to be aroused and :o that the bickering must stop. "It's time the University and he state recognize that the Stu lent Body is responsible" 4cKinney said. A big task, for :hey haven't seen it that way ret. McKinney said, "We will be heard," and that is possible bul will it be fruitful conversatior or simply more of the same, meaningless echoes? More new officers, more brave words and the new year is underway. Good luck to all of us. Lette, Police Inadequate ro the Editor: My recent acquisition of what [ shall lovingly refer to as a five dollar door-handle ornament For my car has prompted me to ::ompose a few lines in praise )f the esteemed Motor Vehicle Registration Division, a sub idiary of the University Secur ity Police Office. From my Dbservation, there seems to be i somewhat random and lac kadaisical method of parking regulation enforcement-if indeed there exists a method. In many instances, cars in viola tion of said regulations are not given citations. I realize that "the fact that a person parks in violation of any law or regula tion and does not receive a cita tion does not mean that the law or regulation is no longer in effect." (Section 1, Article 9, rraffic and Parking Regula tions) My argument is that the afforementioned article is merely an excuse for an inef ricient Parking Patrol. Students at USC deserve at least one efficient branch of the adminis tration. After all, if one can't rely on the police....It is grossly Lunfair for students, for whom parking,is just one of many problems, to have to contend with a whimsical law enforce ment system. At least now I can pay the fine wi.th a partially alf[eviated Gnsi~ eorge R. Grinton, Jr. Hassle Resented ro the Editor: Hassling, as columnist Bob Fischl pointed out in the April 2, 1973 Gamecock, can take forms other than what most think it is. I for one resent a hassle that has bugged me ever since I have been at USC. And I'm writing to let other students who are tired of it know that they have some recourse. SDAY d L rs To The E I im tired of having tracts, incense, and broadsides shoved at me while I am around the Russell House. I just do not care to have anything to do with these people. I'm not saying that there should not be public dis plays at tables that one could stop and look at if he is interested. I think that kind of display serves a good purpose. But if I want to pursue some thing like that, I feel it should be on my own initiative. Besides, the place is littered up with junk these people hand out, because students don't think to put in the garbage. I'm glad to see that most don't even take it in the first place, even when it's shoved on them. The man to contact if you are tired of this is Dr. Paul P. Fidler, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs. His office is in the Pendleton Building, and his phone number is 8151. Please gripe, so this can be eliminated. Ralph B. Hanahan, Jr. No Taste In Music To the Editor: This is not a letter to The Gamecock but actually a letter to our great USC student body. It all started one day when my roommate came into the room and told me that he had just seen a poster that said Brewer and Shipley, Jimmie Spheeris, and Silverman were going to be a Township on April 6 for only $1.50. My first reaction was to tell him that he was full of It but I soon found out that it was true. Now I'm just counting the days till the concert begins but this letter isn't being written totally about this concert but about concerts in general in Columbia. .When I asked a friend of mine if he was going to the Brewer and Shipley show he said, "Are you kidding, why waste a buck and a half on that." A guy with him said, "Why can't the con itor cert committee bring someone big like Alice Cooper or some thing, why.do they bring these small no talent acts like Brewer and Shipley." It was then that I told these guys to cram it. I couldn't believe that they could say such crap as that. What I'm really trying to lead into by all this is that this is the typical Columbia and USC attitude and I'm personally sick of it. You fools would rather see Grank Funk and Alice Cooper for such ripoff prices as $5.00 to $6.00 THAN Brewer and Shipley for $1.50 I have seen both Brewer and Shipley and Jimmie Spheeris in New Jersey for three times what this price is and I'd pay that price again to see them both. Spheeris has more talent than Alice Cooper and Grand Funk combined. In conclusion, what I've always heard about the average Southerner's intellect when it comes to music is quite true. We have about ten thousand teenyboppers on this campus and probably ninety-nine per cent of those are Southerners. Well typical' Southern stu dents, go see Grand Funk or something like it. Let Funk blow your ears of and dance around on stage. Let Alice hang himself on stage and cut up baby dolls. Let these "big stars" do their acts and let them laugh at you naive idiots, because that's exactly what they're doing; laughing and collecting your six bucks. As for me, and anyone else that cares about quality music, and natural acting per formers, I'll be at Township Auditorium on April 6 watching three fine acts. Oh yes, I'll prob ably be laughing too but not about Brewer and Shipley. Instead, I'll be laughing at all you idiots who didn't pay your measly $1.50 to see the concert and there will be no sympathy when you hear how great the performance was that you missed. Stephen .Jackson