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771/5 WEEKA RRSCHACH 7ESr: /F E/ PE G7AM4 AND 2 POR C"%%, YOI'RE S4NE Press Secretaries Needed For Student Organizations Most USC students are suffering from the delusion the The Gamecock function is to serve as a publicity organ for various clubs ai organizations. Every time a club has a weekend convention in Irmo, S. C., a membW of that club will come into the Gamecock offices armed with pictures 4 installation of new officers at the Irmo Hilton and say, "We want this : The Gamecock because we need the publicity and all the students ai interested." As if all the students would be interested in a club whos members have specialized interests and who do not compose even on tenth of one per cent of the student body. This does not imply that The Gamecock is not interested in club news meetings, but we do wish students would not take it as a personal insu when an article is not run in the paper. There are several criteria that must be met before an article can I run. Naturally these criteria are subjective and even vary from oi edition to the next depending on the amount of space in the newspape Unfortunately standards are relaxed when more pages must be fille Thus some articles are run which would not ordinarily run or which o tained more space than they deserved like the story "Clothing DriN Begins Greek Week." There is little justification for the relaxation of rules, but it has bet necessary upon occasion considering the fact that the staff has dwindh from approximately 15 full-time reporters at the beginning of ti semester to four full-time reporters now. We think the subjective criteria employed are fair for the most pal Most of the students, at least in the editorial positions of the newspape have had several journalism courses and while they are not y professionals, they are a little more experienced than the averai student in judging the newsworthiness of an article. Newsworthiness is determined by how many students will be affect4 byr the article. For instance senate meetings are covered each Wednesda because The Gamecock Is the only tie most students have with ti government that represents them. Timeliness Is also a factor since events that happen a week befoi publication are seldom of interest at the time of publication. Spas limitations, as mentioned above, also have an effect. The Gamecock appreciates the interest students show in bringli articles by and makes every effort to announce meetings In Its nev briefs cohmnn. The best course for an organization which thinks it Is not getting enoui news coverage Is to elect a press secretary who will be the only memb4 of that organization to have contact with The Gamecoc This way the press secretary will have some idea of what will be used i the paper and thus will eliminate work for himself and hopefully make h organization more aware of the newspaper's resnpniiis. --- opinions Summer job $2,500 Disa By Ernie Kastner Gamecock Staff Writer Tuesday night I went to a group interview for a summer job. The ad placed in "The Gamecock" last week said the job was for $200 per week. $200 is a lot of money so I was interested in just how a person could make this money in one sum mer. I was pretty sure it was some kind of sales job. I was right. When I called the number given by the ad I reached an answering service. The woman an swering took my name, phone number, grade and address and told me that some one would be in touch with me. A few days later I received a phone call from a man telling me the time and the meeting place. The last thing the man told me was that he would save a place for me at the meeting. I took this to mean he was expecting a big crowd. I arrived at the meeting place about ten minutes early. There were two or three guys lounging around and a couple of girls. The girls left before the meeting got started. Maybe they knew what was going to happen. By the time things got rolling there were at the most 10 guys there including myself. I did not consider this a very big crowd. The man in charge started the meeting off by giving us a questionnaire to fill out. While we were filling out these information gathering devices he went into his routine. He told us he represented one of the largest companies in the world and told us about other big companies they owned. This was all very fine but this told me nothing about the job itself. s Then looking at us with a disarming smile he went I on to tell us that we, as college students, were in the upper seven per cent of the nation's population as far as education goes. Of course, this caused many r heads to swell. Suddenly he brought us down to f earth by telling us that in experience and in dealing I with people we ranked very low. Everyone there ? was quickly knocked out of the top ten. By now I was sure that this was a sales job but I wondered when they would get around to telling us poor gullible inexperienced college kids. r We handed in the questionnaires and the man t called on a student who had worked last summer to come up and give us a testimony. It seems this guy had made over $5,000 last summer and I am sure L this impressed many people. D As this student was giving his testimony the main man called one of our members outside. This guy never returned. I assumed that the leader had been Simpressed with the guy's questionnaire and had quickly sent him to a personal interview somewhere 'Blackboard' Pun BY THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE "Rather than FEDERATION reprimand'," NW] An Interior Department decision Director Lou Clapi torenew all public grazing would better be ca privileges of a convicted Colorado encouragement' as ieagle killer with only a if the Interior Depa "reprimand" has been labeled by to continue to allow~ e the National Wildlife Federation, our wildlife." as "less punishment than writing 'I In the letter will not do it again' 10 times on a Clapper said, Ac a blackboard". Whitaker stated th The Federation's sharp criticism to act sternly In th came in response to Acting Interior this mere slap on Secretary John Whitaker's example of his st4 i reluctance to bar usage of over Clapper added, "thi a 60,000 acres of publc lands to Dean think of the othe Visintainer, a Craig, Colo., sheep Administration de rancher who has pleaded guilty to ding wildlife conse ) the helicopter slayings of five Clapper assur r golden eagles. On March 29, In- National Wildlife Fe .terior announced that Visintainer's take "every con grazing privileges were to be step" to overtui renewed and a "letter of decision. reprimand" was sent to the sheep While It has been rancher. thaw f.., a,. s.. . ppointment else in the building. Back to the student testimonial; he finally told us that we would indeed be door-to-door salesmen. Then, with clockwork precision, the leader took the stand again. With his own self-confidence coming out in every word he told us that the people who got this job would make on the average of $2,500 for a summer's work. By the way, the student assistant had told us that we would be attempting to sell a set of books and matching records for pre-school children. There were five books and five records. The price of the books was $40. At the time, I thought nobody would pay that much money for those books, but I was sure our hosts would try to convince us otherwise. The man went on telling us about the experience we would get doing this and the value it would have when we went out into the cold world of the college graduate. He then gave us back the questionnaires asking us to fill out the back of them. This part resembled an application as it asked for references and other things that all employers want from prospective employes. Suddenly and without prior knowledge I was called out into the hall by the student assistant. This was it, I was going to be sent somewhere for a personal and private interview. The student told me that he could tell I was not interested in what was going on and thanked me for coming. In other words, he was asking me to leave. I guess my false enthusiasm was not convincing. For me, the chance of a lifetime was over. I saw the $200 flying away and I was sure I would lose at least fifteen minutes sleep over it. I left the showroom and went home. Some people probably could make $2,500 selling those books and like doing it. I guess they have that old door-to-door drive. However I still don't think those books are worth $40. I hesitate to question the sincerity of the men involved in this undertaking. But the event I wit nessed Tuesday night was staged. It moved so well that at times I thought I was in the theater. And when I go to the theater I expect to see fiction. Secondly, is there really a pressing need to send thousands of college students out to harass people door-to-door. What does a door-to-door salesman contribute to anyone. I do not know one person who is glad to see one of these guys come to their door. I have even been told at my house to not answer the door when they show up. Maybe there is a need for door-to-door salesmen. I don't think so. ishment Given aC 'etratof the Interior Department, in March h osatio 1972, proposed regulations to erchar'ged te stiffen the ties between grazing ite ao 'letof lsicenses and laws concerning itmnw los oin conservation or protection of tmnisgig natural resources, including open season on eagles. However, issuance of the toVsnan regultions has been held up by Loti sinal, Iterior pending completion of atn ecrtar work on an urlated chemical ese cases." "If "Ther isn 'oialrao h the wrist is an thee wo glaoca resoul why irn discipline," hand-in-han,u lapons arud.g eIr forhdde to though the necessary Interior cisionsrthcomi- regulations regarding eagle killing ciaton ''ar hve been ready for well over a ed at thetar now, the agency continues to aderation would "The Visintainer Incident Is cevbe lega going to happen again," Clapper 'n Whitake added, "and unless the Interior Department ceases Its foot clearly against dragging, once again the killers o shoot eagles, are going to be reard."