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* Page 6, THE GAMECOCK Monday. September 24, 1973 "It is a newspaper's duty to print the news, and rais hell." -Wilbur F. Storey, Chicago Tribune Jones' Opportunity Vy President Jones has the rare opportunity this week to demonstrate to the faculty and the student body that their respective legislative processes do have an effect on the governance of USC. This opportunity is manifest in the selection of three new members that will sit with the faculty athletic committee to discuss the question of funding women's and club sports. It has become no secret in recent weeks that Jones opposes the idea of having Coach Paul Dietzel come before the Student Allocations Commission to justify his disbursement of the $12.50 student athletic fee which totals this year near a quarter of a million dollars. However the issue was forced when the faculty senate reported out a resolution two weeks ago that would require Dietzel to do just that. This week Jones will probably be making his three appointments to the special committee and it is likely that those three will be nothing but proxies for Jones' view. The aspect of the new committee that will be crucial, however, is the selection. of the chairman. Dean William F. Putnam of business administration is present chairman of the faculty committee having been appointed by Jones. It would seem at first glance that Jone s would retain Putnam as chairman so as to keep things under his (Jones') control. But if Putnam were to preside over the ad hoc committee, his inability to vote as chairman would weaken the administration stance. Some simple mathematics should show why. The ad hoc committee is comprised of 12 members: the old faculty athletic committee which is made up of five faculty members, three students and Putnam; a representative from business affairs, student affairs and the athletic department. The three new ap pointees are sure to vote against the original faculty proposal. Also there are two faculty members on the committee who are believed to be pro-Dietzel in the dispute. Not counting Putnam that is a total of five committee members who would oppose the proposed funding change. Again not counting Putnam, that leaves six com mittee members who are for giving the faculty resolution a favorable report for passage by the trustees. Since three of those six will be students appointed by Rita McKinney, we know how they will vote if McKinney has the influence she says she has. That leaves the three other faculty members on the committee, who according to our information have been behind the change in funding procedure from the beginmg. So if Putnam remains chairman of the committee, a final vote on the issue would leave him voteless with six members for giving jurisdiction of the athletic fee to the SAC, and five against. However if Jones were to appoin tone of the pro-SAC members chairman, then the 6-5 vote would swing to the side of the administration leaving Dietzel autonomous in the disbursement of a quarter of a million dollars in student funds. We were pessimistic about Jones' ability to let the faculty senate decide this issue from the beginning. The fact that there is another committee studying this question after six moths of faculty athletic committee study should say something about Jones' and the trustees' respect for the jurisdiction of their peers in this matter. Nevertheless we now find ourselves in a position to observe a test of Jones' administrative integrity. We're hoping he doesn't flunk--or NC as it were.-PE The Gutenberg 1 Mrs. Dear Diary, I have never been so shocked in all my life. The depravity.. .the hedonism. . the debauchery .. .and it wasn't even one of Jim Dickey's cocktail parties! Podie Brunton callea me up last night and said "Let's go to the late movie at the Miracle Theatre. They're showing something that my kids haver been talking about all week." So I said I was game and shecame by and picked me up. Well, the movie was Reefer Madness. I told Podie that it was made well before my time and she just laughed and we went on in. There must have been a few hundred kids in there, all looking gVggle-eyed and giggly. We sat down near the front and started t tunching our popcorn. The movie started. It was all about marijuana and the sins and evil that ac company it. Things were pretty grim - all these kids were lured into smoking dope andwhenever they did it they got wild-eyed and started to rape, pillage, plunder and mutilate. And all the time the kids were raping pillaging, plundering and mutilating, all the kids in the theatre were laughing and giggling and getting very obnoxious. Pretty soon, the whole thing turned into sheer bedlam. I told Podie that we never did anything like that when we were in high school. She 'just gave me a little snicker and a wink. We were just sitting there - minding our own business when somebody passed a 0 hand-rolled cigarette our 0 way. Well, I don't smoke 0 unfiltered cigarettes and 0 neither does Podie, so we 0 just handed it on down the 0 row. (I think it's really fi touching to see the a generosity of these kids - when they're down to their last cigarette, they still share it with others. The younger generation isn't so' bad. That's what I keep1 telling Bob Alexander every Experiment Jones' I By Harry Hope Associate V Editor time he says "I'll bore ther into submission.") Anyway, they were prett funny smelling cigarettes because they smelled lik burning leaves. I reache into my purse and pulle out. my pack, tore the filte off, lit it up and passed i around. I watched tha cigarette go up and dowi the rows, and people wer< giving it a funny look ever; time they took a drag. guess they aren't used t< decent cigarettes. Prett; soon, I passed aroun( another, -and another, an( another. My Winstons wer< all over the theatre. Suddenly, somebody grabbed me by the shoulder and I looked up to see this cop who said "Lady, you're under arrest." And Podie just started laughing, so they took her in too. They told me I was under arrest for possession of marijuana. MARIJUANA! I was trying to explain that I bought those cigarettes from Cornell Arms and they certainly didn't sell marijuana there. They finally gave me permission to call Tom. Pizza I I BUY ON] GET ON] ~SPAGHE~ wServing WiE 3P.M. Ti ILocated ait the Intei II26 aross froni )iary Well, Tom and Hal came down to the station all in a huff because they had been P watching a Jerry Lewis movie. Tom said "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into," and ne sounded so much like Oliver Hardy that I just had to laugh. The cop who arrested me jumped up and yelled "See! See! She's stoned." Well, after a few hours we got the whole n thing straightened out and Tom and I got home about Y 3:30 that morning. E When we got home, Jim I Dickey was sitting on the I front porch trying to shoot r the gold ball . off the Maxcy t Monument with a bow and t arrow. We just left him i sitting there and went in a side to see Abbott and Costello meet Godzilla and I the Monster that Devoured Cleveland. It was a very good movie - John Agar was in it. Tom really didn't raise too much hell after I ex plained what happened. We both agreed that the Bruntons were a bad in fluence on me. Now, we've got to go down. to Houston and see what befalls the football team. Wait til I tell Trom i lost $50 on the Riggs King match. Lots of Love, Mary Jones 32660598 CPD The House 3 DINNER E FREE! 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