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Fans R4 BY MARSHALL SWANSON Contributing Editor It looks as if Sept. 2? is shaping up as one of those days in Gamecock football tI'.t most partisans would just as soon forget. Then, as if that wasn't enough, the USC Marching Band added insult to injury by ignoring the student, faculty and staff side of the stands during its half-time extravaganza, playing only to the alumni side of the stadium. The result was grumbling aplenty as fans filed out of stadium turnstiles at the end of the evening. Irvin Woods, chairman of the powerful athletic committee of the Student Senate-the body that controls student tickets to athletic events and complaints related to the tickets--got enough flak about the incident from friends to warrant doing something about it. 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Although the memo was dated Oct. 4, Band Director Thomas R. O'Neal said Tuesday he knew nothing about it until he was shown a photostatted copy of the document by the Gamecock. Later, Woods said the memo was delayed due to sluggish mailing procedures at SGA. STUDEr Whats SLIEF COLUM] at , 0 e @le (9 rfVIT a across from th A Niqhtly Potatoes, Onion Gravy, Bread& Butter, letti & Tomato Sauce, Bread & Butter, 4 tti with Meat Sauce, Cole Slaw, Bread ai ider with French Fries, Cole Slaw, Brea ter and waitress wanted. & Tops nts L.ook for Fall otball games or w dressed up r blends. Choose tion of baseball western shirts. igs, add a jacket ttoms and Tops. By Ma O'Neal said the show was ?resented entirely to the alumni ide of the stadium because a sortion of the program which was o have been performed facing the )ther side was deleted due to a ack of time. Future half-time shows, he idded, would be presented to both ;ides of the stands. "In most stadiums yoL problem. Alumni sit oo stands as the other hc O'Neal said the problem of the )and facing both sides of the itands was probably the "largest :omplaint" he'd heard since :oming to the job last year, and was a dilemma he was still grappling with. "I've wrestled with the problem and still haven't come up with a solution. In most stadiums you don't have this problem. Alumni sit on the same side of the stands is the other home-team boosters." 4TS... new at LATON BIA INN he e Coliseum special Coffee or Tea $1.85 "offe or Tea $1.85 rid Butter $159 d and Butter $1.65 rching E O'Neal said he recognized the memo as a legitimate complaint by students and added that he was happy students were making it obvious they wanted to see the band. "But the alumni have a right to see the shows too," he said. O'Neal said filming the show for week-day critique sessions was don't have this i the same side of the me-team boosters." another problem and pointed to the difficulties of trying to get the entire performance on film when half of the show is presented to one side of the stands and half to the other side. O'Neal was hesitant to speculate on the effect of the committee's threat to move the band's seats if the incident were to happen again. "These band members pay their student activities fees too," he said. "They practice hard to play the performances and I think they're entitled to good seats." In the meantime the question of the athletic committee's authority to move seats anywhere was left unanswered. THE USC CYCLING CI TOUR de Sunday, Oe A short, easy ride to th Meet at Russell Hom For Info, call L 25 percent off ON ALL GIRLS WINTER INNER CITY 2016 Green Stie 3 bIocksJim Colum bia Complete W Outfi T'AI).E NAMES THlE NORTII FACE AI,PENI,tTE PRODUCTS Al,PINE DESiGN \'ASQUE. EULREKA JAN SPORT (AMP 7 HOURS. 11A M . S 30P.M. Mon. thru~ 952 HARDEN ST., ACROSS FROM SEJ Iand Woods claimed authority for the memo came not from a con stitutional amendment or statute but precedent. "I've been on the athletic committee for four years and it has acted with control. over student seating all that time," he said. He added that he thought an agreement had been made with the band some years ago as to where the band would sit during performances. The committee, added Woods, was instrumental in giving a combination spirit committee card section the heave-ho last year after it had been granted favorable seating but didn't live up to preseason promises. Whether or not O'Neal would take sitting-down an athletic committee move to tamper with band seating arrangements wasn't clear either. Ralph Floyd, assistant athletic director, said he didn't think a squabble over the incident was likely, however. 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