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TICK] All too often, the bureaucratic tendencies of an institution harm the constituency it should be directly responsible to. In many instances, this cannot be helped or avoided. However, as the gravity of the problem becomes greater, certain changes, no matter how far-reaching, have to be con sidered and implemented. Theoretically, each student at this University has an equal right to attend any sporting event the school has to offer. This is the reason for the athletic fee, and can be easily accomplished in a foot ball stadium which seats more than 50,000 people. However, such is not the case at the Carolina Coliseum. The numbers restriction placed on student basketball tickets has been here since the Coliseum was built. There are more than 5,800 students at Carolina; in most cases, less "OkAY, SO YO4 COULDW YOU C04LD P Nixon-Li] It was reported in the Feb. Charlotte Observer that Presi inspired by the courage of Abr as well he might. le went furtl himself to Lincoln in the "lhar, criticism they both had receh The parallel thus drawn is v and deserves to be taken similarities are so great betwe< that all will be astonished. Consider their education. Ab~ educated himself to a great ext his f avorite authors wer( Shakespeare. Nixon was educ sLchools,and his favorite autho Nicer>lo Machiavelli. Consider also their career lawyers, bo0th legislator: presidents. Another amazing Nixon, as quoted in the Obse "Lincoln was possibly the criticized president in1 history. great strength of character n (his feelings)...no matter h unfair the criticism might 1 "This particular fact is ani today." It is very obvious that Nixo Lincoln's silence, and emula own. Lincoln's speech and his di< and terse. Nixon's are so plai television c'Omlment ators mi -speeches to the publ)1ic. Lincoln is said to have temp)er and( to have been hig fortunately, the para lle can: to Nixon. because he is nots<( for' the public to decide on ti Mir. lincoln had a great rc I )eclarat ion of I ndependen1c1W st ituitionl. So has Nixon. In fat than 5,800 have any scathing desire to attend a basketball game. So the major problem arises against such opponents as Notre Dame and Marquette. And the complaints against distribution methods always falls on the shoulders of student government. The system is definitely unfair; the only people losing are the students. Suggestions as to changes have flourished since Wednesday; everything from giving each student a coupon en titling him to get in the gate, but assigning no specified seat, making it a first-come-first-serve proposition to guaranteeing closed circuit televison to anyone who is denied a ticket. Many suggestions are valid. But, as is the case at thi: University, some administrative ineffectual committee would un doubtedly have to be created t 4 r GET THE TEAMSTERS OR V.F.W. AVE GOTrEN BEBE To SEND HIM A ic oin: N< 13 issue of the of the Leciar dent Nixon is pears to have aham Lincoln, has to refer i ier to comn pare PreI'si(ent sh and unfair" greed. Presi ed. his willing do cry interesting to the Watert urther. The has recently m the two men tapes, but remaining ta raham Lincoln Watergate, a ent, and two of the prosecuti Burns and L,incolni wa ated in fine often amuse r' seems to be is an even (easily be pro s. Both were his as "The( ,. and both "State of th< par :lel! hath no man rver , sai that entire Unite< most heavily . Iothi mnn but he had that interesting e ever to display the war end ow harsh andl election.( *e. problemsU in aspirat ion to us about tour y peace. Lini n is nspired by between the tes him by his wouIld have p)ossible. :tion were p)la in lThe slight n and terse that are no) dou ist explain his years5 in in Thd a c'heerIflI Th'is is not 1 hlv s;ocial. tin- (lay Lincoh! 'i be ext endled pol1ities lu ha 'en often enough p)lexit y hi rt lese points, have anothe verence' for the bult we can and the ('on- Hi(hard' Ni SNixon's studv dIiffterent fn SGA Shou ToLUSC A opinion 'It is a newspaper's duty to print the news,and raise hell." --Wilbur F. Storey, The Chicago Times, 1861 study the problem before recommendations are made. If past experiences are any in dications, it could be 1980 before anything constructive occurs. One thing is definite: Student government has got to get out of the business of ticket distribution. Granted, student senators might be relegated to the status of an average student sitting on the top row of the corner section. But at least SGA would not have to sub jected to the verbal abuse it has taken in the last five days. The Athletic Department would ro COOPERATE BUT SURELY VALNlJE....n > Likeness tion and the Constitution ap been so great that he no longer o them. .incoln despised trickery and lent Nixon does, also. Witness cation of certain specified tapes ate p)rosecution. Of course, he refused to turn over anymore surely this is because the >es have nothing more to (10 with id he is merely trtying to control an's greed. ;a great story-teller, and would iis friends with his yarns. Nixon treater story -teller. This can een b)y rega rding such works of heekers Speech"' and the recent Union"' Address. Greater wit than that he couldl fake out the l States. here p)residents in war t ime. An >incidence is that, in both cases dI arouInd the time of their re if course. Nixon had greater riegotiat ing a truce. It took him ars to come to a good,. honlorable' *oln was ale to end the War States with little negotiation. Hie endedl it earlier if it had been di ifferences between the two imen >t account able to the hundred1 1' between''i them andl the coin l.pmn t s in Amnerican politics. suggest t hatI Nixon is a modern-m but mely( to p)oint out that a cqui red a sub)tletyv and1( co n i'.rt o unknown W\e mayV never r'presidt 'e like Abrahami I,incoln. look forv~.' rd to mnany more like ~on unless polities takes a path1 in that which it has now. id Return I thietic De then, obviously, take over a distribution. However, to insure a that USC students would not be getting constant bad deals, a watchdog committee should be n, established to observe the process si and know where every ticket to ft every sporting event has gone. c This serves two important n functions. First, there would be no b doubt as to where the tickets are g going. Rumors such as those s( circulating Wednesday morning gl Solomon Blatt getting anywhere from 90-1,000 tickets) could be either denied or cor,firmed. I Second, and perha- more im- C portant, is the fact that any C problems with distribution and r pickuv would be traced back to where they originate in the athletic r department. Then, instead of t using SGA to carry out its s legwork and bear the abuse, the a Athletic Department would have to Satire Let Legi8 Hand On BY BILL OUTLAW A recent fee receipt check taken at the Coliseum during ticket pickup for the Notre Dame game reveals some startling statistics about the number of students enrolled in each class. The Poll indicates that 60 per cent of all students at. Carolina are graduate students, 25 per cent are seniors, 10 percent are juniors, 3 per cent are sophomores, I per cent are freshmen and I per cent do not know what they are. These figures give an accurate picture of what the lines looked like at the Colisieum Wednesday. It is time that the University established a much fairer and more workable method of t distributing tickets. The fairest and easiest method of doing this would be to give all of the f student tickets to members of the General Assembly and let them distribute them at their own discretion. Each student t could contact his local representative and get tickets from him for the game. This would accomplish two important things. First, it wouldl enable the student and the legislators to get to know ; each other better. Secondly, it wouldl enable the student to really find out what great guys t are ini the Genera'~l Assem bly andl it gives the members of the Ge(neral Assem ly a chance to start buying votes at a younger age than ever before. If that dloesn' t work out thient the univer'sity c'ouldI resort tot handling out ticke'ts at times based on G Pi's. St udents having a GPit of 2.0 and below w~ouldl get their tickets for every ' game at 8:00. a 2.01 would go at; Letters I Alt hough t he G:; \ \1E'( 't('K dfl0yflVlOus- lett(I'rS, alt houghl hetter's w\ill bE' rw'ed. W(. 'rob1ems artment nswer to the students for its own ctions. The membership of this com iittee would be open to both udents and faculty. Perhaps the culty and student athletic mmittees could designate embers, or the two bodies could merged into a single working oup. However, input from every )urce possible ought to be aaranteed. In too many cases, the spheres of nfluence of one University epartment dip into too many ther student entities. Students, ot administrators, end up suf ering. Student government should ot be a part of this if it is to con inue working for the good of tudents. Put the responsibility nd the blame, if necessary, where t belongs. And do it now. 0lators t Tickets :05 etc. This is fair because hose students with the low sPIRs aren't here for the 'ducational benefits anyway md therefore they should be the )mes that get to go to the games. the students with the higher :Pls are more interested in ;tudying than in basketball ames anyway, and would not et upset about being excluded rom ticket distribution. Another alternative would be o have a line standing contest it the start of each semester. \1l interested students would be nvolved in a stand-off with the ;tudents standing the longest in ine getting the best tickets. Perhaps a line-busting con est would be even fairer. All of he students could be placed in ines and when a whistle blows vervone could start busting in ront of each other. When a Ohistle is blown again everyone nust freeze where they are and 100 tickets would be handed out o the people at the front of the inc. Once the 500 tickets are manded out, another whistle could blow and once again the tudents start jockeying for >osition until the whistle blows gain andt another 500 would be Ianded out. This p)rocedure '.outld continue until all of the ickets have been distributed. All of the above systems nent ioned are equallyv as fair as he one in use at the present imne. Something nleedts to be lone, either a total revision of he present process or a more horough ap)pl icat ion of the on trots that thiiis current ystem calls for.. If this isn't lone we could let all students vith green eves go in at 8:00 will be given to those is. W\e Will not run we cant witIhhold names(' 1e tryV to gular'antee t hat l() not guartI8!l(E whe(n