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Better System To TIlE EDITOR: The present system of ticke distribution for football an( basketball games has on severa occasions caused all-night and all day lines for student tickets. Asl anyone who was at the Notre Dame game how long they stood in line. And while you're at it, ask ther how many classes they had tc miss. It's hard to understand how the University can justify a syster that sometimes forces the studen to miss class to pick up his covetec football or basketball tickets. I think there's a way to eliminat both lines and missed classes, an< I'd likc to outline a better system The student puts fee receipt(s) it an unsealed envelope with his o1 her name. class, and the name o USC's opponent written on the outside. The envelope can be dropped by the Coliseum a day tc two before the scheduled pick-up day. Tickets and fee receipts car be claimed at any time on the scheduled day by showing I1 card(s> to match the fee receipt u The Coliseum staff can sort the envelopes by the class after a giver deadline for turning them in. Tickets can then be placed in the envelopes at random i raduate: Easterner Stral Heavy 14 * Casual Westeri Contrast F * Straight Leg W All Fabric * Hundreds Of N New Fabr Over 8( OurM Gamecock I first and so forth) and passed out a the Coliseum on the pick-up day. Any envelopes not claimed tha day could be kept at the Coliseun box office or at the Athletic Department. I believe that the Student Senate owes it ot the students to at least consider this mithod of improving t the ticket distribution system. I Steve Hlolland Continuing Swindle TO TIlE EDITOR: Today another episode in the continuing swindle of the student by the University of South Caroline t was written. It was ticket 1 distribution day for the USC-Notre Dame basketball game. Hundred! of students, having paid for theil tickets weeks before by way of the mandatory Student Activities Fee were denied those same tickets. The University has reneged on th< purchase agreement. And to ad< crime to crime, there will be ni refunds to the students who wer< unable to obtain their tickets after in most cases, hours of waiting. Were the University a privat( institution, there might bi recourse for students through lega channels. The University is one o the most powerful, and certainl: the most ruthless, arms of stat government, however, and anyon seeking sat isfact ion of hi grievances through the court would most likely find himself very frustrated individual. lain St. (next to Caro ght Leg * z. Denim Slacks *GlIi iping-Pastel Colors estern Jeans *50C s and Colors N EW Double Knits, cs and Styles ) Styles 0 [ail Feb. etters To TI Perhaps if the administration, or the athletic department, would explain why barely more than half the seats in the Coliseum are alloted to students, why state legislators and other big-wigs are given tickets that have been paid for by students, and why activity fees are mandatory when the goods and services the fees are supposed to guarantee are so shoddy and frequently totally unavailable, then students could suffer these crimes and tragedies more easily and with some degree of un derstanding. But I think the real culprit is Student Government, the ragged collection of hacks and stooges that devised (yes, it was devised) and supervise one of the most inexplicably bizarre methods of ticket distribution that mankind has ever seen. They do so with typical ineptness and lack of regard for their constituents, and to reward themselves for their stupidity with the best tickets to be had. But I will not be too harsh on these dull and ignorant people, for the pitiful truth is, they actually take themselves seriously, and that is a tragic mistake for any buffoon. I will soon graduate from USC and I have come to the sobering realization that dear old Carolina has taught me very little except the fine arts of flim-flammery nd swindling. Indeed, cynical as it may sound, life and times at the University of South Carolina are one hell of a rip-off. Richard E. Young [na Theatre)( estern Shirts mbroided and Piain tter Body Shirts All Colors and Designs I NEW Sport Shirts tw Designs and Cuts e Satin Em broided Jackets Only '24.95 f Shoes 18. 1974 e Editor Legal Question i TO THE EDITORt: Please set me straight on the following information: 1. USC has approximately 25,000 registered students. 2. The coliseum seats 15,000. " 3. Approximately 19,000 students have paid activities fees (giving w, the benefit of doubt to the ex university in saying that the other Je 6,000 are graduate assistants and part time students etc..) TI 4. 4,000 students pay activities fees m who have no hope of ever seeing sa the Gamecocks play basketball at R any given game. lif 5. USC holds only 7,000 tickets for H students; leaving the other 12,000 w out of luck and out of seats.. .the th other 8,000 goes to the public, yC scholarship donors, etc. 6. Is this legal? I stood in line almost 4 hours on ce Wednesday for Notre Dame tickets m only to find that there were none N left for Graduate Students...I paid al my activities fee...all $45 of it and it di harldy seems fair to me that I G, should be unable to attend a lif basketball game that I have lif already paid for! It isn't my fault m that there aren't enough seats. th As far as I'm concerned, I don't st care who gets inside to view the hz game..my only complaint is that of whoever has paid should get in and obviously USC is selling the same seat to more than one student! The p; activity fee should be optional for lii all or seats should be sold on a first as come, first served basis...pay m (money ) for each game as you go. st It s as simple as that. re I may have rounded my numbers w to the nearest thousand but the fact I' remains that the university is sh naking a bundle of money (that it di leeds, granted) in a most un- ne ;crupulous manner. b< Thank you. D Nancy Tirone P.S. I have two more questions. How many graduate students paid their $45 activity fee? Is it correct at th Pizza EI BUY ONE GET ONE SPAGH ServedI with Garli chef sa Serving WED)NI J)P.M.' I.octed(A at the inIters(' I u cross% from~ 11 at 1000 tickets were allocated for e graduate and law students? Punishment Wrong 0 THE EDITOR: I believe Capital Punishment is ong according to the teaching, amples, and Commandments of sus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount and ie Ten Commandments (of whom ost Legislators would probably y, yes I believe) does not say alers or Governments should end e for some because of evil acts. a told those about to stone a )man to death, the ones of you at have not committed sins urselves, stone her, none ialified to stone her. In His Ten Commnadements He rtainly covered Capital Punish ent, when He said "Thou Shalt At Kill", even a moron should be )le to see that He says no in vidual, State or Federal )vernment should end a human e. Punishment yes, but ending e, no. Our forefathers erred any, many times-For instance ey believed the just reward for ealing a horse was death by inging, worse still electrocution a 14 year old boy. South Carolina Legislators could ss laws making certain crimes e in prison without pardon, just easy as they can pass laws aking execution legal. Some ates in America have long ago cognized execution of prisoners rong against the laws of God. deral and State Governments ould set the example for in viduals. stop killing. It isn't sessary for South Carolina to come a Copy-Cat of the other xiecrat as some evil ,egislators, Lawyers. Judges, d other influential has beens, uld like it to do. I). I':VANS Louse DINNER FREE! ET TI S)5Y eii Bread l and