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Tickets: From Staff Reports Despite the blatant problems resulting from last year's Notre Dame USC basketball game, USC student ticket distribution will follow the same pattern again this year. "There has been no policy change and I see no reason why there should be any concern," Ray Faircloth, ticket manager for the athletic departinunt, said last. week. Analysis But concern is a matter of in dividual interest and many students were concerned last year when it surfaced that there were not enough student tickets for the crucial USC Notre Dame basketball game. The head of student ticket distribution, Roger Booco, said, "because there are only 5,500 tickets for students per game, it becomes a numbers thinf." "That's the problem,' Booco siad. "You've got 12,000 seats in the Coliseum as opposed' to in ex cess of 54,000 in the -tadium. "There ar,,. 'Aiways enough tickets a actble except with nationally ranked teams like Notre Dame," .Booco said. "For those games, there never will be enough tickets to eliminate student problems unless you kick out the Gamecock Club along with the faculty and staff. It has to be reduced to money as dirt as that FEN .N -All together - print shirt, all '~* .* 'r'together by "J) trag,us rr Trula Distribution t pattern again this W. ROGER BOOCO ....system is fair may seem." Even if you did kick out the Ga mecock Club, the faculty and staff, and every other organization receiving preferential -seating, the Coliseum would still not seat the approximately 15,000 full-time stueents covered by the distribution plan. At most only one third of these students could be admitted to any one game. "Anyone who actively par ticipates in campus life should be considered first," Booco said. "I fell graduate students and seniors should have better seating. 'You spend so many years here and you're entitled to a better seat. Seating here is determined by class rank on a first come, first serve basis," Booco said. "I think the system is fair." The University of Georgia has about the same enrollment as USC I for the Trula's Girl, subtle in stripes on raspberry or yistachio with country flow. rs lining the entire jacket, md the co-ordinating floral - rralled for a delightful go , f". Pantsuit $48. Shirt $18. ch. g4 I i4n %n II o follow the same basketball season but their ticket distribution operates on random selection. This system is a modification of those systems used at USC, the University of Florida and the University of T ennessee according to Mrs. Virginia Whitehead, Georgia's ticket manager. "You might say we don't use anything not on random selection," saod Whitehead. "We have two systems: season seating and coupon books. "Season seating allows married sti<ents and those students with steady dates to occupy permanent seats in a section determined by random oselection," Whitehead said. "Those students who have different dates every week use the coupon books." The coupon books place students in various sections for each game. With this system, all students receive both the better and the worse seats. For example, those students with the best seats in the first game receive the worst seats for the next game and vice versa, eventually working their way back to the better seating. "Since Georgia is not a big basketball school," said Whitehead, "There is no problem with student seating. Students are admitted with their ID and sit in a designated section." Clemson 'University utilizes basically the same system as USC except all students are admitted, though they may have io stand. "We have very little disagreement," said Clemson's ticket manager. "You know students, if you let them in, they find a place to sit. We never turn any away." Satisfied students seem to in icate an efficent system. USC has unsatisfied students and for this year, it appears they will remain so. Monday thru WET ARID NII Comein thin MA 32I.M inS.(c DR. MYLE$ -1 FRIEDMAN DR. J. PATRICK WESCOTT Educational Foundation Honors two professors Two professors in the USC College of Education have been named holders of chairs established through the USC Educational Foundation Chair Endowment Club. Dr. Myles I. Friedman has been designated Gambrell Chair Club Professor and Dr. J. Patrick Wescott is now Swearingen Chair Club Professor. Friedman holds a professorship established by the Chair En dowment Club as a tribute to E. Smythe Gambrell, USC alumnus, longtime Atlanta attorney, former president of the American Bar Association and founding chairman of the club. On the USC Faculty since 1964, Friedman, formerly a Northwestern University professor, holds a master's and doctoral degrees in educational psychology from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at the Universityof California at Berkeley. Wescott, coordinator of the Doctor of Education program, joined the USC faculty in 1973 from Georgia State University. Before Georgia State, Wescott taught at Washington State Univeristy and was an elementary school teacher and administrator and secondary school teacher, counselor and administrator. Widely published in educational journals, he holds two bachelor's degrees from the University of British Columbia, master's from Western Washington State College and Doctor of Education degree in' educationa from the University of Oregon. The Swearingen Chair was established in 1971 by a gift to the Chair Endowment Club by John E. Swearingen Jr., a USC alumnus and president of Standard Oil, in memory of his father John C . Swearingen Sr., South Carolina State Superintendet of Education form 1908-1922. NEW HO URS hnrsday 6: ls a. m. - 8:00 r P. m. dlay 6:30,"" a.m. - 3 p.m. E,NOW OPENATl eemu sc oodl t hr ad m in .r r Wdey Yubl ietoa jorasit.od w bceo' educationa adminstraton from the University) gn