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Editorials - Athletic Carolina's athletic depart ment underwent some major structural changes in December, and it is diff icult to comprehend the wisdom in the decisions made by the Board of Trustees. The Board created three new positions in the shake-up. Two associate athletic direc torships were handed out, and Paul Dietzel, ousted as athletic director, was offered the newly-created job of vice president for University Relations, a position that is not part of the athletic depart ment. Jim Carlen, the new football coach, and Frank McGuire, the popular basketball coach, are the associate athletic direc tors. Harold "Bo" Hagan, formerly an administrative assistant to Dietzel, was named the new athletic director and will control the other sports' administrative affairs. What the Board has done' is separate the athletic depart Republican inaugural South Carolina's Republican reign in the State House is off to a rocky start-even before taking off. While other state governors have been shown on national television having modest inaugural activities in this troubled economy, James Edwards will take office with a $50per person Governor's Gala and a $12.50 per person Inaugural Ball. Worse thal the price of admission was the invitation sent to Richard M. Nixon of San Clemente, Calif., formerly a Republican politician himself. Fortunately it is highly doubtful Nixon will choose to come out of seclusion to honor Edwards. But maybe he will send one of his trusted aides, like H. R. Haldeman or John Ehr lichman. Or maybe he will send a tape-recorded message. THE GAME( JIlM NERSH Mar ing .dfger STEVE PARtKER Tihe Gmetedh is the official student University of South Carolina and is publish Mondays and Tihrsdays, during the fall and once a week during the summer by Publications and communications. Opinions expressed in The Gamececk are and not those of the University of South CaroJ Change of address forms, subscription correspondence should be sent to The Ga USC, Columbia, 2920S. Subscription rates and 52 for the summer sessions. Second class postage naid at Columbia,. Rhake-up ment into four areas-football, basketball, women's sports and the others. Each area will have its own administrative head. Carlen will control the football program; McGuire his basketball program; Helen Timmermans, the women's athletic director, will control women's sports affairs and Hagan will have the other sports. This structure makes Carlen and McGuire completely in control of their programs. Their position can be com pared to being the coach and general manager of a professional sports team. While there are some ad vantages of this set-up, there are also a number of negative points. For instance, in the new format the athletic department has no one spokesman to establish policy for the entire department. In the past the athletic director was in charge of the entire program, but now Hagan has control over only certain sports. With four different prople exerting a large amount of control in the department it will be difficult for a cohesive program to be installed for the entire athletic program. The wisest thing the Board could have done was named an athletic director--someone who was the the coach of a sports team-to have complete control over the entire department. This would have eliminated the problem of factionalizing the department and would have assured that one sport was not favored by a director coaching that sport. In the present format Carlen and McGuire, as associate directors, will tend to overemphasize the importance of their respective sports. A less partisan director could have looked at the entire program with each sport in its proper perspective. Now the athletic program is split into four factions .with four directors setting policy for one of the factions. The Game 30words. 1 pleas. ncu edit all lette ColumbIa 2 News Editor BILL PRATT PETE FEHELEY newspaper of the id twice weekly, on spring semester and Assistant Sports ie he USC Board of MARK LEARY toeof the editors Enetimn Edi ma. CHUCK CROMER requests and other meeck, Drawer A, Copy Editors are $3 per semester JACK BAINE 'FRANK DELOACI LISA ALTSCHWA The Gam Compromise needed TO THE EDITOR: Student Government Associations have been formed throughout this nation to give students an opportunity to actively participate in a form of democratic rule. Recently on campus, we have seen a new breed of senator take office. These representatives seem to be sin cerely concerned with serving their fellow students. Yet the existence of recurring problems deny the theory that anything is being done, Food service, health service, and parking problems are still with us. In order to get programming done, organizations still must battle endless red tape. The lack of facilities for student use thwart activity - oriented groups especially with regard to meeting rooms and space for daytime and evening programs. The present Senate is justifiably concerned with student activity fee money and where is is going. Their concern is reflected in the current SAC bill. Senators have acted according to what the judge to be the best interest of the student body. However, they have acted for the most part, without attaining a broad perspective of the entire student organization picture. In addition, there is little evidence that an effort has been made to become familar with the abundant records dealing with where the money goes; the amounts allocated; and how it is used. People working in student ac tivities have found themselves continually haranged through the actions of such well meaning people. This is not to say the constructive criticism is not welcomed. But how can student volunteers do their job when they must deal with extraneous struggles and petty political games? All those involved in serving the students at Carolina need to work together. Otherwise little progress will be made and time, money and energy will continue to be wasted. Student Senators should aggressively seek out the feelings and view points of those they supposedly represent. This in cludes members of student organizations. The misunderstanding created by the SAC bill between those actively involved is not necessary. Eock welcomes let ters from readers. Letters shou hey must be signed with the writer's true name. rame will be withheld if circumstances warrant le your mailing address and a telephone number 's, not for content, but to meet our space limitati nos. Phote Edior MARl MASENG tr-Phefographers trMURRY SILL COURTNEY DICELY RUSS JEFFCOAT DONNA BISE tsr DESBGARDNER SHEIA STEPHENS WARREN CLAYTON JOHNNY DRUMMING RICK WIDDIFIELD SCOTT KEARNS SER Staff Artist Lecock's M in SGA dealings Instead of indulging in a mud sliding temper tantrum--let's talk and try to work out a compromise. HARRIET J. FERGUSON (The writer is vice president for coordination of the University Union.) Student plans 'learning exchange' TO THE EDITOR: I would like to introduce a non profit, service program called he Learning Exchange. This "do-it yourself" program is by no means original--Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society outlines the procedure. 'The Learning Exchange is quite simple. Basically, it asserts that institutions are not the sole ar biters of learning. It wants to bring people together, student and non student alike, to freely exchange desirable skills. It is an anti institutional learning catalyst. It works this way--one person is fluent in French but wishes to learn more about archeology, while an archeologist wishes to learn French. The Learning Exchange would bring these persons and teir respective skills together. A similar program in Chicago is very successful, but the Learning Exchange idea is based on the public reaction. To gauge the reaction here, then, I ask in terewted individuals to write to the: Learning Exchange P. O. Box 80503 University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 Please list the skills you may teach and the skills you want to learn. I am tentatively willing to include tutorial, "one-way" notices. If the Welcome bac. Traditionally the first newspaper of each semester has a few sen tences welcoming the students back to classes and telling how good the student paper will be this time. Making certain not to interrupt this practice, The Gamecock welcomes everyone back to the campus for another semester and hopes the paper this spring will Id be limited to a single subject and a maximum of Pseudonyms or other aliases will not be used, but To assist us in verifying the identity of writers, where you can be reached. We reserve the right to ons. Address: Campus Opinion, Drawer A, USC, Advertising Manager ART FRANK Advertising Staff BOBBY AIKEN PAUL PATITUCCI KRISTi PHILLIPS Production Manager TERRY COON Production STEVEN B. FOILES KATHY MASON LINDA MCKENNA JACK SOWELL MICKEY TRIMARCHI BESYE WILCO'Xn ail response is adequate, I will un dertake the publish a leaflet with this information. TIM BEALL Congaree preserve deserves support TO THE EDITOR: The Congaree Swamp National Preserve Association (CSNPA) has recently increAsed its cam paign to establish a national preserve. The USC Young Democrats agree that efforts to make a national preserve of the Congaree Swamp should be im plemented. The world is increasingly becoming concrete and stripped of its natural resources and beauty. Citizens of South Carolina must not let the Congaree Swamp be made part of the National Park System. This plan should be greatly sup ported to stop this abusive, un planned logging. Five arguments are presented by the CSNPA which illustrate the need to save the Congaree. Theq are: 1. to provide an area for the spectacular outdoor recreation for campers, etc.; 2. to create new areas for fishing; 3. to preserve the near-virgin forest and its big trees for future generations to enjoy; 4. to provide a vast natural laboratory for education and scientific study and 5. to con tribute to South Carolina's economy by enhancing tourism. With such a potential source of natural, long-lasting beauty, how can one even start to think of let ting the Congaree Swamp further deteriorate because of man-made monstrosity? DON LANEY, III (The writer is president of the USC Young Democrats.) k, again - appeal at some time or other to every student. The Gamecock welcomes suggestions from everyone on how to improve the paper. Some parts of campus have been neglected by the paper in past semesters and this time we hope to have the personel to reach some of the untouched sections. Columnists BILL GRANT -MOBY SALAHUDDIN Staff Writers ERIC ANDERSON ROBERT ATCHISON BILLY BAKER WILLIAM BAKER RAY COOPER MARK DILLARD TERRY DUGAS MARION ELLIOTT INEZ FRASIER SID GRIFFIN SHIRLEY MCMORRBS GEORGE MORRIS MARK MORROW LEE POWELL LARRY ROTH GLENN SAWICKI WILL STEPHENS MICKEY TRIMARCHI