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L44e (kametork Editor BOB8BAKER Managing Editor News Editor CARL NAYLOR MARION ELLIOTT Advertising Manager ART FRANK Although the GAMECOCK is a publication of the students of the University of South Carolina, it is not an official publication of the University. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the University, the student body or all the staff enmbers of the GAMECOCK. Peripheral Parking? Peripheral parking, Hum-m-m. Students' and faculty complaints about the parking facilities at USC have been so common for so long, that now it seems to be taken for granted. The diligent search for a parking space anywhere near one's class presents a new challenge every day. However, a group of USC faculty members has been studying the possibility of banning all parking within the campus' peripheral boundaries. All parking would be done in large areas on the campus perimeter, and some sort of mass transit system would take students to and from class. Is this needed? There are approximately 6,326 parking spaces on campus, according to George Key, director of public safety. He has told the GAMECOCK that these spaces along with several hundred city meter spaces provide enough parking. In fact, Key said several hundred spaces go unused every day. The GAMECOCK realizes that a very big portion of this unused parking space is in garages and big lots far away from the center of campus. We also know that as long as there is the possibility of getting a space near one's class, students will continue to hunt for that space. Also, a factor here is that no suitable mass transit system has been started by the Administration to ef fectively transport students to and from such parking areas. Most students would rather be on time to class and many simply do not trust the inconsistent bus service the University has now. The simple fact is: there are not enough spaces close to classrooms. USC pays that price for being an inner city campus. Let's face that and go from there. Peripheral parking as proposed by several faculty members would prohibit all interior campus parking. This means all student and all faculty and all staff with very few exceptions. This would do two things. First, the senseless searching for spaces will stop. There will be none. Second, the Administration would have to implement some effective form of mass transit, which has to be the ultimate answer. We realize money is a problem. Mass transit, would be costly. However, we feel that a more efficient parking system should be high on the University's list of priorities. After all, soon we should have all the buildings we need. Wouldn't it be nice to go to and from those buildings quickly and easily. If peripheral parking is implemented there will be a lot of grumbling from many different parties at first. However, if a suitable mass transit system is started, things would settle down and the University would be better off. Peripheral parking, yes. MEE Where Budget Cuts 12 It's interesting to note that not all areas of the Carolina community were affected by the cuts in the '75 '76 budget for USC. According to Sig Huitt, information officer of the University, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees approved all classified and unclassified per sonnel salaries as recommended by the State Budget and Control Board. If that were true, and apparently it is, based on the Budget message released in January by the Budget and Control Board, the University's payroll for 1975-76 will cover 3,910 persons at a whopping expense of $37,305,561. While that figure reflects an increase over last year's payroll of 227 persons and $2.9 million, there apparently seems to be no room for alarm as money is quite plen tiful in our Great Society. The GAMECOCK invites all persons within I and thoughts known to our readers. It is your weekly in our 'Letters to the Editor" secti promised, and though longer letters will be pri preference due to space requirements. And, I anonymous letters, though we will withhold nai Preferably, letters should be typed with nar deliver letters personally to our office in Rocr Drawer A. USC, Columbia 29208. Patterson Apathetic TO THE EDITOR: In regard to a comment of President Patterson in an in terview with the GAMECOCK last Thursday I would like to elaborate on one particular statement that he made. I quote: GAMECOCK Are you worried about a sense of apathy within the student body at the University? - PATTERSON: I'm personally not really concerned about apathy at all. It's up to the student to get involved. It's enough for each of us to just sit down and decide what is best for ourselves. Thus the administration has declared that the affairs of students outside the academic world is not their concern. The President of our University is obviously apathetic to the apathy of students outside the classroom. One factor that our illustrious President has failed to consider in this ideology is that the education one receives outside the classroom is just as important beneficial to the student as the education he or she receives through academic instruction. In many cases these extracurricular student activities prepare the student better for the outside world. Through more than 180 student organizations on our campus, a number of career-related programs are offered that can provide us with one essential factor that determines whether oiie gets a job or not; experience. Academics may get the student an ap pointment with a potentialem ployer, but experience will probably get him the job. One is essential to the success of the other; yet our administration feels that their responsibility only covers academics. Also, our administration ad vocates that academics alone will create a well-balanced student without the services of campus related social outlets. Academic strain may cause nervous frustrations. A break from the norm is needed just to maintain one's sanity. One of the most popular social related outlets for students at USC are the campus movies. During the summer especially, movies provide a needed break from in tensive academic anxieties. This particular summer finds the University Union Cinematic Arts on't T ell T he St A statement released by ti states that personnel will be el that is correct, then how come : hired this year if indeed they Also, with so much extra m< seems to be the reasons for cu Gee, at one custodian per build No that's too many. We're be and secretarial help than a domestic help, right? More paper and no one to cdeE we'll just have to wade in pap forgot. According to the Budge illustrious President is schedul4 next year to cover his inflat $43,60, that's life, and we'll all etters he campus community to make their opinions eoice- we are the vehicle. We attempt to print on all letters received. Minimal editing is nted, letters of 200 worcs and under are given is the decision of the editors that we not run nes for valid reasons. le and address of the author included. Please 1 318 Russell House or write Campus Opinion, Committee in one of the most critical and unfortunate predicaments that any student organization has ever faced. Because of the expansion of the Russell House, the University theatre will not be available as a film center until sometime this fall. As a consequence, the com mittee had to find an alternate location for the films. In its attempts to book another facility just for the summer months, the Cinematic Arts Committee has had little success. The reason for that failure is simple: the Director of the Room and Space bookings of the University in Petigru College has flatly stated that all major auditoriums that could properly serve as a substitute theatre are unavailable for the summer because of other organizations having booked them. Thus, the Cinematic Arts Committee has through necessity been forced to use the services of two facilities that are totally inadequate for showing films; the Golden Spur and Calcott College. Just this past Monday night, more than 150 students, faculty and staff crammed themselves into the Golden Spur to see Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece "Smiles of a Summer Night." Because of the film's subtitles being located near the bottom of the screen, nearly half the people attending couldn't read the dialogue. This along with thet fact that many could only partially see the screen because of three support beams blocking theik view and also because there were not enough chairs available to accomodate the crowd, dozens of persons left in disgust. Two faculty members later told me that they would never attend another campus film until a better facility was found. Pleas to our administration go unanswered. For example, the Space Allocations office stated that Currell College with both of its large auditoriums that would be satisfactory for the showing of films, are unavailable during the summer. However, this does not appear to be the case as the Currell College staff and my own personal observations show that the auditoriums are not being used. Still, the administration maintains that they are being used. Therefore, since a student organization cannot appeal to a higher authority than the ad ory ie University yesterday iminated by attrition. If ?.27 more people are to be are. >ney for employes, what tting custodial services? ing, hmm that's about... tter off with 754 clerical vith 390 custodial and nf it up? Ho, hum. Guess er next year. Oh gee, I t and Control Board, our ad to get a $3,000 increase ionary needs. Hell, at live through it. nRLn [o The ministration it's in disagreement with, the Carolina Community has little choice but to attend movies, five days a week, in rooms that are no bigger than the Board of Tru stees' Office. Campus films serve two beneficial purposes: they can be pure entertainment or in tellectually educational. In im proper and unsatisfactory surroundings, they serve no one. Hopefully in the near future, President Patterson and his ad ministration will change their emphasis from serving themselves to helping others. The welfare of the Carolina Community depends on it. CHUCKCROMER Law Center Cheats? TO THE EDITOR If you want a good story, why not go over to the Law Center and talk to some rising second year students, who are as a whole ex tremely upset that most of their spring grades have not come out, even though exams were given a month and one-half ago, beginning May 1. Among those Professors who told students they had not even begun grading their exams as of this week are: Charles Randall, Randall Chastain, George Haimbaugh, Eldon Wedlock and Thomas Ward. What does this mean? Some students are beginning their third week of a seven week summer session without even knowing if they are qualified to be there. They were on the borderline after the fall grades and could have flunked out during the spring semester. Other students are driving in from all over the state, and some from out-of-state, to find out if they can continue in law school next fall,.or if they should look for a job, but no grades are posted to give them the slightest indication as to their status. Note that Professor Wedlock is widely known for his "concern" for individual rights President of South Carolina American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) but views his students as having no rights. He said he had not even started grading his exams, and would in no way meet the supposed "deadline" of June 15 for grades to be out. But this is not the only indication (Iamecocrk *taff Entertainment Editor BRENDA BELL Sports Editor BILLY BAKER Photography Editor JOHNNY DRUMMINGS Production Manager TE R RY COON Circulation Manager GREG TOWER Y Contributors BECKY CROWE VIVIAN DAVIS JACK BAINE GENE HOOD ELLEN BILES PHItLIP JAMES DONNA BISE JULIE JONES R. VANCE BUTTS MITCH KNEECE SUSAN CATE KIM Mc DOWELL MARK DILLARD MARK MAYER DANE EDENS KARLEN PETIT KA THY FDWARDS SUSAN STEVENS AL ISON j:STFN I YNN,wi AT T HtANK. GIl ''/ N O , IOWF Pv