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By Bill Outlaw
Ticket scalping is big
USC-Clemson game roll
line at this annual rival]
ticket and the going prii
lines is about $25. Poor
only scalp theirs for al
Students that never ?
be seen picking up their
l * ?vn *i a l a
marKet. wnue tnese sti
their tickets and do wit
remains that some U
football fans are deprn
Clemson games. They
and if they missed out <
asked to pay the scalpw
students just can't affo
that scalpers who are rc
out, but the fact remain
Many students abu
plimentary tickets the}
rpcpivp four rnmnlimp
r
many of them are seal
Football players are not
members of The Game
student tickets and are
per ticket.
The scalping disease
USC campus. Sever
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Although this writer do<
would be a safe bet tha
in the practice.
Local businesses als
Many of these business
and sell them to cus
students, particularly f
owner of a local steak h<
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the "right" to do with
There is a law on the t
these tickets for more
price. This is the type
officers politely turn t
goes on. (That is when
aren't selling confisc
Many people scalping
scale, taking their own
cost. While I am not c<
they are not depriving <
tickets at regular pric
The real culprits in
are the ones that collec
and then scalp them. H
cost of football games u
just outside the footb;
tickets coming out of th
these people were fin<
tickets turned over to th
^11 nAwrmn?w?rm? in ir-n-nr-i i
BILL
bill outlaw.
MlHriil Fiji Mtor
?ney? Sc
mson tic]
' Klicinocc ncnonio 11 \T
> MUOl&IV/OO y
Is around. Seats on th
ry often go for as muc
ce for seats on the 10 I
ole end zone ticket he
bout $10 or $15.
ittend USC football g
Clemson tickets to
Lidents have the right
h them as they please
SC students who ar
/ed of their tickets to
paid their activities
on the ticket pickup,
srs rate for the ticke
ird $15 to $50 a ticket
wading this are crying
s it just is not fair.
ise ineir privileges
j receive. All footba
intary tickets per pi;
Iping them at the goi
' thp nnl v nnpc rlnincr tl
j vy \yiiAj \/vaviia^ v?
cock staff have picke
selling them above tl
has spread to all an
*al members of the
>n (SGA) are scalping
*s not know of any per
t faculty members al
o "auction" off their
>es have bought seas
tomers and some e
ootbail players sell tf
3use is known to do thi
are saying. People sh
their tickets as the}
>ooks that prohibits tl
i than $1 above the
5 of law that law enf
heir heads while the
these law enforceme
ated drugs).
I tickets do so only oi
tickets and selling th
)ndoning this practice
11 + A%
Diners ot tneir cnance
es.
the ticket scalping
t 10, 15, and 20 or mo
rhese are the ones th;
p and most of them c<
all stadium on Satui
eir ears. I think it's a
for this practice
le44real" Carolina fooi
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when the ^
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to 40-yard
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on the ?\"*
to pick up
the fact
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. the USC- WL
fees, too,
they are A
ts. Many jf&
I know MuL
their eyes Bf
for com- j
11 players *r\
ayer, and gpj
ing rate.
lis. Some I??
d up their _
he $? cost Kenn
^as to the
i Student IS JUS I
I tickets. **
sonally, it
so engage Ry PATRICK l
With a presic
curner, me nai
tickets. didates, and the
on tickets mentioned. Wh
iven help certainly des
lem. One discussion mus
s. The America!
ould have Richard Nixon
/ nlpa?^ firmly that ev<
tie sale of Hercules would
^,ir. _ somehow betwe
purchase an(j chappaqui
orcement canyon that
' practice tempt to jump.
?nt people
During the p
politician after
n a minor restore confidc
am onAira n
v"u uuuyt opinion pons s
5, at least their elected of
i to obtain Those who con
the liberal con
business sistently remin<
re tickets the final N?x<
at run the speeches and si
in be seen President wer
day with microscopes of
ibout time After all this <
and their leaders to be n
tball fans. Massachusetts
Edward Kenne
United States
J** after Chappaqi
gUjr jumble of er
a 9 % exhaustion, nai
was a shame
Kennedy was
urgency in s<
authorities.
ill grant. How can th
waging Editor magazines rec
Mitchell, Halde
but forget the
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lential election just around the
mes of many prospective cani
name Edward Kennedy is still
icther he runs or not, Kennedy
erves discussion and that
t include Chappaquiddick.
i press has welded the names of
and Watergate together so
in a crowbar in the hands of
I fail to separate the two. But
?n the names Edward Kennedy
iddick there has developed a
_ _ i ir ? i * i a -
/ei ivnievei wouia not evenatast
two years we have heard
politician repeat the need to
snce in government. Public
>how that Americans distrust
ficials at an astonishing rate,
sider themselves speakers for
lmunity of America haveconied
us of the deceptive nature of
>n-Watergate year. All the
tatements made by the former
e put under the left-wing
McGovern, Abzug and friends.
clamor for the democratic party
lominated for President? That
version of Mark Spitz-Sen.
dy, D-Mass. This is the same
? Senator who told the nation
liddick "I was overcome...by a
notions-grief, fear, doubt,
nic, confusion, and shock." It
for Mary Jo Kopechne that
not overcome by a sense of
jeking to notify the proper
e networks, newspapers, and
:all the names Dean, Nixon,
imann, and Erlichmann s well,
names of Kopechne, Gargan,
rar, and Kennedy? How can the
paquiddic
'sWaterg,
liberals of this country put a
when it comes to the month (
i_ i - - ?
Dinocuiars wnen viewing the
Nixon administration?
"He had poor advice, rigl
happened. I think he got J
lousy advice and then couldn
the truth. He got deeper, d
into it." That is not a qu
Nixon regarding her husl
Those are the words of Mi
mother as reported in a re<
magazine artirlp Thp Knn
$140,000 settlement, $50,000
surance company and $90,(
personally. Nonetheless wht
they still support Kennedy f
Kopechne replied, "I migl
Wallace tomorrow."
If integrity in our elected
what the people want, then
answer. I cannot help fee
circumstances surrounding
as honorable as Kennedy m
friends would have sought h<
is a rare occasion when
agreement with the New Y<
said in an editorial after
emotion charged address L
satisfied with his partial <
gross failure of responsibili
ever convinced that the
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cuuiiuy, diiu siaic oiticiais
have also failed in their (
investigate this because o
sonality involved.
Should Ted Kennedy d<
presidency, then Dan Rath
Bernstein, Eric Severiad, 2
must be as thorough in g
related to this bizarre pnisn
1973 and 1974 with regards to
American journalism will I
confidence rating that the p<
our elected officials.
UiT M
ft'H mi*i I
I T*? tiO( t I
\ I
k
ate
pair of blinders on
)f July 1969 and use
j final years of the
it from the time it
jo involved in this
i't back out and tell
leeper, and deeper
otation from Mrs.
sand's downfall,
iry Jo Kopechne's
lent "New Times"
echnes received a
it. e ii
ui 11 iruin me in300
from Kennedy
;n recently asked if
or President, Mrs.
it support George
I officials is really
Kennedy is not the
ling that if all the
this incident were
aintains, one of his
?lp immediately. It
I find myself in
. ? 1 _ m i . At
jik limes out tney
the incident, "His
eaves us less than
explanations for a
ity, and more than
concerned town,
? of Massachusetts
July thoroughly to
f the political p'T
icide to seek the
er, Woodward and
ind Jack Anderson
athering the facts
>de as they were in
Watergate. If not,
find itself with the
3ople now award to