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o - ? F ~ f TheGam^poi Viewpol New statio offer quai With the arrival this summer of WLTF this fall with WUSC-FM, Columbia will radio programming that is worth listen] Most of the radio stations in the capital < at best, mediocre, and the two new statioi a welcome relief from the top-40 and formats that have plagued Columbia t existence of commercial radio. Interes these two new stations are educationa commercial, for the commercial station be so bold as to try something new or inno1 Oh, to be sure, there have been som flttPfTints nn tho narf nf vwaaafrww V<1 k?V |/U1 t/ U1 VU111111C1 V/lt}i something different. WCOS-FM tried an ' format in 1972, featuring what was ther rock". But the format was quickly scutt the more profitable country-western forn was brazen enough last year to start an al Such a station might have been success frequency, where it would have been mor car radios. One also has to wonder wh station would broadcast in stereo. In anv as no great surprise when WSCQ-FM aba news approach and switched to a pa listening format which is not all that < WXRY-FM. Except for WCOS-FM, all the commerci in PAlnmKin ??? " A ' --1' * ? ni vuiuuiuia ai c aillUIIldlCU CllllCr 111 J Automation may be the most econoi programming a radio station, but it is entertaining. The lack of a live anno sonality, is one of the leading contributo: state of Columbia radio. AM radio provides nothing better thar terpart. Top-40 stations constantly play t over and over until the listener's only simply turn his radio off. Aside from p< nouncing the time and weather, the AM si their listeners very little that is either i amusing. Should WLTR-FM and WUSC-FM sta the commercial station's audiences, it ma therapeutic stimulus for these stagnant si providing the type of service which the they should provide. But then again it effect. After all, why spoil a lousy thin$ The Gamecoc STEPHEN J. VALK Etfitor MARGUERITE RYAN LJNDA FUNAIOLE At?*ciat* Kditers THE GAMECOCK welcomes letters from readers. Letters show! v>b|ect and a maximum of 300 worcH They must be stoned witt Pseudonyms or other aliases will not be used, but the writer's circumstances warrant. To assist us in verifying the Identity o your mailing address and a telephone number where you can be right to edit all letters, not for content, but to meet our spa< Campus Opinion, Drawer A, (JSC. Columbia, SC MM. VKmnMUnWHMMWnaHMWMmMMmMMMMBHMWWOWmiBm v. **Ir RKWT.Stt 1-vmV JiiST KEFJ RI&Hi I** . V.'^ J o ? ns 9 itv ^ w 7 ClRaES.RofWife. ffcf JUST KfEP 7UANIN ClRCiXSt-FM, followed ? finally receive ing to. ^ity have been, The Gutenl ns will provide easy-listening hroughout the ? . &~W Tt\ tingly enough, 1, rather than is would never native. "I e half-hearted u radio to do 'underground" I rallpH "arid Sat,re by Harry Ho1 l ictlieu dClU Contributing Editor led in favor of lat. WSCQ-FM l-news station. Captain's Log, Stc >ful on an AM ?le h?a?vJe_been.? p arrpQQihlp tn dIIU ,,uw lI,e 11 accessiDie to around what seems iy an all-news about the last half ol event, it came Smock, Lieutenant i ndoned the all- beamed down to the ckaged, easy- We encountered a I different from strange clashing col so-called "Go-Gette al FM stations primitive culture. H >art or whole. even broader bow-ti( tiical wav of ?lr,an?e tash,?rl an1 , " luiiuwmg is a tape 01 not the most Old Earthian. uncer, a per- Old Earthian: Ho\ rs to the sorry Captain: I'm Capt Mess Mesmerize. W1 i its FM coun- called? he same songs Brunton: The Uni1 recourse is to Smock: Captain, t eriodicallv an- institutions where pj Ss provide what "?ey called ..e f more than their al informative or practiced strange ril called "dope" and /II iHlMrC ? ? 1 1 i v tuning iiuu piuuu&cuuus sexuali y prove to be a ,, . . ... tations to start Captain: Ihis-thi ;l? sia" be controlled by hum r CC has said Brunton: You ougl may have no Zulu: Captain, i? readings. There is m The Tri-corder only slime, sir. Brunton: Well, you right. Captain: What is Brunton: Why . . I you see that tac debbie howarq. I building, clashing v MNar I posedly) old houses'! P A nrl fKo* HUD KING I WIMI" '11IU HI 4 V 11141 DI a?m?n^w I like an Aztec plagu There were just tcx I sake, people just?ji you around campusd be limited to m kino* Coliseum > Wm writer's true nanyo. nitm* will be withtwid to . , . i writer*, Piuu incii>0* Quirk. I seem to re?chetf. We reserve %s cm II.Tiit*M?R?. Mrtrr*-. Smock: Yes, Ca regarded as a temf LIMOUSINE LIBEI (ueiker'turing Cr burg Experiment ttain Quirk inge, 'Old 1 pe Br Willi arch Qi ?r Date 2832 point seven: gras iggling through a time warp of thinj Mesmerize is in standard orbit Clas to be the planet earth, along F the twentieth century. Mister Br Zulu, Doctor Ahoy and I have Unti i planet's surface. grou Moo native dressed in a plaid coat of rnak ors, not uncommon among the Thoi rs" and "Uplifters" of this all u (e wears a broad grin and an sit ir i. The bow-tie lights up in some of hi reads "Drink Smirnoff." The this the encounter we had with this com One v do you do, I'm Hal Brunton. the < ain James B. Quirk of the US horn lere are we? What is this place arou cont acts versity of South Carolina. whai his is one of the old Earthian as tc arents sent their offspring for ucation." In reality, they spent Ah lotted four years here. They the i Lualistic inhaling of something even I U i wcic ivuuwu iu ue quite y. Br achl s place. It seems too unreal to anoidlifeasweknowit. Qt hta see the Board of Trustees. smol I've just made Tri-corder Sn o intelligent life as we know it. over registers this reading of?of The mun well t've got the students pegged, all Qi your function here, Brunton? artis u/hn . I build. Look?there: Don't viro> ky Business Administration Sn vith all those wonderful (sup' I was responsible for building ng building, the one that looks Qi le house? That was my idea. You > many old homes. For god's Bi ist can't live here. Let me take Hon i . . . Now here we have the sciei . chit< med remember hearing about that. Q< ptain. In later years it was quic )le to the god MeGuire. som m. ? ?r " & : encounters Karthian' unton: In the distance. Do you see it? The iams-Brice Stadium. A marvel of repulsive litecture. lirk: No. I mean?I mean things like green s, green trees, shrubs, lawns. Any of those gs generally highly regarded as desirable on a s M planet. unton: Now I know you have., i been around. 1 now I thought you were just another fringe ip, like the kids who suck after Sun Mvung n. No, Captain, the architecture is my own ing. Completely accidental in its own way. jsands of tons of concrete, acres of polyglas? 'ith hundreds of people in Dacron Polyester to i them. We are fighting to overcome all vestiges imanity as we know it. When I'm finished with campus, there will be nothing green, natural, forting or coordinated around the whole place, day, I feel in the mood for Frank Lloyd Wright, ather day I tend toward Classic Revival. I sit e and get my rocks off on what doesn't match ind this campus. It's great. I accept whatever ract I feel in the mood for. To hell with classin design, to hell with how it looks, to hell with t the students think. I'm gonna make this place ickv as Los Aneeles. That is mv nnp eoal hprp loy: And you call this civilization? I just toured lursing school and there are diseases I don't want to think about. This is civilization? ^ unton: Closeness. That's what I'm trying to eve. Closeness. lirk: I get the feeling of being very close. I'm thered. lock: Captain, ship's computers show that such crowding of individuals was quite the fashion, library tapes record that the so-called Comist Chinese were quite adept at the method, as as the so-called New York Landlords. lirk: Brunton, we can call engineers, landscape ts, environmental sociologists?technicians will help you live in green space, enimentally sound surroundings. We can? lock: Captain, the Prime Directive. unton: The Prime Directive? lirk: That means we cannot alter your lifestyle, must remain as vou arp unton: Goody. See that lawn in front of the seshoe? Well, I'm going to put a computer nee building on top of it. Or maybe an arsctural science building. Hey, how about a ical school? mirk: Captain to Mesmerize. Beam us aboard ^ k?real quick, before this sub humanoid builds ething on top of us.