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| ..?^JK.V rKj -'.rirzj,^i"-jrxF>ijmcjcjyitfJtra V _ F~ "*"*^-"* -" ? "* * ' " " *** ??- ? - - - " ~ ~ > vol. Lxvm no. 2 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. monday, September 13,m6 I ...: I ~ :.r . 'M ^1 .. " V'H# . h8| -'- ^B?llP r \ \ i JCMI^rP^a Bjv, I ? ?LJ^KaSHI Rosalynn Carter mirrors tl liosalynn Carter, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, was Mrs. Carter ii By MICKEY TKIMARCHI News Editor Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign began its final lap in Columbia last Thursday as his wife, Rosalynn Carter, officially opened the Carter (headquarters in the Columbia Building on the corner of Main and Gervais Streets. Mrs. Carter, with the familiar smile that has Decome me iraaemarK of her husband's campaign, arrived to the cheers of about 200 supporters. "Do you know how long it has been since we've had a President from the Deep South? It was 1848," she said. ? 1 1 A ? ? * * inueeu. anarew jacKson, elected 128 years ago was the last Deep Southerner to occupy the White House. But Carter's surprising dominance of the political polls (he currently leads one poll 54 per cent to President Gerald H. Ford's 40 per cent) has enabled him to capture the public's eye through various campaign groups and his campaigning family. '' JH ? *^ Mgmmam 1 fiff >*^' ;- - Ng^ " . W .S^U:^-;,' ( i Sb^ *v A iPP I I : : f - c^M^BiSaHa^a i t , ^, H . HH . I i 3BL HH IllllPlptg nraK^^jHB I r #_ G?n? Gaillard?THE GAMECOCK hp fn in on a shiiIp in Columbia Thursday to officially open the Carter campaign headquarters. r< _ 1 -a i (joramoia By the end of Thursday night, Mrs. Carter had traveled to eight different states. At the end of last week, the Carter and Mondale children stopped in 37 states. "We're a close family and we are in the campaign to help Jimmy get elected," she said, following a press conference held at the Wade Hampton Hotel, located across the street from the Columbia Building. "We will do this (campaign across the country) every week." Though Carter's popularity seems to be increasing, Rosalynn feels that he will be the underdog in the upcoming debates, scheduled to begin Sept. 23. "The President has the advantage in the debates," she said. "Jimmy has not time to inn far hnm II** ? ln??? ^ ; '' uvviw iv? lubiu. iic 1,3 aiwa^a uui l iUiipill^llllIji;. To help bolster support on the Carolina campus, the "USC Students for Jimmy Carter" was temporarily chartered last Spring until the election in November. Co-chaired by Judy Jennings and Jay Wells, the organization will work See C'AKTKK, Page :t SG loo for its Bv Ai.vrrc Kft7MA Gamecock Staff Writer Rex Gale, treasurer of tin tempting to formulate this trouble finding out just how r The problem is that althoi from the student activities portion of this money has be< know how much. Gale said any money left spring semester is returned some bills for items purcha: received. He added that he has rec? July for items purchased as must, bp navpH r?nt nf KJc ? f'~~J uut U1 LIIIO Jf In addition, he said, the ti every office expenditure so items he is not familiar with, spent during the summer," student asked me what his couldn't tell him." Gale said he is also receivi familiar with. Under the pr< printed materials for offi treasurer's approval. Then he receives a bill for 4 type of printing has been don 1200 P.< assigned By PATRICIA ELEAZER Gamecock Staff Writer When 7,000 on-campus stude received their pre-registrat material this summer, 1,200 them found their Post Office I number was different from number they were supposed have. USC Postmaster Joe Lawrei said the foul-up was caused wt the new registration material v not entered into the computer. "Allowance was not made persons changing rooms within 1 same dorm but keeping the sai box number," I^awrence said, added that this meant the Co puter Services information was i being kept up to date for 1 months of April through Octob The Post Office assignment ck had sent in the new information t it apparently never was enten Lawrence said he thought would take two weeks to straight out the errors and mistakes. "We think we have done iniv. juu iu turreci me miSiaM manually. I've been here 31 ye* and this is the worst year for yet. This has always been a smo< operation." He estimated that 95 per cent the students involved have tried correct the mistake. There are lis of corrected box numbers a names posted. He urged studei to check and make sure they ha their correct box. Incoming mail will fc>e checked make sure it gets to the correct t king money b Student Government (SG), is atyear's SG budget but is havina w ? ?o auch money is available. ugh SG has been allocated $48,488 fees collected at registration, a en spent and Gale says he does not in the SG treasury at the end of to the student aotiviti#K: fnr?H ? ? ? . .vs-ww a?A*BV*y t/Ui sed late in the year have not been jived several bills dated June and long ago as last March. These bills ear's budget. *easurer does not have to approve he is forced to pay some bills for "Right now I don't know what was he said. "IT would be bad if a money is being spent for and I ng printing bills for items he is not jsent SG set up officers can order ce correspondence without the 'printing" and does not know what e. "I need to know so that I can be Sec TREASURER, Page 5 3. boxes I wrong even if it has the wrong number on it. nts After checking the A, B and C ion sections of the new student of directory, Lawrence said his stafif xjx found 4'seven per cent of the the listings of campus boxes wrong, to According to Walter Wessinger, manager of Student Information ice Services, the mistake was not ien discovered until after the directory /as data had been sent off. 4 4 Yf uroc o ?* ? * V nao a mailer UI liming, for Wessinger said. He added that the the directory used to be printed after me registration, but it did not get into He the students' hands until midm October. not Wessinger said the problem the would never happen again because er. the procedure that caused the foul ?rk up has been corrected. He said that )ut there was another factor in the ed, confusion because not all box it number assignments come from en the Post Office assignment clerk in the Housing Office. a The Roost, McBryde Quadrangle -es and married student housing are irs under control of different offices. iic Hp sfliH hie Ko?) u * ' ' ?? .?? ?> uitiw tiau uui utxn iota >th much about the set up and he was not sure if the information was of coming from these areas to be to entered into the computer, sts The Post Office temporarily nd distributed box numbers in the its Hussell House to save time ve Beginning today, the material will be at the Booker T. Washington I to office for students who have not yet k?x received their box assignment