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Rosalynn Carter mirrors tl
liosalynn Carter, wife of Democratic
Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, was
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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.
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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.
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in Columbia Thursday to officially open the
Carter campaign headquarters.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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>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