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V"L LXV" """' l'nlv<T?lty of Spilth Carolina,Columbia, S.C. Thursday. November .. ?. * Many thii By CATHERINE THRIFT Asst. News Editor Although a majority of USC students think admission standards are "about right," a large number say the standards are too low # according to a survey by The Gamecock. The survey was conducted during the last two weeks of October. From a list of more man bw randomly seiectea um siuaenis, 364 were reached and participated in the survey. Of the 364 respondents, only 19 said the standards were too high, with 150 (41.2. per cent) rating them too low and 191 (52.5 per cent) approving them. Freshmen gave standards biggest approval, with 62.5 per cent rating them about right. Only 30 per. cent rated them too low, the lowest percentage of any class with that answer. No opinion was given by 1.3 per cent in - far nes p A1 mij Carter | By MICKEY TRIMARCHI News Editor The celebration was complete. Jimmy Car and a jubilant crowd at the Wade Hampton (A kissed and hugged each other, realizing the ef had paid off. They had come early, anticipating victor workers, the businessmen, the politicians, th< senior citizens, the curious. More than 500 Cai i four television sets in the room broadcast the i For many, the party began early Tuesda; One by one, across the East Coast the p Carter victory, the spirits of the crowd ros< j A large cake, decorated with green and whi i Carter and the presidential seal. Etched i Jimmy Carter, America's plan for a better % THE CROWD was beginning to warm up Kentucky, Alabama and Tennessee came in. ? ?M AtfAM Po **4-A 9* VIAI/I tk 1 it EiUllC U 1CIVICU III, CVCII II vai IV1 IICIU u Q11IK 1 of the votes tallied, the crowd cheered as if th J state. < By this time the crowd had reached its p< J transformed into a green and white spectat paign paraphernalia. Styrofoam hats displ i sticker bobbed up and down throughout the ter's famous grin lined the walls amidst ! balloons. Practically everyone wore a butt i ? peanut farmer. With Carter's lead over President Ford in* to reflect on the campaign that opened locally -.1 1_ r ^ rt 3 warier s wiie, nosuiyn. "Ihate to see it all end," said Judy Jenninj Students for Carter organization. "I never i time and security was put into a campaigi TOGETHER SINCE Carter campaign c j Cathy Lewis and Kitty Grant decided to pl< | the Columbia effort to elect Carter. "This campaign has been a lesson in hum have met many people and have learned a 1< ? ? people." Grant, who has been with the campaign s generally friendly throughout the areas car j 4 It was great to meet so many differei combined all our efforts to try and get Jimm As midnight neared, Carter had built a s votes over Ford. All that was needed to seal I state. ' < I nk admis! The Gamecock survey of the freshmen questioned, and 6.3 per cent thought the standards were too high. Only among graduate students did a majority, 52 per cent, rate admission standards too low, although with 45.9 per cent giving that answer, the sophomore class came close. SENIORS WERE the least likely to rate standards too high, with only 1.6 per cent giving that answer. Most seniors felt the admission standards were about right, with 59.7 per cent having that opinion. Still, a sizeable number, 37.1 per cent, felt the arty most as traditional ght be expected, C? ter was elected president H Hotel ballroom cheered, forts of their campaigning . H y: the student campaign e husbands and wives, the rter supporters cheered as 1 results. I y evening. | oils closed and with each I te icing bore the picture of BmmBHIBI 1] n icing were the words: land. as the early returns from When the initial returns of lead with only two per cent eir candidate had won that eak and the ballroom was I le of Jimmy Carter cam- I aying the Carter-Mondale H|H I crowd. Posters with Car- . BEgg||f f the red, white and blue WJM on supporting the Georgia creasing. manv found time / on Oct. 9 with a visit from gs, co-chairman of the USC realized how much money, lays in Washington, D.C., *dge themselves to helping at about different groups of inpA .Tiilv fnnnri the neonle ivased by the organization. tit people," she said. "We y elected." f f ubstantial lead in electoral *.-??* m. his victory was a win in any During an ter's mother, See CARTER, Page 3 the T. V. to Ti sion stan< standards were too low. Only 1.6 per cent had no opinion. Few graduate students, two per cent, thought the standards were too hieh. and 46 per cent rated them about right. Juniors were the most likely to say the standards were too high, with 8.3 per cent in that category. Juniors were split fairly evenly between those who thought standards were too low, 41.7 per cent, and those who thought they were about right, 47.2 per cent. Only 2.8 per cent had no opinion. Sophomores were also split, with 48 per cent rating standards about right and 45.9 per cent rating them too low. Standards were rated too high by 6.1 per cent of the sophomore class. SOUTH CAROLINA residents were more likely to be satisfied with standards, with 55 per cent rating them about right, an opinion I as an election is tl irtftr snnnnrters ph rr JHBS1^ AV v. && ItH^Pa TH^H n '^Cfl^-' Wt ' ' ^ " ^ Metit AHmiMhr -TW ans interview with Mrs. Lillian Carter, Jim Mrs. Ella M. Milam, of Columbia movies ear what she has to say. lards low shared by only 42.3 per cent of the non-state residents. A plurality of non-state residents, 49.3 per cent, thought the standards were too low, compared to 39.1 per cent among state residents. Conversely, the number of out-of-state students rating standards too high, seven per cent, overrode state residents with the same opinion, 4.8 per cent. When the survey was broken down by college or department, the number of students questioned at times became a factor in the results. For example, a department could show a statistic 01 100 per cent agreement, wnen actually only one person answered. Because of this, major breakdowns are only listed if ten or more persons in that major responded. See OPINIONS, Page 3 ie victory party. As iioved theirs more. -J - J I By GEORGE MORRIS It's kind of hard to have fun at a victory party when your candidate is losing. But quite a number of people tried Tuesday night at the Republican get-together. A few ieven succeeded. The party had a tough time getting off the ground, and you could blame Walter Cronkite for that. After all, it was he who was the bearer of bad tidings. The green chalkboard by the color television told the grim statistics. Since the South reported first, the results looked bad for Ford throughout the night. The party was scheduled to start at 8:30 p.m. at the Five Points Building ballroom, but the majority of the crowd was late, and the sound of footsteps against the concrete floor could be heard echoing through the room. Most of the early crowd were teenage Ford campaign workers. They arrived early, apparently, to gulp down a few drinks before their parents arrived. WITH NOTHING ELSK going Ion, most of the crowd gathered around the televisions sets. Many of them stayed there. Those were the serious ones. They could care less about the festivities. As far as they were concerned, there would be nothing to celebrate if their man And they took their results seriously. One girl was particularly distraut. She worked vambcock herself into a frenzy, talking about having to work for peanuts if Carter won, saying she'd move to my Car- Canada first. Then she got up and closer to See FORD. Page 2