The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 04, 1976, Image 1
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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