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'Black T-Shir By DAVID SHINGLER Gamecock Staff Writer "Wear a Black T-Shirt, follow the signs and get all you can drink .. Such was the message that drew a number of interested students FYidav F*?h to intramural field B near the Solomon Blatt Physical Education center. They expected a respite for their doldrums, in the form of liquid energy. AWAITING THEM at the field was a lot of sunshine, several joggers, a baseball game and a water fountain with signs directing students, "Drink." That was to be their only source of nourishment. It seemed like a trick, a deception to make students walk "all the way down the hill" to get a drink. It was something of a trick. But there was a reason for the episode, as planned by USC art student William E. Berrie. "He was very shrewd in setting up his signing situation," said Guanar Strazdins of the art department. "He was very clever in manipulating a group of people to do what he got them to do." -"-"A ^C^:- -"-- ?--' H|^l|^^ , ' ' 1T\//?^j Li^V^&^^^K^BPB^^J^HBsv^''- w^v nm . A rr ... ine wei sum The rain didn't drinking on the Patterson roa By EDITH McNEILL Asst. News Editor University President William H. Patte and toasted, praised and thanked for li university at a farewell dinner given in night. "We're all an enormous family and i have a man who is the center of all that Curry, Secretary of the USC Board of Patterson. "He's an honest and loyal without frills or making believe he like doesn't." D. Allen Thames, President of th I^exington Alumni Club, gave the well The guest speaker was Judge Donald S. I Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ai president. t Day9 was an To Berrie, however, it was not an episode in which the main objective was to deceive. It was an exercise designed to give him a piece of art. He called what he had done "conceptual art." One of the main aspects of his project, as he termed it, was to "make people aware of the strength of visual signs . . . how im portant they really are," referring to both the ads and the t-shirts. "It required interpretation," he said of his promises of all you can drink. "But there was no single, correct interpretation." I DIDN'T WANT TO just fool people. It was an honest personal project. I did not want to involve the Art Department in it." Berrie, a junior, relates his project to two specific ideas. One is that he had worn a worn a black t-shirt everyday for practically an entire year at USC, and wanted to culminate his project in grand fashion. The other has to deal with his fascination with the study of semiotics, or sign usage or sign language. Strazdins explained semiotics which is his field of interest. "Semiotics generally refers to the study of iBagiS^lfes^ ?jss wmmmmm iirrii halt the ball game or the This girl kept < intramural field Saturday. softball game ii sted, toasted at di Russell said of Pattersc presidency are making deci irson was roasted does it very well." lis service to the Patterson, originally fron his honor Friday and Ph.D. from USC. He History and the College of 1 at the center you administrative career in goes on," George assistant to the president i Trustees said of Russell, Robert Sumwalt man completely served as dean of administi s to ao tilings ne senior vice president anc The 200 guests at the dir ic Richland and USC Jazz Ensemble and tl coming remarks. The Evening with Patt< tussell of the U.S. Richland and I^exington US< nd former USC Campus Room of Caps held in the University Hou art student's h< non-linguistic sign systems. Like street L 1., l - - oiftiK) ui uwiy irtii^uagc, any visual eitect dealing with signs," Strazdins said. Berrie dealt with signs by placing ads in several issues of The Gamecock in an attempt to get students to react to his signing operation, a personal project. Each ad "progressively got larger in size, and expanded in content until the final ad, which was the same size as the first, and had the words "Black T-Shirt Day' crossed out and replaced with the word 'Wolf,' a reference to the boy who cried wolf." Rorrip phonlro/4 o . .V Wiiv\.nvu mm a HJV.U1 apui I!) SIIUp several days before the event was to take place. Because of a rush on black t-shirts, as reported to him by the clerk, Berrie feared a massive turnout. WHILE A HUGE crowd did not engulf the fountain as he secretly overlooked with his camera, a few students did find the advertisements interesting enough to pursue. "Possiblv 20 neonle slinwpd nn " Uorrin said. "Most of them looked like the type person that is not involved in campus activities, such as fraternities. They came in small groups, mostly couples." Gamecock decision by't "*" * government i oeing aeciare The official ^tK#th 4* while numen ^*}. violations of i ff not so overwl invalidity of l^^jraVC ** campus courl ' excessive. IN I)KIJB1 1* decided not to siuaent gove |hrough the | Collins Walker-TMt aiMFrn/-ir DerSOnS WCre I rtry while she watched a n the afternoon. STEVE BRI . __ of the electior ? Considering voted in the i LaAXXWX scratched off signature pad I also say to yc hi, i ne prooiems wun me win nappen in isions and taking the heat. He not enough to 1 Brown also i n Charleston, got his BA, MA, she sat at the taught in the Department of Brown said, " Engineering and he began his vote during th; 1950. Patterson served as the doors to p inder Norman Smith. Donald nHhnnah r. UIVIIUII^H MIV and Thomas Jones. Also he and the numb* ration, dean of the university, the procedura I provost. from it and tl iner were entertained by the affected by it le USC Concert Choir. srson was sponsored by the BROWN A1 C Alumni Club and was held in suspect at all tone. A reception, which was week or the w se, preceded the dinner. oax BERRIE ENCOUNTERED more op position from administration than he had anticipated. One problem arose when Rick TMT ill nr n mnvnkrtt* (Un ? i unn _ 1I1U1V.1 , a IIICIUUV'I Ul lilt: IriCUliy ill Ufll, in charge of student programs, told him people not affiliated with USC chartered organizations could not put up signs on campus. To Berrie, that was not an ultimatum to disband operations. Miller did not tell him specifically to take them down. HAVING SPENT ABOl'T $100 on his project, .he continued by raising a big banner proclaiming April 15 "Black T-Shirt Day." Having sponsored USC's first, and possibly last, "Black T-Shirt Day," Berrie is planning to show his work in the USC Art Department's Huntington Gallery soon. Anyone wanting to see the exhibit is requested by Berrie to wear a black t-shirt. If you want to see those people who fell prey to a quite ingenious experiment, visit the gallery, and see what semiotics is all about. elections ared valid TEKLINC; aff Writer t Supreme Court overturned Wednesday a he campus court to invalidate the student ^un-off elections, resulting in the elections d valid. opinion of the Supreme Court stated, "That dus instances of misconduct and technical 'lection rules occurred, those instances were lelming as to make clear a notential for tho the results." The opinion also said that the t's decision to invalidate the elections was ^RATIONS before the hearing, the court hear complaints concerning all aspects of the rnment elections from the filing process un-offs by Gary Poliakoff on behalf of the ? and 25 complaining witnesses. Thev also left pus court to rule on the powers and duties of enate to allocate funds and conduct a new y determined the previous one invalid, esented to the court sworn statements which irges of malfunctions in a voting machine. g places being closed, that the Horseshoe poll ened and numerous people did not vote as a it a candidate helped open a voting machine. > in the statements were that three machines I by one worker and other machines were peopiu voiea wunoui presenting iden1 workers were not trained or informed of hat poll workers did not require ID s or foe some voters, that more than one person was ith at one time, and charges that unauthorized pushing the reset buttons on the machines. )YVN, SG attorney general, argued in defense is commission and John Kapinos, chairman, the testimony of Roger Booth, who had not run-off election, but whose name had been the computer print-out and entered on the , Brown said, "I say to you that is regrettable, >u that is not the first time or the last time that a student election. I contend that one vote is lake that poll or that race." cited the testimony of Pun Nio, who said that unmanned coliseum poll for twenty minutes. Not a single person came to that poll to try to at time. We didn't have people breaking down articipate in this t*lection." Brown said that oil was unmanned, the totals on the machine ;r on the signature pad evened out. "Although il rules were violated, no problem resulted he integrity of the electoral process wasn't .SO SA1I), "Is there any reason for us to that another election which we order next eek after will be any better run than the one See ELECTION, page 6