The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 25, 1977, Page Page 3, Image 3
'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."
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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
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presidency are making deci
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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
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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."
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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."
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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.
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BERRIE ENCOUNTERED more op
position from administration than he had
anticipated. One problem arose when Rick
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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