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JWr^y " "ra-tv- v Students I: in quest ol By JIM PHILLIPS ni Gamecock Staff Writer \vi th More than 1.300 people assembled at Russell House Sunday night and early Monday morning for a la chance to get a ticket for "Big Pi Saturday", the day of the Carolina- th C'lemsnn P?mr? N<w 10 If ? r -> c- i? ? almost like Woodstock revisited, th complete with music, booze and th the smell of marijuana. uj Officer T.L. Dickey of the campus police, said everything hr was orderly, and there were no K problems. af I 11AVK BFF.N on this beat (the S< Russell House. South Tower area) s;i for five years and haven't had any I problems vet." Dickev said. "In ar fact. I've boon on the force for 10 he years and have had only one 111 student talk hack to me." it A list was circulated to determine the order of pick-up for the myriad of students. At 1:45 a.m. el Monday, the list was approaching A 1,300 names. "1 Mike Lee, a freshman business g< null IIIII.-M I ill 1(111 III.IJUI , ScllCl people wore there for several pickup m times. Their names would he E called in the morning and they al would he separated into different hi lines at the door. That way. Lee li; said, the people who stay at Russell ai 1f ... - ... iiHUM- win gei their at tickets heforee those who just walk In up in the morning. "The roll will fo he called several times during the Vandals? ? ?. > rum pane 1 number In the p;ist. Maternities helped with tl n ueh Mio same system .is will he used I talkies and patrolled from 11 p m until 7 ( llll l IIMUU I SON said three te (illll|HI> JHIIUT l.ast \ear. several buildings, includinj wore spray painted This year (Jam! Menmrial Huilding will l>e watched m< buildings t>ecause they are very hard toi "The buildings are made of stone that "< >noe the paint soaks into the stone in th that it is almost impossible to get out wil the stone " Cleaning the buildings could Ilarrelson said ( i i msi>\ vwdms arc hard to ( llarrolson One policeman *aid last year as well as students from Clcmson were v "Thc\ run through the campus with sp u hat's been done until the paint starts sh ' l^Bi| a r - v': Bill trove cold F Clemson r<Ut oM?l *1 * ?* (^iii uiiu uiusu niui a run i nere ic ill have their names scratched off a e list," he said. w T1IK CALLING OF the roll was n tor deemed impractical by SGA resident Brad Steele because of P lai'CTP nlimhor nf nnnntn nn tl'n II ? (-,v X** pvvpiv \#?| llic II ;t. The "campers" were then told ti ey could go home but to be sure w ev returned by 6:00 a.m. to line c ). c Some of those who went home li id been camping out at the ussell House since Saturday 11 ternoon. p A.wl?> .. r .muj ti?niv\v, ?? wrtiiuiuaic nir IA vice president this past year, s< lid "I was number 2^0 on the list. tl came here at 10:30 this morning h id then left for about four hours. I v >ard somebody got scratched off b e list so 1 don't know if I'm still on or not." ji tl II.'W Vl'IIITPcmfc ? * ' ,r . ITIIIHiOBI/riVl, /\i> I) cmcntary education major from w nderson, said the occasion was e Like a big party. I had a real n >od time." ti Music was provided for the ultitude hv Billy Able and Dib c< lam. Able said, "We sang for sj >out 15-20 minutes. We did a little u] no grass, some serious easy r< %tening, some Jimmy Buffett, tl id sonic oripinnl vifnff " u. Ided that he was not on the list ui it was out to entertain and "just r the hell of it." n Klani said. "We had some s( ti ? ?t;! w. 1^ 4 n ('tin wiling r l illlTIinil'S llSt'Cl II this year They carried walkie- w a in y< anis will l>e selected by the rg i" r.amhrell Mall and Capstone, I irell. Capstone and the War p ire'clnsclv thrm ntKnv M -V ....... V CI 111 ['UO lean. Harrelson said is very hard to clean," he said, pse buildings it soaks in so deep Ihout sandblasting or replacing I run into thousands of dollars. atch in the act, according to he suspected that local persons andali/.ing the campus ray cans and you can't even tell owing." Harrelson said. Hp: WsBSBSBLu^Bl Boincao THE GAVECOCK I night i tickets I ;chnical problems with the public ddress system and no room to ork." "Just for the hell of it," Able ^iterated. OFFICER ALLEN ROKBINS of le campus police was blocking ^ affic from entering Bull Street here the festivities were concentrated. He said, "The only ? nmplaint I have is that people aven't got anywhere to park." Some students, however, were ot entirely satisfied with the roceedings. Greg McKinnev. a journalism pnior from Simnsnnvilln ?5iirt "i might that a decision should have eon made and publicized in ad ance as to the pick-up procedure, ut nobody seemed to mind." Kathy Cooper, an education jnior from Piedmont, said, "I link the whole thing was a bunch f crap. Nobody seemed to know hat they were doing. I think verybody was out there to party lore or less rather than pick up ckets." MARIE RARDON, ALSO an lucation major from Piedmont, lid "It was typical. 1 think pick- L p for the Clemson game should be r~M ^organized some way to eliminate | | le mass confusion. No one knew mv the pick-up was going to work ntil they got out here." > Whatever the feelings about the let hod of organization, the con >nsim wn*; ovnrunno H V.V.JU..V I IH VI CI ^inill mc. 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