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I Mo To the Editor: Just where do a bunch of chi ministrators, totally ignorant of wl the good of the athletic program, Frank McGuire athletic director Carolina? What a slap in the face! This m i : * ? J ?u? unnuntu?ii ciiiu untxieu uic uaanciuau aui university. It's pathetic when peopli season. There are dozens of maj universities that would give their lei for just one or two seasons like that that McGuire made the mistake of s rotten with six consecutive 20-win se the record slips for two or three se start screaming for a firing. The pre here isn't centered so much on the and staff as it is with too many athl outsiders wanting to control things, had better watch out. Two or three getting to the College World Series,; once again raise their fuzzy heads ftnp last nntp ? Mr Hnlrfprman feel if the S. C. legislature and the b decided that you shoudl step down and become principal of Dreher Hig you were just the man for the job' insulted and you know it. lim Wotcnn (f nil f f m?ovii Jour. Jr. wiTsr.F responds To the Editor: i t After reaching the cartoon 1 published in the Monday Nov. 7 r issue, I feel that WUSC was r dealt a somewhat unfair blow, s Not one of us on the staff is a 20- ( year veteran of broadcasting i experience. But then we do not 1 profess to be. Our medium-is g cnnh Hint am/ inniHontal < UUVI1 VIIU V MIIJ IIIVIMVIIVMI \ mistake is heard by all. While i our ability to read news may c not be likened to that of John J: Chancellor or Walter Cronkite, ? every announcer there gives I 100 percent of him or herself in i an effort to come across as c professionally as possible. I i agree that there is no excuse r for ineptitude in anything but s please bear in mind that WUSC ( is a learning facility just like I: any other "school" in the university. Although it may not ii be outwardly evident, every s student involved in the o operation of that station is t I i! 11 ! 11 l! 1 li A. _ ^ uusung meir conecuve duii 10 u do the very best job they can. v Perhaps if the cartoonist were p to have to do his own live a newscast during a show, he p would be a little more em- \ , pathetic to our position, p Thanks for letting me tell my a -i J. ~ siae. u Glenn Henderson f-; Jour. Jr. v c P. S. Bitter as it was to take, I v still got a chuckle from it. p P p Tn thn tTdiinio ~ * ?1IV JlJUIiUI M c It has come to be an ob- s session with certain in- 1 dividuals to criticize things 1 I they really do not understand, I * re fan To the Edi air-mounted ad- After re* hat's needed for Frank Mc( get off offering Whyshoulc ship of Coastal forced to t promises a an built, formed Everyom ccesses at this Board of T e bemoan a 14-12 position wc ior colleges and ? are letti Ft you-know-what Football The problem is because of ipoiling this town tradition. ' lasons. And when tempts at lasons, the bozos anywhere. iblem in athletics simultanec 11 piayers, coacnes swanuw y< letically ignorant reason yoi And June Raines God. s seasons without Carlen ii and the bozos will bad his Te i. more mom hnw wmilH vmi His splfish oard of education as USC president McGuire [h School because the ACC Y ? You'd be damn Competitio instead of 1 watching s Vii mrt 4 WC! lulling I because th M staff ; md to make no sensible atempt to understand them, rhey compare the university adio station with the comnercial, professional radio stations in and around Columbia and logically come ip with the assumption that VUSC-FM is just a bunch of itudents having fun at the ixpense of the public. Well this s definitely a misconception m their part. True, we are a >unch of students having fun ind personally, I think that our laving fun is what upsets so nany people. They say, "How :an working be fun?" We make t fun. Sure some of us make nistakes. We don't want to ippear to our university or Columbia listening audience to >e sterile and mechanized. rrui a.a. ' i * i mis iiiauer 01 incompetence 5 totally out of order conidering a great majority of >ur staff are not formally rained in broadcast perations. It is easy for one /ho is not involved in our articular operation to sit back ind snobbily say what is not roper or professional. We at irt rnn * - * vtiau present nign quality irogramming which our iUdience enjoys. We have one f the widest spectrums of >rogramming in the state and /e are proud that we are apable of presenting such a ariety. We may not be irofessional in terms of exicrience, but we are professional in our taste, our ense of purpose and our onsciousness of resDon ibility. Srnest L. Wiggins \USC-FM Asst. Music director k? T*" ir IK'*' sback tor: iding various accounts dealing juire situation, one big questio 1 it.* L 1 u n 1* L i uif uesi cuacu Carolina nas ev< ake a back seat to a football c( i lot, yet produces nothing? e, save the football team and rustees, knows McGuire's prop >uld be a demotion. Politics ? n< ing Jim Carlen get his way. is the more popular sport, r its "tradition." But look at C rhat's right ? where is it? Ca: using hometown boys is not gel And he can't be Athletic usly. Mr. Carlen, would yoi r\nt* nnrl 4 L/Ul pi 1UV. UUU UU V UlU JUUI till i are here? You're a football c s stubborn by staying indepenc ;xas background influences his ey. Remember, this is an amatc ness is making everyone suffer will be the first to agree that bei las cost his program many h n now comes from independen local rivals. Attendance suffers, mall in-state teams is not as ex he ACC powers. Also, recruitin ^ 4(1 1.^4.1 11 f ?? 1 A? e uas>K.eiuaii iever ana presu Women's To the Editor: In Chuck Wright's arti< women's athletics at USC, Bet to be taking for granted th conditions enjoyed by the r team extends to the rest of the i They do not. For instance, the baseball tc any away games, but then v 12,000 people at every game crack, ana neither does any w We also ride in cramped var hear any of the players comj Blind face 1 To the Editor: Unfortunately there are fh/vca tifkn lilro fa ihawaaoa ujwv ttiiu iinv vv ixiv,i vxinu uic amount of obstacles for blind students to get by on many areas of the Carolina campus. Many times I have ennAlinfAt*A/1 no r?lr^k/4 AAMA wuiiwa vu jput i\c\i taia ctiiu trucks on sidewalks. Not long ago, I had the displeasure ol meeting a bench in the middle of the sidewalk on my way tc (jrambrell Hall one morning. I Kansas c< To the Editor: We were curious whether Skc ho Kan&OG r?nnr?Art FVnm gathered that he was not. We sounded exceptionally well, e: noise, but not as much as he n How Garrick could fault t) beyond us. According to the Journal, "Phil Ebart, the drun which effectively showed quaiiiiud ui uiu uaiiu a d^caiv believe the Journal has a betl reviews than Skot Garrick. A 1 A. 1 1! _1 _ A _ Also, me enure snow was sn encores as he states. We feel tl the encores because he was fa McGui: ACC lures talent away fi of Carolina. with the If we brought in a n arises: Athletic Director, both < er had be building winners ? Ca >ach who McGuire for the thirty nnfro nr?o ;nfn app ^nu unv.v 111 lw uic nw, the USC Greg Davie osed new Jour. Soph. ot results To the Editor: probably I find it hard to believe Carolina's to remove the one man rlen's at- tradition to Carolina. I tting him Frank McGuire. Here is Director basketball program an u please power with a long strir le to the President Holdermai oach, not shipping McGuire off to Jim Carlen. He claim: ient. Too promotion. This is an i quest for intelligence of those wh ?ur sport. Frank McGuire has s; basketball. To lose a nat coach and member of 1 mg oui 01 ior a coacn wno nas me: ardships. tradition of mediocre f t powers Personally, I think thi because would be better off if :citing as Holderman to Conway, g suffers Frank Knight ge of the Engr. Sr. sports need we just feel it's USC, and take p cle concerning After finishing T~~*l ~ A. A. 1 A. A. 1 sy jriaii appears lasi uiree years, at the excellent preferential trea nen's basketball have to complai men's programs. Don't get me athletics 100 per* ?am doesn't fly to there has to be /e don't bring in program time ai at live Ducks a ceuence jusi as omen's program, chuck McLean is, but you don't USC Baseball riaining, because pe Sr. unnecessary ol could have injured myself, but j fortunately I did not. < i Not only me, but many of my ] i other blind friends have en- i I countered the same problems I of finding things like cars, < trucks, benches etc. on the \ sidewalk, which we all think I I could be elsewhere. s i As for cars and trucks, 1*11 be * 1 glad when the university > HptiHas in hiiilH mnrp rtarlrincr > spaces, because now, it is evident that there are more no mcert $oun< one of their song We believe that t >t Garrick was at the better concer his review, we quite some time felt the concert tcept for a little Our belief ws lade it out to be. Garrick's reviev le drum solo is ' the concerts tha Nov. 1 Atlanta are usually the I imnr knrl a cnln * off the stereo er system." We Kelly Evans ter reputation at BA Fr. Kirk Parker ong, not just the Fngr. Fr. lat Garrick liked Tommy Oliver imiliar with only BA Jr. re om the "excellent facilities" man to serve full-time as :oaches could concentrate on irlen for the first time and -first. That, along with reis the ultimate solution. i that an effort is being made who ever brought a winning am crutalrina r\( r*r\i ircn nf MAX kj|/vunill^( VI VV/UA OV/, \JL a man who took a struggling d built USC into a national lg of 20-win seasons, i appears to be intent on Coastal Carolina to appease > to be offering McGuire a nsult to McGuire and to the o follow Carolina basketball, aid he just wants to coach ;ionally prominent basketball he Basketball Hall of Fame rely continued Paul Dietzel's ootball is ludicrous. e sports program at Carolina we keep McGuire and send I time a privilege to be playing for ride in it. second in the NCAA two of the you don't see us getting any itment., so what right do you n? wrong, I support women's cent, but just as anything else a starting point. So give the id I am sure it will rise to exother USC programs. bstacles parking spaces on USC's :ampus than parking spaces. I'm sure that the drivers of vehicles will be pleased when fliot havvnAnc oICA T fUin in v * iu^/p^no aiou, El UIIO ione, and the sooner the better, hen blind students may not lave to meet as many obstacles while traveling along iie university campus. J. Duvall Jour. Jr. 1 _ 1 ** (tea nne s, "Carry On Wayward Son." iie Kansas concert was one of ts to be staged in Columbia in is confirmed when we read v in The Gamecock, because t The Gamecock does not like t>est ones.