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T TFIC.nr)p.p.ds. wai -w r V V m V V V W m V V There can be no denying that the sole purpose of ?tj Jle3e football is to make money. / No other major university exemplifies this fact lore than USC does. With a stadium that officially eats 54,406 people (somehow 56,514 were crammed 11%i for Saturday's game) and an active booster club, it # is no wonder that Carolina's athletic department / ' grosses almost $3 million a year. It stands to reason then, that the athletic department can afford to allocate enough tickets to go around. This however, is not the case. Wednesday around 2:30p.m., the last student ticket was given out. A long line of people still remained when the supply was exhausted. Many irate students were then forced to listen to the game on the radio f' and wonder just where their student activities fee had gone. Included in the tuition for each USC student is a $86.50 activity fee. This money goes for various services such as student Health Center charges and athletic tickets. Since all 15,000 full-time students enrolled at the Columbia campus are required to pay this fee, it would figure that enough tickets would be alloted for them. Once again, this is not true. Only 11,000 tickets are available to USC students for each game. The other 44,000 go to Gamecock club members, season ticket holders, opposing teams, faculty and staff members and the general public. There is a serious problem concerning priorities within the USC athletic department. Their first concern should be the students, but it is not. After all, why give away tickets when you can sell them for eight dollars each. Isn't that the American way of doing things? And what about those unfortunate souls who were left out in the cold for Saturday's game. Since the game was already a sellout, there is no way for these . i i tellHIfltiBSi r is Bang,Bang! pud Yo"G?"'- I U4H.rd.i I A I LAN r IC II m | BACKG V ? The Hot One 1 TOURN Sarah's Eyes I 9Wr*T?< I'drtin I $50?? c Student Hi Wtd. 5-10 nil tht Spaghetti Y ou e (served with salad & garlic i PIZZA HOU Intersection 1-26 and Hwy 37 #3 St. Andrews Shopping Cent Intersection 1-26 & St. Andr p I rnone 794-0500 f? 4-n s* !/ -A ?r^4- *^s\s\s\ I v uiuiwu c>"y&u&rrv people to attend the game. Still, the portion of the activity fee designated for athletics which has already been paid by these students, goes into USC's bank account. This is not fair. The people who had the last ticket pick-up (and were left in line) and those who had . classes during their designated pick-up times should have the opportunity to get a ticket. Since they did not get one, a refund from their activity fee would seem in order. There seem to be only two solutions to this problem. Either allot more football tickets for students (after all, if they are not all given out they can still be sold to the general public), or rearrange the ticket pick-up, student activity fee process. For example, at Louisiana State University, LSU, and the University of North Carolina, UNC, a more workable system is used. Students who wish to attend sporting events at the two schools pay an athletic fee separate from their tuition at the beginning of the year ($18 a semester at UNC). When this fee is paid, a validation sticker is placed on the student's ID card. Once at the game, the student shows his card at the gate and is admitted to the game. General admission seating is provided. With this kind of system, no student can be turned away from the game. Also, any student who does not want to 0O to the ifairiM in nnt fr* now athletic fee. A workable system such as this would be simple to use here at USC. It is doubtful, however, that the athletic depoartment would be willing to change a policy to favor their own student body. The whole situation was summed up best by Mike Chambers, a student who failed to receive a ticket. ''They have such a flippant attitude about the students that they almost discourage you from going out to support the team," he said. Ell nBi Bp iAMMON WT Cluste I AM INT IPjiy isday night ig at 7:30 BV '^-i\m ALL 14K te | I 50% an Eat ; m : JH bread) 24" v 's k$'*f \' $Si<v 8, W. Cola. ewsRd. . p i i 'Students entitled ' in + ir>lrck+c' <* uvy tivnvuu Jh Bt Ml To the Editor: stl Sti It really angers us to no end to know that we have paid ap- JO proximately $900 for tuition, >? housing, and activity fees, to find j? to our dismay that there are no Br football tickets available. We are SK not alone in our disgust, others J(| have the same complaint. We do not belong to a sorority or any Fr other campus organization that Jo would allow us to participate in s? U1 I. 1.1 /_ A ? uiuv:k settling va system wnicn 18 ^ unfair). r? wc As students at this university we ? feel that there is a need for another wi means of distributing tickets. It cu perturbs us as well to find that after we have stood in line for 3 v? hours for tickets (time that could be used for needed studying) that the tickets are gone. dr. r.i Another facet of this ticket "j distribution system which upsets ttx us is that when we walk back from Russell House, feeling somewhat LSee UNFAIR, page 11 DIAMOND OFF OR MOl rs, Earrings, Pendants AH Reduce DIAMOND SOLITAIRE VaCU $5^.00 Vi Ct. $198.00 1 CI. $795.00 T ITALIAN C OFF OR MO Chain Reg. $35.00 NOW $16.88 Of ? r* *? a * /v/v v^nam neg. 3>*o.UU NUW $18.88 Chain Reg. $50.00 NOW $22.88 Chain Reg. $60.00 NOW $24.88 e Stock 20% to 50% O a tifr^n ,gitfifi^S| Zjamecock Founded 1908 ark J. Lundgren Editor In Chief m Fobe* Copy Desk Chief 7i Phillip* New* Editor >rry J. 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