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r Cockfest festivities improving By Robert Patterson Oamccock Staff Writer A week that started out very mediocre and looked as if it was going downhill fast, finally became Carolina Homecoming Thursday night. About 3,000 persons turned out for Cockfest at WilliamsBrice Stadium. The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity sponsored the PVPint. u/hirh laafourl noorlv hi/A. and-a-half hours and proved to be much better than the Cockfest of 1977. The USC Band's skit of 4'Once Upon a Homecoming" was awarded first place and $300. It involved a sad Ohio University student and his fairy godfather. The part of the mac fViDr nlaniAMf guuiuvuvi tv no uiv ci^llicili Uiai made the skit funny .There was no doubt who would win first place after the band members left the stage. Instead of the usual rowdy chants the crowd was used to, cheers from the 1950s were acted out by the cheerleaders in thpir nnr+ nf fVio ohmv AM WVBVA* W v* WAV U11VTT ? Coach Carlen and the senior football players came on to let their feelings on the rest of the season be known. During Carlen's predictions, the crowd Cave iniured Rick Sanford a well-deserved standing ovation. After all the skits and cheers were over, master of ceremonies Bob Fulton invited everybody to stay for a fireworks display. Many stayed to watch but many luui c ucviucu w mane uicu own 4'fireworks'' for homecoming. Is Homecc Homecoming traditionally means participation and organized campus i at USC however, has become syr events, block voting, bands that fail to the part of just about everybody. This year saw some improveme tivities, but it was still characterized and bad publicity. Cases in point: tl Cockfest. The street dance drew a sr event should no longer be called i nnnnart u/hpfA nmnl? 4naf stand An better Drosnects. AS FOR the Cockfest, a turnout compared to Carolina's student enr This lack of participation does no Homecoming Committee. The probl 5BKv~;-ISpf;'r r^"vr:-'v^i- y ,^ '.v. BBwB|B^^^BBB^3yw8p ?~^j?y'' : -.T- x- '- ' ? *" *-. ,\"CIr."-1 'LS.W:, " -^-^WF*' JE3'" St?pft*n McCormack ? GAMECOCK uuntti i5^ttiuiur5... Miiyin m uivram I:,'.u\-?i*v^j?j";ij$^ -^ |||pE 1 , ,'-V:v-[B y-?y}^.v;^*" /- v^ a Hm 8'-BBiWi K^lg^ fi^^TB^jB,i| . ^HL.,. 9?5^ lWteW ^~7|^*%"V>'. TIf'j7 ^jBjfc:"-'^B Hp|jBp^l^^R^ ;|| ??* -? : vvAO^^Mitt? Bill Bollin ? OAMBCOCK >mingat (JSC unwanted? kHSs the winner was announc school spirit, student It seems that the students of Carolina have lost their spirit, mtiviHcft Hmmfirnmincf as well as their sense of unitv as a student bod v. Has student crowning, nomeconuni lonomous with boring spirit become outmoded and behind-the-times? If so, then of tilose show up and apathy on why? Part of the problem is special interests. The as lf no one c? Homecoming election is no longer a question of free choice, . Homecoming Co nt in Homecoming ac- but a heated contest between the fraternities and AFRO. "as ^un a tradition of I by lack of participation Students who are not in these special-interest groups are vyell newspap?r- H?y Buys, fie street dance and the aware of this fact, and so they, understandably, care little for provided us with inforr tiall crowd. In truth, the participation. What is worse than this is that things probably y0j.jWe ^ ? * ' than u/p nirl Ann vnn ui i "dance," but a mini- are noi going 10 cnange. Promotion is the'key t Dund before leaving for Cockfest has been dominated by a single fraternity and the i Carolina i -i> IbKv. ! results of the past several years show this event to be stodgy, ?"'y liiiaHd Mil over pretentious and usually, downright boring. One of the ^ student-sponsor of 4,000 is pitiful when major faults of Cockfest is that it Is held in the stadium. Many ye?rs ailment of some 22,000. students do not feel it is worth their time or money to travel to 5lly1fityi. T1 .1, t entirely lie with the the stadium for such a sectional show. Carolina student a tovi em is deeper than that. * ^ to have much of that. i 1 i Outdoor ! rnn/*pr^ rainy By Robert Patterson Gamacock Staff Wrltar Friday's concert proved to be worthwhile for the patient crowd at Field A. Surviving the threat of rain and an hour and a half delay, Wet Willie came on to give an excellent set of music. Most of the crowd was worried how the concert would turn out because of the gloomy skies. When the backup band, Midnight Blue, left without playing, a few pessimistic persons left. But the ones who stayed were treated to good Southern boogie. \ The six-member band _ _ * a - 4 cranKea out D&iancea vocals and intense music throughout their set. Most erf the crowd recognized the band's newer tunes such as "Make You Feel Love Again." But the songs that got the crowd singing and clapping were the old standbys like "Baby F at" "Dixie Rock," and "Keep On Smiling." The only faults that could be found in the concert were that it started too late and Wet Willie Dlaved a verv short set If the audience had paid to get in, they would have had every right to be upset. Even without paying they deserved a longer concert, considering the long wait they were put through. Halftime... ?l t ? amues out few cheers udent is left out of homecoming Jtion's height ? the announcement of i at the Saturday football game. When :ed and presented, the court faced the itudent body could not even see the I is a student affair and is not for the i .k 1 ucivcuiuiucia. oiuueiu uiccnt wen; ired. mmission during the past few years avoiding widespread publicity in this if you would have cooperated and nation instead of us having to drag it tave given you even better coverage ould have cut your advertising costs, to success. is becoming too big, for Homecoming f the lack of participation in almost ed event. "Carolina's Got It," this e true about many aspects of this an inaccurate statement about the 5 for this university. They don't seem