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The 'new
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FIRST OF ALL, senators were asked
f the Senate chamber. It seems as thoug
* back of the room, a behavior which is
Following the initial game of musica!
t certaintv ran rampant.
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: Granted, this was the first Senate me<
> should be given a chance to prove ther
body, but this may be where the main pr
There was no educational program fo
ignorance of parliamentary procedure
group of students be an effective lobby
don't know what they should be doing?
j Senate President Mike Warsha
nesday's Gamecock as saying senators <j
what is involved with SG before they're
I it is ridiculous for those same senators
J are elected.
The higher echelons of SG are to blam
< tiie correct procedures and in many ca:
k what extent did SG members plan for th
; WHY DIDN'T SG get its act togethei
j holding its first meeting unprepared anc
Being a student senator should be a
^ responsibility to students on this campu
? attending a meeting once a week.
It is past time for SG to learn its fui
* become an effective legislative body. T
j play up to administrators, but to work t<
* of their fellow students. The Senate is <
f lobby to President Holderman, and in
? extremely ineffective.
The current relationship between Holt
by SG President Peter Haeseker, who f]
following his election last spring.
! UNTIL SG LEARNS not to be intir
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The "new constitution" fiasco of last spi
\ SG must, for its own sake, get organiz
in for a lot of laughs and one hell of an e
this university.
Students lo
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j The removal of faculty and staff hom
campus directory is an insult to stud
; feelings of the USC faculty.
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The un-listings were blamed on annoy
I associated with invasion of privacy is
i numbers is a stalling tactic at best. I
t faculty or staff will continue to do s<
* directory or a city telephone directory.
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* What do faculty members consider t
t some for a student to call his professor
U emergency arises? Convenience is at
; faculty and staff numbers were used for
* for harrassment.
* Students and their problems should 1
\ university. But the sad fact of the mattei
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elected. This is not unusual, but
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*4ew senators must learn not to '
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defined as a legislative student
the past, this lobby has been
ierman and SG is characterized lew
home on Holderman's plane
nidated bv administrative Der
short end of most deals at USC.
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at home if help is needed or an
stake here, and it's a safe bet .
valid purposes more often than
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ro the Editor:
Regarding Scott Keir's letter in tht
f the Gamecock mocking Jane Witt
revious issue concerning inadeq
acilities in the Russell House as ar
Gamecock's publishing of "trivial'
pposed to the so-called "good old c
arking, tuition increases and the
'olice Department?" as a stud
ergraduate and early graduate
panned the greater part of the 19<
mile wryly at Keir's contrasting of s
In the '60s those of us at USC who
ith crucial moral, social and politic
le Gamecock then served as a forum
>r considered such matters as those
e trivial indeed.
What with the civil rights movem<
itegrated when I entered), the Vietn
nch moral and social issues as the si
evolution," we had a plethora of h
rapple with and to discuss in th
iamecock.
Who will be
rothe Editor:
Recently 1 applied for season
ickets to 1979 home games. As an
lumni of only two years, this was
he first year since my graduation
have been able to afford season
ickets.
It was my understanding when I
>vas placed on the waiting list for
he tickets that I was to receive
?even tickets for seven home
games. When I received the tickets
[ was informed the Clemson^arolina
game was not included.
Upon questioning the USC ticket
ffice about this, I was informed of
vhat amounted to my not being
mportant enough to get these
ickets, even though I had been led
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" uciicvc i wuuiu wiui iny purhase
of season tickets.
A - I i a - -
/\s an aiurnni una a supporter of
Carolina activities during my four
nd one-half-years at USC, I am
Lirious. If Carolina alumni are not
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I Of SUPPORT, YJt'UI
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Letters
complaints
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from Connecticut
2 August 29 issue officially supporl
en's letter of the Barry Goldwater,
luate bathroom the newspaper th;
i instance of the letters to the edito
' complaints as
omplaints about So what of th(
wonderful USC editors and the U
ent whose un- happened to the
years at USC students? One ca
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uch issues. rights and sexual i
were concerned
;al issues which Is it simply that
i of sharp debate education conceive
cited by Keir to with one's own ex
his aspirations lim
jnt (USC wasn't or to following th?
am struggle and fort all?
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lornets' nests to _
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graduate student,
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important enough to get these
tickets then who qualifies and who
will be sitting in my seat come
November 27?
Kamona L. Thornberry
Class of '77
Reply sets
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Keir straight
To the Editor:
I really would rather not have to
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the concerns expressed in my last
letter by replying to it, but I feel it
best to clear up the misunderstanding
of both the point of my
original letter and of what the
Ideas and IsQIIM pnmmimnn A?
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Russell House University Union is.
My previous letter was written in
response to editorials and articles
during summer session II which
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time, for instance, when an editor
broke with Gamecock tradition in
ting then presidential candidate
leading to such intense debate in
at whole pages were given over to
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a concerns of today's Gamecock
SC community at large? What has
conscience of this generation of
n't complain of a lack of issues,
e mentioned are still vital ? civil
mores.)
; today's student has no interest in
ed of as a means of coming to grips
istence in relation to society? Are
lited to merely increasing his purse
i path of least resistance? Is com
?th III
philosophy
dealt with mismanagement and
other related problems within the
services provided bv the RHIJU.
Far from being intended as a
personal crusade, the letter was
written to indicate that
disorganization, lack of sound
management and related
problems extended to the lowest
levels of the services provided.
My second point is that contrary
to the closing statement of Keir's
letter, neither I, nor the Ideas and
Issues Committee have ever had
anything to do with Student
Government. The Ideas and Issues
Committee is one of nine committees
which make up the
programming area of RHUU.
If you are dissatisfied with what
any of these committees are doing,
or if you think things can be improved,
join and participate. If you
don't like my ideas, you are more
than welcome to contribute your
own.
Jane Daley WiMen
chairperson. Ideas and Issues
senior, economics