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The South Carolina Library g Campus 7 Volume LXX, No. 37 University of South Canolina.Columbia, S.C. Nov. 21,1 97^9 Studer By Mogan Sexton unmecocK ?>tatt Writer , About 200 USC students protested the student ticket < allocation system at the ticket 1 office after they were unable to i obtain tickets Monday for the USC- i Clemson football game. I About 600 students were still in : line at the Russell House when the I tickets ran out. These students ] were given tickets to the closed ; circuit showing of the game in the I coliseum. ] Micah Linder, a Media Arts ; junior, said, "I got in line at 6 a.m. this morning outside of Bates ] West. A guy came around and was | putting numbers on people's 1 1_ _ _1 _ rt~*l a _ a a ? a n ? nanas. iney quu ai z.iuu. Aiier : that, people just started passing the pen back and marking their own hands." ] i STUDENT GOVERNMENT I Vice President Michael Warshauer < announced there were only about I 350 tickets left at 2:15 p.m. At that ( time, the line, which had stayed I orderly throughout the morning, i was broken and everyone started I pushing towards the door. "Some of the people who were way back in j line iust Dushed their wav ud and \ ** v " r got in," Joe Anderson, In- : ternational Studies senior, said. I The students then assembled by < the ticket office at the Roundhouse j where they were -read- the < Ir /I/mi /\4' f %. % # t I.u caivuuvvu 171 in*: niuuciu ihjivcl < distribution by SC senator Jeff < Floyd. 1 The 11,000 student tickets were allotted as follows: the In- i trafraternitv Council received i Intervene hearings tt Jm iHPft MsBBm ffl| mmBm Sen. Tom Turnipseed By Ronda Templeton | Gamecock Staff Writer Intervenors in the SCE&G rate hearings presented a motion Monday that the entire case be thrown out by the Public Service Commission. | Sen. Tom Turnipseed presided over a press conference Monday morning at which five intervenors said they nniwco/1 CPCl.n'i! V)>|>wuu uv/UUU O J/I UJA?CU rate hikes "The SCE&G Co. has failed to i establish that it is entitled to ] 60( its Drotes 1,835 tickets for block seating, I student organizations and dorms | received 1,498 tickets also for block * seating, student government V received 100, the USC band * f ho f Kr? 11 tr%rvr^ j i wviivvi a\A/t 1111, lwuiuclll Lt'Ulll r received 400, other male and P female athletes received 558, high school prospects received 100 tickets for recruiting purposes. hall advisors received 228 tickets | and date book tickets accounted ^ for 214 tickets. Date books are ? purchased at the beginning of the I season for $45 and are guaranteed. ' Before the doors at the Russell J House were opened for student 1 pickup, 5,433 of the 11,000 students 5 tickets were spoken for, leaving 3,467 for the people in line. THE FIRST THREE people in S line organized a list with 2,092 j names. "The guys who organized | the list did a great job and kept | ^veryining very lair and orderly. jg Student government had nothing to 1 jo with the list. We just took the I x>ok from them when we got there in the morning," Pete Haeseker, g 5G president, said. I Barbara Derrick, Student Senate * athletic committee chirman, put jp a sign at the Russell House saying there we re more than 7,000 ? tickets for the students in line. 4,I Dnly knew about the tickets H allotted to the fraternities, st organisations, 9tudent government and the hall advisers. The athletic iepartment never told me about p; he other tickets," she said. di Floyd announced to the students m it the Roundhouse there will be a sc neeting at 3:30 p.m. in the Russell >rs want 5 irown out ft' Sfili&j - : : ^#*ff? ^SliSwP .', t ??!? <:? >^dS|9|H l^l IMF ; ";v ; **? v i^lfei^W?: W&m ft JH| V \at PSC hearing. f any rate increase from its t customers in South Carolina," ? Bob Guild of the S.C. Welfare t Organization said. The com- v pany would be entitled to the increase if it handled its affairs ^ in a "prudent" manner, but there has been "gross im- c nrnHonpo onH ?i?ado !# MVtVAIW MIIU 51 WOO HlCi" J ficiency" on the part of SCE&G r in recent months, according to c Guild. f WHILE INFLATION has d increased at the rate of 23.2 percent in recent years. ) left without t Clem! imwt Students lined up ear/) ouse Ballroom to discus udent ticket allocation polic A SENATE RESOLUTION issed two weeks ago to revic stribution of block seat* ediately following this fo lason. according to Warshai The number of block seats SCE&G's prices have t -aised by 36.7 percent, G >aid. If SCE&G cannot keej vith the rate-of inflation cannot expect its customer raake up the difference :hem, he added. uuna has been involvec Tiany of the conflicts that h plagued the SCE&G hearii Suild earlier requested the ] Commissioner Julius Learn disqualify himself from learings because he allegt owns SCE&G stock. Learn ienies owning stock in lompany, but Guild cla Leamond once did. The 33,000 power cut-offs 5CE&G in recent months v lited by Charles Johnson of Midlands Human Resoui Development Commission a jvidence of failure on :ompany's part. "Why c 5CE&G think they (the pe< >f South Carolina) can pay if ates increase?" Johnson s Fhe 33,000 cut-offs as a resu ion-payment are indicati hot CPPI.n xotnc nut uvuwvi * uivo oic auc oo high, he added. "The PSC itself has not sh< he desire or the ability to I he poor people of this stai Johnson said Th<*rp Has ittempt to get an overviev he workers in South Caro ind the "commission hemselves are out of to vith the people," he added. THE PSC AND SCE&G iave failed to realize 'dream of nuclear power" snded, Ted Harris of 'almetto Alliance said. ' ate hearings Jkave shown ompanv has no idea what uel, waste storage j tecom mission costs of the \ Sea Turnipooad tickets son ticket V Monday morning for ticket picks the io the fraternity is decided by pi y. support for the football team. "T athletic department and t s' was fraternities decide on what s< '\v the tions they will sit in. The people ; im- block seats are at the games otball good and bad times," John Mooi icr. asisstant athletic director, said, given The Athletic Department w si Tec bar )U.P By Ron '? Gamec 4. _ 5 lO for Iranian students will not be , College unless American hosta j jn unharmed. lave Hazel Hall, vice president of ngs. "No Iranian student will be al PSC Greenville Technical College ur l0ncj at the American Embassy in Ira the Hall said the governing board gdiy bar Iranian students from the s< lond students enrolled at Greenville 1 the THERE HAVE BEEN no inci imS Iranian dnHpnk Hall cniH anH their studies if the hostages ai 1 by Greenville Tec's winter quarter /ere "Our policy is that when the I th? follow through with that," Hall < rces Mehdi Lali, an Iranian stud s an wants to continue his studies at i the away," he said. loes The hostages will not be relef ?ple quarter, according to Lali. The the not want the Americans release LALI CLAIMS THE hostage ions "They already prove they are s . to the embassy and said they we y The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khor works for the people." If the Sh the students at Greenville Tec 1 . P the country. ' 4 4It is our point of view that thi ' ! Langston of the S.C. branch of t .. " sne saia ine oarring 01 tne irar a be sort of a de facto deportation uoh stuc*ents can no i?nf?ei 1 would be nullified and they eoi summary judgement. They hai she added. *he LANGSTON EXPRESSED c students may have obtained the the government. "That opens the Iran, they may be executed," sh ||je Langston compared the situai of Japanese-Americans placed i I I^r snnlraeiw??An Phin nr V /I ? ? " W|#w#%v%jpv? OVI! Vfi bad situation (as a result of th P- 3 ficials have taken no action ai ?-? problems." pick-up - / A% I _ _ A%l ufj ror oaroima-uiemson gam ist propose a new pick-up proc he for Clemson tickets to the St h? Senate after this season, I\ ?c- said. "We're going to propose in each student can only pick-u, in ticket per ID, and no tickets w e% validated. This will allow all students to get into the game ill said. is Iranian ida Templeton :ock Staff Writer allowed to attend Greenville Techi ges at the U.S. Embassy are relej student affairs at Greenville Tec, j llowed to attend the winter quart itil all the Americans being held hos in are released." I of Greenville Tec made the decisic chool last Friday. There are 104 Ira rec for the fall quarter. dences of violence involving the scto the students will be allowed to cont e released by Nov. 28, the first da x>ard passes a policy, our business loricluded. lent attending Greenville Tec, sail the school. "It won't work if they ser ised in time for him to begin the wi re are 35 million people in Iran th? d, he said. s held at the U.S. Embassy are S] pies. My brother called me and he > re spies," he said. neini is supported by Lali because ah were still in power in Iran, Lali s would be sent to jail if they returnc is is a violation of due process," Mel he American Civil Liberties Union j lian students from Greenville Tec 4 decision." attend the school, their student v jld be deported, Langston said. "I /e not been charged with miscondi oncern over the fact that many ol ir student visas under the Shah's on possibility that if they're sent bac le said. tion of the Iranian students to the p n prison camps during World War I] ay said USC is lucky "we don't ha ie problems in Iran)." He said US< nd 4'normal machinery is handlin] HI it. slf a MR in g?415 3 Px ig. edure udent rtoore ? that p one ill be use he IS litdi ased said, t at tage >n to nian ool's inue iy of is to d he id us inter it do pies, vent "He said, ;d to lissa said, 'can isas I a a ICt," F the isted ;k to light [. ivea C ofl all