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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
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nanas. iney quu ai z.iuu. Aiier :
that, people just started passing
the pen back and marking their
own hands." ]
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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 <
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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
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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
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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 *
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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bad situation (as a result of th
P- 3 ficials have taken no action ai
?-? problems."
pick-up
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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]
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