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Basketball fans display no class i i t i _ _ wun ooscentmes Carolina basketball fans reached a new high in lowness during the Furman game Wednesday night. When Jimmy Foster fouled out of the game after a questionable offensive foul call with about three minutes left and Carolina trailing, many fans began chanting obscenities at the referee. Whether the official's call was right or wrong, Gamecock fans should have had enough class to express their displeasure without swearing. SPECTATORS who think their ticket of admission gives them the right to do anything they please at a sporting event are wrong. They owe some respect to the referees and to their fellow fans. But apparently some fans don't care how bush league they make the entire university look when they act like animals. Not all Carolina fans participate in this demeaning behavior, but for an alarming number- and most of them are students-the practice is becoming common. These students must not realize that they are representing the students of this university at one of the few events where USC students can mix with residents from the Columbia community. They are reflecting poorly upon themselves and upon the student body of this institution. Fans should respond and be active at the games. They should annlnnH annri thiricre and rnmnlain ihnnt thp hnH Rut ? -w?r??. ?? *"v college students should be mature enough to think about little kids sitting in the stands and clean up their act. Students at USC like to make jokes about how backwards and obnoxious Clemson fans are, but some Gamecock fans are getting just as bad. Parkina problem needs explaining To the Editor: USC has a parking problem and the students, administration and faculty will agree. I feel much stress can be eliminated if the parking situation is adjusted by altering procedures and reducing fines. By telling my story, maybe it can be used as a model. I, like most new students enrolling at USC, was nervous and scared of entering college for the first time. After frantically getting my classes arranged, 1 was so rattled that the parking situation was the least thing on my mind. I did, however, pay $15 for a sticker that I felt gave me many privileges. 1 was told that this sticker enabled me to park in the coliseum parking lot. SEVERAL days later, much to my surprise, the coliseum parking lot was full. What was I to do? As the minutes passed, I felt the tension and stress mounting. So as to not be late for class, I parked in an unmarked parking space. When I returned to my car from class, 1 found a $15 ticket. If I had been informed or eiven a DamDhlet on Darkine regulations, this incident would not have happened. I was not informed of additional parking spaces at Bates House or Cliff Apartments. I was bnly informed of the coliseum parking lot. I suggest in the near future that an administrator hand out and make sure new students are informed of parking regulations. Then new students will understand USC's unique parking structure, the fines, penalties and towing procedures are grossly unfair. Dorothy Alson Freshman, Journalism gam ecock I Founded 1 908 Newsroom 777 7181 Advertising: 777 4249 Business Office: 777 3888 Production. 777 2833 Stephen Riddell Editor Jill Hancock Copy Desk Chief Leeaa Bainbridge. . . Editorial Page Editor Toresa Weaver News Editor Cylinda Calvert Wire Editor Don Weatherbeo Asst. News Editor Jerry Brewer General Manager Michelle Burchette Co-sports Editor William Tinsloy Production Manager Richard Meyers Co sports Editor Jean Hatchell Business Manager Mark Platte Entertainment Editor RussFurtick Advertising Manager Lynn Massey Asst. Ent. 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The much touted shift to the Right reported by the media is also erroneous, helped along by the recently concluded hostage debacle, all of which helps to disguise the real radical revolt growing underground in this country in all classes. Oh yes, we will have the reign of Ron the Simple with his Abominable Closet of Know-Nothings, along with the Moral Majority and their Budget c not worl To the Editor: Being a freshman at USC has been worthwhile. Adjusting to college life has been hard, but educational. I was susceptible and believed everything that was said to me. During this time, a group called The Columbia Junior Civitans gave m; a phone call. The lady (aiu ays a lady with an exciting voice) told me that I had been chosen out of 5,000 names to win a coupon book worth $800.00. I would receive this booklet if I could tell her which ad vti uoiii? a^cutjr udCU UIC commercial slogan, "Whey it rains it pours." Automatically, I answered Morton Salt. } tne fcditor sunhap anti-ERA Protestant Fanatics and the anti- \ abortion Catholic Fanatics and all the rest for a time. But reality will have its own way. We will have another Great Depression as a result of Know Nothingism, lose our super-power status, and very nearly lose the space race ? the result of imapictccu vaiues anu uie iog of silly non-issues. j OUR TIME of Troubles < will, however, put an end, ' once and for all, to the notion i that a free market has ever i existed, can exist, or could i ever exist. The growth of | American business has had l little to do with the free < market. The reality behind 1 that growth was govern- i mental favorinc of < manufacture over agriculture (e.g. in the great preferential tariff fights that led up to the Civil War), * governmental expansion at the proddings of commerce (e.g., in the political deals for rail rights and land grants that determined westward expansion), governmental protection of capital risks abroad by oupons :h price Then she told me that I was correct and for $19.95, I would get two coupons for Wendy's, piano lessons, portrait appointments for two, etc. She rattled off a ^ whole list of products. All of this overwhelmed me and I immediately accepted. s What I did not know was that the coupons were for a places in Cayce, Dentsville v and other neighboring parts a of Columbia. By the time I a would have bought gas to go ^ to these places, I would have 0 ?rv?nt nvpr tftOO 00 Sn lam warning anyone who ^ receives a call like this to be ready to buy a gas company. u Pamela Bullock y P re-Nursing Major Freshman _ ? I' ll Geez.wtfltst comin'ix)?'] Senators are and now the Sffi py with 'gunboat diplomacy," [overnmental shelter for big :ombines in turn-of-the^entury Supreme Court lecisions. Make no mistake, til you who can't read the vriting on the walls all iround you and the rest of 'ou who simply don't read ind are therefore too stupid o be alive, big government tnd big business grew in the ast by feeding each other, till do, and will continue to loso. ^he o ^Jy difference now is hat Keagan, in his sweet aivpfp u/ill if?rk au/av ?n nany of the governmental rops of our economy that he whole house of cards will ome down in short order. If e does not, then he will eveal himself to have been lected by big business to School s defend c breaking 'o the Editor: Umif InnfJ ic (hie Iiniirapf ihi n< *~..e v.io u..?Tvao...jr B, nd "protect" him from what tie long, drawn out way in whi le matter. He should have be< istead he was allowed to pla; ened. What happened was li ome people don't realize hoi een. But it is serious, and we f< y the university accordingly. We agree with Pamela Jolle; >0 were amazed at how the iroughout. Our question is: \ think because Ellis is an thletes exempt from the laws nd the section that states that \e law, please pass it on to ev ime thing. However, we doubt So Ellis serves one weekend i difference do you think it w? on't do a bit of good at all. He id kill somebody. And now, ?ain. Maybe he'll get to work e Babcock Center. Wouldn't >inion. 48 hours in jail is not en lesson. His actions were not oi ere degrading to the reputatio to more trouble, the universit; stice run its course. After all, iu want some of me?) can take i his place 1 libsgkb , LalenourfJh y'fe lettin'' r@i98i 2COCK Reagan serve big business behind a smokescreen of fundamentalist cant, building American capital on the backs of the poor, the old, and the disenfranchised. But all is not lost. I see us, America's oldest and most uiverse majority unuea again, radical for moderation, sweeping aside all these small men and their worn out ideologies. The worst is not yet over, but even(4now I see progressive America stirring out of a decade-long slumber. We will found a new era of clean prosperity and justice tempered with a profound idealism ? the thought of leaving it whole to our children's children Wagner H. Huberts houldn't ithletes f thf> 1ms) I ?* VI/ sing to stand behind Phil Ellis he needs? We are fed up with ch the university has handled *n kicked off of the team, but y as if nothing had ever haple only almost killed a man. x serious that it could have eel the matter wasn't handled y's letter of February 11. We university stood behind him VHY DID THEY DO THAT? athlete. But, since when did , ?... tr i vi uui sunt?: n anyone can all athletes are exempt from eryone else who wonders the such a section will be found, n jail. Big deal. How much of 11 make on him? It probably > might get into a fight in jail he's got to go back to court with the retarded children at that be fitting? Not in our ough. Ellis needs to be taught nly a disgrace to himself, but n of this university. If he gets y should stay out of it, and let bullies and "bad-asses" (do care of themselves. Name withheld by request