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<- Editorial" In the fall of 1979, tuition for for USC students increased or USC students may rise $150.' risen $347 in only three yeai ministrations budget cuts in e there is nnlv nru> imwuihl? that only the rich can obtain. THE UNITED STATES is r; to all of it's citizens, regard! Or reversed and a solution not fo inhabited only by children of members of minority groups v If this trend is to continue nations universities and colleg personel essential to the opera self-perpetuating cycle that w? ONE POSSIBLE SOI JJTlor expenditures such as new bui USC is currently investing in addition to the Business Adir What good will these building: only people who will benefit f political and business circles \r empty shell, and Coach Jim C corporate executives. Another solution, one that General Assembly to approve education is one of the most ii .ire less PSSPntial arpas that ch This possible tuition increa legislature should be urged to tuition again. At the rate we a the most deserving student cai Carle Extending head football Coach Jim Carlen's contract one year through 1966 was a pure piece of folly. It also shows that the decision was made under pressure by a board of trustees and a president who had no reason to give Carlen a total of six more coaching seasons. Consider the facts. The USC football team has complied a 39-30-1 record, which is a big deal only if a team is used to .500 or other ^ sub par seasons. The w Gamecocks have appeared in three bowl games, only tc be thrashed by more powerful teams each time. For the past two seasons, the squad has posted their best seasons in Carolina ? ; & GAMI University ol South Ca Foui* Advertning: 777-424* Production: 777-2833 Vlaifc Pljtttr |rM< Aw* Kirvrn Copy Dnii CM LKw*ld I. WNlfcnbrr Ntwt idki MithitH RorrutowtJii. .. Enlrttwwwnt ldM< ^ IricyMffcrn Sports fditi John PjineH Photo Iditi V i C\ I Sole rrpf?<hntion light's granted lo I 1 Uinrd hfrrin may nut be rrp(odu<rd w kg' OpMom ripmwrd in the Gamecocti || siKnrd, of the editor. [hr CjmMOtk welcome* letters am ? typewritten, triple-spared on a 65 space i letters should be no longer than 100 1 ;; newsworthy subject no longer than Itx 1 signed with the writer's correct nam* vuinmik or u<uay pouiion jmI nvtpH. I iiiinr nviy be wilhhrM on lellm, upon i Wf ifwrvr Ifcf right to rtfcl columns i I lh?* right to rejrct jny (okimn for jny rr. \ "Sjv I Arfdrni <nd itiliMnm to: Iriit* W\ s 1 * olumhM VC. 1*MH. Ig ammmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmm atioi Rich USC students was raised 1 i tne average by $85. Now rhis means that the aver rs time. Couple these fij ducational areas such as tclusion; higher educatio apidly backsliding in it's, less of economic backgri und, it will be only a matt the elite, white upper c /ho are typically less well , it would also mean dri ;es, resulting in further m tion of a higher education mild be disastrous to high< ^ would be to immediately Idings, and instead, use t a new computer center, ministration building, and 5 do if there are not enouf rom them are President ior lurning usu into a mu arlen, who will have mor is certainly more feasifc the $3 million necessary t mportant services a statt iou!d be subjected to extn ise should be opposed bj in il/n nntp M/win 1UUIW' V.UIO WIJC1CVC1 ire going, costs for attenc n afford. nfoi history with consecut: records. Maybe Gamecock Club ca excited about such fi but true college footba know that our tec nothing "to crow aboul It's true that ( Rogers was the best < football Dlaver ir country, but it is H accomplishment thi attained that statui Carlen's. In fact th< thing that Carlen ha! able to do consister i create controversy > himself. IF THE BOARD a president extendet , contract because thej he's a good coach, t i living in a fantasy w( fiUUUJ rotifu, C olumhu S C. d*d 1900 Nr*Moom: 777-7181 Ihninrvi Ottkr 777-3688 ?r MktMfl Gooding Editorial P H |eny Brtwfi GfOfu m Mark Mdwin Productior ar |can Hate heH Busines* M lirsdaHames Advertising or Mitl II h ridge Jr Ihe Associated Press. AM other materi, Mhout Ihe pcmMuono) the editor. : are those, H signed, <>( the writer and 1 columns. All letters and columns m line. words, and columiK ihotdd be limited jr typed pJKrs letter* And column* m telephone number, mailing address 'u-udonyms are unacceptable, but the v re quest, H Ihe cirt u instances wartant it. ind letters (or space <md style, And we r Hon. ?rial Pax<* Iditor, (.amecotk, Drawer A i: For Onlv by an average of $112. In 1980, hou r, in 1981, the average tuition cost age cost for attending USC will 1 gures together with the Reagan Basic Equal Opportunity Grants, n is increasingly becoming a ser attempt to provide a higher edura mind. If this direction is not qui ter of time before our universities lass, with little or no attendant off financially. asticallly reduced attendance at pessary cutbacks in faculty and o system. Such a trend would becoi er education. / cease from investing in more ca] hi ~ sy to hold down tuition c< r ..i, Water Sciences Centei an addition to the football stadi ;h students to make use of them? Holderman, who will be res pec tc ich la ar campus, even if it is onl e football tickets to sell to alumni >le, would be for the South Car( 0 prevent a tuition increase. Adeq 1 can offer to it's residents and t ime budget cuts other than educal r all students, and the university iible before they even consider rai ling USC will soon be more than t ? m reverr ive 8-4 they think he's a good c< the they're living in a fai n get world. If they i nishes pressured by rumor: ill fans Carlen's firing and want im is prove the accounts wer L i? - * * i. true, men uiey're a gi ieorge breed of men. If they po college the growth of the at! 1 the department as reason f< logers' extension, then they si it he consider that the consi >, not funding which comes i only outside sources is part < s been fanatacism of Car itly is football, not of Jim Carl about Paying a coach six 3 nd the of guaranteed salar . . j-i 1 1 1 his suiciuai anu one umy / think look at the Frank Mc( ihey're situation to prove that j >rld. If Should Carlen hav - terrible season this yez jj 1982, or beyond, and trustees have a need t< T7W* him, they'll continue t( fC him for getting a sunt* L JL. the golf course. The need to keep C for recruiting purposes ! fair argument but a strc one is his weak leaders! trying to get USC int athletic conference. As as we don't join an atl conference, we'll contir agr Editor suffer from reaching iMaMRw better competition ai greater share of the [Manner funding. . Adviser M( HE IMFOHTAN I the need for Carlei T !C/1 ? caidUiiau UOV, dh ct , il con- 1 foo ball power musl firmly rooted in order fc i< un schedules not to read 1 joke book year after yea u<i be 1 *le next ^ve yeai Carlen is bad enough u io one things change for the tx u?t?be The opportunity to , eiiv* away from a sixth I squasnea oy men wnt I Gamecock football fans everve and leaders with ser goals second. It's a si i, use. I they choose to idolize a I who has no real favo attributes. /t < M A ^ 'Vv* X ^urc <*Ji ^ grows #& sing 111 s ,or -? II,. "? II and J V* vice **-JJ\ ition 1 oVlu pital ^ *^s~ osts. % an 11 Letters t y an and _ here jOSf jf 1 Lion. ?01 isine TO THE ED1TOR? Mondav was the first dav of th#? Mm even ^ " Regulatory Commission's hearii concerning the licensing and operatioi the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear facilit; Jenkensviile S.C. (The hearings are o ^ to the public.) Monday also marked ^ opportunity for citizens to voice tl opinions for or against V.C. Summer; nuclear power. Twenty people spoke against nuclear power in limited pea ranees before a typically skepti oach, three-member NRC review board. F ritasy Qf these twenty were students. A I ,vere number? Hardly! More than 100 noti s ?* publicizing the hearings were pos ted to across campus. But few people had e not chance to see them because narr ltless minded, mis-informed jerks ripped dc intto the announcements. I even watched tiletic college student attempt to remove on >r the the brightly colored posters from a \ hould jn LeConte College. He stopped whc istent spotted him. from FORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE more chance. Tommorrow (Thursd imna morning at 10 a.m. in the Carolina Ini en* Assembly Street, additional lim statements will be heard by the IV is review board. This is the last chanc need speak out against this threat to Sc ? . Carolina and indeed, to our v existence. * Consider the facts, there are ir in proposed or operating nuclear facili To the Editor practice a n As they have done before, know e 1 iS a have done now, and will do next m )^?r again, tlie university has could "P111 1 ended up spending a fortune clock-lil "?i an I to get something done when what I they could have spent hardly stringer lletic I anything to get the same letting t I fhinrt nnnAmTItAiv* U/hllp tK - UfllA?? aUVUIlipilOUUVI. A Ilvll m ' *or latest project is "Cloud not out jpaa Nine", the protective bubble brellas JCAA covering a practice field, stringer While the bubble may have juj TLY, protect the players in a as ever !| rainstorm, I have an idea Just thi tfreat | they could accomplish the USC Ga 'H; I same thing at a fraction of any o] 'k?.Ur I ^ cost- played i ike a I My idea js Sjmpie; outfit sure dt ir* Inll nf thp fnMthnil <?n rr? 'c tf*?m ^ of second string squad with Gamec* nless umbrellas.The second string interch etter. team can have just as good a mud-hoj keeP practice as the starters, team's t was because the second string the rain ) are players would be running increas t first around covering the first victory isible string players with um- Carlen < hame brellas. Just imagine the players man nerfprt tpammatp-tn-tpa- colored rable |mmate unity that would bo co [acquired with such a visual d i glad tha-' n on trees so o the Edit( in South Carolina. Of t :lear and store highly rs ngs waste material. F n of deadly nuclear garb; y in along South Carolina pen tainers which, for all ] an remain untested. The leir waste shipping casks and foot drop onto an u out (Note: Many brid[ aD- greater than 30 feet de ical However, no casks ive have actually been s fair NRC tests. Only scale ces simulation tests hav ;ted And the containment the been tested are now ol ow- exterior steel ribs. T >wn longer used because one removing radioactivi e of Moreover, the obsolet vail when they were new, < ;n I and cool. Heat and aj of irradiated zirconju one coat the vessels, ay) CLEARLY THE1 1 on discrepancies betwe< ited and SCE&G would lik< fRC nuclear power is safe b to discovering (and uncc >uth Please help us sav< ery rest of the world. Let we don't need nukes. 10 1 ties GEOLC n l ?l ..i j a . ciacu piayer wouiu tne COIi very other player's across ove and the plays formal be executed with THI ce accuracy. But DEP/ about the third probat s, there is no use in chargi hem sit on the bench played ic others play. Why this fit them with um- tertain to cover the second extra i s? Then they could idea c ?t the same practice The or yone else. buying nk of the threat the each s mecocks would be to stude ^ponent. A game everyt in the rain would be this ;feat for any other univer r* 11 1% ' ' f ** A jio me II^IIUII^ spem )cks" with their things angeable players salari ) down the other progrs hroat. Attendance at the wh ed-out games would rather e because once Befo r* is ccruiiii, v^oacii idea as rould outfit all of his this. If with brightly year, umbrellas and the three ( iild be treated to a elight as they watch (<)M1 = I can ( ij y lit/ his ] 'all/yL ~ ?// ?Z~^A >. - or 1 vvr hese, three receive idioactive nuclear 'urthermore, this *ge is transported highways in con- | practical purposes, NRC requires that i "withstand" a 30 inyielding service. ?es span gorges ep.) j i presently in use ubjected to all the model or computer e been conducted. | vessels whlcK have isolete models with hese casks are no of the difficulty in :! ity from thfc ribs, e casks were tested ?mpty of spent fuel, ge induce cracking m cladding used to RE ARE gross m what the NRC e us to believe (that ;) and what we are >vering). 3 this state and the the NRC know that LAURA BAGWELL )GY SOPHOMORE est orful umbrellas dance 1 the field in tight! Lion. 5 ATHLETIC LRTMENT could >ly get a' ay with ng more for games ! in the rain because of extra added eniment, and that means money for them. This ould save a bundle, ily costs would be for ; new umbrellas for how The players, the! nts, the public,! >ne would benefit from! project, and the| siiy s money could be on more important i like professors es and improved ims that would benefit lole student population than a select few. >re you discharge my > hogwash, think about I1IA K k * 1 1 n .. A w*; imu uuiit' uil!? laSJ we would have had George Rogers. STEVE MACAULAY 'UTEK SCIENCE