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Editorial"" Looking For Talent Is there performing talent on your campus? If so, the AllAmerican Collegiate Talent Search would like to see it. This new program, developed by Barbara Hubbard, director of special events at New Mexico State University, is offering cash prizes and career opportunities to performers who prove their talents in national competition. ACTS is also offering a three-day workshop, in conjunction with the talent finals, to help potential performers prepare for a career in the entertainment industry. To enter the competition, students should submit a video cassette recording or, in tne case 01 singers or comedians, an audio cassette with photograph. These will be judged on a regional and then national basis, until seven national finalists are cnosen oy a panel 01 judges mai mciuaes represeniauves from Billboard Magazine, Warner Brothers Records, Armed Forces talent personnel, as well as leading talent and publicity agencies. The seven finalists will compete in.a live show at NMSU Jan. 16, as the opening act for a major recording artist. All entrants must be enrolled in college and pursuing a degree. Performing groups of up to 10 people are eligible if all students attend the same school. Any type of performing talent is welcomed, says Jan Scarbrough, ACTS producer. Each act must have a student or professional staff member from the college or university to serve as an adviser. ACTS will award both cash prizes and matching scholarships to the winning acts and schools they represent. First prize is $3,000, second prize is $2,000 and third-place ? ?* ? -I *1 AAA All #rAA Tm unisners receive ^i,uuu. mi niicuisus irv-civc ^ow pci ati. in addition,audition tapes of all regional winners will be viewed by production groups including Warner Brothers Records, American Theatre Productions and The Oakland Ballet Company. All contestants will be eligible for a touring 1 i Ar*ro cuiiipany, pui lu^cuici uy nv>io, iu udvci cuuci fiUiu^c ui the Orient under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Defense. The ACTS conference, to be held Jan. 13-16 at NMSU, will feature many of the contest judges and others offering information on performing careers. "We're trying to combine entertainment and education," says Hubbard , a campus activities veteran who began work on the ACTS concept in 1971. "There is currently no real course study in grooming kids for the arts. That's what we're trying to do." ACTS guidelines are being mailed to activities offices and music departments of colleges across the country, says Hubbard. PrnfaccAr vc Piih Si | V V9 WW A persistent professor has delayed and may eventually halt plans for a University of California-Los Angeles campus pub to sell beer and wine. Professor Edward Rada, an economics professor in the School Of Public Health, objected to a state Alcoholic Beverage Control board decision to grant a license to the Associated Students of UCLA to sell alcohol in its newly built pub. Pada's objections were overruled by the BAC, but he has filed an appeal and claims he'll fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. In the meantime, most preparations for the pub's opening have been completed, says Cindy Cher now, an ASUCLA administrative assistant. "We're going right ahead, and we'll open it when it's ready ? we just can't sell beer and wine there." Chernow says the students are cautiously optimistic that Rada's objections will be overruled. "We can't see a reason why they wouldn't be." Oa/Io knlinuAn fViA liniinr An Aomrvuc tirill rvmmrvffl IV<XUd UC1ICVCO U1C oaiC V/I HVjUV/i UII VUInpuu rr aaa pi uuiv/vv alcohol abuse, and says that as an indirect arm of the state government, ASUCLA can't legally sell liquor. He unsuccessfully waged a similar battle when the faculty center obtained its liquor license, says Chernow. ASUCLA is maintaining it has no direct connection with the state and that the pub will provide a badly needed place for students to socialize. "Right now, you have to go intc Westwood, which means you have to walk since there is absolutely no parking," she says. "Besides, the places arc mobbed and much over-priced." Violence And Love violence is a growing pari 01 reiauonsmps between college students, according to a survey by a University of Arizona sociologist. Mary Reige Laner interviewed students at colleges in Oregon, Arizona and Minnesota and found about 60 percent had experienced some form of physical violence during dating relationships. Nearly 30 percent said they expected slapping, hitting or scratching in anger in the course of serious relationships, and over half of those who Ko/I nvruiri iViic IrtnH t\f t? n i / ! fKntr of ill U <> rl n I1CIU UUO CV1* 1V4 Sl/lvllV/v OU1U VllCjr Dtlll IIC4U (1 relationship with the person they had abused or were abused by. Thirty-seven percent thought the violence had actually improved their relationships. Reports taken from the National On Campus Report. Letters To The EiU.. EMI VI To the Editor: To make USC a better nhr<P fnr thf? pvpnin0 students (as well as the day students), I feel several policies need to be changed. An incident on Saturday, September 5, 1981, triggered this letter. It happened as follows. On Thursday, September thirrl T wont fho tho Q C Book Store looking for the text my professor recommended. Ttiey were sold out of it. I then strolled over to the Campus Bookstore but their sign said 8:30am-5pm M-F, 9am-lpm Sat. It was 5:30pm at the time. I returned on Saturday at mam, uenevuig in signs, 10 get my text. The book store was locked. I looked inside ; I saw no one. The lights were dim and so were my chances of getting my text. I talked to several other students trying to get in and they were as angry and mad about the situation as I was. One evening student remarked, "This is no way to run a university bookstore even if it is the Saturday before Labor Day." I agree. Now it will be two weeks before I dpt m\; tovt from tho nthor "IV WWIV4 bookstore (I will not risk another Saturday fiasco at the Campus Bookstore.). Another recent incident also left me with a feeling of total frustration, of anger and mad. In August on one Saturday, I went to the library about 2pm to pick up a book to read before the fall semester started. As an alumnus, I knew I could check out a book without a Dtif flinn fKn oirtn in WUiClil. LIUL U1C11 U1C 01511 111 front window next to the entrance hit me. It read More To the Editor : As much as they wan everyone to believe it, USC i not perfect. Not by a lonj shot. My frustration ha reached a peak. A freshmai with no car, I'm staying si mil#?s flllH minntoc n\ua from campus. The bus run only until 6:16 p.m., so tha cuts out any night life. A ca is much too expensive fo anybody, let alone < freshman trying to ge organized to a completel; new, fast-paced lifestyle. It' hard to meet anybody wa; out here, and they say you'v got to make friends. You cai make acquaintances ii class, but when you don't se them at parties or on ; Saturday walking arouni campus, it's a trifle hard. I cannot comprehend tha it's not mandatory fo Iiresnmen 10 stay on-campu unless living at home or wit YOU WW NOT BElltVE TH RICH SUCCESSFUL BUS(Nl ANDKIDS..,A BIGHOM INFLUENCE,,, BUT NOW I "Wjrv 'mppn 8am-5Dm M-F. 9am-lDm Sat., closed Sunday. At that time I felt my Saturday morning ritual of sleeping late must be out of the ordinary and I failed to protest. I now protest. The library (and the university) is here to serve me, the student,the evening student, the alumnus and the S.C. taxpayers. Are academic pursuits regulated to bankers' hours during the summer? The score USC library-1, students, alumni, public, knowledge, ideas-0. Lastly, I protest the lack of evening courses and their scheduling. I know of less than a handful of programs at USC where a student can earn a degree oy only taking evening or Saturday courses. The evening student, who is returning to upgrade their job skills, change professions or get an initial degree, belongs to the fastest Dormitor t relatives. It's to^igh enough s adjusting to everything else, g let alone trying to find somewhere to live, s It would help if they got n out-of-towners a room first x instead of giving Columbia y residents a nice, close-tos campus room. It's not fair at [t J G ? Newwoom: 777-7181 it Bu&Jnes? Office: 777-3888 y S (eanrtie Rakton y Mark PUtle ' fill Hancock ? David Corvette n Tom Coyne Don Weathertoee Mike Komatowtki ? John Vaughan ft Tracy Melm? J JimCortoett Mike fHher Jerry Brewei ,t linda Maine* p Mark M(f wan lean Kilt hell S Mark Uli 11(1^0 |r h IS.BUTIWASONCEAl f ESSMAM.JHAPAwifP ?, MONEV, FRIENDS, ' [MP?NN"isS.M ?sC2ir\t growing population on rnmnii'C npmntJmnhipc ? -o' show that this trend will continue well past the year 2000 while all other university populations will decrease. Therefore, if USC is to meet the needs of these students, more evening courses are nftppssarv Secondly, many of the evening courses start at 5:30pm and meet two nights a week. The schedulers must think that every evening student works downtown, eats a five minute supper while rushing to find a parking space in 5 o'clock traffic. This idea is absurd. I therefore submit the following recommendations: 1) Change Campus Bookstore hours to 8am-6pm M-F, 9am-5pm Sat. Make sure these hours are kept year round except holidays. All holidays should be posted y Space N< all. At this point, I don't think I would give someone contemplating USC a very high recommendation. Maybe if they send their housing monev in nrnnnri Phridmnc they could get a room. Other than that, well... AMECOC University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. founded 1908 Sole reproduction Acting Iditor other material conU iditor the pcmmvior, of the Copy Desk Chief Opinions express?! New? Iditor writer *nd, H unsigne Asst. Newt Iditor The Gamecock we . . . Iditorial Page Iditor ?olumns mutl be typ . . . Intertainme nt Iditor letters should be ni Asst. Int. Iditor be limited to one nc Sports Iditor P*Kei Letters and .... Asst. Sports Iditor correct name, telepf Graphics Iditor or faculty position ar General Manager 'he writer's name m. Advertising Manager circumstances warrai , . . Production Manager We reserve the rig Business Manager < style, and we reserve A fliyxoi AflHrtHV Ictlfd t K< Duwer A, US( , COlti ? ? \ WHAT WAS |f ) IT"PALih I UH??. bAMBUNGf | Is J &0O26" ? J [ 1ft ? mm maw \ i next to store hours. (TWJ I change will help all students; S evening and day.) 2) Keep the library open ! everyday with reasonable J hours, such as 8am-10pm. I1 (Knowledge and the pursuit 1 of knowledge does not take a vacation on holidays, on P Sundays or in the summer.) 3) Change scheduling of ? night courses to meet one ! night a week for 2 hours anjL ? starting no earlier than Gpir?' 1 4) Change scheduling of r courses so that at least half j of all degree programs of- |j fered at USC can be taken at 1 night or the weekend. (If i' given a choice between an n.tnninn ?1 ? i cvtimig tuuiac U1 I1U ClUbb, ? 1 believe many day students I would take the evening course. 1 know the reverse situation is impossible fc^ many evening students.) (i Roland E. Bart eeded . 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