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Editorial The$elling Of Homecoming When ABC deemed it worthy to televise Saturday's USC Homecoming game against N.C. State, USC accepted of course. When money talks, USC listens. When students talk, they're lucky if students listen. The athletic department gets $211,000 from 'the deal. The students on the Homecoming Commission were dealt out. Well, not quite; those students who have been planning tommorrow's Homecoming parade since last February get the headaches involved when reorganizing nine months of planning. THE KICKOFF, originally scheduled for 7 p.m., was changed to 12:30 p.m. Thus the parade, originally set to begin at 2 p.m., will begin at the inconvenient hour of 9 a.m. While the average student ponders Friday night over a Saturday-morning breakfast, dedicated parade participants will be enthusiastically celebrating Homecoming as they roll along Columbia's empty streets. A HtS"! fVlACA OflA o lutvini titK/\ ^1 J Itm. - Iiuiu mivo^ <ivnj aiuiiiiu wnw nvi lllclliy WUU1U (tllCUU llie parade will be too busy munching at the 10 a.m. alumni brunch, which, before ABC bought Homecoming, was intended to be an alumni lunch. According to Eddie Greenleaf, parade chairman, the homecoming floats will be displayed at the stadium, an event not allowed in the past. But Donn Bernstein, ABC's NCAA Media Director, said the network has no plans (as of yet) to televise the parade or the half time show. Thus it's unsure whether the Homecoming Commission will receive any real compensation for their jury-rigging. WE BELIEVE the Homecoming Commission deserves part of the take, either in publicized or financial form, that the athletic deparment receives from this deal. 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" HESAlD'ABSOUJTtlY NO HANt APPty FOR A SMALL B05IN A Thought Occi It is truly amazing how one win can turn a football team from a bunch of bums to a bowl contender. Alexander Haig typifies what can happen if you allow a former general to think...or at least try to think. Does he ever stand at ease? I CAN'T decide which is more disgusting, alligator rainrnats r?r nlliffatnr nnffc rtrrtKiohKr fV?o nonnln n>kn mu>quw> vwuuij uib nuu wcai uiciii. Columbia Mayor Kirkman Finlay changes his stance on Greene Street more often than he does his party affiliation. Maybe the city should cobblestone around the mayor's home and allow citizens to drive around it on weekends. David Stockman's statement that federal government has no obligation to support student loans because anyone who ? really wants to go to college can find money is particularly ironic considering only three months ago he paid back an , interest free student loan from a church 13 years tardy. I STILL hate people who take elevators for iust one floor, o And people who flush while I'm in the shower. And people who are crazy about cats. n It sounds funny to hear an organization which promotes black and white disunity call an organization which is open to all students racist. M Homecoming has got to be the most hyped up, over-rated v event since the Royal Wedding. Whatever happened to Mark Spitz? Or Farrah Fawcett- Majors? And how about Evei Knievel? D HAS THERE ever been a World Series which has created c! more total fan disinterest? tl Ronald Reagan's idea of good clean fun is slashing social programs. i ? Letter To Th? TO THE EDITOR: should disapprobation be his Mr. Ibrahim waxes theme or should it rather be ui eloquent in his criticism of commendation. If one of my the English Program for foreign students under my foreign students at Carolina tutelage for some months but does he wax true? If Mr. were able to pen an epistle of c< Ibrahim's letter is, in part, Mr. Ibrahim's caliber at the la the result of his ?nklish end or near end of his e: language training here university studies, I would Is I HHUW n I bBM IF4H M| r L?*ry^^3Sn pP.^ Jours'... but; hep hop 05 ^ m ^ A | ifc?> LOAN... urred To Me TOM COYNE 9 Oreo cookie ice cream is the greatest innovation since hocolate flavored Ex-Lax. M Bruce Springsteen is to rock what Luciano Pavorotti is to pera. Will Rogers never met a man he didn't like, but Will Rogers ever met Libya's Khadafy. Or Jerry Falwell. I WONDER which USC meter maid currently holds the rorld record for most tickets given to one car for one iolation in a 24-hour period. Who has more personality; Tom Snyder, Howard Cosell or JSC's cheerleader's mike man? Anyone who thinks college football is anything but a big usiness need not look any further than USC's decision to hange the time of the Homecoming game when ABC offered a lem $211,000. Roaches make wonderful pets once house trained. Who really cares what I think? *< ; Editor ositively salivate with ciseiy. No, Mr. Ibrahim, not restrained pleasure. mere commendation, let alone condemnation, but rather lavish praise of the The writer's apparent English Department should \ jntrol of "the how" of flow from your pen. tnguage has enabled him to icpress "the what" of JENNIFER B. GARDNER tnguage clearly and con- ENFS Instructor