The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 30, 1981, Page Page 2, Image 2
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.
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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.
Since USC sold Homecoming, an event rich in tradition,
it is unfair to neglect the organization that contributes to
that tradition year after year and which this year unselfishly
altered plans to suit the bigwigs.
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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?
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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?
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more total fan disinterest? tl
Ronald Reagan's idea of good clean fun is slashing social
programs.
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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:
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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?
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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