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St TO THE EDITOR I have followed with growing concern the events that have taken place regarding Bob Jones University and the President of this institution. This "man of God" has recently made some very inflammatory remarks when the tax exempt status of this institution has come under governmental fire. I for one was not aware that church oriented schools were tax exempt. Is Erskine College (Associate Reformed Presbyterian), Baptist College (Baptist), Columbia Women's College (Methodist), or Furman University (Baptist)? These are all institutions of higher learning who offer educational emphasis on Bible studies, if our own illustrious president were to represent USC in the same fashion, would the students revolt and commandeer control of their public image? There has been much rhetoric concerning "brainwashing" by so called Fir TO THE EDITOR ine mira fraternity uoi ternational Harvester, Morr announces the results of the < Pedestrian Kill. Tuesday evening marked tl As you remember, scoring students- 5 points, Clemson points, USC staff membersUSC professors or graduate s bonus points were also awa point (they're easy to hit), personel-100 points, and prej Two hundred score cards several hundred others wer uicoc uiivcid in up tdi uo will be recorded without an of Third place went to Billy , Georgia, with 805 points. Gat would have scored more poinl 4 rrctiAKUi I|y Iw inn udents Ha\ "religious" groups represented in the Gamecock and in the national news media. Could "brainwashing" be the case involving our own SGA and the Gamecock? Here is an example of how students have absolutely no control over their educational environment nor any input whatsoever into decisions made by our Board of Trustees concerning our everyday campus life. In truth, the SGA and the Gamecock are a bunch of children at play. What shocks and angers me is that the money that I am forced to fork over under the title of so called "activities fees" is spent on the support of powerless representative student organizations that supposedly benefit the siuaeni Doay. it they are helping me so much, why has my tuition been raised at the beginning of every semester since I have returned to school? The money that supports these st Annual I Lincil in conjunction with Inis' Garage and Skoal proudly opening neai 01 me nrsi annual ic end of the first two-day heat, is as follows: ordinary USC students- 10 points, jocks- 15 20 points, bicyclists- 25 points, assistants-50 points; additional irded: handicapped students- 1 meterniaids/other uniformed spies are worth 10 points each. > were issued to drivers, but e seen participating. We urge immediately - sorry, no points ficial score card. Joe Gatlin, a native of Macon, lin, in his 4-wheel drive pick-up ts had he not been so selective in TASY, TATTOO,,, ARSEf /e No Conti "student" organizations (SGA, Gamecock) should instead be spent on improving the quality of the education offered by USC rather than wastina mnn<w D ?""VJ , office space, time and the student's energies. Also, the editors and leaders of these organizations are being paid salaries? Whose idea was that? If these students a e being paid for their work then they must be answerable to the people who pay these salaries; namely the students. If our monev is beine snent on useless other than titular extravagances, then our educational costs are in need of serious reform. We are products of the "baby boom" and have been called the "me" generation. We rest comfortably on the laurels of our parents and mistakenly expect our lives to have the same selfservrng qualities after we grauuate. I myself am guilty ^edestrian 1 his targets. Second place was awarded driver. Carlson edged out G crumpling a bicycle ridden b this week was captured by ar card with an "X") Clemson s 1100. He was sporting a famih Many other entries were r with the turnout thus far. T1 Monday and Tuesday and pr the week. Score cards may b< Information Desk. - n TftMII. WW mm(m?z?p' rol of rolling along and allowing others to make my decisions for me. Have I not been brainwashed by a society that has had television, social security and welfare for most of my life? As is evident by President Jones' statements, life itself boils down to economics. There is nothing left that is sacred. If we as a group are to unite, are we going to ally our seives in me common cause of our education and the education of our children? Apparently our Board of Trustees and the ruling class do not have our (the student's) best interest at heart. It is time for the students to have more say in how their money is spent, i and for students to unite in * U ^ ~ ? I!*... LIIC udust ui quality education. My hand is raised. Is yours? JACK E. TURNER Music Major Kill to Davi I Carlson, a yankee MG atlin in the closing seconds by y a USL professor. First place, r un-named (he signed his score jtudent who earned in excess of ^ combine. lot far behind. We are pleased le second heat will be run next actice will continue throughout 2 picked up at the Russell House SCOTT P. ELLIS Marketing Senior STEVE BORDEN Marine Science Senior JIM WISSENBACH Political Science Junior TIM MOSER Computer Science Senior THE ISLAND. | SHORTSALE J ^ SOIID w/WH?TE STRIPE WHITE w/SOLID STRIPE | J ||j Reg. $4.95 ea. Fletcher Johnson ^ Acting Editor-in-Chief JF I^wasaslowafternoonfoMheBigcJuynRr^nSrTn^n^en Leroy decided the students down on Earth didn't have enough to worry about. (If yoii're dying to know more about the angei Leroy, my buddy Jim Poindexter is a personal friend of his.) But anyway . . .they decided students needed a few more things to increase the excitement in their lives. So they created the Big Three. Not Ford, GM, and Chrysler, Not the U.S., the U.S.S R., and China, but typewriters, reference books, and vacuumcleaners. If you can't type or are wealthy enough to have your own personal typist then typewriters don't bother ;?,)u. If you really can't type but wish you could then typewriters can be a big problem. Typewriters always work well when you have, all the time in the world to finish a paper. However if you have a paper due in class at 1? a.m. your typewriter will | probably breakdown around 9:25. Most typewriters don't fall apart at once. They tend to develop some minor malfunction. The only thing to do in that case is to get inside the beast Once inside the sights can be appalling. You will probably encounter several pounds of eraser dust, more than one of the keys will be just before disintegrating into a shapeless blob, and the ribbon will be torn to shreds. No big deal you say. I'm not going to be intimidated by a simple typewriter ribbon, it should be simple just to untangle that little rascal and get your machine in top-notch shape, right? Not necessarily. A typewriter ribbon can be the most HoiriAi le nf nraoh iroc T t ic o Kin f a fTnt ttificforl inf a t hn mnp f v4vtivuo vta vi vuvui vq. it to uk/iv vv/ gut v *y uwu uiw tuv; mvoi bizarre configurations in the length of time it takes you to look at the clock and realize your reseach paper is due in 45 minutes. Before you encountered the typewriter in the construction of your paper you probably spent several years in the library one weekend.Many people think of the library here at USC as a gargantuan house of knowledge where one can peruse the shelves that contain the knowledge of the ages. This is truly an idealistic, and sometimes utterly ridiculous point of view. For lurking somewhere in the library are those nameless fiends who delight in seeing poor students squirm when they go through the motions of some serious research only to find the reference book of their choice not on the shelf. The problem is not that the book in question has been checked out. It's a reference book. In black letters stamped somewhere on the book is the phrase, "NOT FOR CIRCULATION." What kind of sick mind would want to horde every fourth edition of Journalism Quarterly from 1959 to the present? It gets worse. There is a definite oorrplation h#?tu/p?pn fh#? H*??npratinn with which you need a certain reference work and the chance of it actually existing. If you absolutely must have it or your paper will make no sense at all the librarian will tell you that "we had it once, but if its not on the shelf it probably doesn't exist in this solar system." Thanks, lady. After all is said and done and your paper is finally finshed it takes only one look around to decide that you must either clean up your apartment or immediately vacate the premises. Dorm students don't have these worries, but apartment dwellers have to face the music of cleaning house every once in a while. One of the necessary tools of cleaning is a vacuum cleaner. Some vacuum cleaners work all right. I can never recall my mother having trouble with her vacuum. However, my present case is different. Landlords being the gracious souls that they are, mine provided me with a vacuum cleaner. This machine was surely the product of an inventor who had led a twisted existence on the planet. It was a short, round thing about the size of a large pumpkin. It had three wheels which only helped to make it '..iweildy. Aside from the fact it had as much suction as your average soda straw and resembled some Star Wars mechanical mutant, this machine had a serious internal malfunction. Instead of sucking up the trash on the floor and discharging regular air through the little exhaust system I began to notice a distinct change in the atmosphere. It was like a foreign presence had seeped under the door or through the t r* ~ t J : : j: l-m :n_!? _ seyiiuit*, ot'iui e i i t'dii^tu wnai tins insiuiuus nine villain oi a vacuum cleaner had done with its malfunctioning exhaust system every crack and crevice of my apartment was invaded by essence of poodle. I'm sure when I wake up my typewriter will work, and the librarian will greet me with a stack of long lost reference books, and my carpet won't smell like a veterinarian's office, . . .1 hope. %Mon.-Fri. 7:00am-1:00am | Sat. S Sun. I 1:00anv 12:00 midnight | B The Big Bird | Across from 604 OFF I Towers any whole sub ! i t . 30<t OFF FREE i Expires: .TV , REFILLS | i 415 82 any naif sub , ofTtA a