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?opinion Course guide helpful if used correctly Student Government's attempt to put a course guide together last semester was a weak one. Hurt by professors and students alike, the guide never really got off the ground. It was published, but without definite results. Last year's guide received only a 15-percent participation level out of all people contacted. Professors felt that the guide would be used by students to determine which classes required the least amount of work, term papers and exams. While the guide could help in these situations, its main function would be to aid students in selecting classes that would most interest them. Some things just aren't well defined in the undergraduate or graduate bulletin. A brief description of each course can be found in the bulletin, but it is too vague to help in selecting classes. Students will find out one way or another whether a professor is interesting or boring, how many papers are due and whether or not the professor calls roll. Sometimes this information can be misleading. What's exciting to one student may be dull to another. Word of mouth iust doesn't 1 O A 1 -j- - J suusuiuie ior me written tacts. Some professors are in favor of the course guide. They feel it will allow students to make more intelligent choices. The students will know exactly what they're getting into before the course begins and can budget their time around their classes. One professor said he Would rather have no one sign up for his classes than have hundreds sign up and then drop them. Student Government's course guide, in order to be effective, should answer more students' questions involving classes. Full participation is needed from both students and professors if the guide is to become a useful tool in class selections. Solutions sought to traffic problems Have you noticed how difficult it can be to get to class? Besides the usual problems of faulty olorm onrl honrtnirovc fV?A /loiltt nifnol /\f ujui in v.iw^i\o aiiu naiiguvuo, uanj i ltuai ui trudging to and from classes has become a tiresome chore, thanks to traffic. Major city streets pass through the middle of USC's busiest sections. The intersection of Greene and Pickens streets and Greene and Sumter streets are always heavily congested with cars and pedistrians. The two just do not mix well. When students are most often going to r 1 1 l A nt or irom ciass is wnen drivers are mosi oiten going to work or lunch. The battle never ends. Other universities in large cities have walk ramps over all traffic-congested streets. This saves time for students rushing to class and drivers rushing to work. The USC ramps over Pickens and Blossom streets have saved time and lives. Perhaps other ramps at various locations across campus would work likewise. While it is not being suggested that the entire university be elevated to eliminate traffic problems, something definitely needs to be done. The temporary closing of Greene Street is a step in the right direction, but more steps must follow - for safety's sake. I vicimecoch 1 Editor-in-Chief Richard Meyers Copy Desk Chief David DeWitt Opinion Page Editor . Vicki Jinnette News Editor John Braun Wire Editor Sydne Waller Asst. News Editor Jeff Draine Photo Kditor Mike Fisher Asst. News Kditor. . . Forrest Brown General Manager Ron Emler Ent. Editor John Vaughan Adviser Mark Ethridge, Jr. Asst. Ent. Editor Chris Handal Ad Manager Linda S. Haines Sports Editor Tom Coyne Business Manager . . . Jean Hatchell Asst. Sports Editor. . Dennis Switzer Production Manager Mark McEwan I Newsroom 771-7181 Advertising 777-4249 Business Office 777-3888 Production 777-2833 The Gamecock welcomes letters and guest editorials. All letters and guest editorials must be typewritten, triple-spaced on a 65-space-line. Letters should be no longer than 300 words and guest editorials should be limited to one newsworthy subject no longer than four typed pages. Letters ana guesi eauoriais muo i uk signed wim ine wruvi ? mime, leiepnone number, mailing address, class standing or faculty position and major. Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but the writer's name may be withheld upon request if the circumstances warrant. We reserve the right to edit guest editorials and letters. Address letters and columns to: Opinion Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawer A, USC. Columbia, S C. 29208. Wife r ^ IT'S A DUWP RC I NCWSUOVIlfST I CDTOINItlil ClPf |.r .letters SAA provide Editor: It has been said that the three things a university must provide to ensure its success are sex for the students, parking for the faculty and winning football teams for the alumni. What about the things a university must receive to ensure its success? I am sure that in a much more serious vain, one of the first things that would come to mind is greater alumni involvement. Private support through continued alumni giving and interest is essential to any university that wishes to prosper and grow. The continued shrinkage of state and federal money 0\fQlloKln f A "1 K vuimuiv tu UI11VC1 Silica Hldl\fi> alumni support that much more imperative. This university has recognized the need for greater alumni support, and it moved five years ago to establish the Student Alumni Association. SAA was to be composed of Carolina Columbia Hall re defends new pri Editor: Regarding your editorial of Sept. 1,1 fel out for myself and many other Columbia disagree with your stand on the dorm reqi To anyone who does not live in ( requirements may seem stiff, but to mar Nothing comes for free these days and an a ww Lit paying auiuc pi icc 101 n. Fifteen hours in one entire semester Fulfilling the requirement of one hour w How many hours do you waste lyin television or doing absolutely nothing? THE REQUIREMENTS amount to ha a dorm party and you earn credit. Pla and you earn credit. Personally, as seminar on resume writing would be use: I do have a part-time job to put mysell I do not live at my job. Even with my > and sleeping, there is still adequate requirements. The variety of activities in which to students will have no problem finding s( them. The activities are inviting, so re participating. The requirements are jus everyone's cooperation. You seem to think that because of Program, residents will be hesitant abo Hall. Maybe so, but we know what they' Hall is still by far the best dorm on camf UOT F' ' s vital link u students serving with its alumni. Since 1977, the year SAA was founded, uieuiLrcrsuip ill ine USL Allimni Association has risen from 5,000 to over 20,000, due in large measure to an annual nationwide membership drive that SAA directs from its Telecenter. This is still our most important task, but certainly not the only one. SAA also plays a vital role at Homecoming by helping out at the numerous alumni reunions. Our activities are not limited to just alumni, either. Last spring we began a new program of calling high school students that had been accepted to Carolina to see if there was anything we could do to make that "big move" a little easier. This fall we will be sponsoring a special day-long program for some of the outstanding South Carolina high schools and prospective Carolina students in an attempt to keep this state's best sident T owini jgram "StJ these days. All we I at night, especial It obligated to speak I under any circum , Hall residents who I that but then ? uirements. I university does no Columbia Hall, the I a good example iy of us, it's worth it. I that occured this ything worth having 1 atjvice offered by I risk of walking ba< I nlrtM is nardiy extreme. "' *"& ?Vj 131IC U1 uv eekly is so minimal. When she arrived g around watching available, so she p out of class her c? towed. rdly anything. Go to M.y r?ommate e <<? ?? at night takinc thf j uuiui niiirtiiiuidis nlace a senior, I think a F ful. Sorry you didn't. T,|K F1UJSX1W hassle with a bunc [ through college, but It seems the uni vork hours, studying of students in one time to fulfill my barrel. Either we don't graduate. Is when did anyone s choose are many, so an(j ^est years >methmg that pleases sidents will not mind I guess it's not t! ,t an incentive to urge the faot that < paradox here. Is especially late ai the Living/Learning maybe, but towing ut living in Columbia After all, what' re missing. Columbia money made frorr >us. find that the latter Name withheld by request ) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammam with alumni students in state. Last, but certainly not least, we work with and for the students here at Carolina. The "Good Stuff" boxes and phone boards you found in your dorm rooms, the banners you see at football games, basketball's "Senior Night," the senior reception in April and special events such as the "Up with People" show are all projects that SA A has Hnnp fnr ctn^nnti' .. ..mu vtviav A\/A ObUUV/lltO. Now that you have had a chance to find out about us, I hope we will have a chance to find out about you. SAA is located in the Alumni House, between the Business Administration Building and Capstone. Like Carolina, SAA will continue to grow and change and, like the university, SAA will continue to need greater and greater support r ? - irom you as students and later as alumni. Scott Lawson SAA President j cars unfair ge what university officials will tell you > pvpr hpar is hnw lincufn thp famnns is - * ~ ? ly for females, and we should never, istances, walk alone. Sure, they tell us mother thing entirely happens. The t practice what it preaches. ! to back this statement up is the incident week with my roommate. She took the the university and instead of taking the ck across the ramp to Bates West alone e her ear to a 7:00-9:30 evening class, there were no student parking spaces >arked in front of Petigru. When she got ir was gone. Yes, that's right. She was nded up walking across the ramp alone : risk she was trying to avoid in the first iTION mounted when it took $35 and a h of inept policemen to get her car back, iversity is constantly taking advantage i way or another. They have us over a pay everything they tell us to, or we Jot much of a choice there, but since ay college was supposed to be enjoyable of vour lifp? he $35 that bothers me so much, or even *ot towed. It just seems as if there is a it so necessary to constantly tow cars, t night? I could understand a ticket, if > s more important, a human life or the 1 towing a car? It would be a sad day to bears a greater weight. I Name withheld upon request I