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The intramural wrestling tour nament will run tomorrow through Thursday from 5:30 to 9 n.m. at the Blatt Physical Education Center. All USC students, faculty and staff are invited to compete or watch. *%ast year we had about 160 people (competing),** Wrestliing C3iib President Mark Davies said. The tournament will be divided into 10 weight classes, ranging from 119 pounds to heavyweight. Collegiate wrestling rules will be used* The Wrestling Club started training for the tournament two months before Christmas, Davies saia, practicing tnree nignts a week before vacation and two nights a week since. The club has some good wirestlers, Da vies said. Craig and Jeff Sceto, Richard Counts and heavyweight i 1111mi111i'i iii n minimi USC swim tec From Staff and Wire Reports USC's swim teams split their meet against archrival Clemson Saturday night. The Tigers won the men's meet 69 44, and the Lady Gamecocks took an 85-64 win over the Lady Tigers. In the men's meet, USC's Perry White set a school record in 1-meter diving with a cumulative total of 335.40. The swim teams play host to North Carolina Wednesday. nnn LOU PIEL, USC's new softball coach, will be among the featured speakers at a softball clinic at Newberry High School Saturday. Piel, who replaced Terrie Drake, will be joined by UNC-Charlotte softball coach Kay Johnson and Newberry coach Deborah DuBose and trainer Paul Welliver. UUL.1 I lcriio MnntD 1 > * o iTit.ix o emu women s tennis teams open their spring seasons Feb. $1.00 OF wnn me purchase any size soft drinl or 50$ Of Any Half Si with the purchase any size soft drinl Senate at Marion Claire Towers . ^252-7032 Expires: 211 2/83 I I I I I I 2009 Greene Str MONDAY SPECIAL The Fabulous K Cover chargc $1.00 Miller and Mill TO isss /3V Richard Driver are all winners fmh last year's intramural tournament. In tect, if Counts wins this yecur, it will be the fourth consecutive year he has taken <&&t plage* <yfe?o ^ |1 >tl "He's not going to win this year, though, because he's wrestling in my weight division/' Davies laughed. Other wrestlers in the dub include Florida lunior college trunster towmt' Robinson and Pete Palmer of New Jersey. The club has about 25 members who train ?very Monday and Wednesday from 7:30 to 9 j>.m> in the combat room of the P;E. Center. Anyone inteiiasted in joining is welcome, Da vies said. Unlike many major colleges, USC does not have a varsity team. "I believe at one time we had a vanity, when we were in the Atlantic Coast Conference ? and that once they ims split meet sports briefs 17, when the men entertain Georgia Southern and the women travel to Furman. The men's team will try to improve its 22-7 mark from last season, but it may be difficult because of the loss of Ricardo Acioly, who tore ligaments in his knee during a fall season match. "I thought before Acioly got hurt, we had a shot at the top 20," Head Coach Ron Smarr said. "We still have an outside shot at the top 20." Acioly, a junior transfer from Tyler v, lexas; junior ^ouege, was expected to play the No. 1 seed on the squad. The highly-rated Lady Gamecocks, who posted a 28-3 record last season, return All-American Laura Bernstein and four other starters. The Lady Gamecocks are ranked sixth in the preseason poll. 'Ml? I Of }"j k. J F j jb I of k. 11 749 Saluda Ave.S in 5 Points E 256-6681. give eet EVENT nobs i only er Lite 1 FYTDA ft morrow (USC) got out, they dropped it" Paviessaid ;-:t' '"I've looked through some of the old Garnet & Blacks, tmd I haven't seen any pictures (of a varsity wrestling team). It might just be a ruiiior, "It's a shame we cad't have one at a school this s&e," Davies said. Ciem&on, Furman and T|*e Citadel all have varsity wrestling programs. The club has existed lor Jour ivuia^ (K?m, B?WVU|j?l ?* ??OS had problems getting budget money. "We've only had funding one year out of the four," he said. The budget problems this year were particularly frustrating, Davies said. "I turned in the budget on time. X got a computer readout that said we had been funded. X went to get some money out for uniforms, and they said we had no budget." at Clemson KEEPING USC FOOTBALL ticket prices at $12, with the exception of the USC-Clemson game, was one action voted by the Intercollegiate Activities Committee Feb. 2. USC-Clemson tickets will cost $15. The committee's recommendation will come before the full Board nfTnicfooc SfltnrHnv E.J. JUNIOR III will find out March 17 whether he goes to jail or continues his professional football career. The 22-year-old linebacker for the St. Louis Cardinals and former Ail American at Alabama pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of possessing cocaine. Junior applied for probation after Circuit Judge Claude Harris sen tenced him to two years in prison and fined him $200. Harris set a probation hearing for March 17. Junior is free on $1,000 bond. .. Dor .. We Ai ! FREE DC Pi I 1 \ N HEESE IS STANDARD! nu ?AA+i*nii, uiu luuiuaii i falling, need College Press Service URBANA, III. ? For a few flee Illinois sophomore Eileen O'Shea was collapsing beneath her. "The upper balcony, where I v fraternity and sorority groups," afternoon months ago as she of play between the Fighting Illini That's when O'Shea and seven felt the stadium move beneath the emotion of a big play, but becaus was falling apart. "The end of the game was ri "During one play everyone got up jumping, and all of a sudden t swaying. The people who weren't < STADIUMS ARE becoming dili maintaining sports stadiums is costliest worries many college adi Arizona State has spent $6.5 r years to stop the north end of Sun into the ground. Harvard just poured $8 millioi eluding costly efforts to refurbii replace most of the seating in the 1 Last year, University of Texa close a 3,000-seat section of < discovered cracks in the stadium' And several years ago, Florii condemned after inspectors disc was virtually rusting away. Th> Florida State's stadium until A completed this year. "THERE SEEMS to be a con looking at ways of remodeli stadiums," said Bob Eskew, mai based Heery-Fabrap, one of the 1 involved in stadium reconstructs The main reason stadiums are f "WfltPT anH Pvnncuro tn Hin take their toll on anything, even st Iowa State, West Viginia and problems, he said, and have optec equipped stadiums. While such stadium problems expensive, administrators stresi spectators have never been i dilapidated stadiums. "We would never, never let p< thought there was any danger to I Chancellor Donald Wendel. i't flcb i n ngn itomatica ii/cc Wll zza s i? $1,35 0 16" ONE OR A PIZZA. Expires 2/10/ ~256~03 I ANY 12" ONE OR IV ! P,ZZA Expires 2(10|l stadiums - repair ting seconds, University of thought Memorial Stadium vas sitting, was filled with she said of the Saturday watched the final moments and archrival Michigan, al thousand other students sir feet ? not because of the le the 60-year-old structure eally close," O'Shea said, and started screaming and he whole balcony started drunk were scared." ipidated nationally. In fact, ? one of the biggest and ministrators lace today, nillion over the past three Devil Stadium from sinking n into stadium repairs, in sh the support beams and M)-year-old structure. is-El Paso officials had to the Sun Bowl after they s walls and pier supports, da A & M's stadium was :overed the steel structure e football team played at & M's new stadium was tinuing number of schools ng and upgrading their naging director of Atlanta eading architectural firms n. ailing apart is age, he said, ments," Eskew said, "will eel and concrete." Georgia have had similar 1 to construct npwpr are time-consuming and > that students and other n any danger from the jople into the stands if we the fans," said Illinois Vice II' h our FF i/IORE ITEM I I i 83 01 1 unnr iTm*