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Excuses, excuses Ph0,?b* M,r>Ano Photojournalism professor Donald Wooley holds the plaque with some of the best examples he has collected over his years of teaching. i College experiments By College Press Service This fall's experiments in decreasing student drinking ? ex periments held almost simultaneously by many schools ? have inspired tough rules on student behavior. An initial checl with colleges nationwide indicates students are willingly adap ting to dryer campuses. "We didn't have the 'beer suckers' that have always beei around before," said Mike Jewell, a member of the Universit; of Kentucky's Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Kentucky frater nities agreed to hold dry rushes for the first time this fall. Bar owners near the University of Oklahoma campus ar EYES] LETSGO [ /TO.. ^ / HOW NO WAY, AjL0^ : <* -^theirfood I IS LIKE DOG FOOD: NO e COLD -f OUT OF WAYJ THE CAN CUT OUT THIS AD AND P 1 PIZZA DELIVERED. OFFE H^^^THI^EEr^PECIAL^^^^I ' I Small Shrimp & I i Devil Crab Combination I El ^n/oH n/ith Fronrh Frir?c Much Piinnipg I f j ?' * -rr ? ||| and Cole Slaw I reg. $4 35 Specia! $3.49 . j !j 2 Pl?ce Chicken Dinner | ] Served with French Fries : I Special $1.39 5 our choice of pieces j j FREE Iced Tea with meal with USC ID i j Phone ahead for quick carry out service. < I 1725 Broad River Rd. Ph. 798-3032 1 1208 Knox Abbott Dr., Cayce Ph. 796-1654 HL 3200 Two Notch Rd. Ph. 786-0160^ I ,"j' , ,, ; | Professor pre: By Zina Counts A student couldn't turn in an assignment because a buffalo ate it. Another student "had" to get married the day his assignment was due. These examples are just two on a | plaque with some of the best excuses ! for not having homework hidden by books and papers in an office at Carolina Coliseum. PHOTOJOURNALISM PROFESSOR Donald Woolley started the novelty in 1962 when he was teaching a photography class at the University of Iowa. The plaque, about the size of a dinner plate, is mounted with a simulated gold bull that sticks out beneath the inscribed excuses. Woolley named the plaque the Bob Nelson Award of Legitimate Excuses ? after one of his students. Nelson was I the first student to come to Woollev's I class with an excuse that sounded half legitimate, other than the usual "I overslept" or "My roommate forgot to wake me." A gas heater in Nelson's house caught fire, and the house blew up. He lost some of his possessions in the explosion, including the negatives for Woolley's photography class. He was i late turnine in the assignment. hut it , was considered on time. ONE GIRL had her film eaten by a ; to reduce drii ranged to accommodate a crowd of 5,00C protest the state's 21-year-old legal drink 150 students showed up. t Dry rushes and parties elsewhere uri troversy. "I think (the fraternities) are f results; and keeps the people away who c i beer anyway," said Jonathan Brant, hea y terfraternity Conference. It also shows "that fraternities are sc busts," he said. Not all student groups are happy aboi THERE'S ALWAYS- YOU LL LIKE. . if mm that only I dtW? with a ! place? gun t0 r _j heap! RESENT TO GET 2 FR ,R EXPIRES 10-2R-83 I I rararamrarain HBaBHBH Everything for Hall ; DECORATIONS BALLOONS RUBBER BATS & SPIDERS HALt SPIDER WEBS MASKS MAKE-UP BE/ WIGS COLORED HAIR SPRAY BU CAPES WITCH HATS BALD HE/ VAMPIRE BLOOD INDIAN HEADDf PIRATE EYE PATCH HULA SKIRT T FINGERNAILS DEVIL EARS & TAIL IS U S P EN D ? CANDY Located just I Block from the Capital at serves excuse: "Students are glad I finally accepted one (excuse). They'll I _ ao anyining. ? Photojournalism professor Donald Woolley buffalo. It doesn't happen every day, so Woolley accepted her excuse. The student had taken a roll of film to shoot a buffalo at a city park compound. She had finished a roll of film and had placed it on a wooden post. While putting another roll into the camera, the buffalo came to the fence post, knocked against it, and the film fell into his pen. The buffalo ate it. All the excuses Woolley has received have not been so funny. One student had to go to Ohio to kidnap his brother's child back from his sister-inlaw. Another got his girlfriend pregnant. The day the assignment was due, his girlfriend's father showed up with a shotgun and took them to the church to be married. There was nothing that could be done in either situation, and Woolley accepted both stories. THE REWARD for someone making Woolley's plaque is that he accepts their excuse. He doesn't put the names of the people who give the excuses for fear of embarrassing them. iking inspire ) students at a rally to controlling student ing age law, but only "We're all for" head of the State 5 [folded without con- which coordinates : inding it brings good helped Kansas and >nly come for the free hikes last spring, id of the National In- "But students themselves withoui ?mething besides beer them," he said. Legislators and it the way schools are I Vlzza.il ffir? FOR Tl ! DEAS. harl TO PLEi o ij^S I 5 - POIPs YOUR 707 SAL< 1Y DECISION 765-10 EE COKES WITH AINT wm | TgSO?, Established 1935 f Ph. (803)779-2390 BBMnMn \D WIGS NOSES ?Ti | i 1 ^ESS SKIMMER H| | /* ' sword crown ^b7itit7h~rt rs toothout bhhbhamhh vampire teeth &tail leis :s cowboy hats agde clown pitchfork f gloves mouse [; * unlnm inAiit ho il gay 90 s vest | grms'of bVsii" sets tiara . Teaching tests trick or treat prehensive teai dvelties candy at any of our t popcorn cotton * Materials consi candy apples * Over 40 years < experience and success in the 1235 Assembly Street fie,d of test MMBMBEEaEMi ^eparatioa 5 on plaque Some students know their excuses might make Woolley's plaque. He says, "Students are glad I finally accept one. They'll do anything. I don't accept many excuses." Sometimes he goes two years without putting anything on the plaque, and sometimes he puts on two a year. Woolley had collected some excuses since he has been teaching at USC.but he hasn't had them engraved on the plaque. It's not very expensive to have the excuses added on the list, he said. The plaque relates to photography, Woolley says, because "If you are going to be a photographer, you have to make your deadlines. Most employers don't care about your petty little problems. They want the finished product there. So, if you start to get in the habit of making excuses in a beginning or advanced photo class and try to use them when you get out on the job, it isn't going to work. They don't care. "IT'S UP to you to keep your car in shape so you can get back and forth to work. But every once in awhile there are some extenuating circumstances. When those come along, any reasonable person will accept them." He plans to keep the plaque until he retires. If he teaches somewhere else, he will take it with him to continue. Wnnllfv <;avc hp miaht hano fhp r?l;ifnip on his office wall from now on. new rules drinking. controlling drinking, said Bob Bingaman, tudent Association in Washington, D.C., itate student activities nationwide and also Georgia students ward off drinking age are responsible enough to sensitize having legislatures making decisions for school administrators have been making See "Drinking," pege 4 ^ I t?-? ? ?\ mw I Tta GAMECOCK is the student oewf 'U I paper of (he University of South Carotin* I and is published three times a week oa ' * | Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays dun| ing the fail and spring semesters and _T rp weekly on Wednesdays during both sumJ / / mir sessions, with the exception of university holidays and examination periods. ) Opinions expressed in the GAME* COCK are those of the editors and not j p y-s those of the University of South Carolina, J ^ py The University of South Carolina is aa equal opportunity Institution. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of the rrr-AC GAMECOCK. The Student Media De1 I S partment Is the parent organization of the GAMECOCK. TT~"\ A Change of address forms, subscription ) A _ requests and other correspondence should be sent to the GAMECOCK, Drawer A, University of South Carolina, Columbia, f\ S C 29208' UU Subscription rates are S15.00 for (1) ^0 J year, $8.00 per fall or spring semester and S3.00 for both summer sessions. Third class postage paid at Columbia, S.C. . _ The "Gamecock" is a licensed student organization of the University of South Carolina and receives funding from *tu deal activity fees. ? - me study notes on all science. accompanied by com :hing tapes to be used ape centers. antly updated. gSx R ^CATKWAl. Tel. (803) 256 0673 1419 P8ndl"ton St^ Columbia, SC 29201