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the gamecock Opinion December 7, 1984 ? Page 15
Fall 1984 semester
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Football isn't very important in the scheme of
things, but at Carolina this season, it did what it is
supposed to do. It was great fun, exciting, and a
sourrp nf nriHe and insniration. This football
season, more than anything else, will mark the Fall
1984 semester in the minds of everyone at Carolina.
It started in late September, with the Georgia
game. Some students camped out all night to get
tickets to the spectacle, and others found tickets
gone barely more than a day after distribution
began. Then on Saturday night, Sept. 29, the
Gamecocks gave us thrill number one, a seven
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point win over me tjunaogs, me iirsi win over me
rivals from Athens in five years.
Things moved quickly from there. Wire services
and other raters picked the team as one of the nation's
20 best. With defeats of lesser opponents ?
including Pittsburgh, who had humilitated
Carolina three years before on semi-national television
? higher rankings came. They only showed
that the rest of the world was beginning to realize
what everyone at UbC already knew: that the
Gamecock football team was one of the best.
The Florida State game was a fitting end to a
glorious home season. It was the biggest game in
Carolina's history: a possible undefeated season, a
New Year's Day bowl bid on the line, a record
Williams-Brice Stadium attendance and a national
television audience. It was also a fitting time for the
"Low Brass Cheer" to return ("We're gonna beat
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just that.
Then there was Nov. 17, the day the balloon
burst in Annapolis, Md. Blowing a chance at a national
championship and New Year's Day bowl bid
is not a minor tragedy, but has the scope of
something Shakespeare would conceive.
Legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant used to
say football teaches players about life. Gamecock
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Saturday afternoon.
Then there was the Clemson game. Five years of
frustration ended when Scott Hagler's second extra
point try was good. And, so the story goes, a pair
of Clemson fans leaving the stadium a quarter-hour
after the game were heard to say, "It's been 14
years since Carolina beat Clemson in Death Valley,
14 years." But a little boy, dressed in all black, was
quick to correct them. "No, not 14 years, 15
minutes.''
No matter what happens Dec. 28 in the Gator
Bowl, every member of the Carolina community
will look back on this semester and proudly say, "I
was there."
Personnel changes
Some changes are planned for the Spring, 1985
staff of The Gamecock. Editor-in-chief David Hill
will be leaving to concentrate on academics, and
will be replaced by Leslie Dunson, now managing
editor. News editor Jonn ueiner win oecome
managing editor.
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Congress' attiti
To the Editor:
This letter is written in hopes that it
will clarify a small facet of world
politics related to American
Democracy. Scenario: Another Soviet
backed communist nation is accused of
airocmes againsi oasic numan rigrus or
another country's security. Another
country is being plagued by leftist
revolution.
Representatives and Senators in
Washington would like to do
something but there is no money to
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personal careers to take any chances.
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To the Editor:
I would like to express iny concern
regarding the required 19-meal plan
for residents of Bates House. Why is
this the only residence hall on campus
that requires its residents to take part
in the "American Plan?"
Many times on the weekend I leave
luwii, anu many iuim mugs uuiuig me
week I simply don't have time to eat
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Why isn't money-available?
Because of the Myou help me, I'll
help you" system that is at work in
Congress, no Congressman can have
another's budget plans cut and none
would nave tneir own cui. i ne ouagei
continually expands with unnecessary
programs until we are put in the position
that we are in today; we are in
debt, with ever increasing taxes. Con
gress never gives money uctcR.. avs auun
as it's made it's spent.
If money was made available would
Congress react?
Probably not, because of Soviet
policy to break treaties and even
threaten to use nuclear weapons, to
teal plan is unfa
breakfast before class. And it just is
not always convenient for me to eat on
cainous durinc the week, vet I am re
quired to pay for 19-and they aren't
cheap.
Another thing that bothers me is the
fact that I am forced to pay a certain
amount of money for each meal; if the
food costs less than the allotted
amount, the money is lost. And if it
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keep a political advantage. The-Soviet
Communists have become a formidable
force and a sticky card to
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to Russian backed terrorism is
usually nonaction.1
believe the threat of nuclear
weapons to our personal security is an
unacceptable one and that the United
States should initiate a disarmaent but
until the Soviets agree to follow, we
must continue our vigil against war
and we must more closely protect the
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of Communist expansion.
Michael Argenio
Electrical engineering
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costs 5 cents more, they make you fork
out the nickel.
I enjoy living in Bates house, but I
just can't afford to throw away three
or four hundred dollars every semester
for food that I don't eat. The situation
has forced my roommate and I to
move out of Bates. The policy just
does not seem fair.
Chris Mould
Journalism freshman
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