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Viewpoint ((1 4 Friday, October 11, 1985 ????i??????THE GAMECOCK Despite pr USC a got Pat yourself on the back, Car That's right, you, over there ii yourself a pat on the back. You Most of the students and fac they were not spending their tir but now for those skeptics oi Carolina community nas proor. The University of South Caro institutions that offer a quality e pensive. To be included on the lis school had to have an average s Aptitude Test. The school's tuiti national average, and at least 60 had to hold doctorate degrees. < the book, four of which were S< The book is entitled "The Be; and was researched by two writ< So Carolina is a "best buy" It means despite the complai problem of desegregation, desp crease and despite everything Carolina, this university is a goc a perfect school, but no school c blems ? including the ones wit The fact that Carolina has be tributed to many things. The n work and determination of administration. Good job, Carolina. Bush-look not the real Andy To the editor: Give us back the real Andy Duncan. In the same Gamecock edition one can see the new Andy ? with a lot oi extra jaw trom somewhere ? has a profile almost as sharp, handsome and imtimidating as the cleancut George Bush, who is most certainly nobody's funny man. With the real Andy riding atop his column, if, perchance, you don't get enough chuckles from his words, there's always the picture of the real Andy. Also, 1 like what 1 can't see about your other funny man, behind his big, dark one-way glasses ? Ed Chambliss, who owes us an article on cottage cheese. lom/ir LJ 11 janivs 11. vjaiiuwaj Special studies Parking issue getting old To the editor: I know parking is a popular subject for students to gripe about, but I'm getting tired of reading about it in every issue of this newspaper. The parking "problem" was addressed three times in the last three issues ? and not once by anyone who made the slightest bit of sense. On Oct. 4, the readers of The CintnOfrtnlr 11;frn finnrnfl with an editorial which criticized the conference on global crises. According to this editorial, the conference would affect students only by making parking difficult, but it wouldn't benefit them in any way. "Students seem to have been lost in the shuffle," the editorial moaned. "Academics don't seem to be a part of the conference. Most students won't know any more after the conference has ended than they did before it began." I challenge the editors to explain the role of academics in, say, Gamecock football games, or tell how much more students know after a spring rock concert than before it began. I suspect that if The Gamecock staff had actually asked anyone (you know, investigative journalism, like rail nfl?/c?\anorc k oir itai uvTTjpttpvu uw;, IIIV y would have been told that the purpose of the conference was to bring renown and prestige to USC, thereby attracting grants, endowments, alumni oblems, )d school olina. n Columbia, go ahead and give 've done a good job. uity at Carolina already Knew ne at a second-rate institution, [i campus and elsewhere, the lina has been named to a list of iducation without being too exit, the student population of the core of 1,000 on the Scholastic U ? ^ ?? U I 1 1_ -1 -1- - iuii nau iu uc iuiikcu uciow me 1 percent of the school's faculty Dnly 221 schools were listed in Duth Carolina schools. st Buys in College Education," ;rs for The New York Times. ? what does that mean? nts about parking, despite the ite the controversial tuition inelse people find wrong with id school. That is not to say it is >xi?;K that Hr?p? nr?t haup itc nm. h ivy growing on the walls. en placed on the list can be atlain one, however, is the hard the students, faculty and contributions and high-quality student applicants to the university. The idea (1 presume) was to benefit the ATAncuirc / iv./ ? L/ a . i i ? v_ij yj i HIV OVIIUUI) and thereby the STUDENTS. Worth sacrificing a few parking spaces for a couple of days? 1 think so. However, the poor research of the editorial was more than made up for by The Gamecock's novel approach to international rela-. uuiis: analysing cvcms in terms of how they will affect student parking. Amazingly, on the same page as that editorial was a reprint of an editorial about Latin American foreign policy from the West Virginia University Daily Athenaeum, which made no mention of parking at all! The letters to the editor on Oct. 2 and 7 made even less sense. Bob Getler's letter, when it wasn't heaping adolescent abuse on the meter maids ("brains of Jell-O" and other witty phrases), raved on and on about how somebody should do something about the parking problem. He never did explain exactly what problem he was talking about, except to say, "if you can't find a parking space without heading out to Bates House or Cayce, there's a problem." Fran Easterby's letter went even farther; she accused the director of parking of not knowing what he was talking about when he said that ample parking was available at USC, and challenged him to "take a ride through any of the parking lots after 9:30 a.m." and "see how uninformed and erroneous this statement is." I'll accept that challenge, because 1 can find a space every day, and ?t'll take about three minntPQ Vnn <ipp I livf>H in Bates West for three years, and I never saw that lot more than half full. Also, the Benson School lots (across Bull Street from Bates House) can hold between 200 and 300 cars, and they're virtually never full. If Easterby had looked at the parking map that she was given when she bought her sticker, she would know this. But maybe she has the same attitudes as Getler: that parking at Bates and walking (or riding the Shuttlecock) to class is beneath them. Such laziness deserves onlv contemot. I made that trip every class day for three years, and so does everybody in Bates House, Bates West, Cliff Apartments and Carolina Gardens. There is no parking problem at USC. It exists only in the minds of the ignorant, la/y people who have nothing bet ^35VItB ter to do than whine becausc they can't park in front of their classroom buildings. So, how about a moratorium on parking letters and editorials? Since no one can write a rational letter about an imaginary problem, publishing them is a waste of time. Patrick M. Berry ?Computer science senior bame Bail nun is newsworthy To the editor: On Sept. 27, a milestone in college philanthropies was reached. A total of more than $15,000 was raised for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society through the Sigma Nu Game Ball Run. Our run, which is the number one fundraiser for M.S. in the state, was covered both locally and nationally by various news media. But, as in the past, one medium failed to recognize this major event in Carolina life: The Gamecock. It comes as no great shock to Delta Chapter that The Gamecock failed to run a story the week before the Game Ball Run. Maybe they felt the national exposure given to the run by ABC television during the Michigan game informed enough people of our event. \I7~ 1 * 1 ?L.. VYC Idll I UIIUCI MdllU Wily there was no Gamecock reporter at Williams-Brice Stadium for the start of the run. Maybe The Gamecock did not feel the start of the run was very newsworthy. That's funny because reports from The Stale, The Greenville News, and the Charleston News and Courier, WIS TVradio and WNOK radio all thought the start warranted full coverage. In conclusion, the Brothers r?f IVIta rtiantor tisich t r\ \/* vi VU VimpiVl ?? ?JH IV thank President Holderman, Bob Marcum, Coach Morrison, our fellow greeks, faculty and staff, and the entire Carolina family for making Game Ball Run such a success. As for The Gamecock, we hope in the future you, as a student newspaper, will recooni/e maior stnri? at USC. For now, we are very sorry that your publication missed one of the top stories of the year. Gray Liddell Sigma Nu Fraternity * ? o < __ ? n - _ romegranaie seeds with instruments? The only musical instrument I'vf? pvpr nlnvfrt is a Ktpr*?r* although 1 used to be pretty good at coaxing alien sounds from the confluence of my left palm and my right armpit, and my singing voice has been described as reminiscent of 19 tomcats getting intimate with the revolving in nards of a garbage truck. But despite., these handicaps, I've always been fascinated by music, the roll and tumble and flow of it, and I've always harbored secret visions of me on a 20-city tour, grinning at the roadies in the amber of a thousand upturned Zippos and Bics, my fingers spewing music onto the heads of the front-row shriekers below. So I have a certain amount of envy for the USC marching band, currently in the middle of their fall tour and filling stadiums weekly on a Springsteen scale ? although a few giblets of the audience are probably drawn by the band's opening and closing acts, which are pretty good, too. 1 never fullv realized how eond the band is until Wednesday night, when for the first time I saw them away from the gridiron and inside their natural habitat, a f> ' / ' s ** ** JM m > v . ' * ^slFfe '* a f:5iT: IBU^y w % chain-link corral of a practice field between Main and Sumter streets. Most people who attend football games; unless they have the good seats afforded journalists, ~ layered alumni and those campus organizations favored by God in His divine plan, only see the band as a distant squad of syncopated pomegranate seeds with legs, and most of their music dissinates in to the ozone before it reaches the upper decks, up there above the snow line where timber wolves howl. So when my friend the tromL I I / " ounc asKca me 10 ietcn mm from band practice and chauffeur him into the trackless wastes of Saluda County on Wednesday night, I didn't know what was in store. I swooped the Volkswagen into two parking places about 20 minutes before the band was due to spill over into the street. I stuffed my knees into my jaw and my feet onto the inch-wide sill that should be a dash, fumbled for my :?^=^r~ tttTI ^ Co?eg? Prt> S?vto? W?w - H|j| - Editorin eliiaf Ann Farmer Managing Editer Tracy Mixson Copy Dwk Chiel Andy Duncan Assistant Copy Dosk Chiaf Linda Taylor H*w3/litsfat*ss Editer Marisa Porto Assistant Haws Editors Jeri Rowe Juliet Nader Spstllfht Editor Roni Bea Kayne AttfotiM Spotl^M EdHor E(f Cham bliss * * % \ t * * V ?\ d?3 mjI?? rmuy Duncan bookmark in a greasy copy of Dubliners, twisted the stereo to the nearest Jimmy Buffett and did all the other thousand small but vital things y<fljfcdo while settl- a \ng yoursclf in t or ia wait. And then I heard the band. Not the Coral Reefers, whom I revere and make an annual summer pilgrimage to Carowinds for, but the marching band that so many people regard as mere background music for the halftime vigil outside the Williams-Brice men's room. 1 was drawn down the grassy slope to the fence, where I hook- ^ ea my lingers m the links and watched the band for the first time in my USC career. They were wearing shorts and jeans and T-shirts and no hats, spiraling in on themselves, coiling and unreeling across the green turf, and their instruments, rejecting the light offered them by a skinny and insignificant sun, thrust Sousa to the skies. I liked it. ? y ft r> Viawpsint Efttar | /4m> 0f/Po Sporti E#tw Gregg Lasky Antjtiat Sports Erfiter 1 Jeff Owens Ptiotvgrapky Edftor Joseph Garnett AsstoUmt Phttogrtpby EdHor D?.. ^?4. nu/ \irunuwrg 1 AtfviMT Bill Rogers OifKtor Bill C.ifrjtnts Production ? Lewis Covington Mark Armstrong >