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Viewpoint 2 ^ Friday, October 24, 1986 Fate? A final decision on the use of the Golden Spur may be near w # Yet another task force has been formed to decide the fate of the Golden Spur, a former campus bar in the Russell House. This time it is called the Social Environment task force. Pact rnmmittpp? havp HrhnfpH irlpac from makino thf* empty space into everything from a non-alcoholic club with bands and dancing to a lounge for watching MTV while munching snacks. A survey box was set up by the committee after a request from Vice President for Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt with questions for students about their ideas for campus activities. Now another eroun will find out twain what students want done to the old Spur. Since it closed during the fall of 1984 because of the change in the drinking age, the room has been used by various (JSC groups for meetings, social gatherings and special events. The task force is under the chairmanship of Dean of Student Life Jerry Brewer. They plan to use The Gamecock and WUSC-FM radic for advertising. A TELLUS telephone survey will collect a random sample of 250 students to answer Golden Spur questions this week. A torum will be held I uesday in the Russell House Theater from 5 to 6 p.m. for students to give their choice* to administrators. Results of the task force's work must be in to Pruitt b> Nov. 15. Let's hope by then, a working decision can be made. With all these people putting forth so much hard work and effort to get together and decide the fate of the Spur maybe this debate can finally be concluded. This valuable space has been dead for too long. Twc years of unnecessary meadering has ended in no result, anc it is time to make a decision. It's about time to have a plaa An nomnnc u/Viorn chulontc r?on mnnf Vinr rtii/lntifi v/11 vaui|;u.i vTiivi v. oiuuvuu? van invvi \./iuvi ^luuviu; conveniently. It would be a giant step to gather many students in on< place on campus at one time. Students would realize th< campus is an option for fun and mixing. Maybe tha realization will bring us all a little closer to a university community. RalSof ua a Lines will be a thing of the pas with new option for registration The university is making plans to alleviate long lines a registration by 1988. USC registrar Luther Gunter says students will be able t< rr?oictf?r hv nhnn/5 hu thf?n mnHno tVinrnrpcc paci/>r arw more convenient. The only drawbacks to the new systen will be that the student has to pay the phone bill, an< students who do not prepay will still have to stand in line to pay fees at the coliseum. But there are many more positives than negatives in th addition. The new system will be easy to adapt to since student just fill out a worksheet in the Master Schedule which i similar to a scan sheet, then call in the schedule requests t< a registration computer, and dial in special access code possibly based on social security numbers or birthdates. Students won't have to wait on malfunctions. The phone addition will be used with the traditions scanner system. The cost of the system will be between $100,000 t $150,000 but bypassing the long lines will make these cost worth it. paul., //=" you /Mwvr ^ question, please \ bo/s/'r /*4's/r yofr //ak/h so qo/car/_y. ... vouke makjnq a) y teaching ass/s 7'an t s very /s??/ ? \/olsjs' . . . SNs^p?\pff | JUST another o#t>/VA*y 're^cnek ? 1 Write us a letter f ell us what's on your mind. Letters must There is a limit he typed, double-spaced and no more than the same writer. 250 words. Include name, address and We reserve the telephone number for verification. Names on outdated lopi will not be withheld. Guest editorials arc topics. limited to 5(M) words. Indicate whether you Write to: \ are a student, USC staff member, or com- Gamecock, Draw inunity member in letters and editorials. Columbia, S.C. \ t Student apathy i 1 am writing to try and shed some light on the dismayed question posed by The Gamecock on Oct. 10: "Why don't students | > participate?" The editors wonder, concluding at least implicitly that laziness and the om- | > nipresent "apathy" arc at the root of the pro- | j blem. After a few lines of scolding, students are urged to go out and express their opi nions. unioriunaiciy tins exnonauon nas s becomc so routine as to be cliche, and \ everybody would be spared the effort of I yawning if the editors would refrain from | repeating it. A useful inquiry however, might ^ concern itself with determining if something I* other than the always cited collective It ^ slothfulness keeps students from falling all t\ over themselves from spending Wednesday b night at workshops with Jerry Brewer. si Perhaps students aren't participating in these ii exercises because they see them to be of very b little ncf> n Two examples of apathy were mentioned in tl the Oct. 8 editorial: the Oct. 1 workshop on f the campus alcohol policy, and the elections p f for Student Government secretary. Briefly, let c us explore some reasons why most students c i would not concern themselves with these two d exercises. r Workshops with the administration simply F lack credibility. Few students on the USC 1 t campus sec evidence of real concern for them q on the part of their administrative counter- I; parts. The administration's treatment of the n j 3 Letters to the s Negative article dreams musl e ? never be any not appreciated othcrss To the editor: Parking und ' It was verv disappointing to ;S open The Gamecock and see the write-up on Monday, Oct. 13, 1986. I think it was a very cheap Editor's no l] shot for Tracy Mixson to have Tracy Mix so written what she did under Scott cutline untie Hagler's picture. Scott has con- picture in tin ? tributed a great deal to our foot- Gamecock. S ball program and I'm sure nobody felt any worse than him. Like everyone, Scott just had a g% bad day. I'm sure he didn't go (jTOliP I out on the field with the intcn- m I! linnr /.f 1U..? , MIM uisio UI nuking Ulll l <1111 (J I wtlll ;:,;j out giving 101 percent of himself. ** I don't feel like it was fair to Scott or the other players on the To the cdito team for such an article to be This Ictte ^ written. The team is going your article through a tough time now and the group t doesn't need a so-called nuclear dei "Carolina" fan to write such a the Grand f , negative article. Even though like to remi there were mistakes made I'm president y sure there must have been one Republicans nice thing she could have written. blazer and The team needs our support now and pressed i more than ever. I hope there nual Nuc ' aren't too many fans around like Festival" this one. As lar as our hopes and necessary) > dreams dying for the season ? leaders seen that's wrong! Our hopes and into. The G Kdilor in Chief of two letters per month by Linda Taylor MunHKiiiK Kdilor right to stop printing letters John Hoyette ICS to make room for ,ew %XT<,u"''y,e r, .. A??l?l?nl Copy Viewpoint F.ditor, I he i>e?k Chief er A, Russell House, (JSC, Wendy Eden >9208. News Editor Buddy Moore i WWHFAII m m "FrmicAlC ?**% & 4<lik A VA A4* ?? & IIUl IIIC I UUl Ul Charlie Terreni rcc South Africa Alliance last year, or the itc summer tuition increases provide only vo examples of the "good faith" which can c expected. Jerry Brewer's mostly silent [and on the drinking age bill when it was beig debated in the legislature, and his aritrary treatment of Sigma Phi Epsilon frateriity last year provide examples pertinent to liis particular workshop. These events suffer rom an image problem. But prejudices aside, radically speaking, what can be accomplishd at these meetings? Amy Houscr is to be ommended for diligently carrying out her uties and attending the workshop, but there eally was not too much that she could do. '.xtending the curfew on campus parties from a.m. to 2 a.m. is of little practical conselucncc to students. Why shouldn't they simpy go off-campus where they can drink, ninglc with friends of all ages, and party until editor l never die or we'll Wouldn't want to thing to ourselves or dignified at our own rites would we? Of < Let's all follow Mr. C Donna Butler vice and conduct our Vehicle Registration tions in a more into dignified manner. I rn a bag of flour and ; paper fliers? Pretty cf le: Kickoff editor get press, huh? Corr m did not write the you guys can be nu 'r the Scott Hagler than that. Molotov Oct. 13 issue of The anyone? Let's not lose our h We're only talking a hundred nuclear warh ii A and ready for some i Had QlltS mand to launch th Vi rvt ne ^klUron ?n,l JIWIIl^->t V. I II III I VII UIIU .1 glirofest a"? what's l^c harm P fire, radiation an winter? It's only the J r: Let's not go to sucl r is in response to tremes in getting on Oct. 15 regarding across. It's okay to ti hat staged the anti- people up to a siti Tionstration outside don't upset anyone Marketplace. I'd just cess, right? nd Mr. Cousar, vice ____________ of the College , to have his bluest favorite tic cleaned I 1 111ILV/ I for the "f irst An f I e a r Annihilation (no invitation -vhich our countries' Effective today, n bent on pulling us on letters to the edi amecock Uslslunl New* Kdltor* Sport* Ullor '\my DelPo JeJf Shrewsbury Maria trains Assisltint Sports Kdllor /Irwpolnl Kdllor Wayne Washington 'uliel Nader Photograph) Idltor doney Kdllor Jennifer Sleih Wendy l.den Asslstunt Hhoto|(ruph) Kdlto future* Kdllor Thomas Humphrey 'aula Wethmnhm Kkkolf/(,ruphhs Kdllor Vsslslmil I-futures Kdllor I racy Mix son Kathryn Jeffries ; ^p# A iff/ USC problems dawn if they wish to. Sadly, even the most earnest workshop can accomplish very little of relevance. As far as the SG secretary's elections. What does the secretary do anyway? Some years ago, an unusually lucid move was made to eliminate the position altogether. When it was found out that eliminating the secretary's post ^ was constitutionally unfeasible, the salary for w the position has been restored to some of its former grandeur, but the candidates running cave 110 one anv reason for a nolitical He should look up Cincinnatus in an en-', cyclopcdia; that myth is especially relevant to., the political climate of the U.S. In any case, the election was simply going to have very lit- . tie bearing on the average student's day to day life, and if it was going to, the candidates did little or nothing to demonstrate that it would.. There you have it ? an apathetic student speaks. The problem is not that students do ^ not care about what happens to them; it is that they see no credible vehicle for influencing the events that effect them. Both workshops and student government, hard as | they try, arc speaking the wrong language. Students see that through these institutions they can only have the most marginal effect on the issues that concern them, so they devote their energies elsewhere. Charles Terreni is a graduate student major- ; inn in government and international studies. appear un- I.ct's hear it for this small extinction group that cares enough about course not! the fate of the Earth to risk a few ousar's ad- stern looks from some stiffdemonstra collared people who arc too lligent and wrapped up in their own comforean, really, table lives to notice what's hapa bunch of pening around them. Hell, you'd leap way * think the Alliance for Peace, if gfe ic on now. anvone. would eive these oiivs a ^ )re creative little credit for trying to spark Cocktails, some interest on such a pressing matter. Maybe if their president eads, okay? and "officers" weren't so worbout a few ried about overreacting they'd-. icads poised realize a demonstration doesn't'.; diot's com- have to be a registered party to!'! em at our compete with live bands and*-; elves. After refreshments. !\; i in a little Don't you think it's time so:\* d nuclear mcone started overreacting to!;! hi man race. this situation? My only regret!;! h nasty ex- about what transpired is that !; ; ? our point wasn't taking part in thiS;!; ^ ... *%*%A ..iaLa A y anu waist UCMIWIIMIilllOI). lation, just Xin the pro- Mark Lowery!;! 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