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Fate?
A final decision on the use of
the Golden Spur may be near
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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.
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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
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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.
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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<
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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this one. As lar as our hopes and necessary) >
dreams dying for the season ? leaders seen
that's wrong! Our hopes and into.
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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
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thing to ourselves or dignified at our own
rites would we? Of <
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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
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'r the Scott Hagler than that. Molotov
Oct. 13 issue of The anyone?
Let's not lose our h
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hat staged the anti- people up to a siti
Tionstration outside don't upset anyone
Marketplace. I'd just cess, right?
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of the College
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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;!; ^
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the pro- Mark Lowery!;!
Junior, geography
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