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Farce
Administration needs to adjust
ticket policy to give all students
chance to watch USC football
The ticket situation here at USC is a farce, but we didn't
notice because we haven't had enough students wanting to attend
football games for us to notice.
The Athletic Department allocates 13,456 for student use. But
not really.
Of those tickets,1 1,745 are sliced off the top:
Six go to the Student Government president; 90 go to S.G.; 42
go to the wheelchair section; 12 go to disabled students; 25 go to
the staff at Student Affairs, and 554 go to the band. These are
all people who provide a service or cool tunes to the students, or
who deserve and need special seating, so there's no problems
with reserving our tickets for their use.
But 270 go to scholarship athletes, 270 go to football players
who aren't dressed out, 288 go to prospects (who aren't even
students) and 397 go to players who are dressed out.
We're not against these student-athletes bringing relatives and
friends to the games. But not at a cost to students who would
also like to be at the game. The A.D. has so many tickets, it
should provide tickets for the latter.
Why are students being penalized?
Another part of the ticket farce is validations. When these are
used to bring in a close friend or relative, that's OK. But most of
us also realize that validations are used by people who are too
cheap to buy season tickets, so they get an unscrupulous student
connection who will save them $6 a game. Or other students
validate it for $10 and sell it for $16. You can't be arrested for
scalping a ticket at its "real" price, but this has become a way to
fool the police.
Validations should be eliminated. If students want to bring in
someone as their guest, they can always buy a datebook and bring
a friend down all season long.
But that only brings students up to the level of getting all that
the A.D. deigns to allocate to students. The Gamecock believes
that every student who wants a ticket to a game should have a
ticket to a game, even if every student wants to go.
The worst part of the ticket farce is the administration's attitude.
Each student is not entitled to a ticket, it says.
But we've seen how the administration caters to the alumni
when they want tickets. We know how hard the A.D. works to
get Gamecock Club members tickets to the content of their
greedy little hearts.
Why aren't we given as fair a chance as they? If students had
to, they would pay full price for a ticket. If they had to, they
would probably take the time to send their money in ahead of
time, during the summer, to assure they got into the games they
wanted to see.
No one will ever confirm it for you, but we all know that
alumni and Gamecock Club members get preferential treatment
when it comes to tickets. And the university justifies this by sayino
th<? alumni Hnnatp fnnrk tr> thp nnivprsitv Thp Huh mpmherc
donate large amounts to the A.D.
But we do our part, too, and that should entitle us to as fair a
shake, if not first shake.
That's our stadium. It doesn't belong to the Gamecock Club.
It doesn't belong to the alumni.
We're paying for it.
Every student every year pays tuition, and as part of that tuition,
the university takes out $20.50 to finance the stadium improvement
bonds.
This semester alone, 15,534 students paid tuition, and
therefore "raised" $318,447 to pay off the stadium. That's for
this semester alone.
And we've been paying that much for years. By right of the
money we pay and have paid, Williams-Brice belongs to us in
spirit, if not the letter of the law.
Both us and our families have to work to pay it off.
And yet the people who work and slave to come here or to
send their kids here can't even get into the stadium that a part of
their tuition is helping to pay off.
That's wrong. The university and the Athletic Department
need a serious attitude adjustment.
Because the university is interested in looking down the road
to the future, here's a scenario for the future to be considered:
The university is going to have a hard time trying to coerce
donations out of some of the "future" alumni, and they'll
wonder why. But it will be because those ' 'future" alumni are
currently disgruntled students who are getting the shaft every
other day from this administration.
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I'M IMPRESSED
It's now M
When you eat lunch today, you m;
yourself of a chimichanga, a Godfather sul
per steak-topped baked potato, a M
Climber or any number of campus special
vided by Marriott Educational Servi<
formerly managed by SAGA.
Where will you go? Or better yet, where
not go, and why? If it isn't because you d
the food, I bet I can tell you why.
It's the service or, rather, the lack of it
Last Sunday night, my roommate and 1
run to the Wild Pizza in its all-new locale
the Gamecock Park and the Golden Spu
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impressed with the new decor, menu and e
the pizza. I don't know how, but the qu
creased dramatically (and necessarily) fi
year.
We ordered in because you are suppos<
your pizza in about 10 minutes, and I was
for time. This was a bad move.
What is so unusual about a pepperoni a:
pepper pizza, I may never know, but it tool
tempts to convey my desires to our PSC (pi
consultant). And after waiting for al
minutes, during which we made several cc
about growing the peppers and curing the
Letters to t
Where is USC ?
using funds? jj
To the editor: ei
A funny thing happened to me last c;
week. Walking around campus, I was t(
mugged? No. Shot? No. Had my tui- rt
tion check returned by Holderman k
after learning of his pay increase? a
Not quite. Actually, it was far more p
devious. It was a flyer. A simple, lit- d
tie flyer that seems to be pasted all ti
around campus every semester. One ti
that had been constantly ignored by tl
me. a
Until now, because then I realized a
that it finally pertained to me. AIDS w
awareness it wasn't. In fact, it was a
chance for freedom, a chance "to
boldly go and explore new worlds.
I refer, simply, to the flyer an
nouncing the deadline tor graduation t
applications. The time had finally arrived
for me to escape this country
club atmosphere that irritatingly J
resembles a university. But there was
a catch. Somewhere out of the mindnumbing
process of applying came a T
request that sent electrifying chills of
terror throughout my already tightly n
wound psyche. si
I feigned ignorance. It was quickly r;
repeated. "There is a fee required for p
process, Mr. Clezie." g<
No. Not again. It seemed like only tl
days ago I had been coerced into pay- I
ing large sums of cash in order to re- si
tain my football ticket privileges. I h
could not fully comprehend this con- n
cept of paying to graduate. Actually, a
apply for permission to be considered a
for graduation. e
Was not the tens of thousands of
dollars I had payed over the last four e
years sufficient to cover this simple n
process? I had done the hard part. I \*
filled out the form, had it checked by t!
the dean and walked all the way E
across campus to Petigru to submit it o
for process. Had I stumbled upon yet v
another demonic plot to separate 1<
students from their money? ti
A definite yes. n
In fact, it seemed to follow in a t<
series of vicious ploys by that insane t<
spending machine who currently t
abides on the Horseshoe. A true s
lunatic whose eyes sparkle at the pro- p
snert r?f makintx new influential t
friends at the expense of student fees.
An unchecked reign of spending in- t
volving a huge Caribbean circus tent s
and a Sadat. Of course, any good ac- s
counting major knows that in order t
to balance out the red, you need s
some black ink in there somewhere. c
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students? c
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'SC" have come to expect -such le
ehavior from our revered leaders, p
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residents of the United States. b
luch like the requisite curve that si
nables most students to pass E
alculus exams. Sure, we look good n
> the outside world, but how does it
:ally feel inside, Dr. Jim? What b
ind of satisfaction can come from n
anstantly forcing students and their
arents further and further into
ebt? No apparent answer at this
me. Maybe Jim was too busy "l
ading compliments with Robbie J
aan to be concerned with his true
onstituents. Let them eat cake as l
nother tyrant would suggest. If only
re could afford to.
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Michael H. Clezie
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0 the editor: tl
As a freshman at USC and a t;
ewcomer to South Carolina, I am v
locked at the amount of overt ti
icism 1 have seen on the USC camus.
I don't want to start another ti
eographical war of words by saying v
tat this problem doesn't exist where n
come from, because it does. But s
ince coming to Columbia, I have n
eard more use of racial slurs, seen
lore examples of avoidance, heard V
bout and experienced more ex- \
mples of hate and prejudice than C
ver before. It's scary. ii
1 feel obligated to relate my own s
xperience with racism. On Saturday tl
ight, as I was walking on the
walkway that leads from the front' of f
le library to the intersection of y
)evine and Sumter streets, a sign on p
ne of the walls caught my eye. It
/asn't a sign advertising an act at a
ical night club, but rather an adverisement
for a Neo-Nazi government
leeting. The sign encouraged people
o tear a phone number off the botom
and call for the location and
ime of this closed meeting. I tore the i
ign down but not before some peoile
had already taken the informa- 1
ion number.
The fear and ignorance present in p
hese shallow people who posted this s
ign can clearly be seen in this simple s
ign. Not only did they keep the loca- r
ion and time of their closed meeting
ecret, most likely to prevent a repeat t
>f Friday's Russell House "rally," a
>ut they misspelled the name of their
>wn group! (Nazi, not Natzi) If these
>eople are so superior, they should at
1AKE-UP AND CAfAERA A
'S AND TWEN1Y SECOND c.
t the SAG.
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wanted to pi<
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time I have^c
one of them
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are bound i
PSC, "That's my piz- order takes.
To which she coolly There are
^orks always has green Baker Street
mention that this par- sional and qi
:ar to have any other And every
r than pepperoni and tial to be th<
sional demea
40 minutes, my ever- its employee:
ast know how to spell their own
arty's name. I also castigate those
eople who not only took the number
ut those who happened by this sign,
tw it and were indifferent. To quote
lie Wiesel: "The opposite of good is
ot evil, but indifference to evil."
Racism is a serious and real prolem,
and we must face it to defeat it,
ot pretend that it doesn't exist.
Doug Tzan
Political Science major
Fee payment
reserves tickets
o the editor:
My naivete has cost me once again;
ie bureaucracy that is The (JSC has
abbed me of my right to see South
'arolina host Georgia tomorrow.
When I paid my fees at the beginnlg
of the fall semester, 1 was misled
lto believing that part of those fees
/ould ensure me of having a ticket to
very home game. I wasn't aware
hen that this did not include imporant
games, only those against
western, eastern and southwest cenral
Carolina.
When I went to get my Georgia
icket on Wednesday afternoon, I
/as informed there were none regaining.
Now, a game that had
omewhat marginal importance to
,ie had become my Holy Grail.
Now, my curiosity has struck me.
Vhat of the medical fees I paid?
Vhen I go to the Student Health
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iformed that the alloted numbers of
tudents have already been treated
hat day?
One other thought occurs to me
rom this whole stinking affair. Do
ou think the students on the intern
irogram got their Georgia tickets?
Gary Yakimov
Political Science junior
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To the editor:
White trash parties? Deodorant
references? Some sorority girl's
ubconscious fear of AIDS? (She
hould have known better than to
ness with a male flight attendant.)
Is it just me, or is Shout! magazine
he worst use of wood pulp since the
idvent of the printing press?
Andrew Robinson
Journalism Senior
Wa0?IPii8s
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>C gave us a sheepish grin and said,
is your pizza." Great. We get two free
a half-hour-old pizza because we
ck it up ourselves.
: the all-new Gamecock Park. Even
Disney World-style serving line, every
>rdered a turkey melt this semester, it
:rowaved to the point that the cheese
eaten into or through the styrofoam
Now, why doesn't that make me
why is it that Sub City may have five
ing behind the counter, but often only
is occupied with making sandwiches?
the sole exception of the Grand
in the Russell House, the campus
lys take your money (meal credit,
>efore you get your food so that you
nto waiting for however long your
redeeming establishments, of course,
and Gibbes Court are usually profesjite
palatable.
dining area on campus has the poten;
same. All it takes is a little profesnor
and a healthy attitude from all of
J.
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Paper should
spotlight others
To the editor:
I wish to clarify a point brought up
in your article about my cruise on the
Bering Sea "Professors research with
Soviets." The article states Lindane
(chemical name equals hexachlorocyclohexane,
HCH) has been
banned in the United States and the
Soviet Union. This is not true; a visit
to most agricultural supply stores in
the area will show that Lindane can
be readily pruchased.
Hexachlorocvclohexane is
available in two formulations.
Technical-HCH contains a mixture
of various isomers which are different
orientations of chlorine in
space around the HCH molecule.
Technical-HCH has been banned in
the United States, Soviet-Uniorr, and
most western countries. Large
amounts of technical-HCH are still
used in Asia, the Middle East and
Mexico because it is an Inexpensive
and effective pesticide. The agent
that makes technical-HCH effective
against insects is the gamma-isomer,
comprising 8 to 15 percent of
technical-HCH. All isomers of HCH
are dangerous because, as stated in
the article, they are carcinogenic and
tend to bioconcentrate in the food
chain.
The other formulation of HCH is
purified 99 perent gamma-HCH.
This is commonly called Lindane
and, as stated earlier, is legal
throughout the world. Because of the
purified nature of Lindane less of the
chemical need be applied for effective
control of insects.
Much more goes on at the university
than crime and sports. Every
laboratory at the school is involved in
new and often exciting scientific
discoveries. I know many people in
my laboratory and others who have
done research in the Arctic, the Antarctic,
the Bay of Bengal and the
jungles of South America to name
just a few. The university is attempting
to build its reputation in the
United States and the world. International
research provides one of the
primary methods for obtaining a
high standing amongst the world's
academic institutions. I hope to read
more about some of these important
studies in future issues of The
Gamecock.
Daniel A. Hinckley
Marine Science Program
Graduate student