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Ar 2547801 security IEK laundry facilities ^4 full furniture package swimming pool mow i sleeping & studying lofts SUIV' COLUMBIA'S NEWEST CONCEPT IN STUDENT LIVING MANAGEMENT Questions i By HAL BOCK AP Sports Writer Aesop had it right. Slow and steady wins th< race. Progress doesn't take forever, it only seem: that way. Two weeks ago, the University of Tennesse* made maior Droeress in the business o Southeastern Conference basketball, appointing former Louisville assistant Wade Houston as it: new coach. Houston is the first black ever hired a that level in the SEC. And then last week, that dramatic move wai followed by more progress when Tennessee Athletic Director Doug Dickey and football coacl Johnny Majors terminated their memberships ir the all-white Cherokee Country Club. Those decisions stunned Hank Bertelkamp president of the club, who said Cherokee had nc exclusionary policy based on race and tha Houston couldn't have been rejected for member ship because he hadn't even applied. But the fact of the matter is that the next blacl Cherokee admits to the club ? for a hefty $15,00( initiation fee and $225 monthly dues ? will be the first. Come to think of it, there probably aren't anj Indians on Cherokee's membership rolls, either. When Tennessee realized all this, it movec quickly. "The university cannot be a party to an} USC football team ahead to t , , USC will ends spring drills chUP at v "We've The USC football team concluded and talent their spring drills Sunday afternoon for good ] with a two-hour workout at Woods sa Williams-Brice Stadium. provemen The four-week session ended just had so fai one week after the annual spring this fall < game last Saturday. In the spring kind of i game, UbC received a touchdown preparatic from tailback Mike Dingle and a Collin Mackie field goal, but USC head coach Sparky Woods saw some areas of improvement before spring drills tttKCS had ended. "We improved as a football team USC's throughout the spring," Woods said. in eighth "All the players were very positive in the Woo every workout, and we came together tional in as a team ? on both sides of the USC had football ? especially in the final The La week of the spring workouts. freshman "I feel we've got further to go off finished ii the field than we do on it," Woods individua added. Gamecocl Woods does feel optimistic, Aileen R however, as the Gamecocks look Rumfelt, i Special" n with a king size with 2 double 1 people per room ^ M-8940 HN 147 =1 t fore you take off for )ur summer break, by The Traffic Light for all your summer fashions! Espirit, Cambridge, Russ Barren Knits, California Ivy and Accessories! Saluda 765-9972 TL-145 PRE LEASING FOR \ JMER AND FALL 9 Office Hours M-F 9:30 5:30 211 MAIN ST. 2 "aised by clul membership of any organization that even raises a the possibility that a white coach can be treated one : way and a black coach another," said Lamar Alex- r 5 ander, president of the university. tl Slow and steady had won a race. c ; Tennessee's decision means Majors and Dickey f f now must find some other place to play their golf. I And if everything goes well in their hunt, they may il s pvpn hp ahlp tn hrino thp cphr?r?l'c n hocl-pthall N t coach along for a game. t: There are two questions that occur here. n s First, you must wonder if, in all the years that s : they were members at Cherokee, playing their oc- y 1 casional 18 holes, Majors and Dickey didn't once 1 look around, notice the absence of any blacks in the club and inquire about it. Discreetly, of course. s , And then you must wonder about the propriety E ) of the university handing out hefty dollars for a t country club memberships in the first place. tl Let a player commit the most innocent misde- ii meanor ? remember the Steve Alford calendar c t suspension a couple of years ago? ? and the ) NCAA gumshoes are all over the place, screaming 1 : foul. But an athletic department spends big bucks h / for fancy ? and apparently restrictive ? country club memberships and nobody in Mission, Kan., u 1 says boo. , tl Kids see big bucks being casually tossed around i? f by their schools and wonder why they shouldn't get t got a lot of athletic ability ^ ~~ t, we just need to channel it with 250; and Vikki Valenti performances on the field," scored 256. iid. "We made a lot of im- North Carolina won the t this spring because we ment with a team total of ! r to go. The real test will be Duke's Jean Batholomew when we need to see that dividual honors with a tou mprovement every day in total of 220. )n for the season opener." FINAL TEAM STANDINGS 1. North Carolina 924, 2. Dul ten's golf team Kentucky 942, 4- Miami (F O V * Georgia 949, 6. Wake Forest ' eighth vlace South Florida 960'8-usc 91: * man 978. women's golf team finished place out of nine teams at LcidV \jCU7ieCOi dbridge Collegiate Jnvita- . King's Mountain, N.C. Sign tOD DrOSD a three-round total of 972. dy Gamecocks were led by USC women's basketba Debbie Eckroth, who Nancy Wilson announced i a tie for 13th place with an week the signing of 6-foot1 total of 236. Other Lady Michelle Murray from A.( ks who participated were High School in Columbia, obertson with 244; Cathy During Murray's senior j who shot 245; Kim Belk averaged more than 21 po O or Fun Chess, For S IT'S THE RIGH TTnn riTTnrin uot tnriOO Wednesdays RH, LAST MEETING CC 147 CALL 976AND PUT A LITTLE IN YOUR I Jul A Yk Columbia's Newt Greatest Electronic Place. CALL NOW Your Free Persor 976-328: ONLY '3.00 per c d's actions piece of the action. Who can blame the players? They may not be ocket scientists, but they're smart enough to know hat's not exactly monopoly money the colleges are ollecting from fiercely competitive networks for ootball and basketball television rights. Tennessee, in fact, picked up a cool $250,000 for ts cameo appearance in the recently concluded 4CAA tournament. That's enough to pay initiaion fees and a year's worth of monthly dues for 14 nemberships at Cherokee, with a couple of thouand left over for tips. This assumes, of course, ou had 14 people approved for membership. Despite this economic windfall, the university till dismissed longtime basketball coach Don )eVoe, an action criticized by his colleagues who pplauded DeVoe's spotless record in a profession hat sometimes is less than squeaky clean. That firtig led to the hiring of Houston and the ensuing ountry club flap. All of this might have been avoided, of course, if 'ennessee hadn't felt obliged to break barriers by tiring a black basketball coach. There were other options available for the iniversity. One of the names briefly mentioned for he job was ex-Volunteer star Ernie Grunfeld, who ? white. And Jewish. more than 20 rebounds per game. ?FS She was also named all-conference and all-area by The State newspaper, while leading her team to a 22-5 ine, who record this season. Murray was successful on 45 pertourna cent of her shots from the field and 924, and was a 70 percent free throw shooter, won in- She was the Lady Falcons' most rnament valuable player the past two seasons. "We're very happy to have signed i: Michelle during this signing period," ke 936, 3. Wilson said. "We think she will rla.) and make a fine addition to the team. 950, 7. Michelle has excellent potential. She !, 9. Fur- has a natural aggressiveness on the court which could help her to become a fine college player." 2KS Murray chose USC over Clemson and North Carolina. Her signing brCCt ings the total number of recruits to four for the Lady Gamecocks. II coach Wilson also signed Lower late last Richland's Pam Johnson, a 6-foot-1 3 center forward; Sheyla Wilkins of Gaffney, r. Flora a 5-foot-10 forward; and Marsha Williams, a 6-foot-4 center, during 'ear, she the early signing period in ints and November. ckmate!! o ierious Chess T MOVE! 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