The University of South Carolina Is a Basically Typical State Supported University Complete with a Variety of Classes, Professors, and Educa Tional Opportunities
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University of South Carolina's GARNET AND BUCK 1981 i, SC 29208 Volume 83 CAROLINA'S GOT IT Table of Contents Opening Student Life Organizations Greeks Sports Carolina Community People Academics Advertising Index - OI'HMNC! niVUMEK OPENING DIVIDER — 3 0J -2T : Jt %£ ' ( J45&E&M ^^^«- "You could be on campus a week and never see the same face twice." Sure it's a big campus, but it's a campus with per sonality. The faces tell the story — a pondering coach in the final seconds of a game, a frustrated student at registration, a dedicated professor scribbling on a chalkboard. From the exhausted in tramural tennis champion to the exhuber- ant fan, Carolinians' countenances are dynamic, changing from year to year but reacting in many ways to same stimuli. This is Carolina! After all, a university is the people, not the buildings. CAROLINA'S UNIQUE FACES OPENING — 5 CAROLINA BY DAY The Carolina Community. It has been growing constantly for the last decade. Buildings going up, others being renovated. But all the while serving as a huge meeting ground for the top thinkers in the world. By day, Carolina is stirring, busy with students and faculty striving for academic excellence. In the B.A. Build ing students participate in corporate simulations while across campus at the coliseum, future broadcasters and news paper editors search for just the right word or phrase. A sidewalk art sale, a geology field trip — all this is Carolina by day. OPENING — 7 CAROLINA BY NIGHT At night, Carolina is transformed into a collage of light. Students wander from building to building, or from party to party as the case may be, in and out of shadows of the deserted halls. Fantastic reflections in the waters of the Thomas Cooper Library compete with the soft moonlight shining on the Longstreet Theatre for attention. Tall dorms cuttinga pattern of light in the black Carolina sky. Carolina by night. OPENING — 9 CAROLINA GOES TO WORI John Q. Student leaves his last class in the afternoon and heads straight for his dorm room, looking for an evening of lei sure with maybe a couple of study hours sprinkled in. A nap here and there before supper and a few hours of television round out the day. Right? Wrong. The average student leaves class for his second job — whether it's work — study or work at a local business. Today's unstable economy, both national and world-wide, has tightened family budgets forcing stu dents to seek employment now more than ever. Students work I reasons: books, si ment, bills and other e during the college caret - finding things to do with his time. the work ing student must find the time to do all the things that must get done. Move over 9-to-5 world, the col sion of the rat race is here. to — OPENING OPENING — I! 10% ... 50% ... 100%? "Five after eight on the rhythm of the City. Looks like it may be a damp day today with a 60% chance of rain increasing to 70% tonight. Highs to day in the mid ..." For the commuting student, this announcement means trouble. The question to carry or not to carry an umbrella plagues his mind. Of course, dorm students can run back to their rooms if the sky begins to cloud up, but the day student has to make the big decision: Do 1 put on a raincoat and look silly if the sun shines or do I leave it and surely get wet? 60% chance of rain? Well, I'll take a chance that it's 100% wrong. Halfway to school the commuter switches on the wipers. Oh-well. 12 —OPENING • ( IV i FANS OF CAROLINA To the individuals who don't frequent stadiums, coliseums and other arenas of human competition, the fan must seem to be a strange and curious creature. When he is not yelling, screaming and cheering on his team at the day's big sporting event, he is constantly reading about his heroes and studying the all-important sta tistics. He can be a young tyke covered in garnet from head to toe or a gruff old man steadfast in his conviction that USC is the only University of South Carolina. During the winter, the fan confines himself to the home, getting out once or twice a week to cheer the wizards of the basketball court. As Spring thaws out the land, he ventures out to the turf. "Take me out to the ballgame," he joyously bel lows with his comrades as he pulls for those sluggers at home plate. At last, the fall season signals the fan's most active period. Preparing all week for the big Saturday game, the fan stores up the essentials: munchies. pom-poms, bum per stickers, signs, beer, chicken and field glasses. The day arrives and the celebration of gridiron glory materializes — it's a Carolina football Saturday! 14 —OPENING OPENING — 15 IS STUDYING HABIT- FORMING? NOT LIKELY It's always the case that the most annoying things people do become habits and the very things one should be doing do not become habit forming. Confused? Take studying for instance. No matter how hard you try to study, no matter how many positions you try to study in, and no matter where you try to study, "study habits" never seem to become just that — habits. Perhaps the only thing habitual about studying is that it is unavoidable. 16 —OPENING OPENING — 17 v \7>Jj^S*S^ CAR f.Ji . CAROLINA PLAYS WITH A LOADED QUARTER TOGO Q/J/mm?3iTop: Just one of the many stickers circulated to promote George Rosier'- candidacy tor the Heisman Trophy. Middle left: Night games add an extra fla vor to Carolina football spirit. Middle right: Cocky debutes as the new USC mascot, much to the dis may of many students and fans. Bottom: The old and retired mascot returned during basketball sea son. Big Spur had returned. 20 —STUDENT LIFK College Sure Gets In The Way Of College Life At first glance, the University of South Carolina is a basically typical state supported university complete with a variety of classes, professors, and educa tional opportunities. USC even has a rather typical itinerary of problems: un fair book exchange, apathy and bureaucratic registration procedures. But beyond these initial observations, Carolina is distinctive from other univer sities and it is spirit that accounts for this distinction. George Roger's selection as the 1980Heisman Trophy winner evoked a pride that blanked the campus in early December. Students further expressed this individual spirit with the initially negative response to "Cocky." the new USC mascot. Annual events including Tigerburn, Cockfest, Black History Month, and the Allnighter also illustrate the characteristic aura of the USC com munity. Another primary example is the Clemson pickup where avid fans camped out for two days to get Clemson-USC football tickets. Outside the athletic arena, a diverse concert calendar generated Gamecock spirit. Highlighting the season were appearances by Bruce Springsteen and the Doobie Brothers. A number of cultu ral events also were in the Columbia area. Other areas of activity also make USC a unique institution. A student once said to me; "You know college sure does get in the way of college life." At one time or another most USC students could relate to that statement. Almost every day something is going on to encourage stu dent involvement: student activity fairs, debates. Russell House movies, Greek activities, and the State Fair just to name a few. This section of the Garnet and Black is intended to illustrate some elements of student life beyond the classroom and the nine digit number. Carolina is different and it is the students that make USC not Top: Band practice and football practice are daily only different, but very special. activities in to many students in preparation for the opening game. Bottom: How 'bout them cocks! STUDENT LIFE- Partying, food, conversation, excitement Tailgating and Carolina football During the fall, an integral part of Col Defining tailgating is difficult: I) a picnic: umbia recreation is Carolina football: but 2) a party where the kitchen and the bar that energy and enthusiasm ultimately football is more than a game in many re are in a car trunk; 3) an outdoor pre-game shows on the field. Tailgating helps set spects. Each game is an event including bash. Each experienced tailgater has his the mood and although it is not essential marching band performances, cheering, own definition. to football games, tailgating is another eating, drinking and partying. Much of Tailgating to fans is like warm-up exer element that makes USC football diffe this activity centers around tailgating. cises to athletes, lt heightens spirit and rent and exciting. "lop left: Beer and football. Both are. al least to students, the main elements of the fall semestei Top right: Car hoods us well as trunks provide table for a number of tailgaters. Bottom right: This part chose a tablecloth for their pre.game fes"'" Top left: After a picnic wilh Kentucky Fried Chick en and all the trimmings, this Carolina fan rela*es before the game begin-, lop right: Conversation also helps set the feeling for tailgating and football. Bottom: This group, complete with Carolina hats. even brought along a table and chairs to make the pre-game party more fun. TAILGATING —23 1980 Sets Stage For Homecoming Homecoming 1980 offered something and a wide variety of campus organiza Throughout the week, groups prepared for everyone. Cockfest. class reunions. tions set up displays depicting the Caroli for Homecoming by building floats.