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Show Letters to tHe EdiTOR Equalize Greeks and independents only 1000 to 1500 students were supporting the team, (a losing one I might add). The beautiful thing about our society is its ability to change. And if we no longer need block seating, let's do away with it. Then an 'equitable system where everyone stands to get into the Stadium, the length of time depending on the seat they want, could be initiated. Groups could still sit together, they would just have to wait together, like independents have all along. games, especially homecoming. Someone who has never worked on a house decoration, the song fests and- skits, cannot realize the tremendous amount of work that goes into them. And the Greeks do it, not to obtain favors and "payment," but to demonstrate their support for the University team, and to generate University spirit. It's interesting to note that these independent students, so willing to verbalize their support, are not quite so willing to materialize their support in a way visible and beneficial to the entire student body. Now the Greek boycott is effectively sidestepped, decorations begun, the skits presented, and the Greeks won't gather up their activities, without which homecoming would be just another football game, and sulkily go home. They'll be completing decorations, and preparing for numerous activities Nov. 1, even though they've been royaly screwed- over. I only hope the students who are opposed to block seating do not view this recent backtracking as a laudable moral victory for the independent, but as the disturbing answer to traditional support and full student participation is really is. SCOTT ALLEN Editor: Having had experience with block seating for the past four years (two years as a member and one as chairman of Student Participation Committee and now as a past chairman), I would like to go on record as opposing it. Last year my sole reason would have been because I objected to two people, including myself, doing most of the work and spending up to 20 hours per game to work out the mechanics of it. This year I have what I feel to be a better reason. I hardly feel it to be an equitable system when upwards of 200 independent students have to stand in line for as long as 6 hours to get a chance for a ticket (the numbers being more or less, depending on the game). Although any groups of 10 or more people this year, can apply for block seating, it was fraternities who opposed openly, the abolition of it. Student Participation Committee could only take the other 70 groups' silence as meaning that they have no definite view about it. The attendance at yesterday's meeting showed them to be very much against the "system". The method the fraternity men choose to show their disapproval was a trifle childish and unbecoming to the Greek system as a whole, however they made an attempt to redeem themselves by volunteering to- do the work involved thereby enabling the committee to reinstate it (with the change of the minimum number to 10). Any group that comes before Student Participation Committee at its Monday meeting and is recognized for purposes of block seating can be given an equal chance in the drawing for seating. The original purpose of block seating was to encourage students to attend games, since at the time We ask support Editor: Greeks awoke yesterday to find that the block-seating-controversy pendulem had again swung to the other side, and the block seats that were already planned for were literally cancelled from underneath them. It seems that twice as many seats were applied for as were planned for, and so the whole mess was simply swept aside. No one denies the fact that the people responsible for these clandestine organizations, or the people against block seating in general, are as interested in seeing the games as the Greeks. But do they have as much invested in- this game, and all games, as the organized student? It has already been said that the Greeks are wong in demanding payment for their homecoming participation. And that would be true, if they were demanding payment. Rather they are asking for support; support from the University, and institution they are built around, dedicated to, and standing behind during all the |