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SPRING SPORTS CALENDAR I rNFAIR (See Page 6) (See Page 2) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR GREATER CAROUINA %OL. LV9 NO. 22 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 26, 1965 FOUDE 1908 ll1 AlPIA DEI'A IAW Fil X1l Ctinlave held in Durham, N. C. The aniual award is given 4n ter'. project, the Prince Intramural gi of service and profesionalism. Tom C. Clark, Justice of the 1'. S. Other Phi Alpha Delta Chapte included the Universities of N. C., I olic U'niversity (1). C.), William and award twice running, plus the Thin lictured left to right are Willhi liibbard, Justice; the lion. Tom C. ture4l) Iobert Ehrhorn, Delegate. Still No Ineffici IY IIAtRIET HOLLAND Editor Student Senate dispersed before beginning its scheduled session Wednesday, blaming the dismissal on a misunderstanding as to whether or not the meeting had been cancelled. Not included in the 18 senators discussing the issue were ailing Senate President Reggie Brown IFC Selects SC Native For Address ledford W. Black, past presi (Itnt (if the Sigma Phi Epsilon IlraternitY and for years a dele gate to the National Intra Fra telnity Council will be the fea tured speaker at the IFC awards b1an1uet to be held March 31. fl-ck was elected to the North Carolina I louse of Represenitatives mi 1958 dlefeaiting the speaker of the house. Ini 1950 he became governor of his dist rict which includes all N'orthI and South Carolina chap ters. Ile hecame the fourth grand secreitamry of the fraternity in 1957. Later he became executive director' andii Grand President. lHe was the first president to be elected hy the conclave for a two year' Period. lie has heen a member of the College fraternity Secretary's As sociationi, alternate delegate to the NIC fo three years, and delegate to the llouse. of Delegates for five yearas. lHe w'as horn in Gastonia, N. C. the son of a minister, Hie attended Wake Forest College where he wats a member of Chi Taua fra ternit y- lie became a charter nnimber of Sigma Phi Epsilon in 1940, and has served his local chapter sinice then as Alumni tensurier and Secretary of the Alumni Trustees. .llack is presently representing Sma Phi Epsilon as a member oif the flouse of Delegates. ISA Danice The International Student uh111 will sponsor an Interna tional l)ance at the American *Rgion building, located at 200 lickens Street, Saturday, April 10, at 8 p.m. The semi-annu,al event will feature music by the Huns. Ad "'ssion will be $2 per couple and $1.50 stag. The dance Is T''ERIT''Y receiv id the NMost mth March 13. the basit- of clump er activifiet. of a I Mot Court Con petitioni, %a% prai! An award plaque was presented t Supreme Court, and hinself a nmen rs against whoi Pinclney ('Impter a., Md., Del., W. Va., Ricmntonml, Di Mary, and Washington and IA'. U' I National Award. presentd hst su m B. Regan, Vice-Justice; G. Thad Clark, 1'. S. Supremne C<urt Justic< Senate mcy DiI nd otherwise committed Secre ary Diane Geer. Under the new constitution. ;tudent Body President Chip :othran is not a menber of the egislative body but is allowed o sit in on the sessions and ad Iress the group. Cothran, who Was among those resent, commented, "an out tanding fact is that Senate has een ineffective recently andi has )een unable to take care of its )usiness." Further discussing the absentee sm which has recently plagued he group, he pointed out that To Speaik At IF( Banquet 'Near-S4 Racial BY MAX FORD) Staff Writer "Therme have been no incidents n my hometown as yet," John reene says, "but all my letters ronm nome say it is next on the ist." John W. Greene, Jlr., a freshman t USC majoring in Journalism, vent home to his native Denmo )lis, Ala. (luring mid -termi. )emopolis is a small town (8,000 oulation) located near Selma in Ulabama'a "black belt." "I think it is a question of out ide influence miore' than anything ~lse. Police brutality? Tlher'e has een some, but the police do more o protect the Negro in Alabama han they (10 to harmi him." Ifilig Chapter auard at the District fe'osimial matture. Pinickniev chap d as exemIplif%ing the fraternal > the representatives by the I(Ion. lr of Phi Alpha Delta. of S. C. competed for the award ike, American Vinversity and Cath. C\ Pinckme Chapter has won this mner in New York. Williams, past Marshal: Paul R. Ray William, (Jerk; (not pic. Meet; scussed "when Senate breaks down, to a large extent your whole student government brea'ks down." Stating that Senate should pro vide a channel of communication between the student body and the student government, the presi dent said that "there is a com munication breakdown because senators don't have a well-defined constituency that they feel re sponsible to." Sen. Bill Deaver of the College of Engineering said that "with tle exception of a handful of senators, the rest of the senators might as well not be there." Another engineering senator, Gerald Vaughn, followed this idea up by saying, "Issues brought be fore Student Senate this semester have not been very imaginative or constructive. The majority of the senators are not putting out an effort to try to bring up long range ideas which will hell) the University. "People run for Senate and are elected just because they are pop)ular andl their friends are there." he continued. "The person who wvins is usually in so many activities he's :ilways involved in a time conflict. it' knows his name is still on the Vaughn further emp)hasizedl that roll until he has four absences." peolelt represented by the senator have no way of knowing whether or rnot he attends the meetings. ersonal Expe Ama Ne Situatio .Johna has l i'ved in D)emopol is all of his 18 years, and has an aunt and uncle living in Selma today. As he pts it, Selma, with its 30, 000 peole was the social ce'nter of the area. "I think Alabama today is suf fer ing from a hadl press,"' John says. Letters from home last wveek said com plete chaos re'igned( when te demonstrators entered the road. The police protected( the marchers."' Jlohn says whites and Negroes in D)emopolis have close bonds. 'A rotund D emopolis, there are 60 to 70 per cent Negroes in the general population,'' he says. There have been no incidents as yet. Jrohn says, in his opinion, there art just two reasons for what Is White In USI Elections, Campaign Times Set The elections committee an nounces definite dates for spring elections as follows: Meeting for making nomi nations: 2-5 p.m., March 2(. Candidates' s p e e h e s 6 p.m., April 1. Primary elections: 9-5 p.m., April 5. Run-off elections: 9-5 p.m.. April 7. Cheerleader tryouts will be held March 25 and 26 from 5-6:30 p.m. on Davis Field and the finals will be on Monday, March 29 at 5 p.m. All nominees for major offices must have a 2.5 g.p.r. Candidates other than class presidents and student body officers must have at least a 2.0 g.p.r. No student on academic probation may be a can didate for office. The offices requiring class standing can be filled by candi dates having the following num ber of hours; senior, 75 hours; junior, 45 hours; sophomore, 15 hours. Copies of campaign rules will be given to candidates at the March 29 meeting of all nominees in the Russell House at 5 p.m. No posters may he put up or leaflets may be distributed prior to this meeting and every candidate must be present. Blue Key Ct Finals Endt BY VIRGINIA CARROLL Staff Writer The final matches of the Blue Key College Bowl will be held tonight in Russell House Audi torium with Sigma Nu and Chi Omega competing for the campus championship. Preliminary contests in the fra ternity groupings were held Mon day night and the quarter-finals and semi-finals took place on Tuesday night. Sorority matches were conducted Wednesday eve ning. In the fraternity semi-finals, Alpha Tau Omega was defeated by Sigma Nu, and Chi Psi wvon their match with Pi Kappa Alpha. Sigma Nu then became champion of the men's division by (downing their Chi Psi opponents by a score of 140-115. The winning Sigma Nu team was composed of Thorne Comp ience Interviez lve Di nIn Al happningin Selma and other parts of Alabama. The racial un rest there is a result, he says, of "'outsidIers and the white extrem ist reaction" to their coming in. As for last week's incidents in nearby Selma, John says: "I think Sheriff Jim Clark did his job. I don't think he had any choice. Again, it was a matter of outsidec interference. The people of Alabama dleplore what hap penedI in Selma, but they deplore, even more, the fact that the whole movement seems to be run from outsidle the state. You saw no( such outsidle interference dur ing recent riots in Hlarlem,' he saidl, "nor did you hear of police brutality. Yet the rIot occurred, andl many demonstrators were BroM Spri JOSHI WITE South Carolina Native 1965 Summer Sessi Early Reg Urged By BY VIRGINIA CARROLL Staff Writer A 15 per cent enrollment in crease is predicted for the 1965 summer school sessions at Caro lina by Director of Admissions and Registration Rollin E. God frey. The projected f;-ure for the first session is 3,800, compared to 3,289 for the same period last year. More than 2,200 students dlege Bowl ng Tonight ton, John Claser, Chip Cothran, Craig Wrigley, and Don McLaur in. Runners-up were Henry Hem bel, Jim Mulligan, Mike Joy, Jim Boyleston, and Jeff Christie. The women's semi-finals saw Chi Omega defeat Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Delta win over Alpha Delta Pi. In the final contest, Kappa Delta defeated Chi Omega by a score of 110-80. Kappa Delta was represented by Pat Butters, Mary Giles, Cathy Odom and Sue Roach. Chii Omega's ini the contest were Adaline A r'm st r ong, Becky Squires, Floride Williams and Jane WVoodle. T1he victor in the fraternity livision wins a $50 prize, and the runner-upl is awarded $25. The sorority champion receives a card table. Silver howls similar to those given on telev'ision's College Bowl will also be awarded to the victors. Scusses atbama John supports Governor George Wallace and( says he feels most of the people of Alabama share his views on the problems. "The state legislature is trying right now to pass a bill that would make it possible for Wal-, lace to remain in office, if re elected, for another four-year term, Hie's the most popular man in Alabama. We regard him as a champion of his people, much the same as the Negro regards Martini Luther King as their champion. Just last year, Wallace was instrumental in bringing in $300 million in industry into Ala bama. "Wallace tells the world that we want to, and can, solve our own problems. We want a chance to Wil g We JAMES 111OWN IFeaturcd At Dance ristration Director are expected to attend the second session, comparable to the 1901 cnrollment for the 191,4 second term. Enroll Soon When interviewed, G o d f r e y recommended students considering attending the sessions this sum mer to make up work not passed during the current school year should consult their faculty ad visors as soon as pi-ssible. Summer school will consist of :wo terms totaling 11 weeks. 7lasses meet Monday through Friday during the first term (six wveeks) and Monday through Sat irday during the five weeks of .he second term. Rooms and Registration All summer students desiring i room in the dormitories fto ither term should make arrange 'nents at the housing office early. learly indicating which term .hey plan to attend. Registration for the first term vill be held Monday, June 7, and :lasses will begin the following lay. Registration materials will )e obtained frcm the Russell House Auditorium from 7 :30 a.m. )n Monday. Financial Indebtedness Any student with financial in lebtedness to Carolina must cleari hese obligations before M1ay 2t at 1 p.m. before they will he al Owed to register. Students clear ng accounts after that (late can riot register on June 7 and wil' e charged the $5 late regist ration ee. Summer School Elsewhere University regulations require advance permission from a dean er department head for credit to be received from other institu tions. The appropriate forms may be obtained at the office of ad missions and registration studlent record1 window. Students must ~omp)lete these blanks in dluplicate before leaving campus in May. Examinations for the first ses sion will be given on July 15-16, with second session registration taking p)lace on Jluly 19. Classes w-ill resume Jluly 20. Finals are scheduledl for August 20-21. Crucible To Be Pulilshed The Crucible, expecting its largest issue yet, will be print ed early in A pril. Students may- submit fic tion, essays, poetry, art, drama, music, and book reviews, art work and cartoons. for forth coming Issues. Interested persons should go to the Crucible's office in Room 202 of the Russell Ilouse anv time, or attend the regular meetings at 8 p.m. on Monday night. SStar ekend BY GEORGE ALEXANDER Staff Writer Spring Weekend for 1965 will feature Josh White in concert April 2, and a James Brown dance April 3, both at the Township Auditorium. Tickets for the Student Union sponsored weekend will go on sale at noon Monday at the Russell House information desk. These are the (late tickets selling for .32.50 per couple and are good for both Friday and Saturday nights. 500 stag tickets will be avail able for the April 2 Josh White concert, at $1 each. The 500 tic kets for the James Brown dance may be purchased for April 3 at S"1.50 each. Stag tickets for both events will be $2. Josh White, predominantly a folk and bues singer, is a native iouth Carolinian from Greenville. Josh, who has played on Broad way, began his career 35 years ago at the age of 14 when he was offered $100 to record his songs in New York. In recent years osh has been actively engaged in tours, not only in Europe, but also around the United States, .veraging four concerts per week at colleges and schools around the country. .James Brown, who sold his first record in 11956. attributes his start :o a talent show in Augusta, Ga. From writing and arranging for an Augusta radio station to a re -nt contract with Warner Bro :hers for a movie, James has be one known as the "King of l;hythm an(d Blues." Accompanying J a m e s Brown will be an 18-piece band. including i9ngers Bobby Byrd. James Craw :"ord. Elsie Mae, and the Famous Flames. Student identification cards will be checked. There are no reserved seats and the Student Union will give no refunds or exchange tic .. ..0q Ol'sTh I ElliA WOL-FF, of Sum:ter, wi ll Ie guae,t artist cela'trla pre-ent- its seconmd concert of tIhe ea-on n Mondas , March 29, at 8.30 p.m. in the l'SC Field HousEae. The orchsestra will be under the directioni of Arth)ur M. F'raser, head of the I 'SC Mus~ic Depart mient. Admuissiona charge for U'SC -tudenut is $l plusN l.D. card. Honor Forum To Be Given On Tuesday Members of the Sophomore Council, who have been engaged in a studly of the honor system, will sponsor a Student Forum at 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 30, in the Russell House Assembly Room. Tom Cothran and Richard Mor rell, co-chairmen of the Sopho more Council, have urged that students take advantage of this opportunity to express their opin ions and suggestions, in hopes that definite action may come about because of this forum. Moderating the Tuesday after noon forum wvill be student body president Chip Cothran. Speakers will include Bo Mullis, Bob Plunk ett. and Keith Ellinot