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USC.CEMSON FOOTBALL GARNET AND BLACK PICTURES GAME TICKETS Sept. as-Sel.r.. grad.aim a.d law Otudent. Oct. 2-6 -Juler. must be picked up next week oct. 9.13--S.,b.m.,.. 6.. page 9 for story.Oct 10Freshmenirsadohmeswo M egendateut.ehave their ietee made Thursday sheuld add ONE day to that date. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. LVIII, No. 3. Columbia, South Carolina, September 22, 1967 Founded 1908 UF Drive Sets Goal For Year The USC Faculty United Fund Drive has set its 1967 goal at $14,200. Aiming at a 10.1% increase over last year, the drive officially began on campus last Monday. President Thomas F. Jones, chairman of the United Fund College and Univer sity Division in Columbia, stressed '- local interest in the University, shown in such areas as acquiring land, closing streets and manag ing traffic for athletic events. He said the University has a corresponding responsibility to Co lumbia and surrounding areas. He urged all members of the faculty and administration to g i v e as liberally as possible. The drive will end Tuesday. Dr. L a r r y Flaum, assistant to the president, is chairman of the cam pus drive. "We need the help of every de partment of the University," said Dr. Flaum, "if we are to reach our goal by Sept. 26. We firmly be lieve in the worth of the United Fund, and we are confident that the University will meet this chal lenge. "I am encouraging each of the more than 2,000 members of the 'University family'," he concluded, "to ask himself 'If not I - who; if not now - when'?" 1st Hall Athletes Five former Gamecock s p o r t a greats have been selected as the first members of the USC Athletic Hall of Fame. Chosen were Alfred H. (Fritz) Mrs. McGuire Dies Thursday Mrs. Patricia Johnson Mc Guire, wife of USC Head Bas ketball Coach Frank McCuire, died early Thursday morning at her home. She had been ill with cancer for several months. Surviving are her husband; a son, Frank McGuire Jr. of the home; and two daughters, Carol Ann McGuire of the home and Mrs. Steven F. John son of Charleston. Funeral arrangements were incomplete late Thursday. LM LL %.ALEN ~ I uIX P 'a 73 fi CHm M~ * -P ChaPtSTON 5 i HY,\ :r W1 4 7 LeI iI u(v. 3MA PS | t i Ed ! 2 7 3 Orienta By CAROL MULLINAX Managing Editor Carolina freshmen called it bor ing, worthwhile, repetitious, well organized, h e I p f u I, hectic, and "Mickey Mouse." These were comments generally directed at certain phases of orien tation - but not at the program as a whole. The informal lectures and ques tion-answer sessions held by stu dent counselors were considered helpful. "Counselors talked on our ~a leveL," Cindy Nelson said. "It Human The goundbreaking for the t Center took place last week. Plasi separate buildings - the Recitation Bulding and the Faculty Office and Fall Enrol With 11,01 Approximately 13,000 students have enrolled in University classes for the fall semester. Students registered for classes Of Fame Selected Von Kolnitz, football captain in 1912 and a baseball catcher; Earl Clary, football co-captain in 1933; Steve Wadiak, football All-Ameri can from 1948-51; Freddie Tomp kins, 1934 basketball All-Ameri can; and Sam Daniel, tennis great in the mid 1930's. Formal indfction will be at half time of the USC-Maryland game Oct. 28. The Hall of Fame is a project of the USC Association of Letter men in conjunction with the Uni versity Board of Trustees and the USC Athletic Department. The nine-man selection committee was appointed by the president and the board of directors of the Associa tion of Lettermen. Any athlete who lettered in a varsity sport is eligible for mem bership eight years after entering the University. The public may make recom mendations by writing the USC i Athletic Hall of Fame, P. O. Box i 998, Columbia. S.estH eA . 'Afi 57A IE SO040 I . 0RQA5t i nari: '- 11PM tion: He] was easier for us to take adlvice from fellow students," a n o t h e r freshman commentedi. The classroom s essai on s were< labeled boring andl repetitious. Lec tures were "drawn-out" andl "time was wasted listening to dletailed in formation that could be read in thet student handbook." The tests that were adIministeredl a received the butt of criticism.c In two (lays some five hours of tests were given to each of the 33t orientation groups.r Kathy Clayton said, "The test i on hardware wag okay if vou were Staf ities Center Work SC Humanities ing. s call for two The Center and Laboratory large arcades une Seminar Build. may later conne< Lment Tot O On Mai n the main campus number about 11,000. With classes already under way this week, enrollment figures read i k e incomplete election returns. However, reports indicate t h e r e will be only a seven per cent in :rease over last year in the total number of students in all Univer sity programs. Officials had fore :ast as much as a 16 per cent in :rease. Approximately 7,350 continuing students are enrolled on the main :ampus. Transfer students number about 480, and approximately 285 students were readmitted at the Columbia campus. New freshmen in (lay school on Phone Dire Arrive In 'I Campus telephone directories will >e available in about two weeks. Vice President of Business Af airs H a r o I d Brunton said the )rinting is being handled by a ew company and should be ready he second week in October. "The University has always had problem with late distribution of elephone directories," B r u n t o n aid. "This year special arrange nents were made with a company n Texas to improve the situation." Telephone operators are pres ilA (1 Staf Phoo by Cots rw lpflO Ardig oDenofSudn ets"he f the t bnvry oat. rnw iare" abouthi Capp sidtsiwita ion twardl imroigu theyu hoetss-te eeatrion.s. Wffitte Charessed icotent th he way the tests had to be ad tinistered and s a i d, "We will ever (do it that way again." Some students didn't like the Photo by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway Begun will be built on arches, allowing Ier the buildings. Covered walkways :t the two buiklings. ils 13,000 n Campus the main campus total 2,425. Enrollment in the Evening Di vision was expected to reach a maximum of 450. About 2,000 have enrolled at Carolina's regional campuses. As of Saturday noon, 165 were en rolled on USC's newest campus, at Spartanburg. Other locations and their Satur day enrollments include A i k e n, 350; Beaufort, 150; Coastal Caro lina, 260; Florence, 426; Lancaster, 290; Salkahatchie, 140; and Union, 155. G r a d u a t e students represent from 1,200 to 1,300 of the total en rollment, an increase of 14 per cent over last year's figures. ctories Will 'wo Weeks ently working d o u b I e shifts to handle the influx of calls request ing information. "In the m e a n t i m e," the vice president said, "we ask the com plete cooperation of students in calling the operators as little as possible. We want to hell) them find out where their dates have moved to, but we ask them to please jot the numbers down. "And jot them on paper," he added after a moment, "not on the dorm walls!" Regisir By~ DON CAUCHIMAN Associate Editor It was a simp)le process for some students; it was confusion for others. It saved a lot of work for some faculty members; for others it meant "chaos with a capital K." It was Carolina's first wide-scale attempt at computer registration i and one thing Is clear - changes must be made before It is tried again. "I'm not at all satisfied with the way registration went," D)r. Rollin Hectic?: campus tours. Terry Stubblefield< said, "It was worthless because a studlent had to exp)lore the campus on his own." One freshman said, "Anybody could follow a map." There were complaints about too much general confusion and vague information concerning registra-1 tion. "We w'ere left in the (lark about schedules and registration procedures," saidl Sharon Tinsely. Dean E v a n s, commenting on orientation in general, said, "Next year, they should drop it." Margaret R a i n s observed, "It waa confusing,. but worth it." Studer On s Within a w e e k four students i have been attacked in the campus area by unidentified assailants. According to Detective Sergeant Grover H. Lynch of the University Police, the first incident occurred 1 on Green Street adjacent to the Engineering Building at 8 p.m. on Sept. 13. At 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 14 an- tl si si other student was attacked and p robbed of his wallet near the - corner of Green and Sumter Streets. The assailants were pur sued by several s t u d e n t s and dropped the wallet after removing $5. Fifte.,n minutes later a student was pushed off the sidewalk at the Green Street entrance of the Rus sell House for no apparent reason. A student was assaulted, knocked down and kicked on the head several times at 11:05 p.m. on Sept. 18 in the stairwell between the Business Administration Build ing and the Russell House. In all of the above incidents the student. were attacked by three California Governor To Appear Gov. R o n a l d Reagan of Cali fornia will appear at the Township Auditorium Friday, Sept. 29, at a State Republican Party fund-rais ing dinner. The buffet dinner will begin at 6 p.m. .with Reagan scheduled to ,peak at 8. Special student tickets costing $7.50 may be obtained from State Republican Party Headquar ters, P. 0. Box 5283, Columbia, S. C. 29205. Telephone 253-7033. The main purpose of the dinner' is to honor members of the Republi -an "Silver Elephant Club," peopl who contribute $10 a month to the S. C. Republican Party. Gov. Reagan, one of the l.ading Republican presidential candidates, s expect-'d to draw the largest 1rowd ever to attend a political 'und-raising dinner in South Caro ina. t10n: Ca [K Godfrey, l)irector of Admissions lndl Registration, adlmittedl. "I guess< t's sort of hard to justify this .ype of registration when every- t hing under the old1 method coul >e completed in two (lays." l It may be almost imp)ossib)le to at )inpoint where e v e r y problem tI >riginatedl, but T. Luther Gunter, fi ;up)ervisor of d a t a processing, & igreed with Godfrey that 'drop tdds" were the biggest problem. p "'There are a multitude of prolb lems we'll have to analyze," Gun. tI ter said, "but the human factor . probably had a lot to (do with some of them." tr Mistakes madle in codling on scan heets were widlespreadl. "A lot oIf tudents Qeen mis-codedl their own tudlent n u m 1b e r s on the scan iheets," Godfrey pointedl out. "The omputer can't be blamed for that ypeC of mistake." Godfrey related the incidlent of a tudlent who indicatedl he wanted ree time but neglected to specify st hat hours he wanted1 off. "The " o m p u t e r can't readl minds,"(t aughed Godfrey. cc Dr. Bruce W. Nelson, Dean of i the College of Arts and Sciences, rc said that If the "impersonal part b< were balanced against the personal G part," registration could be eon- m sidernd a succs. "I would call b< the operaton 95p ent ..a . [ts Att w four young men. According to larold Brunton, Vice President of Kusiness Affairs, it is not known f all attacks were by the same "roup. Brunton said that in a city of L,000 some acts of this nature are cpected. "However," he said, "'the Uni 'rsity has been fortunate to have e cooperation of the city and ate p o l i c e which many other aces do not have." aml ecock 'Twelfth "'Iere's no law against runni when there's a football game in pr highway patrolmen at the Carolina-] night when a fan jumped the fence the fickd, veering toward the stands policeman in pursuit also jumped got to the field. As the Gamecocks the north end zone, the fan ran ofi and calmly sat down by two high% he was released and returned to the ul-- bt heote fieprcn at iprovide areL pportiy tderets anoda fagaty osi >whnthrs andl foerl e probes"h irgofficiatrolmatrls the rln. rst wheay ofase jup- th' fne thNeld ageerid toar the ropad ocemar i po se aig jprbe. gothoere ielodout Asomhe clmeica thror en o tnsmttin seaecion tof ae camluter downe, to hsid. he'wa rerleedatd reurnd tonly ue pe cet theoblm nthe firt OneI' ofmte rbrighmsp. so odreydnegistration was scesi heatipoed af rhea studentIv er sent an aculbhav tost mdernsltaalk, ove psaid.m" was *.n extrieefore."peaio. Nelshnagrea the dropstadadag compu er,rnoisoubationi flrma udens intansmiting iseletions toh t'st retmaanblae the ai nl ueret roplems ongree eqirst nent had the botrogh pte fotre gistraing roestretionews hfoe fpainingf the stuents coure, >dfrextrelaterly opesratheold 1 ethodutof registration rom ha cien ouhbt n his ce." GA senir ho needa med . onl tw acked m'pus To give more complete cover age, the police force has initiated several programs such as the use of radio telephones and increased mobility. More adequate lighting will be n s t a l l e d as soon as possible if a $150,000 request in the pro posed budget is approved, Brunton said. Drastically improved lighting in the east campus area has been promised within two weeks. 1 *11 1 1 Staff Photo by Ed Fins Man' Gets Assist ig across a football field - even ress." This was the decision of owa State football game Saturday at the 20-yard line and ran aeroas at the center of the end zone. A the fence, but stopped when he and Cyclones continued play, near the field and into the stands - ay patrolmen. After questioning, game. Chaos? hough a lot of planning went into he operation, several small prob ems which shouldl have been taken 'are of in the summer turned into arger problems once registration >)egan. "Maintaining a firm master schedule was difficult, too," God frey said. "A professor who spe cialize'd in a certain area resigned Sept. 1, so students who had pre registered for his class had to find another course. "Andl we had some machine dif riculties, too. It seemed that prac ically everything that could hap pen did happen." It wasn't had for the first time --hut neither was it very good. When you are dealing with 12,000 students, computer registration must he considlered a step in the right direction -- but there are a ot of p)roblems to be ironed out. "We've learned a lot of things this semester," Gunter- said. "I can assure you It will be done differ ently the next time." "'This is by no means the end of 'omputer registration. It's just the >eginning," Godfrey emphasized. 'We'll keep trying." "I'm pretty well satisfied this ime," Nelson observed. "But a lot >f things can be done next time ;o reduce the number of problem. ;o one ner cent."