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60th C60 ANNIVERSARY ANNIVERSARY UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. LVIII, No. 18 (olumbia, South Carolina, February 16, 1968 Founded 1908 (>4 Stal Picket USC miudents picketdel the protest of the fatal shooting ntulents during racial violen Picketers Death Of By JAY BENDER Asst. Sports Editor Six USC students protested the killing of three S. C. State Col - lege stv ents in civil r i g h t s demions. rat ions in Orangeburg by picketing the State House last Sat urday. Lewis James, a spokesman for the group, said the demonstration was "sort of spontaneous" as it grew out of a Friday night gather ing in his dormitory room. James said the purpose of the demonstration was to bring the truth to Columbia concerning the shooting in Orangeburg during last week's violence. Law enforce ment officers there, bolstered by National Guard troops, clashed with students in incidents following an attempt to integrate a privately owned bowling alley. One of the demonstrators ex pressed the opinion that the racial situation in Columbia was not a "problem." However, he did feel Spence See In S.C. R liy NAN(;IE M1EDDIN Social Affairs Edlitor The South Carolina Republican Party is growing in strength, State Senate Mlinority L,eadler Floyd D). Theft Ring Is Arrested At Carolina Ten Negro t ee na g ers were charged last week with stealing nearly $4,000 worth of p)ersonal items belonging to USC students. Police said youths comprised a well-organized theft ring that had pilfered rooms in three dlormitor ies and the University gym. In adl dlition, dletectives saidl, about 50 automobiles wvere broken into and enteredl. D uring a wveek-long investiga t ion, Campus P'ol ice Sgt. G;rover II. Lynch, working with Columbia de tectives, atrrestedl tihe 10 boys on charges of petty larceny, vagrancy, loitering, breaking and entering. About $1 ,5~00 worth of the loot has been recove red. Stolen we're cloth ing, luggage, radios, watches, rings, pistols, andl other personal temis. The youths, ranging in age from i:3 to 18 years, live in a Negro neighborhood n e a r the Carolina "14 f Photo by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway Parade State House last weekend in of three S. C. State College -e in Orangebtrg. Protest Youths that outside of the larger cities in South Carolina, Negroes had to strivte to gain the rights granted by recent civil rights laws. The march began at 10 a.m. and continued through noon. Some of the signs read: "Genocide at South Carolina State," "Bullets are a good substitute for tear gas and fire hoses" and "Orangeburg police have license to kill." Students By (INNY CARROIM Staff Writer Police, policy and policy-makers came under fire here Sunday as S. C. State College students told how Orangeburg violence looked from inside campus walls. "The police said they were shoot s Growth epublicans Spence told USC Young Republi cans Wedne'sday night. Speence explaied that nly re centflly has the S o u t h Carolina voter been sought after by both nmational parties. "in fact," he said, "until the Republican Party was reinstituted in S o u t hs Caroliau, many people had never even seen a Republican." According to Spence, the party has benefited the st ate through I a r g e r voter turnouts, a better chloic'e of candidolate's and more comn petition in politics. "Not long argo," said the seniato~r who was elected to the House three times as a li-nsoerat, "mo4st South Carolinians had a mistaken im pressioni of the Republican Party'." Liberals, conservatives and in dlependlents all ran in the same pri - mary, he said. T[he state was so hound by "I )emoc rat ic tradition'' that they failed to not ice a m, re heneficial Republican movement. "'Though I served locally as a l)emocrat," he said, "'I v'oted na t ionailly' for Republicans. I, o e a I I )rmoc rats seemed to me to have nothing in common with the Na tional Democratic Party." Spence, a conservative, switched parties be cause of "the Democratic trendl to wvard the welfare state andl social ism.'' Orang Arous4 SNCC Lead Murder In 6 By GINNY CAIROLL. Staff Writer "The Ku Klux Klan or its psy- i ,hological equivalent went to S. C. State and murdered a group of tudents," a Student Non-Violent -oordinating Committee (SNCC) >fficial charged here Wednesday. "If they have the authority of'! i governor or mayor, it makes no lifference," Campus Coordinator George Ware said. "It's still mur Ier." The clash last week between o I i c e and Negro students in )rangeburg was White Power in iction, Ware stated. "If a group >f USC students marched, they vould not be surrounded with Na lional Guard - not at any white niversity I know of. "I am not going to suggest any :hing people should do. It is crystal lear to me that if people do not levelop the strength to fight and -hange society, they will not have .he right to exist," he said. APPLAUDED Ware, sponsored by the Afro knmerican Students Association ;poke to about 200 students, both Nhite and Negro. His address was frequently interrupt, d by applause. He traced the history of the Negro in America in three periods: davery, separation and integra- I ion, which, he said, are approxi- I nately the same. I "The problems of the black peo e Didn't Have Gun Flay Pol ng over people's heads. If that's I :o, why were people hit between t he neck and the waist?" one coed tsked. "Some were shot in the )ack." The State students met with a )ortion of the University Afro \merican Students Association to. liscuss the incidents which left bree dead and dozens wounded last veek in Orangeburg.t "They say we had guns, that we ired first. WAe didn't have guns. If ve'dl hadl guns, somebodyv would ave (lied. There were no white )ol ice dead out there,'' a student I ledla red . The initial p)rotest on segregation1 >fa howling alley near the campus t wgan0 without violence, a coed as- I ;ertedl. "O)ne of the pol ice hit a itudent on the head with his stick I ifter he had arrested him. HIe Gamecc HAPY ANNIVE RS GAMECoC eburg h Stud or Charges Orangeburg >le in society are different from hose of white people in society. 3lack people have no power - they lave no ability to influence their >wn affairs. "We can't improve white people. Me can't he improved by them. We iever were concerned with inte ,ration into this society," Ware ;tated, outlining the objectives of 'NCC. INTEGRATION "Integration is not a philosophy or solving the social ills of society. t is an individual decision, not a )rescription for solving the ills >f black people. "You ask about Black Power. I ay of Black Power we have come o render the w%hite people impotent >ver our lives. When they have >ower over our lives, it is geno ide," he said. Ware charged the "black middle 'lass" with effectively functioning is an oppressor of black people on >ehalf of the white society. STOP CRINGING "You should recognize that you ire black and stop cringing from t," he challenged. "The laws of society do not ipply to me. It is against the law or blaik p'op' ' kill w w , 'lot 'or white men to kill black men." Racial incidents in America have lot been caused by outside agita or1s, Ware concluded. "The rebel ions in this country have been, pontaneous roactions." ,y, Police icked him and dragged him into he patrol car." The students also attacked uso >f guns instead of tear gas or fire loser in the Thurstlay night clash vhere three were killed. "Maybe it was too windy for tear as, but what about tile hoses?" a tudent questioned. "They couldn't Ise water because they were afraid ke would catch cold. They don't kant you getting sick. Thev want 0 kill vou.'' S. C. Gov. Roibert E. MlcNair Ir'ew sharp e r i t iec i sm for his andl ing of the inOcidlents. " I don 't ce how the governo'r canl sit in his iffi ce and make it look all beauti - u :" coed said. lIe said there were only about 00 students out there. If that were rue, thlen the poldice knrocked off ialf of them. "All of the s t ulde n t body is 'ehindl the s i t u a t i o n. If thev veren l't beifor, they are now." ck -19O0 1908-1968.. Cock has serve lUniversity of The years I from three foi the weekly 10. To commemi sary, this edit tains a specia pictures from lected from ok past 60 years eves of the st Research fe __ done by staff MS Asst. Mianagir ston. Reprints A R Y by Chief Phol K / (D)rawing by Sallev.) Viole ents A CC Student Protests J. A. Hun; For Schot Establishment of a G r a d u a t v School of Social Work here has movel closer to reality with the appointment of I)r. J o s v p h 1. Hungate Jr. as dean. .11ungate is currently dean of a similar school at the University of Texas. He will join the USC faculty June 1. The University proposes to Open the new school in September, 11%9. "So-cial work agencies and in di iduals ithroughout South Caro lim ha.e repeatedly empha,ired the uirget need for graduale ed eicationa in thii stale for pro fe,-sio4val worker,%," t SC Pre!idet 1tomam F. jonle'. has S1ated. Establishment of the adV'ance,d program in social work here has been endorsed hv the Coune I c n Social Work Education and by a consultant evaluating tie situation for the 'niversity. "The report by our consultant strongly empniihaisiz.ed that the quial. University shoul fully rxe f I e e wvhat he descibed as (arolinam's roeedicationm to excellence,' "' lIr. Jones said. D)uring the intera n ing months bet ween ,June and( the open ing of t. new school, Huniga te will re cruit a staff, plan a curriculum ande publicize the school to pro'spec tive students. B-1968 . For 60 years T he Ga me d as the newspaper of the South (Carolina. tave seen the paper grow ir-page tabloids in 1908 to 11t page issue of 1968. nrate the sixtieth anniver ion of T he Ga mecock con I section with stories and the past. The articles, se I Gamreorcks, represent the at Carolina through the udent newspaper. r the special edition was writers and compiled by ig Editor Mary Jane Hen of old pictures were made [ographer Chip Galloway. Gamecock Cartoonist Kate ice, Tr round City Colleg Service In All-n ii v e r s it v andt 1-ne dict ("Ilb-ge studh-nts Lav- iSSued'l a call to al I '1nd I gh schqwls aero.s t-e n;t:(n to, h id n\mirial services f,r th- three Negri youths f a t a y sit :n (rangelburg last week. Ihe' students have asked that indfeendent simultaneous srvics he"1 heb1 le'twe'en nn tod:y and next Fr'ida. ORANCERJUG The th'ree yo ung N,,grw-s were killed by State llighw, ay patrIlmen at the ''dge (of the S. ('. State' campus last wi-k. T1, ei r dieatIs tragically ckax'tvced f"ur1 iays of student diimonstrat,n ' h:c ihe gan cver' an ali-n\Le hite bwl ng acll.r gn i erangeburg. 13enedict and .\Lb-n. cluni a's t\w NegrN # c-legi. are plann:jig rate Selec )1 Of Soci A graodutate of Gmcosrd ( Aellege' at Athen-, r. a.. lungt e re 4-ei%ed himater - of art,% degree fr4ma the I imner,ili m i Ai. ago), and the dotwitr of phil(k-cph-- de gre- frmiii the I iii%oer-ity of Texa. Ile al-A) had gradiuate wot)rk sit St. b.bui.t i niverity and ha- attenided gradiuate eminar, at Smith Cold Itege, the Neu York Scrh-lil of o cial Work anlid Prietonemi I i ,er%io . In addition toi hi!s pr-s.-nt po)sitin as associate' prfessor in Soijral Work at the 11'niver1*s ty of Texas. Hungate has taught at Fltzsim1 mtins Army o swital, 1'en er. C.d()., and tie Army M-e:ca! Scll at Br,,i-ke Army Midical Centcr. San Antonio, ''Oxas. iis teaching spe. cialtws are s,cil pr-esSe's 1; - elhipathology. :dlimnistraticn and reisear'ch met hcds. Women Stu Grants For 1y INI) JO 31 6G(1 M Staff Wr iter Assecalted W\im--.n Students is eachI. T'he scholaripts ui ~1 le be a ardied een ~licron ) lla Ixappac A\wardes Ileay. \l ay 2. i ne each tic a rising sin:ir, june' and 0 a yi h I wom'nan cont inuing at the tn ve'rsity for the a e a ii ' mni e year lundls fedr the three schoilarts) i will comeiic friomct hie P'e'nny-a-\linute night hieled Novemeer :' aund the Tlwoi-Pen ny-a- 'ein ut e niht plan ned focr toinighit. A'~pplic'ants will bce juedgede on sc'hcclarshtip, service and financial need, re'spiect i\ e'ly, lby a c'miinte( if admlninistr'atiion aned faculty miem liers a ndl wve~ s select ed hvy the A WS E'x'cuttive (Council. \lehmes cif thle commnittee are E'hzabLeth .\l. ('lctwocrthby, I ltnn cif Woemuen; Mtrs. Thoimas F. .Ione's, wife of the 1'n iv~er sit y presbi'ent; Mt's. Btruce Nelson, u~ ife' of the deanfl c , ower D)i i sioin Arts and Scie'nce; and Mliss Rub 1e Ott, for eign languages pi r cc f c' s s cc r. Mirs. .locnes is cliorma tin iof the j udges commflFtittee. 'Coedls may cibtaein apphlications from any' residlence hall esk or ft'em the D)ean cof Woemen's offi'ce. The appl icat ions must be completed in triplicate and sent to Janet Sel man, Rox ('-920, Capstone House, USC, icy March 15. Among other activities planned by AWS is a speech by Mrs. Robert Moxon on planned parenthood next Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Mrs. Moxon, vie prensunt of -agedy State es Request Iemoriam to hold services today at noon, said Henedict President Benjamin F. Par%t)n. SC Student Government and the A fr-American Student Asso iat:eni are also planning to co spwin,sir a memirial service today at nf,en in Rutledge Chapel, open ti ali intereste<i USC students. Studeient s attending wll receive free cuts from noon to I p.m., Uni versity President Thomas F. Jones announced. St NDAY MARCH Three Negroes, two of them USC tudents, apphei early this week for a p-1miit te march on Sundav. T 1 wiermit was vranted, accord [ig t ColumiII)a P1,lice Clief L. J. Caimpe1l. but as of the time The G; imr4ick went to press, the stu ents had not returned to pick t up. ted Dean al Work w Hungate dients Offer Next Year Pla:innede Pa rent ho od of R ic hland na exi \ngt on Counties, will ad *lr--o the A WS House of Repre senitat ves in the Russell House. All interestedl women students are in 'mtd tee attend. Another AWS program, spon I ed byte Town Girls Associa ron. is a talk b Ca rel Lane, Woemi n' Trav'el I)hrector for Shell >: Comnpany.\ Miss L ane will speak eln hw to travel, whant clothes to take and hew teo pack them, today at I p.m. in the Russell House. Two Cents' Worth Tonight is the night for Carolina women toe get their two cents' worth. Twoe - Penny' - A -I Mute night, sponsored hey A ssociated Women Stude nts, w'ill allow girls in Mc (Clinteeck, Sims, South, South Tower and Wade Hampton to stay out until 2 :30 a.m. Caeds must pay two cents for every minute they are out after their usual curfew. Students must pay before they can sign in. Payments must be made in cash only; checks or meal tickets will not be accepted. The money wirll be used for the AWS scholarships. Women coming in, after 2:30 a.m. and women who cannot pay for their "extra minutes" will be sub inct to restriction.