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BEAT DUKE DK 1UNIRSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia, South Carolina, February 23, 1968Foundd 1908 Marijuana *Is Found In Dorm By SHERRY BROWN Staff Writer A USC student has been tempo rarily suspended following the con fiscation of a quantity of mari juana from his dormitory room, according to Dean of Men L. Eu gene Cooper. -tooper said that during a search of the student's room Tuesday after noon, one and one-half ounces of marijuana were found. The drug was analyzed and weighed by members of the State Law Enforcement Division, he said. Conducting the s e a r c h were Cooper, Asst. Dean of Men William Klepper, C a m p u s Police Sgt. Grover H. Lynch and a residence counselor. Ie student has been suspended pending his appearance before the discipline committee sometime next week, Cooper said. During the last year, he said, three other cases of drug rule in fractions have been handled. Seven students were involved In a pep pill case last spring. AU were subsequently put on probation. This fall two eases of marijuana have been handled, Cooper said. Some marijuana was found in two students' rooms, and both were placed on probation until June 1, 1969, Cooper said. Cooper told The Gamecock several weeks ago that "we would search the room of the student, within his presence if possible," if specific in formation were provided the dean of men that marijuana was in a certain room. He added that if students party ing or living off campus were ar rested and convicted of drug law violations by city police, the Uni versity would take action. Carolina Trustee Installed -* Dr. Hugh G. Wells of S e n e c a was installed as a new University trustee last Tuesday. Wells succeeds Harper Wel born of Ander son as trustee from the Tenth Judicial Circuit. The oath of office warn administered by U. S. District Judge Donald S. Russell, a for . er University El Russell said Wells "is not only a very distinguished physician and a public-spiritedl citizen, but someone who loves the University with a dleep dlevotion." By CARL STEPP News Editor More than 75 persons, most of t Carolina st,udenIts, gathered in fron I utledge Chapel Tuesday night fo: "hour of meditation" in sympathy1 certain Ft. Jackson servicemen. The gathering was called, accord to a mimeographed sheet distribl here T u e s d a y, to sympathize soldiers allegedly denied use of a Jackson chapel for meditation serv As a crowd of some 50 persons sembled, knelt and sat cross-legget the pavement in front of Rth Chapel, a sizeable crowd of onlooli including a few hecklers, formed are them. There was no trouble. At 7:40 a young girl who identi herself as Buff Lindau, graduate tat In Men About 300 students gathert (lay for the memorial serv! Government and the Afro-Ar University Orangebu By MIKE KI Staff University students this Orangeburg riot with both en The first reaction of the announcement of a memorial , dent Government and the Afr tion. Student Body President Sammy Drew, in a statement issued before the service, said, "By holding the memorial ser vice we are expressing our solicitude over the situation in Orangeburg and are paying our respect to those who died. The service is purely memorial in na ture; it is not intended to justify or condone any one faction." W e s I e y Foundation Minister Robert E. Alexander said in his address at the service in Rutledge Chapel, "Everyone has known that sooner or later there was going to be trouble between the whites and blacks." He said that "we must change those structures in society which create hatred and deny men their humanity." Ken Price, president of the Afro American Students Association, said in his statement: "This state has a serious problem, and it is time for each and every person to react to it by saying to himself that I will do everything in my power to correct this problem." Although a police permit was granted for a protest march last Sunday, Price said the march was canceledI. He emphasized that the USC Afro-American group had no direct affiliation with the planned cvarch. Price also said that he and four other club members met yesterday, at the invitation of C olu m b ia Mayor Lester L. Bates, with Rates andl the executive committee of the Columbia Community Relations Council. ditatior medlitation periodl. Miss Lir ing to call herself spokesri group, said the meeting was em our belief in freedom of1 of in the right of soldiers t< an expression of religion." ith She said persons gather, of a "group of students act ing own as a conscience-stricke ted She stated some members rth were probably involved. "1 Ft. A WA RE-sponlsored m e e I ices. adlded. as- By 7:45 the group had on 75 when two men, who sail age Ft. Jackson soldiers, api er, "thank these people" for ud pathy. fled The two, identifying th in. Pvt. John Monello and PF' te welL, referred to an incider Tit Phot, by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway toriam d at Rutledge Chapel last Fri ce co-sponsored by Student erican Students Association. Ponders rg Impact tOCHMALNY Writer week reacted to the Feb. 8 iotion and deliberation. student body came with the ervice sponsored by USC Stu o-American Students Associa-1 Draft La 0 Untversit By KEN LARE Staff Writer "The changes in draft regula tions for graduate students will have a decided impact on the Uni versity Graduate S c h o o I," said Graduate School Dean James A. Morris. Last Chance Orders will once again be taken next week for the 1968 Garnet and Black. Reservations may be placed at th table on the first floor of the Russell House Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday, 2-4 p.ms. Orders may also be mailed to Carter Crewe, business manager, Garnet and Black, USC. Reservations are $3 per year book. Cheeks should be made pay able to the Garnet and Black. "This is the last possible chance to reserve a 1968 annual," said C.rewe. iBacks !e Of Fort J dau, dleclin- where soldliers wer4 ian for the refused permission "to express son chapel. They -eligion and rights of freedom >have free pression had been Capt. Wolfgang ad consisted formation officer ing on their The Gamecock Tuea ned group." to use the chapel >f AWARE officials learned it t is not an a discussion of "ani n g," she ings." Permission was iwelled past when s ol1die rs a i they were prayer service," Ai >roached to for Feb. 13. That their sym- leaflets were distr implying that the emselves as protest the Vietnarn J Matt Sto- "We have no obji t lnast week beai nge usae d for StudeI Over Student Senate moved Wednes day to commend the student body president, to censure the student body president and to study the authority of the student body presi dent. The Senate was called into execu tive session soon after convening. When the closed session ended, three resolutions dealing with Fri day's memorial services were in troduced. 'The Senate created a commission to "study the problem of executive authority and the authority of the Senate in relation to these circum stances of last Friday." The Senate heard a proposed resolution to concur with the deci sion of Student Body President Sam Drew and another to censure and reprimand him "for taking action on his own" and for "pub licity that this action was on the part of the whole student body government." The resolution to concur and the resolution to censure were referred to the Rules Committee. Student Body Vice President Denny Royal called the meeting to order and moments later designated it as an executive session. Only elected senators, Senate of ficials and designated student body officers were allowed to remain present. The proceedings of the executive session were not officially divulged. R 0 W Revisu y Gradua Referring to the abolition of draft deferments for most grad uate students, Morris said, "Ap plications will certainly go down. Many students in their first year of graduate school will be drafted and will not be back." The following change in draft regulations was announced Friday by the Selective Service System: "Under advice received today from the National Security Council with respect to occupational deferments, the Lists of Essential Activities and Critical Occupations are suspended, leaving each local board with discre tion to grant, in individual cases, occupational deferments based on a showing of essential community need. "With respect to graduate school deferments, the National Security Council advises that it is not essential for the maintenance of the national heahih, safety, and interest to provide student deferments for g ra d ua te study in fildks other than medicine, dentistry, and allied medical special ties; except that this recommenda tion does not affect existing regula tions g ovyer n ing deferment for graduate students who entered their second or subsequent year of grad uate study In the fall of 1967. It Soldier aickson Den iet~ first granted, then Asmus said to use a Ft. Jack- use of the aid they felt their sembly." of religion and ex- Two ind iolated- conduct the Asmus, public in- asked to h tt Ft. Jackson, told do so by, day that permission refused an< was revoked after and charge was to be used for to a lawful ti-Vietnam war feel- officer." The two originally granted summary e equested "interfaith a special mus said, scheduled An army1 tfternoon, he stated, under consi ibuted in Columbia Pvt. Mot gathering was to at Tuesda: iese conflict, would "mol mction to the chapel's cussions fo meditation" Capt. "T dn't it Sen Presid The resolution to set up the spe cial study commission was introduced after the meeting reopened. Sen. Dick Goldie said in introducing the resolution that t h e executive session had shown "there is a division in the Senate." He p r o p o s e d the special Ad study commis ROYAL sion "to resolve this division." Sens. Goldie, Clyde Livingston, Bob Salane, Mike Spears, Don Pressley and Jim Bradford co authored the resolution for the study commission. In its original form the resolution would have allowed the vice president to appoint six persons to study the executive authority. The Senate suspended the rules to allow immediate consideration. The resolution p a s s e d with an amendment proposed by Sen. Da vid Murray which extended the study to include consideration of Senate authority but limited the study to last Friday's "circum stances." Royal appointed Sens. Goldie, Livingston, Salane, Spears, Press ley and Bradford to the commis sion. The vice president said he would serve as chairman. ons Jolt te School does affect students graduating from college this year, as well as those who entered the first year of graduate school last fall." Under the present procedure, the older registrants are called first. Dean Morris said, "This system could result in the infantry being filled with older men, many Mas ter's and Ph.D. candidates." These, according to Morris, lean toward the intellectual and are possibly deficient in many quali ties required of a soldier. Morris held out hope for a revision of the regulations. "Hearings in Con gress are probing the idea of taking the necessary quota proportionately from various groups of college stu dents." Other changes ae also being considered to reduce the Impact of the new regulations. "It won't destroy the graduate school," Morris emphasized, "but it will adversely affect our rate of growth." Statements predicting dire short ages of teachers, lawyers, and other professional people are "somewhat exaggerated," according to Morris, "but as Dean of the Graduate School I am certainly not pleased with the new rulings." sProte I, "but we cannot condone Asi chapel for a protest as- any ividuals who attempted to her service at the chapel were or aye, then twice ordered to fre fficers, Asmus said. They I were subsequently arrested prt d with "direct dlisobedience sai order from a commissioned ten A t soldiers declined Monday a agi >urt-martial, seeking instead the court-martial, Asmus said. -eview officer had the ease stu deration as of Wednesday. ci tello and PFC Stowell said i's meeting that they also stu t likely" be subject to reper r their appearance' r e know of the two," stated ro ators I .ent's The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. It will make its report t and recommendations to the Senate next Wednesday. Sens. Mary Laura Jones, Jimmy Wannamaker and Monty Macmil lan co-authored a resolution saying that Student Senate "concurs with 1 President Drew's decision." President Students' I S t u d en t B o d y President S a m in y Drew answered stu dents' questions in regard to last week's memorial service on a special WUSC radio program Sunday night. Following are excerpts from the program. QUESTION: In your statement you said, ". . . that we have prob lems." Are you referring to the racial issue in general, or do you think we have problems here at USC? DREW: That we have prob lems with the racial issue in general needs no confirmation from me. My reference is more specifically directed to our own campus. The problem of the Negro on campus feeling re jected by the student body is evident when a group of Negro students cheers opposing teams because they have Negro play ers. However, I do not feel that this rejection is by the majority of our students against the Negro; I believe it is a matter of the majority of students ignoring the situation. QUESTION: When was the klea of a memorial service first con ceived? DREW: On Wednesday after noon after confirming rumors that other colleges had planned such services, we decided to set up our own. QUESTION: Why wasn't it an nounced until 11 p.m. Thurday? Thurmond 'sts nus, adding, "I doubt very much if thing is going to happen to them." liss Lindau said the persons meeting e Tuesday night met "not either for against the war" but in favor of 'dom of expression. The army must have some fear of ying in chapel," she charged. She I more such meditation periods are tatively planned for Tuesday nights. k e d if the administration was inst the idea, she said she "suspects" University is "hostile" toward it,. 'ermission for mail boxes to be ffed with a leaflet (later distributed front of Russell House) was de ed, she said. ~harles H. Witten, vice president for dent affairs, told The Gamecock that mission was denied because it was q uesat ed by'an individual, not a lassie ower Sens. Murray and Linda Hair in roduced the censure resolution. In other action the Senate heard favorable report of the General Welfare Committee on a resolution oneeming Green Street traffic. The Athletic Committee reported infavorably on a bill for alternate :heerleaders. Answers questions DREW: Because of the time factor involved to enable us to hold the services simultaneously with o t h e r colleges. Working around the clock, we were not able to get publicity out until 5 p.m. when the service was an nounced. QUESTION: Was any attempt - made to get the opinion of the student body? DREW: It would have been impossible to get a student con sensus in such limited time. I had to rely on my advisers, in cluding those cabinet members I was able to contact, student body vice president, and certain close associates who are influen tial in student government work. QUESTION: As Student Gov ernment represents the student body, don't you think that the state and nation will believe the entire campus supported the me morial service? DREW: I don't believe that is necessarily true. Approximately 300 of our 10,000-plus students were present, which certainly doesn't affirm the support of the entire campus. Also it is the legislative branch, the Sen ate, that more accurately re flects student opinion, theoreti cally at least. The memorial service was an executive deci sion since it was not possible, due to the time factor, to obtain a Senate consensus. Senator Thurmond To Speak U. S. Sen. J. Strom Thurmond will speak on "The Case for the Individual" Monday at 7:30 p.m. The Republican Senior Senator from South Carolina is being spon sored by the Student Union Lec tures Committee. Following his talk in the Capstone Campus Room, a reception will be held. Thurmond, p r esaen tly second highest-ranking m e m b e r of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is a former S. C. governor. He ran for the U. S. Presidency in 1948. He has a long record of po litical s e r v i c e in the Palmetto State. USC Young Republicans w ill h o a t a banquet in Thurmond's honor at 6 p.m. in Capstone's Key stone Room. Included on the pro gram are State Republican Party Chairman Harry Dent and State Sen. Eugene Griffith. Tickets are available at $5 per adult and $3 per student. Informa tion may be obtained by calling John Carbaugh, YR president, at 3339, or Monte Parsons, secretary, at 4635. Also Monday at 8 p.m., the Lec tures Committee will present Dr. Gersey Hauptman, head of the Political Science Department at Park College, Mo. Hauptman, co-sponsored by the USC Departments of International Studies and Political Science, will speak on "Evolution in Eastura Europe?" in the RUI.San Hem