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SPEAK OUT 1t niesr Russell House Patio n e s 1- 5 p.m. Today chool Meet the Candidates See Page5 ---..- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. LVII, No. 25 Columbia, South Carolina, April 5, 1968 Founded 1908 Blue Key Inducts 17 Men Blue Key, national honor fra ternity, tapped 17 members last Friday night during the Spring Weekend concert. Members were selected on the basis of lepdership and service to * USC. They must be juniors and meet Blue Key's scholastic require ments. Tapped were Jerry Jay Bender, Robert L. Bleakley, Floyd H. Dun can, Carl Ellsworth. Also, E. Craig Evans, M. Berry Foran, Donald T. Gordon, John Jacobs, 0. Bennett James, Robert Burke Jubenville. Also, Gene Lawrimore, George Levkoff, Robert W. Powers, Robert E. Robertson, Gustavus E u g e n e Schwarting, Tom Scott and Thomas D. Wingard. Sherry Gomez, sophomore from Columbia, was selected Blue Key Darling. The honor is awarded annually to a Carolina coed on the basis of outstanding school spirit and over all attractiveness. Miss Gomez is a cheerleader and student senator. Treasurer of Chi Omega sorority, she is also a mem ber of Angel Flight and a hall counselor. Parkin Senate laid plans for a parking . building, student visitation pro- a gram and implementation of the Student Bill of Rights in a fast- f moving session Wednesday. E The parking proposal brought ii Executive P a r k i n g Committee Chairman Allen Thames before the e senators to outline the proposal t that a 500-space garage be built e Joan Baez P : To Speak 7 At USC : Folk singer Joan Baez, whose d anti-war activities have made head lines in recent months, will speak t at Carolina's Dlrayton Hall Thurs- 0 (lay at noon. r Miss Baez' talk is being spon sored( by the Student Religious As- ti sociation. O f fiei al1s of thet --Association saidl the 27-year old singer will probably speak on the i, Vietnam issue. The speech will be open to USC S studlents, faculty and staff only. ~ C Miss Baez, who recently married 1 former Stanford University stu (lent body presidlent andl draft-re- p sister Dave Harris, is scheduled to perform in a non-University spon- I soredi concert Wednesday at Town- s ship Auditorium. s Gregor, Hart In Pro Baske Carolina cagers Gary Greg been picked in the first round Association draft. The league announced Wedne cocks' 6-8 center-forward, had HTarlicka, All-ACC guard, was pi Gregor, rebounding star fr lected to the Look Magazine A District 313 this year. Harlicka, the seventh highe history, scored 480 points this 10 per cent of his shots, L*q sta Critter' Critter's latest litter of pu "eager eaters" as they gulp photographer. Critter is th adopted the family of USC last year. Plan P n the eastera corner of Pickens nd Pendleton streets. The garage would be financed rom profits from the Campus hop Book Store and normal park ig and traffic revenues. Other terms of the proposal in lude a petition to be distributed ) dormitory and geographical gov rnments to seek student support rith senators guaranteeing imple tentation of the plan to circulate etitions in their districts. Thames told the senators that arking demand will increase to ,150 spaces by 1970 - 2,150 of ,hich will be needed by resident tudents, 1,000 by faculty and taff and 4,000 by off-campus stu ents. The senators also considered bills push passage of the Student Bill f Rights by the faculty and ad iinistration. The first propcsal, submitted by 'e Senate Rules Committee, urges 3e student body presidlent to issue n appeal to the faculty and ad iinistrators for immediate action adlopting the Bill of Rights. A second proposal, authored by en. Bob Salane, requires that a ampus-widle referendum be in Iuuded on the spring elections bal at to dletermine campus-widle opin mn of the bill. The referendum rop.osal passed by acclamation. Senate President Pro Tempore Ion Koplen presentedl a bill on a tudent visitation program de ignedl to encourage participation icka Picked stball Draft or and Skip Harlicka have of the National Basketball sday that Gregor, the Game i been chosen by Phoenix. eked by the St. Louis Hawks. om West Virginia, was se .ll-America team for NCAA st scorer in USC basketball ieon, hitting on more than P Ff Photo by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway s Litter ppies prove to he a bunch of their milk for the Gamecock honey-colored mongrel that President Thomas F. Jones roposed in student government on a grass roots level. A bill on arbitrary grades, also authored by Sen. Koplen, was con sidered by the body. The proposal recommended curbing arbitrary grades in regard to legitimate class cuts. Run-Off Balloting The Student Union presidential election ended Wednesday with no candidate having the necessary ma jority for victory. A run-off was held yesterday be tween Ra Broaddus and Meg Mc. Carson to decide the 1968-69 Union leader. W h e n The Gamecock went to press, final results were not yet avail able. President Earle Blackmon said they would he posted in the Russell House. A total of 1931 students east their votes at the polls Wednesday. Broad duis led the race with 945 votes. Miss McCarson collected 512 votes, and Gene Dukes had 474. Four Contei Four Carolina men are in the race for the student body presi dency. Don Koplen, Clyde B. Living ston, Denny Royal and Tom Salane were officially declared president ial candidates by the Student Gov ernment Elections Committee at a meeting last Wednesday. Voters will select the 1968-69 leader in spring elections April 22. All four candidates are presently active in student government. Livingston is incumbent student senator from the Preston Dorm area, and Salane serves this semes ter as student body first secretary. Koplen, moderator of the regu lar Friday government-sponsored Speak-Outs, is now president pro tempore of Student Senate, and Royal, student body vice president, chairs weekly Senate meetings. Sixteen polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for the elec tion and again on April 26 for run-offs. Positions to be filled include stu (lent body officers, class officers, student senators, Academic Re spons:bility Committee and Disci pline Committee members, cheer leaders and May Queen. Qualified candidates may add the'r names to the ballot by peti tions s'gned by 25 students eligible to vote for the candidates. Petitions must be received by Elections Com mittee Chairman Charles Branden burg by noon Wednesday. Campaigning officially began after last Wednesday's meeting, but pcsters cannot appear until 5 p.m. April 16. Brandenburg stated that candidates for Aca demic Responsibility Committee and Discipline Committee could not use campaign materials. Nominees for student body of fices will speak April 19 in Room 302 Russel. House 7-10 p.m. Today is the deadline for sub mittirg pictures and biographies to The Gamecock for the elections issut. Ads must be paid in advance and may be placed 4-6 p.m. today only in Room 308 Russell House. Several candidates remain unop posed on the official slate. No nominations have been filed for the I rollowing Senate seats: Preston, Woodrow, Burney, Snowden; Fra ternity Row; University Terrace; Woodland Terrace and Carolina Gardens; off-campus business ad ministration; off-campus graduate chool; off-campus law school; off :amipus secretarial science; and foreign studlents. Running for on-campus Senate seats are: --Men's Towers (K, L, M, N): 1 Joe Bath, George Bronson, Fred 4'n StudeI d oi Magner, Ronnie Moody, Mark Sloan. -Maxcy-Thornwell-Coker: Dun can Williams. -Columbia Hall: John Clarke, David Roach, Jeff Rubin, Ken Shockley. -Capstone: Ann Cobb, Court ney Drury, Caroline Huggins, Kathy Knight, Carol Wallace, Lorraine Wolfe, Mary Wheeler. -South: Tracy Bennett, Karen Kresslov, Vicki Lee, Donna Mac Nicol, Margo Malanos, Pat Mays, Judy Muglia, Judy Pearce, Lynda Thorne. -South Tower: Marnie Clark son, Nan Felsberg. -Sims: Dee Crane. Contenders for off-campus Sen ate seats include: -Arts and Science: Carlton Larmon, Monty Macmillan, Ken neth Shull, Mike Spears. -Education and Journalism: Patricia Emens, Ann Gibbs. -Nursing and Pharmacy: Jim Klugh. Candidates for the five Senate at-Large seats are Judi Bihari, Kathy Hines, Mary Dozier Lee, Gamecoc, Backs Nc By MARY JANE BENSTON At. Managing Editor The Gamecock Party this week threw its support behind Tom Salane in the race for student body president. The four presidential candidates appeared before some 25 party members Wednesday night for en dorsement. Salane won their ap proval over opponents Don Koplen, Clyde Livingston and Denny Royal. Party members voted support of Pat Knie for vice president of the tudent body. Pat Traylor was endorsed for secretary. The party Monday night adopted i four-point platform calling for mplementation of the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, im )rovement of the academic environ nent, increased services for the itudent body and improved organi :ation for student government. The party advocated academic mprovement by "establishing a itudent-faculty dialogue on cur -iculum and course evaluation" and 'inaugurating a system for stu lent evaluation of the faculty and, ublication of the results." Student services favored by the~ group were "a grievance commit ee to receive, investigate and seek -emedies for all legitimate student it Nor r Pres Pete McCausland, Lu Moss, Joseph Pate and Suzanne Strange. Candidates for office include: -Student body vice president: Harold Kirtz and Pat Knie. -Student body secretary: Caro line Huggins, Jo Ann Kafka, and Mary Dozier Lee. -Student body treasurer: Barry Knobel. -University Committee on Dis cipline (one boy and one girl to be elected): Christie Corley, Patty Davis, Perrin Rollins, Bill Stubbs, Sally Zalkin. -Academic Responsibility Com mittee (two from each schei): Claudia Anderson and Patricia Phillips, School of Education; Ce celia Baker, nursing; Sarah Bry ant, pharmacy; Sarah Cain, Ken neth Shull, Becky Warren, arts and science; and Bob LeMond, business administration. -Senior class president: Tom Wingard. -Senior class vice president: Bob LeMond, Carole Bennett. -Senior class secretary: Court ney Drury, Frankie Gwinn, Jane Iverson. k Party >minees complaints, a r.gorous advocation of prompt action toward alleviating the severe parking problem and more student representation on fac ulty and University committees." The platform provided for "con stitutional reform in student judi cial affairs and intergovernmental relations" and "more student re sponsibility in the allocation of student activity fees." According to the platform the party will stress one basic concept in spring elections: "The effective ness of student government depends upon electing qualified personnel and seeking real, substantive power for the working of Student Gov ernment. Only in this way can worthy accomplishments be rea lized." Thursday night the party en dorsed a slate of class officers and Senate nominees. The Gamecock Party is a non partisan interest group. It was formed a year ago to "close the gulf between students and student government." Police Ent In Mariju By JOHN DA Staff i Five rooms in one of the mn marijuana Tuesday night. Dean of Men L. Eugene Co at his home about 9:30 p.m. May Queen Finalists Anne Stephens, Ronni Capici and Suzanne Oswald (left to right) were chosen finalists in last week's May Day Beauty Pageant. May Queen will be elected in stu dent body elections April 22 and will reign over May D ay festivities M ay 4. Twenty-e!ight coeds com-. peted in the annual Kappa S ig ma Kappa -sponsored SS urnnees ident -Senior class treasurer: Ann Cobb, Resel G o s n e 11 , Mary Wheeler. -Junior class president: Bob Albergotti. -Junior vice president: Butch Watson. -Junior secretary: Judi Bihari, Grace Chastain, Ann Coleman. -Junior treasurer: Sherry Gomez, Kitty Hiller, Kay Johnson. -Sophomore c l a s s president: Pete McCausland. -Sophomore v i c e president: Charles Clark, Cathy Hines, Karen Karr, Monty Macmillan, Michael Spears. -Sophomore secretary: Tracy Bennett, Jan Galbraith, Polly Har ritt, Tracy Timmons. -Sophomore treasurer: Marty Faris, Julianne Lewis, Judy Mug lia. Gambling Vetoed Carolina's card s h a r k s and wheeler-dealers may r e a u m e a conventional life once more. S t u d e n I Union's Las Vegas Night, an evening of games in the st le of the gambling capital of the United States, has been can celled for the second year. Student U n i o n was notified Wednesday that state officals were questioning the legality of the event, which was to be held tonight. After making inquiries at the office of State Attorney Cen. eral Daniel McLeod, the Special Events Committee was advised not to go through with the event be cause of legal difficulties. Donna Bilotta, chairman of the committee, stated that permission had been granted by President Thomas F. Jones to hold Las Vegas Night last year. Attorney General MelAod suggested that the Student Union should begin work with his office in hopes that the event can be held next year. Preparations for Las Vegas Night were nearly complete when the cancellation was made. Profits from Las Vegas Night had been earmarked for the Mar ried Students' Scholarship fund. er Rooms EIna Hunt VID SPADE Vriter en's towers were searched for per said he received a report that $50 worth of marijuana had been purchased. A counselor and a campus policeman made the search. Cooper said that no locked areas, such as closets or suit cases, were opened. "We check out each call we receive. This is the first time we haven't come up with any thing," said the dean of men. One student, placed on tempo rary suspension from the Univer sity on marijuana charges, ha. been reinstated. Three students received suspen sion for one year for printing bo gus meal cards to a restaurant near the honeycomb dorms. Two Carolina students went be fore the Discipline Committee Wed nesday on charges of sale and pos session of marijuana. One was sus pended for one year, and the other was required to move off campus. Six students were placed on pro batiora for a year and sent to study hall for three weeks for taking items from the field house after the fire. All the items bawe bee. rtu&rned.