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Meet nThe Gamecocks WELCOME Monday at 8 p. m.eSH E On Field A UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. IX, No. 1 Columlyia, South Carolina, September 13, 1968 Founded 1908 Al Hundreds and hundreds of text must be unipacked and shelved to book-buying students who mob the pus Shop at the beginning of eac Universit Over 2,0( By MONA GAULT message News Editor F. Jone l)r. D More than 2,000 high school of o 4 graduates became college students Univers: this week and (luring the summer summer as orientation was conducted on future. the Carolina campus. Entering freshmen were im- counsel mediately drawn into the whirl- orienta wind of campus activity with e% ident counseling and testing sessions, session academic advisement and regis- tation tration, orientation lectures and progra tours, and bull sessions with stu- For t dent counselors. particip. Among the freshmen who will cussionm begin classes Wednesday are Univers 925 who participated in USC's bureau first summer orientation pro- counsel< gram. Seven two-day sessions in info for entering freshmen were held "We beginning in mid-July and end- students ing in mid-August. from th Activities during summer orien- the stu tation closely paralled those of own det fall orientation, including advise- consequ, ment and registration. on the tiink t1 second day of each session parents universi .of freshmen at tendled a special chaplani luncheon, viewed a vid eotaped I \ lye Carolina Si Pay Highei C arol ina students are paying pay $5 20or $70 more in fees th i- Thes< ciemester. d hitd South Carol ina residetts l ar . h"rd, facing $20 increase, antd non-resi neident det,a $70 increase. wvith I Additional revenue from thec increases wvill be usedl to cover modest salary increases for mem ber.; of the University faculty and staff. 'The increases were approved in .June by tihe Board of Tfrustees. USC President Tfhomas F. Jones said the dlecision was made by the Hoard of Trustees "with great re Suct ance.'" "1 lowveVr," Jones conliftiedl, "the Unliversity' of South Carolina mulst ma inta in a reasonably com let it ive posture among the na i"n's other colleges and universi-I I' withl regard to faculty and( -Jones e'xplalinled that the Uni rst had received an appropria ii from the State Legislature rthe coming year that was .considierabily under what we i4''requestedl and what we felt I'nde r the new schedule of stu - I'nt fees, regular res id ent st u-' bits will pay $2.() a semester, new Photo by John H. MeGrall FBooked Up books mester. It's a long, hard job, and it's being await done, above, by (from left) Henry T. Os. Cam. borne, Sonny Rushing and Thomas Hick. ,h se. Ian. y Welcomes )0 Freshmen from President Thomas a generation gap if we continue i and toured the campus. this sort of thing." )nald A. Swanson, director Al freshmen were administered tation, explained that the reading skills tests and vocational ty expects to emphasize interest inventories. orientation more in the This week Student Union treated freshmen to free bil Swanson and the student lirds, table tennis, cards, chess ors involved in summer and checkers on Tuesday. Sev tion commented on the eral hundred freshmen found success of campus value time between scheduled activi s, an innovation to orien- ties to attend a coffee house begun during the summer Tuesday night at the Baptist m. Student Union. he first time all freshmen A town students' mixer Thurs ated in small group dis- (ay night was followed by the of campus values led by first blanket concert on the ity chaplains, counseling Horsshoe with folksinger Brian staff members and student Carney performing. >rs. Discussions were held Those participating in fall or mal settings. entation will pick up class sched laid out the issues that ules at the Science Annex Satur will be confronted with day. Freshmen who attended v standpoint that it's up to summer orientation will comple e lent himself to make his registration Ionfay. tisions, seing awaste of the rnees," Swanson said sle a v i C stliests began to iinvt ent s Ths e Students Unio t l stiff membab enni -eral hundred f found% - ieeto attend at coffent thouse U E II?1l Tueda nh a theBatisto Stu ent 21nion.bliC( * ~ A IKt o utuens me wills dagenits behin thloed bysel the I()a semestir.t btaket cnber on he figues iwhie Ll~ Hor)seniore withaflkasieBria nclde oom andTckes poarticiatin in fall. o boos, :tudryandotentatio s will pceiss s c a~ epenes ssoiatday.ln5l~y arsmnd wh tendedi nivrsitsummee.oTietti wilbailabomle te Raios,innggwreofth flnee, Swanton sid. "Welig i h os CIi)4 s asItitI huma bings.. hosig . r iihd F lnn avidanoherresiemme tikets forl fue amet s by l Upper Beginm By CARL STEPP Asst. Managing Editor More students than ever before vill begin registering Monday for lasses at Carolina. Xey to the procedure will be a our-digit "registration number" Sorority Rush Starts Fall sorority rush will begin 3aturday. Coeds may sign up for rush in he Russell House today or Satur lay. The Panhellenic coke par'y vill be Saturday at 6 p.m. in ,apstone's Campus Room. At .endance is required of all stu lents who will go out for rush. All sorority women will mee' n the Russell House Assembly Room at 11 a.m. Saturday. Scheduled events for rush week nclude ice water teas Sunday !rom 2 to 4:30 p.m. and Monday rom 4 to 6 p.m. Sororities will have skit parties Tuesday from 4 to 7:30 p.m., Wed iesday from 5 to 8:30 p.m. and rhursday from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Last Night parties will be 5 to 3:15 p.m. Sept. 20. Rushees will receive bids Sept. 21 between 2 ind 4 p.m. Further information will be iven at the coke party Saturday. Rushees will receive rush booklets ind rush rules. They will learn .vhich group they are in and what iororities they will visit during he ice water teas and parties and .he proper dress for each event. school clothes are appropriate or the coke party, according to Panhellenic C o u n c i 1 President Karen Russell. To be eligible for sorority rush, reshmen and transfer students 'nust have made a total of 960 or uore on the Scholastic Aptitude rest. Continuing students must lave taken at least twelve hours nd achieved a GPR of 2.25 or )etter the previous semester. Receive ts, Coupons ts to the USC-Duke football next week. pon book for use in securing b)e available from Pinkerton~ se cafeteria. ird must be Presented before and law students can secure 5 p.m. kets Tuesday, sophomores tradlay. all classes Friday. 'he Roost Nov. 15, according to Roiw S. Marion ,treetsanre n)rimIaril class MIOfl( for each student. The first two digits are the year the student entered Carolina, and the other two are the last two digits of his social security number. For example, the registration number for a student who entered USC in 1966 and whose social security number ends with 25, would he 6625. MATERIALS Registration materials for con tinuing and readmitted students will be picked up beginning Mon day at 8:30 a.m. at the Science Annex. The time a student may nd outhier f mnately 330 mteni will ccupy~ are comipleted next year-. lTh stone( of the U niversity'. SoutI University Offer Ente A fall slate oIf >ocial artlix itie 'mi entert aintment i> plannedl for the opening dlays of fall stfeet. T[he movie "liehel \\i hout .\ (au>e" will be shown totday in the Stiff Photo by Chuck Keefer rson (onistruction Co. Vice e new dorms~ at IIleywardl and v for. atetenis t Regist lay M( obtain the material will depend on his registration number. Law students will obtain ma terials at Petigru College and graduate students may pick up data in Room 102 of the Physical Scicnee Center, beginning at 9 a.m. Monday. The procedure is begun by ob taining card packets and registra tion information. Students will then fill out the cards and consult with farulty advisers for schedule apjpr(oval. They next will obtain a card for each course. Cour cards will be available at locations - 4 Staff Photo by Chuck Keefer 'ewr Dormti tile inau itt lpus. :App1roi the new builings whien they I' comuplex will be the cornier hi Camlpus. Groups rtamnment 2, ; an p.m. Ac chaplains' di eu ion of the mnos ie wVill f..l the ; Ib.m. shoingi in lNom 'i oiT The Gob'lieni Spur opens in it nlew locat in, the fm-mer- Confd erate Room, Russell IIlouse, Satur (lay night at 7. The movie "Shenandoah" will be shown Sat urday night in Russell House. Campus religious centers will hold open house and worship ser vices Sunday morning. Student Union is sponsoring a free in formal supper at 5:30 p.m. at R. G. Bell Camp, to be followe by a concert at 8 p.m. The V'int age Brew will perform. The Gamecock football tearr will demonstrate offensive and deC fensive plays Monday at 8 p.m on Field A. The band will als< p)erform. The movie "The Music Man' will be shown Mondlay in Russel House. The C'atalinas wvill provid< music for an orient at ion mnix.r t< be held on the Russell Hlousi pa to nluesdlay night from 8 t< 11:30. In case of rain the conceri will be mon-et to South Cnfeterint ration 0 >rnng specified in the registraticn sched ule. Students then are to obtain their dean's signature, at which time some registration cards will be collected. The remaining cards will be turned in at the naval armory where fees will be paid. Classes begin Wednesday. DROP-ADD Forms for dropping and adding Courses may be obtained begin fling Wednesday from the office of admissions and registration. The final (lay for schedule changes is Saturday, Sept. 21, and Oct. 30 is the last (lay to drop a course without penalty. Some 2,200 students--incoming freshmen-are completing their re-istration this week. But for nearly 10,000 others, the process gets underway Monday. "Our biggest problem," accord ing to E. Glenn Overton, associate director of admissions and regis tration, "is that everybody tries to register first without respect to schedules and without respect t- each other. SCHEDULE If students would follow the schedule, they wouldn't have so many lines," Overton said. iEDILE FOR OnTATNING REGIS IltATION 31ATERLIALs AT S( lENCE AN N :: Ieg Ist Iatilon li iintbr bLOwm 61 10. after S il) a Im 'lond:ay ; (100-62*9. after 9 a im, : -300-C3. . after 9 .30 : 6400-0 i 11, aftt i 1I : G .110 -0 19.) 10 :30 ; 6500-6521, 11 C525-5 19. : n 0-574, : aIoon. Al,o. a575-6.'9 after 12 30 p.m.; 6.00 01 . 1 :30 1 n ; (625-619, 2 :30; 0;50 1i; 4 3 .30 : t; 37i-o 9. 4 :30. A (. 6700-0721. nfter 30 n.vi Tue d:, : ;725-4719. '1. : 17-0-0774. 10:3(j; 677'>- ;I. 11.3 0 n l t-100 and above, 15,000 Students Expected Carolina will begin the fall se 1eter with the la Igest number of students in it- 17-year history. Univor-i-.y officials are predict ing an cinriollment of some 15,000 student, inou16ing more than 12,61(1 n the imin imispu in Co lumbhia. The remiing :,000 are exPeted at the scho l's regional .iu-vs. Inc(K ; iid w b the largest frohmn els, <e!, tota.ling I p f l , 1 2 11 Ci e t ien !1.19 them : tthe C -i There w,r- ',lt frime h in4i in four-ea proT lgrams lielpi Wanted new and c'1ntinu:nlg studenfts to a dropel in todayi, in the Gamecock office. Tio (;1. 0 Ce;e.* Is s arch;i ng for newv starf menmbers. This y. e a r ther~e will he nearly twi;ce as many issues * of 1 S("'s st uden t newspaper as hlforie'. TII (;onH rocl will ailppear lTuesdayis as well as Fiday\s. Gr'w ing activities h a v e c reaitedI a growing need for * nterested writers, advertis I; cuIa tion workers. If you think you'd like to help us serve the Carolina Comm1liunity,. come to Russell lliouse Room 808 bietwveen 3 and' )> p.m., have something to ea and talk with; members oif the staff. We hope you'll w a n t to