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Get Your Garnet and Black Before Friday UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. HX9 No. 4 Columbia, South Carolina, September 24, 1968 Fouded Lettermen, Rascals To Appear The Four Seasons, Four Tops, Young Rascals and Lettermen will be among the headliners of this year's Student Union c o n c e r t series. Homecoming weekend will fea ture Chuck Jackson, Yvonne Fair, and the Prophets for a (lance Oct. 25 and the Impressions the follow ing night. The Four Seasons will provide i*,tertainment at t h e Midwinter concert Nov. 14 at Township Au ditorium. The first concert in the new Carolina Coliseum will be Dec. 6. when the Four Tops and the King Curtis Orchestra perform. Anthony and the Imperials will be at the coliseum Dec.'13 and the Glenn Miller Orchestra will per form for a Dec. 14 (lance as part of Christmas weekend. A coliseum concert Feb. 14 will feature the Rascals. The Lettermen, here March 28, and Marvin Gaye and the O'Jays the following night, will highlight Spring Weekend activities. There will be a jazz festival on the Russell House patio May 2 and Count Basie and Orchestra will perform at the National Guard Armory for a (lance May :3. In addition, the Student Union Artist Series will bring several noted1 personalities to campus, in cluding the Fiesta Mexicana on Oct. 4 and Othello on Nov. 15. First Negroes Quiet Ch BY CARL STEPP Ast. Managing Editor Quietly and with no apparent problems or fanfare, a change has taken place in t h e University's faculty. For the first time in modern history, Negro instructors have at tained faculty status. Four years ago, perhaps, when the first Negro students enrolled in the University, an integrated fac ulty might have been accompanied by publicity and controversy. But this year it has been differ ent. Interviews with administrators and a Negro instructor indicated this week that the move has gone virtually unnoticed. Registr IIY LINDA JO MANGULM AND) (CANDY SILVER Staff Writers University officials feel t h a t registraotion this year was an im provemnent over the p)ast, but they are looking for ways to make it ev'en smoother. "If it went better this time," said D)r. Rollin Godlfrey, director of admissions and registration, "it may he because we had better dis tribution of cour'ses in the master sc hed ule.'" "We will never stop looking for w'ays in which the computer can helpI us," he adldedl. Go~dfrey said the University's at tention was focused on avoidIing schleduole conflicts for students, who in the past have sometimes found several required courses be ing offered at the same time. Although the staff workedl night aind (lay preparing for the regis tration process, there were some problems. As usual, Godfrey saidl, a major one concernedl the "controlled re lease" system of distributing cardl packets according to a special reg istrat ion number. The system led to attemp)ts to "heat the rush" by studlents who broke into line. (;odfr'ey saidl many students re (luested their cards oerl beausen MembersUs ofthr Sree CITY a sign Saturday protesting inclui the East Glenco Urban Renewal church would be usedi for futur, Rev. Murray Yarborough, pastor churches and indiVidUals, inclui USC Students, have offered to he 7nge Takes Thle news, in fact, appears not" to be that the faculty is integrated, Of but that nobody really noticed. r a Tho One h i g hi level administrator suit said he did not know what to ex- shao tent the faculty was integrated and until informed by a reporter. Each 'I leap A News Analysis ju"" Ger fiec of o person interviewed said e had Tr encountered no problems over the ng Move. is Negroes -- as graduate assist- app ants-have taught in the classroom In he ews,e But fact apers tim,sa Neoes havte faculty rakingaed che oft taiou peobdy reasoticesu.t troa ne ing lemel ortheistraton suIt stad hichd tow watno to densh mnysuc ifredqu eporer.Eahdis Acodn New Andre,lysis - ys eitraion, acodin he una, ncials,e( wno prolem moothl thig nthaveth in the cl Ieasroo In1 Negome hong fltye ankig deay,heu iwhnoe, tiegifortion registaialn to pleasuAre thY suet oi iT.. SCH~ to by Chief Photographer Chip Gallowa) Plea Methodist Church put up 3ion of their property in Project. The site of the e USC construction. The of the church, said other rling non-Methodists and lp fight the proposal. Place I We hire persons on the basis competence without regard to :e, color or creed," President mas F. Jones said. "As a re , we have people of m a n y les of skin from many lands of many religions." o Jones, the Negroes are "col ues . . . part of the team." [iss Ann Gilley, a Negro ad 't instructor in the School of eral Studies, said she is satis and happy with a "challenge" beaching at Carolina. here are two Negroes, includ an instructor and an adjunct ructor, who are a part of the roximately 600-member faculty. iddition, there is a Negro re ch associate who will teach nistry. provei led release procedure was usedl >reve'nt a massive rush of stu s to (leans' stations andI card1 ribution poinlts. He said the emil is usedI at most colleges. Sure He's in 'I ersity of. mjlteer schedi semuester smoothly. In ere were committee wi I on the cedure and te ~xpressed tration. iwed the Rey no First Stuart Reynolds, appointed this spring as student government Sec retary for Academic Affairs, has been elevated to the First Secre tary's position by Student Body President Tom Salane. Reynolds' appointment c a m e after Dick Goldie, who was ap pointed First Secretary in May, resigned this month. Reynolds' appointment is sub ject to approval by Student Sen ate. Salane has not announced a suc cessor to Reynolds as academic affairs secretary. Reynolds said this week that one of student government's pri mary goals this semester will be to implement the student bill of r i g h t s and responsibilities. The statement is being considered by a faculty advisory committee headed by Dr. Glen Abernathy. "We feel it's important t h a t these things be outlined and that the student know where he stands," Reynolds said. He said the student, now be ginning to feel like a number, should be made to feel "more than just a cog in a machine. He should know he has certain rights, privi leges andi responsibilities." Student government a I s o will pursue its plans for an ombuds man to receive and consider stu (lent grievances, Reynolds said. q Faculty But, according to those persons interviewed, race has not been a factor in the hiring or treatment of the Negro faculty members. "We want the best people we can get," said H. Willard Davis, vice president for academic affairs. The grounds for hiring is compe tence, not race, he added. Miss Gilley said she felt her hir ing was not for racial reasons, but for her qualifications. So, judging from the interviews this week, the integration of Caro lina's faculty has come smoothly, I naturally, and with no difficulties. The news, then, seems to be that there is "no news." Apparently, it is "the team," not the color, that counts. nent Ov Glenn Oerton, associate director ofamsions a n d registration, said the majority of students went through the "ordeal" in accordl ance with the master schedlule. staff Photo by Chuck Keefer here?' ale and that the process went a few weeks, the registration lI meet to evaluate the pro make plana for snring es-. ids N ecretd Another m a j o r emphasis this year is expected to he the student government's "Great Issues" series. According to Salane, student government hopes to bring to cam pus newsmakers of national prom inence to discuss "great issues." S t u d e n t government officials have contacted the Washington of fices of numerous senators and h a v e received "encouraging re Student 'Checks 'Check Pc Thefts Of BY KAREN SFRRATr Staff Writer According to a highly reliable source, Carolina students may now find themselves under surveillance by a "Security Check Point." However, as cloak-and-dagger as the term may sound, the name of 1 the game is-.\McKissick Library. Trhe highly reliabletource is Di er Past' The registration e o m m it t e e, wvhich operated undler lDean Rufus Fellers of the College of Engineer ing and (drew up the registration procedure, will meet w i t h i n a month to evaluate the system. The committee is expected to ('onsult (leans, university officials, and studlent governmen,t in an ef fort to improve the system for the spring. Overton saidl the committee had not dlecidled what part the comp)uter will play in registration for next semester. This semester all 2,3t94 freshmen were registeredl by the computer. According to T. L. Gunter, di rector of data processing, the com p)uter was programmed to balance students' schedules by giving them ap)proximately the same amount of class time each dlay. Information was col leet.ed from readly-madle cards instead of stu dent-madle scan sheets, which were used last year. Gunter saidl the scheduling went more rapidly this year than in the p)ast, with the faculty receiving rolls Wednesday. One mn a j o r problem occurred when the naval science dlrill ses sion was not'included in the pro gramming. Hut it wvas straightened out (during the first day of classes, Gunter ai tmed iry sponses" from several, Reynolds said. Also in the plans is a "little great issues" program, w h i c h would involve South Carolina poli ticians. Tentatively scheduled is a program which would bring Sen. Ernest Hollings, Cong. Albert Wat son, Marshall Parker, Frank Sloan, Crosby Lewis and Harry Dent to gether for a discussion. Staff Photo by Mike Tyler Out' Of Library int' Tries Library I rect(r (if Libraries K. 1. Totombs, whoq) describes tht- puIpose of the secuity m t a s u r e as protecting I South) Car na's most valuable man-mado- asset," the McKissick I brary collection. The check point consists of two counters placed in the foyers of thme lhbrary. The desks are manned by guards who search materials carried out by the hhilrary's patrons to make certain all h brary- materi al has been checked at the inner desk. In add Iito>n to packages of bot oks, cotntainers such as btriefcase's and large purses are subjiect to exam inat ion. Besides guarding against loss of rmaterials, t h e guarded tnt rane will provide greater security for persons inlside andl aroun(l the li btrary' at night, especially' those on diuty, Toombls said. Another benefit will be the opportunity to reax formal secu:rity' measures inside thet library, allowing more freedom for browsing and research. University Scholarsh i An ambitious educational pro gram w'ill begin here next spring when at least eight Carolina Schmol ars will be named. They will be the first recipients of a grant instigated by the USC E'ducational Foundation. Each stta dent selected will receive $5,000 forti ftur years at Carolina. The program will be funded by contributions from indlividuals, cor porat ions and biusinesses. Awards will be b)asetd not on need b)ut on the students' accomplishments and p)otential for leadership and aca dlemic achievement. Elections Scheduled For Oct. 7 Fall semester general elections will be held Oct. 7, Elections Com mittee Charnan Mke Thomas an niiunc#,o this* week. Freshmen w , e elected to four class officrfs and (ght senate seats. The '10 Hoim-coming Queen will bc et-ted by the student body, and additional senate seats will be up for grabs. Nominations for all offices will be accepti-d Monday b-etw-en I and 5 p.m. on the Russell House Patio. Late nominations must be sub nitted to the Elections Committee in the Studont Government office by 5 p.m. Tuesday. A late nomina tion must be made in the form of a petition signed by at least 25 stu dents. All candidates will he required to attend a meeting (>ct. 2 in the Russell House fromn 4 to 5 p.m. Elections rules will be explained at the compulsory meeting, Thomas said. Campaign posters may not be put up until 5 p.m., Oct. 2. The polls will open at several points on campus at 9 a.m., Oct. 7. They will close at 5 p.m. Polls w:ih open again Oct. 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for runoff elec t:ons balloting. The freshman class president, vice president, secretary and treas urer will be elected. Freshmen will also choose three senators at large, three senators at large from off campus and two senators at large from Men's Towers. Other senate seats, which have become vacant since spring elec tions, will be filled by the upcom ing voting, Thomas said. iffice qualifications and general election polling places will be an nt)unced in the ntxt :ssue of The 1; wm, r,ck. To Curb %laterials Tombis said that the cheek point is "not specif:cally for the purpose of appriehending thleves," but that it will allow for no doubt as to a patrun's "forgetting" to check out mat*-rials. While the security check point has been installed in only McKis sick .ibirary, another innovation will affect all libraries on campus. T' :s is the change from. the D ewey D'cimial Classification System to the library of ('ongress System. 1so ks wi: he classifiedi by letters with numbc red subdiiivisions, as oippo(sed to the all -number Dewey Sys.tem. The new system, more expand able than the D)ewey System, has beciome niecessary for the approxi mately 6,0i,000 voilumes in the uni versity libraries, T ci o m b) s ex plaineid. Guide sheets have been posted in the li bra ries. and hand boiiks explaining the Library of Congress System are being pre paredl. To Launch SProgram The number of annual awards will depend on funds available and on the number of students who can meet the qualifications. A gift of $25,000 to the Caro lina Scholars Program will endow the program, and donors may par ticipate by contributing $1,250 a year. Persons can also become con tribut ing s p o n s o r a by donating from $250 to $1,250. Carolina Scholars will be se lected by a panel representing the university and the community. The first awards will be niade next spring, and at least eight scholars are expected next fall.