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Faculty Power! Support Green Beetles Columbia,South_Caolina,_Fiday,_OcUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. LIX, No. 11 Columia, South C:arolina, F'ridauv, Oe,~tolm-r 18, 1968 ~)III(( 0 AWARE May Link With SDS By FRED MONK Staff Writer Members of the student organi zation AWARIE voted unanimously Wfednesday night to affiliate with the Students for a Democratic So The motion to affiliate wi'h the national liberal group was on the basis that SDS could help the campus organization obtain speak ers and give strength to its goals and ideas. For AWARE to affiliate with SDS, five students within the group must become members of the national SDS group. .lso proposed but not voted on was a motion to affiliate with the southern regional group of the SDS, Southern Students Organiz ing Committee. Members of AWARE felt there might be some "hassle" over the affiliation from the administra ton, but members said they felt the group had not overstepped tho boundaries of regulations for ,tu<ient organizations. Also passed was a proposal to set up a table Monday on the ground floor of the Russell House to pass out literature con cerning the group and subjec's it supports, and to recruit members. Other proposals included set ting up draft counseling services, anti looking into unfair Student rules. Officers were elected at the first part of the meeting. Ap p)roximately 25 people attended. Hold Political Poll A poll on the races for president and U. S. Senate is being conducted today on the first floor of Russell House. The poll is sponsored by the newly elected freshman class offi cers. Elections 4 Gets Distrit Student Senate unanimously ap proved Wednesday a bill empow ering the Elections Commission to create new voting districts. The bill, authored by Sen. Carl ton Larmon, states that the Com mission may "create new districts as dormitories are created in ac cordance with the Student Senate A pportionment Rules." All such districts would be sub 3 Charged In Robberies Three men have been bound over to General Sessions Court in connection with two armedl robberies of students Sunday night. According to George A. Key, supervisor of security, each of the three has been charged with two counts of armed robbery. Key saidi the men are free on $8,000 bond. Key identified the men as G;ordo)n A. Fredericks, P e t e r l)eski, and1 Michael Dillon. In addition, Key said Fred eric-ks was fined $100 or 30 days upon conviction of a s s a u 1 t. Fredericks was charged w i t h assaulting a Carolina student behind McKissick Library Sun day night. The robberies o ecu rr e(d at Henderson andl College streets, andl( behindl the law school buildI ing. No Carolina students were injured in the robberies. Key said two other men are being sought by police in con nlection with the incidents. According to Key, the other two men have been identified Bakc~V4 Tim Bice checks election r sell House this week to see balloting for Homecoming name of the winner will not b) Report O May Be B By DON CAUGHMAN Staff Writer A report on an incident last spring in which a crowd of Negro and white students was dispersed t)y use of tear gas is expected to be released next week. The report-prepared by a five man committee headed by George F. Buchanan, professor emeritusi in the School of Journalism-is under study by President Thomas F. Jones. According to Administrative Assistant Richard D. Elliott, .ommvssion ting Power ject to final approval by the Senate. The bill is designed to prevent controversies such as the recent one concerning voting rights for residents of the Roost. The Senate also approved the returns from Monday's election. Bills sent to committee included a resolution by Sen. D)avid Roach to prov'ide studlent p)arking facili ties in the Columbia Hall area and Sen. Fred Magner's proposal to initiate the use of voting machines in future student elections. Twenty-nine senators were at the meeting. Student By CA RL ST EPP Asst. Managing Editor A student needs to know where he stands. There is nearly unaninmous agreement at Carolina that this statement is true. But try putting it dlown on paper. On D)ec. 13, 19%7, Student Sen ate unanimously p)assed a Student Hill of Rights and Responsibilitie with in the Academic Community. The document was sent to the faculty. Nearly a year later, it is still there. Few persons have dloubted tha such a statement is neeed at Carol ina. Hut there is growlnr disagreement over how it should! be wordled. Monday the Faculty Advisor.3 Committee met to dliscuss the proposed bill of rights. It will meet a second time next Mondlay. But accordling to the committee chairman, D)r. Jan L. Boal, there is little chance the committee will report the hill to the full faculty until l)ecemher. Undercover sults in Rus- however, until who won in emerges from a queen. The coming pep rall e announced, 1 Tear Gas Leleased N4 the report will be released r4 "shortly after President Jones p returns" Tuesday from a con ference in Oklahoma. The committee, which includel s Prof. Webster Myers of the Law e School; Prof. E. L. McGowan of u the College of Husiness Adminis-I tration; Rev. Bob Alexander, as sociate chaplain of Wesley Foun dation, andi president of the Metropolitan Education Founda tion; andi Franchot Brown, law student and director of MEF, was' appointed by Jones shortly after the May 9 incident outside Rus sell House. Tear gas was used to disperse the students following the arrest of a Negro non-student on charges of disorderly conduct. Following the incident, a Uni versity spokesman said a cam pus policeman used the tear gas after judging that an onlooking crowd of jeering white and Negro students had become too unruly. The policeman was "assigned to duties not involving student con tact" until a full investigation could be made. According to a Negro student who witnessed the incident, an I argument starte'd in the Russell. House over "who was going to pay for a game of pool." "The thing was settled, but a wvhite boy there had a .38 pistod and some of the studlents called the camp~us p)olice, hut they ar Bill 01 Meanwhile, there is restlessness p among student government. e Student flody President Tomn l Salane says he does not feel the ti faculty is dleliberIatel y delaying consideration of the bill. Hut, he' said, "We've had car-e ful considerat ion of the state ment for a long time. Now I think it's about time to find out wvhether we're going to adlopt this one or not." "I don't think anyone is de- m! laying the statement," Hloal told The (Gameroctk Wednesday. "Bt' getting people together for an interchange of ideas seems to take time. It's a fairly lengthy process." I C'harles H1. Witten, vice presi- et (lent for studlent affairs, issued a b< statement Wednesday in which he satid the dlocument is "deficient st in that at least one place it goes in, into more dletail tYmn a Statement of Principle should. c "It also, in one pdace, is in con- wA flict with the Faculty Manuaj and in it must be mlade explicit that the rn , 4> Staff Photo by Chuck Keefe next Friday, when she giant football at the Home Y Incideni lxt Week sted a Negro and then th >lice used tear gas." The non-student was release tter that day on $1 o onl. -heduled hearing before a toc. iagistrate was postponed sever. mes in June. Rep. Albert Watson, eer by supporters in front of Wednesday before his addr< Le'adership Fraternity. TI congressmnan, who is oppos fRighi irt dealing with outside speak' s does not conflict with th oard of Trustees' regulation eI subject. "It also purports to be a talement of rights arnd re ponsibilit ies and although it ists many rights it doe's not ist corresponding responsibili ies." linealS sidi other criticisms of thI ake'up of a discipeline comm itte< I item he said was too detaile< A Newrs Analysis e' said the'SC' ecion violate's pres t provisions in the faculty hand >ok. Hloal sai dother criticisms of th atement involved vague word g. lHe sidu the present wordini ul lead to "a group of studen' ho wanted to cause trouble tak g some of the statements an nll'earnine Ujn the campus." 15 0 f In Fa By MARY JANI- HENSTON Managing Editor Fifteen students were, electted to office in the runoffs M onday. But fall elections still are not oVer. A special election in tihe Coll-g of A ts and Sc i-nC t Iay will d1--vidhe the race for freshman sen ator-at-large. M.\onday's r v s i I t s were protested by a non-candI iiate because a poll captain gave incor rect information to some voters at the Arts and Science poll. Off-campus freshmen enrolled in the College of Arts and Science may vote in the special hal: ,ting today in Currell College. The poll will be open from 9 to 5. Candi dates are .1uanita Atkerson, .1ano r Beach, Mary R. Cabell, Heather Cambell, Catherine Cameron and .Joe Usrv. Usry was elected president of the freshman class Monday in th runoff. Miss Cambell was elected vice president; Emma Livingston, secretary; andl Miss C a m e r o n, treasurer. Clyde Livingston won in runoffs for senator-at-large. Shellie- Clary, Steve Farley and Ron Miles were elected freshman senators-at-large from off-campus. Also elected to Senate seats were e Willian Smith, from Mon's Tow ers; Julianne Still, from South; i and Margaret Brown from the A Law School. d The 1968 Homecoming Queen, d also elected Monday, will not he announced until next Friday night A rp 04 ATSON Stai Signs Of Support iter, is greeted Franik Sloan Russell House congressional 'ss to Blue Kev the leadlershi lie Repulican tionlists." dI by Democrat Ls - The major conflict over t he estaltemenit, however,x a Iparis to be n the <quest ion of responisib'ilit ies. "If it's deficient in anything, it's deficient in sI-ellinig ont re sponsibilit ies," Iloal said. lGoth lioal and Witten recoin mended ad opition of a st atement imiila r to one r-ecent ly audopted at William aind Mlary. "'In the event that it i.s de.cide4 0 adopt a statemnent that is unique' for this inst itit ion, I would recomm nend that a jo in t studi ent faculty a<imninist ration committee he1 appointed to produtce a doci mnent similar to that published a the (College' of W illiam and Ma ry,'' Witten said. It sets dlown~ rights, re'sponsi h iilit ies and im plement at ion pro c-edures for eac-h sec'tion. Salane, however, took issue with this point. The William and Mary docu ment, he said, was written by s the administration, t hen lpre -sented to students. d"We don't want that. This is if g ficesI 11 Ele ait the pep rally. fr Results fif t<,qlay's special vlee- vI tion will be pf'sted in the Russell H1use loiby by ;::0 p.m. and an- Inu n.ounced over W*('. Or Eleet ions C(rission Chairman TI SIke TIhoMIas Ca1lled the special a elect Iin Wednesday aft.-r l'arning 1)' t hi pwil captain a ( urrall ha d in s crrctly t'ld s ni eoff-campius en1 H onecomin g Concert Recorling artist Chuck Jackson will hw joinel by Yvonne Fair and the Proph. ets at a flance next Frilav night at Township Audi torium. The (lance will fol low a lomecoming 1wp rally and will he a prelude to Sat urday's 11oneconing parade, USC-Florida State game, an Impressions concert. T h e dance and concert will 1w free to Carolina students, but tickets must he reserved bw ginning Monday at the Rus sell House information desk. Tickets for non-student dates are available for $1.50. Watson Ci< 'Responsibl Rep. Albert Watson challenged of students Wedn-sday to "seize the leadership from the small minority S1 te fc ot n t" ai til f Photo by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway w 01 rv in this year's 6th District te race, tohl1 studlenfts to "seize P p)" fronm "militant insurrec- te fe el ti g(ew Ap~ with students," Salane said. lie said some responsibilities in ne he Willijam andI la ry hillI borderti on the tivial, inclutding the stu- ei (lent's " respons ibility"' to not ify fa the school if he will attend and I the student's "responsibil ity"'' en academic performance in the T1 cassr'oom. st "I think the st atement we have atI now is an excellent dlocunment,"' he w said. "'I think respomnsibil itijes are et implied andl are hunderstoodl.b "We've had the responsibilitiesti for so long that I think it's time~ we got the rights. Tlhe rules and regulations set dlown enough re r spnibltes now." Salane said the overriding re sponsibility of each student ag should be to exercise his rights di with resi-ect to others. nm "Every right carries with it a a concomit.ant responsibil ity~-to oh-M serve the rights of everybody else. "BIut if every right should have d< a responsibility, then every re- p< sp)onsibility should have a right. Si Where are the rights in the rules s nnd regulntins?9" i Fill ed lions shmian voters they could not t, for freshman senator-at-large. Thfpmas said the incorrect infor ition was given out from approx at.ly 9 to 9 n:U n a.m. Monday. Iw situation was corrected %when sIudent senator informed the il captain of his mistake, "but mte %4ptvs may have been influ v-d." Thomas said. V1,, lienges !' Youth militant insurrectionists who are nt on destroying the educational stem as well as the democratic ocesses in America." Speaking to the Blue Key Lead ship Fraternity, W a t s o n also id, "The youth of today are bet r educated and better equipped r tomorrow's challenges than any her generation, but as we wit -ss the irresponsible actions on e part of s o m e students, the ,ople are justified in asking why e have not heard more from our sponsible young people." Watbon added, "Of course there -e imperfections in our educa -nal system as well as our free terprise system, but our chal nge is to improve these systems ther than attempt to destroy em. "After all, we should never burn wn the barn in order to kill a w rats!" Watson said every generation as guilty of "protest and un thodox conduct,'' but he saidl the dier generation dIidi not attempl~t deny persons the right to ex - 'ess t heir opinions and didtn 't seek "dirivye the teacher from the assroo'm nor lock the audministran in fro m its o ffie. roach? Salane also contended the hill eis no sections on implementa mn. If it is a statement of prin pile, he said, why is there need r implementation ? At present, the bill is under culty' committee considleration. te group can recommend the atement favorably or tinfavor ily, or recommend that it be re ritten by a new committee. The rrnent dcwument was written -a student faculty-administra in groupi. .At any rate, Hoal said, "We're tot at any place niear being cady to make a decision on our recommendation." The big question is whether one proach will he acceptable. Sto int Goenmn favors the dotcu ent as it now standls. Witten id Boal favor the William and ary approach. The committee will hear stu 'nt opinions Monday. At this >int, however, a decision on the :udent Bill of Rights and Re onsibilities cannot be expected