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Your Life Yepends 64e%W D endsUndermine Potential UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol LM No. 12 Columbia, South Carolina, Tuesday, October 22, 1968 Fnnd' Post-6 The Impressions, pop si will entertain at a post-game, (lay, sponsored by Student Homecoming event will be Auditorium. Tickets for stu( Hamilton As Featu fy STANLEY HENSLEY Staff Writer lr. Charles V. Hamilton, politi cal scientist and adviser to civil rights organizations, will speak here Monday in connection wi'h ilack Week. Hamilton, who is chairman of the department of political science at Roosevelt University, will be the featured speaker at a con vocation in Drayton Hall at 7:30 p.m. and will discuss "Black Power: An Alternative to Vio SCOWjrp ItTh R By NANCII QUESTION: Why don't any e dow screens? ANSWER: Harold Brunton, v fairs, said there should be open since all new dorms w~ heated and air conditioned. is harmful to the systems. QUESTION: How long will 4 dormitory? ANSWER: According to Harol for Columbia Hall when th years ago were to retain it its third year of operatior been made for the future said, however, that the situ QUESTION: Following gradui join the Peace Corps. Will activity satisfy my military ANSWER: No. Persons who< tions may receive occupat ferments will delay militar them. Military obligations reserve affiliations or actis QUESTION: Why were tickets of.-the Homecoming game? advance presented pr'blem or definite plans. ANSWER: There were two i sued early, according to R of the athletic department ment wanted to leave tim to take non-student dates t tickets. Secondly, the athie early with the intention of to th. public. ,ame Entertah nging group, but must he rf moneert Satur- sell House inf Union. The non-student d at Township 81.50. lent8 are free To SpeaZ re Of BI lence." The public is invited. His appearance will be one of the highlightAs of Black Week, planned for Oct. 28 to Nov. 2. The Association of Afro-American students is sponsoring the week. Hamilton's visit is being spon sored by the Visiing Scholars Program. A study group Sunday night will kick off Black Week, accord ing to Thomas Richardson, pub licity director for the event. Speakers, panel (liscussions and S tsI I MEDDIN f the newer dorms have win ice president for business af no need to keep the windows ere designed to be completely Keeping them open, he said, t jolumbia Hall be used as a r d Brunton, the original plans t e University acquired it four ' for four years. It is now in and no specific plans have of the dormitory. Brunton tion is "under active study." tion from college, I plan to two years of duty with that obligations? ~ngage in Peace Corps opera onal deferments. These de y obligations but not satisfy nay be satisfied only through e duty. issued two weeks in advance Acquiring tickets so far in i for students without dates easons for tickets being is ay Faircloth, ticket manager First, the athletic depart e for students who planned o the game to purchase date ic department issued tickets slling the remaining tickets iment served this week at the Rus ormation desk. Tickets for ates can he reserved for Monday rck Week displays have been tentatively scheduled, Fiehardson said. A display of African art, bor rowed from the Columbia Museum of Art, will be shown in Russell House (luring the week. Dr. Hamilton has been a par ticipant and adviser in civil rights organizations in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois and Pennsyl vania. A noted author, many of his articles concern Southern judges and Negro voting rights, the constitutional status of "Col ored Youth" provisions in Negro college charters, and political solutions for race and morality. In 1967 he co-authored with Stokely Carmichael, the widely discussed book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, published by Random House. He ilso has two books in the making, rhe Politics of Civil Rights to be ,ublished in 1968, and Negro Poli ;ics and Political Modernization to )e published in 1969. Dr. Hamilton will have a full ichedule Monday. From 9 until 11 ic will participate in class ses ions on constitutional law and imerican government. At 12:30 ie will be at the Baptist Student 1 lenter for a student and faculty uncheon and informal (discussion. He will make an appearance on TV from 1:45 until 2:30 and will articipate in a seminar for fac-t ilty and studlents in Room 302 oft he Russell House at 2:45. Dr. ohn McConaughy will be the moderator for the event. He will complete his visit withi he convocation at Drayton Hall 1 the evening. tl b b k Sneuaer 19681F To Be By SUSAN ROSS ti< Staff Writer th pr To the theme of "Up, Up and kway," Carolina Homecoming ac- Ri ;ivities will got under way Fri- B lay. br The theme will be carried out th with a parade and with halftime al alt :eremonies during the Carolina- H Florida State game Saturday. The Homecoming pep rally, set n ror 6 p.m. Friday on Intramural 0 Field A, will feature a bonfire, a x Ziant football from which the i Homecoming queen will emerge, and a huge Seminole Indian- H ;ymbol of Florida State. th The Homecoming queen will ar or be presented for the first time pr at the rally. In atteadance will be Go%. Rub- d ert McNair, President Thomas F. th Jones, Coac, Paul Dietzel, and A. at Crawford Clarkson Jr., president i of the Alumni Association. The public is welcome at the ar rally. Students are encouraged to eh bring signs to be thrown on the bonfire at the conclusion of the e rally. fr Student Union will present Chuck Jackson and Yvonne i , Fair, along with the Prophets, p. at a dance at Township Audi- uF torium at 8 p.m. Friday. - D,dication of the new Univer sity Museum in the War Memo rial Building will open festivities Saturday. In the ceremony, beginning at 10:30, the Baruch silver collec tion and the Howard gem collec ACP Rates Gamecock All-American The Gamecock has received its f i f t h consecutive All-American rating from the Associated Col legiate Press. The award was based on spring semester issues. ACP judges college newspapers rrom throughout the nation in 1as.ifications based on school en -ollment, methods of publication md frequency of issue. An All American rating, highest awarded >y ACP, placed The Gamecock imong the top weeklies at col-I eges with over 4,000 studen's. This semester, for the first time, rhe Gamecock will be in competi ion with papers published two or hree times weekly at colleges of all sizes. Carol Mullinax was edlitor- in - hief last spring. She graduatei ni June andi is a student at the ledlical College of South Carolint t Charleston. By JIM WANNAMAKER tei News Editor Sp Lawrence Speiser, dlirector of gre le Washington national office of col 1e A m er iea n Civil Liberties coi Tnion (ACLU), outlined here 4 'hursday the difference between sei ublic impressions of law and sai rdler and actual justice. rai Scheduled speaker John Pemt- 50 er-ton, national ACL~U executive ani ocretary, was unable to speak ecause of a death in his family. c< he meeting was sponsoredl by til te state ACLU affiliate. 0 Speiser attacked the "law and os order" stands of all three presi- vi lential candidates, adding thati the positions were considered in pol "rather hasty fashion." eff Crime statistics came in for ar ecial criticism. "We really don't gh now how much crime there is." thE "Most peonle think of cr.ime in lomec PgII n will be on exhibit, as well a University mace and th esident's medallion. From 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m itledge Chapel and the Rar oks Room of McKissick Li airy will be open to visitors. A 2 same time President and Mr. omas F. Jones will be receivin imni in their home on th )rseshoe. The Alumni Association will teet at noon on the second floor f the President's home for a hort business session and the istallation of new officers. At a barbecue dinner on th >rseshoe, beginning at 1 p.m e Distinguished Alumni Awar d the Alumni Association H-or ary Life Memberships will Ij esented. One of the most popular "star rd" events of Homecoming i e Tea Dance, which will begi 5 p.m. at the National Guar rmory on Bluff Road near Carc a Stadium. As customary, Duster Span d the Original Gamecock Oi estra will return from all ovc e United States to play for th ent. A buffet and other rt ashments will be served. The Homecoming Parade, spor red by the Interfraternity Cour 1, will get under way at 2:1 m. Saturday. Set to travel it ual route down Sumter Stree Vietnam Lt. Col. James R. Farrin hack from a third tour o American policy In V'ietnar before the Young American id 0rt ms of black andl white," sail eiser. "The fact is that th< ~at majority of Americans havy nmittedl crimes for which the: 11(d have been sent to jail." )f 100 persons arrested fo ious criminal charges, Speise ii, 30 are released without ar gnment, 13 after arraignment plead guilty, five are convicted I two are acquitted., Of those that appeal their nvictions, 67 per cent have e original conviction sustained. thoie whose convictions are erturned 67 per cent are con eted again in new trials. ;peiser also criticized "lawles ice action. We can't have al ective police as long as the regarded as the enemy. .. b atto residents (victimized) b highest crime rate." peisear attakedarges ;1 a riday s the Parade will pass the review r' ing stand in front of Wardlaw a College at 2:45 p.m. It is planned c to arrive as the barbecue is end ing. t Participating in the parade 2 will be the marching band, cheerleaders, ROTC drill units, floats and beauty queens. I The Gamecocks will meet the Seminoles at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. t During halftime, the band will i perform and the Homecoming a Queen will be crowned by the I president of the Alumni As.,ocia- in tion. a Immediately f o II o w i n g the t e game, Student Union will present The Impressions in concert at v Township. Tickets for this event 1: must also be reserved this week r at the information desk. d .Fall Elect , Fall elections were official special election for off-campus n The voting was ordered afl Senate posts were protested w r correct information to some v( and Science. Winners in Friday's voting v - Cambell, and Joe Usry. 5 Miss Cabell trailed Catherin s original fall elections Oct. 14, the special voting Friday. It t a .4 0 t, t fD F Staffssioto hDckMMiaJ gton, an Army officer recently r duty in Vietnam, defended hi a in an appearance Thursday c s for Freedom. t ler' Star I judicial laxness and "coddling of1 s criminals." He gave examples of several such charges from the t early 1900's when the Supreme Court began "long and arduous c r process" of extending the exclu- t r sion of illegally or unconstitution-. ally gathered e vi de n ce from I ,trials. I During a question and answer a period that followed his speech, he said: --"The rights of students are in a state of flux, a developing state." The Supreme Court turned down a case over long hair and school expulsion. s -On "conduct unbecoming a i Carolina student": "That wouldr y' seem to fall because of vagueness y' and intent: a vagrancy statute a y for University students." Capt. j L.evy was convicted of "conduct q f unbecoming an officer." Bing. Curfews Will Be Extended Coeds living in South, Sims, outh Tower, Wade Hampton and IcClintock dormitories will pay penny a minute for extended urfews Friday night. Saturday night, residents of hese dorms may stay out until a.m.-free. Associated Women Students ap roved the longer hours for lomecoming festivi!ies. Friday night curfew will be ex Lnded to 2:30 a.m. Coeds must ay a penny for each minute they re out past their regular curfew. roceeds from the penny-a-minute ight will help pay for the AWS wards and scholarship given in he spring. No grace minutes may be used rith the late curfews. Coeds will e restricted for time they cannot ay for when they return to the orm. ions End y concluded Friday with a freshman senators. er regular elections for the hen a poll captain gave in >ters in the College of Arts 7ere Mary R. Cabell, Heather e Cameron by one vote after but edged Miss Cameron in )alane Expresses t. . )pH msm Student Body President Ton ;alane expressed hope last week hat a direct line of communica ion between students and the loard of Trustees would be pened soon. Salane commented on the pos ibility of administrative accept nee of his proposal for a Student fairs Sub-committee to work ith the board. The committee, to be composed F three students and three trus es, would allow students to par cipate in policy discussions and ) make recommendations. Although there has been no nal decision, Board Chairman ~utidege L.. Osborne has ap ointed a three-man committee to tudy this and other potential hanges in the board by-laws, rhich have remained unchanged ince 1924. Salane said he had discussed the roup's progress with President homas F. Jones andl is encour ged by the results. According to Salane, Jones said e "came back with a very fav rable impression" after a recent -ip to Colorado. ids Hit tudents at a state institution may ive Carolina studlents an addi ional legal advantage. --On search andl seizure in ormitories: The Court of Mili ary Appeal has given military nen the right to have their foot >ckers opened only with a search varrant. At USC and other uni ersities dormitory residents may ~et the same rights for their oom s. -On "in loco parentis": "Fish or cut bait. You can have 'in loco parentis' or due process as It exists out in the cold world at large." --On fraternity and sorority acial discrimination: Some Uni ersities have barred fraternities .nd sororities or made a written olicy of nondiscrimination a re ulrement for continued associa lan.