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S ou th C aro lin a s D n t F r e College Paper UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA VoL LJX, No. 31 Columbia, South Carolina, Tuemlay, February 11, 19Fune10 End Seen To Probe Of Union By JIM WANNAMAKER Asst. Managing Editor The current investigation of University Union problems may be soon at an end. Bob Salane, Student Govern ment Association attorney gen eral and chairman of the investi gation subcommittee, said the sub committee will respect the (lead line of late February set by Union officials in requesting the investi gation. Salane said he would schedule a meeting of the committee for yes terday (Monday) and speculated that one other meeting of the committee would be held in the near future. The committee would then make its evaluations and recommenda tions to the full board of gov ernors. Salane criticized the deadline, "Unfortunately the deadline did not give us time to (o all we wanted to. We hoped to make a comprehensive mail survey of the student unions at other universi ties." Meetings of the subcommit'ee are closed. Other members of the subcommittee are Tom Salane, Pat Emens, Shirley Garrett and Dr. John D. Waugh. The subcommittee was estab lished Dec. 11 after Charles H. Witten, vice president for student affairs, returned a letter from eight Union officers asking for changes in the Union structure. The Student Senate had asked for an evaluation of the Union by Union officers. Purpose Of 'To Inform A A new organization, tentatively named the South Carolina Re search Committee, is being orga nized at USC to investigate al leged illegalities and discrepancie.' in a broad area of public concern. Suggestions were made at the group's organizational meeting Sunday to establish committees to investigate education, health and welfare, political activities, mili tary affairs and business as re lated to students and the public. The new group would seek to inform and educate the public White Awaren, 'White By EDDIE CHEN and JODY STONESTREET Staff Writers White Awareness Week endled Saturday. Brett Bursey, ch a ir ma n of AWARE, said that the week "got past the theories . . . and con cluded that it is the white man's problem . . . The white power structure is the enemy. "We have to build a basis of power that we can use to change things." He added, "We can't do anything by going into the black community." Claud Jolly said the week "has given bo0th radicals andl liberals deeper perspective of black senti nment. I hope very dleep)ly that this will lead to some concrete and not merely symbolic action." Approximately 100 people at tended Fri(lay night's meeting on the shooting incident in Orange burg a year ago. Students from S. C. State College addressed the meeting, with D)onald McKeever, chairman of Black Awareness Co ordlinating Committee (BACC) as the main speaker. McKeever said newspapers gave bad coverage and left im portant incidents out that would have shown black students Velma Elaine Love addr, memorative service for tli killed last February on the ca State College. The service v COmme By VAN VANUCH Staff Writer A memorial service for the three Negro students killed last year in Orangeburg was held Sat urday by Carolina Black students. Student speakers at the service stressed the need for black unity and power in solving economic, so cial, and political problems. One of the speakers was Sidney Moore, who said, "We are enter ing into a new era begun by New Group: nd Educate' through the results of "well sub stantiated" facts, according to Brett Bursey who presided at the meeting. The group is interested in en listing aid from such groups as the YMCA, S. C. Council on Hu man Relations, the National Coun cil of Churches and University groups. The first meeting was devoted to setting up organizational struc ture and guidelines. Specific plans have not yet been devised. The next meeting will be in Russell House Sunday night. ess Week Ends Pro ble weren't at fault. He also reported that he andl a friend wvent to the only Orange burg Hospital with a school of ficial and some woundedl students. "They wouldn't let us in. We had to go all the way to Charleston andl Columbia for help. One (of the studlents) could have dliedl on the way. A p)regnant black woman was also refused adlmittance and as a result, she lost her baby," McKeever saidl. D)ave Atkinson, cochairman of BACC, said, "It won't happen that way again. They won't get off that easy and it e'ure '."n't be three black brothers killed." McKeever pointed out the goals of black p)ower: black control over black economic, p)olitical and social environments; helping whites as well r as blacks; to put black men In all levels of government and to put money in the black communi ties. lie said the white man should have control of the white com munity andl that the black man should have control of the black community. One AWARE member told of several establishments in Co lumbia where he had seen a black man refused service. Hlur *THE '366 Days Later' esses a com- by the Afro-A ree students Other speake mpus of S. C. Lemon, Redfo ,as sponsored morati( Stokely Carmichael - an era of black power." Moore said black power is needed to stop white police brutality and white racism. Moore said economic problems of blacks were twofold. "We don't own the factors of production in our community; and we have to rely on white sources for income." He referred to this problem as "economic ghettonization." Moore described today's politi cal structure as one "that has de velo;:ed for black oppression." Describing black social prob lems Moore said, "There is no IArtist To Paint In Russell House Italian artist Ulrico Schettini will be doing a painting this week in the Russell House (luring a visit here, sponsored by the Uni versity Union Arts Committee. Schettini will also speak tonight at 8 in the Columbia Museum of Art. Wednesday he will speak at 8 p.m. in Currell. His topic will be "Aspects of Rome Through the Centuries." Students and others who are in terested are invited to follow the progress of his painting, which he will donate to the University. Cri the names of these places and then seek action from tihe gov ernment. McKeever e n d e d Saturday's meeting by saying, "I'm for any thing that will do me justice. I will accept anything, even com munism, if it will (do me justice." Saturday's commemorative ser vice was held for the three stu dlents killed in Orangeburg. The Rev. Isaiah Harvey condluctedl a small service in the Assembly Room of the Russell House, where he read a poem titled, "They Hate E'verything White." Rev. Harvey said, "Had the situation occurred here, or at Clemson, there would not have been a killing." D)r. Charles Joyner, a former USC studlent andi now p)rofessor at St. A n d r e w a College, said "America is moving too slowly, not the blacks moving too fast. The human relations struggle is just beginning. The civil rights revolution is nearly over." Thursday night's program fea tured the Rev. Isaiah Harvey, a b)lack Baptist minister f r o m Union. Harvey told his audience the only way to stave off a full-scale black power revoluation is to have is howAVG t4gid :j Stai Photo by Chuck Ketfer merican Students Association. rs are, from the left, Floyd irn II, and Sidney A. Moore. mn Held community in Columbia or any where in South Carolina where blacks are not separated." He added that as for integration of schools, blacks are "only there; we aren't involved in the real workings of integrated schools and universities." He said blacks must respond collectively if prog ress is to be made. A militant approach was urged by another student speaker, Red fern II, who said, "You have to take what you need, you have to fight power with power and power comes through the barrel of a gun."f Redfern said Black Panthers from San Francisco are organiz ing black resistance here and added, "The amount of aggression we use will be determined by the amount of resistance we meet." Other s p e a k e r s were Floyd Lemon and Velma Love. Lemon iaid that there was supposed to be a burning of the Confederate flag but that the University ad ministration interfered. After the meeting on the patio, black students adjourned to a room in the Russell House for a series of caucuses designed to "inform black students why we used the approcah we used, and what the black power movement is all about," according to Moore. more blacks in government. "And I dlon't mean those blacks who sp)eak like white man," he added. "Many people are wondering when the revolution will come. What they don't realize is--the revolution is here. We already are in one. The apex hasn't been reached yet. And if some thing isn't done soon, blood will flow," he predicted. Harvey urged the blacks to "stop apologizing for being black, andl to stop trying to be a carbon copy of a white man." And he addled, "Be nn indlividlual. You're black. You're beautiful." Asked what AWARE and other group)s can do0 to help the cause, ho replied, "Spread the wvordl. Identify yourselves with the prob 1em. Become a part of us. You can't help us by remaining be hind closed dloors . . . Tell it like it is, andl mean what you tell." Harry Boyte, a representative of ACT of D)urham, N. C., spoke following Harvey. ACT is an organization to bring the poor working whites into a coalition with tl-e blacks. Boyte emphasizerl that there is an urgent needl to bring the blacks into the mainstream of American soceny. Pla Yin Under By JIM WANNAMAKER Asst. Managing Editor The playing of "Dixie" and the waving of the Confederate battle flag on University property is under study by the vice president for student affairs' office. The study comes after a letter Florence Plans Ex By MIKE KROCHMALNY Editor-in-Chief The confused situation at the Fi-)rence regional campus of the University has not been resolved, but Dr. Harry E. Varney, director of the campus, says the proposed expansion can be begun under ex. isting conditions. The problem is the acquisition of federal funds for expansion ap. proved by the Central Pee Dee College District B o a r d. Varney said the board approved plans for a $2 million expansion but did not apply for federal matching money because Gov. Robert McNair pro. posed the institution be made a four-year college. Varney said the board decided to await implementation of the governor's plan, which was part of his annual address to the stat< legislature. The governor is expected to pro Weekend To Feature Rascals, Dells The Rascals, a group with thre( gold records to their credit, will be in concert Friday night at 8 at the Carolina Coliseum. The Dells and C. C. and the Souls will play for a dance Satur day at 8 p.m. at the National Guard Armory. Ioth events are s p o n s o r e d by the University Union. Tickets for The Rascals are on sale at the Russell House informa tion desk for $1.)0, $'.50 and $3.50. They also may he purchased the night of the concert. Admission to the dance is one IID per stuident and( $1.50 for non-stude~nt dates. Tickets may bie reservedI at the Russell House information desk. Tickets for th' p)ulic are available at the Coli seum. g Of Stud) from the Association of Afro American Students requesting a ban of the two. The letter, dated Feb. 3, asked for the ban because "it is a tribute o a movement that sought to de stroy the Uni:ed States . . . it i. a tribute to the peculiar institu Campus pansion sent the proposal to the legislature with one for the establishment of a state college board, which would "supervise and control all two-year colleges, college paralle! programs and four-year colleges," with the exception of the Citadel. The campus will he able to ob tain the money even if the pro posal is not passed by the state legislature, Varnev said. The ex pansion calls for $2 n i 1 1 i o n, $800,000 of which would be federal matching money. The remaining $1.2 million will be supplied by a tax approved by the v o t e r s of Marion, Florence, Dillon and Wil liamsburg counties. The land is owned by the Pee Dee Education Foundation. Varnev said the land "will be made avail able to the University" for the ex. pansion, when the federal match. ing money is approved. He added that the c a m p u "would have no problem in getting the money. After looking at th( rating plan we feel we rank at th. top in all their categories for eligi bilitv." The University supplies the ace demic program for the center and hires the director, who appoints a faculty with the approval of the University. John Duffv, assistant provos for regional campuses, said that USC has "a contract to furnish the first two Xearz of academic work." He said the Universitv position toward the expansion is "neutral," and it is a matter of consideration for the leg slature, the governor and the Higher Edu. cation Commission. The proposal for the four-year college at Florence and the state college board was also presented in the Moody Report which was released this s u im im e r. Commis sionedl by the state and prepared by Mloody's lnvestocrs Service, tho report al so prloposed that all re gional campuses be taken from the e o n t r 0 1 of the University andi Clemson University and put under the State College Boaerd. The Rascal f 0 * 0 DiXie' r Here tion that enslaved human beings it 'offends normal sensibili The association was refused per mission the same day to burn a Confederate flag during the Satur day commorative service for three -tudents killed at South Carolina State College last February. Paul P. Fidler, assis'ant to the vice president for student affairs, explained that permission was de nied because the burning of Con. federate flags is forbidden by state law and because it violates University rule IlI, 4 (Right of Peaceable Assembly), which for bids "actions which offend or out rage normal sensibilities." An association s'atement Sun day explained the group "chose to obey the official directive; how ever, we want to see how honest the intentions of the University official are." Fidler said he expected the matter to be under study for some time and that he has no idea of he extent of any action that might be taken. Students, Trustees To Meet A H oard of Trustees subcom mit-ce including three students is tentatively scheduled to meet Feb. 26 to discuss student-related top ics. The subcomnmittee, consis'ing of three trustees and three students, w:is established Nov. 16 by the board to discuss matters of stu dent concern. According to Tom Salane, stu dont hodY president and member f the sUO1mmittee, the meeting is to allow everyone to get ac quainted. "I di,n't see too many changes for the 1ill of Rights. We want to di-cuss such problems as s'u dent demonstrations and dealing with radical groups. "We are not exiecting miracles this year. ()ur purpose is to deal wi:h problems that will directly affect us together with the Board of Trustees and not to go off on ourC own separate ways," he added. Trustees on the group are Rob ert Pet ers, WVilliam flrockington and J1ames (Coth ran. Students are Salane, Stuart Reynolds and Peter \lCa.u-sland. Peters is chairman.