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sac TITO P LA ILI Staff Photo by Ralph Jarrefl Staff Photo by Elliott eromstol. Staff Photo by Ralph Jarrolls Confrontation UNC Upset Icy Storm Flag + Basketball + Ice = Weekend To Remember Z/ < c' UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. LIX, No. 33 Columbia, South Carolina, Tuesday, February 18, 1969 Founded 1901 Committee To Check Affiliations The Student Affairs Com mittee is conducting a sur vey of the affiliations of all c hartered campus organiza tions. Paul P. Fidler, assistant W vice president for student affairs, said the survey is not directed at any organi zation but is fulfilling a function of the committee that had been neglected re cently. He said failure to keep current files of organiza tional affiliations came to light during a review of the affiliations of campus group AWARE. "We felt that it 'i o was time that we review all affiliations as it is part of our function," he added. The committee is consid ering making the affiliation review an annual practice, Fidler said. Antiwar S USC Press BY STANLEY HENSLEY Staff Wriler A group of "GI's United Against the War in Vietnam" held a press conference at the University Sat. urday under the sponsorship of campus group AWARE. Pvt. Joe Miles read a statement which outlined the group's purpose and accused the Army "brass" at Ft. Jackson of undue harassment. The statement asked that the Ft. Golden Spur Opening Set The Grand Opening of the Gol den Spur, delayed seven weeks be cause renovation of the old Game cock Room ran behind schedule, will be held Feb. 28 and March 1. The Mark Seven will perform 8 p.m. til midnight in the Univer sity Union night club. Admission to the club will be $1 and onn ID) per couple. Women Speechl Charleston lawyer R u t h Wil- i liams keynotes the second night of E Feminine Focus '69 tonight at 8:30 1 in Currell Room 107. Discussion groups on all facets of women in professions and ca- i reers follow Miss Williams' speech. ( Held in Currell College, the groups f feature women in business, a bridal 4 consultant, secretary, stewardess, I travel agent and women in edu- I cation. Sponsored by Mortar B o a r d, USC'S national s e n i o r women's honor society, Women's Week be- E gan Monday with a tea at the I President's home honoring all wom en with a 3.0 GPR fall semester. 1968 National College Q u e e n I Valerie Dickerson will speak Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Cap stone Campus Room. t Miss Dickerson, a graduate of r San Jose State College, attends Columbia University G r a d u a t e School of Journalism on a $4,000 New York Times Foundation schol. arship. She is studying television broadcasting for news analysis of urban and social affairs. The first Negro to win a na tional pageant, Miss Dickerson was ldiers Hold Conference Jackson post commander provide facilities on Feb. 26 "where any one at Ft. Jackson may come and discuss the Vietnam war, the right of the Vietnamese and black Amer icans to self-determination and the many recent harassments at Ft. J ackson." Pvt. Miles cited five cases where GIs had been "victimized" in at tempts by Army "brass" to stop activists at the fort. Lou Jones, s p e a k e r for the group, claimed that about 20 sol diers were not allowed to come to the meeting. He explained, "The Army is repressing b o l d i e r s through extra duty and harass ment." C I a u d Jolly, co-chairman of AWARE, read a statement sup. porting the group. The group is circulating peti tions demanding their "rights" and have col lec ted more than 200 names, but, Pvt. Miles said, "It is technically most difficult to get the petition signed. "It's our belief that most of the soldiers are against the war but are afraid to sigrn the netitionn." sWeek ['onight Lwarded the title on the basis of wholarship, leadership and civic twareness as well as poise and )ersonality. Entertainment Wednesday night vill be provided by the Mystic zoodies, Panhellenic jug band. A ipring fashion show will begin in ,apstone Campus Room at 8:15 >.m., featuring models from Angel light and Mermaid Fleet, assisted >y Belk. The week's final event will be he appearance of television per onality and former Miss America darilyn Van D e r b u r. She will peak on "Goals and Dreams" at I p.m. Thursday in Capstone Cam >us Room. The former Miss America, who rraduated Phi Beta Kappa from he University of Colorado and is tow United Airlines Youth Speak ,r, will visit Carolina on her re urn from a speaking .tour in Thai and. In addition to public speaking, iss Van Derbur does television ommercials and has been hostess )f the Miss America Pageant and he Thanksgiving and Cotton Bowl 'arades. She has appeared on such ihows as Steve Allen, Ed Sullivan, lohnny Carson's Tonight S h o w, ,andid Camera and the Bell Tele )hone Hour. An Aftern Students gathered around eral costumed girls marched i a cart bearin a "corpee" dra The mirI.ld hey we= in al Mudd Newsman To Speak Roger Mudd, CBS's Capitol Hil expert, will discuss "Inside Con gress" here Wednesday night a 8 p.m. Mudd's speech in the businesi administration building auditoriun is sponsored by the Universit: Union Lectures Committee. Mud< will be honored at a 6 p.m. ban quet and a reception following hi: speech. Mudd joined CBS news in Jul: 1961 afPer serving with WTOI and WTOP-TV in Washington an WRNL in Richmond. Admission to the speech is b: I) card only. Staff Photo by Raiph Jarr*II oon Walk Friday afternoon when sev. a front of Russell House with ped with a Confederate flag. ncal thatrical grmup. By CARL STEPP Managing Editor Tension over the playing of "Dixie" and waving the Confed crate flag flamed into confronta tions last week before the campus setled back for a quiet snowy weekend. A meeting Thursday night on the Horseshoe turned into a flag waving seFsion for supporters of the Stars and Bars, while a flag burning Friday by black students led to a confrontation with racial overtones. University officials tightened security on campus and called for students to cool off. President Thomas F. Jones issued a statement Friday not ing that "this is the time to cool things and I think this can be done without repression." He said the situation "in effect polarized the Carolina family, and this in turn has created an emo tional climate that could, if not *reasonably approached, have very .sprious consequences." State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) officers were joined by I several state Highway Patrolmen .on campus Friday, but no arrests w vere reported although investiga tion is continuing. Jones said Sunday the Univer 5 sity is "following closely the ac tion of the appropriate law en forcement officers." He said the school is "watch ing develol,ments closely, mak ing every provision possible for the safety of the students." Security patrols were increased by two men per night, according to George A. Key, supervisor of security. The driveway around the IlHorseshoe was chained off, andi a patrolman was stationed in Rus sell House. Key noted, however, that there -iwere no difficulties encountered over the weekend. One student was injured in Friday's incident when he was hit in the head by a pipe wielded by a black s'udent. le was treated in the infirmary and re leased. The controversy began with a request by the Association of Afro Desegrc By SUSAN ROSS Staff Writer Matthew Perry, legal counsel~ for Columbia Chapter of the Na tional Association for Advance ment of Colored People, says that "freedom of choice" can't work. According to Perry, "freedom of choice", legislation "places the bur (en of desegregation of schools on the shoulders of Negro parents rather than where it should be, on the shoulders of school administra tors." "It gives the parents the burden of implementing the Constitution." In a panel hosted by Pi Sigma Alpha, political science honorary, N. Welsh Morrisette, legal coun sel for CoIumhlM citizens for Sp4 In ci American students for an end to the playing of "Dixie" and waving of the Confederate flag at Uni- i versity functions. A Confederae flag was burned Wednesday night in ' front of Jones' home. Thursday night a debate scheduled on the Horse shoe officially broke up after 20 minutes when speakers were un able to talk over the shouts and :hants of the crowd. Confederate flag-wavers staved around for a rally, however, then marched to the Confederate monu ment at the State House where they sang ")ixie," the national anthem and the alma mater. A Confederate flag was burned Friday morning and an other around 1 p.m. on the Rus sell House ,atio. Shortly before I Friday after noon a flag carried by black stu dents in Rissell House was taken by a white student. Housing To Be Ar BY EDDIE CIIEN Amst. News Editor Major housing changes are ex-. pected to be announced in about a week or 10 days, said Joseph A. Barnes, USC housing director, in an interview last week. lie said consideration is being given to converting Columbia Hall into a girls' dormitory next fall. Formerly a hotel, Colunba Hall was purchased for $1.1 million in the summer of 1966 from a group of Columbia businessmen, with the option given to the University to keep it or sell it back after four years. Columbia Hall houses about 150 students. Other men's dorms under con sideration include Maxey and Pres ton, according to Barnes. A meeting will be held, Barnes sai(, between the Board of Women Visitors, the Associated W o m e n Students, housing officials and the student government next week to make the final decisions. gation freedom of choice, and Perry discussed the Southern Regional Council report on Southern a c h o o I administrators compli ance with civil rights legislation. According to Morrisette the Southern Regional Council is "ac tually not Southern at all," and with no history for unbiased re p)orts they have followed suit with producing another rep)ort which is "not unbiased." Morrisette said the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare calls Southern eduica tora "uncommitted to educa tion," but will allow students to go to schools of their choice only "as long as it doesn't interfere with their primary goal-into irks dents A crowd gathered, then moved outside where a Confederate flag was burned before jeering on lookers. As the crowd increased, the pro and anti-flag groups taunted each other, and SLED agents, patrol men and administrators with megaphones moved in to keep order. At one point, several cos tumed white females paraded a cart carrying a black-faced "cor-se" draped with a Confed erate flag. The group was ush ered into Russell House by ad ministrators. Students were occupied with a concert and a basketball win over North Carolina Friday night. Sleet and cold weather soothed the re mainder of the weekend, according to officials. "The situation is real quiet like we like to see it," one officer said Sunday. Changes inounced Barnes said the emphasis will be to provide enough housing fa cilities for the women next fall. Last fall, about 100 women were w i t h o u t University housing, he said. "At that point, the situation was critical." The Cliff House, expected to be ready for occupation by fall semes ter, will house more than 500 stu dents. Whether it will be a dormitory for men or women has not been decided, according to the housing director. A proposal was brought up to make Cliff House a coed dormi tory, but it was turned d o w n, Barnes noted. Another housing official, com. menting on the possibility of con. verting Columbia Hall into a girls' dormitory next fall, said the lack of sufficient closet space and the building's distance to the m a i n campus were the two main argu. ments against the conversion. )ebated gration." Morrisette summedl up his view of Southern dlesegregation saying that if fairly administered the "freedom of choice" policy is the most adlvisable for the welfare of the children inv-olved. He exp)ects limitations to be im posedl, regulated by availability of space and proximity to the school, but calls the program the "most ordIerly transition" possible from segregatedl to integrated schools. "No school district started do ing anything until the Civil Rights, legislation of 1964 was passed, and then the threat of HEW to cut funds has served as a catalyst to further desegrega tion." Morrisette aid.