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Socioloj Racism By JODY STONESTREET Staff Writer Dr. Charles U. Smith, professor of sociology at Florida A & M University, said Monday night that a racist is a product of his childhood environment. Smith spoke in the Campus Actrobatic Performing Friday night the Globetrotters basketball g, are these three Cuban acroba game. Used Vehic] At USC Mc Seventeen used vehicles will be put up for sale by the University's purchasing department Monday. The vehicles will be sold by closed bids and students are in vited to bid for the vehicles. The cars, which (late back to 1965, and the trucks, which (late back to 1956, may be seen in the Englhsh Provincial Spanish Baroque Fr. We have y< sterling pattern . Reed & SILVER ( COMPE See the< Reed & Barton co those of other fan rist Dis Pheno Room of Capstone as a guest ol the Visiting Scholars Series. Hih topic was "Racism." He said, "The social signifi cance attached to color is racism Racism is a systematic phenome non in the American culture and the phenomenon has been around a long time." -Staff Photo by Tom Mills Totem Pole (luring the half time show of ine in the Carolina Coliseum ts. A full house attended the les On Sale tor Pool motor pool storage area on Sumter Street opposite the intramural fields. The vehicles can be examined March 7, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and bids may be picked up at the motor pool or the purchasing de partment. For further information call 4115 or 4209. ncs ', CIass c Rose Hampton Court >ur favorite ..as featured in Barton's )PINION TITION omplete Ilection as well as led silversmiths at nIcr"1II0"" cusses menor Smith said, "A child is born int( the culture which consists o things man has produced. Culturt is transmitted to the child by vari ous ways and through variout groups. If all children have equa exposure to a total culture, ther would be no racism." He concluded that American have come a long way to mak< America what it should be. Hc said the young people should no be blamed for all the problems. "The greatest part of the U. S Constitution," he continued, "im that it can be amended without too much difficulty. "If we revise the social struc tures and make exposures similar we can overcome the systemati< racism and achieve the ideals of our founding fathers." Smith was born in Brimingham Ala. He received his B.A. fron Tuskegee Institute, his master's ir sociology from Fisk University and his Ph.D. from Washingtor State University. Smith is pres. ently the head of the Sociology Department at Florida A & M. He is listed in "Who's Who ir the South anti Southwest," "Who's Who in American Education" ant "Who's Who in American Men of Science." Ballistics Chief Speaks Here Today Charles Lenchitz, chief of bal. listics and combustion section at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover N. J., will lecture at USC today. The first guest in the Energy Conversion and Materials Series Lenchitz will speak on "Combus tion Research at Picatinny Arse nal." Cosponsored by E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and the University the lecture will be at 4 p.m., Roon 103, in the Engineering Building The Blossomn Shop FLORISTS Devin. and Saluda FlIVE PINkTS Larry Carr instructs San on USC's new driver educatic lator. The traffic simulato student to sit in the driver's P. E. Del 12-Unit. By DIANE CLAYPOOLE Staff Writer The Department of Physical Ed. ucation has purchased a 12-unil driving simulator through a fed eral grant. The department plans to use th( simulator in training driver ed. ucation teachers and later for high school students who take the course. Basically, the simulator works like this: The student is seated in a mock car with a driver's seat and instrument panels with all the instruments of an automobile. A 1. Nfiking out your Laundry list? Wr~ iting ai poem. 3. That's Browning. What about: "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, And thou, Miyrna, beside me...' Equitable is o The work is fa pa~y good, and o ortunities 1 be able to take wife, to say no kids, extremnelj "0, my a red, z For details about careers at Equita write: Lionel Ml. Stevens, Mianager, The Equitable Life AssurancE 1283 Avenue of the Americas Indoor Road Test de Slobodzian model car an >n traffic simu- while watchin r permits the simulated mo, seat of a late >artment Driving S student will face actual traffic situations reproduced on film an(' respond to scenes in the film while "driving." Through electronic de vices, the student and teacher can accurately measure the responses of a "driver." Thus, students are able to measure their skills in ac tual situations without the haz ards of actual driving. Dr. Warren K. Giese, head of the drivers' education program. said the objectives of the program include upgrading the teachers and to demonstrate the simulator's po tentials for use by the community. The driver education program will now have four phases. The 2. You? I .isteni. "I low do I love 4. That's Omar Khatyyamu. Thent how am I going to show~ MmvIh hlow mIuch) I care? see if you can >se great jobs [feriung. scinating, the theo mnlimited. eans you'll care of a thing of well. Miyrna is likce ed rose..." ble, see your Placement Officer, or Dollege Emiployument. UITABLE Society of the United States New York, New York 10019 a,, Al/ ) aEq,.u.ab. 1986 staff Photo by Bob Befste [A practice driver's technique w a specially prepared traffic ,ie. Receives rmulator first phase is classroom instrue tion. The second phase is thc simulator, which lets the student practice control. The third phasc is instruction on a range area with no traffic. The final phase is the actual driving. Classes have begun already fo USC students and workshops foi tachers in driver education pro grams throughout the state are scheduled to begin in early spring, TENNIS WHITE~ That time is near .. . wh you just have to swing on I tennis courts! Do it in a pre young thing of 100% Arr triacetate with kicky pleal skirt. Sizes 8 to 16. 3 taunastue.1Eneq Kaplan, Galbraith To Speak "Loneliness" will be the topic of a speech by Dr. Abraham Kaplan, noted American philosopher and writer, who is to speak in Russell House Assembly Room Sunday. His speech will be followed by a question and answer period. The speech is presented jointly by the USC Department of Phil osophy and the University Union Lectures Committee. It is open to the student body and general pub lic at no charge. There will be a reception for Kaplan following the program in the faculty lounge in the Russel House. He was elected a Guggenheim Fellow in 1945, and a Rockafeller Fellow in 1957. Among his de grees are a Ph.D. from U.C.L.A., and an honorary doctorate from the University of Judism (Jewish Theological Seminary) which he revived in 1962. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Co. lumbia, University of Cincinnati and the University of Hawaii. A highlight of the lecture pro. gram this semester will be a scheduled visit hy Dr. John Ken neth (albraith, professor of eco nomics at Harvard Univeysity, who is scheduled to appear at USC on March 27. l)etails for Galbraith's visit are still being worked out, but his tentative lecture topic is "Politics and the New Industrial State." Galbraith is the former U. S. ambassador to India and author of several hooks on the Far East History Movie My Darling Clementine, will he shown Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 107, Currell College. The movie is sponsored by the history department. ERARY'S on main 0 Downtown * Richland Mall en he 'ty tel ed o! GAMEC:OCKS! W~e're with, you all the way!