University of South Carolina Libraries
$30,000 Raised For Allen By ALYCE YOUMANS Staff Writer Students at Columbia's Allen University are out to help their school by getting it out of debt. Hezekiah Stewart, chairman of the student fund-raising campaign, said recently that Allen is more than $340,000 in debt. Students are attempting to raise $100,000 of that, and have already passed the $30,000 mark. Donations of about $73,000 have been given di rectly to the university. "The image of Allen is down. The alumni are not supporting us. If we will ever rise again it will have to be on the part of the stu dents, so we began our fund drive," said Stewart. He added that everyone in his family had gone to Allen which has raised their standard of living and made life comfortable for them. "If Allen is in trouble then I should do something for her." Allen is a small university with about 700 students. More than 250 students are working on the fund-raising project. Stewart added that to raise money they have held a car wash, visited African Methodist Episco pal churches and other churches, written letters all over the coun try, and sponsored basketball games and fashion shows. "The students of Allen have had our share of protest. We've discovered that rioting and pro testing may bring complaints up but this is not the answer. "We are setting an example at Allen that we hope will spread. We are trying to build, not to de stroy. We want to unite the uni versity and interest others," he said. "Even if we don't raise all the money, we have gained love and kindness from people all over the United States. People have offered to help. No amount of money will account for this. This is coming from the heart and not necessarily from the pocketbook," Stewart said. Gynecologist B Initial 'Lovem About 250 people attended the University Union's first course in lovemaking. Students continually applauded the wit and frankness of Columbia gynecologist Dr. W. M. Bryan. Bryan spoke for 45 minutes and fielded questions for the remainder of the hour. Questions ranged from queries about free love in the streets to a Putting you first, keep Ifi ma) U ndler Chevr you'll findI the b standard V8 in: cubic inches ofi ordler all the wa 390-hp 427-cubi Vice President for Stu Charles Witten and his wife Desegrega To 42 S. By JON NEWMAN Staff Writer Forty-two of the 93 South Caro lina school districts have received help from the USC School of Edu cation's School Desegregation Con sultant Center since it began its operations in June, 1968. Prof. H1. Larry Winecoff of the School of Education, and director of the center, describes the opera. tion as a technical assistance unit to help schools deal with problems relaied to desegregation. According to Winecoff, lending assistance in desegregation problems is just a small part of the services provided by the center. "Our main thrust is in the area of teacher preparation. At the re quest of the school officials, we will design and set up institutes for teachers and administrators to help them prepare themselves for school desegregation, that is, to become ryan Conducts king' Lecture religion-created guilt in sex. To the latter question, Dr. B r y a n an swered that religion makes a man stronger sexually. One student said after the lec ture that "Dr. Bryan sure tells it the way it's happening. That's the way all courses should be handled." Bryan will hold another session Monday at 7:45 p.m. and discuss homosexuality and guilt in sex. s us first. mie shevroIet be you'd Ii Dlet's hood our t ruc-k line. iggest We have thei ts field-327 tions for your tr t. Or, you can Like body fram y up to our hitches andl frai c-inch V8. harnesses. 't hnul it, ee S rop h- n , N %v Flavor of India lent Affairs of Indian var sample foods gram sponsor tion Aid C. School aware of their own feelings and of some of the educational problems which they might expect and to develop their competence in skills to make them more able to deal with problems which might arise." The c e n t e r, which is staffed mostly by University professors of education, is funded under Title Four of the Civil Rights Act of Role Of. Is 'A Ba (Fifth in a Series on Religion and the Campus.) By JAN SURRATT Staff Writer "A base of operation-a place to keep things-and a place where groups can gather to discuss and learn and develop the art of fol lowing and leading." To the Rev. Jerry C. Hammet, this is the ideal function of a stu (lent center. However, student participation isn't as ideal as it could be, ac cording to Hammet. "It is very difficult to get students to partici pate in programs of any nature." Hammet feels that his responsi bility as a studeit chaplain "is to be a minister and pastor to those who are willing to have one." At times, students seek Ham met's counsel at the Westminster Center. Some problems may be an't haul etter Ieav Chevrolet (leale( 'ight. con nec- loadl off your mi~ mil('nng too. Andi put it in in trne.rernt ; - : ety Saturday night in a pro. A by the students from India. Offered Districts 1964, and is one of 15 university centers now operating throughout the Southeast. The South Carolina Department of Education also has a Title Four center available to the state's public schools. Dr. Winecoff emphasized t h a t the center is not in operation to enforce the Civil Rights Act, but acts only upon request. Religious we Of OpI "academic in nature, some are moral, some are personal, and others are deeply spiritual." Presbyterian students may par ticipate in various activities at Westminster Fellowship. Wednes day evening suppers and programs are offered, and Monday evenings students visit at the State Hos pital. "The different programs we have appeal to different students, but we would hope that we de velop students who will worship and work, socialize and serve," Hammet said. "Chances are, we are living in one of the most religious ages known to man," he said, but added, "the only trouble is that the gods that we worship aren't worth it." Our god, according to the chap lain, is "whoever we give our highest loyalty to." These gods equJtipped) for traile ring r's anfl get a nid. 1 Chevrolet. mn Dept First SSOC Si Cuba, I By EDDIE CHEN Asst. News Editor Representatives from six South Carolina colleges and several high schools attended the first annual state meeting of the Southern Stu dent Organizing Committee (SSOC) at Carolina Westminster Center over the weekend. The conference included work shops, films and talks by guests, including a girl who had recently spent a month touring Cuba. Martin Brown, a conscientious objector and a representative of the American Friends Service Committee, held a forum Sunday to discuss questions concerning the draft. Linda Jennes, who was in Cuba during its 10th revolution anniver sary, said Sunday afternoon that there have been many positive re suits of the revolution. She claimed the more equitable redistribution of wealth, m o r e education for the Cuban people and better employ ment as the best examples. Miss Jennes said the first week she was there she was given a guided tour of the island. She spent the remaining three weeks touring the island at will. Brett Bursey, state traveler of SSOC, said that, "It's mostly still in the organizing stage right now, but it's getting started." Among the films shown were "The Columbia Revolt," featuring scenes from last spring's student r e v o I t at Columbia University; "Land Without Joy," dealing with Center ?ration are often "ego-centered: gods of self-gratification," he added. However, most of these gods will not be able to stand "a time of Crisis, and I believe this is com ing," he said. This is why "the future of faith on campus is unlimited," said Hammet. "And I think its time will come." The Blossomn Shop FLORISTS Devine and Saluda ate Meeting Iraft Di the Vietnam war; and a t h i r d movie with scenes of a demonstra tion at last summer's Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N. J. At h Movies 'Romeo A According to film theory, as de vised by profoundly intellectual scholars, a film's aesthetic validity is determined by the degree to which it captures and records physical reality, or nature in the raw. The film medium, they say, is a photographic one. Therefore, film is meant to render events only as they happen realistically; and should it render, otherwise it should not be appreciated as a work of artistic merit. Something which is evidently staged, for ex ample, with polished perfection is not valid as good cinema, for nature in the raw is seldom per fect. How remarkable they are, these scholars! To be able to analyze art as it emerges from the creative instinct and verbally har ness, in fact, reduce it to critical reasoning is quite remarkable. Thank you, scholarly gentlemen, but I'll appreciate what I please namely, that which pleases me. Although the Franco Zeffirelli production of ROMEO AND JULIET coincides, to some extent, with the reasoning of the theore ticians, it is a splendid motion pic ture because of its other merits. Shakespearean drama is extremely literary, not photographic; it does not occur as it would in real life; and it requires polished perform ance and staging perfection. Zef firelli's film possesses these at tributes, and it is superb. Out of necessity the original dialogue has been edited, but what remains is purely Shakespearean, heightened with sheer brilliance by the clarity of Zeffirelli's interpre tation. The actors are right there with every word and every re vealing gesture and, consequently, so is the viewer. Rarely, if ever, has Shakespeare been made so ac cessible so artfully for the mod Shirtdres8 jGrt1 scussed Colleges represented at the two. day conference were the College of Charleston, USC, Clemson, Con. verse, Furman and Wofford. nd Juliet' - with Dale Ramsey ern-day mass audience, which might normally want to avoid Shakespeare. But even this re warding aspect of the film is sec. ondary to its real merit. ROMEO AND JULIET is splendid enter. tainment. But is splendid entertainment really art? Who knows? Who cares ? No one knows if even Shakespeare himself cared. (It is rumored that he was in it for the money!) At any rate, here comes the irony: the screen ver sion of ROMEO AND JULIET achieves its success because of its beautiful naturalism, its true-to. life-like quality. The characters are real, their emotions are real, the conflicts are real. This simi larity to cinema theory is prob. ably an accident, but the skill of the film's creators, Shakespeare undeniably included, certainly is not. It is almost needless to say thit the master dramatist created some of the most vividly human characters the world has ever known. Zeffirelli's techniques are taste fully and gracefully conventional. His camera frames the subject and setting with a classic style, never distracting but enhancing, while his lighting provides just the per fect trace of romanticism. Charac ters move with such spontaneity, especially during the terrific duel ing scenes, that they seem un staged. But I fear that I am becoming guilty myself of reducing to a ver bal state that which should be ex perienced, be it artistic or not, I therefore highly recommend you to an evening's entertainment at the Palmetto Theatre, where you may view the Franco Zeffirelli produc tion of William Shakespeare's im mortal ROMEO AND JULIET. DarLing, what does A-B'C. meanf? e Cup --of course