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First, You Fint A crowd looks on as firem of the self-service postal unit blaze damaged the "local" m sentative arrived with the L tinguisher and a fan were utv Department spokesman said cause or the extent of the dan Faculty USC T< By SUSAN ROSS Staff Writer Polarization of the campus is being attacked by a special comn miittee, co-chaired by Asst. Profs. Donald Weatherbee of interna tional studies and Tom Terrill of the history department. "The University is in a rapidly developing area and the comiposi tion of the student body is chang ing," Weatherbee said. "The committee is a sizeable group of 40 or 50 administrators and faculty seeking to identify areas of campus from which griev ane/aepoeee hthv "We're notjus t rse in ThFcmit, Ye pout Fino months dagd thein "loca"iny aprsentiive aredso wihh Vtinganafa weeu Elcuose or the exectiv offi Porizo of sTe caermpenti arein satted by W edal Doandidatefreo peiernare tioal stdie andl Tod TcFadin.o Vtce hitrsideptilmne sar Wayne Unimbrsity Jams inail Runnloling fread theasurer are tion oftenden Jerry Risn STe omitt is anpoe o sebley gropn ofl 40 or 50 5dmintor anke facltyseekiong tuoff willf ance s e iroeed rtathv ldTo tesiop e ai "Natraly on riulgrou The atuetshas ofel "Tepeialy of turnded and that ifte blac su Wseake at 8jtnigt ineDrayto n ThLouiNie, setyer abot two Krmn ao, is speding rmril Vo adTindyviig Sthla Inhol To'pew il es lcions o the exeoPctire offs csoito of mToera Nizerngrad Cadiatesro forubi preiert Photo by Chief Photographer Chuck Keefer I The Fire . .. en labor to unhinge the door Sunday night, where a small all sack. A Post Office repre. ey to the door, and an ex. d to put out the fire. A Fire he was uncertain of the fire's mage. Group insion subcommittees have been estab lished. The areas are curricula, community relations, freshman orientation, speaker programs and administration procedures, accord ing to Weatherbee. The c o m m i t t e e particularly wants to contact black students at this point. "They're at a disad vantageous position on campus and we're trying to help in an ad hoc method," he said. "As a committee we have the feeling we can make our recom mendations, but we have no power. If we come up with something, Dance Scufi In End Of After disturbances forced closi, tional Guard Armory, the Unive been notified it "cannot use the again." Col. Roy E. Martin, contacted effect have been sent by S. C. Martin, Vice President for Studen Phillips, director of the union. Three students were arrested a several incidents broke out. Candidates L Wh Candidates on Wednesday'a ballot will include: STUDENT BODY -Student b o dI y presidlent 9 iake Ball, Barry Knobel an< Mike Krochmalny; vice presi (ldent-Joe Bath, Brett Burse: nnand Mike Spears; secretary Judy Bihari andl Grace Chas Stain treasurer-Jay Hlodge an( SCarlton Larmon. -University U n i o n presi dlent. Pat Emens andl Vicki Es linger. CLASS OFFICElRS Senior class prFesident: Pa $!Watson; v i e e presideCnt-Bo4 IIHarwell, Reuben IHyman, Budd(l SMedbery and Joanne Oettinger secretary - Cherrie Crawford 8 Mary Sullivan and Polly Thac Sker; treasurer-Nancy Cassit~ ' and llob Peay. 1 -Junior class pr es id en t SRalph Parks and Duncan Wil Sliams; vice p r e s i d e n t-Sir F'rie dman andl Cathy Hines secretary-Salley Brown, Jear SIa ffite, Cynthia Mallard and George Simmons; treasurer Jame D)unn, Donna Macnicol SNancy Pruitt and Pam 1teames *j -Sophomore class p)residlent: ~Mark Holm.m, Butch Jones and UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. LIX, No. 47 Columbia, South Carolina, Tuesday, April 15, 1969 Founded 1908 Office: In We 3 Running For Queen Of May Cherrie Crawford, Pat Mayes and Karen Russell are finalis's in the May Queen competition. Carolina voters will name one of them May Queen in voting this week. The finalists were selected dur ing a pageant Thursday night sponsored by Kappa Sigma Kappa. The winner, who will be crowned May 8 by President Thomas F. Jones, will reign over May Week end festivities May 8-10. Studies kreas we'll go to the faculty," he said. "If changes occur that require faculty vote, the more they know what is going on, the better," he said. "There is tremendous duplica tion of effort on campus. If nothing else we can make better known what everybody else is do ing and let people know we're working on problems," he said. "We have found people just don't know how the University is run. People don't know, if they have a grievance or a problem, who to take it to," he said. [les Result Armory Use ig of a March 29 dance at the Na .sity Union Dance Committee has armory for an event of that type at the armory, said letters to that Adjutant Gen. Frank Pinckney to t Affairs Charles Witten and Dave rid the dance was closed early when ,isted 0's On D ill Smith; vice president Charles Black, Randi Cabell, Russ Callahan, Julianne Still :andl Carolyn Traylor; secretary -Cathy Cameron, Sharon Ed wards, Mary Holstein, Emma Livingston, George McMaster and1 Jeannine Smith; treasurer .-Cathy Culler, Dill Moore, Salley Rhett and Julia Royall. COMMITTEES, CHEERLEADERS -Discipline committee: (1 to be elected) Mike Ball, John IHistrick, George Branson and Brian Rines. -Male cheerleaders: (5 to be elected) Bruce Ambrose, D)avid Childs, Joe Hobson, Don Hult, Donny Lane, Paul League, Rob Peay, Sandy Streater, Chuck Timmons and Mike War ringer. -Female cheerleaders: (4 to be elected) Carolyn Culbert, Marty Faris, Joanne Kirk, Karel Kunze, Nan Lyles, Cindy Olivarri, Mary Sullivan, Polly Tfhacker and Kathy Watson. Student Academic Responsi bility Committees (2 to be elected from each school): Ed ucation-Judy Bihari and KI'ty Ililler- Business Adiministration rs, Qu4 dnesd~ Finalists in the May Que4 include (left to right) Pat M Crawford and Karen RusselL Gamecoc, In Southe The Gamecock, selected from the 120 papers entered, has received the top award in the Southeastern College Newspaper Competition. Based on performance of The Gamecock last semester, the paper received the Raleigh News and Ob. server award for all-round excel lence. It also earned the Roanoke World-News award for the best non-daily newspaper in the South east. Sally Zalkin was editor last semester. "The content and typography of The Gamecock are excellent. Based on service to the student commun ity as a whole, it is far and away The Be -Molly McInnis and Berkley Egenes; P ha rm a cy-Marty Faris andl Sarah Brayant, and Arts and1 S c i e n c e-Linda Thorne. CAMPUS SENATE -Student Senate candlidates (and number to be elected from the dlistrict): -At-Large (5)-Alba Begg, Jim Bradfordl, Randi Cabell, Russ Callahan, Cathy Hines, Jay Hodge, Emma Livingston, Margo Malanos, Peggy Martin and Alyce Youmans. ---District 1-Men's Towers (4): Wilfred Armstrong, Bill Chandler, Bob Emens, Wayne H e m b r ee, Fred Magner, Thomas Morah and William E. Smith. -District 3-Maxcy, Thorn well, Coker and Horseshoe tene ments (2): John Bennctt and Joe Sharnoff. -District 4-P r e a t o n andl Woodrow (2): John Bistrick. -District 6-Fraternity Row (2): James Tothill andl Sandy Streater. -District 7-Capstone (3): Sandy Baker, Sarah Bryant, Cherrie Crawford, Jane Dug Tio Den 0 ty, Fri ~~1 Way-Be May Queer n competition will be elect ayes, Cherrie over May We The winner k Gets T astern Coi superior to the other newspapers," said Claude Sitton, editorial di rector of the News and Observer. "The Gamecock speaks clearly a n d forcefully on controversial campus issues. . . . Its stories are well written; its headlines concise and to the point," he continued. The winners, judged from the six-state area, will receive trophies at a banquet of the Southeastern C o 11 e g e Newspaper Competition April 28. The competition is spon sored by eight daily newspapers and the Hollins Columns, student newspaper of Hollins College. Robert M. White II, former edi Llot Nelson. -District 8-South Building ~ (3): Julianne Still and Betsy Mickey. -District 9-Sou'h Tower (2): Jean Neal, Julie Royall and( Marion Spruill. OFF-CAMPUS SENATE -D 1 s t r i c t 14-Off-campus Arts and Science (4): Brett Bursey, Carlton Larmon, G;on zalo Leon, Buddy Medbery and James Pittman. -D) i s t r i e t 15-Off-campus Business Administration (3): * Berkley Egenes, Sidney Fried man, Thomas Heh, David Nute ~ and Jack Padgett. -D isatr icet 16--Off-campus Graduate School (3): Charton Brasington and Brian Rines. -D i s t r i c t 17-Off-campus Journalism and Education (2): Deborah Johnson and Sherry Shealy. --District 18-Luw S ch o ol (1): John R. Harpei Emily Wheeler. -D i s t ri c t 20-Off-campus Nursing and Pharrracy (1): E'llen Corley and Do.'na Wil iamson. -District 22-Foreign Stu lents (1): Guillermo Parra. mammeemmm m Be El day V Staff Photo by Warren Nudges Ad this week and will reign ekend activities next month. >p Honor npetition tor of the New York Herald-Tri bune and now editor and publisher of the Mexico, Mo., Ledger, will speak at the banquet. GIs' Lawyer Will Speak Michael Smith, one of the law yers for eight antiwar GIs cur rently being held at Ft. Jackson, is scheduled to speak in Russell House at 8 Wednesday night, ac cording to a spokesman for AWARE. AWARE also will sponsor a "studIent power" speak out at 5 p.m. today on the Russell House patio. "Stduent power" candidates will present their platforms. Imperials, Butler To Appear Anthony and The Imperials and Jerry Butler will appear in con cert Friday at 8 at Carolina Coli seum. Presented by the University Union, the concert will be open to the public. Ticke's are on sale at the Russell House information desk. Student tickets are $1.50 and public tickets, $2.00. Since 1958 when Little Anthony and The Imiperials had their first million-selling record, "Tears on My Pillow," they have dropped the adjective "Little." Their re cent hits have included "Grow, Grow, Grow" and previous singles such as "Let The Sunshine In" andi "Going Out Of My Head." Jerry Butler made his first hit recording with the Impressions, "For Your Precious Love," which has since been followed by "I've Been Loving You Too Long" and "I Stand Accused." Omicron Delta Kappa national honor society will tap new mem bers during the concert intermis Alion. lected 0 Dt.ng Computer To Count Ballots By CARL STEPP Managing Editor Carolina students will select their leaders for next year-and a beauty queen for this year-in spring elections beginning Wed nesday. Eight polls will be open from 9 to 7 for voting Wednesday and for runoffs Friday. Officers to be chosen include four student body officers, class officers, d i s e i p li n e committee members, student academic re sponsibility committee members, cheerleaders, University U n i o n president and student senators. Students will also name a May Queen from three final.sts chosen last week. In addition, students will be asked to vote for or against ex perimental beer sales on campus. A proposal for beer sales in the student night club was rejected last fall by the board of trustees. Offices for which there are no nominees include women's repre sentative on the discipline com mittee, student academic responsi bility commit'ee !eats in several schools, and senator from six dis tricts. These positions may be filled by write-ins. Write-in ballots may be obtained at the polling places. A special computer-counted ballot will be used for regular voting, as will IBM keypunch "voting machines." According to Louise Knies, elec *ions commission chairman, results 3hould be posted in Russell House about an hour and a half after olls close. Polling places will be: -Mike Johnson lounge for Men's Towers residents. -Maxcy lobby for residents of Maxcy, Thornwell, Coker, CoLim hia Hall and the Horseshoe tene ments. -Preston lobby for residents of Preston and Woodrow. -South for South residents. -South Tower for South Tower residents. -Sims lobby for residents of Sims, Wade Hampton and Mc Clintock. -Capstone for Capstone resi dents. -Russell House Assembly Roomt for residents of fraternity row, University Terrace, Woodland Ter race, Carolina Gardens, the Roost, for foreign students, and for off. campus students. IMembers of the elections com mission, in addition to Miss Knies, millan, Fred Oxley, John l)avid Spade andl Wally Thomas. Jerry Budler