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EXAMS BEGIN EXMAY BEIN56 President Jones' MAY 16Statement _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _( S e e p a g e 8 ) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROUNA Vol. LIX, No. 54 Columbia, South Carolina, Friday, May 9, 1969 Founded 1908 r ore Repoi Faculty 'Ro Seriousnest By CARL STEPP Managing Editor The faculty has "recognized the seriousness" of problems referred it by an ad hoc committee espe cially concerned with problems of black students. In a resolution passed Wednes day, the iaculty urged its mem bers to re-examine policies which might lead to such problems and expressed determination to crea tively face the problems of the University's "changing urban en vironment." The committee report, presented by Dr. Torn Terrill, pointed to n u m e r o u s problems involving black students. It: Ending Injustices Advocated By FRED MONK News Editor The newly elected Student Sen ate, in what was termed the "last chance" for student government, acted on all pending legislation (luring a two-and-a-half-hour ses sion Wednesday. Senate passed a resolution en dorsing attempts by Afro-Ameri can students "to eliminate racial injustices in all aspects of Uni versity life." The resolution was changed from an original resolution introduced in the outgoing Senate. The adopted resolution does not include the 13-point program given to President Thomas F. Jones last spring by the Afro-American stu dents. The Senate also passed the recommended ticket distribution method to go in effect for this fall's football season. Distribution will remain basically the same as last fall. The Senate, however, excluded the portion of the bill concerning distribution of basketball tickets. It will be further studied during the summer and the fall. Also passed was a resolution supporting a bill in the S. C. House of Representatives to lower, the voting age to 18. Cabinet Appo Knobel: By MARY JANE BIENSTON .Associate Editor Bairry Knobel became president of the student body Tuesday. In an inaugural speech during Awards Day ceremonies, Knobel challenged himself and his con stituents "to maturely and ration ally accept the strengthening stu (lent position on our campus." Also this week, Knobel an nounced his cabinet appointments: Allen n jLail 7 t On cogn izes Of Matter -suggested curriculum revision to better reflect the role of blacks in society and to study the place of Afro-American studies in the curriculum; -urged orientation programs to provide information on the prob lems of race relations on campus; -advised that speakers on prob lems of the black community be given special consideration in or ganizing University lecture pro grams; -suggested that a statement be issued of University policy on ra cial relations; Several suggestions were for athletics, including the following: -improving relations between athletic officials and Negro school administrators to aid recruiting black athletes; -"sensitizing scholarship ath letes and others to the problems of the black students" and avoid ing provocation between athletes and black students; -discouraging "offensive dis plays of racial hostility" detract ing from healthy school spirit. Furthermore, the report noted concern over relations between the University and the surrounding community, particularly the black community, affected by the school's land acquisition program. Other areas of concern noted in eluded: -"the handling of student dis sent," especially the relationship between students and campus police and between University authorities and municipal police. -meeting educational needs of "marginal students"; - -a s s u r i n g nondiscriminatory employment in all school positions, guaranteeing "equal wages for equal work, and equal opportunity for promotion irrespective of ra cial differences." Following the report, the faculty resolved "that it recognizes the seriousness of the problems set forth therein"; called upon its members "to re-examine . . . exist ing programs and courses which roay contribute to the persistence of such problems, and to seek ap propriate changes in order to fa cilitate their solution"; and ex pressed "its determination to con front in a creative spirit the ten sions andl conflicts growing out of the role of the University in its changing urban environment.", in ted alsDallara, first secretary; Joe Usry, secretary for general welfare; Carlton Larmon, secre tary for academic affairs; Polly Spann, secretary for cultural af fairs; Scottie B3arnes, secretary for public affairs; Harry Wright, at torney general; andl Fred Allyn, press secretary. Vice President for Student Af rairs Charles H. Witten adminis tered the oath of office to Knobel Barnes guage Racia .i4An I Sullivan Awa Pat Traylor, outgoing stud Salane, past president of ti Algernon Sidney Sullivan Av ODK Awards Day presentatio Sullivan Given To The student body president and secretary, along with a U. S. dis trict judge, received one of the University's highest honors here Tuesday. Tom Salane, Pat Traylor and Judge Robert W. Hemphill re ceived Algernon Sidney Sullivan awards for service to the Univer.. sity. Hemphill, a 1936 USC graduate and a 1938 law school graduate, has served as chairman of the school's Olin D. Johnston Memorial Fund. Salane, a history major from Columbia, is in Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma and is a member of the debate team. Miss Traylor, a political science major from Fayetteville, N. C., is president of Mortar Board andl was rush chairman for Zeta Tau Al pha sorority. She has served as p)resident and secretary of the As-< It Stren Tuesday, wvith past president Tom Salane looking on. "I call for positive solutions in the coming year to many already existing problems," the newv presi lent said. Knobel said University studlents ire prisoners of a "transitional rorce" in acadlemic history. "We ire often troubled with the dleci lion wvhether to take a stand on various issues or remain neutral. Dnll1rn Requ 1 Pro Staff Photo by Mike Tyler rd Recipients ant body seeretary, and Tom ie student body, hold their vards, presented during the ns. Awards Three sociated Women Students. In addition, 11 seniors were named as outstanding: Sara Bryant, Greenville; Linda Burton, Rock Hill; Harold Kirtz, Columbia; Clyde Livingston, North; and Linda Jo Mangum, Columbia; Also, David Meadow, Aiken; Stuart Reynolds, Anniston, Ala.; Karen Russell, Georgetown; Salane; Miss Traylor; and Sally Zalkin, Charleston. It was also announced that the 1969 Garnet and Black will be dedicated to Ada B. Thomas, as sistant professor of business ad ministration. Cited for Garnet-and Black fac ulty awards were Dr. Paul Fidler, assistant vice president for student affairs; Dr. John Scott Wilson, assistant professor of history; Del mar B. Pockat, assistant dean of edlucat ion; andl Rutledge Osborne, hairman of the boardl of trustees. In the past, remaining neutral may have been the safest argument, but no longer. In a sense, neu trality means complacency, andl c'omplacency in todlay's world is unwise andl potentially dlangerous. "I am a staunch believer that studlent powver' can be extremely zonstructive but only if p)ropelled powerfully and with the force of the support of the entire student bodly through a highly polished, Larmon 0 iremer blems 13 Hours 10 To Be By JIM WANNAMAKER Asst. Managing Editor Carolina students will have to finish fewer hours of foreign lan guages for both the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science de grees beginning next fall. The taculty voted Wednesday to reduce the maximum foreign lan guage requirement to 13 hours for the B.A. degree and to 10 for the B.S. degree. The changes are effective Sept. 1. The Curriculum and New Courses Committee was directed to consider possible changes in the structure of foreign language in struction w i t h i n these limits. Changes are to be submitted by the foreign language department or others. The committee is to make spe cific recommendations to the July faculty meeting. The faculty also adopted a teacher evaluation program recom mended by Chip Galloway and former student body president Tom Salane; -received a report from the ad hoc committee and resolved to study the problems mentioned (see related story); -unanimously endorsed a pol icy statement by USC President Thomas F. Jones (see related story on page 8); -corrected an error in the Uni versity catalogue to conform it to the GPR formula for scholastic eligibility; -adopted a memorial to the Formal, Fol Films To S1 May Day formal, a folk festival and a student films festival will highlight entertainment on campus (luring the coming week. Skitch Henderson and his orches tra will perform Saturday night for the annual May Day formal (lance. The dance will be from 8-12 at the National Guard Armory, and free invitations can be picked up at the Russell House information dlesk. FOLK FESTJVA L Today's day-long folk festival is cosponsored by the University g Stude efficient channel of student con trol," Knobel said. A reception for student body of ficers at the home of President Thomas F. Jones followved the awards program. First Secretary Dallara, a jun ior, is an economics major from Spartanb)urg. le was president of M4en's Towers Government this year. lHe is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Kappa Sigma its Lo1 Presi Required F Necessary late Prof. James R. Simmons; -and heard reports from the Faculty Athletic and Discipline committees. Dr. David G. Speer, head of the Department of Foreign Languages, described one possible program of instruction-a people-to-people ap proach utilizing "the new concept of what a language is," developed around the country over the last 15 years. "I think it is feasible," he said. "It can be done." Recommendation of the program changes by the committee depends on monetary considerations affect ing personnel and facilities as well as the effect a change to a five hour course would have on such other curriculums as engineering, according to Dr. Glenn Abernathy, author of the proposal. Speer said that the new pro gram, utilizing five-hour introduc tory courses and later three-hour courses, would intensively use audio-visual materials and tech niques to give an appreciafion of the foreign people and their insti tutions, interests and feelings, as well as the student's own language. The teacher evaluation forms will be completed by students dur ing regular classes next week. The confidential forms contain 55 questions ranging from the student's evaluation of the course, the professor's teaching, and the course materials to the student's academic achievement. Profiles and correlations will be k Festival, >ark Week Union and the Southern Folk Cul tural Revival Project. Admission is free. A concert from 12:30-2 p.m. on the Russell House patio features Phil Deidrich and Stewart Harris. A workshop will he held 2-5 p.m. in Room 207 of the Russell House. FILM FESTIVAL USC student-made films will he shown Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Russell House Assembly Room by the Celluloid Society. Admission is free, but donations for the Metropolitan Education FoundIationl will b)e accepted. ntPosi Kappa andl incoming presidlent ofi Alpha Phi Omega. Usry was president of the fresh man class, freshman senator at large and a delegate to the South Carolina Student Legislature, lie is a member of Cir&Ie K and AFROTC drill team. lHe is from Aiken. Larmon, a political science ma jor, has been a studlent senator, chairman of the USC dlelegation to Wright wered; ented or B.A.; For B.S. drawn by computer on "anything that the professor feels might aid his teaching," according to Gallo way. The profiles and correlations are to be drawn between a professor and the faculty average and the departmental average as well as between one professor's classes. All these are confidential except the University averages. Stepp Named Editor Carl Stepp, who b e g a n as a Gamecock reporter in his first se mester at Carolina, was named this week as editor of The Gamecock for next fall. Stepp, a rising senior from Ben nettsville, will head a staff that will publish The Gamecock three times a week for the first time in USC history. Also named to editorial positions were Jim Wannamaker, managing editor; Mike Krochmalny, associate editor; and Ed Chen and Fred Monk, assistant managing editors. Heading the business staff will be Jack Padgett, business manager, and Glen G o d f r e y, advertising manager. 0 t h e r positions announced in flude Susan Ross, news editor; Jim Haney, sports editor; Alyce You mans, c h i e f of reporters; and Sherry Shealy, faculty editor. Currently managing editor of the paper, Stepp is in Sigma Delta Chi (SDX), Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) and will be initiated next week into Phi Beta Kappa. He is a journal sm major. Wannamaker, a rising s e n i o r from C h e r a w, is now assistant managing editor. A six - semester veteran on the paper, he is in ODK ind is an officer of KTA and SX. Padgett will be beginning his secondi semester as business man. ager. lie is a business administra. tion major from WVest Columbia. Godfrey is a journalism major. SCSSL, secretary and president of the International Relations Club andl Student Union administrative assistant. Miss Spann is a political science major from Charleston. She has servedl as a page intern in Wash ington for Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D)-S. C. The new secretary for public affairs is a Columbian. Barnes is (Continuced on Page 8) Knobel