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They'll get pa 20L By MICHAEL BALL Staff Writer Twenty USC students will be paid not to go to class this fall. The 20 students will be studying topics of their own choice for a semester or the entire year as part of a program funded by the Fort Foundation. The Foundation has donated a $115,000 grant to the University of Massachusetts, Federal City College and USC for the program eALitled the Contemporary (Yersity. "People all over the country are watching the Contemporary University (CU) very closely," Scottie Barnes told USC students participating in the program. -18 Fre 'Loven or an By EDDIE CHEN Asst. Managing Editor Lovemaking, bartending and other short courses sponsored last spring by the University Union will be offered again this fall. The non-credit courses attracted world-wide attention when first offered by the Union's Lectures Committee and were received with mixed emotions in the Carolina community. This year, there will only be 16 courses - instead of 106 first offered last spring. Scottie Barnes, vice president of the Union, said Sunday that many of last year's courses have been dropped, due to lack of interest while other have been combined. A brochure of the program was to be distributed to students today, with registration cards for those interested. 'Preasurer election necessary geo off ice of student body surer will be among the positions open in the fall election expected to be held on Oct. 16. The position of treasurer is open after being vacated by Jay Hodge, elected to the post in the Spring. Barry Knobel, student body president said candidates must have at least a 2.5 GPR and rules concerning the election will be strictly enforced. Knobel noted that in the past election rules established in the constitution were not always adhered to. University people Six Counselor Jan Ferguson r room on the fourth floor of C freshmen girls were movin' ''Help--we're locked in the Two room mates,their moth * The door stuck sp a carpeni som and unhinged the door The air conditioner in theeI windows were stuck shut. Tc As she walked through the group Mis Ferg..son aid'# Lid, too von t g( Barnes is one of eight student and six faculty advisors who selected 25 USC undergraduates on the basis of proposals submitted in June. The 20 students who remained in CU will follow a course of independent study during the fall semester. The Carolina members of CU will receive a full semester of academic credit toward graduation. A "grub-stake" of $300 each will help defray expenses the students might not normally have, in cluding travel and necessary equipment for research. Dean of the College of Arts and Science Bruce Nelson, who heads the Faculty-Student Advisory Committee, is administrating the USC program with the cooperation INA ;hmen attempt regi aing ther r( All 16 courses will be held in the Humanities Center. Room num bers will be posted at the entrances of the building. Courses being offered are: filmmaking, film history and appreciation, bartending, cooking, contemporary theater, draft laws, how to use McKissick Library, insurance, investment, lovemaking, man in his universe, planning your wedding, politics, art and theology; religion today, selenology (study of the moon) and witchcraft. Members of the Lectures Committee did not know yet how the moon landing last July would effect the selenology course. Courses will be taught by faculty members, community leaders and students, "all of whom have ex tensive knowledge and skill in their fields," according to Barnes. Last spring, more than 2,600 students enrolled in the various courses. The Columbia Record com mented Feb. 22 that "Eyebrows are arching around the state at the nature of some of the courses. Gasps of dismay greeted the in formation that one proposed course would be on 'Lovemaking.'" President Thomas F. Jones last spring was widely criticized for his enthusiastic support "of the goals and achievements of the short courses program."~ Barnes, who spearheaded the drive to establish the program last spring, said other courses not listed on the brochure may be implemented if there is a strong demand. After the program became a reality last February, the Associated Press released a story on it which brought reactions from trapped eceived a distress call from a olumbia Hall Tuesday, as 150 Sin. room and can't get out '' ers and fathers were locked in. er climbed through the tran oom wasn't working, and the tal waiting time: 45 minutes. doorway and faced the irate 'Welcoma to Columbia Hal" ' to cla of President Thomas F. Jones and deans of other schools. Mike Garret from Cal Tech is group leader of CU at USC and will aid the students and help coor dinate their activities. Proposals from USC par ticipants range from Carla Smalls' study of fictional charactersand hero-typing of children to Joe Usry's topic of the black high school system in South Carolina. Students will - report to their advisors regularly during the semester and have their work reviewed and graded in January. There is a minimum of super vision and students are en couraged to develope their own research techniques. Courses may be taken either for grades or pass fail. - Mark fuger tration. is back >und all corners of the world, including South Vietnam and Germany. The most popular courses last spring were lovemaking, bar tending, witchcraft, stock market investing, yoga, self defense, cooking, auto mechanics, mysticism and photography. Soon solved F acil By SCOTT' DERKS Staff Writer Problems such as the phones in Sims that don't work and chaos in the parking and traffic situation will hopefully soon be solved. Harold Brunton, vice president for business affairs, estimated two to three weeks to solve the problems. "With so many people not knowing what to do we are going to have to wait for two to three weeks before evaluating the problems and trying to clear them up," Brunton said. Dorms were rushed into livable Spears. 'priority succeeds' Student government has suc ceeded. Impossible you're saying? No. The Priority system for registration instituted with mass confusion last year has been a success, according to Mike Spears, student body vice president. "This year we have been a lot more thorough and accurate, not like last year," Spears said. He added that approximately 400 priority passes for registration were expected to be distributed. He noted also that over 2,000 students had gone before three priority committees seeking early registration. Last year only 400 students appealed for priorities, but ac cording to Spears the confusion was rampant with long lines and no lists for the committees to check. He noted that 25 student senators devoted a lot of work into organizing the system so it could be successful. SS Joe Rhodes of Harvard and the University of Massachusetts heading the program for the three schools, said CU will be evaluated to determine if undergraduates all over the nation are ready to follow similar programs as part of regular academic ciricula. Nelson, speaking to the USC participants in the Russell House Sunday, stressed the experimental nature of CU, "we are going to organize our program here very independently and assure the students their chance." 419 40 tica during Bell -def papher Chuck Keer ,amp Day. A Vol. LX, No. 3 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. 29208 Monday, Sept. 15, 1969 *wooccnocseoconseswa ococcssw .wa n. .--..--..--. SCYI broug By JIM WANNAMAKER Managing Editor The S.C. Revolutionary Youth Movement (SCRYM) will try to bring the war in Vietnam home to Carolina students Saturday by opening a second front on the Horseshoe. "We will fight not only to bring peace to Vietnam, but to establish another front against U.S. im verialism," wrote Brett Bursey. a SCRYM spokesmn,4a-a pamphlet on the rally. "Our struggle is in the streets, shops and classrooms of America. It is a war in which you are either part of the solution, or you become part of the problem. It is a war in which we can not resist," wrote Bursey. ities pr conditions and the finishing touches will be added later. Bates House will have its parking lot completed "some time next Brunton said. The first phase of the aerial walkway from Bates House will be completed around the first of the year, he said. The 700-800 foot expansion will extend from Bates House and angle into the main stretch which crosses the creek and the railroad tracks before coming to rest on Wheat Street, he added. 'The five steps in the walkway construction will include an added link across Blossom Street and a connection with the newf infirmary to be built behind Russell House. The aerial walk and another project, the tunnel from the Coliseum, are both designed "to separate pedestrian and vehicle traffic, Brunton said. The tunnel, still in the planning stages, will remain there until the Law School accumulates the needed building money, according to Brunton. Asst Deans IM wd Pht to Bursey estimated attendance at 500-1,000. The rally will include per formances by two rock bands, a guerilla theater group and speakers, including a national Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) officer, according to Bur sey. Charles H. Witten, vice president of student affairs, said that as of Sunday AWARE had reserved the Horseshoe for a "meeting" only. Witten stated that no mention had been made of speakers or a concert and his office was "still checking" on the legality of the planned program. Jeff Jones, inter-organizational secretary of the SDS, will speak in oblems Ending in the middle of Green and Devine Streets, the projected underground structure will be 120 feet long and 20 feet wide, he said. It has not been decided whether a wAlk or a wading pool will be built next to the Humanities Center. The final selection of a sculpture for the plaza will determine whether a pool or a walk is constructed, Brunton said. Administrative now have Sat If you have plans to visit the administratiion building on Saturday, don't; it will not be open. Week day hours for operation have been extended 15 minutes and Saturday work for A ministration Building employees has been eliminated. "At one time the employees were required to work one Saturday a month and we operated with a limited staff," Harold Brunton, I Qais IutmartIn Willis. Nix mts HorsE place of Mark Rudd, according to Bursey. Rudd is currently national secretary of SDS and was one of the leaders of the Columbia University SDS chapter during the occupation of campus buildings there two years ago. Rudd will be in Chicago preparing for National Action Day to be held Oct. 11. Bursey said that the Chicago rally would be ex tremely massive. He added that one of the functions of the Hor seshoe rally would be to publicize the Chicago rally. The Horseshoe rally is to begin at noon. There are to be speakers representing campus organization AWARE, SCRYM, SDS, GI's United Against the War in Viet nam. Committee of Fort Jackson Conscientious Objectors and COBRA, a newly formed organization in Charleston for the implementation and maintenance of peace in the black community, according to Bursey. "The Electric Garbage Players" is the guerilla theater group. The rock groups are "Blue Smoke" and "Safe Lane." Folksinger, com poser and revolutionary Doug Thiele will speak and sing. Bursey said the rally is being co sponsored by AWARE, the UFO Coffee House, SDS, the new Committee of Fort Jackson Conscientious Objectors, Charleston Community and Sanitary Workers and others. Bursey described SCRYM as a new organization covering employees urdays off vice president for business affairs, said. "It was an inefficient system on Saturdays with only a limited staff so the hours for operation are now from 8:45 to 5 p.m.," Brunton said. Last year the building opened for business at 9 a.m. on Saturday and closed at 5 p.m. New assist of men, w< Two new assistant deans have assumed their duties in the student affairs division of USC. Miss Bronna Willis will serve as assistant dean of women working with Dean Elizabeth M. Clot worthy. As assistant dean of men Jerry J. Nix will work with Dean L. Eugene Cooper. Miss Willis received a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a M.S. degree in student personnel administration from Indiana University where she was ad mitted to the doetoral program. war oshoe members of various groups such as those co-sponsoring the meeting. "Everybody can belong," Bursey said. "RYM's are starting all over the country." "The SCRYM is an organization of individuals who are painfully aware of the urgent need for radical social change in America NOW." lie said the main emphasis of the Saturday rally will be political and educational redefinition for Carolina students. He said the first two years a student spends here are the 13th and 14th grades of high school. "We want to talk to the students about this and get them to thinking and talking. Then maybe something will happen," Bursey said. The group issued five demands. They included a withdrawal of American troops and presence in Vietnam. decentralization of power to the people of American communities, national self determination. freeing "political prisoners" here and abroad and an end to male chauvinism. Parking decals late Parking in student lots will be a free-for-all for at least the next 10 days. The contractor for parking decals failed to deliver and Douglas 1. Fitzgerald. assistant to the vice president for business affairs, said that it would be that long before delivery could be made by the new printer. Until then student lots will be open. He said that students would not be allowed to park in faculty lots. All student government officials and student senators will receive one and two digit decal numbers. according to student senator Chip Galloway. ant deans men added She was assistant to the Dean of Students, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga. prior to her ap pointment at USC. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Nix has completed 4 hours of course work toward a Ph. D. degree in history. While there, he served as a resident counselor and as a graduate teaching assistant. Prior to coming to USC, Nix waa a field representative and ad ministrative secretary for Lambda Chi ANpha, Inc. (social fraternity) Indianapolis, Ind.