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The South Carolina Supreme
Court denied a motion Wednesday
to lower the bail for two operators
of the UFO.
Yet to be considered by the court
is a motion by the defense at
torneys to obtain a temporary
federal restraining order to
prevent prosecution of the UFO
operators.
The American Civil Liberties
Union also filed an action in
federal court to prevent Columbia
city police from trying the group
on violations of the anti-litter
statute.
Five persons were arrested last
If"iday for passing out handbills
that announced a rally to protest
the closing of the Coffee House.
The group is seeking to obtain
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By HARRY HOPE
Chief of Reporters
Born out of crisis, living in action
and heading toward progress, the
Metropolitan Education Foun
dation (MEF) works for people
and welfare.
MEF came about after the
Orangeburg crisis of 1968, when
businessmen and educators
realized that the illusion of racial
harmony was shattered - that, in
reality, blacks were dissatisfied
and that they wanted visible signs
of progress, according to Bob
Alexander, MEF campus director.
IN RESPONSE TO NEED
The MEF project gained support
from the student body and faculty
of Carolina, and two days after the
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Student Senate passed a bill
establishing MEF as a campus
organization.
MEF is, basically, a coalition of
students, faculty and Columbia
businessmen. As Alexander put it,
"We are an organization working
in response to the needs of the poor
and principally black.
"We have two purposes," he
continued. "One is to raise funds
for progress in poor and prin
an cipally black communities by
or programs designed and carried out
by the people in the communities
and the other is to educate the total
community to economic and racial
problems.
"The idea is to muster the
resources of the larger community
so that they will respond to the
needs of the smaller community.
The people in these smaller
communities know what they need
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brass and lead is being presented
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the Gallery during February.
the The 30-piece show includes the
Im work of sculptors from the
University of Georgia, East
Carolina University and USC.
nt Open to the public, the show in
on- cludes many pieces for sale by the
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ment. the show illustrates what
students can do with a foundry
where they are able to cast their
own sculpture. The department
has only recently acquired its own
foundry.
The gallery, located in Sloan
College, is open Monday through
Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Towers are not aware of their
privilege to come before the
Towers' court," Chief Justice
Stephen Smith said in an interview
yesterday.
Smith said any Towers resident
may appeal disciplinary action
initialed by a dorm counselor by
coming before the court. and
presenting his case. He said that
the Dean of Men has "preemptive
powers" in all cases but that the
court makes endeavors to enforce
its decisions.
"1f the court finds a student
guilty," Smith said, "then we hold
last to that decision. However,
once we find a student not guilty
we work just as hard to see that the
decision is carried out."
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and a Chief Justice. He said that
one justice is elected from each
Tower and that the Mens' Towers
president appoints an additional
justice. He added that the Chief
Justice is then elected by his fellow
justices.
Smith said that he feels the court
has been largely successful. "The
court gives a student the privilege
of being tried by his peers," he
said, "and this makes it easier to
accept disciplinary action. But it
also gives the student a means of
defending himself if he is in
nocent."
Smith reiterated that a lack of
publicity was one of the biggest
problems facing the court. "I think
most of the Towers' residents are
aware of their right to come before
:.the court," he said. "But as I said,
many of them are not."
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University regulations, but the
board strongly recommended that
$723.25 from that fund be returned
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can also help educate the older
le people in community," he said.
The whole idea of this, according
to Alexander, is to help organize
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munities.
A project which Alexander said
he hopes to institute this summer is
a guaranteed income program for
"hard-core teenagers."
In this program, students from
the University Business Ad.
ministration School would help
black teenagers organize
businesses in their communities to
do needed work. This would be
done through a series of feasibility
studies in areas such as Cayce New
Life, Camp Fornance, Arthurtown
and Ridgewood.
ANOTHEM PROBLEM
Another problem is the lack of
recreation and park facilities, he
said. The residents of the com
munities would plan and carry out
the construction of these facilities
themselves.
An example of this facet of MEF
at work is the Wheeler Hill com
munity center, which was set up in
an old laundromat near Bates
House. The project is headed by
Louis James, a Carolina student.
MEF plans in the near future to
call for a fund-raising drive, which
would be carried out in a manner
similar to that of the United Fund
Drive, with door-to-door callers
and a campaign to solicit money
from local colleges and univer
sities, such as Carolina, Allen,
Benedict and Columbia College.
MEF hopes to raise $10,000 from
these schools.
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vacancies
election Feb. 26i in order to fill
vacated offIices of vice president
and treasurer of the government.
T'hose who wish to run for these
positions should have a 2.0 GPR
and should give their names and
the positions they want to run for to
Fred Monk, president of the
government, so their names will be
placed on the ballot.
"T'lhere are a lot of qualified
people.'' Monk said. "and we want
to keep interest alive so we will
have an active voice on policies
concerning our homes here."
This is the first year the Hor
seshoe has had a government and
according to Monk, although the
pace' has been slow there have
been some definite ac
complishments made since the
government has been formed.
He said the government is now
working with the administration to
decorate the lounge and provide
water coolers eventually for all the
individual tenements.
Itepresentatives of the govern
iment plan to meet next Thudey
night at 7l in the Horseshoe Lounge.
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