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1670 1970 SOUTH CAROLINA TRICENTENNIAL SOUTH CARL. TR ICENTENNIAL Vol. LX No. 81 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 M A - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - USC joins celebration The University held convocation today at Trinity Episcopal Church in commemoration of South Carolina's Tricentennial. British Ambassador John Freeman, special guest of the University at the ceremonies, gave an address and was honored by USC with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. University classes at 11:15 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. were dismissed so that students could be present at the 11:45 a.m. ceremonies. Dr. Thomas F. Jones, USC president, presided over the ac tivities which included welcoming remarks by Gov. Robert E. Mc 'Nair. The Rev. James Stirling, rector of Trinity church, gave the r invocation. Music was provided by the 4 University Concert Choir, directed by Arpad Darazs, the USC Brass Ensemble, directed by Fred Teuber, and by Robert Van Doren at the organ. Ambassador Freeman had a long career as a journalist before joining the British government is 1955. He left a position as editor of the influential weekly New Statesman (Continued on Page 3) Students ir officers to< Nominations for student body elections to be held April 26 will be c taken today on the second floor of U the Russell House outside the m Assembly Room. e Anyone who wishes to run for ofice may either nominate him'self b or have someone else do so by 6 filling out a form which will be n provided by the Elections Com- 0 mission from 9 to 5 p.m. at the nominations post. Gamecock promotes five Several staff promotions have been made on The Gamecock. Editor-in-chief Jim Wan namaker announced the following promotions: --Scott Derks, Cheryl Manning and Elizabeth Phillips have been promoted to news editors. Each of ~ the three was a night editor. In I their new positions they will be chief assistants to the managing editor or assistant managing editor in charge of the news pages [ produced each night. r --Mike Ball was promoted to night editor. The night editors r work with the managing editor, t assistant managing editor and I news editors in preparing the news pages. --John Gash was promoted to assistant sports editor. L Wannamaker said, "Each of E these staff members has done a lot of hard work for us. The promotions are to recoghize that and for the additional r organizational strength we feel the creation of the news editor positions will give the paper." I Nelson to year at Vi Dr. Bruce W. Nelson, dean Science, will take a leave of al for the 1970-71 academic year environmental sciences at the Dr. Robert D. Ochs, head of will become acting dean of the D. Bargar will be acting chali ment. Nelson said Virginia has lus of environmental sciences on and he is interested in working formulate similar ideas. He E absence is analogous to an ac His teaching at Virginia will ithe geology of estuaries. The supervision of student a College of Arts and Science w Associate Dean H. F. Trotter, Chug The steam whistle that woko esidents Sunday morning his 'old timey' train. In ce outh Carolina's Tricentei outhern railway offered Save lV is envir4 Tomorrow, Wednesday and rhursday the "Environmental ssues Program" will present lommate lay Wednesday, from 5-6 p.m., all 3ndidates are required to meet in e Assembly Room where they ill be notified whether they are igible to run for the office. If they are eligible, they may egin their campaign Thursday at p.m. If they are not eligible, they iay appeal Wednesday night at ie Joint Judicial Council. Offices open for Nomination: President of the student body Vice president of the student body Secretary of the student body Treasurer of the student body Senior class officers(pres.. vp., sec., treas.) Junior class officers (pres.. vp.. see., treas.) Sophomore class officers (pres., vp., sec., reas.) Disciplinary committee I female, I male) Academic Responsibilities Committee (one -om each of the following) Arts and Science Business Administration Education Engineering Journalism Nursing Pharmacy General Studies enators: )Mstrict No. 1- Men's Towers 6 )istrict No. 2- Horseshoe. Maxcy, Coker bornwell 2 )ist rict No. 3- Preston. Snowden. Burney 2 )ist rlct No. 4-Bates House 2 ~st rict No. S--Fraternity Row ist rict No. 6-Roost1 istrict No. 7-Capstone 2 strict No. S-South Tower 2 ~strict No. 9-South BuildIng 3 ist rict No 10-Columbia Hall istrict No. Il-Simms trict No. 12-Wade Hampton and Mc lintock istrict No. 13-University Terrace. Carolina ardes 2 ist rict No. l4-Off-campus Arts & Science S istriet No. 15-Of-campus business 6 istrict No. 16--Off-campus graduate 4 istrict No. 17-Off-campus journalism I ~strict No. I8-Off-campus education 3 istrict No. 19-Off-campus law I strict No. 20-Off-campus general studies I istrict No. 21-Off-campus nursing and tarmacy1 tstrict No. 22-Off<campus engineering 2 pperclassmen at large 4 spend .rginma of the College of Arts and sence from the University to be visiting professor of University of Virginia. the Department of History, college, and Prof. Bradley man of the history depart t established a department an interdisciplinary basis, In their situation in order to xplained that his leave of ademic sabbatical. borrow from his expertise cademic advisement in the ill be the responsibility of Nelson saaid. a-chuga-chug-woo up Tower's yesterday 4 belongs to replica of ti lebration of the first ste infal year, cars in r free rides America. [other nmen1 speakers to the University or different aspects of the en vironmental crisis. Also Wednesday, students will bury a time capsule in front of Cooper (undergraduate) Library at 1:30 p.m. as part of "Earth Day." Rep. Alex Sanders is planned as speaker for the day which has the theme of "Don't Make the World an Orphan--Save Mother Nature!" Dr. Merril Eisenbud, director of New York University's Laboratory for Environmental Studies, will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Room of Capstone Hous. Eisenbud was appointed Ad ministrator of the Environmental Protection Administration in March, 1968 by Mayor John V. Lindsay. He was responsible for sanitation, air pollution control, water resources and development of a noise abatement program for two years in Lindsay's ad ministration. His talk at USC will be on "Rehabilitating the Urban En vironment." The lecture is the fourth in a series of six sponsored by the Lectures Committee of the University Union. The author of the book "En vironmental Radioactivity," Eisenbud is chairman of the U.S. Public Health Service's Advisory Committee on Environmental Radiation Exposure and chairman of the N.Y. State General Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy. A limited number of com plimentary tickets will be available for the public at Tuesday's lecture. Stepp ''Steppenwolf," a hard ra the University Union Frida' the Russell.House Informat for students and $2, 3, -a I ! chief Photographer Will Peters ind today until 2 p.m. on a ie "Best Friend of Charleston," Dm locomotive to pull a train of ?gular passenger service in Nature' theme Wednesday, Grover W. Cook, of the Middle Atlantic Region of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, will speak on "Functions of the Government in the Environmental Crisis." Cook received an AB degree at Caterbury College in Indiana and later took an MD degree in Aquatic biology at Butler University. He has worked as Chief Biologist for the Great Lakes Project of the Federal Water Pollution Control Program doing studies of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Continued- en Page- - - C APRIL2-21 Great Garbo Festival: "Anna Karenin&.a "Nlnotchka", "Camille"; Russell House Assembly Room, 3:30, 6, 9 p.m. APRIL26 i ULRA, Room 205. Russell House, 7 p.m. APRIL 21 Sailing Club, Room 118, B. A. Building, 5:30 S p.m. C Faculty recital, Victoria M. Bragin, Columbia Museum of Art, 8 p.m. open to public without charge. David Frontz, USC graduate student of V mathematics, wIll speak on the University's V mathematics graduate program. Room 412, LeConte. Engineers' Joint Council, Conference Room, Russell House, 5 p.m. APRIL 22 Student Speak-Out. Russell House Patio, 2- 0 4:30 p.m. s . t 4'h LIWOi 'I4. ckgop,wl b rsetdb ".Alsasm ersre a I IonDs.Tcesee$,$,$ 4(o o-suet C) C01 By SCOTT DERKS News Editor The faculty of the College of Arts and Science will vote Thursday on proposed changes in curriculum, he first major move in 76 years, according to Dean Bruce W. qelson. For the past year a committee ot tudents, headed by Scottie Barnes ias compiled a report on the needs ind wants of the Carolina student mder Arts and Science. From this Nork has come a call for greater lewibility for both the student and aculty. "The underlying need is for a nuch greater flexibility," Dean ielson said. "We found out by the student report that the students elt that the curriculum was too pecialized and very rigid and is a ;erious problem in cutting the nierest of freshmen. Dr. Lyle Mitchell, member of tng faculty committee said, "We havf divided the students polled into tw( groups: first, the job-oriented student to whom we would like tc Affer a general education, and the ;econd is the student who is Alanning to go on to a professional >r graduate school. For this ;tudent we have the intensive najor. "Using the comprise plan we ieen to be frustrating both Iroups," Scottie Barnes said. "We are not meeting our com nittnent to either group. The job oriented student grows tired of ubjects not related to his job or Studen seek 1 By KITTY MCKASKILL Staff Writer The State Student Legis)ature vill meet tomorrow at the state apitol to express support of the 18 ear-old vote. The bill to allow the genera oublic to vote on lowering the oting age to 18 has passed the . C. House of Representatives and now before the Senate. The student legislature con sting of delegations from 17 South arolina colleges and universities as scheduled to begin its spring -ssion Wednesday but is con ening a day early because of the sting bill. "The students will each talk to enators from their area," Jim orley, co<chairman of the USC elegation said. "We plan to lobby ni an individual basis." Student Legislature Governor d Woodard, a junior from the 'itadel, hopes to address the state enate, according to Corley. Chip Galloway, member of the rSC delegation, said that the W/omen's 13 memb, Mortar Board, senior women's onor society, tapped 13 members it Stunt Night Wednesday evening. The new members are Caroline laker, Barbara Boyan, Anne 'lamp, Anne Carol Collier, Judy Iamm, Peggy Harley, Polly Iarrltt, Karel Kunze, Anne Lip comb, Harriet Lowe, Betty Anpkin, Cheryl Manning and usan Ross. Miss Baker, an art major from 'olumbia, has served as editor and resident of the YWCA and Is ecretary of the South Carolina 4udent Christian Association. Her IPR is 3.426. Miss Boyan has served as an xecutive of Angel Flight and as ice president of Kappa Kappa sama sorority. She also plays in ae Pan-Hellenic Jug Band. Her IPR is :3.4. An education major from 'olumbla, Miss Clamp is president I the Town Girl's Association. She as worked on the International tudents Committee and the afeteria Committee on food ervice. Her GPIt Is :3.75. Miss Collier, a nursing major -oma Plumbranch, Is chairman of ie South Carolina Student Nurses iinociation and vice president of Eacu1t~ Ltrse cl direction and we are not serving our professional students because our graduates have not made high Fashion show tonight AWS will sponsor a Bridal Fashion Show tonight at 8 in the, Campus Room of Capstone. Fashions will be from White's of Columbia and will include attire for all aspects of the wedding. Representatives from AWS will model wedding gowns, ;bridesmaids gowns, bathing suits, negligees, going away outfits and dresses for lun cheons and the rehearsal party. Several types of wedding fashions will be presented, including a garden wedding and..: a cathedral wedding. An admission charge of 50 cents will be used for an AWS scholarship. White's will also be giving away door prizes. Models for the show include Peggy Harley, Jean Neal, Linda Latimer, Ellen Boggs, Betsy Mickey, Anne Clamp, 5 Barbara Matthews, Linda Campbell, Lyn Powell, Betty Lumpkin, Mary Cook and Nan Lyles. Mike Spears and Ralph Arrington will serve as grooms and ushers. is solor 8-year-o students have been working with Sen. Eugene Zeigler of Florence and Sen. John Drummond of Greenwood. Both Zeigler and Drummond are optomistic about the bill receiving the necessary two-thirds vote in the Senate. Galloway and Betsy Mickey, Gamecoci in Southt The Gamecock has won another honor. The paper was a runner-up for the Raleigh News and Observer Award for general excellence. The contest--co-sponsored by Hollins College--was part of the Sixth Annual Southeastern College Newspaper Competition (SCNC). Winner of the award was the Mace and Crown of Old Dominion University. Other runnerups were the Chronicle of Duke University, the Athenaeum of West Virginia honor soc ers at Stu Meditrina. She has also served on the Wade Hampton Judicial Board. Her GPR is 3.034. A music major from Columbia, Miss Hamm plays in the Columbia Philharmonic Orchestra and the USC Orchestra. Her GPR is 3.407. 'Miss Harley is AWS president and has served as treasurer of South Building. She is a member of the Mermaid fleet and AMpha Delta Pi sorority. An education major from Swansea. her GPR is 3.595. Miss Harritt, a history major from Sumter. spent last semester as an exchange student to Warwick University in England. She has been president of Alpha Lamba Delta and vice president of Chi Omega sorority. Her GPR is 3.8. A french major from Springfield, Miss Kunze has been a freshman cheerleader and a member of Angel l"light. She is president of Delta Delta Delta sorority and her GPH is 3.2. A nursing student, Miss Lip scomb is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, Meditrina and the national Student Nurses Asadciation. She is also a charter member of Tuarning Point. Her GPR is 3.791. Miss Lowe, an accountin major from Columbia. in a member of Svotes Ianges scores on graduate record exam in the past years." "We would like to see more of the degree requirements satisfied at the junior and senior levels," Nelson said. "The freshmen and sophomore would not be loaded down at first and could pick the courses that interested them." One proposed revision wW be for an interdisciplinary majors. Ac cording to the reporti 85 per cent of the faculty favored the plan and a little over half of the students wanted the plan. An In terdisciplinary major would take 18 hours in his major and 18 hours in one or two other related departments that are of a related major. Foreign languages are proposed as an optional course with two or three others. "It will not be dropped," Nelson said. Your requirements would depend on whether you were in general or intensified studies. There was a direct corolating -between the students who did not do well a foreign language, 4r wasn't interested in it, and their grades and intentions after college. Most who were not in terested are not planning to go to graduate school." Physical education for all students could become optional under this program because the report showed that many students (Continued on Page 3) Is ..._- _4_- . .. Id vote also of the USC delegation, passed out letters to the Senate Thursday in support of the bill. "If we can help get this bill passed it will be the biggest thing the student legislature has ever done." Galloway said. second ast University and the Technician of North Carolina State University. Last year The Gamecock won both the News and Observer Award and the Roanoke World News Award for the best non-daily campus paper in the Southeast. The News and Observer Award represents the sweepstakes award of the SCNC. Editor of the first semester papers judged in the competition this year was Carl Stepp. miety taps nt Night Beta Alpha Psi and the Town Girl's Association. She is past president and treasurer of PAD and was elected state queen by the South Carolina Physically Handicapped Society. Her GPR is 3.119. Miss Lumpkin has served on the Judicial Council and as treasur of AWS. She is administrative service officer in Angel Flight and president of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Her GPR is 3.24. A journalism major from Iva, Miss Manning transferred from Anderson Junior College where she was editor of the student newspaper. At USC she is in the Baptist Student Union and a night editor for the Gamecock. Her GPR is :3.33.. Miss Ross. a journalism major from Columbia, has served on the Gamecock as news editor and assistant managing editor. She has been historian of Theta Sigma P1 and is commander of the Mermaid Fleet. Her GPR is 3.6. The Tobwn Girls Aanocatlena the .award for the most W tertaiping act of amt N Most arigiut tss gr