The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 27, 1970, Image 1

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All-American again Eighth consecutive semester Vol. LX - No. 84 %A--A-A A.. --.......ve of South Cardlina_ Columbia, S. C. 2920 Facltym Regis by n By SUSAN ROSS Asst. Managing Editor Registration next fall will be by the number of hours a student has earned, according to Chip Galloway, chairman of the Registration and Distribution Committee. To replace the old system in which students registered ac cording to their class standing the Student Senate passed the new system based on hours. Galloway explained that con trolled release will be used at the Coliseum for registration by time periods. Intervals of one minute are suggested to groups of seven or eight people to enter the Coliseum at one time, eliminating the need for long lines. Each student will be designated specific day, hour and minute on which to enter the Coliseum. Galloway said that after that minute, the student may register when he wished, so long as he did not register before his designated minute. In the summer the Office of Admissions and Registration will send out Registration Appointment cards to inform students of the time they should arrive. Students with the most hours will register earliest whether they are transfer students or not, thereby Students lea ders tc Students go to the polls today to select the officers of next year's student government. More than 180 candidates are running for positions ranging from president of the student body to cheerleader. Candidates for president are Scottie Barnes, Connie Coyne, Wayne Hembree, Fred Magner, James Pittman and Mike Spears. Running for student body vice president are Jim Bradford, Chip Galloway, Doug Jones and Jean Neal. Barbara McEachern, Betsy Mickey and Jeannine Smith are vying for secretary of the student body while Julianne Still is the only candidate for treasurer. A referendum will also be held on the new student body con stitution approved several weeks ago by the student senate. Polls are open from 9 to 6 with 10 polling places set up. They are MEF has summer fund drive This week the Metropolitan Education Fountion (MEF) will have a table in the Russell House to sign up volunteers for a fund drive for its summer program. MEF Is asking for volunteers to go out May 16-17, a Saturday and Sunday, from 2-7 p.m. to solicit funds in Columbia. In the summer, MEF works in impoverished areas of Columbia, stressing improvement in all phases of community life-social, educational and recreational. MEF is still about $40,000 away from Its gpal for this summer. The freshman class is spon soring 'MEF Day' May 7 to help raise funds. According to Bob Alexander, director of Volunteer Services at USC, on May 16-17 volunteers will go into designated areas of Columbia in pairs and will return each night to have refresh ments and a smali get togethe. tratioi imber eliminating the need for transfer priorities. Hours earned will be determined as close as possible to the next term. A date of July 1 will be used for fall 1970 for non-USC students and a date of Summer Session I for USC students. Within subgroups of students with the same number of hours, random selection will use the last two digits of the Social Security Hope, top Sp Bob Hope choose iday Bates House, M & N Lounge, Russell House, the Roost, Sims, Columbia Hall, Capstone, South Building, Petigru College and Maxcy College. Security agents will be at the polls and students need their picture ID card and their university fee card to vote. Run-offs will be held Wednesday. Outstanding stud Awards I Outstanding Carolina students will be honored Tuesday May 5 at the campus-wide ODK Awards Day ceremony on the Horseshoe. Classes will be suspended for all students after 2 p.m. as is traditional. The Awards Day program, sponsored annually by Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society, will begin with a 2 p.m. band concert. Students from all areas of campus life will be recognized for outstanding achievement during The first phase of the wall about the first of May fromI Wheat Street. acording toH a will of hc number to determine the order for registration. The Student Senate will remain in charge of setting up priorties for special problems that students may have. According to Galloway, fresh men will be computer-registered next fall and then will use this type of registration in the spring. Galloway said that he and assistant chairman Betsy Mickey 'Four S 0} ring Ti Bob Hope with "Franki Valli and The Four Seasons" will highlight this week's activities of music, carnival rides, food and drama. The activities are part of Sprmg Thing '70 sponsored by the Special Events Committee. The celebration will begin Wednesday afternoon with a performance by Avadon-Black in the Russell House Assembly Room. Thursday night a folk concert featuring Patti Scholl will be held on the Russell House patio. Following the concert the University Theater will present Peter Weiss' production of "The Assassination and Persecution of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Clarenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade." Friday night Hope and The Four Seasons will perform in the Carolina Coliseum. Tickets are now available for their show at the Russell House information desk and Coliseum box offices. Tickets for the public are $4, $4.50 and $5. Student tickets are $3.50, $4 and $4.50. Saturday's activities will begin with amusement rides and games and end with pizzas and dancing in the street. All Saturday afternoon and ents honored )ay to be the year. The program will be climaxed by the presentation of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards to the outstanding male and female graduating seniors and an out standing alumnus. Among the honors to be an nounced are Outstanding Seniors, members of Who's Who in American Colleges and Univer sities and the dedication of the Garnet and Black yearbook. University Day is the only day that the school completely stops Walkway opens cway will open vice prsider Bates House to temporary ral arold Brunton. thoter nar.. .. be >urs would appreciate student reactiom while there is still time to change the set-up. He added that the goal is tc eventually have preadviset registration at the University. If a student loses his card Galloway said that the Studeni Government would have anothes on reserve for his use. easons ing '7( evening students will be able tc entertain themselves with carnival rides on the intramural fields. The first international twistei championships sponsored by Milton Bradley will top of: Saturday's games at 5 p.m. Other games to be held Saturday beginning at 1:30 will include a boat race at the reflection pool, a body-painting contest, a sack race a three-legged race and a frisbee contest. Participants in the boal race are urged to bring their ow' wash tubs. Girls planning to take part in the painting contest must wear conservative bathing suits no bikinis will be allowed. Contest prizes will be.ftrnished by Columbia merchants and Miltor Bradley. That evening a pizza supper wil be served on the intramural fields and a street dance will be held or Wheat Street. The Tennesse Carolina Transit will perform. Sunday afternoon the carnival rides will resume and a "musical happening" will be held. Per forming will be the "Southern Feeling." "Willie T. and the Hot Rain." "Mckendree Spring" and the "USC Jazz Festival." Between shows Magician Ed Dunhill will perform. May 5 and recognizes outstanding achievements of students, ac cording to Willis Gaines, vice president of ODK in charge of Awards D)ay. Proceedings of the day will begin with a 2 p.m. concert by the University Symphonic Band and the presentation of awards will start at 2:34). Also in the program, ODK will tap new student, faculty and honorary members. t for business affairs. A ling of wood will be used until iv. he said. Fu ture Cap More 'Cq are..lrm By SUSAN ROSS Asst. Managing EdItor Capstone must obviously be a "good" thing because they're starting to spring up all over the place. By th.e fall of 1971 Capstone North will be standing on Barnwell Street next to the present Cap stone. Houses are now being torn down on Barnwell Street on the location for the new building. According to Harold Brunton, vice president for business affairs, it is being built to accommodate the girls who will be out of a dorm when Columbia Hall is turned over to private hands in the summer of 1971. 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Brautosathttho niest adtisedfrbd uesdyndi aTmonth minutscwipt bdeo take builing eed Casteronseac Not dawi e eek floshih sudents av bvlath eirproessrs The tudnto consiernmtuents opionse evrytime wlbuilvea rstudence and opprtnity stodeays sinkand the tipsak abruto faudty ebesin that stueeofts an ho plaesc in them u Schoot there Sieepandta the e iletalb systeg at heUnciverclsit ecoulday,t sTnhe vluon draigne to plte andeals teahngand hep students n decad ton disposesofandeprbaeo. an pugireastei rooms al,u eachefssr s is esn evaluationwhcapyto i hin ske weterkrnt e Twnymntswill b e n tan -tone North ~ ipstones' ig up Brunton said that the University is seriously examining future housing needs of the campus and has not yet decided exactly how much or where housing is needed, but that Capstone North is necessary as a replacement of the rooms that will be lost when Columbia Hall goes to private hands next year. Right now two houses are being torn down between Henderson and Barnwell Streets because during construction of the building parking will be needed and some of Capstone House's present parking will be temporarily out-of-use. UFO trial 0t to jury to The public nuisance trial of the UlFO coffeehouse was expected to go to the jury this morning after a charge by Presiding Judge E. Harry Agnew. Included in the charge are F written summations by the state and by the defense. Final testimony by defense Aitnesses was Saturday morning--( about four days earlier than ex >ected. Defense representatives hxplained that their 20-odd other witnesses went into areas that the tate had not raised or were umulative--and might bore the urors. Testifying Saturday were Dr. .( ;tanley Goldbery of the USC )epartment of Chemistry and A: armer USC student John Robert Iarrington. Goldberg testified that tr he lab procedures used by the ni state Law Enforcement Division to -- ind LSD in pills taken in arrests at j he UFO are inconclusive. eim larrington testified that two of the hi tate witnesses are untrustworthy. Testifying Friday were the cc miothers of defendents Lennie ec 'ohen and Will Balk. United p lethodist ministers William trown and Ray Moore. USC Ludents William Flood and Walter m, utnam and several soldiers from a; 'ort Jackson. o Brown, director of the church's se ampus ministry in the state, escr-ibed the coffeehouse as a lace where it was easy to talk to ce "now generation." Flood and a utnam testified against state e ritness F"rancls Perna. di Moore and Solicitor John Foard ai ad a run in after Moore testified nt he found nothing offensve n . eUFO including an Issue of the erkeley Barb. "Andyovayyu KDwins Derby Day prie Kappa Delta wah the 2*h ms Sigma Chi Derby Day held n the Horseshoe Thursday in memor=i of James K. Rogers. This is the third year Kappa Delta has won the Derby. Approximately 500 students, greeks and non-greeks, gathered to watch the sororities perform. The spirit award, given to the sorority which displayed the most enthusiasm in promoting Derby Day on the campus, was won by Kappa Delta for 'the third con secutive year. Second place winner was Zeta Tau Alpha, and third place Delta Zeta. Among the other events was a signature contest won by Chi Omega, and a "balloon bust" resulting in a three way tie bet ween Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha. Jeannie Derrin, a Tri-Delt, won the costume event as did Tommy Pate (Sigma Chi) representing Kappa Delta with the "Deck-a Sig" event. "Pillow Madness" was won by Tri-Delt's Vicki Weaver, with Kappa Delta's Laurie Hicks taking second honors. Judges. were Dean RE. Arm strong, Dean L. Eugene Cooper, John M. Hagan, Dr. William M. Morgenroth, and Congressman Robert Neece. Film: "how I Won the War," 3, 6. 9 p.m., Russell House Assembly Roam. Dance Committee. 5:3 p.m.. Counfrence Room. Russell House. ECO 70's. 5:30 p.m.. room 30, Ruslen House. International Committee, 6:30 p.m., Con ference Room. Russell Houe. International Committee, 7:00 p.m., goen 206. Russell House. Short Courses Committee, 7:00 p.m., Room 302. Russell House. The Eg 8:30 p.m., Conference Room. Russell House. The New York Brass Quintet, a p.m.. Coliseum TUESDAY. APRIL23 Film: 'The Fearless Vamire Killm., or ardon Me. But Your Teeth Are In My Neck," 6. 9 p.m., Russell House Assembly Rogm. goes ire a minister?" the solicitor 'sked. "Yes, sir, a Methodist, just like OU," testified Moore. "Then I'm ashamed," replied 'oard as he walked away. "Likewise. I'm sure," shot back foore. 3 amecock. bonored by ACP L.ast semester's The Gamecock ~arolina's first triweekly---has een rated All-American by the ssociated Collegiate Press. Judged in comparison with other iweeklies and semiweeklies itionwide, The Gamecock scored narks of distinction" In all five dging categories. It marked the ghth straight semester the paper is ranked All-American. The paper was cited for its ntent and coverage, writing and liting, editorial leadership, iysical appearance and otography. "P'rankly, I am hard put to find ajor criticisms," wrote Judge D. Hiebert. "Year paper is (Ni the best I've judged i mnester." Editor of The Gamecock a 'mester was Carl Stepp, lo receive All-Anqe vtq newspaper must beistd w ass," and esan "#,.k* stinction" In four M