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'South Carolina's best campus newspaper VQL. LX- No. 90 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 .... ... .... ... ... Opp The Horseshoe on campus v of peace and quiet Saturday All ui after 2 Over the weekend the University campus became quiet and protestors thinned out as some students went to Washington to protest- U. S. involvement in Cambodia. If further activities are planned, they were delayed until today. Friday, more than 450 students went to the steps of the state capitol to speak to Gov. Robert Washingi Student s weekend 4 By ALIC Student 1 As with most experiences, verbally the mood and spi Washington Saturday. Some of the strain of drivi peace signs waved by fellow common goal. A night of lost sleep suddi car after car, some filled, sor converged toward a commo After the frustration of fin tions to the rally were not ni laughed and sang, gawked al ellipse. Once within the rank anc observe the passerby. Some some showed signs of rage as ''go home and work,'' and different. However, the marchers f encouragement to each othe ships were formed. The sun< another opportunity for ''non by some at the reflecting po the speakers and music. Whether or not the present be able to make a dent in pre happening tells us that all I: Retiring la to be hono Lawyers and jurists from across the state will honor University of South Carolina Law School Dean Robert M. Figg. Jr. at a testimonial dinner in Carolina Coliseum tonight at II p.m. SCorrection SAuthorities said Friday that one of the 41 arrested Thursday ~ was Michael Wallace, a non student of P. 0. Box 1:194, ~ Columbia. Thursday night *authorities had incorrectly said that Michael J. Wallace, a . student of Columbia and 183 Prince George St., Annapolis, ~ Md., was the person arrested. Quiet campus ias a picture days of studei after several hundred studei et on W1 days of McNair and to protest the student arrests at the Russell House Thursday. The students listened to speeches on the shooting of the Kent State students and on "encroachment" of academic freedom on the USC campus. - SPEAKERS Among the group speaking were several of the students released on on mood hares ?xpernence E CHESS observer I find It difficult to express rit of the demonstration in ng was forgotten among the marchers who recognized the nly became insignificant as ne containing only the driver, n destiny. ding a parking space, direc ecessary. Massing marchers nd moved silently toward the I file, it became possible to gave evidence of sympathy, expressed by, ''fi' ,y pigs,'' others were cr ,,pletely in requently shouuted words of r. Food was shared: friend >ffered no relief but provided -violence.'' Relief was sought Dl: others endured It to hear :e of thousands of people will sent policies, the Washington not well. w dean red tonight Newberry attorney Thomas H. Pope. speaker of the S. C. House of Representatives in 1949-50, will be principal speaker. Other speakers include Chief .iiudge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. ol the lU. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals: Chiel Justice Joseph R. Moss ol the S. C. Supreme Court; l)r. Thomas F. Jones, USC president: State Sen. L. Marion G;ressette and Carl H. Epps, out going president of the USC Student Itar Association. Parking for persons attending the test imonial will be available on the Park Street side of the Coliseum with access to the Coliseum from Park Street. Figg has been dean of the School ol law since 1959. He retires Augt I. - Sam Woodward it protest involving several its. eekend strike $100 bond after being arrested the day before. The doors of .the Statehouse were locked when news that students protestors were headed for the Statehouse arrived. A unit of highway patrolmen with riot equipnient frilved-at the capitol after the students arrived. Agents of the State Law En forcement Division (SLED) were on guard at the doors. For more than an hour students sat on the steps saying "We want McNair" and "Power to the People." The students came over to the Statehouse from a rally held on the horseshoe in which students and professors discussed the issues that had caused Thursday's confrontation between students and police. RALLY Conversing with students at the rally, Michael J. Mungo, a member of the Bowrd of Trustees, said that when the board voted on the new Russell House policy they did not know that police were to be used. He said he felt student government should take on the responsibility of keeping the Russell House free of unwanted visitors. He said that if students have reasonable gripes, they should take them to the Bowrd of Trustees and that he would see that they were discussed. "What I wvant is for the students to come to me and talk about their gripes. Let me take them down in my own handwriting and then take 4 ioi ntd on) Page I> Students sit on Statehous students arrests at the R.....ll Board for s A special University Board of Trustees Committee will begin hearings today for each of the 31 students charged with violating University regulations in con nection with the Russell House incident Thursday. The announcement was made today by Rutledge Osborne, Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees. A spokesman for the University said today the scheduled hearings are in keeping with the due process procedures which are a traditional and inherent part of University rules and regulations. The 13-member hearing com mittee will consist of members of the Board of Trustees' Committee, the Chairmen of the Board's Standing Committees, the Chairmen of the Board's Faculty and Student Liason Committees, the Chairman of the University's Faculty Advisory Committee and Committee on Discipline, the President of the Student Body and the Presiding Officer of the Student Senate. NOTIFICATION Each of the affected students is being notified by mail concerning arrangements for individual hearings. Information for each affected student will also be available at the office of the Dean of Men or Dean of Women. Says arrested les Barbara Herbert, one of the students arrested in Thursday's Russell House confrontation, said she was positive everyone would be found guilty today. The 31 students and 10 others come before Richland County Magistrate "Buck" Watts at the Huger Street jail today. Miss Herbert said the accused would ask for a jury trial. Concerning action today by the Students magistro The 31 University students a arrested Thursday when they and refused to leave appeare( Watts at 10 a.m. this mornir The arrests Thursday were and other officers backed up smen, ordered out by Gov. Ro $100 for each of the arrestec The students now are und and remain thus until they gc set up by the University. Students were notified that return to campus until after ti were allowed by the UnivE moments to get clothes and ot Students a * steps Friday protesting Honse the ay befor. They begir Lspend The University spokesman explained today the students to be involved in the hearings next week have been charged with "In terference with the normal operation of a University building, namely the Russell House" which Statemen apply to By ALYCE YOUMANS Asst. Managing Editor Today over 30 USC students will go before a special committee set up by the Board of Trustees to hear why they should remain at USC. These are the students who "took over" the Russell House Thutsday. Yet, in the Statement of Student Rigtfts and Freedoms in the Academic Community, passed by the Board of Trustees, there is a section dealing with discipline whiclt states: "When misconduct may result in suspension, the student should have the right to a hearing before the Discipline Committee ... In the event that the student is disciplined other than by the regularly constituted Discipline Committee, he shall have the right to a complete hearing before the tder don't use University board of trustees, she said. 'the least we can hope for is five expulsions and suspensions for the rest." She also added, "I think that's very interesting that come a crisis, they (the Trustees) aren't interested in using their own channels." Miss Herbert recounted how the morale of those people in the Russell House prior to the arrest was kept high by joining hands and face ite today nd 10 non-students who were occupied the Russell House i before Magistrate W. Buck ig. made by highway patrolmen by about 50 National Guard bert McNair. Bond was set at students. er "temporary suspension" before a special committee they would not be allowed to leir hearings. Some students rsity to return for a few her belongings and then left. t Capitol left a rally on the Horseshoe to is heai led sti is a University offense. The same students are charged with trespassing, a State offense, along with nine non-students who were arrested at Russell House on Thursday. The sDokesman explained the it doesn't Board Discipline Committee." Several Discipline Committee members were asked how this rule - set up by the Board of Trustees - applied to the students going before the special committee today. Did they lose their right to ap peal? (After the discipline com mittee. students may normally appeal to the president and then the Board of Trustees. Could they still be heard by the Discipline Committee? Wasn't this their right? One member answered simply "I don't know." Another, Carl Insalaco, said: "I haven't the slightest idea. We were supposed to have a regular com mittee meeting this afternoon but I received word Thursday or Friday (Continued on Page 3) channels singing our National Anthem and such. Other boosts came from two officers who sang with the group. "Most of the people in the Union were just basically idealistic kids who were not politically involved before." she said. Tony Bright, another arrested student, added. "This turned a lot of heads." Concerning the aftermath of the rallies and the student strike, Miss Herbert said, "I don't think Ive ever had such respect in the Carolina students." She also said the type of support shown by the students encouraged "this kind of nitty-gritty work with the people, showing them options and con vincing them of their own worth and dignity." Commenting on the possibility of Gov. McNair replacing President .ones following the campus dissent, she said, "It's surprising how many' blacks hold McNair personally responsible for the O)rangeburg deaths and it's sur p'rising how many students are becoming political." On the chance of being proclaimed personna non grata by the U'niv'ersity' <not allowed access to !S(' lacilities i, she said. "If I'm giv'en that status and arrested just One( time for coming on campus. I w~ant t his one t ime to really' count ." walk over to the canitol. -mngs idents University three years ago adopted a set of procedas in anticipation of a situation com parable to that which occurred Thursday. Under this procedure th affected students were dead a letter by an administration o0dal when the incident began whic advised them they werE in violation of regulations and uapbject to temporary suspension unWt a hearing was held if they didn't cease and leave the premises. When the students did not leave, they were read a second letter which advised them they. were temporarily suspended until a hearing and that they.kvould now be subject to trespass charges. 'Strike Back' called A statement signed by Richard Hines. vice-president of USC Young Republicans, calls for formation of a "Strike Back" student coalition. Under YR's egis the statement decried "irresponsible elem ments" and "radical agitators" attempting to. respectively, "disrupt and control our univer sity" and aid "enemies of this country in an effort to d oaliae the American people." - Students of all Ical parties were invited join -In support of-the 0 of the United States in this great national crisis." "Strike Back's" objectives were listed as the following: I. To speak for the silent majority of students who are at USC merely for an education 2. To demonstrate to the state and nation the students faith in the government . To educate the students about American anti-communist ac tivities in Southeast Asia 4. To blame mob violence for the deaths at Kent State 5. To emphasize that reason is the only solution to problems A press release accompanying the statement announced "USC Back Nixon week". The week will feature a memorial service for soldiers who have died in Vietnam at St. James Chapel. Friday. May 18th at noon. ACLU says bond delay 'conspiracy The president of the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties UTnion (ACLU) has expressed disturbance over "a conspiracy'' to prevent those arrested in the Russell House 'takeover" from posting bond on the same day that they were arrested. Jon Krauss. S. C. ACLU president, said that Thursday night alter the arrests he and other members or the ACLU tried to find out from South Carolina magistrates why bail was not to be taken that night. Krauss, also a professor in the USC Institute of' International St udies, said that the delay seemed to be an attempt at depriving the students of their constitutional right. Krauss said that he and Jim Rebholz. the S. C. ACLU executive tdirector, were on hand at the Russell House Thursday during the "takeover." Rtebholz spoke to most of the students and tried to un derstand what their goals were. Kraussi said that it is still very 'unclear" as to just what west on in the Rtussell House. He said tha the only actual takeover he could neee was students behind the In formation desk antd msig the toe speaker. He said students #pd allowed to cognwe Rtussell liouse. they use of the