Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4eeve s w,yd WSiAte, 6eci hi vbwther (pichnve~ d ien tieY,,, I,toda f h,c ,gt i,, 1970 starttee Last night ther was booze, music, and talk on campus instead of rocks,. bottles and tear gas. Only four persons were arrested, and officials in the governor's office are not certain that they were students. Six hundred National Guards men, 125 highway patrolmen, 20 State Law Enforcement Division agents and an underterminee nunber of city police were stil stationed on caMpuw lst night. The curfew will probably b Imposed again tonight, but if th campus tonight is calm, th governor is expected to lift it or a least shorten it. With the addition of the are between Main and Assembl streets, the area under the curfei order now includes the are bounded by Pendleton Street from Assembly to Henderson, Hen derson to Green, Green to Pickent Pickens to Whaley, Whaley t. Assembly, Assembly to Pickens and all other property in Richland County owned by the University. The campus was calm. The scene inside the dorms was one of mostly talk about "tomorrow night" and Jane Fonda. Jokes led the conversation concealing both the nervousness and, in many cases, the anxiousness. "The "long hairs" were talking political and social. "The "short hairs" were talking political and social. Tension clouded the air. Bitten nails multiplied. Cigarettes crowded ashtrays. Beer cans cluttered the floors both in and outside the rooms. The mu*c, mostly driving hard rock, wouldn't let the tense atmosphere escape. Out of the darkness of one dorm blarred Jimi Hendrix's "all along the watch tower" asking "there must be some way out of here." Appropriate was the word. The song was the unsilenced voice of what some seek to prove "tomorrow night." In the scattered conversation groups protest of the locking of the dorms rang out. All claimed, in no certain ideological rhetoric, that U94 j,:AP pusi it took their freedom away. Commented one youth, "My brother is fourteen and he can stay out later than I can." Another said, "Now we are the pip because we are Inside the pen." In Columbia Hall, a faculty member held an informal forum with any interested or concerned coeds. The topics ranged from the demonstrations to the pros and cons of the maxy and mini skirts. The girls Mke the rest of the campUS were biting nails. Once in a wh(O an unidentified flying bottle wadd land In the street. But the streets tonight were asphalt and not . In the dis ce the city policemen were silhouettes shadowing the lonely streets. Two conspicuous'signs draped the Main Street side of the Mens Towers. One exclaimed "Go aim I Nixon" and the other "61iport the National Guard." They seemed out of place, like plants trying to survive in a barren and unclaimed desert. Another sign at Preston declared "You can lock my door by can't lock up my mind' "I only wish that the people wbo really need to understand this sign would try," muttered a dismayed yquth. IWnors were rampanL "Back iight pantheks are here . . . the weathermen are here . . . Un dergraduate Library Is Sgn to bur . . . Bates Housejs an avenal ... sure death for tomorrow ... - Outside on the streets, which have been polluted by gas for the Ia two days, were tired J. Pete Strom and company, and the National Guard. (COUtlawed m Page 4) VOL. LX-NO. 92 University oi South Carolina,, Columbia, S. C. 29206 Thursday, may 14,r 1970 Lead( to ha By FRED MONK Managing Edifor University President Thomas F. Jones and several other USC of-, ficials met with approximately 35 students, including IFC .coumcil members, dorm presidents, Towers Council members and resident counselors Wednesday to hash over some of the "at trocities" of the past two nights and discussed the means to dampen the volatile campus situation. "The University will stay open as long as I can protect the safety of individuals", Jones told the student representatives. Jones also told the group that a great deal of the question depends upon individuals following structions Ilk 044 srs dis It moi . Several in seem-the group told Jones that many students were caugbt in the middle of things Tuesday night during an unavoidable situation. They said that wl*n tear gas was fired, it was impossible to stay inside, so many stt$knts left their buildings espe ially along fraternity row. Wken they came outside they enc6untered more tear gas and the possibility of arrest. One counselor told Jones that he tried to call campus security seven times to report the situation but each time he was cut off. Jones admitted that there were communications problems and told the group he Would meet with other officials aid try to make r eXn I erC ,)C1SS 'e troi whatver -varrctons, . were necqssa-y t s.the com munleatigns !:=es. One fraternity counselor told Jones the fire alarm was set off and nobody came to shut it off. The counselor said that after 45 minutes several students finally were able to shut it off, but he added that it was unbearable to listen to for that length of time. Another counselor told Jones that one student was clubbed by police and was bleeding badly. He told the president that the only way to get him off campus was by a private ambulance service and when they brought him to the ambulance the police tried to arrest him. Many of the counselors com plained that there were many students in their areas that were not members of their residence halls and they asked how they might Several counselors suggested that Guardsmen be posted at the entrance of the residence halls, particularly in the Men's Towers area. Jane Fox at rally 1 Actress Jane Fonda will hE tonight in a rally in Maxcy The 7 p.m. rally Is part of a to support GI dissent again Barbara Herbert, a local orgi also mark Armed Forces D Mrs. Herbert also said tha will be presented, including! several blacks and several 1 Miss Fonda was to hold a p at 10 a.m. She arrived In 0 crisis ible 1, .One foneor ngis . when bne of the 'niiders was pursued into the first floor of the Honeycombs a resident standing in his room with his door open was also clubbed and arrested by police. Jones said that such atrocities like this do occur, but that students should keep their doors closed and locked to prevent such occurances. Jones told students that as of yesterday afternoon ap proximately 120 arrests had been made with most students being released on $100 bail. He also said that one person had been given thirty days in jail for which no bail had been set. He noted that six warrants were out for persons' arrest. Jones said that it ws "tough" that anybody out past the curfew was arrested. He told the group that the curfew would be inforced. "We will go by a fair but firm policy", he said, "but it will be firm." He noted that the damage done to the administration building and those who occupied the (Continued on Page 4) ida speaks onight adline a number of speakers Gregg Park. national tour by Miss Fonda t the war with-in the Army. inizer, said that the rally will by. I a number ot other speakers teveral of the "Carolina 31,' ,1's. ress conference this morning lumbia yesterday. ,