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Jones ta says situ "We're learning a lot of things, but not much of it is History 301,'" President Thomas F. Jones told a group of about 50 women students yesterday. "I do think that what you're learning right now is going to be of great value as citizens in a country where problems of this kind aren't going to stop soon," he said. Jones answered questions posed by leaders in several campus women's organizations and others invited by the Dean of Women's office for about 30 minutes. Assistant Dean of Women Bronna Willis told the women to try to be a calming influence on other girls in their dormitories. She urged the students to take advantage of the Rumor Control Center being 'operated by the Division of Student Affairs. "There's no need to sit there and stew about nothing, and this is what is happening all over the place." she said. Most of the questions related to rumors which the students had heard. One girl voiced the concern of students about what would happen if a decision were made to close the A,-t the movi X. abrisk ...*...* f.*~. B I Antonioni's latest feature Richland Mall. By pure coini with the first major campu! who participated in last week identificational kick from wa this aborted movie. Antonioni had more than during the filming . The rr language barrier he had to sui American slang. Unfortunately, he stumbled writers who have concocte( ''wow, like groovy, man" diz outside of the Gamecock Ro grind to a halt every time eac making one wish for the day more of Pink Floyd's impre! There are, however, two mending the film. When Antc and was driving around the ( had a vision of thousands of the dunes, and that his film w vision. This sequence is probi erotic pieces of film ever sh The version I saw in Atlar good deal longer than the one and is worth driving out of tovi .The other sequence occurs Daria imagines her boss' I thirteen different times we er of materialistic America,i coming closer and closer Kellogg's corn flakes do a n mid-air. These two purely vis is to ''Zabriskie Point.'' The rest is well-meaning ri become an obsession with futt pollute our environment lik tonioni films already do. 3rd4 THIS MAY LAST CHAN4 "Rome Juli\ Shows-i1 6:40, "Odd Couple" plus .. Open 7-start dus kl' Iks with ation is ] University. Some students had heard that the legislature might make the whole semester void if the school closes before the end of the semester. "The legislature has strange and wonderful powers," Jones replied, "but this is not one of them." Jones said that he is sure the faculty could work out an acceptable solution for grading. "The mood at the present time is that you would come back for exams if school were closed next week," Jones said. He told the students to discuss with professors the matter of how difficult it is to study.. One student said that the original issues which resulted in the student strike last week were lost as violence began. Jones replied, "We can't really discuss the issues effectively until we become a rational society." "One of the original issues related to transcripts of the UFO trial." he said. "No one at the University has asked for tran scripts. No one has a transcript as far as I know. Inside the Univer sity. I do not see any problem on this issue." Le Point 'MARIO BEGUIRISTAIN::: opened last Friday at the :idence, its timing coincided disturbances here. Anyone s events will surely get a big itching the first half hour of his usual load of problems ain one definitely was the -pass from Italian to Hip 1969 ,in the process, on a group of I the deadliest melange of ilogue you are bound to hear DM. This causes the film to i character opens his mouth, s of the silent screen or just ;sive musical score. great reasons for recom inioni first.came to America :alifornia deserts, he said he eoung people making love in ould be centered around this ibly one of the most lovingly ot. ita was more graphic and a that MGM sent to the Mall n to see it uncut. at the end of the film when ouse being blown up. For ijoy destruction of a symbol n slow motion, each time intil the T.V. set and the acabre dance suspended in ual scenes are really all there evolutionary trash that may ire ''films for the young" and a those billboards that An fis the best American war comedy since sound came in" -PauI,ne KaeI. Nlew Yorker 1-3-b 7&9PM BE YOUR E TO SEE o and 50, 4:15, women si earning Jones said that he has asked student government leaders to put together a plan for the use of the Russell House by students and their guests, "not as a place for. prostitutes, drug peddlers and loiterers." Provisions have been made by the faculty so that persons who were arrested after the Russell House sit-in last Thursday will not be penalized academically, ac cording to Jones. He said they will be given grades of incomplete if their cases are not finished before examinations and that they will be given enough time Studen By JOHN LEWIS Staff Writer Steve Peters said he 'was a victim of over-reaction by the police Tuesday night. His newly shaven head and cut scalp are his testimony. Peters is a 20-year-old history major from Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and a bartender at an off campus club. While at work Tuesday night, at the club, an area not at that time covered in the curfew, he said he attempted to help get customers inside the building when police ordered the area cleaned around 9:30 p.m. He said he told people outside to come inside and started to close the wooden door. A policeman came running up and grabbed the door. Peters said, and asked what he was doing. "I work. . . " was all he was able to say before he said the policeman hit him on the top of his head with a club. He didn't fall until another policeman hit him, he said, on the back of his head. He then fell to his knees and believes he lost consciousness. Math prof to be hono Long-time USC mathematics professor Wyman L. Williams will be honored at a testimonial May 22. Williams is .retiring August 31 after teaching at the University since 1922. He was head of the mathematics department from 1942 to 1967. A committee spearheading plans for the testimonial has com missioned a portrait of Dr. Williams which will be unveiled at the dinner. The portrait, by Columbia artist Mrs. Dorothy Yaghjian, will be placed in the faculty-student lounge and reading room in Leconte College, new home of the department of mathematics. Present and former faculty Cooper che The names of the 93 persons arrested Tuesday night are being checked by the University records office to determine how many and which ones are students. D)ean of Men 1L. Eugene Cooper said that he expects he will be able to handle the cases of many of the students himself. He said that he feels many of the arrests were mistakes or for ac tions that might not require ad ditional University action. He added that arrest for a curfew violation does not carry an automatic temporary suspension. ('ooper said that the checks have not been completed because so many of the 93 gave nick-names or incomplete names when arrested. That makes it hard." he said. lie said that 23 men and nine women have been suspended for e'ngaging in acts contrary to tinive'rsity regulations. In addition holds have been placed on the records, of five former students. Th Coum i inne Thatr prse t "Sndyin New Yok ludents; experien to prepare for examinations if (hey must be taken late. Jones told the students that he ana his family know the in. conveniences of living on campus during the disturbances. His family room Tuesday night was filled with 14 puppies, a rooster and two chickens. He said that the barnyard atmosphere inside the house was somewhat better than the tear gas outside. "We were using towels to wipe our eyes and a facecloth to wipe the rooster's face." Jones said that he has found the National Guard "very claims b Witnesses report that the two of ficers then hit him at least three more times before picking him up and loading him into a pad dywagon. Peters said he was told that his date, Kathy Jacks rushed to the door, and was told to get back inside. "You've got my date" she replied. "Yeah and now we've got you too." They then reportedly twisted her arm behind her back and led her to the paddywagon, also. After the two were placed on the paddywagon, police drove them to a parked bus with padded windows where they were loaded on with the 20 other people arrested. The entire group was later transferred to another bus which was filled with tear gas fumes and closed windows according to Peters. The group was then taken to the Evaluation Center on Lincoln St., next to the police department and were ushered inside and placed in a large cell. Peters said that officers then took them one by one and had them strip and were sprayed with essor Wyma red at testir members and graduate students of the mathematics department and friends of Williams have been invited to participate in the tribute. Their gifts-will help-defray the cost pf the' portralt'arid furnishings for the- lounge-reading room, which will be named in Williams' honor. Dinner reservation forms are available from Dr. J.D. Novak at the University of South Carolina, D)epartment of Mathematics, Columbia, S.C. 29208. Novak is chairman of the steering com mittee for the testimonial. Gifts may be made to the Wyman L. Williams Fund, USC Educational Foundation, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. 29208. tcking studer four males and one female, for the same offense. One of the students is charged with involvement only in the sit-in in the lobby of the Administration Building. 37 for involvement in the Russell House "occupation" and several of the 37 in both actions. Cooper denied that sling shots have become a major prolem on campus following student clashes Student stater "May 14. 1970. To whom it may concern: We the undersigned were personally involved with the un ne'cessa ry tear-gassing of the sixth floor of the men's dorm which resulted in injury and 'panic' by the residents." It was one of thirtv such affidavits already collected by students recounting abusive p)olice' action. All state'ments were signed by studef(nts. Some' were as vague as -'Students were beaten brutally w'hen they offered no resistance to arre'sf. I witnessed several oc casions. May 12. 1970." Others (containedl specific details of one e'vent or information like 'The gas )arrage continued to total 27 car 1969. Garnet Now On Room 312, Ri $3.0 disciplined." In response to a question about whether use of more student marshals might be helpful in keeping peace, Jones said that those who acted as marshals last week are to be praised for what they did, but that the idea was abused and had to be abandoned. "No action has been taken yet by University on those arrested for curfew violations," Jones said. He said that the University will wait until some of the confusion surrounding the situation clears up before taking action. rutality disenfectant bug spray and were given prison clothes to wear. The next stop, Peters said, was upstairs where a man shaved his head followed by a long session of picture taking for mug shots and finger printing. He was bleeding from cuts on his head and said that he was told to sit in a corner until a doctor came to treat him. Forty five minutes later, a doctor came with a bandage soaked in alcohol. Around 10:30 p.m. he said that he was led to a cell where he remained intil 2:30 a.m. when police came and asked him if he wanted to make a call. When he asked what he was being charged with, officers are reported to have told him he was not being charged, but was only being detained. When Peters' lawyer called the Evaluation Center to find out the nature of the charges on Wed nesday. he was told that his client was apprehended on a charge of curfew violation in front of Preston Dormitory. A building two blocks from where Peters claims he was beaten. n Williams nonial ft arrests with National Guardsmen and police officers. He said that only t wo students have been warned by counselors for using the weapons. Rumors have swept campus that slingshots were to be used as weapons in any future c-lashes. On occasion they have been. Several Columbia stores reported Wed nesday that they had sold out of slingshots. rzents protest p tridg.es fired at the dorms and at persons near the dorms." Most of the statements gathered SE) f ar concerned entry of dorms by armed st ate troopers or gassing by National Guard. None so far had given badge nuimbers of the alledged abusive police. Tlher-e were also accounts of students being arrested outside of the curi-ew area and released from ~iil alter paying bond without hanng been ('harged. .\s of last night. nine signed statements concerning state patriolmen entering the lioney comnbs had been collected. 'The statements make reference to iroopers entering the dorms armed -70 Black Sale! issell House 0 FRANKLYSPEAKIN ' To .ST <V YOUWs A M FA coeP. S46 RD/ ST. LAS, Mo. ( Petition g 2,000 nar The Student Stike Back Coalition has gathered an estimated 2,000 signatures on its petition, ac cording to chairman Richard Hines. The petition condemns student violence, urges all students to attend classes and asks officials to "take all action necessary to prevent further disruption and possible destruction of the educational process at this University." lines said the coalition is trying in every way possible to stabilize the situation. "We are trying principally by urging the students to support establishment iuthorities" attempts to restore )rder." he said. Bates House I f Tuesday T( As the campus settled down Wednesday night after two nights of violence, all seemed quiet. But at Bates House, the situation was tense. Rumors of an appearance by National Guard units had run through the dormitories, and residents were preparing them selves for tear gas and violence. Residents began to stock up on rocks and bottles. Throughout the day, residents wondered if the violence at the Men's Towers Tluesday night would be repeated at Bates House. Wednesday. As the curfew hour neared, Riley Hollingsworth, resident director, and Jim Smith, resident counselor, began locking doors. Sev'eral students sat outside waiting for the first sign of the National Guard or police. The mood was tense, and many residents were spoiling for a c'onirontation. The attitude among most of these was "we haven't seen any action. and tonight they''re coming here," as one resident said. Passing police cars and jeeps were greeted with shouts of "Go 9lice abuse -ith ('lubs and rifles. One account signed and wit lessed by t our students of the floor says in part. "I turned around and saw a state policeman run into my room ... I turned around and they pushed my roommate out of our room and he fell dow~n -- blood on the floor. They hit him while he was on the floor. He got up and ther pushed us both outside . .. My roo~mmate's face was covered with blood. We got refuge in J dorm and my roommate lost a lot of blood. Alter 20 minutes of being in a tea rgassed hall. a campus polhceman ('ame and took him to le' hospital. Hie received 211 slit The students gathering the voluniItar'y statements will make hemi available to the governor's >me''. nhe lierstdy.wree MEND a.o VNG5?' 319%. ains nes Concerning his interview on a local television station, Hines said, "The main help of the TV coverage was to emphasize, to let the public know that the violence going on here was not representative of the student body of USC." Hines stated the coaliton's policy as rejection of the idea of class or generation civil warfare. He added that the idea of a federal planning of the Kent State deaths or ..cosmic conspiracy" stemming from President Nixon is rejected by Strike Back. "The abuses of the police are unjustified but those things are unavoidable; when you have mob violence, these things are inevitable." Hines said. eared repeat wers violence home, pigs." and "Pigs off cam pus." An occasional bottle smashed against the pavement. About 9:30 p.m.. residents noticed that the hood of a car which resembled a police car was bur ning. No one was sure what started the fire. or whether it was a police car. The fire was extinguished, and for a while officers parked in a police car surveyed the area. heaving more anti-police jeers. As cherry bombs exploded, and bottles and cans fell to the pavement, residents waited for signs of the Guardsmen. By midnight. most residents had given up the wait and gone to bed. C apstone remains tranquil D)uring the disturbances of the past week. Capstone has remained relatively calm. 'Most of us still don't know how tear gas feels," one girl said. However most girls say there has been no way to study after curlew hous. Everyone has been discussing the situation and waiting for the 11:00 news to see what has happened across cam pus. A good many students have gone home, according to former Cap stone President Sarah Bryant. and many more were packing last night. "With people leaving for week ends things seem to be almost normal." she said. Tempers 44Hn1m14d fronm Page' 'n Lru'4Ips are laboring under intense opimions and outlooks varv now. Prlems.('l1 discussing: wrong need fliut not in this atmosphe're. I''irst . we must have peace. We mus, re'turin to an at mospher'e of ca im And we must take steps to