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ROTC to have women Air Force ROTC will be open to Carolina coeds this fall keeping USC in step with other coed universities throughout the nation. Four selected univer sities, Auburn University, Drake University, East Carolina University, and The Ohio State University, hosted an experimental AFROTC program for women in 1%9, and each met with enough success to warrant its adoption nationwide in .1970. "'Essentially, the guidelines for women studqnts wiil be the same as for mwles," according to Col. Joe N. Swanger, USC Professor of Aerospace Studies. Both the two and four year programs will be available to eligible women students, though in a non flying capacity. Upon graduation, a commission as an Air Force officer, a minimum commitment of four years awaits those women students completing the program. Coeds will also be eligible to compete in the AFROTC college scholarship program which provides for full tuition, incidental fees, an allowance for books and a non-taxable $50 a month subsistence allowance. A paycheck of $50 a month, also non-taxable, will be received by non-scholarship women students in the last two years of the AF ROTC program. Women cadets enrolled in the two year program will attend field training in the summer before their junior year. Four year students usually attend field training prior to the!senior yearAn colleae. f!~ 1P. 44 Give a Did you see him while you were on your way to the Coliseum to register? Well, he was watching you. His same is Joe. The dog is Richard. Joe is interested in you--he will see you progress through college and venture out into the real world. You probably won't recognize him, but he will be there-- watching. Will he ever be able to do more than watch? Does he have a future here or at any other institution of higher learning? The odds are that he won't. His schools aren't the best, and he doesn't get a lot of help from his environment. He doesn't have all the books, games and carefree -friends you had. He doesn't have the interested, edicated parents you have. -Ohkf photographer Chu& Keefer damn He can smile now, but later he must face the reality of modern day America--you get nowhere without an education. There are thousands like him...watching and hoping. Hoping that they -will get the break their parents didn't. You can help Joe and others like him. It's not as easy -as watching television or reading Playboy,- but it means a lot more-to you and Joe. Maybe you can find your future helping Joe make one. Now is the time to start. Find out about Metropolitan Education Foundation. It's your world. Why - not give -everybody a chance to help make it -a good one. -. * * . , * I'' MEF:i Born out of crisis, living in action and heading toward progress, the Metropolitan Education Foundation (MEF) works for people and welfare.. MEF came about after the Orangeburg crisis of 1968, when businessmen and educators realized that the Ililusion of racial har mony was shattered-that, in reality, blacks were dissatisfied and that they wanted visible signs of progress, according to Bob Alexander, MEF campus director. IN RESPONSE TONEED The MEF project gained support from the student body and faculty of Carolina, and two days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Student Senate passed a bill establishing MEF as a campus organization. MEF is, basically, a coalition of students, facutly and Columbia businessmen. As Alexander put it, "We are an orgainzation working in response to the needs of the poor and principally black. "We have two purposes," he continued. "One is to raise funds for progress in poor and principally black communities by programs designed and carried out by the people in the com munities and the other is to educate the total com munity to economic and racial problems. "The idea is to muster the resources of the larger community so that they will respond to the needs of the smaller community. The people in these smaller communities know what they need- and they don't eed someone telling them Nhat, they need or just living them what they ieed. Co aNewYe Come to < Office and l0 school yeai We'll havy entertainm everyone. chance to fifty lucky accounts the Four the Car We'll havy and USC ch< you want ti to help us c From 9AMI have bel As long as t o help "The disadvantaged need to develop skills to help themselves." In Operation Technique, MEF aptpled for a grant to instruct students at Booker T. Washington High School the basic reading com prhension skills. University students taught BTW students how to take tests, while measuring the ad vancement of students in the program against skills and education they had befor they ,enrolled in the program. The project also involved!, teaching the students., how to take standardiked tests. SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES "We caused some significant changes," Alexander sid. Operation Expansion is a project which brings fairly intelligent students to campus, where they are taught basic Afro-American history, reading and comprehension skills and the psychology of race relations, according to Alexander. "We throw a block so the people can get through the tight spots," Alexander said. MEF .has also helped the organization of teen clubs, a facet of work to which Alexander attaches the greatest importance. "These teen clubs can place an emphasis on youth: they can be mobilized and can respond. They can also help educate the older people in com munity," he said. The whole idea of this, according to Alexander, is to help organize community structures-to set up communications within communities. A project which meto bar's Par er10, O ur Assembly Street elp us ring out the old .And ring in the new. e games, prizes, gifts, ent, refreshments for And for everyone, a win free checks. And students who open will win tickets to see seasons in concert at olina Coliseum on aptember 25. a personalized checks ackbooks. But whether wem or not, you'll want elebrate the new year. until old acquaintances an brought to mind. hat's not past midnight. peop Alexander said he hopes institute this summer .18 guaranteed incom program for "hard-cor teenagers." In this program, from the Univers1 Business Admlnlstrat School would help teenagers organig businesses in their co* munities to do needed wpr&. This would be done through a series of fe*sibility . studies in areas such as 4. Cayce New Life, Camp Fornance, Arthurtown end Ridgewood. ANOTHER PROBLEM Another problem is the ' lack of recreation and park facilities, he said. The residents of the com. - munities would plan and carry out the construction of these facilities them. selves. An example of this facet of ME F at work is the Wheeler Hill community center, which was set up in an old laundromat near Bates House. The project Is headed by Louis James, a Carolina student. FREAK According to one past chairman of FREAK (Freedom to Research Every Aspect of Knowledge) we "search for new valus, new chartered several years ago, they have pushed for changes on campus. Technically they are an . political group that are concerned with the major issties of the day the courses taught and nt tauglt at Carolina -and the rights and wrongs of the law as it stands now.