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Gamebus'Question of fares raised, the week, see page 6.-. seeOpae 6 Vol. LX I -No. 1 VS[YO SWAhf Carolkuwo Colund"s. S. C.'2"ftody,Soobo A1T Campus face-liftii 1\ BY ALAN ROSENBLUM Staff Writer The Carolina campus is scrubbing its feet, face-lifting a few buildings and slowly im proving insufficient facilities. This immense project, divided into various smaller steps is being contracted between two and three million dollars. Returning students will recognize the brick walkway in front of the Russell House. Also a lower ramp and sidewalk will aid students coming and going to classes. The Pedestrian Mall which presently stops at Wheat Street will be continued north, bridging over Wheat Street and Blossom Street and extending up past. Fraternity Row. This is expected, to be completed next fall. The Administration, through the supervision of Harold Brunton, vice president of business affairs, plans to eliminate insufficient student medical facilit!es by building a new Health Center on the North side of Marion Street behind the Russell House. Because I of complicated movement of electrical and piping systems, the Welcome We of the Gamecock wish to welcome freshmen to our com munity of students, faculty and administrators. We may not share in your newnes-s, but we'do share in your hopes and goals. The opportunities, here are numerous and diversified, and they are all open to you to use to your own individual ability. This forthcoming year promises to be an interesting one-one which will provide us with the enlightenment We seek. ,The good of the university is a two-fold matter: The university plays a major 'ole-in your life and you play a major role in its life. It should be interesting and lots of fun. Make the most of it. A long BY JOHN GASH Asst. Managing Editor This last summer, while not being overly active or other wise, was a time in which USC students witnessed controversy, changes, and decisions. ROTC Starting the summer on somewhat of a cadence step, it was announced that the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps here at USC was going to accept for the first time in the school's history women. To quote Col. Joe N. Swanger, A lc USC Professor of Aerospace Studies, "Essentially, the guidelines for women students will be the same as for the males." MEF The Metropolitan Education Foundation held a day camp and sports program for the disad vantaged children of the Columbia area. This organization Is one of the outstanding of its sort In the Columbia vicinity. Comprised of. mostly USC students, it has done various worthwhile and helpful projects to help benefit both the disadvantaged of Columbia, apd it has also helped ease some of the strained feelings between the Columbia community and.Carolina students. FOA RD VS. JONES Appearmng on a local television program, Richland County Solicitor John Foard called for USC President 'Thomas F. Jeus's getting. 1g finishing date will probably take one or two years. The University also is in the beginning stages of building a new women's dormitory just north of I Capstone. This will increase the housing capacity by ac commodating 500 women. Parking has lately become a major problem to the Univrsity. To relieve the congested ti-affic, a new 430-car Parking Garage (in the present parking area south of Blossom Streeet between Sumter and Marion Streets) will be! completed by next fall. Residentsi of University Terrace and holders of "B" decals will find parking space behind the Undergraduate Library. A notice was issued by vice president Brunton explainingj necessary facts. Completing the list will be the extention of the undergraduate UAbrary to the south of the present structure. This work will not start for one or two years. Regi BY CHUCK KEEFER Staff Writer Several changes are on tap for the more than 13,000 students who will be registering on the USC main campus today and Tuesday. The major change calls for students to register by the number of hours earned towards their degree. In the past, students registered by the date that they first entered Carolina. Students were sent "passes" to the coliseum stating the time they' would be allowed to enter to begin registration. The times were computed on the basis of the number of hours earned by each student. This new system was recom mended by the Student Senate last spring. _ It was designed to. eliminate unequitable delays that plagued transfer students. Previously, a transfer student entering as a sophomore, junior or senior had to wait to register with three m resignation. Foard accused Jones of having a lack of backbone in dealing with the disorders of last spring, saying, "I can name many instances where if he (Jones) had used a little backbone, many things that have gone wrong would have been corrected." To which Jones replied, "The University has to be as free from politics as possible to be a great university." Foard also called for a clean-up of all the drug traffic on campus. STUDENT SUSPENSION ~ok at the sun b.y John Gash At the same time twelve of the 31 ~ students involved the Russell House takeover were given per manent suspension. EDUCATION The School of Education received full accreditation from the Nati,onal Council For Ac creditation of Teacher Education, which is professional recognition. This marked the first time an institution in the state received such accredition. BENDER Directly after Foard's demand of Jones's resignation a'local artist announced his intentions to oppose Foard in the upcoming elections. Stating the he .will resign if elected and l'et the governor choose a replacement, Bob Bender, lean and sharp-featured, said he wanted to give the people an alternative. JONES ENDORSED Calling an unseheduled meeting of the Board of thes Thultees, Board. Chafrman Rat1ede Osborne One of the freshmen co crowded into a study room ir 0 stratioi the freshmen because times for registration were calculated on the basis of the date that each student entered USC. Events p for first The University Union has scheduled a series of events for the first week of classes. The Trinindad Tripoli Steel Band will perform at 8 tonight in the reflection pool in front of the un dergraduate library. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings John Chappell, un derstudy for Hal Holbrook will present "Mark Twain Tonight." He will perform Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Columbia Art Museum and .onths announced that the Board unanimously endorsed President Jones, and, in a sense, 'refuted Foard's charges. HEW In mid July a letter from the department of Health, Education and Welfare proposed that USC change some racial segregation patterns. In response to this letter, President Jones said: USC is trying many things to comply with all the guidelines set forth by HEW. RADICAL NEWSPAPER Early August saw the an nouncemnent Columbia was going to have Its first radical newspaper. newspaper. Called "The Carolina Plain Dealer" and working on a collective staff basis, the paper later issued Its first edition, selling more issues than any other out state radical newspaper. DRESS CODES Seeming to follow what has become somewhat of a fad, Michael Mungo, a member of the USC Board of Trustees, called for some reforms in the student dress and'attire code and the President's office. As a remedy to stop further disturbances, such as those of last spring, Mungo said he would have entering students sign a pledge that would require "reasonable decorum as to conduct, dress and personal hygiene as Its more salient features.'" He also said, "Any young adult (Cemamued e m pag. n Should I? eds who was of one of the i the basement pondering he i revam Another change in registration procedures is that students will be entering the coliseum at five minute intervals instead of the kinned week Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Drayton Hall. Activities Day will be Wed nesday and all campus organization will have an op portunity to recruit members. Tables will be set up in the Russell House all day for each organization. Comedian Mort Sahl will be presented by the Lectures Com mittee Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The title of his speech will be "Due to a lack of interest, tomorrow has been canceled." The Embers will perform Thursday and Friday nights at the Golden Spur. Thursday's per formance will begin at 8 and Friday's at 9. Tick< Student tickets for Saturday's game against Wake Forest are being distributed today through Wednesday in the Naval Armory on a first come, first served basis. Season date books are on sale for $20 to seniors, graduate and law students today. Eight hundred date tickets are allotted for this group. Juniors will have an opportunity to buy 400 date books tomorrow, and sophomores have been allotted 300 date books to be sold Wednesday. Students in any class may pick up their coupon books and tickets for the Wake Forest game between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. today through WAKI TIME FOREf (Navel An ____________ Sept. 14-1 .E nding I[ 8:00 -9:30 FIRST Ci 9:30 -11:00 FI RST CI 11:00 -12:30 FIRST C 12:30 -2:00 FIRST C 2:00 -3:30 FIRST C 3:30 - 4:00 4:00n .5r0.0 women dorms seems to be r dilemna. ped half-hour intervals previously "We plan on having 75 students (ceatiued ea page 6) Trinida The Trinidad Tripoli Stee perform from the middle dergraduate Library reflii ets to b Wednesday. There will be five separate class lines, one for g'raduate and law students; and one each for seniors, juniors, 'sophomores and freshmen. Individual game date tickets for the Wake Forest game will go on sale at approximately 3 p.m.' Wednesday. These tickets, if available, will be sold for each home game at $7 each. Miss Emily Wheeler, chairman of the Student Senate Registration and Distribution Committee, said, "Tickets are not expected to run out." More than 11,000 tickets have been allotted for. Ticket si TVP, CLEMSC nory) (Coliseum) (Coliseui 5-16 Sept. 21 Oct. 5-S$ I No. Ending ID No. Ending ID )ME O-1 2-3 )ME 2-3 4-5 3ME 4-5 6-7 )ME 6-7 ' 8-9 )ME 8-9 0.1 ANY STUDENT WH( INDIVIDUAL DATI Housing greets fre BY CHAS. FELLENBAUM Chief of Reporters The University's failure to provide enough dormitories, and a large number of new and transfer students has caused an acute housing shortage on campus. Over 100 men and 75 women on waiting lists are being forced to look elsewhere for lodging until adequate facilities are available. A building at 1616 Hampton Street, formerly used by the Smith Corona Company as a printing school, has been leased by the University as temporary quarters for 68 women students, according to James P. Cooper, assistant *director of housing. 'lie nulding was leased for one semester only. Campus police will patrol the area. The building has a cafeteria, but a dorm counselor said that it probably won't be opened. Vending machines are available for snacks. There is also a gameroom with pool tables, but :will'tie open only to residents of the temporary dorm. The shortage has hit the women students hardest. All study lounges in South Building and South Tower have been converted into dorm rooms by adding beds. and war drobes for closets. The lease on Columbia Hall expires at the end of the spring semester of this year. Capstone North, the dorm to house the girls from Columbia Hall, will probably d Tripoli Steo I Band will Monday night of the Un- -which ranges hcting pool played entirei e distr: stdnsfor each home game. "Due to the generous student ticket allotment by Ralph Floyd and ticket manager Ray Faircloth, it is expected that these individual date tickets will be available for every game," Miss Wheeler said. "If you're going to buy a date ticket, you'd might as well wait and get both at the same time," she said. The plan for distributing tickets for the rest of the home games will be the same as the one used for distributing basketball tickets in the spring. Students will pick up tickets in their class lines ac cording to a schedule based on the shedule IN FLA. STATE TENNE n) (Coliseum) (Colse 1.00 Oct. 12 Oct. No. Ending ID No. E nding 4-5 6 8-9 0 0-1 2 2-3 4-! ) HAS NOT PICKED UP TICKET i TICKETh - (IF AVAILABLE) shortage shmen not be finished until September at the opening of school for the fall semester of 1971. Cooper said South Building has a normal capacity of 391 girls, and presently holds 425; South Tower accomodates 608 students, and will have 642. Two freshman dorms, Sims and McClintock, will have will have 162 and 380, respectively, instead of a normal 150 and 248. The rooms in Sims designed for two girls will be occupied by three. The third floor of Columbia Hall, which was formerly used for offices, has been converted into living areas, he added. Sheila Salter, a freshman who lives in South Tower, lives in one of the converted study lounges. She said, "It's the best room on the floor, it's carpeted, it's great. And we don't want to get moved," she added. Another freshman, Sue Gray, doesn't live in a converted lounge. She said she wishes she did "They're beautiful rooms," she said. "They have two real nice dressers, and big closets," Kathy Stevens. a friend, said the rooms "would be great when they get the locks fixed." Another girl said, "It's not too bad except there's no locks on the door and no lights. We have a rack for closets. That's really the only complaint I have." The South Tower desk clerk said (Continued on Page 6) l Band at 8 p.m. The group's music, from classical to rock, Is y on steel oil drums. ibuted last digit of I. D. numbers. Tickets may be picked up any time after the time set for a student's I. D. digit group. The time periods for I. D. digit groups will revolve for each game. Graduate and law students will be able to get tickets any time after 8 a.m. on distribution days. "Tickets for away games will be sold at regular ticket prices at the ticket office, with the exception of the Clemson game." Miss Wheeler said. Tickets to the Clemson game. which will be at Clemson. will be distributed Oct. 5. Six thousand student tickets will be sold for $6 each. SSEE ODUKE pum) (Coliseum) 26 Oct. 28 ID No. E ndingiD No. 8-9 0-1 2-3 3 4-5 6-'7