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VO LX" No.3 Vniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29206 Friday, September 18, 1970
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By SCOTT DERKS
Asst. Managing Editor
Despite the objections of the
Student Government Association,
the present student ring sold by the
Balfour Company will remain the
only ring sold on campus until Nov.
I of this year:
Since last spring SGA has fought
to have another class ring sold on
campus. Officials of the
association said that they wanted a
ring that represents the student
body. One that is selected by the
student government and not the
administration.
SUCCESSFUL RING
A ring sponsored by the student
government was sold last spring
and was deemed a success by a
student government official and
SGA began looking for a company
to handle the new ring.
The present ring company,
Balfour, will remain on campus
until the cutoff date of Nov. 1, or
until 350 rings are sold. After that
date the student government will
be allowed to take the actions they
feel necessary.
"We are acting only on the ac
tions of former president Barry
Knobel last spring. He agreed to
buy 350 rings from the Balfour
Company," Joe Usery, chairman
f the %ring committee said.
"Otherwis*e we would have gone
ahead with our original plans. The
administration has done it's best to
put stumbling blocks in. our way.
They know that these rings are
only a start. We want to give the
students a say-so on other issues.
Shutter
bugs
needed
Anyone interested in
becoming a Gamecock
photographer is asked to
attend a meeting Sunday at
7:30 p.m. in Room 308 of the
Russell House. All present
I stalf photographers are ex
pected to attend.
Staf f Writer'
It's hard to believe, but USC has
come up with three entertaining
and stimulating evenings in a row.
I'm referring to two delightiul
evenings with the easy humor of
.John Chappell's Mark Twain, and
last night, the not so gentle
proddings of Mort Sahl.
SahI. a man who could easily be
billed as the white Dick Gregory,
had a lit tle to say about everyone.
Some of it gentle. some of it bit ter ,
all of it was funny. SahI's humor
reminds one of the man who has
been kicked in the teeth all his life
and still finds humor in the absurd
fit of the oppressor's boots.
(Concerning the Vietnam war,
SahI was n& exactly uenign.
Claiming to have ridden the plane
into town with three South Viet
namese army officers, Sahl
commented, "So this general is
telling me all about how well he's
being treated in my country. Then
he starts explaining some of the
medals on his chest. He had quite
an assortment there, including a
few he got awhile ago for bombing
his people for the French." Taking
It a bit further, "All those brass
buttons and red ribbns and gold
be told
bjections
We want these things administered
by the students and not the ad
ministration.
"We are tired of the ad
ministration issuing binding
contracts with companies when the
rings are totally a student mat
ter. "
THIEE YEAR CONTRACT
The Balfour Company holds a
three year contract with USC
extending through June 1972.
Usery quotes a Columbia lawyer
as saying "the contract is not
valid, it allows no concessions to
the University."
The ring committee feels the
contract should not be binding
because the Boulfour Company has
given USC inferior service and has
not met any of specifications
qualities they promised: price,
quality, design, and service. "The
committee feels they have failed
on all four points," Usery said.
During the summer the ring
committee met with the four top
ring representatives, who handle
95 per cent of college ring market,
to discuss the possibilities of
another company selling rings on
campus.
OTHEIR COLLEGES
Also, the committee
corresponded to 38 colleges and
universities around the country for
a comparison of the overall ring
service.
According to Usery the reports
showed the Balfour Company to be
giving inferior service. For these
reasons the ring committee feels
change is justified. Usery also said
that the administration's action of
giving a three-year-contract
violates a trade agreement law. "A
company can only be awarded a
contract for one year, they can
only monopolize the market for one
year according to the trade
agreement," Usery said.
For that reason, Usery said, the
student Government has been
looking for a more suitable com
pany to work with. He said he could
not comment on the results of the
search.
Next time we will not give out a
contract," Usery said, "only an
agreement. It will say that a
company can sell its ring on
campus as long as the service,
price and quality are acceptable to
the students of Carolina."
VIort Sa
braid are pretty impressive....if
you're twelve years old."
Getting around to President
Nixon's Vietnamization program,
Sahi was a little less than fond of
"Vietnamization. Isn't that what it
was before we got there?"
To sum up how he felt about the
state of America's foreign and
domestic affairs. Sahl said with a
typical seriousness, "Sometimes
the people who love their country
the most have to leave it."
If Mort Sahi doesn't like the war
in Vietnam, he certainly doesn't
seem much fonder of President
Nixon. calling him among other
things "The Agnew of The
Eisenhower Administration."
Linking Nixon with the great
McCarthy Communist scare days,
SahI termed Nixon "A perennial
candidate."
By way of innuendo, SahI scored
Nixon on his lack of understanding
as to what's going on college
campuses. "Well It's obvious that
Nixon has a rapport with young
people. Didn't he meet with
students from Ohio after Kent
State.... and discuss their football
tem?" Moving on, the comnedin
attacked Nixon's love of publicity,
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By CARPENTER KING disciplinary appeals, and possibly cafe
Staff Writer the draft. Rest
Smith requested that students conti
please refrain from deluging his fall.
To try and help students "solve office with questions about the Ac
legal problems internally, before draft. They are still studying the Busi
they reach a crisis level," is the matter themselves, he said. after
goal of the new student law clinic, Office hours will be from about last
according to Prof. Frank Smith. 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday the
The group, consisting of 18 third- through Friday. Offices are in the sem
year law students, will provide School of Law. open
free legal advice to USC students. This clinic is among the first of the
Smith, who is directing the its type in the country and is adn
clinic, stressed the fact that the funded by the Council on Legal sem
service is a formal course under Education for Professional woul
the direction of the School of Law. Responsibility (CLEPR). the
In general the service will be The course is an elective to law The
free. Exceptions will be cases students and is restricted to the
involving court action. In such seniors. upor
situations the student will be According to Smith, "The Law mini
referred to an attorney or a legal School Legal Service will perform "T
aid society qualified to handle his a real function on campus in giving serv
particular problem. students a place to take their legal desii
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By CHAS. FELLENBAUM
Chief of Reporters
Dbert Bender, a local artist
iing against Richland County
Stor John Foard, held a press
ference Wednesday and
!aled what he called a "behind
scenes attack" on him by
es opposing his election.
ender said his prime witness
inst Jack Weatherford "was
I that he had better not be in
n when the trial of those in
ved in the administration
ding disturbance came up." He
onducting an investigation of
itherford. Several friends have
"been advised to disassociate
nselves from me," he added.
ender also indicated the
sibility of a framed narcotics
rge. "I personally expect to be
ested in the near future. It will
e than likely be on a trumped
narcotics charge. I expect to
e dope placed in either my
ie or automobile by state
nts and then be arrested," he
I.
ender said his home has "been
red and searched" in his
ence. A sealed bottle of
,fever pills was opened,
afeteria
By IRON BIGALKE
Staff Writer
ter a semester of ex
mentation with the M&N
teria, the Gate House
aurant declined to renew its
ract to manage the facility this
cording to Vice President for
ness Affairs, Harold Brunton,
a particularly bad semester
fall, Slater declined to reopen
cafeteria for the Spring
ester, feeling that the
ation was not profitable. At
equest of many students, the
inistration began last
!ster to seek someone who
d undertake the operation of
2afeteria from a local base.
Gate House Restaurant was
concern eventually decided
i by the University ad
stration.
he University feels that the
ce and food were extremely
able, but when the University
d them to continue the service,
declined," Brunton stated.
rold Taylor, manager of the
'itter, g
or, pointed and bitter humor,
nonetheless humor. SahI
es no gun. only a rappier-like
He has been branded
vthing from crazy to a corn
and still he speaks.
aspite the quick wit and funny
there is something a bit sad
it Mort Sahl. He was once a
of the lonely voice crying in
wilderness. Now, though we
still in the wilderness, there
many more voices and the end
i sight. Where does this leave
I and others like him?
'here. Most people don't even
u' who he is. guessing anything
i comedian to football player.
,al, as others like him, is ob
ed in the light of more recent
esmen who to a large degree
here they are on the broken
s of men like Mort Sahl. It is a
hing, but the men who do the
to bring about change often
[it least from it.
rt SahI needs no sympathy,
if he is bitter, he shows no
es. Midway through the lec
quoting Victor Hubert, he put
s well as any man can,
hing is as powerful as an idea
e time has cme.a"
charg
-scenE
presumably to be analyzei
added.
Bender has indicated that e
he is arrested, it will not affe
position. He said, "There i!
message I want carried t4
solicitor and his agents of fea
will not be intimidated; we wi
be coerced; we will contin1
bring the truth to the p(
Whether it be from the street
meeting halls of this city or fr
jail cell, this campaign will gc
He called for the resignati
Foard and suggested thal
governor appoint a new soli
as terms for his dropping out
race and "ceasing all pol
activity."
Bender claims about 5,00(
support already in his cami
He also said that he has 10
cent co-operation from the I
Citizens Party, which amou
about 3,000 votes. He also ch
that there will be cross
voting by both the Republicar
Democrats.
Bender noted co-operatior
many University related p
and is counting on about I,00(
from them.
"There is a tremendous ni
retury
Gate House, said the resta
declined because of "a chan
officials and indecision aboL
future of the corporation at a
when the University neede
immediate reply. This resulte
refusal on the part of the
House to renew the contract
"As far as we are concerne,
venture was entirely satisfac
Nith the exception of brea
we ran a break-even propos
The last part of the semestei
the most profitable, bacaus
learned by our mistakes and
better job," Taylor said.
"You might say we were g(
a college education," he
e!luded.
According to Taylor, the
House feels it competed
cessfully with the Slater s)
and would gladly con
recontracting the M&N cafe
Brunton said that the Univ
'...would give serious
sideration... "to any request t
Gate House to re
management of the facility.
Commenting on the progr
~en tie
res
s attack'
1, he of students who are going down to
register. They have been calling us
ven if to find out where to go and when
ct his the deadline is," he noted.
i one Bender described his campaign
) the as a "word of mouth" campaign.
r. We "The solicitor has done some very
l not good campaigning for us," he
Lie to added.
hople.
s and He said that John Foard has
om a been politically unwise. "When a
on." politician is going to make political
on. ohay from a situation, he knows
on ot when to stop. Foard obviously
cithe doesn't know when to stop. This
of the makes him a lousy politician."
itical Bender said that if he looses the
election. he will immediately begin
I vote work on a recall petition. If a
)aign. certain number of signatures are
0 per obtained on a recall petition, the
Jnited governor must call a special
nts to election. All parties and write-ins
timed are eligible to run candidates.
ticket
is and
Bender was politically active
during his high school years. He
from organized the first 'Teenage
ersons Republican Club in the state of
I votes Oklahoma and was in Barry
Goldwater's honor guard during
imber the 1964 Republican convention.
is to Slater
urant the food program thus far this,
ge in semester Jack Wertz. Director of
it the Slater. said that he feels that with
time the new redecorations in the
d an cafeterias, the students are finding
d in a dining more cheerful and thus
Gate enjoy it more. Slater has reopened
the M&N cafeteria hoping by a
d, the package deal to serve 'more
!tory. people faster and more cheaply."
kfast When asked about Slater's
ition. profits. Wertz explained that the
- was University allows Slater only a 5
e we percent profit. Any left-over profit
did a goes back to the University for
improvements on the dining halls.
"South, M&N. Russell House.
tting and Columbia Hall cafeterias have
con- all been redecorated." Brunton
said.
Gate .The decors have been changed
suc- and they are physically better.
,stem This combined with a new and
sider more aware management team
teria. has caused University officials to
?rsity be extremely enthused.
con- Asked if the Gate House
iy the operation had taught Slater
iume anything or caused any change in
sof Slater operations. Wertz had no
~ f comment.
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