Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Question of the Week This week's question of the week is: "Do you think the University of South Carolina Student Health Service should diseminate Birth Control pills?" (1) Yes (21.) No (3) 1No opinion Last week's Question of the Week elicited more response than both the previous weeks combined. It seems thai students are more concerned with social than politica issues. The overwhelming response was that, "No homosexuality is not wrong." There was one uncommitted opinion. Of. the 16 responses, there were 11 replies thal homosexuality is not wrong and five that homosexuality i wrong. Those feeling that homosexuality is wrong stated suci things as "If He (God) wanted two members of the sami sex to love each other, he would have made them capablf of reproducing." Another felt that, "it is a definite deviation from God'. plan for men and women." Still another felt that homosexuality is "antisocial". Among the majority finding nothing wrong witi homosexuality, one said "I am at USC to learn, and I cai learn lust as well from a queer as from Charles Atlas." One analyzed what constitutes a homosexual, an( wondered where to draw the line between affectionat heterosexuals and homosexuals. The response continuec "in many cultures homosexual development an heterosexual development are so entwined that n distinction is made between the two." The one person responding that they didn't know sal that if in searching for a meaningful relationship, a perso chose to fulfill himself through homosexuality, "he shoul not be condemned, ridiculed or pitied." Please address answer to: Question of the Week co John Gash Special Prices for The Gamecock Fraternity & Drawer"A" Sorority Parties Send the Gamecock home! FRIED CHICKLO Now.". IT W~De&iAlJk af 4020 ROSEWOOD DR. (Phi no 787.8829) end 1237 "D" AVENUE WEST COLUMBA4 (Phone 794.8891) New Dining Room Now Open! AT THE Mayfair Grill Good Home Cooking Students Welcome JUST TWO BLOCKS SOUT H OF C AMPUS 343 SOUTH MAIN STRE ET ( Am.. e.- SCEam) United By SUSAN GRUBB Staff Writer The predominantly-black United Citizens Party is complicating this year's gubernatorial race In South Carolina. The complications stem from the young party's efforts to win 35 per cent of the popular vote for its -write-in candidate, Thomas D. (Tom) Broadwater, a local Negro attorney. Broadwater is one of four can didates seeking a majority or at least a plurality of the state's approximately 850,000 votes for governor. It is possible to win the election by gaining a plurality of 26 per cent. Other candidates are Lt. Gov. John C. West. Democrat; Rep. Albert W. Watson, R-S.C., Republican; and A. W. "Red" Bethea. S.C. Independent Party. Candidates for lieutenant governor are State Sen. Earle Morris of Pickens, Democrat; James M. Henderson of Green ville. Republican; Edward E. Watson of Spartanburg, In dependent; and the Rev. Julius C. McTeer of Ridgeville, United Citizens Party. South Carolina's 1970 governor's race resembles the 1966 Georgia d gubernatorial election in which three candidates competed. n Political observers believe that d there is only a slight chance that the South Carolina race could be decided in the state legislature as was the Georgia election. Since no candidate won a majority in the Georgia race, the legislature decided the election. It elected Democrat Lester Maddox %a governor even though he won fewer votes than Republican Bo Callaway. Another difficulty could occur if a sizable portion of the votes were to be contested. In that event the S. C Constitution provides that the General Assembly would settle the nd an hc and get )r aWhOk( C itizen guberna contested ballots and certify the top vote-getter as governor. Another section of the Con stitution provides for a second gubernatoriali election should the House and Senate fail to agree on a winner. Should there be a tie in the second election, the House would choose a winner by voice vote. Voting members would consist of legislators elected in November. Current House terms expire soon after the November elections. West believes himself ahead in the four-way battle but State GOP Chairman Ray Harris terms the contest a "horse race" with a 25 per cent uncommitted vote as the deciding factor. Harris agrees with other political spokesmen that the election will not be close enough to be contested. West is the candidate most likely to suffer a vote loss due to Broadwater's entry, observers say. The lieutenant governor has alienated some black leaders who have supported Democratic candidates in past elections. Negro leaders are particularly disen chanted with West's stand on quotas for higher education set by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. West maintained that such quotas would upset higher education. West is not the only state official who has displeased a segment of the black population. Mrs. Mod jeska Simkins, civil rights ad vocate and UCP president-for-life, has said that "neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are conscientiously concerned about the people and their needs, save a few special exceptions." Mrs. Simkins was referring to a sheet issued by the USP which called for "a new party which can run its own candidates -- can didates selected because they are willing to serve all the people." The declaration also called for ur at Bry 'started semestt Br a The R. L< MaAAin Steet' Party torial re "40 per cent black representation in the legislature, city councils, school boards and in public jobs in line with the size of the black population." A call for the formation of a "party of the oppressed" was issued last October by James E. Clyburn of Charleston. Clyburn was head of the UCP until his Democratic nomination for a seat in the state legislature. 'he UCP patterned itself after the National Democratic Party of Alabama and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Both are Negro splinter groups of the National Democratic Party. Minnesota's Farm-Labor Party and New York's Liberal Party also served as models. UCP leader John Harper II said that it is "not inconceivable that the UCP might not eventually take over the Democratic Party in South Carolina" as did the Min nesota Farm-Labor Party -- "the party of Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy." 'However," he said. "our objective is to become the major party in South Carolina. regardless of any presently existing party." On Nov. 22 a 15-member steering committee composed of both blacks and whites met in Columbia. Harper was elected chairman. The committee decided to launch a drive to obtain 40,000 names on a petition to establish the UCP as a legal party in South Carolina. State law requires only 10,000 signatures. After failing to meet its April 30 deadline to appear on the ballot the group submitted a peti!ion May 22 to run write-in candidates in the fall elections. Secretary of State Frank 0. Thornton approved the to corr Lce i 3etition Sept. 1 after additional iames were submitted. April 25 the UCP held a "con vocation" to formulate the party. The term "convocation" was used instead of "convention" because state law requires that political conventions take place in MarcIt. Steering committee chairman John Harper was elected party president at the convocation. Other business included adoption of a party platform. Party members reviewed results of the Democratic primary at a subsequent meeting in June. In July. 5 members met and iecided to meet Aug. 8 to name a gubernatorial slate. "We also agreed to furnish speakers and --------- - News Big Br, spread The International C.ommittee's 'Big Brother" Program is 'preading throughout the campus. ieginning as an attempt to create riendship between international ind American students, it has ndw ;pread to the Anthropology sociology Department. A "guild", :onsisting of sociology majors, is ;upporting the "Big Brother" Program by encouraging their ;tudents to become involved. The iteering Committee of the guild went a step further. They will ;ponsor 10 international students vithin their department. The International Committee thanks he guild for its efforts in bettering ;tudent-faculty relationships. Musicological Society The Southeast Chapter of the Nmerican Musicological Society I A MS) holds its fall meeting on the UISC campus October 9-10. The meetings scheduled for next week will be the first ever held by the Drganization in South Carolina. Program chairman for the meetings of the regional chapter of AMS is Luise Eitel Peake, assistant music professor. Dr. Peake claims that 80 percent of the regional membership is from bover's lane EASt plicate Le fall operate an information bureau for student and community meetings on problems facing many of our school districts who this fall ficed full integration," Harper said. Students supporting Broadwater combined to form the Young United Citizens Party about two weeks ago. The group is composed of primarily Benedict College students who plan to teach blacks to write in the UCP candidates on the November ballot. The group also plans to serve as poll watchers and as a community mobilization force. Other recent UCP organizational activity have occured in Florence in an effort to elect black attorney Mordecai Johnson to a vacant city council seat. Johnson will compete with Democratic and Republican candidates in the Oct. 6 election. Priefs flher ng North Carolina -- Cnapel Hill and )uke. However. there are mem bers from Virginia and Georgia and a few in South Carolina., "This 'advanced scholarship' is very important to our Music I)epartment." says Dr. Peake who is a native of West Germany and holds academic degrees from Columbia University, the University of Tennessee and the Chicago Musical 'College. The principal speaker during the two day meeting in McMaster College will be Donald J. Grout of Cornell University. Grout is an authority on the operas of Scarlatti and is past president of both the American Musicological Society and the International Musicological Society. He will discuss "The Original Version of Scarlatti's 'Grieselda'." According to Dr. Peake, the very fact that the regional chapter of AMS is meeting here next week is additional proof that USC's Music )epartment is coming of age in music scholarship; and she ex pects musicology to receive greater emphasis here as a result of these meetings. Bell Camp This weekend the International (Committee is sponsoring a trip to Bell Camp for all American students interested In meeting students from other countries and all international students wishing to get to know Americans. Huses will leave from Russell House between 5:30 and 6:00 l"riday a fternoon and will return to the campus about noon on Saturday. Students should bring old clothes, a swimsuit, blankets, pillowcase, sheet. washrag, and a musical instrument if they have one. Supper and breakfast are provided, and the weekend is free. All interested persons should sign up at the desk in Russell House by Wednesday. There will be a drop-in between 5'39 and 7:30 in room 209 of Russell House on Wednesday for all attending. ('hemnist meeting U SC chemist will preside over t he annual meeting of- an In ternational society next week at the Uiniversity of Maryland, lDr. Peyton Teague, USC professor of chemistry, is president of the Phytochemical Society of North America. which has membership worldwide and meets Oct. 16-9 for its tenth sym posium and annual meeting. Members or the society include c'hemists, bio-chemists. botanists. plant physiologists and other scientists concerned with. the chemistry of living plants. The USC chapter of Young Americans for F"reedom' will hold their first meeting of the year. open to the public, on Tuesday night. Oct. 6,. at 7:30 p.m. In room :12 of the Russell House on Green Street. (;uest speaker Sheriff lFrank Powell of Richland County will speak on "D)rugs: Use and Abuse." A question and answer period will follow the talk as will a reception. Young Americans for F'redom, a nationwide group of St .000, Is the largest youth organization actively dedicated to the principles of conservatism. YAP believes In a free and orderly society; In the free market, and is opposed to all fan. of totalltarianismn and govermn encroachment -on indlvidugai liberties, L,egal Aid is availeMe for studenta daily In toeg REg &