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Will the Strikers in world end? Commons Room (See story below)tda Vol. LXI - No. 3, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C SGA to form group to investigate racisn A Committee on Racism, composed of persons interested in combating and investigating racism on campus, is being established by the student government's Secretary for Minority Affairs. Oliver Washington Jr. said that his cabinet position was set up for the purpose of combating racial tension on the Carolina campus. The program outlined by Washingtor includes the establishment of a Minority Council, a Racial Complaint Board and the publication of a report this spring stating the racial situation on campus. "CAROLINA IS SUFFERING tremendously by wasting the abilities and talents of black students on campus. Given an equal chance there is no doubt that a black person will succeed." Washington said that racial tactics are used by students, the administration and the athletic department. Referring to the athletic department Washington said "One reason Carolina has had problems in recruiting black has been the ACC requirements. Since we are not recruitin under that anymore, it cannot be used as an excuse. "IT IS VERY HARD for blacks to attend a university tha exploits their talents and isolates them from campus life Time is past for blacks to play their hearts out on Saturday and be ignored and unappreciated the rest of the week." Washington said that he felt the problem of black par. ticipation in sports would be remedied by the athletic department. "I have talked to Paul Dietzel about my concern regar ding the black representation in athletics. I have a lot of respect and confidence in his ability." THE MINORITY COUNCIL proposed by Washington will consist of members from all minority groups at USC. in dians, blacks, married students or any student formulated into a group because of size, shape or numbers will be represented. "The purpose of the Minority Council is to draft legislation that directly concerns minority groups for presentation to the Student Senate." Washington said that the Committee on Racism will in vestigate complaints of racial discrimination on campus. "The committee will research problems of racism from the highest university office to the lowest. We will investigate all complaints brought to us and the practices and policies employed by the University will be scrutinized,"' he said. "I AM ADDRESSING CAROLINA as students, faculty and staff to get their individual houses in order -- they are having a visitor and if it's not clean, then the filth and neglect will be brought to the public eye." Minority Affairs in conjunction with Campus-Community Relations is working with the Southeastern Regional Council on a school desegregation project. "WE ARE CONCERNED with the violence which is occuring in the high schools across the state. I personally feel that unless something is done, the public school system will become a training ground for future years, making the University a battleground." Washington said that today's high school student will be next year's college or university student. "On December 16 and 17 all students who are concerned with problems confronting the high schools which they attended will have the opportunity to find out what they can do. We are setting up bi-racial teams which will work in their home counties over Christmas. "Leon Hall of the S.E. Regional Council, coordinator of the program, will be here to discuss the desegregation problem in South Carolina and explain how the teams will operate." COMMENTING ON "BLACK WEEK" at Carolina, Washington said that it was a shame that black par ticipation on campus is limited to one week a year. "We have just finished our first 'Black Week' at USC and I discovered the other side of campus life as a black student. My feelings are that blacks will long remember it as being a week where their talents and abilities were used to the maximum of their capacity -- however, it is a sad com mentary that black students can only enjoy this one week out of a year. "FIF TY-ONE WE EKS OUT OF A YEAR, in my opinion, is white week, when in reality black week should continue 365 days a year. 'Black Week' gave black students a sense of pride being able to work together and as being something great. "All we are saying is that we don't want nobody to gIve uu nothing -- just open up a door and we'll get it ourselves. "Give a black man in Inch on a ruler of justice, and he'll take a mile on the yardstick of productivIty-" State tu V Unive A summary of the report by the University Committee on Drugs was presented to a special state committee studying drug use and abuse in South Carolina by USC President Thomas F. Jones yesterday. The hearing was one of a series which the legislative committee is holding throughout the state to determine the proportions of the drug problem and make recom mendations for legislation. Other administrators, faculty members and several students were heard by the committee. The report was based on two surveys, one taken in February, which 2,027 students completed. The other was answered by almost :3,000 in-coming freshmen during summer orientation. According to the summary, certain basic facts evident from the date compiled in the surveys are: first that "Youtig people preparing to enter this University have a prior knowledge of drugs and a measurable percentage of these young people have used various kinds of drugs with varying frequency before they reach this campus." Secondly, "The scope of hard drug usage on the USC campus has not reached serious proportions. However, the samplings do 'LSD power Woodstock < By BOl CRAFT Staff Writer "I am not much of an after dinner speaker because I don't have the anecdotes or the jokes. I don't think my experience has been funny," Dr. William Abruzzi, medical director of the Powder Ridge and Woodstock music festivals, told students in the Campus Room of Capstone last night as part of the Drug Sym posium. Dr. Abruzzi said he considered marijuana to be "mild intoxicant" and that "street grass is very weak." Abruzzi said that hashish is much stronger than marijuana. He said. "If street grass is on a scale at one, then hash is about 18." Carolina Cares S tudent By AiI('l POTTEHR Staff Writer USC students and people in the Columbia area proved Wednesday that. generosity is not obsolete. Approximately 400 Carolina men and women canvassed Columbia collecting toys, clothes, canned goods, and money for charities. Over $15.000 in usable items. playthings and cash was donated to the 1970 Carolina Cares project by Richland County residents. At 7:15 core workers gathered to begin the days' work. Over 140 students showed up to ask motorists and shoppers for con tributions on street corners and in shopping malls. The first stop for most was in the middle of busy intersections. Workers tapped on car windows and, in most cases, received good responses from passers-by. Gov. Robert E. McNair said he was caught by volunteers twice on his way to work. He gave both times, he said. The core groups provided one of the major sources of monetary contribut ions as volunteers worked a 14 hour day. The only break came when they stopped for a free meal at the Burger King at :t p.m. before heading out for more money and contributions. Those students who volunteered to canvass neighborhoods worked in two shifts. 1he first left the Russell House parking lot around I p.m. with the second shift working " the Columbia area We&iesday' night. Many volunteers were amazed at the community's Comm rSity I suggest the potential for a serious drug abuse problem." Third, "There is a demonstrated need, already recognized by USC of fficials, for a concentrated education program among students and potential students concerning the inherent dangers in frequent or regular use of drugs." s 9. uana hman survey or often am or often usage ary survey, cent of hallucinogens and 2.1 men and 0.6 per cent of women said they use narcotics (heroin, opium, chemical' doctor says Abruzzi said he was not in favor of the legalization of marijuana at this time becaure "of the mechanics involved." He was in favor, however, of a nationwide moratorium on all penalties for marijuana until all of the research on the drug has been finished which he says will be within a year. Abruzzi said marijuana has been handled "ass-backwards" in the U.S. He said also "We lied about it for so long that. when we had something intelligent to say. the kids wouldn't listen." Abruzzi discussed heroin and said it is a toxic drug that destroys the brain and liver and renders the IContinued on Page 4) Ssuccessful s Canvass response to the well-publized request for contributions. Working house-to-house, groups t ranging from two to four students developed their pitch for c donations. "We're from the University, working with 'Carolina Cares', our annual Christmas charity drive. If you've got any toys. old clothes. canned goods, or (hesitantly) money for the Woodyard Fund. g we'd sure appreciate it." The response was phenomenal. Unhappy w: residents pic want better Over :125 Hates House residents 'oycotted and picketed ARA gi 'slater's cafeteria there 'esterday gi 'tening. The Hates House government H 'harte'red an SCE&GJ~ bus to ine >rov'ide transportation to other th< afeterias on campus. Only about 125 people out of a or-mal 451) used the Bates pi 'afeteria according to Rick st lansen. chairman of the Bates TIl louse food committee. "The boycott was called by the tudents of Hates House because of thb or quality and variety. We were die et trying to really hurt them foi 'jiater) economically. The par- ag cipation shows that there is a wi Nroblem" "4 ittee -eport morphine or codeine.) Often or regular usage of tranquilizers was reported by 1.3 per cent of men and 1.6 per cent of women; 56.3 per cent of men and 42.1 per cent of women reported often use of alcohol and 30.5 per cent of men and 28.8 per cent of women reported often use of tobacco. ing freshmen reportin n use were: beer men and 34.6 alcohol, .4 per ntodr.0 per cent of men and cent of women; barbituates, 0.8 per cent of men and 0.8 per cent of women; hallucinogens, 2.3 per cent of men d 1.2 per cent of women; nar 4 per cent of men and 0.5 women; tranquilizers, nand 1.2 per cent the com mittee receiv contain the figures for usage less frequent than "reg or often." The Figures we en down into :lass categorie the February rvey and age categories in the an one. Other breakdowns arital status and in-state o tate residence in both urveys. The freshman survey ncluded a breakdown by R H policy hearings on Wednesday Hearings will be held Wed nesday from I to 6 to consider Russell House policy by a combined committee of the Russell House Board of Governors and an ad hoc committee formed by the Student Governmeit in the Russell House Theater. The purpose of this hearing is to gather information for a review of all aspects of the Russell House Policy. The committee will make specific recommendations regarding policy. county Workers soon discovered that hree shopping bags were about six Do lew as people loaded them with uits. dresses, pocketbooks. hildren's clothes, toy trucks. toulled an im als and ot her araphernalia. One group was rovided with temporary trans ortation when they collected four icycles on one street. ('hildiren seemed to be the most enerous contributors. Only their 'ontinued on Page 4) ith food, ket Bates, quality The quality of the food varies v'atl., Hlansen said. "#e had a -at guy named Jim D)orton who as fired because of 'inefficiency' L' wrote me a letter and said 'l' 'Iticiency is student satisfaction, .'n I'm guilty as hell." "I know Slater must make ofits." Hansen said. "and udents must have good food. iere must be a middle." Hansen said that students "ued u*r heads for a change, and tn't do anything crazy. Another xd war about a month and half o was planned. but Slater got nd of It and extra pollcuem i'eposted." he addsd. recelv( on di population of home town, and the February survey included a table listing the number of people using heroin, rather than percentages. Nine students, seven males and' two females, reported using heroin often or regularly. The committee which compiled the report and conducted the survey VW appointed-by Jones in September, 1969 at suggestion of Charles Witten, vice president for st ffairs. Three students, th is tors and jour facu s are the tee, w Jonqs s will m lto fu n. , aul , a vice ent f tudent , and ember of the co , said another surv ill pro bly be take ary. "We will cha onnaire in order to make definitive as to what we about often, regular. seldom ge said. Fidler sai survey indicates that the use phetamines is "a college thing, due to the stress and strain of college life." In-coming freshmen reporting use of am phetamines was 1.5 per cent of males, while 11.1 per cent of the ma'es surveyed in February reported regular amphetamine use. The table from the February 'World to c True Light I The world will come to an end this weekend. Harvey Walters. a member of the True Light Church who believes that the end of the world is near, says that the group forecasts the end of the world will come before 197 1. "We don't necessarily say this particular weekend. but this will be the last full moon in the year." Walters said Another group is engaged in a court battle for the control of the church. This group believes that the end of the world is still 30 years Walters says that "they' have turned their hack on the church. but yet they claim to be True Light members They are no part of the church. C'hrist is not divided--he is one law, one way' and one faith." The True Light church was begun by a Methodist minister. Cunningham Royle. who had -- ww%owrrum I1* 1719 rugs survey showed 7.6 per cent of in state students as regular am phetamine users and 16.4 per cent of out-of-state students. In bar bituate use, 0.6 per cent were in state students and 1.7 per cent out of-state. Hallucinogen use among in-state students surveyed was 1.8 per cent and 5.9 per cent among out-of-state students, while frequent users of marijuana hashish numbered 4.8 per cent of in-state students surveyed and 19.8 per cent of out-of-state studets. Narcotic use was 1.3 per cent ofn state students and 2.2 per cent out of -state. In the freshman survey. 1.3 per cent of in-state students and 3.5 per cent of out-of-state students said they are regular or often users of hallucinogens. Regular use of marijuana-hashish was 7.9 per cent among in-state students and 16.1 per cent among out-of-state students. Jones said the indication of heavier use by out-of-state students. is "probably because they come from population cen ters. In the freshman survey break down as 'o size of hometown, the percentage using marijuana or hashish increased from 5.6 per cent of those from towns of 5.000 or less to 13.2 per cent among those from towns of 100.000 and above. >me to end' .'hurch says figured 1971) would be the last year of existence on earth. Walters commented over the phone last night that he had several visitors in his home in Monroe. N C He commented that the mood among the members was 'verv calm." -'They are sitting around. very (uietly talking over the situation. We feel very calm about this. We feel that it we are not like Christ. we can't be true Christians.' Mlembers say that following the end of the world. there will exist an Eden-like state for True Light members After a thousand y'ears. God1 will come in final judgement. The Bishop ol the True L..ght (Church. FHake Hraswvell. also of Mo0nroe. could not be reached due to the tact that his number "is no longer a working number.' Walters did not say what the membhers would do if their prophecies do not take place.