Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Torched, runs tow By SCOTT DERKS Associate Editor To write a book on the Nazi Olympics, USC history Dr. Richard Mandel! returned to Germany to run, torch in hand, the path of the Olympic runners of 1936. "I went to the stadium to em pathize with Jessie Owens, Adolf Hitler and the heroes of the Olympic games. When I arrived at the stadium, carrying the torch, the German guard at the gate would not let me in the stadium and I had no money in my sweat suit.So he was forced to run to the other side of the stadium, and UFO waives legal fight for control The UFO Coffeehouse, closed last year as a public nuisance, has, abandoned its legal fight to retain control of its headquarters on Main Street. Former patrons of the cof feehouse, a gathering place of anti war students and soldiers, have begun removing the furnishings from the building. The vacating of the building followed an order by Richland County Master in Equity, Harry Lightsey Sr. who said the operators of the coffeehouse were entitled to a jury trial on whether they would be ejected from the premises. Oliver Brown, the owner of the property, has requested that the property be returned to him after the three operators of the cof feehouse were convicted of maintaining a public nuisance and sentenced to six-year jail terms. The S.C. Supreme Court willi hear the conviction appeal of the three operators during the term of court that begins April 12. William Balk, Duane Ferre and Lenny Cohen are the three men involved. Circuit Judge E. Harry Agnew, who presided in the criminal trial of the operators, ordered that the corporation show cause why it should not be ejected and turned the matter over to Judge Lightsey. After a hearing Lightsey said the coffeehouse was entitled to a jury trial. FREE TRAN Every Sur from the Russell House SHANDON BAL 819 Woodrow Street Di Coffee Hour Bible Study Worship - 11:00 HEAD GEAR JOYFUL ALTER NA TIVE Mandell ard past climb a barbed-wire fence before he could run around the track. "I ran half way around and climbed the steps and dipped my torch in the basin. It was a strange overcast day in January, there was dirty slush everywhere; and I tried to put myself in the situation of all those men," Dr. Mandell said. Dr. Mandell's book, Nazi Olympics was released several days ago and will not be in the Columbia book stores for a few weeks. The book, which took two years to write, is more than just sports stories, though there are many. It is also the story of the Nazi's rise to power with the help of a renaissance of festivity. Mandell also deals with the in stitution of athletic prostitution. Athletes became a national resourse in Germany and were often denied their individuality. He feels that this institution has continuted today as well. 'When the Nazi's took over in 1933 everyone knew they were awful even then," Dr. Mandell said, "they were doing terrible C things to the Jews. The Jews were excluded from the law. But in 1936 the Germans opened up to the world, they had an unveiling of festivity so splenidly and skillfully presented that many diplomats and athletes only saw a Germany that was well behaved and orderly. Even the anti-semetic campaigns were stopped. "Everyone was so willing to think the best of every one with the tense world situation there was almost an eagerness to be bam boozled," Mandell said. The 1936 Olympics was the first time the Germans did well in the Olympics and in fact they won the Olympics. "It was an imamence coup and the Germans looked successful to the world. To the man reading the newspaper it appeared that totalitaritism was the wave of the future," Dr. Mandell said. In this wave came a trend, Dr. Mandell said, to idealize athletes and make them the sociological symbols of a nation while robbing these individuals of their freedom. Nazi Olympics is a book that in cludes the problems as well as the triumphs of the 1936 Olympic athletes. [SPORA TION day - 9:30 and Moore -Snowden TIST CHURCH .E.G. Brown, Pastor 9:30 9: 45 ..in Public Schools and Colleges. For early placement write: ITEACHERS AGENCY ISOX 1808 (t) High Point, N.C 27261 Member Notienol Association feqchers Amenci. . Why is this n He is Richard Mandell, authc )Iympics. Capitol U of weeker The Gamecock was informed early this morning of plans to picket the State Capitol tomorrow at 3 p.m. The demonstration is in protest of the intervention of US troops in Laos. The picketing is sponsored by Student Mobe, Women's Liberation, the GI movement, representatives of the USC Law School, labor groups and other individuals. A spokesman for the group said, STI CHAPI Regular: 32 NOW Only 15" Guara Present 514< 2913 Two Notch Rd. 19j 3316 1 COUPON: Stu .~~ ~ .. .. .. - Scott Derks an running? or of a new book on the 1936 trget td march "a meeting was held (Thursday night) to determine how members of the Columbia Community should respond to this week's invasion of Laos and further escalation of the war in Indochina." The spokesman said that ap proximately 55 people attended the meeting. He also said that "on Sunday evening between 6 and 7 a candlelight picket will walk in front of the Capitol Building." TDENT SPE( at ]EDRIC'S ar 'Y'S FISH 'n *C order of Fried 4 (Limit 2 orders nteed fresh, not fr Coupon at any C cations in Columi ] 35 Broad River Rd. 4. Main and Parklane dent special at Cedric's rder Orrion Rings, for High court to decide on grants The S. C. Supreme Court will rule next week on the con stitutionality of a General Assembly act that will allow scholarship grants to students attending private institutions of higher learning. Class action in the name of the state's taxpayers is being brought to determine if the Grant Act, passed by the 1970 legislature, is valid. The Grant Act set up a Higher Education Tuition Grant com mittee and appropriated $5,000 for tuition grants. A temporary restraining order was issued last summer by Judge John Grimball that prohibited distribution of the funds. Grimball later ruled in November that the legislation was within the bounds of the state constitution. The court test's appellant maintains that the act was un constitutional and that its primary purpose was to promote certain religious beliefs and creeds. The state denies this. Spring rush registration contnues Registration for spring frater nity rush will continue in the Russell House, M and N Lounge and the Bates House lobby until 3:00 today. Late registration will be held in the Chi Psi fraternity house through Saturday. To be eligible a continuing student must have a 2.0 GPR for the previous semester of a 2.0 cumulative. All transfers and most new students are eligible. AL Ld CHIPS 3nion Rings per customer) ozen iour 306 Charleston Hwy. Rd Sor Chappy's only 15C