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Pe"..m -ato be set by Hillel A petition. to be sent to oviet Premier Alexie Ksygin asking for religious freedom for the Rlussian people is beginning iticirculate ar ound caMpus. Hillel, who originated the document, wil officially announce the activity at a press conference in Russell House, room 307 Monday at I :a.m. The group will sponsor a silent pray-in Wednesday from noon to 5 .---Lm. in Rutledge Chapel. Hillel ".ays the petition will be aimed for all religious groups" and. universal appeal." A spokesman: Ior the group said they- were at tempting to get 1,4m) signatures by the end of next week. Veterans receive charter By PAU, llAltNI'K Staff Writer The veteran students of the USC campus are getting organized. .lhe charter for this organization was granted shortly before the Ahristmas holidays of last Imester. A small group of veteran students became concerned with the lack of communication bet ween the campus administration and themselves, when this feeling was expressed by a number of others, the Veteran Student Organization (VSO) .of USC was born. According to vice president Charles F. Hanselmann there are over 1450 veteran students on campus and it is high time that they and their problems are recognized." The jectives of the VSO are to help enrich and fulfill a student veteran's college career, to enrich the ex-G.i's social life, to be a service organization to both the veteran and to the community. Bell 13 New SI * Genuine Let * Fly Navy BJ * And Many A Headquarter Anyt Corner Lady an Al As this week's unexpectedi days arrived, some adveni Air Force The Air Force Officer Qualification Test (AFOQT) will be given Saturday at 8 a.m. in room 24M Barnwell College, ac cording to Colonel Joe N. Swanger, head of the Department of Aerospace Studies. The AFOQT is the first step for Breakfast schedule underway The Student Legislative Liaison Committee held the first of a series of breakfasts scheduled for members of the S.C. General Assembly Wednesday morning. lhe chairman for . the first breakfast was Steve Cannon. Guests included members of the Richland. Barnwell, Bamburg and Allendale legislative delegations. The breakfasts are part of the Liasion Committee's program to improve relations between the student body and state legislators. ottoms Iipment iCorduroy Bells ue Bells lore s For Most hing d Assembly St. ang on open wa y spring-like hoisted the se urous sould waters. d tet - sch students interested in applying for the Air Force Rotc two-year program. a program open to students with two years remaining in - the University either at the graduate or undergraduate level or a combination of the two in any academic major. After passing the AFOQT. an applicant for the program must then pass a physical examination. meet a board of Air Force officers. and attend a six-week field training course at an Air Force base. After successfully com pleting all of the prerequisites, the student would then enter the Air Force ROTC program in the fall semester and pursue the course Towers r< favor ope Men's Towers' residents voted overwhelmingly to have open dorms in a referendum Wed nesday. According to Ken Greene. sne'ial chairman, eighty per cent of the complexes residents voted, Of the I ,262 men who voted 1081 asked for open dorms twenty-four hours a day,. seven days a week. 162 men asked that the present hours be foi FREE F I NSTRU contact Department of As University of 5 about I Air Force ROTC I Call 777 You just migi ters ills on a voyage over murky eduled which leads to a commission as an Air Force second lieutenant. According to Colonel Swanger. service in the Air Force has become even more attractive in the last several years. particularly financially. For example. a newly commissioned second lieutenant on flying status and married receives a starting salary of over n5H1 dollars a year. $7.2() for non iyers. Students interested in applying lor the AFOQT and the two-year program should contact the )epartment of Aerospace Studies. room 202 Harnwell College. telephone 777-4135. before tomorrow. sidents n house extended and ten voted to have the hours remain unchanged. Only nine men voted to have the present policy abolished. Greene said that the results would be given to Jerry Nix. assistant dean for resident's life. "W doubt if we'll get twenty-four hours but I hope we'll at least get somzt hing like t wo in the afternoon to t welve at night ." Greene added. LYING CT IONS the rospace Studies, o. Carolina he -year program. 4135 t qualify! Winter. Consortl sensitive KV IIARtItV ioPEP Milff Writer hIate to say it. but "WOW!" What else can you say about the Pail Winter Consort? What else is there to say? And how can the Winter Consort be desceibedl to someone who has never heard them? Try imaginative. original. sensitive. intelligent. fantastic. -olttasite". beautiful. grotesque. a feeling--a celebration in sound. They play their music as sound--it just happens to have a title. sometimes. The publicity release which describes their sound as "*classical. jazz, rock. folk. ethnic". etc.. etc., falls far short of capturing the essence of their work. And the audience knew what was Roing on. And it will be the audience who will know today what happened last night. The Consort doesn't worry about what is classical. what is rock. what is ethnic, etc. They just play 1heir music. After months of Grand Funk. lotntain and all the way down to Speed Limit M5. it is both beautiful and refreshing to hear somebody some group-- that has its own sound - a sound which can lift and throw. feaving the listener men tally and emotionally drained... catharsis. The Paul Winter Consort would probably be a very well-known group if they chose to be buffeted albout by the rich men who control "ontemporary music. But they b;ave some records out. Find them ind bury them. Paul Winter and his consort night return. If audience response was anything like I thought it was ast night. the Artists Series :ommittee just may have to book he Coliseum or Township \uditorium. And it they do return, go hear heir fantastically indescribable >riginal sound. Laos (Continued from page 1) with the goal of removing France ot ally f rom L.aos and uniting both north and south. One leader, l-'aydang. told how he came to join he resistance When the .Japanese came we had hope of something better. but hey were just the same. Villages were destroyed. corps burned on the ground. our people massacred. l'he French came back and they Lmrried on in the same way... soldiers were sent all the time to ilage our people. 'They took everything, from rice and alcohol L'ven to our buffalo..." He con limles - When the program of the Irmnt was distributed among our Lao0 Som people, they saw it an swered their deepest wishes. qiuality for all races. Nobody had ever spoken of this before. A united light against the French. We had never thought it possible. Abolition af unjust taxes. The French had burned and plundered our villages, massacred our people, taken our~ women in collecting taxes in the matst.