Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Benedict< like separ Ry MARGARET SWENDSEID Cultural Editor Benedidt College is the sight of the first coeducational dorm ex periment in South Carolina. The $2,000,000 Mather Hall houses 400 students. Men live in separate sections on the second through fifth floors, and women occupy the sixth through eleventh floors. There are communal lounges on the first and twelfth floors. The model of new education concepts offers a total compact living enviroment. Modern paintings, brass drop lamps, and cube tables fill the striking lobby. The twelfth floor lounge is a creative lay-out for socializing and recreation. Students may go to the glass enclosed table tennis area, play cards in another area, listen to installed stereos in another section, or watch color T.V.'s behind a futuristically sculptured panel. There is also a canteen with sandwiches, drinks, and candy. 'Ihe twelfth floor is also the probable location of the college's radio station and newspaper. Above the top floor is the roof; an immense expanse of rubber-coated concrete and circular benches. There is occasional lounging and there are parties held here. The most bemusing aspect of Mather Hall is its two lobby -levators: one marked "Men" and the other "Women". To eliminate "confusion," both elevators are programmed to go on the sex designated floors only, including, however, the twelfth floor lounge. Asked to comment on this "segregation", one student lounger, Henry Anderson, replied: "Actually, it's no different than before. We (men) can't go into the girls' rooms, and they can't come into ours, except on special oc casions. It's like girls are staying in one dorm and boys in another. But I .think change will m-a eventually." SUMMER $234 Boeing 7 June 11 - Aug. 17 N.Y.-Lon Flights (7-9 P,M.) (Open only to U.S.C. student fam ilies. Tuesda Sizzlin' Sirl STEA - Just prese Our regula , baked pot, Doed dorm ate dorms Joy and Maggie, two women students on the eighth floor, had similar reactions. Maggie said, "It's like having one dorm on top of Another. There aren't any hours, and you have to sign in and out, but men should be able to come into the rooms on certain hours." Only .Itniors and seniors are allowed to live in the dorm, and no parental permission is required. There are two main house mothers or matrons, Mrs. James and Mrs. Bruxom, and part-time men directors. Asked if she would like total open housing, Joy answered, "No; just certain hours. Not when you get up in the morning, running around, or when you go to sleep." Maggie added, "1 wouldn't like it--you know how girls are, you'd never feel relaxed." What happpens if you're caught in the other sex's room? "You're sent to the Judiciary Committee, and you have to move out of the dorm, Maggie said. Hearing the talk and the T.V.'s serial program, more girls filed into the large room. Each of the rooms is identical, with two win dows, a long vanity and mirror, a telephone, and ceiling-to-floor birchwood closet. The outside halls are cushioned with thick carpet to quiet sound. After explaining that the lounges close after 2 a.m., Maggie and Joy commented on the change of rules; "We have students working on the Judiciary Committee right now to improve them, and it looks like we'll have open room hours soon." All of a sudden there was a hush in tie r-am, and then a burst of cheers and screams. The pregnant woman on the T.V. program was acquitted of killing her husband's friend, and her husband, the actual killer, was busy hiding a fateful piece of evidence from the court room people. After the excitment and relief, one of the quiet wat chers-on, Althea, was asked for her idea of change. She replied with "a bar and grill." EUROPE ) 07 Jet don r-t Call U.S.C. Student 782-4418 , faculty, & their immediate Night is StudE 5 P.M. til closing oin K DINNER ~nt your student identificatioi ar $1.79 sizzlin' sirloin steak sto, green salad and garlic t (ou-Are PB ERUSA 546 KNOX ASSOTT I Dame Judith Anderson Hamlet at Township March 15 The Columbia Music Festival Association together with the USC Artist Concert Series will present the incomparable Dame Judith Anderson as Hamlet, March 15, at the Columbia Township Auditorium. Dame Judith Anderson con siders her role as Hamlet to be the pinnacle of her career. Contrary to popular impression, she is not the first actress to portray the melancholy dane. Such theatrical. luminaries as Sarah Bernhardt, Eva Le Gallienne and Sinbhan McKenna have preceeded her in this role. This production marks Dame Judith's initial exposure as Shakespeare's hero, but she is no stranger to the play. She played Queen Gertrude in the Broadway presentation by Guthrie McClintic. Tickets for the performance, "Theatre History in the Making Dame Judith Anderson as Hamlet" are available at the Columbia Music Festival Office, 1527 Senate Street. mt Night $1.19 1 to cashier. served with oast. No Tipping. MRIVE wwComment m l Soldier I B, What is a soldier? Someone who I stares too long at the girl you're 4 with? Maybe it's the guy who asks I for a match and then asks where he can score some dope or hustle a chick. Maybe he's the guy who climbs in girls dorm windows, or then maybe he's a guy who was a high school student two months ago and is now forced to wear shiny black shoes. Above all, maybe he's human. Maybe he wants to be in that uniform as much as you do. It's spring now and everybody hangs out on the lawn or the patio and throws frisbees or gets high or just plain sits. Some of the people hanging out are obviously not students. Their hair is absurdly short and they look -out of place. Are they? This is supposed to be the homeland of patriotism, the nest of the bald eagle and fountain of hospitality. For the most part, freaks, plastic and otherwise, refuse to have anything to do with soldiers. They avoid them, perhaps more politely, but just as deliberately as townies. Their comrades in the other third of the united front are to be tolerated when its advantageous to parade them at rallies, but not other times. "right on brothers and sisters!" Pro America YAF types love soldiers. at parades or in movies, but in real life they ignore the men who carry the banner they so vociferously support, "Back our boys in uniform!" Certainly there are exceptions on both sides. Many USC students regardless of political affiliation or SMC elects plans PSC The Student Mobilization Committee met Thursday evening to consider electing a vice president and a secretary, rallies in Valley Park this spring and the SMC role in upcoming antiwar marches in Washington. D.C. Gary Jardim, representing the Progressive Students for Change proposed that Rita Fellars and the SMC that the two organizations join forces in unity to advance the cause of "peace and justice at USC." Jardim specifically sought an end to "sectarian policies" and the achievement of "unified policies." rellars proposed a joint meeting next week to consider such a coalition. Jardim repeated his request to form a coalition on the spot . rellars raised the question of the problems of a coalition and .Jardim reiterated his request to unite. A coalition in spirit was moved and approved with a meeting est ablished next week to set up the mechanics of the coalition. The coalition was called by Jardim a '$tudent Coalition for a Peace and Justice Movement." A coalition meeting was established for Tluesday, March 9, at which time the structure and function of the coalition would be considered. Nominations were entertained for the vacant spot of vice president . i' :SMC. Peter BRowm lues Jerry Calab )ersonal attitudes do make an Affort to talk to service men, but hese people are in the minority. Any weekend, as many as three >r four soldiers ask a passing tudent why people won't talk to hem. Of course everybody knows hat some of the rapes on campus were alledgedly done by soldiers, but like any group, it is impossible to judge all on the actions of a few. What then should we do? Take a soldier to church, get him stoned, ix up him with a girl? I don't know. but the least we can do is talk to them. What the University could do for them is another thing. The SMC that calls for unification of all the people should help. Groups of students that back the war in In dochina so loudly from 10,000 miles away should also find time to aid the men they are so willing to commit to action. The people in Columbia are Iriendly to soldiers as long as they spend money. Townies run away from them like they carried the plague and the city organizations for the servicemen are about as interesting and attractive to most soldiers as the Fellowship of Christian- Athletes is to most students. The University is the place they all come. Some seeking an easy pickup, others looking for a fight. For whatever reason they come, they are almost always here. Nobody is saying that we should play Red Cross or serve doughnuts Dn Sundays, but we could at least try to talk to them. officers coalition was the sole nominee and was elected without opposition. Karen Sundstrom was then nominated for the post of secretary but she promptly refused the nomination due to low grades. Mike Tkacik was subsequently nominated and was accepted by vote of ac clamation into the position of secretary or SMC. The SMC role in anti-war narches on Washington this spring Aas next . on the agenda. The aossibility of reconsidering par icipation in the April 24 march Aras brought up. SMC was to have narched in conjunction with the VSA and the Young Trotskeyites in a strictly non-violent march" and in a "real straight style." Fellars said she called the National Student Association which said that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was backing the May second march and that it would feature such participants as the Reverend Ralph Abernathy and migrant worker Cesar Chavez. At this point consideration of the ublic campus image was con sidered. Someone objected to the "cartoonist from the Gamecock" and Karen Sundstrom objected to that saying "it's Beebe's fault." Somieone cried "Ride out Beebe!"