Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Victory ce] held in mI BY HARRY HOPE Staff Writer . Carolina students celebrated the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball yictory this weekend by marches, swimming, and a big welcome for the team. Hundreds of students and Gamecock supplrters met the victorious team yesterday as police escorted their bus to the Roost about 1:45 p.m. Cars blanketed the area and greeters lined the driveway. Some people were perched on top of the Roost. Fire causes smoke in Moore dorm A fire caused by a candle on the top of a decorative skull in room 408 of Moore (M) sent smoke through' the entire ventillating system of the building last night, The fire started at ap prosimately 11:30 and damaged the occupants stereo equipment. It is ieported that George Key, director of security, recently had the keys to the equipment rooms in the Tower's collected. The swit ches to the ventillation blowers are in the equipment rooms. According to a residence counselor in the Towers, the blowers could have been cut off and the smoke prevented from reaching the entire building if the keys were available. STUD Interestec Leading To Sal, Come hear our stor by sheer corporate individual determinm Wallace Busia On campus Tue lebrations my ways The bus had been met in Rock Hill, S.C. by city policemen, who escorted the bus through the city. Columbia police met the bus at the city limits and sirens cleared the way as it passed thAugh Columbia on the way to the Roost. Gathering in front of the Russell House just after the game, students threw rolls of toilet paper, squirted fire extinguishers and stopped cars. About I a.m. students marched to the State Capitol, and down Main Street for several blocks, turned and then proceeded down Sumter Street, stopping off at Columbia Hall. After a few minutes, the group continued down Sumter Street and finally gathered around the Un dergraduate Library reflecting pool, where some of the celebrators were thrown into the pool despite 58-degree tem perature. Soon, other students jumped in voluntarily. Those who wished to remain dry stood and watched. One person produced a trombone and led in the singing of the Alma Mater. Passing motorists leaned on their horns and were greeted by cries of "We're number one." and "To hell with UNC." One resident of Preston turned his phonograph on full blast to play a recording of theUSC fight song. Laws against public display of alcholic leverages- were widely ignored. Students brandished Budweiser, Pabst and their own concoctions. O< ENTS u n Sales as Management? y! Don't be fooled size. You the your own growth. ness Forms, Inc. eday, March 16 OemSSOffce... A crowd of about 100 watch agents burned more than 2,5 mariljuana at Broadriver Roi Walker - SG back (This is the first in a sert*# of interviews with the candidates for student body president.) BY JOHN GASH Staff Writer The battle for student body president this year has involved many diversified elements. The range of backgrounds and per sonalities represent numerous segments of Carolina's com munity. One of the distingt representatives of this diver sification is Harry Walker. Walker, one of the four can didates, is black but he said that being black is not his platform; ideas make up his platform. "I don't want people voting for me, or against, me because I am black." Walker said Sunday. "I want people to vote for me because I stand for certain ideas and changes." Walker said that the primary change he would initiate would be getting "student government back to the students." He explained that, from his experiences of seeing how the student govern ment works, once students are elected into office, they usually ignore and "step on other students" for their own personal gain. Tuesday N STEAK Just present yor Our regular $1.7 baked potato, gr Come-As- You-Ar Up in smoke ed as SLED Friday. The i )0 pounds of 27, in Beaufo id this past about $2 mill 0 primary to the St To remedy this situation, Walker said that it may have to be "mandatory for senators to meet with their constituents" if they are elected. Also, Walker wants to Profile of the Candida tes originate a senate. that would consist of all parts of the univer sity. Walker said that USC needs a senate in which "faculty, ad ministrators and students could help solve some of the problems of the university." He said that he could not say at this time who would have the most say-so in this senate. "We would have to in vesftigate and work on the program before we could decide how everybody would be represented," Walker explained. "No white student body president has worked very ef fectively to my knowledge with the board of trustees," Walker stated, referring to the contention that a black president couldn't work with the conservative board of trustees. "All Iwant the board to do is to accept me as a person," Walker ight is Student 5 P.M. ti Clasig DINNER $ ir student identification to c 9 sizzlin' sirloin steak serve eon salad and garlic toast. e KNOX ASSQvg pagy W WW WO40 W-WW4 -M NWW4d narijuana, confiscated Feb. rt County, was estimated at Ion in value. change:. udents continued," and I think I could do a lot for the students." Walker listed the following as the more important sections of his platform. Considered most im portant. I. Open House should be allowed in all dormitories. One co educational dormitory should be established on an experimental and voluntary basis. The present Capstone facility has been used for this purpose in the past and would be a feasible building to convert for usage in the future. 2. There should be an in vestigation of Student Government spending and re-evaluation thereof. It is proposed that a periodic report of spending be published in the Gamecock. :1. Student Government in the past has been a useless instrument acting contrary to the needs of the students. A restructuring of the organization is needed to make the oganization more germane to the students rather than a meckanism of administration dominance. 4. A thorough revision of student rules and regulations Is necessary. Particular effort should be directed toward the revision of the inck pareftis concept. 5. The thought of studekats paying high prices to attend concerts at the Coliseum Is ridiculous. Night 1.19 ashier. d with lo Tipping.