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VOL. LXI -NO. 97 University of Sout aoI~ ouba .C 90 rdy a 4 91 uth arolno, olum la"'. C.2920-Frg llesolution supports girl's open dorm lobby Hv .LENDA M IIIFR News Editor A resolution urging President .ones and the Dean of Residence IAfe to open the lobbies of women's residence halls between midnight and 8 a.m. was passed by the Student Senate- at Wednesday's meeting. Senators Rita- McKinney and I)anne ttichardson authored the rbsolution, the main purpose of which is to -allow more places where a boy and girl can study together and a place where women, especially those with -a curfew, can talk to their dates after currew. 'he resolution specifies that a male in the lobby of a women's residence hall must be the guest of a female resident of that hall and his hostess must have her student identification card. A bill rearranging Senate D)istricts 6, 9. and tO was passed by the Student Senate -Wednesday. I'he bill authored by David Spinazzolo changes the old Senate Ilstrict 8, comprised of Preston and, Tenement 29, to -include Preston and Tenements 25 through '. Senate- District 9, formally comprised of Tenements I through -A and Coker, will include only Tenements - I through 20. Senate INst rict 11). which used to include Maxcy, Thornwell and Tenements :! through 28 will be changed to encompass only Maxcy and Tenements 21 through 24. The bill is to go into effect in the Spring 1972 elections if it is signed by Student Body President Harry 1, Walker. Lou Ann Cecil's nomination to the Supreme Court --by the residence hall presidents received Senate -approval Wednesday. Miss Cecil is a native of Spar tanburg, S.C. and is a sophomore marketing majoring. She has been an Associated Woman Students (A W.S.) delegate for two years and was voted the Outstanding I''reshman in McClintock. Miss ('ecil is also a member of Chi 4bnega <XOt sorority: Congratulations to Jim Farrell, editor of the GAMECOCK, Fall semester 4 4 Julian Bond, Georgia state and guests In Capstone last Nation4's. honors 0 J. Owens Smith, a senior at t Law School, has been named re4 nation's largest trial bar associ legal brief in the field of envin A special certificate and a S100 the Environmental Law Section Trial Lawyers Association (ATL or Legal Essay Competitions or schools throughout the country, Making the presentation to Si Jr., of Anderson, S.C., a men Governors of ATL. Smith's brief, entitled "The and Pbllution," was selected fr panel of judges, which was coi school faculty. Plans are now underway for Essay Competition in which a I from the winners of the individt panel of judges for the national c environmental law experts. Noting the significance of the. Hogan, of Birmingham, A!a., N vironmental Law Section, said t association is to cooperate in ei development of comprehensive in the nation's law schools. Hogan described this effort volving the trial bar associat Miss BlaciA app lica tion 'i'he first annual Miss Black ('olumbia Pageant is presently taking applications for entrants. 'ihe winner will be sponsored in the Mis.s Hlack South Carolina contest in (reenvlile. Kinirant s for the local contest are expected to display beauty, talent sand intelligence. Contestants should never have been married, Iilack women who areatndingma legislator, spoke to students night. His address touched largest tri wens Smi he University of South Carolina :iplent of a special award by the ation for submission of the best )nmental law. .00 cash prize were presented by of the 25,000-member American ) which is sponsoring Moot Court i environmental subjects at law Pith was Atty. G. Ross Anderson, iber of the National Board of Fourth Revolution: Legislation om a number submitted to the rposed of members of the law a National Environmental Law iational winner will be selected Pal law school competitions. The Dmpetition will consist of leading ie competitions, Atty. Roscoe B. ationa! Chairman of ATL's En he ultimate goal of the trial bar fery way possible in the formal programs in environmental law as a three-way partnership in Ion, the law schools, and the : Columbia s now taken college in Columbia are also eligible. A Miss Teenage Black Columbia Pageant is being held in con iunct ion with 'the local event. F"urt her information and ap plicat ion blanks for the contest ma.v be picked up during the next wo weeks at the office of THE PAilviCO POST. t318'5 Oak St reet . Columbia. S.C., 29204, or r elenhne ->5:nnUW I0 4..t. r PALdTt0 j"r racism (black and white), politics, violence, etc. See a full report of the speech on page 9. al bar assoc. th, USC semor students. "Today's students," he said, "are capable of bringing a whole range of new, imaginative solutions to bear on the complex problems of our society. One of the most complex, and potentially ominous, is the destruction of thO environment." "'it is with this in mind," he said, "that the American Trial Lawyers Association has instituted this competition, to enable law students to apply their knowledge and imagination to this critical problem, and to provide the law school with a nucleus around which a sound educational curriculum can be developed." Information table established by SG What is your Student Government doing? Why are they doing it? Who are the senators and how can you talk to them? These and other questions can be answered at the Un dergraduate Library. The present Student Government administration has set up a table in the library to enable students to read about the actions of their Student Government. Copies of the Student Government Constitution, and bills and resolutions, both pending and passed, are available to all students and are displayed on a large table as you enter the Undergraduate Library. After reading the information provided, you may have questions you would ilke answered. If this is the case, you will find on that sam'e table a list of senators, committees, committee chairmen and committee members in addition to executive Student Government officers and where these persons can be reached. The table is stocked once or twice a week as new in formation becomes available. Students are asked to read the material and return it to the table. Secretary of the Student Body Kathy Jennings said the purpose of the table is "to try to inform students that Student Government is working for them." Miss Jennings said it was her responsibility to see that the various materials were on the table and that it was kept currrent.