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VOL. LXII NO. 25 UniversityofohaCDESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1971 Supreme Cou Stud BY CHARLES FELLENBAU Asst. Managing Editor The USC Student Supreme Cou ruled yesterday that the Oct. Student Governipent electiol were invalid but that electioi should be held again. The court had issued an e joinment order Oct. 28 after tv separate petitions were filed I five student senators and oi candidate questioning electic procedures and constitutionalit In upholding the first petitio the court said elections cori mission procedures were "ni adequate, not clear and actic should be taken in the future i correct this." Student Government Attorne General Aaron Harvey agreed thi the secrecy of the ballot had n4 been kept and that referendu wording was vague and unclea The referendums would ha% Felder sa become p BY KARIN BURCHSTEAD Staff Writer Activities for Black Week began Sunday night at USC with a Soul Banquet and a speech by Rep. James L. Felder of Columbia. Felder told those attending the banquet that the position of blacks Highland tonight to Dr. Joseph Highland, one of tonight at 8:30 p.m. In room 31 Highland has a PhD In bli with Nader in organizing pub throughout the nation. He is presently touring Sot college and university campt SCPIRG, The South Carolina Group. All students interested In I with Highland are urged to < SCPIRG is trying to get a I South Carolina college or u saying that they are willing I term to support a public inte Once endorsed by the stud respective college administra will elect representatives to This board will hire a pro economists, biologists, engi them in investigating issues important. The first phase of organ izat at the University of South C4 Furman and others are in theI drive will begin In the near'1 rt ruling lents: M indicated student fe closing of Green rt Sumter to Pickens, 27 Student Governmej is should be elected or a is the possibility of a $3. for summer school s The second petitior fo the constitutionality >y tions was also uphek ie Candidate Jim Lenj in held that the electic y. constitutional becaus n, not held within th( I- period specified by At Government Constitu n a member of the el o0 mission, Marsha M student senator, alsc The court's decis It that a new elections A member be appointe( n the second election. r. This was the first d4 re newly-formed Suprerm ys blacks 'olitically today is similar to that during Civil War Reconstruction when blacks were active politically. The duty of college students today is to secure this second Reconstruction so that it is not lost as the first was, Felder said. Securing the second Recon struction is the primary step speakinMg SCPIR G Nader's Raiders, will speak D0, Russell House. )chemistry and has worked lic Interest research groups ith Carolina to speak on 17 ises in an effort to organize i Public Interest Research eleping or who want to talk :ome. nlajority of students at each niversity to sign a petition o tax themselves a dollar a rest group. ents and approved by each tion, students at each school a state board od directors. fessional staff of lawyers, neers and others to assist which the students deem lonal and educational efforts irolina, Clemson, Winthrop, nitial stages and the petition futQre... ......... you get eling on the court will I Street from court syste whether the jurisdictior at secretary everything ippointed and volves only 50 activity fee Justice Dou tudents. District c i, questioning appeals wil of the elec- appropriate I. by the Stud( gel's petition During t ins were un- Supreme Co e they were hold the e a six weeks elections c, the Student resigned in I ion, and that - "Bullshit ections com- John Blac] ttel, was a "Reason sh a violation. Supreme C ion requires "It seems commission affairs wht I to work on choose their We (the el ,cision of the make a few e Court. The we learn fr< must active before moving into the Third World, he said. Events for Monday night in cluded a speech by Sidney Moore, chairman of the Richland County United Citizens Party. Moore told about 100 persons in Currell College that blacks are veing victimized by the educational system. 0 "The major emphases must change," Moore said. "Students should be taught to deal with the problems not the solutions. "Politics in South Carolina and the United States is a white man's game, an elite white man's game," he said. "The politics we need to search after is not in the domain of the state legislature or city hall. Writing down something has never constituted the energy necessary to survive. "In order to constitute ourselves as a political entity, we must orient our political, family and educational institutions toward the survival of the individual," Moore said. The Monday night program also featured poetry readings by USC and Benedict College students and creative African dancing by the Kuunba National Cultural Group of Benedict College. Tuesday's activities were highlighted by the presentation of Third World fashions In Currell College. Following the program, Clara Wilson, Miss Black USC, was presented a gift and bouquet by students from S. C. State College. Howard Fuller of Malcolm X University in Greensboro, N. C. was unable to speak because of a .sheue enftt. to Vot )e part of a campus and m which will have own k over "just about Bli on campus that in-. that the campus," Chief few s glas Dent said. a pol ourts and a court of Se: 11 be created when repli legislation is passed fall ,nt Senate. story ie recess after the Wh urt's first decision to decla lections invalid, an held Dmmission member his p protest. "4M on constitutionality," after kshire screamed. appl) ould prevail in all "0 3urt decisions. "the to be a sad state of them m students cannot Stu own representatives. Harr ections commission) credi mistakes. Why can't abou im our own mistakes SUPP 'Day of 'Day of i perform i A play called "Day of Absence" by Douglas Turner Ward will be presented tonight (Wednesday, Nov. 3) at USC as another activity of Black Week at USC. Carolina student Joslyn Tucker will direct the satire play which has an interesting twist in that it was written for blacks to play the roles in .white makeup. The play begins at 8 p.m. in Rssell House 'Theater, and in terested persons are invited to attend. "Day of Absence" takes place in a small southern town whose white citizens wake up suddenly to the fact that all the blacks have left town. The mayor of the town is faced with making a decision for act ion to recover the missing Negre.. have the students elect their representatives?" ickshire said he was afraid if elections were not held, a tudents would be appointed as Itcal move. iator Tom Stoudemire md, "If you'd been elected last you'd have had a different en the second decision ring that elections should be again, Blackshire reversed osition. y first comments were made the first ruling and they all to it. ,i the second ruling," he said, showed some sense to ident Government President y Walker said "I give no bility to what Blackshire says t anything. I'm happy with the eMW Com's decision." Absence kbsence' ig tonight Principal characters in the play are Chestley Price as the mayor, Atlee Prince Jr. as Jackson, Vernice Wingate as Luke, Larry 'Thorne as Clem, Raymond Jordan as John and Majorie Miller as Mary. Some 20 other USC students also will be in the cast. Black Week activities remaining, in addition to the play, include a lecture Thursday by basketbali great Bill Russell, a variety music and dance program Friday and the "Black Ball" Saturday night at which Miss Black USC for 1971lwill be named. 'Tis week's program is spon sored by the USC Association of Afro-American Students. Angela Wright Is president of the organization and also is Black - Week-enantr