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VOL. LXII - NO. 38 University of South Carolinip Columbia, S. C. 29208 MONDAY. F4 Be By CHARLES FELLENBAUM Staff Writer Snow, or at least a lot of icy rain, fell on campus Friday, and before you could spit, it was gone. But not without raping prac lically every tree on the Hor seshoe. That usually well-kept area is littered with branches from Iwo inches to 30 feet long, brought Christmas activities: Santa Claus, dance, letters, singing A week of activities celebrating Christmas on campus began last night with "Jesus Christ Super star" and will conclude Saturday with the annual Christmas dance. The dance, to be held Saturday night from 8-12 at the Carolina Coliseum, will feature Buddy Morrow and his orchestra and is free to all USC students, faculty and staff. Invitations may be picked up in Russell House room 204. Dress is black tie option. Sponsored by the University Union special events committee, Christmas on campus has a theme this year of "Rebirth of HHumanism." As part of the program USC chaplains will be in the Commons Room from 2-4 today and tommorrow, and Johnathan Round will perform In the Golden, Spur tonight. Santa will visit the Russell House and other parts of campus Wed nesday afternoon. Students wishing to write letters to Santa Claus may leave them at the Russell House Information Desk. Letters will be read by Santa Thursday night at 7:30 on the Russell House patio. After the let ter reading will be carollighting and Yule-log burning. A sunset service emphasizing inner peace will be held by USC chaplains Friday at 5 by the reflection pool at the Russell House. ...the Horsesh fore you c down by the weight of ice on the branches and unshed leaves. A 50 foot oak tree split into three symmetrical parts, one narrowly missing the Maxcy Monument and grazing one of the lights that illuminates the monument. A Horseshoe resident, Pat Reynolds, was walking by the tree just after it split. "If I would have been 10 seconds earlier, it would have hit me," he said. Major branches on at least eight trees are hanging forlornly from the tops. Some of the trees have been growing for over 100 years. A student who walked past the fallen tree by the monument yestercay said "I wish I was eight years old. I'd go apeshit playing here," apparently reminiscing The tree that oe will never ould SpIt, about his childhood. Electric power went off about 11:30 p.m. Friday night which seemed to put the campus in a festive mood. A group of women from Columbia Hall walked around campus singing Christmas carols, with kazoo ac companiment. One group of drunk guys waltzed around singing "Silent Night," emphasizing the word "virgin" in the line " 'round yon virgin, mother and child." Fireworks were set off and people were yelling until the power came back on at 1:35 a.m. The power failure affected all buildings on the south side of Green St. and missed a couple on Ihe north side. Preston, the biology barely misse k*1( be the same it was gI buildings and tennements 1-5 remained lighted. Failure on the rest of the Hor seshoe began with President Jones' house, and his family stayed up a while talking - the living room lit by a six-tier can dleabra. The storm also caused a lot of students' out of town plans to be cancelled. Dickie Harris Day, way up north in Point Pleasant Beach, N. J. wasn't really the same without Harris, who couldn't make it. However, Harris and Head Football Coach Paul Dietzel talked to the people at the banquet by telephone. Perhaps the sentiments of many a student... wro GNonae 'VI 14 one were summed up by a scene in front of Russell House Friday afternoon. Therc was a guy trying to thumb a ride. He had scuba-diving equipment beside him, a girl's umbrella over him, and a sign that read simply "Florida." Supreme Court releases opinion on SG elections On November 1, 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of two petitions requesting that the results of the Student Government election not be released because of alleged voting irregularities. The Court has given its written opinion dated Nov. 22, explaining its reasoning and parts are presented here. The first petition was from Tom Stoudemire, Garry Latimer, Bobbie L. Thomasson, Patty Wall, Gene Gaillard, v. Elections Committee of the Student Government, and Marsha Mottell, Chairman of the Election Com mittee of the Student Government. This 'is the court's ruling. "The Petitioners allege that (1) secrecy of the ballot was not maintained, that (2) ballots were not coded to specify the district in which they were case, and that (3) the wording of the referenda was vague and distorted the issues.'The first point was stipulated to (agreed to) by both the Petitioner and the Respondent, and both parties agreed that the third point was rendered most by action of the Senate prior to the Hearing in this Case. ..This does not mean, nor does the Court hold, that any specific violation of secrecy occurred; the stipulations of the parties are merely sufficient to establish that errors could have occurred under the procedures in effect. We have