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Vol. LXIII-No. 26 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Thursday, Decembr 7. 197 Gloria Steinem arrivi Steine By Patrick Tyler Feminist Gloria Steinem flew into Rock Hill Airport last night with her libera tion message and was greeted by 30 Winthrop Col lege students chanting "we shall overcome." Steinem who was to speak at 8 p.m. but was delayed because of bad weather kept a packed audience waiting two hours for her at the Byrns auditorium on the Winthrop campus. Accompanying Steinem was Margaret Sloan, a black civil rights activist and wri ter for "Ms." magazine of which Steinem is editor. She and Sloan received a standing ovation when they enteredthe auditorium and three other standing ova tions when each took the podium and when the lec ture was completed. Prefacing her speech with "we don't come here as leaders of anything," Steinem said she came "to say to you what we wish someone had said to us a long time ago." Her lecture covered a wide range of topics from the history of women in ancient civiliza tions to the role of the mod ern women in reaion to 4 ~, iseat Rock Hill Airport last night, en rc bm say! jobs, sex and politics. "Women were the first political subjugation," Steinem said as she defined politics as any of the power plays that one deals with in his daily life. "If you go into the offices of a major com pany and see one class or group of people typing and see another class of people behind doors with shag rugs on their floors--that's politics," she said. Jones af Special to The Ganecock Dr. Thomas F. Jones, presi dent of USC, last night publicly apologized to the Black faculty, staff and students of the University for statements attributed to him in Monday's GAMECOCK. While refusing to Impugn the integrity of the GA MECOCK reporter, Patrick Tyler, Jones suggested some of the statements were a small part of a general discussion. ''The words were mine,"~ Jones said, "and I used them badly. My intention was to describe the various theories advanced for Blacks and other minorities in many instances not being able to meet SAT requirements. Quite obviously I didn't do It well or I didn't do it at all. As a result," Jones continued. "I was deeply 3 r+ . t ~4 . ute to Winthrop College where she deli 3 girls "If you look in the fields and see one class of people harvesting the crops, and see another class owning the fields--that's politics." The feminist said she was talking about a revolution in our culture, not just reform. On abortion Steinem said the "ancient men in our state legislatures think they have control over our reproductive organs" as )Ologizes to embarrassed by the implica tions of my apparent state ments in the cold light of print." Jones said that the portion of his discussion with Tyler that appeared in the GAMECOCK Monday ". . . . simply did not develop my ambitions for solv ing some of the more pressing problems facing us in educa tion. "For quite some time," Jones continued, "I have stressed that all of us must somehow find the means to adjust the higher education system so that the whole person might be considered in entrance requirements. I feel very strongly that congnitive skills should not be the only criteria by which a student -- any stn " ~ 4w ~.o< vered her third lecture in the third ci man ju she pointed out that more women have died of "botched or badly done abortions than men have died on the batte fields of Vietnam. The predominantly female audience in the auditorium leaned forward on the edge of their chairs and resounded Steinem's arguments with "right-on" and "all right" as the femin ist told them they were blacks dent -- should be considered for admisssion. Too many of us are limited in some areas of endeavor and excel in other areas. And yet," Jones said, "very little attention is paid to these other attributes, mean ing, among other things, affec tive skills. The point I'm trying to make is that we must some how bring ourselves around to where the system is tailored to fit the needs of the student." Jones said the article implied that the University's highly successful Opportunity Scholars program is populated exclusively by Blacks when, in fact, ". .. approximately half the students in the program are white." (Phen see Jones. p. 4) ty of the day. Bob Craft nkies' brought up to be "man junkies." "Until we see that there cannot be love between uneqtlals," Steinem said, "America will remain a sex iest society in which no woman can be liberated." Ending her speech by saying our society should look for the "real human potential that's in everyone of us" Steinem turned the podium over to Sloan who, after a standing ovation, said she was a little nervous being in the South and hav ing "that many white people stand up." Sloan's topics included the difficulty she said she encountered in the civil rights movement. She said she found it hard to under stand how the workers of CORE and SNICK were fighting for civil rights but not fighting for women's rights in the early 1960s. Sloan ended her lecture with a quote from Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, "In a panther household every body sweeps the floor, everybody washes the dishes and everybody makes the beds for freedom is not oppressing anone."