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On race i The Gamecock has recently dealing with racial tensions a to be black both here and in t The story they tell is not there has certainly been pr tremendous amount of work Perhaps one of time major a now is its sensitivity. Ipde have deteriorated at USC. to find an identity in a world exclude are running up aga: as whites are feeling the re known they're not going to t No one has all the answe problem-solving in any kind and communication-- and are Tolerance comes from wit] result from a sincere desire fellow man and woman. How ever take five minutes to thi be black? And if you did, h thought was right? This leads to the second ar thing needed to begin to solvt munication. How many whit( with black students in depth read "Black Like Me" or "So were hip on how blacks live much more than reading a fe We suggest that the univer, relations seminars for blacks of the magnitude of the Grave least, it would get black and i administrators together anc would help. But something n Jones___ Jones aid the retention rate for students in the Opportunity Scholars Program is truly remarkable and considerably higher than the retention rate among students not in the prog ram. The USC President yester day met with the University's Minority Affairs Committee and other faculty and students to discuss in a very candid way the article which obviously dis turbed a number of people genuinely concerned with racial attitudes on campus. "I met with the Committee and others to hear their frank and honest opinions regarding the article and also regarding the overall situation on campus and the problems we must all solve," Jones said. Committee members and GAME The Gamecock is published twice during the fall and spring semester holidays and exam periods. Change of address forms, subscript should be sent to The Gamecock, 29208. Subscription rate is $3 per se received $38,000 from the student ac dents to a subscription. Offices of TI and 319 in Russell House on the uu 777-8178 and 777-4249, news, and 7 postage paid at Columbia, S. C. Although The Gamecock is a public sity of South Carolina, it is not an off The opinions expressed herein do n the university, the student body, or al Editor................. Managing Editor.......... Assistant to the Editor..... News Editor .............. Sports Editor ............. Asst. Sports Editor ....... Advertising Manager ...... Chief Photographer ...... elations published several articles st USC and what .it means he rest of the country. a pleasant one. Although )gress in race relations, a still needs to be done. spects of the problem here ed, race relations seem to And black students trying from which they have been Inst a white backlashj just sults when blacks let it be me pushed around anymore. rs, but two guidelines to of situation are tolerance e applicable to both races. un the individual and must to better understand one's many white students here nk about what it means to ow do you know what you id perhaps most important i our race problems -- com students here have talked about race? Or did you just ul On Ice" and figure you and think? It takes much, w books. ;ity sponsor a series of race and whites, or a conference ttt Conference. At the very white students, faculty and I talking. And perhaps it eeds to be done. Soon. From Page 1 other Black faculty and stu dents voiced a strong objection to the article and challenged Jones to develop the ideas expressed in the article. "The meeting yesterday was a sobering experience for me," Jones continued. "Members of the Committee , in addition to voicing their objections to what was said and printed, also~ thoughtfully explored with me various ways in which we can attack and hopefully solve osme of our more pressing problems. I feel the experience of the past few days has taught me a great deal," Jones con cluded, "and I am hopeful that from it, some very positive explorations can be made in an attempt to address ourselves to the University problems all of us agree need solutions." COCK weekly on Monday and Thursday s with the exception of university Ion requests and other mail items Drawer A,. USC, Columbia, S. C., mester The Gamecock this year :tivity fuind entitling full-time stu he Gamm:ock are rooms 317, 318, liversity -campus. Telephones are '7-3888, advertising. 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