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Legal aid free cour BY SUSAN PAQUET The rather obscure Student Legal Aid Service on campus has re-opened this semester with a slightly revised program to advise students in legal trou ble and provide counsel for those unable to afford a lawyer's fee. Roland Jones, a USC law school graduate, and supervisor of the clinic explained the new program of legal aid. In the past the service acted as a counse ling center in legal matters. Now a student who is finan cially unable to obtain a lawyer may receive courtroom defense through the clinic. "We can rep resent any student in any University matter," Jones said. Jones feels that this new demin sion to the program is a big step. While the Legal Aid Service has remained a rather unpretentious campus fixture, last semester showed a marked upsurge in student interest and response. A fifty per cent increase over past semesters was noted with 250 students GAME The Gamecock is published twice wi ing the fall and spring semesters with 1 and exam periods. Change of address forms, subscript should be sent to The Gamecock, Drai Subscription rate is $3 per semester from the student activity fund entitling Offices of The Gamecock are rooms on the university campus. Telephone: and 777-3888, advertising. Second cla HE WAN from 11:0J Part Time Nights. 1211 College Si GRAND OP ~ \H E A RT & 0I 4359 Jac kson Blvd. Next To LaBrasca's service i isel for st seeking some sort of legal advice. There are various situations in which students might use this, service. Of last semester's cases, twenty per cent involved contracts such as those for book clubs, record clubs, health spas and charge cards. Landlord tenant problems made up another twenty per cent. University matters, automobile accidents and insurance, traffic violations and draft counseling each contributed 10 per cent. Five per cent of the situations concerned domestic problems. Miscellaneous situations com pleted the cases. This student service is financed through the law school along with four other clinics. Mr. Jones supervises 15 law stu dents who counsel for credit hours. The clinic is open from nine to five Monday through Friday. Jones sees this as a hindrance in that many students get into legal binds on the weekends and in the evening hours. However, he sees as a possibility an expanded program which COCK ekly on Monday and Thursday dur the exception of university holidays ions requests and other mail items wer A, USC, Columbia, S. C., 29208. The Gamecock received $38,000 full-time students to a subscription. 317, 318 and 319 in Russell House are 777-8178 and 777-4249, news, ss postage paid at Columbia, S. C. LP TED 0 - 2:00 BURGER KING ENING pIe., iIgg. Hours: Mon.-Thur.. & Sat. 9:30-600 Fridav-eda-a-nn )rovides udents would allow for around the-clock service and a bon( program to gain the release o students who have been jailed For students who need coun sel, contact the Legal Aid Ser vice which is across from the Russell House behind Prestor Dorm. Dr. Lessinger Receives Honor From Academy Dr. Leon M. Lessinger, dean of the University of South Carolina Col lege of Education, has been desig nated as a distinguished professor of the National Academy for School Executives. Lessinger is one of only eight who have received the distinguished professor designation given by the national group since 1968. The Academy is an activity of the American Association of School Administrators. In order to be hon ored as a distinguished professor by the group, a person must have appeared in a minimum of five academy seminar and institute programs, must have been ranked as consistently effective by the directors of the programs, and must have been ranked consistently superior to other professors by the participants in the programs. Lessinger, who held a variety of posts in education both as a teacher and administrator in California between 1948-68, was associate commissioner for elementary and secondary education in the U. S. Office of Education from 1968-70. He was Calloway Professor of Edu cation at Georgia State University before becoming dean of the USC College of Education in September 1972. WHE.E On All ft. 0. DENI USC's Derek Southall ""*' b-oo"Darln Paintings by Southall on display in gallery A widely acclaimed British painter and recent addition to the USC faculty, Derek Southall, is having a one-man showing of his works until Jan. 27 at Huntington Gallery on campus. Southall was born in Coventry England and studied there as well as in London, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Madrid. He is former head of fine arts at Oxford School of Art and first director of graduate courses in painting at Bir mingham Polytechnic in England. Saying that he is in partial revolt against the dominant decorative convention in painting, Southall wishes "to make abstract, non-referential painting responsive to particular meanings as was the art of the past." He wants to be "co-operative with the paint," the artist said, to try to be less wilfull in the application of the paint to the canvas and to take advantage of the way the paint naturally behaves. SECOND ANNUAL 'LBARRO W SALE /40%.50% Onf Renmining Winter Goods 3laberbaawryj 919 SI!MTER ST. ACROSS is Propetete FROM I. S. . hSaSHE.