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op. 'It is a news; the news, (The C Studei Suppof The student senate has shown i the no-smoking bill last week. A, legislation that can pass down I has rather been delegated to tr There are several observation more like a fascist edict than lib First of all Sen. Jeffrey Greei averted clear definition of his tF smoking in all classrooms.' By also? If the faculty is includet Greene should consult with the matter. This is not an'issue to b student senate during a period Secondly, why, if Sen. Greene he leave out the staff? If he int have to give up his pipe for 12 to a coed is getting post nasal drip I tell President Jones to douse the meetings? Thirdly the absolutism of the leaves no room for input into t fected. A compromise was offi each class take a vote on whethi The class vote approach is n sures the will of the majority wil As it stands now we are al McKinney signs the bill, the tyrf There are 45 student senatc proximately 6 per cent of the s effect about 20,000 students of democracy or minority petular students to use the plebiscite i representation of student thou New Sol Gov. Robert E. McNair did administration building 10 yea admitted to the University of Si West. Inideed the state administrai safety of those first blacks. case of riot, and an elaborate if, upon arriving to campus in black roommate. Though the necessity for th supposedly democratic societ the reactionary tendencies of countering the equal rights sur One of the most notorious Alabama Governor George We University of Alabama buildin entering. Saturday he placed Terri Points, 21, that univer: According to wire reports, Wa 58,000 stadium spectators. The analogy we find is onel by many, and a man called a lumped into this category witi others in Southern state govei the race issue aside as a vehici Nevertheless it was not Alal woman as their newly electe< the change, it was the progres Two days before Homeconm finalists were black, ample tir Rita McKinney, to make the that they would like to do the the university's history. Once again South Carolina were in its failure to seize thi relatins. nEon >aper's duty to print and raise hell.' --Wilbur F. Storey hicago Times, 1861) t Senate !tories ts affinity for fads with the passage of usual it is not the kind of responsible he student throat in capsule form, it ie suppository approach. s to be made on this bill which sounds ral democratic legislation. re, author of the bill, has noticeably 'rms when he says ,there shall be no whom? Just students, or the faculty I in the mandate, then perhaps Sen. faculty senate for its feelings on the e decided by Sen. Greene, nor just the of euphoric vigilanteism. plans to legislate for the faculty does ends to tell a full professor that he'll 15 hours-a week because some prig of rom the smoke, why isn't he trying to se chubby cigars during the trustees' bill is its most offensive aspect. It he decision by those who will be af red during the debate that would let ?r or not smoking would be permitted. nuch more democratic because it in I be respected pervasively. bout to see, if SGA President Rita inny of a minority. >rs who have been elected n by ap tudent body. The no-smoking bill will i this campus. Is this representative ice? We think it is the latter and urge Dn our front page today to give a fair ght to the student senate. - --PET ath 'Necks' n't stand blocking the doorway to the rs ago when the first three blacks were )uth Carolina. Nor did Lt. Gov. John C. ion bent over backwards to insure the Fhere were secret contigency plans in ffort to make sure no one was offended September, finding themselves with a is kind of planning is distasteful in a y, it was probably necessary owing to many Southerners who were first en ge of the black community. reactionaries during this period was allace. He did stand in the doorway of a g 10 years ago, thus barring blacks from I a Homecoming crown on the head of ity's first black homecoming queen. llace made this gesture to the cheers of between a man considered still a racist "New South" politician. West has been hi Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia and nments who are thought to have shoved te of political rabble rousing. Jama fans who, confronted with a black i symbol of beauty, booed and shunned sive New South state of South Carolina. ing, it was known that two of the three ne for Gov. West, or President Jones, or >verture to the Homecoming committee honors on this momentous occassion in nust "move to the rear of the bus" as it e moment in showing sincerity in race tNO sMOxING SY ORDER OF STUDET SENArTE The Gutenburg E: Police Craci Sniffling Ii Campus police announced the arrest of 650 students today on :harges of violating the student ,enate's new "No Smoking, Eating, Drinking, Chewing, ralking, Farting or Sniffling" rule. The students were herded into :he narrow confines of the old h1A nfirmary where, according to a >olice spokesman, "They gonna be H1 left to rot." Militant . anti-smokers As: surrounded the police vans and E( thouted "Cough, cough, cough" at the prisoners. The militants have romised 'an end to every butt, ipe, stogie and roach.' In presn plans "Today the classrooms,tomorrow twidd the restrooms," they shouted. gum. C TO TIHE EDITOR: and: Having now been barred from an Innot intellectual debate because I'm eight under drinking age, I begin to fear "Loo the maze of limitations strangling deba intellectual achievement at USC. caug I suppose I should have WE'] automatically become suspicious Othe when UU's posters announced the one Rempel-Weatherbee debate to be No in the GOLDEN SPUR, but the diret notices drew my attention more to tend; the Northern Ireland question ageun rather than to the tantalizing thes4 prospect of cheap beer, and I, Gold insipient, neglected to secure a are I fake 1.D). for the afternoon. 3:30 Arriving eager and early at the I r Spur, I was utterly dumbfounded mus when the attendant took my und4 ojfferedl card, scrutinized it, whel suintnd at the dlateoan his wntch, not , xperiment Ldown on 1 Campus oul doi wo I BY cig sor RRY a )PE An cal ociate sar an litor ex I ca her office student body inl lent Rita McKinney, who pa to stop smoking soon, sat an ling her hair and chewing her gi. She said "Well. uh. I guess Iha hurMail ;aid, "You can't come in." 1i< :ently, "Why?! !" "You're not al een." Shocked, indignant, w. k, I'm only coming to hear the he te!" "Sorry, if SLED ever yi ht you in here with this I.D. fr ) LOSE OUR LICENSE. w r rules we can stretch, but this w we can't break." w w, my feeling of anger is not 'ted toward this poor at- s< mnt. I understand that SLED w ts make a practice of raiding a profound debates in the si en Spur, especially when they eld at the outrageous hour of si in the afternoon. ei espect the fact that the Spur il refuse entrance to all those ir ~r eighteen, regardless of ol her they will be drinking or in order to maintain its ABC Farting, Classes ht to sign the bill, but...Well, I 1't know. I wish to hell they uld close Green Street." tumors of an underground pro arette movement have caused ne speculation that represen ives of the major tobacco firms sending in agent-provocateurs. Phe local chapter of the ierican Cancer Society has Iedout its special Anti-Nicotine aad, who are expected to arrive med with Lysol, Nik-o-ban, fire tinguishers and propaganda iflets featuring pictures of ncerous lungs. Psychiatrists are reporting an :rease in the number of neurotic tients due to the smoking ban, d the price of stocks in bubble ,m manufacturing companies s risen. ense. So that even in my case, though I didn't intend to drink, I as interested only in the debate, I ~ve been going to USC for two 'ars, and I was five days away om my eighteenth birthday, I as refused entrance to an event hich I'd been anticipating for eeks. Is there any excuse for :heduling this debate in a location hich excludes the participation of significant portion of interested udents? Next time, University Union iould make provision for the itrance of all who want to attend ecir program. If this is impossible the Golden Spur, then some her location can be found.