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UFO L) FIC From Staff and Wire Reports An unidentified flying object was ighted last night over the USC ampus. The object resembled a long phere. It halted briefly at 8:30 .m. EDT over the passageway etween Preston and Woodrow ormitories as if to land, then uickly gathered speed until it isappeared. Witnesses said the UFO' eminated white light and was bordered by a streak of red flashing lights. State and local police authorities were miffed over the sighting and said they had had many other reports in a geographical range from Orangeburg to the small town of Woodruff in the Piedmont area of the state. Russell Jeffcoat, among the first to spot the UFO,photographed the bject and promptly called members of the Gamecock staff. .Jeffcoat said the object hovered for seven to 10 minutes before disappearing into the night. Reports filtered into the Gamecock office through the night of students being abducted by "silvery skinned" creatures. The university switchboard operators were swamped for seven to eight hours with calls from panicky parents checking on the safety of their children. By 3 a.m. this morning there has been three suicides in dor mitories near where the sighting occurred. Identification of the. victims is pending notification of next of kin. By midnight several truckloads Media Board Accepting Management Applications The Board of Publications and ('ommunications is now accepting applications for the positions of Editor of the Gamecock, Editor and Business Manager of the Crucible and Station Manager of WUSC-AM. Applications. forms may be picked up at the Office of Student Act ivities. 212 Pendleton Building. The deadline for all applications is 5 p.m. Dec. 3. For further in formation call 2782. 1208 noxAbbott Drive, P )bject Sigi of Jesus Freaks had converged on the Russell House crosswalk area passing out. Several tons of salvation leaflets were handed out and several students were injured when the leaflets were set afire by a discarded cigarette. At I a.m. Gov. John C. West went on state wide television and radio to plead for "calmness and order". 'We'll shoot the A --Georc Director o in the face of the crisis. At 1:15 a.m. Rep. Bryan Dorn came on the air to announce that if he were elected governor, he would call for a "halt to the intimidation from Com munist invaders from outer space." Lights burned late in the ad ministration building university officials attempted to restore order on campus. President Thomas F.Jones issued a statement saying "Whether this thing appeared or not, I want all faculty members in the sciences to apply for research grants--say a couple of million--so we can turn this situation into a capital gain. Jones expressed regret he did not see the UFO debark saying that if he had been there he could have figured out the speed and trajectory on his Students File i Richmond, Ky.--Two cases involving student constitutional rights have been dismissed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals with the note that it refused to interfere in the internal affairs of the university. In deciding the coinstitutionality of a curfew case at Eastern Kentucky University and a refusal to sponsor a film at Western GAME The Gamecock is published twice uday during the fall and spring seme summer, with the exception of unve Change of address forms, subsci should be sent to The Gamecock, E 29206. Subscription rate is $3 per se The Gamecock received $36,000 frc 1973-74. Offices of the Gamecock aa Russell House on the university can are 777-8178 and 777-4249, ews, anc class oostage paid at Columbia, S. I hone 796-1645; 3200 Two No ted.Over new Spiro Agnew slide rule. George Key, director of security, said if the objett were to return to campus, "we'll shoot the mutha down, and if that don't work, we'll tear gas'em to death." Harold Brunton, vice president for business affairs, said, when he heard of the sighting, "By God, you mean they were here and no one offered to loan them a million Authos down. . ' le Key, F Security dollars at seven and a half per cent? Do you realize the market potential that we've passed up?" Brunton broke off the interview abruptly mumbling something about his ass and the Dow Jones Charles Witten, vice president for student affairs, said he thought he saw the UFO and wanted to emphasize that those responsible "would immediately forfeit their dorm rights." Witten also said the object he saw was listing to port when it left the area, and this lead him to believe the bilge pumps along the aft beam were clogged "with dung--or something--who knows what these turkeys use for ballast." Elizabeth, Clotworthy, dean for residence _life, who was in terviewed on the street near - the scene of the sighting said she didn't n Rights Case Kentucky University, the three judge panel stated that they declined "to assume the perogatives of a super board of regents and make a decision concerning the internal ad minstrative affairs of the university involving no violation of any right of any student." The EKU case involved charges COCK veekly on Monday and on Thur stere and once a week during the ralty holidays and exam periods. iption requests and other mail 'raWer A, USC, Columbia, S.C., mester and $2 for the summer.. m the student activity fund for re rooms 317, 318 and 319 in the pus, 1400 Green St. Telephones 777-3888, advertising. Second afoodM the finest. Ich Road, Phone 782-8806 Campus have a comment because she was "too busy trying to get these little farts back into their rooms. I mean really, she said, " some of these girls running around out here could lose their cherries in the ex citement." Dran for Student Activities, Robert E. Alexander, was the most excited about the sighting of all administration officials. He was seen intermittantly with 8:x 14 legal pads taking notes. He told a Gamecock reporter that he was listing the "affective course potentials" in the events surrounding the sighting. He said he already has plans for a new sensitivity session called "Does it Really Matter What Color The Aliens Are?!' Alexander also expressed hope a new University 101 course could be set up to clip pictures of UFO's from comic books for three months and then hold "Show and Tell" at the end of the semester. "That ought to be worth three hours credit, don't you think?" As confusion over the phenomenon began to die down toward the early hours of the morning, campus security and maintenance crews.. squared off against the mass of litter left in area streets and walkways. Representatives from the student senate were on hand spot checking for cigaret'ebutts and handing out demerit. to passersby. President Jones called off classes today and declared a day of mourning for the victims of the all-night melee. s And Lose by a freshman coed that she was denied constitutional rights under the equal protection clause because the university set dor mitory hours for women, but not for men. The court held that the primary justification for the rule was that of safety because women are more likely to be attacked late at night and less able to defend themselves. BICY Quality European BI Manufactured By: ( Piris-Sport. Falcon-Ft In 'Co CATE'S C Box Car Terrace 6420 Sumter Phi 776. S: 15 to 8p.m. AM Mono, Affluence Linked by Mark Rafenstein From the Oshkosh Advance-Titan Affluence and the good health that usually goes with it may be indirectly responsible for inflicting over 100,000 college students each year with mononucleosis. The disease, a potentially serious viral infection, is at least . three times more likely to strike college students than anyone else, ac cording to a recent *tudy by the Center for Disease Control and the American College Health Association. Mono seems to thrive on college campuses because a large portion of the . students do not possess antibodies to fight off the Epstein Bar virus--the critter that s the suspected cause of the disease. Most students were raised in clean and uncrowded en vironments, and thus never contracted mono as children, which would help them develop immunity for the disease. Conversely, those living under hygenically poor conditions are apt to contract mono at an early age when the symptoms are mild and sometimes undetectable. This person develops antibodies and probably will never contract the disease in later life when the disease is prone to be much more serious. The study lists cases of mono recorded at 19 colleges. Cases were also recorded in general metropolitan populations. The contrasts are significant. The number of college cases of mono was three times greater than the number for metropolitan people in the 15-19 age group, and nine times higher than that for 20 24 year olds. Universities with the highest rates were Yale, Harvard and Princeton. The mono cases there were up to twenty times more common than at the University of Hawaii. It is believed students in Hawaii contracted the disease early in life because of unsanitary conditions and were immune. The high incidences at the Ivy League schools were due to the clean environments in which the students were brought-up. Authorities believe the virus is usually transferred from person to person via saliva. Kissing is believed to be the most common vehicle. E'EED CLES cycles From $95.00 Itane. Bottecclkta lalno. Cinelil. CoIn~ago mbia See: ;OT TAG E 9342 5hopping Center Hwy. (29209) me: 1209. ion. through Sat.