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Student Non-Smo The results of the Gamecock Plebiscite of the Nov. 19 issue show that roughly 60 per cent of those responding support the student senate "no-smoking" bill passed two weeks ago. More than 750 ballots were returned, meaning 7.5 per cent of The Gamecock's 10,000 circulation returned the ballots. Those students using the ballots represent 3.8 per cent of ap proximately 20,000 student body. There were indications of some "ballot stuffing " but it was likewise apparent that the stuffing was not restricted to any par ticular viewpoint. Students supporting the measure numbered 435, those opposing, 322 and students who indicated they would disregard the bill whether it was adopted or not numbered 29. Most students who said they would disregard the bill also indicated they did not support the proposal, which would bar smoking in all campus classrooms. The question of whether the bill pertains to all members of the Carolina Community was raised this week by a reader who asked the "Live Wire" column of The Columbia Record for an answer. The Record editors in turn asked the USC Office of Information Services and the response was that the bill would probably only per tain to students. In a news release the in-. formation office quoted student senate sources saying in order for the bill to pertain to faculty and staff, it would have to go before the faculty senate for approval. However, the student author of GAME The Gamecock is published twice sday during the fall and spring sem summer, with the exception of univ Change of address forms, subs( should be sent to The Gamecock, 29208. Subscription rate is $3 per s The Gamecock received $36,000 fr 1973-74. Offices of the Gamecock a Russell House on the university cai are 777-8178 and 777-4249, ews, an class dostage paid at Columbia, S. BICY Quality European Bii Manufactured By: G Faris-Sport, Falcon-M un 'Colu CAT E'S C Box Cedar Terrace ! 6420 Sumter Pht 776. 1:15 to 8p.m. M s Favor king Bill the bill, Sen. Jeffrey Greene, in a letter to The Gamecock (see page 6) took the opposite view. "The terms used in the bill could not be more clear," Greene said, "The bill says tobacco smoking of any kind is prohibited in classrooms and lecture halls. There is no mention of its excluding anyone; faculty, students or staff, from its provisions." The Gamecock Plebiscite, which apparently shows that students interested enough in responding to the query are in favor of the measure, is not scientific ant! therefore not a genuine sampling of student opinion, according to communication research specialists. However the number of ballots returned, on what many have termed an "apathetic campus" plus the numbe" of let ters that The Gamecock has received in the past week on the subject, indicates that student and faculty opinion on the issue of smoking in classrooms is strong on both sides. Dickey Honored USC Poet-in-Residence James Dickey was presented the Order of the South award by the Southern Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Nov. 24. The honor, conferred on living persons who have made an out standing contribution to the culture and the welfare of the South, was presented in Columbia by the Very Reverend Robert G. Oliver, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson. Miss., academy chaplain. COCK weekly on Monday and on Thur esters and once a week during the ersity holidays and exam periods. ription requests and other mail Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S.C., emester and $2 for the summer. om the student activity fund for ire rooms 317, 318 and 319 in the npus, 1400 Green St. Telephones d 777-3888, advertising. Second C. 'EED CLES :ycles From $95.00J itane. Bottecchka aino. Cinelli. CoInago mbia See: OTT AGE 9342 shopping Center Hwy. (29209) mne: 1209 on. through Sat. Students supporting the bill: 435 Students opposed: 322 1208 Knox Abbott Drive, -Ii... " RO... German Stt Subject Of Students interested in studying in Germany during the first Summer School Session of 1974 are urged to attend a discussion of the *German study program at 8 p.m. Nov. 29 in Humanities 417. A group of students and faculty who par ticipated in the program last year will lead the discussion. The program is sponsored by the German department in cooperation with the Rat sgymnasium Rotenburg in Nor thern Germany. Students will live with the families of German students in the upper division of the gymnsaium, which is the German high school. The gymnasium will furnish a classroom for daily in struction in conservation. and cluturecivilization. USC credit will be earned under German 399. Students will also be able to attend classes of the school's upper divisio--. The program will be ISI Calab Phone 796-1645; 3200 Two Not *.sNC~b )dy Program divided into five weeks of class instruction and one week of in dependent cultural tours. The program will cost about $600, which includes round-trip air fare, transportation while in Germany, tuition for six credit hours and r' 'm and board. Calendar Intact: Witten If you heard the rumor about Carolina starting the spring semester a couple of weeks late, it is false, according to Dean Charles H. Witten, vice president for Student Affairs. Asked if second semester would be delayed he said that as far as he knew, it would not. The reason for the dalay would be to preserve the fuel needed to heat the buildings during the winter months, afood the finest. ash style ch Road, Phone 782-8806 J 0*OSSO five o ints