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THE VOL. LXIV NO. 38 UNIVERISITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S.C. 29208 DECEMBER 10, 1973 Court C 'ShowI To Clai HY 1ILLI1 GRANT Robert B. Clarkson has won the first test of his legal action at tempting to place restrictions on the way the mandatory student activity fee is spent. Tuesday, State Circuit Court Judge J. B. Ness signed a "rule to show cause" order requiring the University to appear before the court and show cause or explain why certain actions were done and why a temporary restraining order should not be granted. The court ordered the University to appear at 6 p.m., today in the Richland County Court House on Sumter Street. Clarkson has asked the court to question and restrain the University on three actions: --"failure of the Board of Trustees to institute proper guidelines and regulations for the $500,000 student activity fee; --"Political and charitable use of student fees; --"The attempt by Student Government to create an 'Office of Student Voters,' the off-campus political end of student govern ment which would keep records on the voting of politicians, publish a rating system,. and aid the registration and voting of students at public election. The funding of this lobby has been and will be directly from the mandatory student activity fund." Clarkson had also asked for an integr BY DOUG WILLIAMS Gamecock Staff Writer (Second of Two Parts) On Dec. 31, 1972, one of USC's first black administrators, resigned as assistant director of .admissions for what he termed "personal reasons." H. Kershaw George, who had held the position since September 1970, was quoted by The Gamecock as saying his relationship with the university had been very good, and he commemended the school for its hiring of black faculty and staff. One of George's recom mendations for the administration was to try and discover if blacks in the university, the community and the state beli~eved they could refer to the school as "our university." He said if they still saw USC as a "white university, they ought to be about making the University of South Carolina so everyone in the state can view it as their own. "The black student is faced with more difficulties than the white *because he is in a hostile en vironment," George said. "While the university tries, he is in some instances significantly han dicapped." rants ause -kson 'I had hoped that after I filed suit the university would take me serious.' Robert Clarkson injunction against the actual collection and the expending of the student activity fees, which was not granted by the court. "I had hoped that I would not have to go this far," Clarkson said "I had hoped that after I filed suit the University would take me serious. Unfortunately, like a bureaucracy, they have taken no action to halt the misdeeds anc misuses, but have conducted ar all-out campaign to stop me, to keep information out of my hands to make my efforts as difficult and as expensive as possible." Clarkson said he expects th( court to issue a temporary restraining order against the use o: the fees for political causes. He cited such cases as lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment, the Office of Student Voters and "othei tremendous abuses of the studen government contingency fund.' :tion: A 'I see the university making gradual moves toward seeing the black student as a student It was nine yt. ., ater th< Supreme Court censured th< "separate but equal" doctrine tha USC admitted three blaci students. In the -ten years tha followed, the road to .acceptanci for blacks has been almost a difficult as the road to integration 'The black st development to se ha In Honc The walkway over Pickens Stri Ilarold Brunton Memorial Bridg( Strugg "I see the university making gradual moves toward seeing the black student as a student," said Charles McMillan, a vice president for student affairs. "But it's sc gradual and slow that at the rate we are going, it will take almost aE long to accept them as it did tc admit them." "Basically the university ha. , always been a white university,' said Willie Harriford, vice provos for liberal and cultural disciplines "and it still is. It was set up an< developed for white people. Thi: creates a problem because: majority of the people probabla tlike itas it is. They never though o it as being different." The efforts and their results a change at Carolina have no Salways been met with unrestraine .enthusiasm. Last year, fo: udent has reached a s 'e that Carolina is des, rd-core racist instltutic Ir r Of Harold Bru et, called the senate bill a few 'we( in a student p roaching completion. le For Ec cc 'There is no open ca arm of acceptence P m at the university.' th wl w W1 le: wl Charles McMillian D m example, the Afro-American Society wanted to bring in Don L.e f' Lee, a black poet and critic, to lecture during Black Week events, R Afro went to the University hr Union Lectures Committee in the h I summer, 1972, seeking co r sponsorship of the event. The g in tage of mental E Fined to become a is in. ech is Atlee Prince OZfO. n to (eoff Darling ks back, is rapidly ap See story, page 7. uai ity mmittee met and voted 6-4 to pay ,000 to get Lee. However, a second meeting was lled, and Afro President Atlee 'ince contends black committee embers were not informed. At is meeting the funds for Lee were called. Four of the nine blacks ho had attended the first meeting are present, and Prince said this ft a higher representation of bites on the committee. After the action, Union Director avid Ness said, "I think the mm ittee did wrong. I don't think ajor decisions should be anged." Then there was Homecoming, lien the announcement of Gayle ansome as Homecoming Queen ought boos from the stands at ilftime of the USC-Ohio football Lie. "In the early 1960's, there was terest in blacks to comply with e Department of Health, clucation and Welfare, (HEW)," id Renee Carter."But now, there no need to cater to the whims of acks. Nobody in the upper helon of the Carolina Community interested." Ransome, who admitted she (See I.ACKS, Pae 4Aa