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VOL. LXIV NO. 38 UNIVERISITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S.C. 29208 DECEMBER 10, 1973
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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."
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'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.'
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'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
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"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.
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'There is no open
ca
arm of acceptence P
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at the university.' th
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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
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Atlee Prince
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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