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VOL. LXVII NO. 36 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1976 iiiiiiBiimiiriTiiraro^ ?nrnrT? n i ?MfnnnwrinwMiTnnmTiiwMnraMHMWMiMwirTi - m\ miiw _l_i raBvlp 8 Kiiyfc ^Hf j'> ?& ;|E ^H?H? '^ir^ MmSm ' V :& ' -ii Spring arrived early this week, and S time getting out their kite Wenesday at th ( -g-k 1% JLjPJLA tim for Uni recollects ti at NA , Wo integration w;; lull ^ in I res or( 4ik E&S ir > v * ft "VW . / . \'- V vO ' -V jfe. m,.: uzette Smith and her 1-year le coliseum. Nancy I riedman olice s^aleu olf the entire U 3 to avoid racial violence, ames Solomon and Henri M e to Carolina since Keconsti protection. Luckily, USC e iversity experienced the yea 'oday, an Afro-American con dents-even blacks-rememb >. One man who does rememb the time is Isaac Williams, ACP. He shared his experie sley Foundation on camnus I have the uniqueness of beir liams said as he took off his I I came along at a time, at U gear, and now that I'm 30, IM Ihe struggle." k native of Charleston, Willie taurants that refused to ser ler was a soft drink and a \ V' i i j s H F ?ATO H - -r?? yr -y";?? J'~ . * 4* Aft *C UX *???? ** **?! 4ft ?? * * \ ** * " * ?r . j >* *??*? wmw^w ?ni at *? ** * * ?# * n .... J ~ v - J r * * ** ? **T^TSi"#*** ^j * v ^ ** ** * %*.* **mtm** mf% *t ?# ?* *? * r- 'Jjfj1?rjhw^r r 144-" j rr nrSr 1 Photo by Gene G? -old daughter Summer wasted no SC campus to the public in the Fal lonteith, the first blacks admitted i ruction, were being escorted to clas iscaped the violence Mississippi Si ir before with James Meredith, lmunity is thriving on campus, but er the first black students of 13 yc er and who was working for integral , mv>w Ull VVIUI Ul NIC lHllllll V'dl (Jl ;nces last Sunday with students at tg part of two very active generatior )lue plaid sports jacket. when the movement was moving i /e found that I've spent over half my uns helped stage many sit ins then ve blacks. Williams said the thiri^ lamburger. Entra might By Tricia Wharton Budget restrictions Test (SAT) scores to 8 student admission sti Despite a 3 per ceni according to adminis nursing, pharmacy ar more than they gradi "The university will a maximum of three ] are not cutting enrollr budeet where it is " Including the numb would accept an addi are put into effect. Thi growth rate, he said. "We expected one ai and it was over six pei Administrative Servic count is graduate stu "Clearly, the drop is less able academicall; idea is that there is no Admissions Directoi out students who hav< effect is that our oven institutions, but we ha West, said, "Somei graduates are in the t somewhere in the 930' 850's. "If we actually limil ? ~ of the student body. Of IH, will offer the samp n ? - - money available," W< It is a good time to "more people are wait y*r* the students that have , *I, are literally at capacit IS? The university is cor approval to a minimui , level, eight for each s< 9 the graduate levels ol Davis said, "We're important to plan co students and utilizatic ^ Special circumstam studio courses, such i seminars and lectures jfe meet requirements, h This would probabl> fall of 1976 and would b minimum number of c years to advise a stu< T&n added. Mitchell said the ne gSSsi overall university in tl '"ar^ twinlp ir? fho rvrnfnrpi/ III VUV pi U1COOII freshmen to register ; Usually they had th 1 of telling them they cou money. Williams saic ull- knew the waitress wa ;ses the blacks would go ! .ate They had gone sever particular time they 1 few the waitress took ever tars Williams said. tion About a quarter to fi lina they did. The lady lif the serve them. "In 1963, you couldn is," now there's a differen time was that some < into being put together." life Williams cited idea e? in areas I must be ideal ? to per cent successful in goals on idealistic thir nee criteri. t be raised are expected to raise total Scholasti 00, and in the College of General Studies . ^ ? i. f rn/i UlUtU Wt ill UO^. t growth allowance, enrollment would 1 ;tration officials. Colleges at capacity id journalism, are asked to hold admis uate. try to hold the growth at the Columbia per cent overall," said Provost Keith E nent to save money. We are just trying *er of students admitted last year, the tional 500 this fall if higher admission s number would be hplrt constant niirkvu id a half to two per cent enrollment this r cent," said Nicholas Mitchell, vice pn :es. "A lot of that which must be take dents. 5 at the lower end of the SAT level, thos y, but it's a small percentage," Davis i great academic change." r Arthur West said, "We do not routirn b acaaemic deficiencies. As a result, t all SAT scores are lower perhaps than s ve a tremendous quality of students." vhere around 85 per cent of our op half of their class. The average SA s while the average in the United Stat t the enrollment, we actually improve t course, it would have to be a gradual pr uality programs as we have all alonj est added. raise academic standards, Davis saic ing to get in than we have room for, and t the best chance to prosper. At many y. Some colleges can't take any more no j?! . i?? - * " isiuermg limiting classes tnat do not ha m of 12 students a section in courses up ection at the 500 to 600 level and perha; f 700 and 800. going to be on a tight budget for awhi urse offerings for maximum opporti >n of faculty." ces would include independent study is art and music; and practicums, bi would be canceled if a particular secti e said. ' start with spring registration for cour e combined with a two-year cycle guar; courses, so that each adviser can look ? dent on which courses will be availal w system, if put into effect, "might c hat you might have more graduate stu >nal schools. It might have the effect c at regional campuses." e money, but after the blacks got usee ildn't serve them, they forgot about I 1 the blacks just placed the order bee s going to say she couldn't serve them home. al times to one restaurant without mone lad some. When the kids sat down at tl ything off the counter and continued tc ive one of the students said to kneel and ted the closed sign off the counter am 't sit at the counters," Williams remini! t feeling about that. The important thi questions were raised, and some ansv ilism as a necessity in his movement istic because we have a tendency of no many of the things that we attempt. If u igs then perhaps we'll come close." a c Aptitude > to 650, for i>e limited. f, such as sions to no campus at >avis. "We to hold the university standards ing for the i past year ssident for ;n into ac?e who are said. "The ely screen he overall ome other inrollment m _ i score is 5S is in the he quality ocess. We 5 with the I, because we'll take places we IW." ve special to the 400 ps, five at le and it's inities for applied ii general on did not ses in the an teeing a ahead two )le, Davis hange the dents and con/iinrt si O^uuill^ 1 to people things like :ause they . And then y, but one le counter ) clean up. I pray, and i asked to seed, "but ng at that vers were "In some t being KM) e base our