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Busing By JULIE MIDKIFF Gamecock Staff Writer "Resolved, that this believes busing is an ins means for implementing integration in the United This was the resolution d at Monday night's Britis Debate, but the issue was in no one's mind as two < and more than 400 student its pros and cons for more hour. The debate, held in I ballroom at the Russell began the third year of Union Debating at USC. USC's first British Uni< was organized in the sprin by Lynn McCauley. McCa professor in the Depart Theatre and Speech, sponsors the debates. THi: FORMAT of a Union Debate differs from conventional debate bec< audience is active in th< and decides which side loses. The debate team memt pro and one con, eaci opening statements suppo position. The members audience sit on one side of I or the other according to th the issue they support. The pro side of this debat was against busing, was Mako Mazzone, a senior ec major from Boston. ? que- ;ed the effective busi; in achieving its ob whit, he stated as i plerwntation of educati intei " ?on. Ma/'one said that achieves only violent resegregation. "No one > vince me that this violence affect children," he said. KICK B Alt LOW, a A Gc Happy Gourmet S; Great I)i __ Open Mon 1 ^ | The Nem I Fecsturi C r%/n rtpiii/< B IOWUUI , .ft For The Jur I AT Dl jj Cedorl | & ?., ] ,jj Ttwrs. ; debated Government and International Studies major, spoke for the con side of the issue, in favor of busing. ; house "It is an imperative goal in a adequate democratic society that inl racial tegration be achieved," Barlow DA-i n i-i A - 1 1 ' * oiaies. saiu. ne conienaea mat Dusing is a iscussed necessary tool in achieving that h Union goal. resolved Both debaters' speeches were debaters interrupted by both applause and s argued insults, but the real battle began than an when the floor was opened for comments from the audience, the new Lines of students waiting to House, speak formed at the microphones British on each side of the room, and what started off as a relatively quiet on team crowd quickly became a mass of g of 1974 cheers, boos, applause and uley is a shouted insults as the speakers' ment of comments became more which emotional. NOT EVERYONE was allowed British to speak, however, because the that of a rules of the debate require that iuse the "the house be divided" after the ? debate debate has gone on for an hour. wins or The house is divided when the audience leaves the room in which >ers, one the debate was held. E^ach person h make leaving the room exits through rting his either the "pro door" or the "con of the door" and thus casts his vote for the room the side of the issue he supports, le side of The final vote on the busing resolution was 251 pro and 158 con. e, which The rules of British Union i led by Debating are based on the onomics traditional House of Commons tfazzone debates in England's Parliament. >ness of They were first introduced on the iti\JPC fvil InrTi of n Inirftl * ? w, ^uin-fjiuiv it?ci aw v>dlllUHUgC in the im- 1815. and begun at Oxford in 1823. ion and Other debates scheduled for the British Union team this year inbusing elude a debate of the Presidential :e and election with Clemson's team on .vill eon- October 25. and a March 29 meet > will not with a visiting team of international debaters from the junior University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 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