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Urbai / by po By JOSE DUVALL gamecock Staff Writer The press is not doing its job effectively, said NBC commentator Carl Stokes in a speech held in the Russell House Ballroom. Stokes, the first black mayor I of a major American city, (Cleveland, O.) does commentaries and documentaries for NBC exposing current problems in the U.S. The American press is doing an inadequate job of spotlighting the urban crises, according to Stokes. "The greatest ally the cities had during the sixties was the American press," Stokes said. "Every evening on every news broadcast, they would begin the top story of the day with something about the problems of the cities. "THERE WERE few days that the editorial pages did not carry some urgent message to local and national officials about what must be done." Beginning in 1968 and continuing through the early '70's, jv v .%JC. . v> i li Standridge s By DANNY POWELL Gamecock Staff Writer A proposed bill to initiate a Scholarship Fund was passed by tot an SG meeting last Wednesday, proposed on behalf of SG Presidenl the student body. The scholarship will be dispersed at $1,600 per yeai Scholarship Committee. Also discussed were possible c campaign and election processes. r the issue of how much money a cand running for office. Senatorial candidates may spern $20 00 on their campaigns but i problems liticians, A urban issues no longer were a preoccupation of the media, Stokes said. "It is rare now to see any exhortive appeal on the front page of our papers or on our leading network programs about the problem of the cities. It is as though the problems they documented so well in the 60's are no longer present. "In that regard, they have violated a basic and fundamental responsibility. What's worse is that the press haDDenS to be thp last rwom-cn a r ? ~ .V?wv vvvvu OV that the people have to call upon to indicate something should be done about our nation's problems." The former mayor of Cleveland said politicians are not going to do much about urban woes, since the politicians do ,not come from these areas, and "therefore, their people don't want anything done about it." Stokes said most constituents would rather have their tax money spent on themselves, and not on 'those people'. "THE PEOPLE who live in the central cities don't have the ? *?' i^i". ^; ?-^^PPi::"' ^iP?R& cholarship fu president, vice-p .spend no more Blair Standridge NO ONE othei al acclamation in more than $20 t The bill was stipulation was I t Brad Steele and more than $50 i , a total of $6,000 "There is a pc r by the Carolina elect senators w in representing hanges made in elected," said S< rhe debate raised campaign finan< lidate could use in be buying a car Vice-presidenl d a maximum of application dea< candidates for elections extend not emphas .merican mi sophistication to know how to use politics themselves to force some kind of concession," Stokes said, "so what's left? The only source that is left that can possibly cause this country to do something about this cancer that necessarily effects all of the people of this country is the press, and it is just not doing that." Press attention is now centered on suburban news or suburban family life, and on white ethnic activities, according to Stokfts 'TrncaHinf/ to try to strike at the basic problems of this nation has been lost by our media, and I find that very tragic," he said. Because of urban financial troubles, many vital services have been cut back or halted altogether, including hospitals, tuberculosis clinics, parks and schools. "That's the urban crisis, and there is not sentiment in Congress to do much about it," Stokes said. "This has become so frustrating, that almost half of the present number of black congressmen and minority Dave Roback-THE GAMECOCK nd proposed resident, treasurer or secretary may than $400. than the candidate could contribute o a candidate's campaign. Another that no organization could contribute n campaign money. >tential for SAC money to be used to ho in turn will hni/O ? eruu>io1 intarocl n.. >* ? a?M TV M Upvviui llllt'i VOl that organization who got them inator Joe Tiller. "It amounts to total ;ing. In effect, the organization could ididate." b* Joe Drawdy tried to have the filing iline for Student Government office ed one week, but it was voted down. sized \\W ^ uiAia 4 congressmen are planning to leave. One Puerto Rican congressman has already left," he said. STOKES SAID, "Everyday when they go on the floor of Congress they can no longer fight for anything progressive, but they have to fight just to try t ? ? n? ' i- ? * iu siup me unrigs Deing taken away." Stokes asserted that President Carter has reneged on the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Bill, and criticized Carter's plans to balance the federal budget. "If he does achieve his balanced budget," Stokes said, "it will be at the expense of all of the things we have discussed: the needs of the poor, of the lik d K7|/VVA11^ 11V given at C By CHRIS DEESE Gamecock Staff Writer If you've been asking people to i have said your voice sounds like a the university speech and hearing Carol J. Clark, director of clinic? "We're interested in talking witl she said. "And we don't mind doi normal." THE CLINIC, LOCATED at the on the grounds of the state mental Speech Pathology and Audiology students. It is accredited by Association. The clinic offers various kinds (lipreading) or voice training. "A extended vocal abuse every week, for retraining the voice." OTHER PROBLEMS INCLUDE or talking too fast, faulty artici disorders, Clerk said. A person i ticulation problems because he saj The clinic, whose services are I university, this semester has thre nine children on the staff, Clark Although most of thpr??vi/ evaluations are about evenly dividi "We have an on-going caseload ditional 15, approximately, for di "PARENTS BRING THEIR chi or not," she said. "Frequently tt mend therapy here or some when i4'or adults or children, an abr necessarily mean therapy. "Thep a physician," Clark said. Sometimes a hearing aid, which may help, but Clark cautions I capriciously. "WE HELP 1ND1VIDUALS dete they buy them," she said. "You h, down the street and buy one. It's a Some types of hearing loss, sucl auditory nerves) may not be hel) amplification, she said, but trainir ________ * that America is a "melting pot." "I don't know where we got that idea of a 'melting pot' from, but there has never been such a thing in America." A taring help SC clinic epeat words lately or if your friends i mouthful of marbles, come down to nlini/. f? _ - ^ V.1H11V. iui an cvdilldllUIl, ailVlSCS 1JF. il services. h anyone with any kind of concern," ng an evaluation that turns out to be William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute hospital, is run by the Department of and staffed by faculty and graduate the National Speech and Hearing of therapy such as speechreading cheerleader, for example, may have " said Clark, "and may need therapy fluency disorders such as stuttering illation and language and learning >vith hearing problems often has ars words the way he hears them. free for persons associated with the e students, one faculty member, and said. is with kids, she said, diagnostic ed between children and adults, of about 90," she said, "plus an adagnosis per week." ldren in wondering if they're normal ley're normal, but if not, we recome else." lormal hearing test result may not roblem may be remedied by a visit to makes sounds louder but not clearer, that an aid should not be bought rmine if hearing aids will help before ave to be fitted for an aid, not just go personal thing." i as sensorineural (which affects the :>ed by surgery or medicine or even ig in lipreading is frequently helpful. 4 minorities, and of our cities, but u won t oe at the expense of the defense establishment." Carter has not decreased defense spending by $6 billion as he promised, Stokes said, but lias increased defense spending by $12 billion. "NOW HE promises to increase it even further because his defense secretary, Brown, has been going around the country frightening Americans about how far ahead of us the Russians are in the missile race," he said. Stokes also debunked the idea