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RrMR i QHMHH Students Confedei By Rondi O?m*ooc USC students voted 274 to 191 tc the South Carolina State House at Tuesday. Richland County Rep. Kay Pa argued in favor of removing th mander of the Sons of Confeden Mohle argued in favor of keeping Students attending the debate cumiuenis 10 uie speaxers, ana ui shouts of "Fly that flag" and "Pu MODERATOR OF the debate boisterous crowd. Proponents an< flag down sat on opposite sides of if they found a particular speaker Jack Berry opened the debate belongs in a museum because it i of people." The flag represents y< days" that are good to "Rednec forgotten to northerners and prog Shnurn Mnhlo cruialri r>rt in f?irm k/? ?? ww mm inviuv, AAA IQVVI believe the flag is a symbol of op never to let it happen again. Let tl heritage." The flag represented three id deceit and devisiveness," Patte oppression of the black man and, the license of disrespecting the bli angry at the crowd's heckling and leave. MORROW WAS LAST to spej removing the Confederate flag s federacy. Morrow stressed that slavery, but against Southern op] ment. "The people of South Carolina 1 getting ridiculous," he said. No ti symbol of his heritage be placed ii "Those who believe the flag re] of ignorance. The flag is the und lives for what they believed in," N! Following speeches by the four questions. There was much argui siue. fanerson laier saia lie ridiculous. I didn't know white foil STUDENTS WERE asked to vo through separate doors. USC profei continental By Jam?s Hale Qamococfc Staff Writer Four USC geology professoi have left for Egypt this week for s International Symposium of tt Africa Geological Survey, a cording to William Kanes, direct* of Earth Sciences. USC is the predominate school < 53 schools studvina continent drift in cooperation with Egyptis government. USC has been ii volved with the North Africa research for eight years. Kanes explains all the continen originally were joined as or massive continent. This continei split into the present continen about 150-200 million years ag Kanes said. The USC research prograi : ? UA?/>A.f. Sn inni ti > ucgau in muiutuu 111 19/1 IU 111 how the African and Americs continents were joined. It believed that the continents wei joined around what is present! South Carolina and the Africs nation of Morocco.' During the Moroccan researc there was also an effort to dete mine the possibility of larg petroleum reserves being presei under the East continental shel Tho u/nrlf HnrtP in Mnrnrnn u/i significant in the continuing searc for oil on the east coast. Kanes left Tuesday and wi followed by Alan M. Nairn, Davi R. Lawerence, Robert Ehricl director of geology gradual students, who left Thursday. US will be assigned 15 academ research papers of the 70 papei assigned at the symposium. i vote to let rate flag fly i Tern plot on :k Staff Wrfter ) keen the Confederate! flao flvina nuor the 21st Annual British Union Debates itterson and USC student Jack Berry te tiag. Jonn A. Morrow, state comite Veterans and USC student Shawn it in place. were permitted to insult and make le Capstone auditorium was filled with 11 it down and bum it." , Brian Dumas, tried to control the & opponents of taking the Confederate LI ? 1 A * % A ? nit; ruum ana were 101a 10 cnange siaes convincing. s by claiming, "the Confederate flag represents bad things to many groups cars of inequality to blacks, "good old :ks" and is something that should be ressive southerners, he said, r of leaving the flag, said, "Those who pression should let it fly to remind us tie flag fly as a symbol of our Southern leals of Richard Nixon: "deception, rsoii saiu. ine nag represeniea uie "whites have too long gone about with ack man in America." Patterson grew 1 asked those who would not be quiet to ik, and he said students in favor of hould re-read the historv of thp Con the Civil War was not a battle over pression by the United States governcnow reconstruction after 100 years is ne South Carolinian would let the last 1 a museum, he added. rirMPntc rariem Honnto a V?ir?H /faitroA wwvaavw V1V??WVV ?JK V*V/|\1 W lying symbol of those who gave their [orrowsaid. men, the floor was open to students' ing, shouting and cheering from each "thought the crowd's conduct was cs acted like this." te for their side of the issue by leaving ssors to study drift in Egypt Foundation for the research and 5 professors and 15 graduate rs students from USC are involved, in Kanes said. USC also employs 40 ?>A 1 I * * ie du locai people in me research c- efforts, he added. Kanes also said )r the upcoming Sadat visit was prompted by USC's role in the of project. al The current research involves in the separation of Africa and Asia n- at the Red Sea between what is tn presently Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Kanes explained that the division ts is about 200 kilometers, and that ie the drift is still occurring although nt it has slowed down. ts Some other schools involved o, include: Princeton, Columbia, M.I.T., Rice, Kentucky, Texas, m Micmgan, unto state, Virginia and id universities from France, Great tn Britain and Germany. is I - - - "e The GAMECOCK is the student [y newspaper of the University of South CeroHna and (e pubHshed three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Frl ' days during the fall and spring semesters |K AnH AfU^A tHAftblv nn TKi iroHfi.ua K^tK ? 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Holderman said he didn't believe that a resolution passed by the Student Senate calling for the reversal of the Board of Trustees' decision to terminate Frank McGuire's position as head basketball coach will effect that decision in an interview Wednesday. "The board has made up its mind," he said, and "it was the board's decision, and I will carry through with it. They are my master. It is the master of the university and is the ultimntp ornnn that tolroc .v Qk v%?|# ???M V VMIW/O responsibility for management of USC. In respect to athletics, the board has its own policy." When asked about student problems, Holderman said he goes out to the dormitories often and, "I don't find anv Drofound oroblems ?r - ? " Students seem to be excited to be here." A 1 vSRHBHKW ^8Mffip8|pp1 ? 0 A ''''' : m m Wm.WwmwmmmM w . ^ ^' -&2 * ' -' <^' :e about I nowever, wnen asked specifically about the parking situation, Holderman said, "two new parking garages are in the planning stages, three to five years away. We are just short on money. We have tried to solve the problem with the shuttle cocks." The ticket distribution is a "big problem," he said, but cannot be solved until the stadium is enlarged. No definite plans have been made concerning the enlargement. Holderman said the housing oroblem is "not as had as pvprvnnp makes it out to be" because the student population age is increasing and fewer students are staying in dorms. "This year the waiting list was only a couple hundred," he said. "Housing is not a long term problem." He said The Master Plan for Higher Education, which is still only a draft, is going to have iT'l IV Ill ***> WmSia 4^A^^nHMnmnR ^^EL B^hW^i%:- 1^ gBMvy^ r- '^-m^HS^ '- '* * rf-^??K^WAW>MA^ - iPfe fMpr; ': . : . .' V <?< , ' , /"' ' '^iiiit 'v>S?3: '/.&x . " '" . ' " S ""V x-A-^'v. _/.V.< '":*^>'::: :::t:::::' * McGuire "some serious impact on Carolina once it is changed." "They say they are looking at 41 ? > A- 1 * piu&rams at uie graduate level with the possibility of phasing some out," he said, "but we don't know precisely what ones they are talking about." He expressed particular concern about the status of the medical and engineering schools. "I believe we have to co-ordinate with other schools and co operate, ne saia, "out l think the board of trustees and administration must take some responsibility too, in order to control our own sense of destiny." Concerning the recent meeting between the board of trustees of USC and Clemson, Holderman said USC is considering a request by the Clemson board to combine the two universities in energy research at an energy resource center. 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