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* Groups pro By Nancy Young Organizations of blacks, women, students and teachers marched across the Gervais Street bridge to the Statehouse Saturday to protest Reagan administration policies. "We feel the need to tell the new administration and the new politicians that the lower ana miaaie income poepie are iea up with Reaganomics," said J.C. Caldwell, president of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, sponsor of the "Anti-Reaganism" rally. Caldwell, a 1982 USC graduate in political science, said he believes voters will support his stance and vote Democratic on Tuesday TlIP rtrrfiniTrof innp panracanfoH fllflVilU 111 M-J VI tlUUO A. vpi VOVUWU in the rally were the Grass Roots Organizing Workshop, the South Carolina Education Association, the Midlands Chapter of the National Organization for Women and the Palmetto Alliance. USC students were among those at the Statehouse. "We're protesting the economic policies of the Reagan Administration, theii stand on abortion, and their stand against the ERA," said NOW member Cherr> Croker, a USC history graduate. NOW member Ginny Cushman, a sophomore political science major, said "Reaganomics is detrimental to women anc their families. I hope the voters will vot? Democrat on Tuesday.'' Chet Stone, a junior majoring in business cited economics as the reason he came. "REAGANOMICS IS the effort of th< government to control the past 30 years o deficit spending and increasing inflatio! caused by easy money policies by thi Federal Reserve Board." English professor Bruce Pearson came t< protest nuclear armaments. "All of thes< issues are related," he said. "There is j shifting of Driorities from the social needs t the military, further increasing the risk c war." m ft JiB ji?fl *' f? . 1r 3S&] BwWr ? T BEPf* ^ Death takes a holiday ^ Death lives it up on Halloween eve. T Barefoot Harry's Saturday night bash on b - ?. itest Reagai "I'm angry," said former Gamecock news editor and GROW member Michael Gooding, "because people are starving while America uses a vast amount of resources for weapons. Blacks are still being persecuted. People don't have jobs." Gooding said the rally wasn't intended to be a personal attack on Reagan, but "he is the best manifestation of policies that place profit over people." SEVERAL PEOPLE spoke about the economy, emphasizing unemployment. "They want you to believe that people on welfare don't want to work," said Beatrice MacKnight. "That's wrong. People on welfare want to work, but they can't find work." MacKnight, a Gospel singer, led the crowd in protest songs reminiscent of civil | rights marches in the 1960s. "What they are doing is abominable," ! Addison (Joe) Wilson, campaign manager for Rep. Floyd Spence (R-S.C.), said of the [ rally. "Our polls show that people believe ; that 32 years of Democratic policies created the mess we're in today, rather than 18 r months of the Reagan administration." Wilson said Keaganomics is worKing. "Inflation has fallen from 13 percent to 5 1 percent, the prime interest rate has gone j down from 211/2 percent to 111/2 percent." ; OF UNEMPLOYMENT, he said it has only increased "from 7.8 percent to a 'terrible' 10.1 percent. That's only about a 2 1/2 percent (increase)." Wilson stressed that inflation must be 5 cured before unemployment. f "The Democrats are treating the sympl toms instead of the disease," said Spence b campaign worker Usher Winslett. "Reagan is offering a long-term plan." o Wilson said he believes the Republicans e will do well in Tuesday's elections. "We'll a lose some and gain some, of course, but we o may gain two seats in the Senate," he said. >f "Reapportionment is going to affect how we do in the House, though." Photo by fini Folder his unidentified "Grim Reaper" was partying at Henderson Street. nomics at I *** ' '? >.,! - ^ S STWTJOJIT^^fPi Reaganomics protesters gather at the Reagi the Statehouse Saturday. . Columbia Hall's successful, im; Bv Cvndie Larsen WW Men and women are living together ii Columbia Hall. For the first time in Columbia Hall, mei and women are living on the same floor Half of the rooms on floors six and seven ar< occupied by men, and the other half b: women. Charlotte Gibbons, living/learninj coordinator for Columbia Hall, said the co ed floors program is designed so resident "can learn more about the opposite sex,' specifically "to be more comfortabli around the opposite sex, and to educat people in living together and understandinj each other's needs." Wayne Smoak, seventh floor hall adviser said the primary reasons Residential Lif Services initiated the co-ed floor progran are to increase male-female interaction an to increase security for females. Smoak sail his co-ed floor is a success so far; males an fniY?nlnr? An Vtoll morln friAnrlc on. luuiaiuo uii itiu Aiciia 11a vu uiauv u il.uuo air are participating together in dorm activitie such as tailgating parties ani living/learning programs sponsored b; Columbia Hall. Living/learning community member lease dorm rooms knowing an average c one hour per week of their time will b devoted to dorm classes or activites Classes offered include aerobics, resum writing, public speaking, plant care an karate. Parties and tailgating count toward the 1 credits each student must earn eac semester to remain eligible to live i Columbia Hall. Some residents may feel more coir fortable talking about problems with member of the opposite sex, Gibbons saic incw perspectives ana insignis can v gained on male-female relationships when member of the opposite sex is available t _ consult and offer advice, Gibbons said. Gatehouse TW WJMP fiSW,J! |p : ' ~?4 ? >y* . -i i - * > ?#^v^- I&IS&&0FX >\t& V' >/ * < 3 %JL^? ^bi '<* ! V' k* '/! *>y^BpBBP^'-'?r >^^ ' V 4 ' '.<*. ,v|^';'; ' - vf%}V; ;fc-' ^;p < v ,,,- ' % 'V^v *? v i^Sr. " . - ^ Photo by Njr?ry Y?wg in Ranch in West Columbia before marching to ; two co-ed floors prove interaction Gibbons said so far the program "is working out great." 1 Robin Montgomery, a seventh floor resident, said she likes the co-ed floor 1 program. "At first they stayed at their end and we stayed at ours. But now everybody's opened ^ up." Ninth flrw?r rpsirlpnt rirptrPltark is rpadv to 3 participate in the program. ' "I'm all for it. I'm going to move on one ? (co-ed floor) next semester." One of the programs in which co-ed floor residents participated was a dorm-wide ? Halloween party Thursday. * Witches, vampires, punk rockers and vamps stalked the haunted hall. Robby Thompson, dressed as a male e prostitute, said he enjoyed the party. : "I think it's really neat. Columbia Hall has a tradition for great parties, and ! Halloween always seems to be the T Iova it h*?rp hwaiise it's nnra?r classmen, co-ed, and has open-minded (] people." Jeff Turner, another sixth floor resident, ' said, "Columbia Hall's great. It's the attitude of the people who live here. It's more ? of a wholesome atmosphere, rather than the Towers." e ?5 inside Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored a 5 three-day lecture series that included a ThiiroWmi lofttiro /in cov nrt/i tho cn/ir/<h fnr A l?V?l * VV ^ V/?* UV^V MIIV* VI ?V M VV4 I VM J V* I n intimacy. Page three. "La Boheme" opened the Carolina Con I- certs series Friday night. Page nine. ^ A man dressed as Superman, another with a jack-o-lantern on his head, were just two ^ of the participants in the Pumpkin Run a Saturday morning. Page 13. ;o