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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
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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."
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"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.
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toms instead of the disease," said Spence
b campaign worker Usher Winslett. "Reagan
is offering a long-term plan."
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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."
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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
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are participating together in dorm activitie
such as tailgating parties ani
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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
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gained on male-female relationships when
member of the opposite sex is available t
_ consult and offer advice, Gibbons said.
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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
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' "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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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