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? 1 -i*r-*n,i " ' "" i"?? i <SouthhCaro 1 iniana^Library * * Horseshoe \0'Vm? \ \ penw^^?"eV.\ *> ^ Uo\uwv^3^-* - News in a flash . p.3 ^6^? kifiMllilli iflp I m (llOnd^y 9 Comedy play opens p.8 StgF January 24,1983 1 USC upsets Idaho p.10 I University of South Carolina I I ,||-Il?- __________ - - " I gjgg - ? :~-rV-^T^ T^v jBj^w - BIL-. ]fc^ Victory! Jimmy Foster acknowledge 56-54 Saturday night A stole up a short jump shot by Keni page 10. School's i By Susan Muir It seemed to make sense Th that icy conditions caused US to cancel classes Friday. However, Holder man did i until 6:30 a.m. Friday, ac executive assistant to the \ announced Holderman had < about 10:50 p.m. the night bel many students. Official cancellation of class USC Information Services, i USC's assistant news editor. Oglesby said when she left classes were scheduled for Fri instruct people to listen to i cancellations." USC's News Director Hans 1 officially canceled after rec? about 6:30 a.m., and he then r< radio and TV stations. THURSDAY NIGHT, howe across the screen during its closed Friday. Dave Lerbs of received a false reDort about 1 to be Holderman who said I relayed this information t programming. He said upon attempting to 1 the information was wrong ar USC had not canceled classes.' correction on their 11 p.m. new Art Boerke, WUSC assists "'People were calling (Thursc school was open or not. We wer because we had no official won Boerke said he answered a WUSC was announcing class WIS they were telling listeners WIS said they, too, had not an Ill ? ; ': '"; %; v .. . : v;<?% K><' ^y.i| |H^R v? .'i-HPr ?% S aoolause after USC's mnn's haskn in pass by Gerald Peacock with nine ly Holmes that beat the buzzer and 1 closed... vu th ursday night. WIS-TV reported C President James Holderman rc lot announce the cancellation ^ cording to Steve Beckham, w university president. WIS-TV ;anceled FYiday's classes at Fore, causing confusion among Fi les must be announced through w iccording to Wendy Oglesby, > ine omce at 5 p.m. Thursday, iday. "We told our secretary to the radio for information on 9 Snoop announced classes were iiving word from Holderman elayed the information to area ver, WIS-TV ran a message programming saying USC was WIS said, "A station operator (| 10:50 from somebody claiming ISC was closed." The station M o the public during their m verify the message they found || id then ran a message saying fm The station also announced the || s report. |g ant program director, said, lay night) wanting to know if || e telling them we weren't sure || call from WIS radio asking if S cancellations. He said he told . iu * 1 - - i uiey iiaa no oinciai word yet. I inounced cancellations despite in i UBUU By Jim White The Contempc does not sponsor t black students al members of the C "The root of tl black membershi anH VidfiftJaaftfl Merrett said. B< temporary Sound they don't ha\ programming de< "We try to pro Amy Whitaker, Sounds chairwom ONLY ONE b brought to USC t m K little interest in, MpM Committee mem ^ "I've never even l semester with Th "CONTEMPO^ * ^ see more groups ,fr , ^Mfcgiggl Blacks would turi temporary Sound Photo by Andy Putnam t() black st volved with it. Th tball team upset Idaho r^Uwu0n . . . . blacks feel they ureunds remaining sot the committee'm, he Vandals. See story, is so foreign to the April Smith, or bers of Contem] _ - en, mayoe it is e WIS-TV report, Boerke said. BOERKE SAID WIS radio called back, sayir sport was only a rumor. "Channel 10 started ley ran a crawler on 'Hill Street Blues' sayin as closed." Thursday night's TV reoort was a nrank n< eckham. Holderman did not decide to cancel c riday morning, Beckham said. "We followed standard practice (for school cl< aited till the next morning to assess the situ; - - giMl agaBI . < JBflajgQMwafaBga mm- ' m old weather and icy conditions Friday forced class on the frozen reflection pond in front of the Human ks urge cc iry music commit DiaCK si rary Sounds Committee 4<Bla< tnough events of interest to Sounds ; USC, said several black hear,"! arolina Program Union. le problem is the lack of BUT p on the committee,'' CPU reflecti Dmmittee member Harvey said th ?cause only two of Con- former s' 18 members are black, probler e much voice in its Jarreai lisions, he said. semest gram for everyone," said cancel! the new Contemporary Conte an. other g i _ _ i * lacK musical group was wnites, >y the committee in 1982, "We ] sannette Guinn, former Whitak< iinds chairwoman. Sounds > has spent its time and funds tl black students have very Smith CPU and Cultural Series of Confc ber Prince Gilliard said. greater leard of most of the groups commit unds books to play here," student Sounds semester in Russell House said. ; The Swimming Pool Q's, p from Atlanta, there was it to be seen. withth Sounds opened the spring in e Sluts, a punk group. student tARY SOUNDS is trying to commi ve," GiUiard said. /'They . Whik nsor showo naving a more ting m< He said he would like to but is n who play "top 40" music. CPU i out to see them, he said. issue < he has attended Con- selectic Is meetings and has talked that a udents who have been in- student e emphasis Contemporary But t new wave music makes music I are wasting their time at have m eetings because the music dustry im, he said. "the pi le of the two black mem- trends.' [X)rary Sounds, said the ;n't... yes, i1 depends on what the govt 6:20 or so to close gover ig the TV's We decided at 6:15 (to Ci the rumor; governor's announcemer g that USC icording to Oglesby said meeting lasses until probably be reschedule Tho loci' (f\w r\**' X 111/ AUOI UUJ I\71 L/I \ >sings) and scheduled, despite the ition. A lot according to Registrar T BT: ;es to be canceled, allowing this man so lities Building. immittee nrnnram PI UtJI Ul I I ;tee "has a bad image among the | tudent population. :k students feel Contemporary doesn't care about what they want to \ Smith said. J THAT impression is not an accurate on on her committee, Smith said. She e committee has tried to book pers popular among blacks, but ns have arisen. "We tried to get A1 j for a date at The Township last er. We offered him $15,000, but he \ ed," she said. mnftrarv d/Min/)o Vinn f? ,...|rv?u? J uuuuuo Iiao IWRCU 1U1" roups well-liked by both blacks and il she said. pretty much have the same tastes," sr said. She said Contemporary has to work with the groups and iat are available to them. 1 said if more blacks were members V emporary Sounds they would have a influence on which programs the J tee sponsors. "The problem is black v s don't know about Contemporary f and really don't care about it," she ^ \ JN SAID she doesn't see a problem e level of black student involvement committee. "Anybody who is on the f ttee has, equal input, and every ; has an equal chance to be on the ttee," she said. aker said she is thinking about get M >re black members on the committee T ot sure how to en ahnut if Director Rich Singer downplayed the >f race in Contemporary Sounds' in of bands. "We try to book groups ppeal to both black and white s," he said. here is a problem "inherent in the business" with booking groups who ass appeal, he said. The music inpromotes new trends, he said, and ublic is forced to address these Sob "Contemporary Sounds." paga 3 tis ernor does." He (Gov. Riley) said at nment offices and we followed suit. ancel classes) but we waited for the it," Beckham said. I ;s that were canceled Friday will ft today. >p-Add will be today as originally 11-i! i* ? ? % cancellation 01 classes on i?riaay, Luther Gunter. SSfic > ' - _-- j ** i ?>, tsr%<? CS^T%^ ' - fhoto by Htibtrt MHtr ime free time to practice ice skating ' \ ii