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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
University of S. C. Campus
Vol. LXI-No. 13 U.h
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By JANICE JOYNER
Staff Writer
Among the University's unsung
heroes are its many bicyclists and
motorcyclists. Their means of
transportation is, in the words of
Harold Brunton, vice president of
business affairs, a "beautiful
solution" to USC's traffic and
parking problems.
Brunton added, "We have been
trying to encourage bicycle riding
on the Carolina campus for the last
five years. The main ptoblems in
the past have bee'i with the
security of bicycles, and until last
spring, we couldn't get the
students interested. Suddenly they
are interested in both bicycles and
motorcycles."
Brunton said the current bike
and motorcycle parking areas are
around the Men's Towers, the back
of Maxey College, on a lot between
Sloan and Hamilton streets, and in
the Russell House lot. The only
bicycle rack is by Capstone, but
Brunton said he would welcome
any suggestions for where to put
other racks.
The popularity of "Easy Rider"
is one reason for the interest in
motorcycles. Another reason is the
acute parking shortage. One
student bought his motorscooter
because he couldn't get within
three blocks of the campus in his
car. Parking is usually no problem
for motorcycles.
John Sambolino said, "Once you
get a good bike, the only problem
would be getting the bike stolen."
Rusty Robins suggests the
university purchase "a big chain"
to which students could secure
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By ROSALIND PRICE
Staff Writer
After several years of inactivity,
USC is once again enlarging its
campus.
A companion dorm for Capstone,
Capstone North, will hopefully be
completed by next fall, since the
lease for Columbia Hall runs out
this spring. It will connect with
Capetone and the two dorms will
share the same food service.
Capstone North will be com
pletely carpeted and have the
same room plan as Capstone--two
double rooms joined by a bath.
Limited cooking facilities and a
study will he available on each
floor. A laundry room, canteen,
and T.V. room and recreation
room will be in the basement. 'Te
lone, as in South andt South
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their motorcycles. He added, "The
biggest problem is with bus
drivers. You have to always drive
defensively."
Bicycles offer even less
problems than motorcycles. A
group of Men's Towers residents
keep their small banana-seat bikes
in their rooms. Gary Mathewes
rides his little brother's bike
because it is "really -convenient"
and he can "ditch it into the
bushes." He added, "You can go
almost anywhere in Columbia
downhill. I got from the campus to
Valley Park in one pedal."
"You can just weave in and out
of the people," said Kathy Scheldt.
Bill Powell described riding in
heavy traffic as "a game to see
who survives."
Opening soon at 911 Sumter
Street is The Cyclist, a shop
operated by Joe Azar, Harry
Hollis, and Ed McDonald. Azar, a
USC student, said, "We will try to
.hold priees down. That's the whole
purpose of the shop." Prices will
range from $10 for a used bike to
$400 for a professional racing bike.
Also available will be cycle parts
and accessories and even an adult
tricycle.
Azar said, "There's not too much
that goes wrong with a bike if a
persoit takes care of it. The worst
thing that a person could do is to
stick a chain on the back wheels.
The best way is to stick a chain
through the rear wheel and chain it
up to something."
The city registration fee for
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Mrs. Sherrill Lawson (right) was named Mrs. Garnet and
Black over nine other contestants Tuesday evening. She will
ride In the Homecoming Parade and will be featured in the
USC yearbook.
The runner-up was Mrs. Ellen Boyles (left). Contestants
attended a tea and were interviewed by three judges. The
annual event is sponsored by the Carol Ina Wives' Club.
Nominations today
for SGA elections
No campaign materials may be The offitew to be filled are as
posted on or off-campus for the follows:
Oct. 19 student body elections, Freshman Class President, Fresh
according to Elections Com- man Class Vice President, Fresh
mission Chairman Jim Stewart. man Class Secretary and Fresh
However, fliers, leaflets and man Class Treasurer.
handouts may be distributed. Senators:
Stewart said that the Elections Men's Towers-one, The Roost-one,
Commission, SGA officers and Off Campus Arts and Science
past Commissions conferred in the three, On Campus Freshman at
matter. The decision was made "in Large-three, Off Campus Fresh
order to provide for more direct man at Large-three, Upperclass
communication between can- Senator at Large-one, District 26
didates and their constituencies," SCM Dormitory-one, District 3
the chairman stated. Preston, Burney, Woodrow,-one
and District 18 Off-Campus
This is the first time posters Education-one.
have been prohibited and Stewart Academic Responsibility
said "We hope this system will Committee,
provide the student body with BA-two, Education-two,
inore truly concerned officers and Engineering-two, General Studies
can be used successfully in future two, Journalism-two, Nursing-one
elections." and Pharmacy-two.
Nominations for Homecoming
Student body Vice President Jim Queen must be signed by the
Bradford said "the intent of the president of a presently chartered
Commission in changing the ognzto.Sems eajno
emphasis of elections from an art orsnrwiha20GRndav
contest to communication is be tdn . S o n
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job in setting up debates and
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during the campaign, It'll be a enwilbreuedtpove
good thing. If not, elections could tnadtoa "gos
be worse than in past years," phtgasby7.mWendy
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Spears:
to radical
Until the Fort Jackson bus stop
is moved to the Trailways bus
depot, "Two M.P.'s may stay there
to prevent the soldiers from get
ting off the bus and just coming
down the street.
"A lot of organizations want to
start escort services. What we're
trying to do is to co-ordinate them.
We're also trying to get student
marshals with walkie-talkies,"
Spears said. "Bus service has
been increased, and in an
emergency, campus security will
give students rides at night if they
are called by telepho.-. Also
campus security has been in
creased. Patrol cars make their
rounds more frequently, and of
ficers check in at dormitories to
see if anything needs immediate
attention and if anyone needs a
ride," Spears continued.
"Student government is putting
together a list of the 'Advisable
Places Not to Go at Night' for out
of-towners who don't know the
dangerous areas of the city. We
want to have that out as soon as
possible. In line, with this, we plan
to have more and better on
campus entertainment," Spears
said.
Replying to a Gamecock
editorial, Spears said that it called
for the SGA to become more ac
tive. Spears continued that "I'm on
it, but radicalism is not the way.
We've seen imporvements in the
Board of Trustees already. When
the Board finished hearing all the
cases it vowed to protect the
students against what seemed to
make them maddest, that is,
outside interference. There's been
increased communication and
we've accomplished tangibles in
such areas as visitation. We're
working on campus social life and
increased privacy on campus. I
mean who wants to kiss his girl
good night with 9,000 people
watching?"
Spears feels that Think Tank, in
which students, faculty, and ad
ministrators spent a week-end on
retreat together, was successful
and he has seen "results now."
"Faculty committees have in
creased their student mem
berships" the most important of
which Spears feels to be the
Faculty Disiplinary Committee
which now has four students and
four faculty members.
"The University Senate Com
mittee which is studying the
proposed university-wide senate
has begun to function. Dr. Jones
will appoint six members and I will
Foreign stt
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The Big Brother Overnight Cook
out, sponsored by the International
Committee, attracted 85 students
to Bell Camp Friday.
Students canoed despite the rain.
Ping-pong was also an immediate
favorite until suppertime.
For supper, the foreign students
and Big Brothers ate American hot
dogs and baked beans.
Afterwards there was a sing
along accompanied by guitars.
Energetic students played football
easyr
courts, three handball courts, and
one squash court. Exercise,
weight-lifting, gymnastic and P. E.
faculty rooms will be added. Phase
two of the plan will double the sine
of phase one's building. Phase
three will add a pool. Brunton said
that the Physical Education
building is "1ong overdue and is
going to vie with Russell House as
the most used student facility."
'Te building will be three stories
high and cost approximately P3
million. It should be completed late
this spring or early summer.
Other new buildings in planning
are a business administratiom
building near Capstone, a law
building near the Coliseum, and a
nursing building near the
Humanities fanter.
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appoint six members," Spears
said.
In addition to this, Harold
Brunton, vice president for
business affairs is working to gL4
"all students, on campus and off,
an on-campus mail-box."
More and better furniture will be
placed in the Russell House lobby
so that students won't have to sit on
the floor, "but if they want to sit on
the floor, they are welcome."
Teacher evaluation, Spears said,
is moving along well, and "alot of
work has been done on visitation."
SGA is getting a full-time
secretary, and Spears and Vice
President Jim Bradford now carry
paging devices. "It means we're a
lot more available," Spears said.
"It also means we get a lot less
sleep."
A new judicial system has been
introduced. The student accused of
anything but the most major of
fense will be tried by courts
composed of students. The student
will have the aid of a defense at
Archeologists
on prehistoric
University archeologists are
speculating that large, prehistoric
shell rings found along South
Carolina's southern coast are
coastal counterparts to England's
stonehenges and woodhenges.
Couch burns
in dorm
A couch caught fire Sunday
morning in the basement TV room
of South Tower.
Campus police alerted the fire
department at 7:21 a.m. About 50
women occupants left the building
to sit on a curb across the street.
Dorm counselor Amy Mann lives
in the basement and was the first
to smell smoke. "It smelled like
bread burning. I thought someone
had left something in the oven,"
she said.
Guard Woody Beard used a fire
extinguisher on a burning cushion
before firemen arrived. Firemen
moved the sofa outside and
drenched it with water.
The sofa was not the only fire
problem. Miss Mann was so ex
cited that she let her coffee pot boil
over and "I had to ask them to
come in and look at that, too."
tdents
-others
with Barney Oliver blanking The
Others 17-0.
Some students then slept; some
waited on the sun. Before sunrise,
seven hiked to a nearby lake and
engaged in mutual baptism.
After a breakfast of bacon, eggs,
grits, and coffee (what are
"gritses"?), the group left for
campus.
Jack Smith coordinated the
event, which brought together
foreign and American studepts in
an informal setting.
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torney in addition to the
prosecuting attorney in any court
on the appellate level. "In other
words, any appeal will have the
benefit of prosecution and defense.
The state is providing the at
torneys." This system will go into
effect next week. "From now on,"
he said, "the student will never see
the Dean of Men or the Dean of
Women for discipline, and students
are on the courts on every level,
even on the Board of Trustees."
There is a student committee in
every dorm served by Slater.
These committees function as
"gripes committees". "One of the
requirements for membership on
the committee is that the student
eat at Slater. If they see something
that's not right, something too cold
or too hot or not satisfactory, and
they complain, it will be changed,"
Spears said. In addition, the
"chairmen of the committees meet
every two weeks with the Slater
people to discuss the situation."
speculate
nngs
More than 5,000 years ago
inhabitants of what is now Fig
Island, part of Edisto Island, made
one of the rings by depositing
systematically an estimated
375,000 bushels of shell, mostly
oyster.
The shell formed a ring 250 feet
in diameter, which E. Thomas
Hemminogs, the archeologist whA -
led an excavating team there, says
represents one of the largest, most
intact shell rings known.
"There is a good deal of
speculation about the purpose of
the shell rings," Hemmings said.
"It is suggested that they served a
ceremonial purpose because of the
apparent planning and labor in
volved and the obvious similarity
to an open court or amphitheater.
Thus, they may be our
'Shellhenge,' the counterpart to
England's Stonehenge."
Hemmings said other possible
uses of the rings were as habitable
areas above the wet marshes or as
fish traps. "However, neither of
these theories can account for the
occurence of the rings as much as
10 feet above the high water
mark," he said.
The archeological team located
18 rings at the Fig Island site, and
believe others are in the area.
Archeological interest in the
sites is heightened by the fact that
the rings represent living areas of
the earliest pottery-making
inhabitants along the southeast
Atlantic coast.
The USC team dug trenches that
dissected the rim of the ring,
recovering thousands of pieces of
pottery, bone and shell artifacts
for study.
"'The most remarkable find was
an intricately engraved deer antler
point, an unusually early example
of prehistoric fine art from the
Southeast," Hemmings said.
He said the samples of animal
bones and shells indicate the early
Inhabitants were specialists on the
food resources of the estuary in
which they lived.
Dr. Hemmings, an associate of
the University of South Carolina
Institute of Archeology and An
thropolbgy, sugests perhaps the
most intriguing aspect of shell
rings is the possibility they
represent long-distance coastal
travel long before civilizations of
the New World existed.
"'The only shell ring now known
be-n the South Carolina-Georgia
coastal strand is Puerto Hormiga,
located on the coaSt of Colombia in
South America," Hemmings maid,
"and It is a remarkably simnlar
structum."
'Tbere are no such rings between
the two -lees he said, and some
am~beelogists upport the idea of
the early coaal vo'me.
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