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IF A: '00 AO Pol. WMuld you live In Sims Dorm If It were coed In the '72-'73 school year? yes ------- no ------- male ------- fenmle Are you in favor of coed living? yes -------no$ Please return to the designated box In the Student Government Office. ABOOSE POSTERS 4.T I 121il.lwr 63 WrigCasHr immd oralive in SiCri rece nth 7-7 (Actuoolieyear?35 176~ i Fater of rContr liv.50 111s ThetBute tote@einae.50 iteStdn P 1ese 3d Fiel F lo wersdin 863 postageg(ClHe 176iFtheyorf ome Our Countrryrchr 14 ore ost r NAME..... ... .................................................. Sed mE : .............p....e..a............ TotTl ................(moneATordnr Peanut n BY SCOTT DERKS Staff Writer He is one of the quiet people. He is the one who always sits while the rest of the people rush by. He even speaks at a slow, measured pace, but he's 78 and thinking about marriage, and maybe that's reason enough. John Boatwright, known as the "Peanut Man" to thousands of Carolina students, has been a widower for a little more than a year. Boatwright doesn't tend his garden of peas, squash and okra anymore, and he eats in restaurants a lot. "There's this woman, a real fine Christian woman, who is interested in marrying me," Boatwright said, then turned to sell another bag of boiled peanuts. He said he can't stand to stay inside his Cayce home, now that his wife is dead, and sometimes thinks his 59-year-old friend might make a real nice companion. But marriage at 78--"I'm just not sure if that's too old or not," he said. Boatwright has been selling peanuts for "four winters now" on the Carolina campus but for years was afraid to come to USC. "I figured they' d run me off," Boatwright said, his lower, yellowed tooth just peeking over his wrinkled lip. "But some lady who worked at the University stopped by and invited me to sell peanuts in front of the Russell House. 'You'll do better there,' she told me. "I told that lady I wouldn't know who to ask about something like that, so she said she'd check for me. I don't know her name, never asked." A few days later Boatwright set up shop on the sidewalk near the student center and has been there since, unless of course, the wind Watch IT'S COMINC BE LONI Waitress WINNER'S RESTAL Inquire About Our Dolla 1111 Green St. (Between Jimmy and Toula Leve n *sitting quia lan : uvrd rushe picks up and gets real cold or the rain just won't let up. Peanuts, boiled or roasted, and a candied apple or two are his.wares. Oh yes, a smile is free with or without a purchase."Lots of students just speak as they go by," Boatwright said. "I just try to treat people right and they always seem to treat me the same way," he said. The one-time farmer,--"had a real nice place in Saluda County" the former night watchman looked at the slowed 2 p.m. traffic. "One of the best places to sell is right over under that tree," he said and pointed a hand knotted with arth ritis. "You get a real nice breeze on you and lots of nice folks stop and talk. But you know, you can get tired of most anything. 'Your body can give out just 'Civilisatio to Sunday "Civilisation" one of the most honored television series of the past year is being repeated this season on WRLK-TV. channel 35. The internationally acciaimed series began this week and will be broadcast each Sunday evening at 7 and then repeated each Monday night at 10. In the series, Kenneth Clark 'Lord Clark of Saltwood ) traces the development of Western man from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries through great paintings. sculpture, architecture and music. Last year, "Civilisation" received remarkable acclaim from the critics and won the For It! ''-IT WON'T C NOW Service CIRCLE RANT r Saving Meal Plan Main and Assembly) its have relocated here. Gamek Char-ge Aeat $100 (u1mM) RITTON rly while s by him sitting. talking or walking or most anything." Boatwright said. That's why he likes to move and take a regular route up and down Green St . Then he just talks to "his chillin" and watches the com motion pass him by. Boatwright looked up and thought a long time. "Let me tell you something. God's got a reason for everything he does. I've got two brothers in the hospital and two that have died, but He's keeping me healthy for a reason. Don't know what it is though," he said. 'No honey, I don't have anymore boiled peanuts, just sold out." She picked up a bag of roasted nuts and said they'd be OK. "But don't guess we're supposed to know." n' turns night TV Peabody, Saturday Review and Critics Consensus awards. It was also selected by public television station managers as the series they would most like to see repeated on PBS this fall. A grant from the Xerox Cor poration made it possible for NET to present the series on PBS this year as well as last. According to many critics, the most important single element in "Civilisation's " success in the U.S. was Lord Clark, the creator, writer and host of the series. For example, Julie Inman of the Indianapolis Star said: "Clark is completely free of the priggishness and condescension that often strike teachers and authorities under the kleig lights." Emily Genauer of the NEW YORK POST added: "Most im port ant, never, never in the series is there a trace of condescension or tasteless popularization." As phenomenal as Clark's popularity was the success of the I book "Civilisation", essentially the television scripts edited to a narrative form. Published by Harper & Row and selling for $15, it was on the best-sel. r list for eight months and sold 230,000 copies. rPs