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Ca The University has named eight high school seniors Carolina Scholars granting them $5,000 scholarships for four years of study at the University. The eight announced this week form the third group- of Carolina Scholars attending the University with a scholarship from the USC Educational Foundation. This year's winners, their hometowns and high schools are: Thomas Richard Bolt of Anderson, T. L. Hanna High School; Kathleen Elsie Crum of Columbia, Dreher High School; Pamela Elizabeth George of Aiken, Aiken High School; and Francenia Brennen Heizer of Columbia, Dreher High School. Also, Charles Bruce Murdock of Belton, Belton-Honea Path High School; Henry Melton Parris of Greenville, Carolina High School; Mark Stephens Sharpe of Charleston, St. Andrews High School; and Winfred L. Wilson of Sumter, Sumter High School. Recipients are chosen on the basis of scholarship, character, leadership and signs of future promise, rather than on need. Selections are highly competitive. The program is financed through contributions to the educational Foundation from individuals, organizations and businesses. PLANETARIUM PROGRAM The Columbia Science Museum, Gibbes Planetarium, is continuing its presentation of "The Sky at Night". This program which is offered the first Saturday of the month at 1:00 P. M. is being presented March 4. It allows families with children under 6 to attend a Planetarium Program. The "Sky at Night" is a topical show concerned with the con stellations and other objects visible in the current sky. Since there is no age restriction, we ask that all children under 6 who are admitted free, be ac companied by a parent. The ad PONDE] STUDEN Tues RIB STEAK DI Tender, juicy Rib Baked Potato . Tossed Salad Garlic Toast 5 P.M. 'til Clos Just show I.D c NO TIPPI .rolin mission is 50 cents for students and 75 cents for adults. For more in formation call the Science Museum at 254-2791. EUPHRADIAN SOCIETY State Sen. Nick Zeigler of Florence County spoke to the Euphadian Society Thursday night. Sen. Zeigler spoke on the many state constitutions South Carolina has had from our founding to present time. He discussed the workings of the legislature in his address and in the question and answer period which followed. Following the meeting a short reception allowed the members and guests a chance to get acquainted with the senator. The next regular meeting of the Euphradian Society will take place March 2, at 7 p.m. Persons in terested in debate and discussions of issues of current interest are welcome to attend. The historical meeting hall is located on the third floor of Harper College. SOCIALIST TO SPEAK Ms. Alice Conner, Socialist Workers' candidate for the U.S. Senate from Georgia, will speak 8 p.m. tomorrow in Russell House 310. Ms. Conner is a leader of the radical and women's movements in Georgia. She grew up in rural poverty in Springfield, Tennessee. After moving to Atlanta, Alice Conner became known as a speaker- against the oppressive conditions of the family and for women's liberation. Later she became a leader of the antiwar and socialist movements in Georgia. She was one of the founders of Emory Women's Liberation and is a prominent spokeswoman for the Georgia Womens Abortion Coalition. She has taught classes on feminism at the Emory Free University, has lectured to Atlanta area ' civic clubs, addressed numerous university ciasses on topics related to the women's 18SA T NIGHT day EYE NNER -eye ing U ' ard to cashier NG kBBOTT DRIVE Scholai movement and appeared on television and radio in opposition to the Georgia abortion law. Recently, Ms. Conner has received wide news media publicity in the Southeast while crusading for political and human rights for prisoners. SKILLS COURSES Courses in reading and briefhand skills are being offered by the Counseling Bureau beginning March 6 or 7. All the classes will last for three weeks ending March 22. Cost for the reading program is $15 and cost for the briefhand class is $10. Students should begin calling immediately to reserve a place in one of the classes, or they should ,come by the Counseling Bureau in the Pendleton Building, according to Nanny Carter of the Counseling office. COMMUNICATIONS LAB Communications Skills laboratory is available to any student at USC at the cost of $5.00 per semester. A lab assistant is provided during lab hours Monday through Thursday from 12:00-3:00 p.m. to assist students in their selection and use of varied materials and equipment. Call 777-5223 or come by the Counseling Bureau in the Pen dleton Building for further in formation. BIOLOGY SEMINAR WAIA toN Fhove IM NZA MEPd o AM& 14E. OE PII A 1s am Dr. Stanfield Rogers, senior scientist of the Biology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will be on campus Wednesday, March 1, to conduct a de velopmental biology seminar. Rogers will give a presentation concerning his research on "Gene Therapy" for 12:05 to 1 p.m. in the Coker Life Science Building, Room 101. Gene therapy, according to Rogers, is a new approach to human disease and as such represents a potentially invaluable aid to medicine and to mankind. Author of a number of articles on gene therapy, Rogers received his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine and is a former pathology professor at Duke. Before joining the Oak Ridge Laboratory in 1964, he served as a research fellow at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and also directed the University of Tennessee Memorial Research Center, Knoxville. The seminar is the fifth in a series of developmental biology seminars offered this semester by the USC Department of Biology. It is open to the public. WOMEN'S LEAGUE Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) will hold an organizational meeting 7:30 tonight in Russell House 308. A national organization founded in 1968, WEAL works mainly to end sex discrimination in employment. oE LvYS 'M4E SToe C NCT'0AU TP+E CAit. LlVoS 7" r #302. ASSBNr So AP,AOiMEq~ ed The organization also aims to promote greater economic progress for women by combating educational and tac problems affecting women. Since its incorporation WEAL has filed some 300 suits against major colleges and universities in the country and is now starting to file complaints against banks and businesses. Tonight's organizational meeting is open to the public with men as well as interested women invited. USC ENROLLMENT Enrollment at USC's eight campuses for the 1972 spring semester is 19,288 students com pared to 20,009 enrolled for the fall, USC officials announced today. The main campus in Columbia showed 16,022 registered in comparison to 16,615 students in the fall, a drop of 3.6 per cent. The main campus total includes 2,626 graudate and 713 law students. The regional campus enrollment totals 3,,266 for the spring, a -3.8 per cent change from fall's total of 3,394. A University spokesman said the enrollment percentage decrease from fall to spring normally is about three to five per cent. The 1972 spring enrollment was 14,414 at the main campus and 17,028 including regional cam puses. oAJ TEST?.. *ArEsr. I I34A. N6 SooWj %<"A IDEAS. ,1 LA |< VY