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VOL. LXII -NO. 66 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Friday, March 10 1972 Candid get wa: Campaigns to begin Monday Two candidates for student government offices have been warned by elections commission chairman Matt Thornton against campaigning before the legal campaign date. Joe Usry, a presidential can Senate in stipend r( By CHRIS SCF Staff W Eight bills and one resolution I Student Government officers' stil Senate procedure and other area Senate Wednesday by Sen. Ton) Daniels presented a bill to re received by Student Government president's stipend at $1,000. The vice president's stipend wc president's; the treasurer's woul secretary's would not exceed 55 p A bill to establish a permaner section for senators who help distribution also was introduced Daniels presented a bill asl maintenance checks in residenc The Senate passed a bill stating be able to carry a 12-hour course hour load and still receive a feE Sen. Fred Manger, a spokesmz assistants would be taking more number of hours for the Univer lose, but would actually save mon Sen. Dan Eckstrom presented since the Rules Committee of the a great deal of power, and sin< disregards the actions of the cc abolished and replaced by the F The bill provides that USC Pi would remain on the new board at The bill would take effect upo mittee chairman, Vice Presiden A bill to present a referendum students if they think Student G should be abolished was defeat4 Commission were approved by t for the disclosure of the reasorn porary Union Director Mike Altrr Hodges and Leventis. Sen. Koger Bradford, a me administration commission to University Senate, said the stu discouraged." He said, ''We'renm Recreation Committee Friday: ''As long ase br 8 ates 0 rning didate, ran two advertisements in The GAMECOCK on Feb. 2 and Feb. 28. Campaign leaflets for Kathy Jennings, candidate for vice president, were openly available in a few areas on campus, Thornton said. A Student Senate statute says no campaigning may be done before seven days before the elections March 21. The campaign legally begins on March 13. Thornton said "word-of-mouth" campaigning was legal before March 13, but "no literature, no radio plugs" are allowed. troduces gulation IWE ICKERT riter >ertaining to ticket distribution, )ends, the regulation of Student were introduced to the Student Daniels. gulate the amount of stipends officers. He set the limit for the iuld not exceed 85 percent of the d not exceed 70 per cent and the er cent of the president's. it Student Government seating with registration and ticket ding the University to make e halls. that graduate assistants should load instead of the present nine reduction. in for the bill, said although the courses and working the same sity, the University would not ey in the long run. a resolution which stated that Student Senate felt itself to have :e the USC Board of Trustees mmittee, the Board should be lules Committee. -esident Dr. Thomas F. Jones an ex-officio member. n the signature of Rules Coin t Julianne Still. during Spring elections asking overnment in its present form d. Members of the Elections he Senate. A resolution calling ~for the dismissal of the tem an was introduced by Senators miber of the student-faculty. study the feasability of a dent members ''haven't been aking a little progress.'' Treasure Hunt Clue for eathe we hope." Thomas, Dr. Mandell, Dr. Vin Faculty r undergra: By JUDY NIEWIADOMSKI Staff Writer Five USC professors and an alumnus broke through the traditional undergraduate domination of campus athletics by finishing with ribbons in the Atlanta marathon, Dec. 18. The six: C.P. Thomas, 1958 alumnus, a senior sales representative for S.C. Electric and Gas Co.,; Dr. Steven Blair, Physical Education; Dr. Donald W. Chaffee. Business Ad ministration; Dr. 'Richard Man dell, History; Dr. Murray Vincent, Physical Education; and Dr. John Wackwitz, Psychology. They are still running, beginning at 3:30 most afternoons at the Physical Education Complex and continuing out to Owens Field and Lake Katherine. They are enthusiastic about running for the exercise, but their attitudes vary about running competitively. For Donald Chaffee, running is the fulfillment of one of those wist ful daydreams most people toy with mentally but rarely put into action. "I'd always kind of said, I'd really like someday to run a marathon." Chaffee said. Chaffee began running in college. He tried out as a high jumper for his college track team and didn't make it. He kept on running though, because he found it relaxed him. But until he came to Carolina and met Jack Wack wItz7 "who broadened mv cent, Dr. Wackwitz, Dr. Cha unners bi luate don horizons," he ran for pleasure and marathon running stayed a daydream. Topology altered the means to a goal Richard Mandell has held most of his life. "I've always wanted to be fit. When I was in California I did surfing and mountain bicycling. I began running in Toronto nine years ago because there was no surf and no mountains!' He doesn't take the competitive side of running too seriously, however. The whole marathon caper was a joke. A successful joke. Jack Wackwitz started running after he gained forty pounds in his first year of marriage. He is the only member of the team who had run competitively prior to the Atlanta marathon. He began running at thirteen when he tried out for football and was sent to the cross-country team because of a shortage of football uniforms. "I like being able to do the things that I like to do," Wackwitz said. He said he goes to cocktail parties and hears many of his con temporaries (he is 29) talking about how they could dance all night when they were in high school. If they nad kept in shape. he claims, they'd still be able to. Wackwitz plans to begin running to and from the University three days a week. "Running," he said, "is an activity you have to get into and be into for a long time to really enjoy it. It's obnoxious at first. It hurtsa. It's like goingoan a it.t vnou ffee and Dr. Blair. eak unation have to make it through the first week. After that you're alright." Though they encourage people to join them in running, Mandell warns that novice runners may not be able to keep up the pace. "We are no longer joggers. We are runners. We're going pretty fast now." Chaffee would like to see more people interested in running but said, "Most people when they read that we've run a marathon think we're superrunners and are afraid to come along. We have picked up three other people, two of whom are interested in running a marathon." Though all the runners are, as Chaffee puts it, "very much proselytizers as far as running goes. We're always trying to get people to run. Even they can't agree about the likelihood of forming a running club on cam pus," he said. Long distance runners are very individualistic, according to Mandell, and the idea of organizing and setting up rules and regulations would discourage parti cipation. Wackwitz, one of the organizers of an informal running club in Illinois, doesn't agree. The run ning base in Columbia is building up, he said, and he hopes maybe next year to organize a club. Runners could be convinced to support a club, he said, because an (Co'ntinued on pnea 8)