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VOL. LX I - NO& 75 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, Anri in 1ow' Seniors cl A.C.Mooi By SCOTT DERKS Staff Writer The rolling green hills behind South Building and South Tower, cluttered with neglected shrubs, broken concrete and trash, will get a facelifting next Tuesday, April 18. Jim Hodges, chairman of the senior class project, said student response for the beautification of A.C. Moore Gardens has been great. Hodges said students from all classes have volunteered to help in the project, to help provide the University with a restful, at tractive area for students to go. The work is planned to begin at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday and will last until 5:30 p.m. New wood-lined walkways that will replace the slippery concrete walks will be constructed, the pond wll be drained and cleaned and azaleas and flowering shrubs will be planted along the path. Administrative officials say that if students show they are in terested in having the park redone more work will be done by the Ex-circus cloi Glan By JUDY TAYLOR Staff Writer For all the young boys who want to run away and join the circus, Conrad Hartz has one word "Don't." Hartz, who was a clown for Ringling Brothers, Barnum and KEP OURI CAMPUS CLEAN . Conrad ean-up re Gardens University. The senior class project is being paid for by seniors and their parents. However, the senior class committee said they plan to only guide the work. "This is a University project that will benefit the students for years to come. We want to provide the impetus to the University planned renovation,"Hodges daid. The work day is part of the an nual celebration of Earth Week supported by Eco 70's. In ad ditions, local nurseries are cooperating by donating plants and the University Dining Services is holding an "Honor the Seniors" day Monday, the day before the work day, at South Building's patio. The park, once a well kept zoological garden, was given to the University by the city with the provision that it be maintained. But tight budgets have allowed that park to be neglected. Hodges and the senior class committee said they hoped the work day would be the first step in giving students a place to go, a place not filled with buildings. vn Lo ur is Bailey Circus for five mt,. - and is now a USC student, never ad vised young boys to join the circus impetuously. "Ninety per cent of them have a false impression of the circus," Hartz said. "The only glamour is in the show. After all the sparkle Hartz... A. C. Moo in the I' wears off, it's just another job.' Hartz does not follow the patterr of the young boy who longed to rur away and join the circus as E clown. After graduation from Ridgeland High School ir Ridgeland, S.C., in 1964, he speni four years in the Marine Corps and then attended Baptist College in Charleston, S.C., where he majored in business ad -~ 4. ministration. He began thinking about joining the circus--not as a clown, but as a manager. He sent many ap p 7iios bu tee asn ro intemnaeeto.'ecru for yong, nexeriecedman "FnlyIsn te eueo wh wnedt oi-asaclwIi baial etfrteeprec, Hartz said rain theIfethtI was off,ait' jus givngthemo. I19Hartz nofowa acethed patr ofntelyngBoersoclonge scho run awy0wractd and jonfh circ se nAyfixer seenruaired bythe frs yeartz was the arine Copsuc maeds.buies d he DenrcfivenWeks aton th as -sc re Gardens show school learning the basics of n up and acrobatics and "how showy from the first person i coliseum to the one in the seat." Graduation from the s( consisted of an audition in fre a panel of judges that include president of the circus and mett Kelly. "I had no idea I woul( chosen," Hartz said. But on JC 1970, he reported to rehearso the circus' winter headquarte Venice. That same year marked 100th anniversary edition of Ringling Rothers Circus, and one week after he joined, 1 found himself in fron of telev cameras for an NBC special. "We didn't think about it,' said. "We rehearsed three just for one hour's worth of fi He recalled that later whe saw himself on the telev special "I almost got sick." For the next five months I traveled all over the cou performing for the circus. clown character was a ca clown which is a variation tramp clown. "There are three types clowns--tramp clowns, aul clowns and classical cc -(conttiued -o page 6) W_- . , 4 Legal age bill passes S.C. House By HOLLY GATLING Staff Writer Full legal responsibility for 18 year-olds was approved last week in the S.C. House of Represen ,tatives. By vote of 99-6 the House en dorsed lowering the legal age from 21 to 18. The bill must be approved by the Senate and voted on by the public in November. The measured was co-authored by Greenville Republican Representatives Carroll A. Campbell Jr., John K. Earle and Carolyn E. Frederick. Those opposing the bill were Representatives Julius H. Baggett, D-McCormick; H. Fay Bell, D Chesterfield; John P. Gaston Jr., D-Chesterfield; F.Lawton Irick, D Orangeburg; John H. Williams, D Aiken; and F. Hall Yarborough, D Orangeburg. Rep. Baggett said he opposed the bill because it makes 18-year-olds fully liable "and will impair their credit records in later years. "I don't feel they are prepared ' educationally for the financial responsibility they are going to face. "This is a mad rush to attract the 18-21-year-old-vote," Baggett said. "I'm not opposed to the 18-year-old vote, he said," he said. "The right to vote is a privilege. What privilege are we giving them when we shackle them will the full iake- responsibility of an adult life. to be You've got to remember many 18 ri the year-olds are not out of high school top yet." hool He said, "I feel that the time nt of between 18 and 20 is when people d the are furthering their education so Em- that they are better equiped to face financial responsibilities." I be "I Environment rs in # the is movement the notlaw field lartz By BARBARA MURRAY ision Staff Writer" Attorney David Sive of New 'he York spoke Friday night on en lays vironmental protection in South Im." Carolna. rn he sion Sive, who is a member of the President's Council on En [artz vironmental Quality, said that ntry South Carolina does not have a His problem as bad as New York, but rptthat there are still problems. One of a of these, he said, was the BASF controversy in Beaufort. The of controversy was solved when lust BASF, the German chemical wn- manufacturers, decided not to build in Beaufort. 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