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Buil( A meeting to discuss future building projects on campus - including the widening of Pickens Street - will be held April 24 in Capstone with Vice-President for Business Affairs Harold Brunton. Brunton will discuss develop ments with interested students. The hearings on the widening of Pickens Street, scheduled to take place over the Easter holidays, was postponed and will be re scheduled after this meeting. Time and location in Capstone will be announced later. BLOOD DRIVE Volunteer Services is sponsoring the annual Red Cross Blood Drive April 17-19 in the Mike Johnson Lounge (Men's Towers). Donations will be taken from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Students do not have to be 21 years old to give blood; 18 is the legal age for giving blood. The University's quota for the drive is 1,500 units of blood, which will protect all University students, faculty, staff and their families. WOMEN TO PETITION S. C. SENATE The Columbia chapter of the National Organization for Women will circulate petitions in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment at local shopping areas Friday and Saturday. The petition which will be cir culated at Richland Mall and Dutch Square will be presented to the Judiciary Committee of the S. C. Senate, according to Vicki Eslinger, an organizer for the project. The amendment, now in that committee, passed the S. C. House of Representatives two weeks ago. The amendment reads: "Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." The petition states, "We the undersigned residents of Richland County endorse the Equal Rights Amendment and urge the S. C. Senate to take immediate action." GARNET AND BLACK WORKERS Anyone interested in working on the Garnet and Black next year should drop a note in Box U-5132. Please include name and telephone number. AUDUBON DISPLAYED DURING FIESTA '72 As part of Fiesta '72, McKissick Memorial Library is exhibiting paintings of John James Audubon which were done by Audubon during his visits to South Carolina in the 1830's. One part of the display is in the foyer of the Library. Photoduplications of the original paintings are exhibited of 13 birds observed and drawn by Audubon in the Charleston area. The other part of the exhibit in the Rare Book Room consists of original engravings from the Library's copy of "Birds of America." Several of the engravings show landscapes familiar to South Carolinians. The exhibits will continue on display through May. The Rare Book exhibit is open 9a.m. - 5p.m., Monday-Friday. ling proj CAR WASH Arnold Air Society and Ang Flight will sponsor a car wa. April 22 at the Texaco station at tt corner of Bull and Elmwoc streets from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Price is $1 and tickets at available from any member i Arnold Air Society or Angel Fligi - or just bring your car by for wash and vaccuum. Fight pollutic on Earth Qay - get your cz washed. COLLEGE OF NURSING LECTURE The dean of the Bosto University School of Nursing, D: Irene S. Palmer, will speak i 12:30 p.m. in Capstone Campt Room on "The Nurse Practitionf in Primary Health Care." The occasion is the Viana Mi Cown Lecture, an annual event 4 USC's College of Nursing designe to bring outstanding nursin professionals to the Universit: The late Viana McCown, form( head of the nursing program i Carolina, endowed the lectureshil CHESS TOURNAMENT RESULTS Jim Scoggin defeated Donal Jennings yesterday in the Bat( House Chess Tournament. Ed Thor and Ethan Hayes wet semi-finalists in the month-lon competition. DELTA SIGMA PI TRIP Local chapter of Delta Sigma I will take a weekend trip to Atlant to tour the Scientific America Electronics Co., the Carlin Brewery and Atlanta. Cars will leave tonight at 9 an will return Sunday evening. CAROLINA BANDS Two groups from USC Bands wi present a concert for the studeni of Hanberry Junior High School i Blythewood today. The Symphonic Band, along wit the "Red Spurs," one of three ja ensembles in the USC Bands, wi perform. Ralph Wahl is directoi SITARIST TO PERFORM Mahmud Mirza, Indian Sitaris has been re-scheduled for 8 p.n Tuesday in the Russell House. He will be accompanied by tab] player, Fayyaz Kahn. Tickets are free to USC studen with ID cards, $2 for students ni from USC and $3 for the gener public. Tickets are available Russell House, room 204 or at tU performance. Mirza is sponsored by tU University Union Artist Seri4 Committee. HISTORIAN TO LECTURE Dr. Kenneth Morgan, Fellow Queen's College, Oxford, will gia a public lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesde in Currell 107. His subject will I "David Lloyd George and ti Historians." The author of mar books and articles on Briti: history, Dr. Morgan is one of ti ablest of the young historians modern Britain. He is one of ti recognized experts on the career Lloyd George. The Histoi Department welcomes all who a: interested to attend this lectur MILITARY BASE PRtOGRAMS USC's educational programs five of the state's military basi has increased to a combirn News briefsm ects discus enrollment at 682 students, ac 1 cording to USC Regional Campus h officials. e The largest programs now in d operation are on the Shaw and Myrtle Beach Air Force Bases. e These two bases have a combined )f enrollment of 506 students. Shaw it Air Force Base is offering 30 a courses this term, while the Myrtle n Beach Base is offering ten. r Programs are also being offered at the Marine Corps Air Station and the Parris Island Marine Base in Beaufort, and at Ft. Jackson in n Columbia. r. Courses are scheduled for eight it week terms at the military bases Is with classes meeting twice a week r for two and a half hours. Super vision of the programs is handled - by the USC Regional Campus )f Office with John Powers as d coordinator. g it TAU BETA PI INITIATES The following USC students have been elected as members of Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering d Honor Society. s Elton Booth, Kong Lee, Leroy Bishop, Houston McElreath, e Michael Quinton, Melvin Frick, g Ken Haggerty, Wayne Leslie, Hamilton Lott, Bert Neese, Joe Ruker and Jean Chassereau. The new initiates will be honored tonight at a banquet at the Hier's )i House. Guest speaker will be Dr. a Robert L. Sumwalt, former Dean n of Engineering. g d DAYCAMP VOLUNTEERSNEEDED Bell Camp Summer Day Camp needs five volunteers to help with 11 morning activity periods, five days :s a week for a minimum of six weeks it this summer. The participating children, those from University h families and from families in ;z urban Columbia, will be offered 11 activities such as swimming, boating, softball, basketball, soccer, archery, nature hiking and arts and crafts. Rainy day ac t, tivities will include visits to the i. planatarium, fire department, police station and movies in the a Russell House. Each day will in clude three activity periods, about is 45-60 minutes long. Volunteers will >t be needed from 8Bto 12:30 p.m. each al day, on a non-paying voluntary n basis. Training period for the e counselors will be June 1-2. In terested persons please contact e John Elkins, Volunteer Services s director, Room 201, Pendleton Building, for additional in formation and or an interview. Applicants with some camping )f background are preferred. Ly SESTUARINE SOCIETY MEETING yThe Atlantic Estuarine Research h oity is meeting in Myrtle Beach efor the first time in South Cqrolina ftoday and tomorrow hosted by the eBelle W. Baruch Coastal Research Instiute of USC. re Membership in the society in e. cludes estuarine scientists representing universities, in dustries and government and private research laboratories. n They are concerned with the ~s biological environment in coastal sion sche( The Myrtle Beach meeting will be to share findings and views on current research dealing with estuaries. Scientists from points along the Atlantic seaboard -- from Con necticut to Georgia -- will be leading discussions dealing with various topics, including effects of pollution on marine organisms. Dr. Richard F. Dame, of USC's Conway Regional Campus is coordinator for the meeting. DA VINCI'S NOTEBOOKS Models and panels of sketches reproduced from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks will be on display April 16 through May 7 at the University Museum. The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. It is located at the corner of Sumter and Pendleton Streets. No admission will be charged. POETRY READING The Crucible Literary Magazine and the University Union will cosponsor their second free-form poetry reading from 6-8 p.m. Sunday. If interested, come read your poetry, prose, and short stories. The poetry reading will be held in the Golden Spur and everyone is invited. For further information call ext. 4494 or 5200. TIDELANDS HEARING A hearing on the tidelands zoning measure to be introduced in the S. C. Legislature will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, in the Senate Chamber. This measure will zone the tidelands marshes of South Carolina either for industrial uses or for preservation in their natural Sigma Nu Pres LIT' BICYCLI April 19 2:00 Fiel $25.00 - 1st P1 CARNIVAL GA "LtTTLE HOT i MISS LITTLE BIG500 RACE (E MANY EBJgPRIZ Everyone on c Proceeds donated to Met luled state. The hearing is open to all interested persons; those at tending are not required to speak. Attendance of interested students will help in the passing of strong tidelands protection legislation. MCGILL SCHOLARSHIP The deadline to submit ap plications for Ralph McGill Scholarships is May 1. The Ralph McGill Scholarshipe Fund offers scholarships up to $1,500 each to students who have completed at least two years of college and who have demon strated an interest in the news and editorial phase of newspapers. Successful applicants will be required to maintain a "B" average in order to keep the scholarship. Application blanks may be ob tained from The Ralph McGill Scholarship Fund; Box 4689; Atlanta, Ga. 30302. Letters policy We print all letters we receive. The only thing we ask is that the writer include his name, signature and address (this is in case of verification purposes). Please try to type the letter on a 65-space line. The letter should be double-spaced. To write to the Gamecock: The Gamecock Letters to the editor Drawer "A" USC For those of you who are on campus, you can put the letter in the "campus mail" slot at the post office. You don't even have to have it stamped. Fraternity ents E RACE th, 1972 5: 00 d A tIZE & TROPHY ~MES& PRIZES W~HEELS'' RACE 500 CONTE ST NTR Y FE E $5.00) ES FOR EVERYONE ampus invited. ropolitan Education Fund