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Counseling service for BY GARY WEST First in a scries on university services. "We are directed as a service for students with problems that in volve a wide variety of reasons and are available to staff and depen dents of students also, said Dr. Donald A. Swanson, director of the USC Counseling Bureau. The Counseling Bureau, which was begun in 1965 and now has a staff of 31 different people in one capacity or another, is a service for students with personal, vocational or educational problems. "We must be responsive to the needs of the students and are in terested in the total development of a person as a student," said Swanson. Swanson said many of the problems they are confronted with concern inter-personal relation ships. "Many of their problems are under the surface and these problems impede their education," Swanson said. "Initially a lot of students are not getting any help at all. They have a sufficient amount of anxiety and each counselor must use his skills to relate to them. At first they may not trust us, but after they get to know you they will open up. Ac tually many people cannot talk to their parents or friends, but can keep a degree of objectivity with a counselor," said Swanson. Swanson said the Counseling Bureau tried to keep a close relationship with all segments of the university. "We try to keep the communication lines open and have a good working relationship Cowley: recyc Today many environmentalists are working to 'ecycle bottles, newspapers and tin cans. Dr. Gerald T. Cowley of USC is also concerned with environmental problems, but he is interested in recycling minerals. Cowley, a biology professor, is conducting research in South Carolina's. salt marshes to learn about the work of fungi in releasing minerals from decaying marsh grasses. "Fungi along with bacteria and other microorganisms are in volved with the decomposition of dead Spartina, a typical marsh grass which accumulates on the high tide edge of marshes," Cowley said. "If there were no decomposition of the grass, then this Spartina would continue to accumulate and minerals would be bond there indefinitely." To understand the role fungi play in this decomposition process Cowley and his graduate students are studying the rates of decom position. of the grass caused by individual species of fungi. The biologists are also working to find what mineral products are released into the environment during the decomposition process. "We want to see if there is a change in concentrations of minerals, such as calcium or phosporus, that are released from Film exposi The first experimental fii be held during late Novembi are now being sought in the mm (sound and silent), 16 n %" E. A. I. J. Standard' For further informatic stamped envelope to USC Fi University of South Carolir bureau: students with the departmental deans, Swanson said. About 13 to 15 per cent of the students we see are referred to us by faculty mem )ers." "We also have a workshop program for high school counselors individual staff members consult Nith them and deliver counseling techniques to them," said Swan ;on. The Counseling Bureau also :oordinates the Upward Bound program. "Upward Bound was :onceived by the Office of Economic Opportunity and came nto practice in 1966. Actually USC was one of the first major white miversity's in the South to in ;titute the program," said swanson. "We pick up kids from lisadvantaged backgrounds that ave ability and try to develop heir skills and motivate them. "We help them complete high ;chool and try to get them into :olleges. Usually we start with 11th graders and train them in the summer." Besides the testing program and vocational counseling, the fresh men services program is another ispect of the Counseling Bureau. Dr. Gary Houmes is the director of Freshmen Services whose function s to supervise orientation, testing, !ounseling and other related ac ivities. "The typical freshmen go hrough an adjustment period when they are confronted with Iuestions-such as: where am I, what am I going to take, how am I going to relate. These issues have o be taken care of until they reach i higher level of adjustment," said 5wanson. le minerals the grass as decomposition procedes," Cowley said. "We're also looking at what organic molecules such as antibiotics are released during the decomposition process." For these research purposes Cowley and his students thus far have isolated more than 300 fungus species from the salt marsh soils and plants at Hobcaw Barony near Georgetown. The USC Belle W. Baruch Coastal Research Institute operates a marine research lab there. Cowley isolates marsh soil fungi from mud samples collected in the marshes during each season of the year. Spartina-decomposing fungi are isolated from grass samples compiled in fiberglass screen bags which Cowley places in the marshes for varying periods of time up to two years. Once a fungus species is isolated Cowley can study the effect of that individual species on decaying marsh grass. The professor, who says the aim of his work is to more completely define the role of fungi, explains that, after studying the effects of individual fungus species on the grass, he hopes to then study the effect of different combinations of fungi on the decaying grass. tion planned m exposition at USC will er and December. Entries following media: Super 8 im (sound and silent) and iideo tape. in, send self-addressed Im Exposition, Box 84714, a, Columbia, S. C. 29208. IN SOUTH CAROLINA WE CHALLENGE ANYONE TO HAND SPIN A BIGGER PIZZA COME BY HWY. 215 CAYCE 794-9844 1 5 - 11 P.M. (Tues.-Sat.) [NEW LOCATION NOW 406 BEL TLINE 782-9268 Open 11 A.M. -11 P.M. (Later on baligamie nights) Sun. 5 - 11 P.M. THE BEST ROAST BEEF SANDWICH IN THE WORLD