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Truvo Touring BY MERRY BATEMAN Gamecock Staff Writer Touring Greece and earning course credit at the same time how does that sound for part of a summer? Ten USC students have jus returned from three weeks of in dependent study in Greece. The) are now recording their im pressions of ancient and con temporary Greece in journal forn for Dr. Harold French of the US( Religion Department who led thi group. The students were headquar tered in Athens, taking side trips tc such places as Delphi, Corinth Epidarous, Mycennae and th4 islands of Aegina and Hydra. Ont week was spent in Heraklion Crete. While in Athens, the student met with Richard Evans, a US( Graduate studying at th American School for Classica Studies there. He indicated tha more than half of ancient Greec awaits excavation but permissioi hasn't been received to work o many sites. Greece has thousands of caves some well-known, others largell unexplored. Zip Vassey, Joh Bruton and Nancy Meador rente motorscooters and headed, up int the hills of Crete in search c caverns. This is their account: "We ended up in the village c Skotino and didn't even know th general direction of the cave w sought. As luck would have it, man appeared and led us to th mythological labyrinth, home o the dreaded Minotaur. Descendin into the depths, we found ourselve engulfed by the darkness an trusting one old man with flashlight and little knowledge < the English language however, Nicholus, did know where we were he got us our of the cave alive. W skirted stagagtites an stalagmites entering places we fe sure no one had seen since the day of the Minoans. We were even more touched by the man' hospitality for he brought us hom for dinner and sent us on our wa refreshed by an experience, whic sadly, very few tourists could eve have." Linda Lukas, a USC studenl from Columbia, is making comparison of some of the custorr of Greece and the United State "Athens is a beautiful city with population of three million and lik all big cities has its noise and a pollution. The antiquity remair hidden in certain areas among ti modernity of the city," Linda sai4 B. J.'s p UNDEERGI Live Musik . Mo Our Artis Play 0 Musk.-No Reek & I Drink 12 e (30' dwring Ka, Monel so- nitely - $lu. HI f(INNfAN; JIlIS V s WI.'ul Greece "Several things stand out in my mind." "The restroom is called the W.C. which posed certain com munication problems. Women hold hands and lock arms in a friendship tradition. The men's English vocabulary consists of 'very good,' 'nice' and pretty." Foreign visitors to Greece confronted some. of the USC group at various times with questions on Nixon, Watergate, U.S. lifestyles and streaking. Try coming up with a definition of streaking! Two of the USC Greek travelers, Susan -Graybill and David - Hodges, had many good en ) counters while in Greece. One occurred in Athens: "We met a man in Athens who works in a bank where we ex changed money. The night before we left he invited us back to Greece to live in his home for as long as wer cared to stay. He told us the longer we stayed with him, 1 the better his English would get. t We exchanged home addresses. Later that night he showed up at 1 our hotel bringing gifts to take 1 back to the states." "The geniune friendliness of his gesture," David said, "is in 1 dicative of the reaction I found to I our being in Greece." 3 One participant left the group in f Athens to spend some time in Cairo. While there she ex f perienced the flavor of Middle e eastern culture and visited the e pyramids. a The group leader, Harold French e said, "Each new vista of the Acropolis in Athens reminds me g both of the permanent splendor of s Athens' golden age but also of the d fragile andephemeralvision which a began so soon to decay. Democracy soon aborted, under pressure of plague and Spartan - rivalry, and the Parthenon, still e splendid, stood as a reminder of d the wonder that was Greece." It "Something vanquished the s Greeks' vision and we've inherited that. If we lament their fall from s glory, we can wonder if history will e judge that we ascended, let alone y fell from, such Olympian heights." r Wild traffic, curious Greeks, other travelling students, ruins and Greek commodities. such as worry a beads, mousaka and ouzo are sure s to fill more pages of journals. ;. Experiences and viewpoints a abound. e "Greece has left a lasting im: Lr pression on me," said Mason is Gibbes, a business major. "It is ~e one the classroom could never 1. equal." 5UB 2218 Roswood Dr. GRADUATES ADUATES in., Wed., Prl. & Sat. indy Mellow, Acmetic toll I Cest -Pree or 506 >z. Mkhl.elb 40* sgsy foor - 7. -8) *rshils: monti - *5 Year LI. I~I. MIII ROTTrLF PERMlT Pot Advocates Cite God's For the past 2000 years, citing passages in a book c Bible" as the ultimate whatever their cause -- be abortion, marriage, rascisn Now a Canadian groups cal adding a brand new cause espoused by the Bible -- Po The Toronto-based Chapi that any human laws restri use of marijuana is against ( intends to stand by God's claim that any public serva: oath on the Bible should r4 therein. 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