Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Women's BY MERRY BATEMAN Of The Gamecock staff How do you think the image of women in the past effects the role of women in the present? What.!% Scholarships available Thirty Marshall Scholar ships, each good for two years of academic study leading toward a degree at a British university, are being offered to students, Charles H. Witten, dean for student affairs, has announced. Marshall Scholarships are open to graduates of a college or university in the United States. They provide for a personal allowance, at the rate of $210 per month, payment of tuition, a grant for books and fares to and from Britain. The cut-off date for Vpplications is Tuesday. GAME The Gamecock is the official sted of Sonth Carolia and is published i Thursdays, during the fall sod spol during the summer by tbe USC B4 mukations. Opo1s expressed in The Gamecoci those of the University of South Ca Change of -address forms, subs correspomenee should be seS to TI Columbia, 29206. Sbseripton rat the sum.W sessios. NO M STIFF . Let Us SOFTE] your WITH EXCLU Pro NO DAMAGE LOOK. AND F] LON( SUNSI CLEANERS 601 Main (Across street frm studies , woman's role in present day society? These were the two questions posed the first day University 111 met this fall. Answers were as diverse as the students and visitors there with different degrees of enthusiasm, ranging from low to caging. University 111 is a new venture in interdisciplinary work on women. The idea of womens studies came during the Jones Ad ministration when it was en couraging innovative teaching. Former USC President Thomas F. Jones appointed a committee of faculty and students to compose a womens studies committee. The committee saw the need of courses on women because of the in creasing interest and influence of the womens movement. It also saw the need'for good courses for anyone to elect to take, especially freshmen, as a variety in the ap proach to the humanities. With the work of the committee, chaired by Linda Maloney, and such people as Phyllis Fleishel (the new director of Contemporary COCK %t Newpaper of the UWiversIy Lwlee weeky. Medays and ag semester and esce a week oad of PablIcaes and ceon i are these of the editors and st Criptie.. reUests and ether e Gamecefk, Drawer A, USC, are 83 per semester and $2 for ORE [EANS ,[ and FADE Jeans OUR SIVE eess TO FABRIC DEL BETITER lER IINE LAUNDRY Street m honeycmbs) >robe role University) proposals were written for the two new courses, University 111 and University 112. These were accepted after going through the various proceedures which new courses must in the university system. University 111 is not a spiritual, political rap session or con sciousness raising group. It is a chronological study of women in religion, art and literature. Team teaching is used with a seae-r s e --- slacks *317 DOWNTOWA of today' representative from religion, art and English. The new chairman of the womens studies committee and the male leader of University 111, Kevin . Lewis of the Religion Department, feelswomen's courses need to have men in them. That is one of his reasons for helping teach 111. The course has one man enrolled and several male auditors. "I am committed R ADM woman professionally to experimentation in interdisciplinary team teaching. This is what my area is all about: religion, culture, literature, art. I am a person interested in the cause of women," he said. "I think what the women's movement is doing for society is important. I have come to know the movement intellectually and feel it intuitively. Women do get a bad deal. They fall prey to Catch Continued on Page 12 illager 'Sets' the pace... ..with these bulky, :herry red twin weaters and polyester plaid slacks to coordinate with. ERRYS \Anrmin UTCH SQUARE