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News Volleyball vote scheduled BY BETSY WILCOX Of The Gamecock staff Columbia College girls will learn today if they will go for the world's record in marathon volleyball. The student body will vote on whether or not to continue the 144 hour game another week to break the world's record of 240 hours. The Columbia College 'Student Senate is sponsoring the marathon volleyball game to raise money for their former head of the P.E. Department, Phil Hodges, who was Injured in an automobile accident in August. Hodges is at present still unconscious in the Savannah Hospital where he was moved two weeks ago. Pledge sheets show approximately $3,500 has been raised to cover hospital expenses. The volleyball game has been greatly helped by individuals, organizers said. The approximate player count is around 500. High School students have been an enormous help in the afternoons, and USC students have pulled the game thru the wee hours of the morning. The USC Women's Volleyball Team was scheduled to "show their stuff" Sunday af ternoon. APO extends escort service Alpha Phi Omega (APO) will begin its escort service one half hour earlier than in the past because of the return to standard time at the end of last month. Any coed desiring transportation from one part of campus to another can call 3825 Monday through Thursday nights from 6:30 p.m. until 11 p.m. Sorority initiates charter members On Oct. 25, Zeta Theta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. became the third Black sorority granted a charter among the list of student organizations at USC. The charter members of the Zeta Theta Chapter, initiated Feb. 23, include 17 women from among the sophomore, junior and , 'Tigerburn' ( "Share In our Excitement" is the overall theme for annual public Tigerburn activities this week as the USC Gamecocks prepare to meet the Clemson Tigers for football Saturday. Sponsored by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, several spirit-raising activities are planned during the week, climaxed by the traditional burning of the tiger Thursday night. Monday and Tuesday, with the co-sponsorship of the Downtown Bsiness Association, some 20 student organizations will decorate store windows in downtown Columbia using the Gamecock's 1974 theme, "Excitement Is." Judging for best decoration will briefs senior classes. Initiated were: Stywaskee Broadnax, Joananne Dozier, Sammyette Wilson, Marilyn Banner Alston, Doris Johnson, Brenda Pressley. and Johnnie Deas. Other charter members include Becky Dewitt,Jacquelne Knight, Bobby Lewis, Lenora Counts, Gail McMorris, Carol Workman, Barbara Eikner, Jamella Davis, .Sandra Fowler and Harriet Mc Combs, now a graduate student at the University of Nebraska. Fraternity ofers 'Brothers' help Thirteen pledges of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternaty pained the headquarters of Brothers and Sisters, the local arem of the Big Brothers of America, In c. Located on Lincoln Street, the headquarters houses the office of Clay Normand, director of the Brothers and Sisters Program. Approximately 180 USC students are currently involved in the program. Students interested in further information about the program can come by the office of Volunteer Services in the Pen delton Building. Photography lecture tonight The Towers Government is presenting a lecture on photography featuring B. J. Fuller at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 in the M&N lounge. Fuller is a professional pic torialist working exclusively in color photography. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Professional Photographers Association. Correction In the Oct. 22 issue of The Gamecock, it was stated that Campus Engineering will shortly complete the second phase of its traffic phase since the closing on Oct. 14. This was incorrect. Campco Engineering, of Rock Hill, is doing the study of traffic flow, not the University. The Gamecock regrets the error. r,ctiites set take place Wednesday and the Gamecock mascot will be on Main Street greeting shoppers. Thursday's events start at 7:45 p.m. when a shirt-tail parade forms at Russell House and then, led by the Pep Band, marches up Sumter Street to Washington, over to main and down to the State House for a peu rally. At the raily retiring Football Coach Pau F. Dietzel and team captains fo the Clemson game will speak. Following the State House rally the parade will continue back down Sumter Street to the intramural field at Wheat Street for the bur ning of the tiger, at approximately 9:30 p.m. Carolina BY NANCY COLEMAN Of The Gamecock staff Santa -Claus, disguised as USC students, will come to needy children of Columbia-that is, if Carolina Cares. Volunteers for Carolina Cares are to sign up in the Russell House lobby Nov. 18-29. Money will be collected door-to-door and downtown on December 4. Students with contributions of food and clothing are asked to call 777-5231. Headquarters will be in the Towers Cafeteria. Contributions are given to Babcock Center, Brothers & Sisters, Woodyard Fund and other organizations in the Greater Columbia area. President William H. Patterson has excused all volunteering - hungAJuior and Contenporary Missy SPOTSWAR A WHA For Jui A Now A Sports ALL JEANS Pr.-t... Wuist se Up BLOUSES BEAUTIES 500 MANY 51 NEW I1 Sweater 5ets Now Ti Fra Cares seeks students from class Dec. 4 and will honor them with a reception in his home that night. As in previous years, Burger King will give free a .meal. of sandwich, fries and a drink to volunteers. A Burger King area manager said they prefer that workers do not all come to their campus store, especially from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Previously self-supported, Carolina Cares is now sponsored by USC Student Government. "We're hoping for a big turnout of at least 300-400 students.#" Co chairman Mike Pincelli said. "We want students from the entire campus in general; this is not block group work." Other chairman are Jimmy Hinkley and Lisa King. Robert E. PEP 1120 I51 i Mo PM* 254 LKE OF A miors and W4 ferhandIsing C lix and Mat wear Wareh Km* Teps Shriuks SKIR' SUpALL ST YLE "ALL LI EMS JUST REEl Ski Jaek mrdigans inking Layau m. Thmew Sat lote day tIE 9 P1 volunteers Alexander, dean of Student Ac tivities, is advisor of this project. Pincelli said they are advertising Carolina Cares with posters, buttons and spots on local radio stations. Also they will talk about the project on the Mr. Knozit show and perhaps on Today In Carolina. Colonel Gerald Roys of Fort Jackson said they will provide six or eight buses with drivers for volunteer transportation. Several sororities have already volunteered work for Carolina Cares. Alpha Delta Pi provided the cannisters for collection, Kappa Kappa Gamma wrote letters of solicitation and Delta Delta Delta sorority will sign up volunteers in the Russell House. the lOP R. I sTAU. m Aar am?. .4170 a.. SALE omen imoep :h lose I ISLACKS Se Many rs $ WED ets Car Cats ayS U II1T