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Kiwanis k to hold bil A bike-a-thon with a theme of "strong legs ride so weak ones may walk" will be held at 1 p.m. April 5. The event will raise funds for the Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults of South Carolina, Inc. Bikers will ride on a 20 mile route in Fort Jackson. Funds raised through the bike-a thon will help provide services such as diagnostic clinics and prescribed physical, occupational, speech and hearing therapy to the handicapped of Lexington and Richland Counties. To ride in the Bike-a-thon, each person should obtain sponsors Testing d, From Page I would be able to see if he could handle the course." Hardin suggested another problem created by requiring a test before the drop date. "The professor may decide to give an extremely hard test by which he would eliminate all those students who could not meet his standards. By doing so, he could only keep those exceptional students." But forcing the professors to give a test before the drop date would create a conflict with those professors who do not give tests at all. Carpenter agreed a professor should give out a syllabus at the start of the term. "We're trying to protect the right of the student to get out before he gets in over his head." In terms of letting the student Student-faculty workshop set A workshop to discuss student faculty relationships will be held from 3-8 p.m. March 28 at Williams-Brice Stadium. Fifty students and 50 faculty and staff members will participate in the workshop. USC students are eligible to take part. Students should register by calling Dr. Paul Fidler's office, 777-8151, by 5 p.m. March 24. Fidler said students will take part in group discussions with faculty and staff members on various issues of how to improve educational relations. WUSC From Page 1 will not interfere with an ap plicant which will be broad casting 11.5 miles from WUSC AM. The report says that this can be done also. "We think," the report adds, "It is worth looking into since it is located at the very top of the educational band and thus closer to the middle of the FM dial." The report concludes, "There is an excellent chance that the University of South Carolina would be permitted to establish a new 10-watt broadcast station at the site proposed." ey clubs ke-a-thon willing to donate a minimum of 20 cents each mile to the Easter Seal Committee. The rider collecting the most money will win a 10-speed bicycle. All riders completing the 20 mile course are eligible for a drawing of other prizes to be given at the end of the day. Persons interested in riding or working at one of the check points should call the Easter Seal Society at 256-0735 for more information. The bike-a-thon is sponsored by the Richland Kiwanis Key Clubs at Irmo, Lower Richland and Wild wood High Schools. ecision po -know if he meets the professor's idea of competency, the com mittee proposed a satisfactory unsatisfactory listings. The list, which would be posted before the drop date, would include students not meeting the professor's standards. Cassandra Christensen, also co-chairman of the committee, agreed to this proposal. "It would be especially good in those classes that are very large and no test is given. This is also the situation where the student and professor are on an impersonal level and the student is just a number." In addition, the Student Senate, in a resolution to the committee, asked the Faculty Senate to delete the grade of "W" which is to be recorded if a student drops a course before the drop date. The "W" was included in the grading WORLD CAMPUS AFLOAT Soil either In September or February, with the ship as your classroom and the world your camus ... com bine accredited study with fascinating visits to the fa bled ports of the Caribbean, Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Americas. Over 10, 000 undergraduates from 450 colleges have already sailed with WCA - join them! Financial aid avail. able. Write today for free catalog. WC A, Chapman College Box F, Orane, CAh 92666 etponed system passed by the Facul Senate Feb- 19. "It may be misconstrued as sign of student failure," oi student said. "Free drop date called just that and if the stude receives a grade symbol of at type, it is not a free drop date The grade has little function What good is it?" H 'SAFE News Film festival The Carolina Community Film Festival for the spring semeste begins again March 23 and run through April 27. The festival will show some c the truly great film classics of a] time with "Trouble in Paradise, "Duck Soup," "It Happened On Night," "Bringing Up Baby, "The Bank Dick and "I Married Witch." A movie will be shown ever Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for th entire series cost $6, and only 30 GAM The Gamecock is the of University of South Carolina Mondays and Thursdays, du and once a week during th4 Publications and Communica Opinions expressed In The i and not those of the Universit ty The University of South Ca st I tution. a ie Change of address forms, is correspondence should be se nt USC, Columbia, 29208. Subs4 ly and $2 for the summer sessi Second class postage paid AVE A FI BUT SPRING. Briefs tickets will be sold. Tickets can be purchased at the University House across from Capstone. r USC awards day - B Omicron Delta Kappa is hosting f its annual USC awards day, from 1 2:30 to 4 p.m., Tuesday April 1, in the Law Center auditorium. e Among the awards to be presented for service and a academic recognition will be those given to the outstanding male and y female students of the University. e President William H. Patterson 0 will be the featured speaker. ECOCK ricial student newspaper of the and is published twice weekly, on ring the fall and spring semester i summer by the USC Board of tions. Gamecock are those of the editors f of South Carolina. rolina is an equal opportunity in subscription requests and other nt to The Gamecock, Drawer A, ription rates are $3 per semester ons. at Columbia, S.C. TN RECESS