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News briefs Jules Olitski, American artist and educator, will deliver a lecture and receive the 1975 USC Award for Distinction in the Arts at 8:30 p.m., March 27, in the Nursing Auditorium. Olitski will be honored for his contribution to modern painting. He has exhibited in many one-man and group art shows and is represented in permanent collections in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute in Chicago. The award was instituted by the University Union Ideas and Issues Committee in 1974. Last year the award was presented to American painter Robert Motherwell. The University Union Student Television Committee will present selected films from the New York Festival of Women's Films, March 31-April 4 in the old Golden Spur in Russell House. "Crocus" by Suzan Pitt Kraning, "Cover Girl: New Face in Focus" by Frances McLaughlin Gill, and "Cycle" by Linda Jassim may be viewed from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. On April 5 the programs will be shown in the Russell House TV lounge. The annual Fiddler's Convention at Union Grove featuring some of the best bluegrass pickers In the country will start today and run through Saturday. The cost this year depends on the number of days a person plans to attend the festival and whether or not they plan to camp out. The cost for the entire three days will be $12, for Friday and Saturday $10, and for Saturday only $5. The USC Concert Choir will present an Easter season concert Sunday, March 30, at Washington Street Methodist Church. The concert, open to the public at 4 p.m., will feature Rossini's "Stabat Mater," written in 1842 for soloists and chorus. Directed by Dr. Arpad Darazs, the choir is internationally known. In addition to more than 70 concerts annually in South Carolina and neighboring states, the group represented the Univted States in the First International Kodaly Symposium in Oakland, Calif. in 1973. "Chopin Lives,-' a combination of serious music and theatre within the framework of the traditional recital, will be held at USC on Tuesday, April 1. The recital will be held in the Campus Room of Capstone at 8:15 p.m. The performance, open to the public, is a part of the University Union Cultural Series. Dressed in elegant 19th century clothes and using simple lighting effects, Chopin himself returns to play some of his music and to in formally reminisce about his times and his music. LAST SCUBA CLASS OF SPRING SEMESTER STARTS THE WEEK OF MARCH 31 SION UP NOW COLUMBIA'S ONLY FULL SERVICE DIVE SHOP OPEN 10 - 6 MON SAT "CALL IF YOU WILL BE LATE AND WE WILL BE HAPPY TO WAIT" THE DIVE SHiOP Board Walk Plaza Bush River Road, near Dutch Sqguare 796-3723 PIE IN YOUR EYE, INC.f l Want us to hit someone in the face with a pie? I We will!!... And they'll never know you were behind It. Specially trained gorillas carry out attacks. Meinimum - $20.00 - split the fee with friends, It's cheaper.I We never miss! Satisfaction guaranteed by Pie In Your Eye. Contact 777-3622 (before 10 p.m.)b Religious writer Catherine Marshall, author of the religiously oriented best-selling books "A Man Called Peter" and "Christy" will speak at the University of South Carolina Thursday, March 27. Her 8:30 p.m. talk, "Say 'Yes' to Life," will be in Carolina Coliseum. Sponsored by the Associated Women Students of the University, the event is open to the public at no charge. Marshall is the widow of Peter Marshall widely-quoted Presbyterian minister and chaplain of the U.S. Senate who died in 1949. Her first book was "Mister Jones, Meet the Master," a book of her late husband's sermons which she edited. "A Man Called Peter," the biography of Marshall, has sold more than 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and has been published in many foreign editions. Other books by Marshall include "To Live GOSSAMER GAUZE A filmy shirt of 100 per cent cotton, destined to become one of your favorite things. With cool short sleeves, yoke front and two pockets, in softly colored stripes, checks and plaids. For juniors s-m-1, nice price $11 (dept. 214) Juniors, Davison's Second Level. Sorry, no mail or phone. S)AVIS ON'ed quaIItii 952 Harden St. * Columbia, S. C. 2 a's only comnpile wil 799.7.71 to speak tonight Again," "God Loves You" and "Friends With God" which she wrote, and "Thte Prayers of Peter Marshall" and "Let's Keep Christmas" which she edited. Her novel "Christy" is based on the life of her mother. Marshall was born in Tennessee, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. She was graduated from Agnes Scott College and married Peter Marshall, then an Atlanta minister in 1936. The Marshalls moved to Washington, D.C. in 1936 when Dr. Marshall became pastor of historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. A son, Peter John, was born in 1940. In 1959, Marshall married Leonard Earle LeSourd, formerly executive editor of "Guideposts" magazine. She and her husband live in Florida. / i/ ~EK gear P205 (lerness outf iler.