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'Greek Faternitdes and sororities at the University of South Carolina are sponsoring two fund-raising projects as part of their "Greek Week" festivities this week. 'e projects are designed to give financial assistance to the "Brotbers and Sisters of Colum bia," a local volunteer organization formed to help un derprivileged children. Last year, fraternity and sorority members collected over $2,000 for the organization and goals have been set to collect even more this year. The first project "'The Greek Follies," was Tuesday night in the Booker T. Washington auditorium before a packed house. Sorority members performed song and dance routines from different Broadway musicals. A small admission fee was charged with all the profits going to "Brothers and Sisters." Fraternity and sorority mem bers will be covering intersections in Columbia today to take donations for the organization. Each fraternity and sorority is assigned a designated area and trophies will be awarded to the fraternity and sorority collecting the most money based on the number of members in that fraternity or sorority. The . decision -to support "Brothers and Sisters" was made Lott elected vice chairman of state group Carolina's Trey Lott, vice president of the Student Govern ment Association, has been elected vice chairman of the state's Association of Student Govern ments. Lott was elected during the organization's spring meeting at Winthrop College April 11-13. At the same time, Clemson's Neal Clamp was named chairman. Some 100 representatives of student government associations froni 25 South Carolina schools of higher education were there. eliff's Notes help you think for yourself in literature. They're written oy e.perts Sto guide you in -'=nN understanding and appreciating con temporary and classic novels. plays and poems. Ecology.. . wee workIng on itt During the past 14 years Clff's Noes has used over 2.400.000 Ions of paper using recycled pulp -More than 200 titles available at: BROW2-A-BIT 311 Dutch Square Shopping Center Columbia Week' during last year's "Greek Week" when fraternities and sororities were approached by Clay Nor mand, the founder of the organization. Normand said the organization was founded in August of 1969 when he was a graduate student at USC. Normand said "Brothers and Sisters" depends almost entirely upon a volunteer staff and in dividual contributions to exist. He said last year's fund-raising efforts were a big help, but more money is needed to finance the organization. "Brothers and Sisters has 340 volunteer workers for 562 un derprivileged children and a paid staff of five people, according to William Bell, counselor for the program. The office is on 2315 Lincoln St. Normand said the program depends on volunteer staffers working on a one-to-one basis with the children, although he said workers may work with groups of children if they so desire. University students, can receive credit for working with this program through the USC Sociology Department. "Brothers and Sisters" has formed its own boy and girl scout troops; cooking, dancing and sewing groups for girls and drama groups for everyone. Normand said the emphasis is on to aid I giving the underprivileged children something constructive to do and to get to them before they have the chance of becoming juvenile delinquents. He said the main difference between this organization and "Big Brothers of America" is it was formed as a preventive volunteer program designed to prevent problems rather than cure them. College's The future role of the College of General Studies within the University will be studied by. a Faculty Senate subcommittee, according to Senate officials. The subcommittee will consist of three members from both the Senate Faculty Advisory and the Academic Forward Planning committees with General Studies faculty members as advisors. Any recommendations made by the subcommittee will go before the parent committees for action, said Planning Committee member Leconte'Cathey. The subcommittee's formation comes almost two months after Provost Keith Davis announced General Studies would be restructured next fall. On Feb. 23 temember to allI Dad'to assure him yi Tell him not to worry about I You will be too. (ies are ene v p e , OUne ouI et I arec Ih ocal e13 Fraternity and sorority mem bers also listened to Gov. James B. Edwards'speech at the Law School Auditorium Wednesday night. Edwards was a member of the Pi Kappa - Phi fraternity during his college days. After participating in the fund raising drive on Thursday, open house will be held by fraternities on McBryde Quadrangle. An awards banquet will be held future exaj Davis said the two-year associate degree program would be merged into other academic departments with General Studies having an expanded administrative role. Reasons Davis listed for the proposed changes were duplications in other departments of General Studies courses and the nontransferability of the college's courses to other departments. However, President William H. Patterson announced four days later no decision had been made to abolish the University's two-year programs. Patterson asked the Academic Forward Planning Committee to study the matter and report back to the administration. Since then the committee has met with Davis and General au really can find a place to park on can :he fenders. He'll be glad you called. .,wnkM or on wekends.J Fri ay night at the Hilton Town House and the annual Greek Games will be Saturday at noon on intramuMl field "F" (the band field). This year's service projects co chairmen are Vicki Glenn and Jim Taylor; co-chairmen of the games are Allison Ritchey and King Harrison and Vicki Dennis and David Hedges are co-chairmen of "Greek Week." wined Studies faculty members. Upon a recommendation by the committee President Patterson asked that a joint subcommittee conduct a detailed study. "We have been sampling the factions to find the most reasonable approach to the sub ject," Cathey said. "We wanted to find the ap propriate bodies to study the matter. We think we have since one of these committees deals with the present and the other with the future." Meanwhile, the administration said there will be no changes in General Studies next fall. Barry Rosen, assistant to President Patterson, said a report on the matter is expected by Dec. 1.