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Sun worshippers enjoy beautiful 4th At B BY CHUCK CROMER oThe Gamecock staff The Fourth of July means dif fernt things to many people. To some it signifies escape from a daily work or college routine that has become tedious and monotonous. Others see the fourth as a chance to visit friends or relatives, to celebrate our coun try's birthday, or as an opportunity to just drink and relax postponing the complexities of life for the weekend. All of the above reasons and more could be used to describe life at Bell Camp on July 4 as more than 1,000 members of the Carolina Community made the long trek up to the University owned and operated recreational facility. Fortunately, most of these relaxation worshippers were graced with a morning and af ternoon of high tempertatures, clear skies and an unlimited supply of beer. It was not until 7 p.m. that evening that the weather turned bad and more or less ended the state of tranquility that had reigned over the camp for, the latter part of the day. Numerous entertaining ac tivities were scheduled through out the day to involve people in friendly competition with their neighbors or to serve as vehicles to help them relive their childhoods. Several of these activiities such as pie eating, egg tossing, seed spitting, and greased pole walking, were most comical when the challengers failed in their at tempts to become the champs as it usually concluded with a cream pie in the face , yolk on the head, or an unexpected dip in the lake. Taped music coming from two monitor speakers on top of the lodge could be adequately heard in all parts of the camp even though many people corn plained about the continuous playing of Paul McCartney'1 "Band On The Run" tape. UrIt 6aietwck The GAMECOCK is the student newspaper of the Unliversity of South Carolina and is pqblished twice weekly, on Mondays and Thursdays, during the fail and spring semester and once a week during the summer by the USC Board of Publications and Corn munications. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to The GAMECOCK, Drawer A, USC, ColumbIa 29206. Sub scription rates are 53 per semester and S2 for the summer sessions. Second class postage paid at Columbia. S. Jonny Drummins Fourth of July at Bell Camp. ell Camp Three new attractions made this July 4th at Bell Camp memorable. About noon, four members of the USC Skydiving Club made a jump into a nearby field. They later came to discw3s their dangerous sport at the camp's lodge. Also, new this year was the selling of 15 kegs of Schlitz beer at 25 cents a draft. Even though most brought their own , it was nice to be able to purchase a cold beer if the personal stock ran low. The biggest attraction of the day was the opening of the newly renovated lodge. Words cannot describe its beauty as it dazzles the eyes. As is common at all July 4 day at Bell Camp, it rained. This time il was about 7:30 p.m. With thl coming threat of a downpour, th4 vast majority of the crowd madi timely exits to their cars. A fev hundred brave souls stuck it out t< see the fireworks display and latei the movie, "The Great Race" Bell Camp is like a private resor1 area for the Carolina Community. It can take you away fromlife for i while by providing an atmosphere of peace and tranquility. Un fortunately most students don' know or take advantage of tho camp's facilities. The camp is ope1 -seven days a week and housinj can be rented for a nominal fee foi parties, retreats or conferences You'll be glb a Climbing I Professionally desis structed for mounta hiking with heavy and ice line. Availa M(D) 5-16, W(EE) 6 * S From Page 1 the Senate would have sit in on all the various committee meetings when individual changes were discussed. It seems that no knowledgeable decision could be made by the Senate as a body until the manual had been discussed as a whole before the entire body. One topic not discussed at the meeting was the recint academic merger of the colleges of Arts and Letters with Social and Behavioral Sciences. That merger took place just last week and affects many students and faculty. A Faculty Senate sub committee had studied the matter for the past year; however its report was scheduled to be com pleted only this week, eight days after the merger was put into ef fect by the administration. Since no questions were raised to even the results of the committee's findings, it seems that no faculty members became involved enough to even ask why the restructuring was done or even what results that committee found. Such action that affects two whole colleges with countless number of students and faculty surely must arouse someone's curiosity. Other business carried out at the meeting included the common year to year academic changes that such a body must decide. Numerous course changes were approved as recommended by the Committee on Curricula and New Courses. Also; grade changes for students that had been approved by the Grade Change Committee were approved by the whole Senate. However, the lack of discussion on current key issues that affect the faculty was readily apparent. Any evaluation oT the Faculty Senate's actions must take into perspective its relatively young period of existence. The body was formed five years ago as the first true organization of faculty members at USC. "Until then, we had just general faculty meetings of all faculty," Herr said. ' "I think the Faculty Senate is not as strong as we hoped it would become when it was implemented, but with the changes of next year it WHITNEY |1 Id you've got loot this good ned and carefully con ineering, climbing and acks above the snow ble in sizes N(B) 4-16, 14. (4A, herfan 6>xts Tl952 Harden St. - khone (903) 799-7571 enate Miss should become a much more ef fective body in advising the Board of Trustees and the ad ministration," Herr said. Starting next year the position of chairman will be held for two-year terms instead of the present one year, according to Herr. This should provide for more effective leadership since the chairman will be able to gain experience at his job, Herr said. "We hope to get a more elite membership that will make us a stronger body by drawing on just ten per cent of the total faculty for membership. Hopefully, we will get the most interested faculty members and as such I look for the Senate to be much better," Herr said. Although Faculty Senate of ficials have denied the charge, it is apparent that the real key issues of today affecting USC were avoided at Wednesday's meeting. Although it is recognized that the Senate is a much better organized group than P.O. SOX 4619 Women's Educati non-profit agei * Free Pregi * Problem F * Free Abor * Contracept * Family Pl If you're a woman an Women's Educational someone who cares. The r STREISAN SOR RY NO PA SSES OR DISCOUNT TICKE TS! COUMBIA PICit BARBRA STREISAN ~ 1A~ W(kKi FUNN OMAR SI I I 7 - 9: past general faculty meetings, there seems to be plenty of room for improvement in order for it to become a much better represen tative body of the faculty. 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