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. 'Street pi cause dou at R By ELAINE ELLISON ? Gamecock Staff Writer Once a wee. students walking in front of the Russell House will crane their m ks for a double-take when they pt ss two men carrying religious signs and handing out leaflets. O Ml 11 . oome win waiK Dy tne men, 1 ignoring them, others will laugh at 1 the signs and a few will stop to talk. ] But these two men are practicing ^ what they say they are called to do?"Streetpreaching." Bob Eckhardt, the older of the two, has been "streetpreaching" since 1969. Keith Cook, who could easily pass for a student, has been preaching "off and on" for about a year. Eckhardt and Cook were on campus last Wednesday, and by PQrlv O fforriA^n kn/4 A- ? L A vua ?j unvi nuuii nau ioiivcu IU tlLHJUl ten students. Most students, ^ however, either ignored them or ^ walked past laughing and criticizing. ONE GIRL, Cook said, walked by their post several times shouting things like "God is dead." When Eckhardt came to campus two or three years ago, people were receptive and would stop to talk with him, but today "Everyone thinks you've got a gimmick," he said. "My only 1 # gimmick is that I get pleasure out of working with people." 1 Eckhardt's religion is "the ' book," he said, taking a tattered, used Bible out of his shirt pocket. "Every answer to any question j you ever have is in this," he says as ? he flips the pages. < I It's cold at n T1 JACKETS LEA I # LUJJiCi COATS-i SWEATERS - CA & BLAZERS - LEA * WHATEVER HAVRW Al BANKAME8ICARD SUPRISIH hmhiwksdd ifffiW MBgHHBE eachers Me takes i House Eckhardt, his face framed by beard, was an auto mechanic ; Cape Kennedy when he dedicc that another type of work was his future. So, in 1969, he left : years of work behind him to "g out on the streets." THIS SUMMER, his preachir took him to Washington, D.C ...U~ 1 A 1 ^ ' wnei e ue sioou on me ^apuoi stej preaching to the passersby. "I met people from all over tl country and the world standing ( the Capitol steps," Eckhardt sai He has preached in almost evei state in the Southeast since he le Florida and says he is constant running into people who have see or met him in different plac< before. He now lives in Columb with his wife and four-year-old soi Keith Cook, a Bennettsvil native, has been in Columbia f< about a year. He, his wife and their fiv month-old son are living off tl money Cook saved from his last j( at a filling station. "It's be< rough," he says, "but if you dor live like a king you can live." He has been preaching for aboi a year and said he wouldn't ( anything else. BOTH MEN, now unemploye are looking for iobs to sunnort thp families. But they said that even when tl get jobs they will continue to con to the university and preach. Eckhardt said, "You know, you'd told me 22 years ago I wj going to be a preacher out on th street, I'd have told you you wei crazy." Ight and the State 1 HINKWAB THEE, DENIM UILTED COTT LEATHER, WC lRDIGANS,PI WRAPS THER, DENIM rOURSELECI IMTH WITH Sr V^GLY LOW PR AAINJjTjj|DOWNjnD\ 9 a ssSjiL* mm ^ hun^l ^ ' ie Street-pret if Hob Kekhardt, a s is once a week to tr across the country *e well-used Bible. K who will stop and ''air is coming. LM CORDUB ONS >OL PDEN] JLL-OVERJ SPCORDOI [TON, IT WI rYLE AND. ICE AT... A am. at VNJ MHHnHMHHi * it V1 ?&'04 kf$M' ^7rr Vf Ttffl! * idling treetpreacher who visil y to convert students, since 19f?9 preaching f ckhardt offers religious talk. ^ ! Sti 9 ! 1 I IOY ! We lM ]r jb Ey I ILond< IOY !Flsfe hu: XL ! Entr? willn A I bake [ crear 1 |Cd11 il I JMk ? Sjlj! f si I s o JW ?. s U:i9 f. G* *V? rt ] un r?D I i \q ' Bo! IS ant me >? J Ul V ava incl sup hin mi be< pre bra pre J j fun 4 sea ^ ?* > , -,< i?: v v" ; , - v > . tre, ^ v pro >-' . ^ * q p&zy*' * coi - Yoi efl Seidel?THE GAMECOCK jjej col s the USC campus has been traveling rom "the book," a we tracts to students js , futi ident Nig "OP of Co dnesday, Oct. choose f i A C? I I - - c auurv wrioic f )n Broil mushro rman's Platter ed Shrimp, flound >h puppies ? > >e price includes 1 nakefrom ourow d potato with but n or french fries, e or iced tea. Tax ess is also includi 8198 for Ri j Beer&Wir Univi tl )rug iervice ivailable JAN EASTERL1NG imecock Staff Writer \ drug referral service, provided the Bosom Treatment Center in ve Points, is available to all iversity students. located at 2129 Santee Ave., the ?om is opened five days a week i provides out-patient treatnt. lC P TISP n u wuv v/v/uiiscuii^ oureau erral center the Bosom helps ;nts through group and inidual counseling, as well as nily therapy. Doctors are lilable twice a week. The staff ludes three counselors and a ervisor. PEOPLE WHO COME to us /e a wide variety of problems," uzon said. "We even have ddle-aged people who have :ome legally addicted to scribed drugs." Most clients of Bosom are in the 17-18 age icket and are seeking advise for >blems with marijuana, amitamines, and barbiturates. )uring its first year of operation 1fV71 At ^ yvA" iv4i, more man a,uuu crisis itacts were recorded at the som. It was initiated by the jg Response Operation (DRO) i receives state and federal ds. Clients pay on a sliding le basis, but no one is refused atment because of financial (blems. 'lients are sent to the Bosom m the Department of Adult -rections, the Department of iith Services, and the Mental alth Department, as well as the leges and universities in the umbia area. We can't make anyone quit ing drugs," Mouzon said, "but can make them aware of what it doing to themselves and their ures." ihtatthe! irolina J 1 3th 5-8pm S om i choice i ? lOoz. $3,501 lU if k om sauce $3.1 5 | $2.95 | ler, scallops & ? the salad you | rn salad bar, ter or sour hot rolls & butter. J & "tip" for your ed. ^servcmonsi i ie available. ER8ITY DlNINO SERVICES HE PEOPLE PLEAtKRt"