The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 11, 1976, Page Page 3, Image 3
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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.
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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
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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. <
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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
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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."
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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.
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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."
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