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USC pro Old Vol) feel the ei shock last Tuesday night? How did you ? all stand It? Iwas much frightened. I a had gone to bed and was asleep and it IT woke me. The house was shaking iust ti as hard as It could. I first thought It was a storm and looked out but saw no W sign of a cloud and It was calm and I s< did not at one time think of en earth .. quake and I dressed myself as quick as tl I could and went to the next house and found that they was more frightened besides myself...I expect you have heard the news from Charleston....It Has Keen ? * * ? .v. ??<ni uiv iwvu. u* konverMTion ever since. No one can think or talk of anything else... p Excerpt from a e letter written from Manning, S.C. by _ Mrs. Bradham to her aunt, Mrs. t Catherine Bethune in Lynch wood, C S.C., dated September 8,1886. Used by k permission of Ms. Althea Truesdell. jj By Barry J. Glenn h Oamecock Staff Writer ? t I Such was the response of one I witness to what has become known * as the Charleston Earthquake of r 1886. And it is eyewitness accounts such as these that are of great interest to Dr. Kenneth Peters of c the USC College of General f C4l Unit ' oiuuica, wiiu iias in^iui tx aiuuy un ( the social aspects of the ear- c thquake. x Peters, faculty director of the ? Learning Resources Center of the j college, recently received a $500 \ productive scholarship grant to } study the earthquake which s resulted in about 60 deaths and caused widespread damage to the Charleston area. Peters, who plans to culminate t his study with a book or booklet on I the subject said he wants "to trace I the social implications of the 1 earthquake ? how it affected ' religion, businesses and the per- 1 Non-exclusio By Brian Duncan r Oamtcock Staff Writer C \ A proposal to allow faculty i representatives to remain during i executive sessions of the Board of Trustee's Intercollegiate Athletic Committee meetings is before the ( board, according to Peter Becker. i Dr. Becker, chairman of the University Athletic Advisory Committee, said his suggestion i deals with the non-exclusion of himself and William F. Putnam, I faculty delegate to the NCAA, from < closed-door IAC meetings. I These two faculty represen- * tatives presently attend the IAC's { regular sessions as advisory voices , with no voting rights, Becker said. ( licvivci oaiu nc; cixiu x uiucuil UdVC ! been attending the regular | sessions, but must leave along with members of the press and other 1 unauthorized persons when an I executive session is called, "unless < expressly asked to stay." ( "I HAD written them (the I AC) a _ letter previously, and simply ? reiterated it at the last meeting," Becker said. "I requested my presence at executive sessions to be better able to represent the faculty's opinion on overall athletic dealings within the university." Hugh H. Wells, chairman of the Intercollegiate Athletic Committee, said the IAC, "operates as a major board committee, and functions as a liaison between the I board of trustees, the ad- I fessor st Hialities of the people. There are ccounts of people attributing liraculous cures to the earlquake. On the other hand, there 'ere people who attributed all Drts of maladies to the earlquake." ACCORDING TO PETERS, the iflrthniiflke. whirh rvnnrwl nn light of August 31, 1886, had its picenter not in Charleston but at a ilace called Ten Mile Hill, between Charleston and Summerville. "If it tad hit Charleston with the impact t hit Ten Mile Hill, there would lave been even more levastation," he said. "The efects of the earthquake were felt in toston and Detroit. On today's lichter scale it would have neasured about an eight." Peters hopes to get information >n the social impact of the quake rom sermons, newspapers, liaries and other sources written luring that time. "Some of the vhite pastors had written their termons down and these are ivailable. Of the black churches, iowever, where the emotion ran ligh or higher, very few of these termons were written down. "A few weeks after the earthquake the merchants put out a brochure describing the earthquake. Interspersed in these were advertisements which said 'Yes, we're still open' or 'unaffected by earthquake.' Some 1 'II piUUUStll IS ninistration and the athletic lepartment, primarily concerned vith the developments, problems, ind the athletic activities of the iniversity." The University Athletic Advisory Committee's next meeting is fj ii/t ft., k M'U m n | 1213 Blanding St L Enjoy your favorite It / manicotti, veal and eggpk I more ? all homemade. a Now featuring homemade \ ana nomemaae cneesecam l 77}) CAROLINA WOfT * Frpp Prpnnn ? - ? * FreeAbortio Confidential * Pregnancy c blooc) test b( Call256-012a 20 Columbia, S. udies CI businesses even nttpmntwi t? ??* ^ ? W rich quick. One business advertised Earthquake Beer as the beer made in Charleston." PETERS SAID the biggest problem he has run into with the project is lack of time. "The money from the grant is available until June 30 of next year. But library work and looking through newspapers takes a lot of time. I have been to Charleston five times and have found people very willing to help. Most of the letters I have rpppi honlr v,: ~ A ?2 ? 1 uuvn ii villi II191UI1CU1 societies and museums have been very excited about this project." Peters, who teaches American and South Carolina history courses in the College of General Studies, said he first became interested in the Charleston earthquake when he accompanied USC geology professor Pradeep Talwani on an exploration trip last summer. "I went with him into the Dorchester County area near Holly Hill to do some testing. Together with his suggestion and my own trip I became interested in the Charleston earthquake." Peters said he hopes to include pictures of the earthquake damage in his book. "There are pictures of tents being pitched out in the middle of the squares in Charleston just to keep people away from the narrow street where the buildings were falling down," he said. lipfnrp TAT. scheduled for 1:30 p.m. July 10 in room E of the Faculty House. OTHER MEMBERS of the IAC are William S. Brockington, J. 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