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Weatherbee Staff Writer The New York Marathon has all the characteristics of a mass folk festival, according to USC religious studies Professor Kevin Lewis, 37, who ran the race in three hours and thirty-six minutes Oct. 26. "Une guy ran the race backwards^ bells oil hte 5^"' . .A,,: --"iSr BHp^f ;s ': Top marathon runnen Marathon Thursday. USC race. ewaiv ;t defi< deficits unless the student senate decides to waive them. Stefan said a letter had been sent to the organizations telling them the deficits will be con- j sidered when the senate * appropriates funds for next 1 year. JEFF FLOYD, Student Government vice president, said unless the deficits were t?fnitrA/l ?\AV%nl(r*?nrf waivcu, jruu u ^ pciiaMLiu^ this year's crew because last year's leader was a screwball." , Floyd said the Student Affairs Office dealt with the deficits in the past, but "since it has to be done anyway, it deserved the attention of the student senate." Six organizations, the Bodybuilding, Sailing, Fencing, and Frisbee clubs, Chinese students and the USC Dance Company, ran a deficit last year, but did not request a waiver. Stefan said these clubs would be given two weeks to notify the Finance Cohnmittee and explain the deficits. "THESE CLUBS may be * - . * > _ / ojessor shoes," Lewis said. "A big strapping guy ran it in a superman costume, and one guy ran it in wooden slopes." Lewis said he could hear foreign languages all around him. "When we ran into Harlem there was a big fat woman holding a sign which said 'Welcome to Harlem,' and she was yelling 'You're looking good, you're looking g^od.' ^ ^ 11^ ^ UMfcH Jill r stand next to the map t r religious studies Professor 'es 1 BP-" mMBk Finance Committee Chairman Dorothy Stefan dealt with harsher," Stefan said. The eight groups whose deficits were waived were the Gamecock, the "New Crucible," the Karate club, Open Door, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Executive Council of the University Union, Trips and Expeditions and Bell Camp. The senate also debated for 30 minutes on a bill concerning wnat can be placed on student government bulletin boards. The senate could not agree, and the bill was sent back to committee. runs in l "Toward the end I could hear reggae music playing from Central Park. The smell of pretzels and roast chestnuts was in the cold air. T 121 J-1 l?? - a n i ten ukc uuing a jig ai me end. It was a very hyper atmosphere," he said. It was the idea of participating in this great folk festival which attracted me," Lewis said. "I felt a need to test myself." nBrTawWir >ln IWiMl SIbH s;;:j . j : 1 of the Atew York City Kevin Lewis ran in the gyggtef * a ?M _ USC student senators nesday. The senate wai\ Vew Yot THE RACE BEGAN at 10:30 a.m. on Staten Island. From there 14,000 participants crossed the > ?cii a^Miuu ui tugc unu i an through Brooklyn and Queens. Then they crossed the Queensborough bridge into Manhattan. They ran more than half the length of Manhattan, made a semicircle in the Bronx, crossed back into Manhattan and finished in Central Park. Lewis said some runners were still running after dark. i l ! . _ it rv ^ turning on me queensborough bridge you run through thousands of cheering spectators. The crowds pressed in on you," Lewis said. "It was a real sense of humanity pressing in on you. "MY EXPERIENCE in team athletics has been to ~1 ? ? i i piety a game ana crowds come who know you and cheer for you. In the marathon there were thousands of spectators and thousands of runners, runners all around me, no more than five feet away from me for 26 miles," Lewis said. Despite the crowds Lewis said he occasionally felt invisible and quite lonely. "It was a npw omntinn thai I felt, and I still can't quite fathom it J' he said. Lewis, Avho had never run in a marathon before, began training two months before the race. He previously ran between 40 and 50 miles a week. During those two months he raised his average to about 68 miles a week, including one long run on weekends. The longest run he made before the : . : v :: . *: >: ... . . . ' f jS Bl> wm 1 W&. I? M 'iV %^i^. * *%&' ' ''' listen to arguments at ti fed deficits for eight studei ?lr ilfnr/Tt marathon was 23 miles. The last week of training is the m^t frustrating, # according to Lewis. One has to begin tapering and loading, preparing for the race by loading his body up with carbohydrates and reducing the weekly mileage. "I ate a lot of spaghetti and pastas. I tapered down from 68 miles a week to about 55 miles a week." he said. "The frustrating thing during the last week was not to overwork. You feel like you're gaining weight, and you have all this energy waiting to be unleashed.M LEWIS SAID everything worked perfectly, and he ran a smooth race, except for the Kevin Lewis, USC religious studies professor last three miles, when his legs cramped. "But 1 was still passing people. I felt charged up as though 1 was sailing the whole way, but I had to take care of those legs, or they would have stopped me dead," he said. "When I finished, 1 felt elated and euphoric, but it 4 ^nB J J^WTH jjj ^Stfl nflfiilT .j^m ie senate meeting Wedit organizations. thon was just as much a sense of accomplishment as it was euphoria. I have a strange feeling of cutting New York down to size, a feeling of taming it, civilizing it," Lewis said. The USC professor said he does not plan to run in another marathon soon, unless it is a very special event. He would, however, like to run in the newlv organized London Marathon scheduled for March. -"-.?J at; use New Wave music at the Masquerade Ball in the KH Ballroom* Show at 9 p.m. Students $2, general public $3.50, # Pumpkin-painting contest on the $K patio. 12-4 p.m. ?|HW Film 4<Dawn of the Dead." Shows at 7 and 9:30 p.m. $1.50. o # Imtuiu^msjiuw fi, v km Wi Weather Toa^y: Fair and cook High in the mid~8Q$. > il> * M- -:'' '3mM Weekend: Chance of showers with highs in the 60s. Lows in the 40s.