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Editoria I Exchange P, Face Challe I HV^?H9^^H " > i^Hr :vmI ^ '-w The USC delegation prepares to meet the Shanxi team for t Mark Platte. Johti Roswell, Jeanette Cannon. Maryann Hu L awson. On September 2, 1981, four USC faculty members and five students boarded a flight at Columbia Metropolitan airport en route to Washington D.C. From there, it was on to San Francisco with the final destination being Beijing (Peking) in the People's Republic of China. One week later, a delegation of ten Carolina representatives lead by provost Frank Borkowski said goodbye to our USC participants on a cold Thursday night at the Beijing train station. Through half-opened windows, final parting words were exchanged. Before long, the train began its snail-like motion bound for Datung. Today, exactly three weeks after they left, USC students Scott Lawson, Marcus Keep, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Clark, Charles Haywood, Maryann Hurst and faculty members Jeannette Cannon, Reinhold Engelmayer, Arthur Van Alstyne, Betty U I 1 1 ' i luu^ts anu nci nubudiiu are aujusung 10 a new live hallway around the world. IN MANY WAYS, it will be mentally difficult to wake up each mArninn in ^ fnrai nn lorrl n. ic nnAr>ln mn^ Imrr* nmti IV/IIII?I? III U IVIVI^II IUIIU. VUI pVV^/IV IMUJI IVillll U I It W language, adapt to a new culture and live life with new meaning and purpose. It is impossible to imagine what it will be like to wait weeks or months without news from home. For about a year,all that goes on in the world will be limited to the People's Republic of China, a land where, although the people are friendly, courteous and considerate, they remain distant and uneven to oeoole thev do I / not know. .* It became apparent to me throughout the week we spent with USC's exchange faculty and students that they kept a low-key, almost depressed emotion deep within them. Like any group of people who have the rare opportunity to visit China, they were eager to learn what kind of adventures and lifestyles they would I/-?n. Sterling Silver ] ( ' ') "C" Link Bracelet ! j only $1.29 I The Jewelry Warehouse { "} tOAQ Piatt (nrinot RH Vt/ Cnl.i ' ! 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IT WOULD BE the best of gestures for all of us on campus to sit down and write to the following address, keeping in mind that it will be an emotional uplift for one of our USC family to hear a bit of news from the United States. The address is: Shanxi University Foreign Language Department Taiyuan. China Furthermore, when conceiving the idea for "Days of China," i i - ' ? i icii mat naving speni oniy iwo weeKs in a country of y^U million people would be insufficient for an entire issue on that country. What follows is personal observations of the trip with specific dates and history omitted for lack of proper * documentation and research. If anything can come from devoting an entire issue of the Gamecock for a trip such as ours, perhaps it will at least the inner feeling that is probably universal for all who go to China for the first time. The people with the real story on the day-to-day living that has engulfed their minds and hearts will come from the 10 people mentioned above. I heir courage and intense interest in this exchange program should serve as a key example of leadership for those who pursue upgrading their own cultural advancement. In learning about the People's Republic, they will undoubtedly learn much about themselves. This issue, then, is dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. Clark, Neil and Dr. Betty Hodges in education, Dr. Reinhold Engelmayer in r? "7^ g""* \ Chocolate Nut ! Sundae 92681 ! with chocolate syrup, I | walnuts, whipped topping, t and cherries I . 99<t - % . * X: * J Wm ?5BSgWBB| * jjSfir* jflgfe Wit ?lgp '<* H The Great Wall in the Northern Prouince stretches 3,000 miles IMlfl Pliin/T anthropology, instructor Jeannette Cannon in medicine, professor Arthur Van Alstyne in geography, Charles Haywood in economics, foreign language student Maryann Hurst, " chemistry major Marcus Keep, and GINT student Scott Lawson. 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