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'Preacher' deli By Ron Brackett A man wearing a black robe walked into a U! class yesterday demanding that the professor all speak to the class. The man began preaching a hellfire and damnat saying, " I ne flames of Hell do wait below." A student asked the professor if the man was a the professor just shook his head and stood to on WHEN THE man said, "God holds you over the like a spider or a loathsome insect," a student wal the room. Finally, as the man finished his sermon and left Kevin Lewis of USC's religious studies departme students the strange man was portraying Purita Jonathan Edwards. Lewis had arranged for Columbia actor Bob Bail to his class and present Edward's famous sermon, 4 the Hands of an Angry God." "It was supposed to make you feel as if you we i Election Continued from page 1 ELLEN HASSELL led the race for secretary with 173 votes. Tommy Geddings wc had 147 votes and J. Verlinda Hall had 93. German said the early returns were "real (p comforting," but remained cautious about M the returns in the district. "Again, 1 don't think that's by anyway ye real representative of campus as a whole. of "All I'd really like to do is make it into a runoff situation. That's all I'm hoping ve for," he said. ph VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEER | VOLUNTEER t, VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEER Your Support ; Saves Babies ^ I ~ > Y V *. vers sermon to r( a pew hearing about hell fire and damnation, 5C religion his class. ow him to LEWIS SAID the presentation was part of ion sermon culture class, whicb is studying the Puritan r thur Miller's play, "The Crucible." guest, but "One of my motives was that I absolutely lo e side. was one of the greatest theological minds in wanted my students to meet Edwards," Lewi pit of Hell Edwards preached during the early to middli Iked out of Hampton, Mass. Bailey said it was hard to judge the students' , professor performance. "I was prepared for the worst,' nt told his n minister "OF THE last generation or so people a hellfire and damnation sermons," Bailey said ey to come Most students reacted well to Bailev's oerfo 'Sinners in exception of the student who walked out. James Galloway said,"He is a real good a< re sitting in put me to sleep as my old prcachers used to c 2 prii HE SAII) he believed the Russell House 101* P nild be his strongest polling area. I vl I i "I've really campaigned here in my dorm reston) and also in Woodrow (dorm) and Ann Farnif cBryde quad." Two prin He said he campaigned at the quad late available for sterday: "I think 1 rounded up a couple at Computer last minute votes there." presiden Polls closed at 6 p.m. Ballots were later Thursday. rihed, totalled and divided into polling equipn ices. Counting began at about 9:45 p.m. exchange of s semester, will , a.m. to midni ^ i i" ^ ^ S C | ^ ^ ^ / greatestamoi ^ Support the experience wi m March of Dimes slu i's cdu HBIR1H DfffCIS fOUNDA!ION?B??? I. ^lJ SpOllS ^ year, but th th,S space ccntr.HUTiCBV the PU,U.5.U,. witllOUt illCrC 1^ -** .<*' _^0 **- 't&r. ~v sh\\mF^ " ' *?fi& r r*r..' "M'* '#>"' - *'} *< *' ? * * ***** ??- -^- '( -* - *- - '...-. ..' - ? . . V sligious studie Lewis said to "I really got worried wht Bibles, "another student s? his religion and LEWIS SAID because eligion and Ar- Puritans, "they really need period to understand thing! ve Edwards. He shock them back, with th< i the country. I classroom. I wanted to ma s said. e 1700s in North Bailey said to prepare for wards' sermon and distillec reactions to his mance. He also research* he said. minister's preaching style. re offended by "Unlike the Anabaptists, pounder. He rarely lifted h mance, with the Bailey said he had a hard was such a passionate serm :tor. He almost "It was something new, io." sharn if you're between pre fltprs 14 tprmirml -W-Wf B % VI V4I I < xtended student u >r In the p ters and 14 terminals are charged to student use for extended hours sion didn't Services Division, the systems the year, t for computer affairs said Robersoi to the char{ lent, which was acquired in the pay. He sai< ome older equipment this past that the fee be available everyday from 8 "We we ight, as long as 50 percent of it committed ) Robcrson said. CSD is ] will be extended to 24 hours a about $500 half of the equipment is in use, The term Sumter and d the terminals so that students present a v; lore convenient access to com- window, w tiing that has been a problem in leave. Refe erson said. a formal tr faculty has division is trying to provide the costs. int of technology it can because th computers is imperative for a The clu cation. 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It keeps you >ductions," Bailey said. s available se at CSD ilot program, $1 per hour was use the equipment, but the divisee significant use until the end of i attributed the low student usage ?e, which students didn't want to J he didn't hlainc thpm anH aHrWI didn't cover the costs anyway, re committed then, and we're now," he said. paying the bills, which will be a week, Robcrson said. tinals are in CSD room 102, at I Blossom streets. 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