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$$$ Gu Go By SALLY ZALKIN Staff Writer About $5 million will pas: through the hands of James Floyc Tyler, USC Purchasing Agent, t< be spent on everything from preg nant cats to paper clips for tht University this year. With the exception of library books and campus shop supplie. Tyler purchases "everything move. able" on campus. All maintenanc( supplies, janitorial supplies, offic( supplies, educational supplies, and furniture for the University an< its seven centers are boughl , 1tES1 JIA1 U-9 - AMO VE , nowS OER r CATM tIMAL t,jU 1ID. moma M e aro s WINl Wran Tyler and S through Tyler's office. Ile has worked as USC's Purchas. ing A g e n t for five anl one-hulf .eam, during which time both the I niver"ity and his office have grown conriiderably. At presentt Tyler work. with two assistanl purchasing agents, one in charge of buying and one in charge of inventory and C e n t r a I supply, and one buyer. Dorm Ti Sixty USC dorm residents will be relocated next semester as a re suIt of the closing of Thornwell College (Tenements 22, 23, arid 24.. HI o u si n g [Director Joseph A. Barnes explained that the building will be closed for the Spring se mester, as it has been (lone in past years. According to Barnes, ad ministrators and students prefer not to use Thornwell, which is the oldest residence on campus and p)resenltly is crowdled with three and four men assigned to each rom It was the last dorm to be opened for fall assignments and w.ill be the first to be closed. Thornwell residents w e r e in formed some 30 days prior to the room reservation periodl that they would be assignedI to other build ings. Mostly freshmen, they were grantted the p)rivilege of signing up on the days open to seniors and, rather than being restricted to freshman housing, were p)ermitted to choose from all openB spaces on camp)us. While the closing of other dorms is rnot now planned, Barnes stated that buildings with only a few oc Use All of Sun * 1 eorn' r 1 day * 244&.a.' ...p la.. * Hand fdmssd ahfr *T'nvty a..ay * 30 dmyw seb . LA U NDRY MA?4 A1 ACRO5S 0M A In Purchasing For C "We keep a b o u t $125,000 to $150,000 in supplies regularly 'stocked like a store," said Mr. I Tyler. Central Supply stock con sists mainly of office supplies, jan itorial and maintenance equipment, and furniture, and everything from rubber hands to toilet tissue can be found on the shelves. Shopping lists of the Purchasing Office are varied, and among the items may be found orders for pig embryos, jumbo live turtles over I'eight inches, virgin female mice 21 I days old, injected female cats, or s u c h tongue - twisters as chloro Gamecock photo by Galloway hopping List triphenylmethane and four-methyl cyclohexanone. One of the largest put chases ever made was a $50,000 electron microscope for the geog raphy department. '1his year the Purchaning Office will buy 100 groan of typewriter rib. bons, 6,000 rearnI of paper, 75 gross of pencils, 30 gross of ballpoint pens, 35,000 light bulbs and fluores. Close In cupantts would not be operated. Further adjustments will be madel as they become necessary. H a r n e s reported that women now living in the residence studies Tobe-Cobi Offers Fe. Tobe'-Coburn School for Fashion Careers in New York City has an-' nounced that as many as four full tuition Fashion Fellowships may be awarded to senior women grad uating in 19%7. Now in its 30th year, the widely.. known school of fashion merchan- I dising will make its annual awards early this spring. Each fellowship covers the full tuition of $1,750 for. the One Year C o u r s e, and all women students graduating from four-year colleges in 1967, before: August 31, are eligible to apply. Ten full weeks ot paid work in New York stores andI other fashion' organizations provide on - the -job Serving T he Gamecock. In Their Own Backyard shins's Servicins meum New Al SINHOR? dryI.(yrqn) CLEANERS Nfs . -OW its, Etc. cent tubes, 250,000 rolls of toilet tissue, 150,000 feet of wire, and 2,000 eases of paper towels. In addition to regular purchases, the office handles tickets for the traveling of faculty, administra tion, and students on University business, which comes to a total of about $170,000 a year. Rental of the IBM machines also comes under the Purchasing Of fice. Even after a 610% discount, the rent is more than $11,000 a month. Utility bills covering light and heat also processed through this office, total about $32,000 a month. One of the Purchasin g Office's most difficult jobs is finding the place to p u r c h a s e the requested equipment. Often a department will recommend a company. lowever, as agent for a state institution, Tyler is required to get competitive bids on all but the most minor items and must by frnm the lowest bidder. The University's motorpool also comes under the Purchasing Of fice. The office buys and main tains 75 vehicles at present, in cluding cars, trucks, school buses, and tractors. One large recent purchase of the department was a $36,000 spec trophotometer for the chemistry department. Perhaps the largest project for the Purchasing Office in the near future will be furnish ing and stocking the Capstone House and the Physical Science Center, which are to be completed by the fall semester. Lost and Found Students who have lost or mis placed the following i t e m s are asked to check the Lost and Found department at the Information Desk in It u s s e l l House: belts, several pairs of g I a s s e s, keys, rings, bracelets, necklaces, ear rings and billfolds. Also, I.D. cards, social security cards, driver's licenses, draft clas sification cards, sweaters, umbrel las, textbooks and notebooks. Spring would be assigned to r e g u I a r rooms next semester and that only two people would be assigned to those rooms which had three occu pants fitst semester. urn School Ilowships Yxperience to supplement atnd en rich the classroom training. Senior women may secure 1Fash on Fellowship registration blanks erm the D)ean of Women, the Vo -ational Office, or from the Fash on Fellowship Secretary, Tobe oburn School for Fashion 7areers, Ltd., 851 Madison Avenue, NJew York, N. Y. 10021. Registration (closes January 27, [967. ENLOY T1 YOUR D?ATE TJAKER HER FOR Be my Guest Student guest checks fo of five dollars) will bei hat, and one of every Winners will be entitled S an equivalent dlinner. Our Vice-President and Mrs. C. II tured with television humorist and I,evenson at an autograph and cock York City. l.ven%on is the author Managemen Some newer methods of manage ment education which "offer excit ing possibilities for effective lead ership training" are explained and discussed in the current issue of Business and Economic Review, published by the Bureau of Busi ness and Economic Research at the University of South Carolina. Author of the art i ci e titled "Progress in Management Train ing" in the current issue of the publication is Dr. Melvyn L. Wood ward, associate professor of man agement in the USC College of Business Administration. TRAINING METHODS Management training methods discussed by Dr. Woodward are "action maze," "in-basket," "simu lation," "sensitivity," "role play ing," and "incident process." The "action maze" method of training uses a printed description of an incident in the daily life of ,a supervisor, followed by a choice of actions that can be pursued to solve the problem. Each action di rects the learner to a new page which gives him the results of his action and a new set of alterna tives from which to choose. It is also possible that the se lected action will lead to a dead end in which ease the learner is sent back to try again. In the "in-basket" method, the trainee assumes a position pro vidIed in a written description of a management situation, andi then is given an in-basket whose contents may include letters, memorandums, appointment schedules and other materials which call for actions or dlecis ions. TIrainees become aware of the dlem ands made u pons the manager and, according to Dr. Woodward, develop acceptance for the "loneli ness, fear, uncertainty and time pressure" managers experience'. "SIM1 IATION" TEC:IINIQI'E The "simulation" technique is an exercise in making economic dJeci sions such as p r i c e, production quantity, purchase and budget and enables the trainee to see the im TO .NCE TO THE couples (in excess out in my very own ten will be drawn. to be my guest for THE FORVM In the Seaelaza Cosmopolitan Witten are pic- Ev'rtlug But perhM)tality Sai by the Ilarry tail party in New Ilureau at the 14 of the I"'ht veller, ciation4i of ( w 1leg t Education pact of his decisions. Development of self - awareness is the purpose of the "sensitivity" method of managerial training. It involves small discussion groups guided by a professional "trainer" who asks skillful questions to ge'. interaction started in the group. The trainees then carry on with guidance from the trainer, dis cussing whatever seems important. The method aids the trainees in training the m selves and onte another in analyzing their own e m o t i o n s and those of other trainees. "Role playing" - also c a l I e d "sociodrama" and "psychodrama" -- involves the acting out of a face-to-face action called for in a significant incident under discus sion. "The emphasis in role playing," the author explains, 'is not on solving the given problems but on helping the trainees to increase their understanding of human na ture, their appreciation of why people act as they do, and their insight into human relations proh lems." "INCIDENT P1t(;;S" The "incident process" provides practice in the mental processes of problem solving under condi tions closely approximating the world as it appears to the man ager. Trainees are given a short statement of something that hap peneds within an organization, op )rtunity to ask questions to get Despite fiendish torture dynamic BIC Duo writes first time, every time! BIC's nagged pair of stick pens wins agan in unending wa against ball-point skip, clog and sme,ar. Despite horrible punishment by mail scientists, BIC stall writes first time, every time. And no wonder. Dac's "Dy amite" Ball is the hardest metal made, encased in a a solid brass nose cone'. Wall not skip, clog a or smear no matter 3i what devilish abuset i is devised for thnem 'f by sadistic stuadett' -o Get the dy)namic Bac Duo atyouar 4 campus store now. WAHANMAN-0C NN CORP MIeU OOCONI. BIC MedIUm Pomti 19* RC rne Painti ' V.P. Mie r.- The" part% a. .1ponIM)red 1'alker IArture and Manage men14,1 t lth an nuul coinfere"nce of the .. andl I iil-e"r.ity Manager,.. Discussed mnor"( f a c t s. and Opportunity to nake a decision. litHcause no information is vol unrteered by t h e instructor, the t r a i n e e s can te-t whether thev have mastered the technique of asking useful questions to expand their information. A fter each trainee defines the central issues and proposes a solu tion. the instructor reveals what additional information he has but for which he was not asked. f t e n the new informatior a:e- trainees to change t h e i r mirds about the best solution. Another article in t}h iurrent U'SC usiness and E:conoimuc Re view is "iuman-Capital Formation Through Investing in Educatuin by DIr. H. F. Kiker, assistant pro fessor of economics in th ollege of Business Administration at the 1'niversity of South Carolina. I)r. Kiker's article is largely from a chapter in "The Concept of 1Human 3'airta!," his essay iust published in the economic"s series published by the 'S(' Hureau of irsiness ad Iconomic Research. Here 's 25 to help ge through mid-year (When you can't a Twenty-five cents is what you get back on the purchase of any size package of NoDoz Keepi Alert Tablets or new Chewable Mints. Safe as coffee, NoDoz helps restore your mental vitality at a time when you really can't afford E to be dull. NoDoz won't make you a genius. But it will hielp bring you back to your C When you can't afford to be dull, sharpen your wits with NoDo . . . mail us the front from any size NoDor package and we'll return 25# to you. But hurry, offer ends Feb. 28. No refunds af B rlstel-Myers/Grove D?vlslon, P.O. I *Enclosed is (check one): 0 Wrapper Ipanel from package of 15 or 36 Nc from bottle of 60 NoDo, Tablets. EPlease return 25 cents (one quarter EName Address - Ct Doctorate Degrees Double 13y MARY JANE BENSTON Staff Writer The number of doctorate degrees awarded in South Carolina during the 1964-65 school year doubled that of any other year since 1955 56, according to figures recently released by the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Despite the rapid rate of growth shown recently, however, S o u t h Carolina still lags behind the ma j"rity of other states in the total number of degrees awarded in the last decade. South Carolina averaged close to 12 doctorates per year from 11155-5)ti thr"ough 19he1-h2. During lin12-fi3. the f i g u r e reached 17. The following year 16 doctorate degrees were awarded and then tame the jiuml to 3- in 1964-65. )u"ring the entire 10-year period, a t o t a I ttf 150 doctorate- were awarded in South Carolina, while bor'derig stateq- of Georgia and North Carolina conferred 594 and 2,110, re pectively. The figures showed that only 11 other states conferred fewer de grees in the past d e e a d e than South Carolina. During 1!14-65, nrine states awarded fewer than South Carolina's 31. Thirty - four were ak<- conferred in West Vir trinia, which was the only southern tate ranking lower than S o u t h ('artlina according to the total nucrmlber-. Nationally, the number of doe or-ate' aw arded since 19 55-56 has wearly dttubled. In the next ten ,'ars, the 1'. S. Office of Educa tio)n has said. the number will )rccbably dwublet again -- and then :ute. The nunher ..f dclcctoeral dlegree> '0 ferred rose from 8,903 in the 155-5c sch)oi year to 16.4W7 in 1;1fi19-l5. Th,, .. imal<te for 117;5-7i The Office hits also r e p r) t e d hat eoginierring may be the most p)opular field for doctorates by the end of the next decade. t you exams fford to be dull) nental best . .. it will tid your Concentration mnd intellectual effort hrough hours of tudying. ~o go ahead, sharpen our wits with NoDoz. eip restore your mental itality, pass your xams, then mail us the ront panel or label from ny size package of oDoz* with this coupon. ~nd weell mail you a uarter (25w) in return. A little extra cash for your ost-exams party) ablets or new Chewable Mint. !er March 7, 1967. 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