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EDITOR-I Mike Kra ASSOCIATE EDITOR Mary Jane Benston Menu ARA Slater must have a lack of concern for the customers they serve, namely the students. Last December the Student Senate passed a resolution urging Slater to print a weekly menu. Slater replied that they would have problems publishing such a menu be cause of the daily changes. A suggestion was then made, why not publish a daily menu posted outside each of the cafeterias? According to Senate members involved in the project. Slater officials agreed, but no immediate action was taken. After inquiries Slater officials said they planned to initiate menus outside each of the dining halls as soon as students returned from Christmas vacation. Alas, several months went by and no menus. The Gamecock inquired a couple weeks Nonattendai The Student Senate supposedly repre sents all the students at Carolina. Yet, time and again representatives of this body have not lived up to their responsibilities. On April 9 one student senator felt it necessary to ask if a quorum (two-thirds of all the Senate members) was present be cause he did not want to see the student body misrepresented. A quorum was found not present, although 45 minutes before there had been more than a quorum present. This has happened too many times to be overlooked, and seems to have become a regular occurrence which has almost de Vice Presi Editor's note: Student Govern. labor away at loi ment officials are constantly be- that were promi ing questioned as to the effective- tion campaign. ness of the government and what should be done to improve it. In this column David Eckstrom, stu. dent body vice president, replies to these questions through his ex periences this past year. By DAVID ECKSTROMA Student Vice President The continuing accusation against student government at Carolina is that it is too irrele vant too much of the time or that it is too limited in its power to act. As studlent government de velops maturity as an institution it must, among other things, make some institutional changes. Possibly these changes can be imposed on it to help bring about its coming of age. First, it will have to change its image of being just an ac tivity to join. Instead, it must take on the real appearance of an organization that exists to _________________________________________ perform vital functions for the student body. Furthermore, the size of the student government should be limited in order that U it might become more of an elite serving the larger student body. And I think that the quality of student government could be im proved if all of the members of it would receive at least a small stipend. The student government will have to develop more of a capa bility to deal with new situations as they arise at the University. And responsibility for this must lie with the higher elected off i cials to lead the student govern ment politically through day by day developments on the cam pus. It is not enough to merely Special Discou for groups c CAR WASH 15-on--r At SAY L OR'S ' Esso StationSOW DA Saluda Avenue (Five Points) 2 - 5 - 8 Sponsored By Phi Delta Theta usuFRM InS (SIeDn Pledge Class NOW $1.25"= MICMAEL CRA '0I1E This Saturday Includes: Vacuuming Whitewalls NOW f Editorials N-CHIEF chmalny BUSINESS MANAGER Jack Padgett lilemma before spring break as to when the menus would be published, if ever. The answer received was that they would be put up as soon as students returned from spring break. Needless to say the menus have not been put up yet, but students have had to put up with the changes made by Slater. At a time when Slater's service has come under ques tion, it would seem that a little convenience for the students, such as the publication of menus, would not seem so heavy a burden. Evidently Slater feels so secure that they need not utilize student suggestions. We suggest that Slater be a food service for the students, otherwise the University should find a food service who will. Monk rice Record stroyed the effectiveness of the core of stu dent government. The Student Senate can be an influential body from which decisive and effective legislation can derive. But how can the administration take seriously a governmen tal body which constantly fails to have an adequate number of representatives present at its meetings? We urge those students who have been or will be elected as student representatives to consider this, since you have accepted the responsibility of the students. Monk lent's View ig term projects assume a leading role in what ;ed in the elec- is happening on the campus vir Rather, it must tually every day. Ladies' or Men's ME WESTERN BOOTS Levis-Lee Riders Wranglers or Most Anything [GE LEVY'S CORNER LADY & ASSEMBLY 1I LEJUIE! ULL ADULT: 1.5 UF CHILD: .75 IT REGULAR PRKCE5I L MASSEY OiMW amun l WIS IA n MFMECNK ..I n= ~AA PIP, O Getti By KEN HARE Guest Columnist How big can a university grow if the university doesn't want to grow too big? Or, where does growth in an academic setting reach the point of diminishing re turns? Trying to answer these ques tions across the nation are per plexed university administrators. Amid student protests against the "multiversity" but faced with an even louder clamor being raised by students wanting ad mittance, administrators a r e forced by circumstance to use patchwork semi-solutions to meet shortages in classrooms, profes sors, supplies, money and even other administrators. PROBLEMS AT USC These problems are not strang ers at Carolina. With a burgeon ing enrollment expected to jump by almost 2,000 next year, the USC administration is barel: able to keep pace. In the past this pressure has caused existing policies against students living off campus to be relaxed an< has prompted the renovation of an old hotel into a dormitory. Already the USC campus is growing too large to conven-: iently walk between classes. So The Blossom Shop FLOR?IS TS Devino and Saluda FIV/E DPOITS Ig Too administrators lengthen e I a s s breaks and promise intracampus transportation next year. Stu dents and faculty can't find places to park. So the adminis tration jumps right in and plans a multi-floor parking garage. But how long can this plan-as y o u - g o arrangement continue? What happens when the com pletion (late on some badly needed dormitory iSTn'L met and several hundred students who had planned to live there have no place to sleep? Or what hap Letters Policy THE GAMECOCK welcomes let ters on any subject pertinent to and in.:olving University st dents. The editor-in-chief reserres the right to edit letters to con. formn to style. good taste. space limitations and libel laws. Letters should be sent to T11E GAMECOCK, Box U-5131, USC. Introducing A Cool Way To Spend A 1 In A Fire Hou Lre 6I FASHIONABLES FOR From 0t mlw Duasv 3-69 B'ig? pens if a classroom building isn't finished on time and there is no place to hold a class? When does the patchwork fall through? MONEY Money, another basic concern, is also a critical question at Carolina. Last week the South Carolina Ho-.ise of Representa tives approved a $3 million hike in USC's budget, but this was 85.5 million less than the re quested increase. With demands for money hearing so heavily on the state legislature and with tax increases as abhorrent to South Carolina lawmakers as they are to any similar body, the USC administration must ask just how much growth will the state fi. nance ? I)espite the problems growth brings, it appears to be a neces sary adjunct to progress. When and how these problems will be met remains to be seen. (Look for "In Suppoirt of a Growing University" in the next i:.q 1ne.) lot Summer se THE FASHIONABLE A Reply To A Wet Situation Editor's nots: The folloig is a letter sent to the Student S#nt April 9 in reply to a resolutiot asking the University to chang the fountain heads now in us@ j, the Undergraduate Library g. flecting pool. SUBJECT: Resolution No. 112. 068-7, Cooper Library Reflecting Pool. If new fountain heads can be obtained for a relatively low cost, the University would be very willing to replace the present fountain heads in the reflecting pool in front of the Cooper Li. brary. Our main problem is that there seems to be no uniform opinion as to what type of spray would be the most attractive. Our land. scape consultant feels that the present heads in the middle row of the pool should probably be retained since there is a need for some high sprays for the correct relationship of the size of the pool and the building. The foun. tains in the outside two rows could be replaced with a design that sprays out in a fan pattern (similar to the fountain in the small pool in the Russell House patio). Another design might be to have the outside rows splash toward the middle in an arc-type pattern. There are undoubtedly several other designs that could be used. It may be possible for the stu. dents to appoint a small commit tee that could work with us in selecting the most appropriate design. H. 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