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Who is - TV's Rio Stepp reviews rules (See page 3) and regulations (See page 2) Vol. LX - No. 61 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Money's USC squ by S.C. L This week the S.C. House of Representatives passed the University budget of $18,599,705 as part of the General Appropriations Bill for 1970-71. This amount was the recom mendation of the House, Ways and Means Committee and is still short of the $21,742,328 requested by the University. According to Harold Bruntoo, vice president for business affairs, the University still needs $200,000 more in order to meet the demands of the University expenditures. Tower's president resigns Jack Brawley, resigned as president of the Men's Towers and Ed McFadden, vice president, will take over as Towers' president. McFadden said that he was notified of the resignation early Wednesday morning. The Men's Towers Constitution stipulates that the vice president shall move up to president if the position of president is vacated. According to McFadden, Brawley said in his resignation that he felt he must devote more time to studying and that he regretted having to resign. A new vice president will be appointed by McFadden the first of next week. One of McFadden's first executive acts will be the referendum on open house to be held in the 'Towers Wednesday. The open house bill passed by the Towers Council last semester stipulated that after a one month trial period of open house the question would be put into a N.. referendum. The referendum will ask whether students approve of open house every weekend in the Towers. Residents will also be asked whether they would like the hours to be extended, and if so, do they want the hours past 6 p.m.: Senate constiti Ely D)ON BABB Staff Writer Controversy arose in the Student Senate Wednesday over whether the next Secretary and Treasurer of the Student Body should be elected or appointed. The Senate, meeting in special session, discussed and debated for four hours the Preamble, Article I and Article II of the proposed new Student Body Constitution sub mitted to the Senate by the Con stitutional Convention Committee. The Preamble was tentatively accepted as submitted. Article I was tentatively approved after being slightly ammended by editorial changes proposed by Sen. Chip Galloway. However, when the Senate started discussion of Article II, which establishes the Executive Branch, an anticipated debate erupted. The most controversial debate was centered around section one of the article. The section provided for the election of a president and vice president but made no provision for the election of a secretary or treasurer. Senators Jim Leppard and Wayne Hembre "filibustered" against the section as they promised to do earlier this week. Both senators are members of the Constitutional Convention Com mittee. Leppard introduced an ammendment to guarantee the offices of secretary and treasurer elective status. Leppard argued before the Senate that giving, the president the right to appoint the secretary and treasurer would establish a "spoils system." He added that political parties would be formed. "It would start a party or slate program which would divide the tight; ?ezes louse Among the problems which Brunton's office has encountered because of the tightness of funds is a necessary cutback in supplies. Also, he said, it is difficult to plan the number of professors that can be hired for next year since the present budget is inadequate and next year's budget is still un certain. The bill for state appropriations will now go to the Senate Finance Committee. According to Brunton, before the final appropriations bill is passed, the Uniyersity hopes to come closer to the amount needed for the operating fund. The General Appropriations Bill stipulates: "The Liberty Tree", formerly run by the Palmetto Outdoor Historical Drama Association has been added to the University under the department of drama. The production was included for the first time this year in the University budget request. For General Operating Expense . . . . . . . $14,167,705 Expanding Graduate Program . . . . . . . . 1,475,000 Regional Campuses and Associate Degree.... ... 1,224,000 Nursing Associate and Hospital Program ........... .275,000 Law Enforcement Training School . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 Bureau of Government Research and Services ........40,000 Bureau of Business and Economic Research . . . . . . . . . 55,000 Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology . . . . . . . . . .61,000 Institute for Research on Underprivileged . . . . . . . .50,000 Expanding Rasearch Progf'am ............ 221,000 Library Science . . . 125,000 School of Social Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,000 Personal Service Adjustments: Classified Positions ........... .235,000 Unclassified Positions . .........504,000 For "The Liberty Tree" Drama Operation ...........35,000 $ 1x,599,705 consid itional i campus," he said. "The divisions would be based on personalities and not on philosophical bases," he added. After Leppard's time for debate expired, Sen. Hembre asked him a series ot questions. Under the Senate rules, no time limit is placed on a question and answer period following a speech. After the Senate adjourned, Hembree said that he and Leppard planned prolonging debate well in advance. Sen. Jim Bradford was a key figure in the fight to approve section one as submitted. Bradford argued that "by appointments the accountability of the secretary and treasurer increases." He said that the officials would become more responsible to the president and that it would be easier to remove an incompetent official from of fice. Bradford further contended that the qualifications for secretary or treasurer are not necessarily those of an elected official. He said that in some cases the best qualified students have not offered for the positions because they lacked the political skill or popularity to get elected. After still more debate, the Senate finally approved the Leppard ammendment. However, Sen. Bradford reopened the issue by arguing that section one of Article II was germane to other sections in the article and to sections found elsewhere in the Constitution. A motion was then made to suspend the rules and consider section one again. Vice President Mike Spears, presiding over the Senate, ruled the motion in order and Bradford was allowed to continue. However, a motion was made to adjonrn an,d UNIV SOUTJ! DeM DeMott: ir is a realn By HARRY HOPE Chief of Reporters Lectures Committee speaker Benjamin DeMott labels imagination as merely the realization by one person of another person's feelings. DeMott spoke Wednesday night at Capstone as part of the Lectures Series, sponsored by the Student Union Lectures Committee. "Americans in the process of building a country were too busy to take time to realize what foreign people were experiencing," he said. "They did not have the imagination that it took," he said. He mentioried a report repr6siR by the Pentagon which delved into the feelings of South Vietnamese villagers after they were bombed by American planes. "The generals in the Pentagon couldn't understand you've got to fight fire with fire," he said. "They feel the Viet Cong's firing at one of our helicopters caused us to bomb out their village," he said. "This is a gross example of the American inability to imagine the feelings of someone else," he said. ers section one was left tentatively approved as amended. The Senate is voting on the Constitution by sections and ar ticles. After all parts of the Con stitution have been tentatively approved, the Senate will vote on the Constitution as a whole. However, Sen. Chip Galloway proposed before adjournment that the Senate consider all sections of the Constitution concerned with the duties of the Secretary and Treasurer. The motion was passed and Sen. Galloway will have the floor when the Senate reconvenes next Wednesday. Fire A fire on the seventh floor of the Mens' Dorm K was quickly ex tinguished last night by the fire department. Although flames and smoke could be seen from the outside, an unconfirmed report w:as that damage was minor and that no one was injured. Residents of K Dorm were 5 quickly evacuated after the alarm sounded. However, several students delayed in leaving the building because they thought the alarm was "just another drill." Speculation abounded as to how the fire started. One student said he thought Dean Cooper started it. Another student, in a more serious tone, said the fire was caused by a cigarette thrown out on the terrace. Campus police refused to make any comment. When asked how the fire started, one policeman replied, "I can't tell you nothing. You'll have to see Mr. Keys, my supervisor." YOF (..LINA ''4 -4hief photographer, -Will Peters Ott nagmation ation "Americans expect that, since we have built this country, and it is a leader in the world today, that everyone in tite world will want to feel the same things, want the same things and buy the same things as we," DeMott said. "This is not true," he added. DeMott then probed the mind as it experiences time. He took into account a study made in Europe on the cattle tick and how it ex periences time, based on the lapse of time between his sensing body swea't. 'ne tick sat on a branch in a laboratory for,17 years, walting for the odor, he said. "A human's realization of time is based on the in-between. It's like a bus ride - there is a beginning and an end, but our formal sense of time is between beginning and end," DeMott said. "We have all been trained never to interrupt a speech or a lecture or aa sermon," he said. "That's our formal sense of time." To demonstrate this point, he stopped the lecture abruptly. Box Tops cancel The Boxtops dance scheduled for tonight at the Hampton Building at the State Fairgrounds has been changed. The Boxtops will not appear and the "Sensational Epics" - originally scheduled as back-up group, will be the featured band. The dance will still be held at the Hampton Building tonight, from 8 to 12 p.m. Set-ups will be served and guests may bring their own beer. Attendance is free to USC students and their dates. According to Chris Martin of the University Union's Dance Committee, only 126 tickets have been sold. Since the Epics will be substituted for the original group, the dance will be free 'of charge. "We'll only come out $700 in the hole," he commented, "and it saves uasnn 200" Unior chang By CHERYL MANNING Staff Writer The Executive Board of University Union voted last night to change the method of electing Union president from general election by the student body to election by active members of the Union and Student Senate. Vicki Eslinger, presideht of the Union, said, "I think this is a progressive step forward. Student Government and the Union will act together." Miss Eslinger said that students will be directly represented in the elections by their senators, but the election will not be a popularity contest, which has been a major criticism. The amendment for election by Union members and Student Senate was submitted by Mario Beguiristain. It will go to the Union's i3oard of Governors for approval Wednesday. An alternate proposal that would have allowed the Union Board of Governors to elect the president was defeated. The Board of Governors is composed of two faculty members, one representative each from Inter fraternity Council, Pan-Hellenic Council, Town Men's Association, Towen Women's Association, Associated Women Students, and Married Students' Government, two representatives from Student Government, the director of University Union, one represen tative from the Office of Student Affairs and the president, vice president and secretary of University Union. "At the moment," Miss Eslinger said, "the Board of Governors has dropped six members from its roll for not attending." Under the amendment passed by the Executive Board, candidates More r4 By SUSAN ROSS Asst. Managing Editor The University is going to ex pand Cooper undergraduate Library, instead of building a new library as was formerly announced by the Business Affairs office. Originally, the University had requested $9,200,000 in building funds for the project, an amount that couldn't be met by the 'state funds at that time, according to Harold Brunton, vice president for Business Affairs. So, Brunton's office decided to go ahead with the project in two phases. The first phase to be completed will cost $5 million and the second phase will cost $4,200,000. The new library will occupy the area of the present Cooper Library and will extend into McBryde Quadrangle behind the Library. The exterior of Cooper Library will remain basically unchanged ex cept that the extension will make it three times its present dimensions. The three floors of Cooper Library will be extended to three times their length, and a fourth floor will be added under those two. The second phase of the library that will be completed at a later date will add two more floors under those four, making a total of six. Brunton said. Proposed ibra elect ed by] for president must be certified by the Board of Governors. Following certification, they may announce their candidacy and their plat forms no sooner than two weeks before the election date. Cam paigning is limited to speeches and distributing printed copies of a candidate's platform. The amendment prohibits the use of "posters, buttons, fliers, stickets, broadcasting, press ad vertisements, or any form of mass media" in campaigning. The election would be conducted by the elections commission at a joint meeting of active Union members and Student Senate. Four representatives from the press would be allowed to attend and a 60 per cent quorum would be New mar slated for The Men's Towers cafeteria will open under a new management by the end of March, according to Joe Azar, co-ordinator of a special joint cafeteria committee. Today the committee will tour the Columbia Dinner Theater and Monday the committee is scheduled to tour the Gatehouuse Restaurant. Both operations have expressed interest in the cafeteria. Azar said that the new .management of the cafeteria would be decided nex! week. -Food services wanting to be considered must express their interest by this evening. Dougiss I. Fitzgerald, food service coordinator in the office of Harold Brunton, vice president for business affairs, said that the new )Om foi He said that it was recently decided after much debate, to use the area behind Cooper Library. Previously, it had been planned for the library to be built behind McKissick Library in the area between Leconte, Hamilton, Davis and Barnwell Colleges. But Brunton explained that construction in this area posed too many problems. First, the library would have taken up too much space in the area behind McKissick and there would have een no parking facilities or ser nice accesses. Also the architecture of the surrounding buildings is entirely different from the planned library, he said. 'All these problems are, eliminated with the extension of Cooper Library," Brunton ex plained. "Not only does it make good use of the existing library, but it also can be expanded in the future if necessary," he said. "This is also the only site that Wlows a true central library by :ombining McKissick, Cooper, the science Library and the Education Library," he said. He also added that the first >roposed University parking tarage will be located only a block way on the South side of Blossom ettween Sumter and Marion, and a rv complex uwewr revruarY 27, 1970 0 ions Board required. Candidates would be allowed to present their platforms in a ten minute speech before the voting. The Executive Board defined "active member" to mean members of the Board of Gover nors, constitutional officers of University Union, administrative assistants, committee chairmen and committee members who have served "for a period of not less than 30 days." The Executive Board also passed an amendment which gives the Vice-Chairmen and secretaries sub-committee representation on the Executive Board. The sub committee will be represented by two of its members, who will share one vote on the Executive Board. wgement. M&N management would be a joint administration and committee decision. "The administration must determine the financial responsibility," he said. "It looks very favorable that the cafeteria may open by March 16," Fitzgerald said. .He said that two local operators had expressed their interest to him and that the facilities had been shown to them. Financial arrangements have not been ex,acUy dec4ed y - according to Fitzgerald. Azar said that probably the operator would pay the University a flat rental fee. John Blackshire, a member of the committee, said that the new management will "run the cafeteria anyway they want. It will be up to them to make it work." books pedestrian causeway will go directly from it across Blossom Street. According to Brunton, McKissick will be "phased out" of use slowly and will then be used perhaps for one of the smaller colleges in the University. He said that the new plan for the library will not affect other construction planned, such as on the infirmary.. The present amount of space provided by McKissick, Cooper, the Science and the Education libraries is 114,800 square feet, but with phase I of the expansion, it will become 156,000 and with phase II it will become 236,000. Kenneth E. Toombs, director of libraries, has said that the present situation with the USC libraries is totally inadequate. According to him, McKissick Library, built in 1941, is poorly planned and is very inadequate. He has also estimated by using an expansion projection that in 1990 the University will need 350,000 square feet of space, which is 114,000 square feet more than planned. Assistant DI)rector of libraries Kenneth Walter estimated that the space that will be added by the expansion to the Undergraduate Library will scarcely hold the library through 1960.