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Fra terni BY ALYCE YOUMANS L Asst. Managing Editor Since 1963 the number of freshman l males entering the University has almost doubled and the number - pledging fraternities has remained fr almost stagnant, To be exact, 5,186 males entered in c '63 as opposed to 9,839 this year. Fraternities pledged 298 compared to 313 this year. Does that mean the fraternities at USC are slowiy dissolving into g roups with no identities? IFC president Vete McCausland doesn't think So. in fact, he says they are just finding their identity on the campus. "The Greeks are in a situation in which it is very difficult to establish individual identities. Partof this is due io traditional categorizing of the 'frat man image', part of it to our housing and part to University rules and regulations.' "'This year, past IFC president Burt Rosen has taken steps to make the Greek system relate more to the University. I (McCausland) am continuing this trend. Greek Week will be a good example because it will be open to every student. We are co sponsoring a concert with the Concert Committee. The art department is sponsoring a a sculpture contest. "We want to relate more to the Stadium expan approval expec The first phase of a four-stage stadium e expected to be approved this week by state leg have been assured by USC officials that no sta be necessary to f inance the program. New press facilitiesand 15,000 seats will be i present stadium. The expansion will be paid i increase in ticket prices, an additional $4.50 and contributions to the athletic departme $100,000. The ticket cost increase has a lrea4 effect. The legislation which will allow the Univei ahead with a $5 million bond issue for the exp stadium should be introduced in the ,S.( Representatives Wednesday. The legislature's possible authorization carries no commitment on the other three s program. The stadium were ranked together at thi 't University's building requests over plans fo ' school and a school of nursing. Students an4 jected to the r anking and said that academ Ic come before sports needs. lt seems now that both needs wll be met. The library, law s chool and school or nut pected to be included in a $97 million bond is building needs. Peace Corps her seeking volunteei Representatives of the Peace mebsfth Corps will be on the campus this mutyawel week toanswer questions about theewat v Corps and to recruit volunteers. tesed"ai Team members are Jack P. eve n e Atkinson of Twin City, Ga., who escafynd served in Kenya; Charles Zumbro aeso uie of Murfreesboro, Tenn., whose euaonngee Corps service was in India; Ethelphscleuti J. Heyward of Ridgeland, who Akno n worked for tihe Corps in~ Si eplirraha Leone; and Hassan A. Abbey ofporm a i Indi, aeeachonintheneaceCorp language school. tanninln Thegroup wiullmaintain abooth 1 ef pt on the ground floor of Russeil Akno ad House on the USC campus, 9 a.m. Heaoexli to 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. Cr~lItai SAtkinson emphasized that the lnggeoac mebr fThe 7 Te Tms illapparunithe asowl SpurWedesda an Thusde wnieve 'ty lead hiversity. "If fraternities are going to survive tey must learn to relate more than in ast years,'" he said. Another way McCausland says the aternities are working to improve ie Greek system is by seeking off %mpus housing. Now the fraternity houses are dentical and located in a compact luadrangle. "New and separate iousing would give more identity to ndividual fraternities and take the tress off of the Greek system itself," e said. "The University wants us to have more independence. Dean Brunton has cooperated in our research," said McCausland."Ithink we have a good Vol. LX - No. a Univ___ sion ted xpansion is slators who le funds will dded to the or with a $1 student fee nt of about ly gone into -sit o o Knobel 3 n s ono of te House of >f the plans tages of the leaders, meet top of the a new law Twelve schiools wel faculty ob. represented at a meeting of ti needs should South Carolina Student Bot President's Association at tl University yesterday. sing are ex- The group revised a 1968 cc sue for state stitution which states as its p' poses "the exchange of ideas a information among the memt institiutions" and taking stai and action on issues of state-wi e Importance affecting students. The proposed constitution, whi will be sent to the 27 schools ini C S state, also establishes an formation service and a speake Columbia com- bureau for the association. . students. ryone that's in- The information service w< Atkinson, who be located at the school of peoale"int w chairman and would be resi peoplem the sible for collecting data ona administration, things as school constitutions in,nrigad programs and distributing It at Miss Heyward request of student body preside aned since in- The speaker's bureau w -s ago. Physical provide speakers for var er required, "bu organizations on specenfic proj he indiviidual," Barry Knobel USC student 1 president and acting chairmar d that the Peace the association, said the workers in the stitution would now be sent t< catry. schools in the state, asking If page 3) wished to join under this stitution. Tams Ifn Admission charge is $1.25 per pel a. son. )rs: :hance of getting off-campus housing. 'As far as the time, I can't give a definlite s tatement on that. Some havi the money now, others can get 11 shortly and some will need to wait i number of years." McCausland said that there were i number of benefits to moving of campus and a number of problems. "The fraternities could establish a identity better. The experience c being in a frat would be mor beneficial if we lived in and around ou own fraternity house,"he said."'1i dividual houses might be more a tractive to new students b v t I t not the living quarters that count bi the people in them. "The frate rnities would have to t ak on more responsibility. It would be !of South Caralna, Coumbia. S. C Frater new h By KITTY MCCASKILL 6 Staff Writer bI The Housing Committee of Inter- st Fraternity Council plans to request si permission Wednesday to build st fraternity houses on a three and one half block area between Bates House'and the Roost. Rob Lyon, Housing Oommittee " chairman, said that he and Vice B President for Business Affairs Harold Brunton will present a proposal to the Building and h Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees at its Wectesday - meting. E The land requested is bordered P by Catawba Street on the north, B Bull Street on the west, Heyward Street on the south and Sumter and B Marion streets on the' east. The al re to Lyon. acodn h "We will present a general, e ly broad proposal," he said. "The a he main thing is to get the trustees' okay." in- Brunton said that this area had Ir- been set aside for housing for nd several years. "Fraternity housing ds hosng," he said."hs three de are residence halls, married students housing and special housing like the Roost. Fraternity Lch and sorority houses come under this special housing.'' in "We've been working for in fraternity and sorority houses for rs the last two or three years-for the possibility of establishing an area for their houses. It has been part of the long-range plans of the >uld University," he said. the Brunton said that land on the on- east side of Pickens street had an Anne Clai ~drun for A ious cts- AWS elections will be held ody Tuesday with Anne Clamp and for Mary Holstein running for con- president. >all they Ballot boxes will be in each con- women's residence hail and in the Town Girl's Lounge. The polls will be open from 9 to 5. AlU women students are eligible to vote, but must have their fee cards. Ac Scording to AWS President Peggy Harley students can vote at any location. Other candidates are: first vice president: Mary Cook and Kathy Judicial sy~ to be discw Towers' Court Chief Justice Stephen Smith has called a meeting of all campus judicial board and court members to discuss the actions of each Court and to consider possible ways of improving the court systems. Smith said Sunday that the possibility of initiating a point system to replace the preeent study hall system of discipline will be one topic of discussion. "Many people have voiced their r- opinions to me conerning the study hail system," Smith said. "It tern not full time job to run a house and kit ien ...but the fraternity people are sM ready to accept responsibility. fri "The University should not have any M real problems if we abide by the (S University regulations imposed upon ' * us. I can't say what they will be as f Dean Cooper declined to say. I' hope a they will be very little," he said. fr n Actually this would help solve the ir 4 iousJng problem as it is likely the sorior 9 e Ities. would move into our present 0 r buildings," he said. A - Since the trend is for students io move into one and two bedroom nc % apartment complexes we are con- a it sidering he modular concept so that rL sections could be added on w e economially. This is just one idea of 01 a course," he added. it ni m fr ar Me 4ei. S ities to 0 ousing fa en planned for a fraternity area Lyon said that the pi it since the University had not been written yet arted concentrating on the west pected that the fratern de of Pickens this new area was own about one fourt] iggested for fraternities. houses. 'We hope to 6 and operate them ind Lyon said that he first heard the once they're built," he lea for using this area three 'eeks ago when he walkedt-into A runton's office. financing the housej "Land on Wheeler Hill was detipite, Lyon said th 'iginally set up for fraternities," fraternities would pre e said. "In order to use it people ther chapters. ould have had to be cleared off. eryone was so-stirred up when Fraternity memb ople were moved for Bates studied houses at the Uj use that i t! wasn't pressed." Alabama, the Univ Lyon said that the area between Georgia, Georgia Tec ates House and the Roost was University of North Cai ready cleared,.r oprn ytm "Tlie mamn problem is finances," toomiehebsofI e said."Approxmately 75 per cent sytm"hsid f this are'a is University owned nd 25 per cent is owned by the H adh huh outh Carolina Educational wolbeaetoevo Lyonuaidahatohe.p G a eownabutoe forI y RE MOK he.'e m eal wil be ManaginEditoradcoprding te iad ,ppotuniy t samle he wresonc"e ahre ut, gethe he GtehuseResaurnt oda as Althoug stdevario it formallyaopesnuptthehTower cafeeriawhih wadoederlirayoritiswold prh Ibis semester.abenieto memb<e np,bamaryheHoit WSnpresideny ota Wootn scondvic preidet: aryin opaind sytems Elln ggs seretry:Diae tuembnthe elt. 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The "frat man" image will also be >mbated by individual houses as each aternity will be presenting its own nage through it. This would place a reater pric rity on the individualism F fraternities and their members, %Causland said. He envisions many major in vations in the f uture. These include more open and informal system of ish and a better working relationship ith the University and other ganizations "As far as fraternities going coed, it that I would be aginst it, I don't see occuring here any time in the ture." said McCausland. He also described the ideal frater y. "I think fraternities should not be Enufacturers of personalities per se. e ideal f raiernity is the one which ers its members maximum opor ilty to develop their own individual. rsonalities," he said. At present USC has 15 social iternities and will possibly have other--predominately black-one Dn. request 0 0 0 cilities oposal had own lines as long as it wasn't "too but he ex- crazy." ities would i of their The full Board of Trustees will eign them meet March 25 and will consider ependently the proposal presented to their Building and Grounds Committee. 5 ways of i are not kt national Members of the Housing Com bkbly help mittee include Burt Rosen, Phi Delta Theta; Pete McClausland, Sigma Nu, Ruben Hyman, Alpha .rs have Tau Omega; Clay Johanson, liversity of Kappa Alpha; Tommy Wooten, ersity Sigmna Alpha Epsilon; Mgroe erand X Black,Chi Psi;Dick Monteith, Phi olina. "We Kappa Phi and Sam Pratt, Phi and want Kappa Sigma. le different Brunton said that he had also been talking with scrorities, but ach house fraternities are "farther down the ;along its road for new houses." comes rowers served and more enjoyable place to eat in 1with r, one of the the atmosphere of a restaurant. ant service, The University which is renting business of th cafeteia toth owners of Gatehouse Restaurant has also made changes in the cafeteria. ages have According to Taylor, the walls cafeteria a are being latticed to separate the C kitchen from the viewof the ?e 11 customers, walls are being ~d L .1. repainted and plant boxes have beenplacedaround the cafeteria to break up the space in the room. Taylor hopes also that lights can be dimmed at night to provide ofr a the women better eating atmosphere. e dorms the Taylor said he wants to provide a ai as one variety of food at aslow acost as ut visitation possible in such a way that majority of students would be attracted to eat adith ee Be.akfast for example would be A WS makes under a dollar and students would survive." be able to help themselves to grits, ntly serving hash browns, coffee and toast, f or South while getting a serving of eggs, hot It AWS was cakes or other main breakfast omen as a foodsk. lent Senate. to do with Lunch and dinaerwllibeserved dorms and in similar buffet style for $1.35. ore freedom This enables the customer to as much as his plate can hold in the me way or vegetable categories, including n, I would rolls, ice tea and coffee with one jority of the serving of meat. said. Some According to Taylor, 'a la yve told her carte' Items will be available for ar visitation dinner. r privacy. Beside the buffet style, the Id Thursday. cafeteria also intendse to serve Its election Separate full dinners, such as a rib r residence eye steak, at a different prie. on AprIl 14 Taylor said that as the restaurant becomes mere iges for AWS establlshed be hopes te have t bail desks special nighs In which a certain es. Students dinner win be available at aseia r changes in price. "For example," he said, out the form. "every Tuesday wemdiset asids' Ws Penny- as spaghetti night when yeu ma terc t0n get ail you ces eat for a esrtain i until 3 a.m. pirie." ing a Bridal