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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
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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
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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.
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arted concentrating on the west pected that the fratern
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lea for using this area three
'eeks ago when he walkedt-into A
runton's office. financing the housej
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'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
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4e noted that a greater number of
cial affiliates would appear If the
iternities moved off campus which
muld help relieve this probbsm.
ocial affiliates are non-fraternity
embers that function as members.)
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
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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."
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