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Baoothsayer tris onfo Adminstration See page 2 LXI-.NO. 21 University of South Carolina, Columbla, S. C. 29208 In a scene from 1776, the c the Continental Congress do song "Cool Cool Men" as th pleasures of the landed gent their comtempt for liberals Adams. Leading them in Studen1 By MICHAEL BALL Staff Writer Tim Rogers, a USC law student, asked for campus support for the Broadwater-McTeer campaign at a press conference in Columbia yesterday. He requested student help to distribute 800,000 bumper stickers, and also as volunteer poll watchers. A meeting for interested# students will be held at 1230' Harden Street tomorrow at 11 a.m. Rogers' prepared statement to Space is of librar. By CHARLES FELLENBAUM Staff Writer "The University could spend one million dollars a year just to keep up," Kenneth Toombs, direcior of libraries said. "Considering the circumstances, we're doing pretty well," he added. Toombs said that the main problem was space and that the "situation is pitiful." McKissick Library was designed to hold a maximum of 350,000 volumes and it has over 600,000 now, ie said. There is another quarter of a million books stored in the Coliseum Toombs said. "We got 70,000 new books last year and the number is growing ever year. It will jump to 100,000 in the next five years,' he added. "The undergraduate library is used mainly for studying and thus the space there has not been' C andidat By HARRY HOPE Staff Writer ( Editor's Note: This is the'last of a series of interviews with the four gubernatorial candidates. We had been unable to get an interview with Lt. Gov. John West until Wednesday. We thank WIS-TV news producer Charles Dreier for helping us get this final interview.) It seems that Lt. Gov. John West once taught his republican op ponent political science at Carolina years ago. Now he Is facing his former student in a hotly con tested gubernatorial race. The lieutenant governor said that in order to raise teachers' pay, the legislature should "earmark money obtained through revenue sharing for teachers' salaries, if that bili comes through. We should also earmark for teachers and, state employees' pay raises a definite amount of money from tax revenues. And we should alsofind' more efficient mnethods In 'government.". Concerning busing, West stated, "I'm opposed to busing to acheive racial balance. But we've already done on the state level just about all we can do. I favor the neigh ;horhood system. anservatives of Patrick Hines a minuet to the sylvania and ey espouse the Rutledge of Sc ry and express 1776 will be such as John November 2. the dance are students. Lssuppc local media explained his group's recent plans. "Gathered here are white students from college and university campuses all over South Carolina. Many of them are recognized leaders of student organizations," it read in part. "We recognize where it's at in South Carolina and we're dissatisfied and that's why we're with UW Uhied Citizen's Party," Rogers said. He cited events at Orangeburg, USC, and Charleston as well as educational and 0 main con construct utilized fully," Toombs said, "but we must start cramping things soon."' The bond issue for a new library was approved by the legislature last spring, he said. However, construction is being delayed pending final choice of the site which will be made within six weeks, he said, and will probably be behind the undergraduate library. Even with the addition, the need will be met only temporarily, Toombs said. "With the new building, need will be fulfilled until about 1960." He added that the new law library will be adequate until the end of the century. "I would say that the new library is the most popular building program with the faculty," Toombs said. : West de West also said that he favored the expansion of the kindergarten program. "It would probably help black children more." West is the author of the law which created the technical education centers. He said that the program had helped 300,000 people in the nine years of its existence. "Our adult education program has helped more persons per centage-wise than any other state. But we should strengthen the entire program--from kin dergarten to adult education to higher education," he said. "We should also encourage a student teaching corps. We would get any kind of identifying information on school dropouts and feed it into a computer. Then we would get volunteer college students to go out and counsel these drop-outs and find out their problem." The democratic candidate also reiterated his position that he would not make schools a cam paign issue. "Schools cannot be helped by this political rhetoric which has complicated their problems," he said. ,West linked education and the problem of the poor, by san tha as John Dickenson of Penn Jerry Lanning as Edward iuth Carolina. (Far Right) at the Township Auditorium Admission Is free to USC >rt Bros economic probleins in the state. He said present political parties have not- been able to solve state problems. Rogers' statement continued; "We vigorously support and en dorse the establishment of a new political order in South Carolina, one that will be characterized by openness and honesty in govern mental circles, by candidates who forthri#htly - address -the real problems of our society, by legitimate progress toward fulfilling the right of every child in cern ozon The University has one of the largest collections of microform in the world he said. Microform is a general term covering all documents on microfilm. There are over three quartersof a million pieces on film. "All newspapers are kept on film," he said. "We spend much time planning for better service," Toombs said. "Three times a year we run a survey of library use. We con stantly evaluate our per formance." Toombs also commented on the resolution the Student Senate passed to keep the undergraduate library open until midnight week days and until five o'colck on Saturday. "They didn't come to me and talk about it," he said. "The undergraduate library is already open until five on Saturday." sires impi education should help the poor overcome their problems. "One-third of the homes in South Carolina are substandard. There are 90,000 homes which are classified as inadequate." When asked what he would have done had he been governor last John West Senat S.G. By SUSAN GRUBB Staff Writer A bill calling for detailed lists of projected monthly and semester expenditures by student govern ment was introduced at Wed nesday's Student Senate meeting. The bill also provides for lists of completed monthly and semester expenditures and includes the period Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. Sen. Tom Elliot said that "the senate should have as much control or more control over the budget as the executive branch." A motion to recommit the bill to the finance committee failed and the senate passed the bill by a 22-18 vote. Senator Marsha Mottel in troduced a bill to enjoin further elections until the entire elections process is reviewed and revam idw ate South Carolina to quality education, every worker in South Carolina to organize and to receive fair wages and enjoy decent working conditions, every citizen in South Carolina to be availed of the basic gurantees of freedoms articulated in the Constitution of the United States." Thomas Broadwater, candidate for governor, attended the meeting an- explained--plaft -to utilise college students as poll helpers on Nov. 3. He claimed the committee had some 5,500 young people across the state to aid in the campaign. "Nothing is impossible, even in the political arena of South Carolina," Broadwater siad. Mobe rall for securitl The Moratorium rally planned for Saturday has been moved from the intramural fields to Drayton Hall according to Dean Charles Witten, vice president for Student Affairs. Dr. Paul -iOllerO, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, stated that the original location was assigned on the basis of a local program "but when outside people come that puts it in a different category". Fi'dler referred to the poseible attendance of students from area high schools and from colleges and universities throughout South and North Carolina. The moratorium will be held from 6 to 12 p.m. in Drayton Hall 'oved edUc 'May during the disturbances at the University, West replied that "hindsight is 20-20 vision. There has to be free and open discussion. Students have a right to dissent, but this right ends when its excercising interferes with the rights of others attending the University. But we don't want to stifle dissent--it's part of the learning process. "I taught Albert Watson political science at the University, so you can see that disent Is part of the process. "I think that there has been a failure on the part of my generation to show students that we have a workable system which can respond to greivances," he said. He said that the Vietnam War ."has led this country to a moral crisis." West said that If elected, he would continue the Governor's Leadership Conference, begun last March by Gov. Robert McNalr for college leaders. This conference featured the president of Yale, Kingman Brewster; Maynard Jackson, the first black to be elected vice-mayor of Atlanta; and Gov. Curtis of Maine. calls i Iiture lections process should be 'eviewed--"not piecemeal." He rged the senate to either vote to ,ecommit the elections bill to the Rules Committee or to defeat it. rhe bill was recommitted. Open hearings on the budget will )e conducted by the senate finance :ommittee, according to chairman Wike Freeman. Hearings will )egin Nov. 4, at 5:30 p.m. in room 320 of the Business Administration uilding. Other senate business included :ommital of executive ap ointments to the senate rules :ommittee for consideration. The senate also referred to :ommittee bills concerning tutomatic priorities for foreign reshman students and a resolution o support the continuation of the ,ontemporary University >rogram. Other measures sent to com nittee concerned parking spaces or graduate instructors and the omposition of the revised student aculty disciplinary committee. 'he latter measure would equalize nembership on the discipline ommittee by adding two student riembers. The faculty has recently alled for parity in membership on le committee. In other business, the senate pproved, by acclamation, the Students river dred By BOB CRAFT Staff Writer Eco 70 and the USC En ironmental Law Society are rying to stop the Army Corps of ngineers from issuing a permit to larrison Sand Co. to dredge the ongaree River. The dredging, as proposed by the larrison Sand Co. would be in the ongaree River Channel from the icinity of the Granby Locks in ayce to approximately seven iiles south of the Lexington ounty line. Dr. John Dean. Research ssistant Professor at the Belle laruch Coastal Research aboratory of USC, said that the gative effects of this dredging ould be the new availability of xious elements in sediments hich could cause taste and odor oblems for downstream water ers. Other effects include the Itation of fish and other aquatic re spawn resulting in the suf cation of the embryonic forms; ading of the water which would 'tard phtosyntehetic activity of lytoplanktons important to the od chains of desirable species of sh; abrasion of gill filaments of SInce the 92 0,estpndd ., two Ilttetne agemmhaya bill expenc ped. Past elections would be valid, however. The bill would also require Student Body Presioient Mike Spears to appoint a new elections commissions for the spring by Dec. 9. Jim Bradford, student body vice president in an address to the senate, said that "the election process has been the most colossal I failure in the history of student government." Bradford said that last year a study had been made just three days prior to elections. He said that a new study committee would be required to submit a report by mid-Noverber. Bradford also said the whole C I C ~~a Tim Rogers ti y moved r reasons which can accomodate ap proximately 500 people. Speakers r from Kent State, Voorhees College, Jackson State College, National Student Association, and the A University of South Carolina will comprise the basically lecture L format. Rita Fellers, speaking for the W, Student Mobilization Committee, stated that the students' right ton seek information has been unjustly infringed upon, and that specific ~ discrimination is being leveled us against the organization as a result s1 of outside political pressure. Ac-h cording to Miss Fellers the field has been used before by other sl campus groups for very large r gatherings. fP ation "*But this conference would concentrate on state officials. We - need to involve young people in the problems of state government," he said. "And we can't legislate without harnessing an intof divergent views. I don't un-U derstand some people's tolerant views of someone who smokes marijuana. But I know that everyone who smokes pot isn't bad." On the drug laws, West said, "I know that there Is a difference between the user and the seller. I would use the full force of the law against the seller. But we ought to be far more sympathetic with the user. And a heroin addict is sick. "I am more concerned with rehabilitating the heroin addict than punishing him. He Is being. punished enough If he's on heroin. The state's vocational rehabilitation program should take ~4 ;an active role in helping the dru addict. Not just a physical cure, but rehabilitation." West also favors the lS-year-oldU vote, but said that It would require1 a constitutional amemnent. "I doubt It would be done," he said. (Centimmed on nage 3) Eor list acceptance of recently-elected student senators. Other business concerned senate rule changes. Sen. Elliott proposed a bill reducing the number of seconds to a motion for a roll call vote from a majority of the body to six persons. A bill to expedite legislation by earlier presentation to the senate, secretary caused debate. Sen. Allen Tew criticized a ticket distribution bill introduced Oct. 7 by Sen. Emily Wheeler as having been "railroaded" through the senate. Tew was not present for the debate and the vote on the bill. The distribution bill provides tickets in the student section at games to state legislators. Sen. Wheeler said that Tew was speaking in opposition to a bill that he was actually for. "The bill was proposed to counteract railroading," she said. Upon Sen. Wheeler's motion the bill passed unanimously. After the senate meeting, the senate rules committee met and authorized Jim Bradford to en force new senate attendance rules. Senators would be required to attend at least 75 per cent of a senate meeting in order to be counted present. Three absences would eliminate a senator from the roster. fight. Fging sport fish, species causing them to leave the area and the unseen and difficult to measure annihilation of many insects and planktonis life forms. J. Owens Smith, president of the USC Environmental Law Society, said that the society had three reasons for objecting to the dredging; the permit if issued, will allow illegal removal of property from its owners, the Corps of Engineers has not filed statements required under the National En vironment Policy Act of 1970 as to the environmental impact on the river and "the action requested will adversely effect the quality of aquatic and human environment." Colonel Lee, district engineer for the Charleston District, does not olan to hold public hearings on the issuance of the permit at this time because he feels that this dredging will not significantly effect the environment. He indicated that the S. C. Water Resources Commission had the final word on applications of this sort. Joe Huddleston, president of ECO 70, urges those interested to attend the next regular group meeting November 4. in room 302 of the Russell Houe. seppeea** m SIt 4