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LX1--No. 7Y University of South Carolina. Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, April 5, 1971 New USC bu Nursir are un The annual Viana Mc Cown Lecture in Nursing at USC was the occasion Friday for the unveiling of plans for a new College of Nursing building at USC. Prior to the lecture, given this year by Dr. Dorothy Ann Mereness, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, USC's Vice President for Business Affairs Harold Brunton introduced an architect's drawing of the proposed new structure. Brunton said construction on the facility is expected to W gin next year and should ie completed in 1973. The building 'will be located on Green Street and will en compass an area now oc cupied by the Rice House and some adjacent land. The new structure will provide facilities for all nursing education programs at Carolina, Brunton said, including the associate degree and baccalaureate programs and a proposed master's degree program. Funding of the new building was aided by a gift of $500,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Martha l liams Brice of Sumter. nephews and executors Bifani ele of Univer Rton Bif ani, a junior geology major, was elected president of the USC' Student Union last Thursday night. Hilani was chairman of the Married Students Committee for one and a halt' years. He has also served as president of the Married .ts Government for one year, s held the office of Union 1(~ary since last January. t eel being elected president of the Union a definite challenge, Hilani said. "We will be working for a lot of' committee coor dfinat ion." 'We have revised our con Lstitution and made it more workab)le. F"or example, we will have two vice-presidents next lerm. That wvill allow for closer ilding ig plans veiled of the estate, Phillip L. and Thomas W. Edwards, selected a College of Nursing building as a fitting memorial honoring the Williams and Brice families according to Mrs. Brice's wished, Brunton said. He said application for a construction grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has been approved and is awaiting actual funding. Additional funds will come from state and university sources. Tentative plans call for the new building to have the associate degree program housed on the first floor, administrative offices, conference rooms and an auditorium on the second floor, and laboratories and other study related services on the third flood. The fourth and fifth floors will provide classrooms, offices and additional laboratories. The building will be named in honor of the Williams-Brice family. Today's Viana McCown lecture was the eighth in a series of programs designed to bring out standing speakers in the nursing profession to the USC campus. gted head sity Union "We will be working on im proved relations between SGA and the Gamecock." Bifani said he wants to establish a section in the Gamecock designated particularly for the Union. One of his main concern is concerts, he said. "The Coliseum has failed to cooperate with the Union and it is the only adequate place to present a concert. Outside agents were booking concerts at prices above those offered by the Union." Hifani said he feels the Coliseum situation has been straightened out due to efforts of the Coliseum Committee. He added that next year the Union wants bigger and better concerts for students. Hilani takes office officially May I and will begin choosing his of ticors this week. Net The building will be located on and completion is expected to Federal jui for remark U.S. District Judge Robert W. Hemphill apologized last Thursday to first year law student Victoria Eslinger for a remark he made which, had it been misinterpreted, could have embarrassed her. Miss Eslinger is seeking a Federal Court order to be hired as 4 a page after she was turned down for the job by the Senate staff. During a discussion of a page's duties to get things from senators' motel rooms Hemphill commented to lawyers that "perhaps that is the opportunity your client seeks." The judge said the remark had been "misinterpreted by others to cast some reflection" on Miss Eslinger. Blefore he apologized, Judge Hemphill said he was not going to the grant a temporary order to the to Senate to hire Miss Eslinger. whe H-emphill said if he were to grant is I Budgets m by student All organizations requesting ne xt year must submit a propos< by April 15. Applications may be in the office of the Dean for Sti tivities. 2nd floor. Pendleton blc v Nursing School areen St. pleted by 1973. The be com- facilities for all programs at USC. dge apolog to Eslig -Thec interfer, operatioi Senate a discharg people < said. Hempi that thel only is not a vi( rights. The ott that othi more biE that Mi presente< Senate. -A" Cu4 merit He Eslinger Miss I order it would "be tantamount refuased ranting her complete relief because n she has not demonstrated she this deni ~eing appreciably damaged.' under th ust be sub organiZai funds for Each request will t 'd budget Student Affairs C( icked up hearings before the ac ident Ac- is made. The date of facility will provide nursing education Izes ourt would be reluctant to e with the internal is of the South Carolina is that body attempts to e its responsibilities to the if this state," Hemphill iiil said the state's defense )olicy of hiring male pages reasonable and therefore >lation of Miss Eslinger's ier two state defenses are ers were recommended Ihly for the position and ss Eslinger has not I her request to the full These are skeptical of mphill said. :slinger contends she was the job as a page solely she is a woman and that ies her equal protection e Constitution. mitted cns e considered by the immittee in open tual allocation funds the hearings will be