Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VOL. LXI - NO. 77 University of South Carolino. Columbia, S. C. 29206 Wednesday, April 21, 1971 CUap r permar Guidelines for the permanent establishment of the Con temporary University (CU) program were approved by the [aculty senate April 7. Students in the CU program conduct independent study and research projects in their major or minor fields for one semester. According to USC guidelines, a si udent in CU would receive a maximum of 15 credit hours, no more than nine of which can be applied to his major. Each semester 80) full-time un dergraduate students will be selected. Freshmen are not eligible for CU. Each CU participant has an adviser, generally a member of the school or college in which the st udent receives most of his credits. -- The adviser will assign the grade or the project if the student has completed two noncredit seminars. one on approaches to research methods, analysis and criticisms, the other on ap proaches to interdisciplinary inquiries. SCSSL d size of d( Representatives to the spring session of South Carolina State St tident Legislature (SCSSL) voted yesterday to decrease the size of their delegations. In other actions Francis Marion State College and Coastal Carolinn delegations were seated by j'animous consent of the body. m.JW"Clemson introduced the reap rtionment bill whiciA called for ne delegate per 500 students enrolled in a member college. Columbia College abstained while each of the other delegations ap proved the bill. UK paper becoming independent The University of Kentucky student newspaper, the Ker lwill start publication as an ~ endent as of July 1972, * the gradual elimination .ds by the university. Oa recommendatIon by the university's President Dr. Otis Singletary, the school's board of trustees voted to cut next - year's budget to the paper In half. The following year the budget will be elimInated entIrely. The board voted unan imnousiv on the resolution. proved kently No application deadline has been established yet. All applications will he reviewed by the CU director and associate directoor. If they think the project proposal is un clear or incomplete, the student has two weeks to revise and resubmit it. ' The selection committee, composed of an advisery board member, a past participant in CU and a USC faculty member who has served as a CU adviser, will interview each applicant. The selection committee's evaluation will he sent to the advisery board, who will choose the participants. The student's dean or department head will grant final approval. The CU program at USC will be headed by a -faculty director, chosen annually by the advisory board. He will be assisted by an associate director. The CU program,organized in 19f;. is financed by the Ford Voundation. with contribution from USC. Additional information may be obtained in the CU Office, Room 1. Humanities Building. ecreases iligation 'he topic of' the spring session is State Finance. Polly Spann, I USC). governor of the student group, said that the topic was planned because "we know so little about state finance." She said that the lectures and panel discussion held today will aid student delegates in drafting bills for next I all.a Spann also reported that the student legislature may be getting some aid from Governor John West. .ohn Blackshire (USC), treasurer, said that the group had $71 in the bank. "Our main ex pense has been our lobbyist. We are getting free telephone, free secretarial help and so on." Pat Partin (Citadel made a motion which allows for the for mat ion of a committee to study and possibly revise the SCSSL con stitution. The motion passed with no opposition. Ken Shigley (Furman) suggested that the officers of each house form committees to revise and draft rules for each body and that these committees adopt these rules. I )ean Hall ( USC), lobbyist for SCSSla. presented a status report on his position. He said that the student lobbist should register at the same time other groups register. Hall said that he registered in early February "In time to start working against the fingerprint h)ill ' E A -1 A 1K VA 3 0 12 j UT G The lined area of Green S above map is the area to be c hours on Thursday. The bus Green Stz for Earth Tomorrow, EARTH DAY, a three-block area of Green St. will be closed from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to emphasize the dangers of air and noise pollution, and propose mass transit as a viable alternative. This will run from Sumter St. to Pickens St. rather than Bull St. so that eastbound traffic on Green St. from the Five Points area will Packwoot on aborti< Senator Robert Packwood, Commission on Population' House Auditorium at 2 p.m. At the age of 36, he defea Morse to become the youngest 91st Congress. Packwood has IntroducedI remove all restrictions In all make the decision to termina1 matter of ''private conscience physician: and (2) limit the ni can be climed as tax deductit Ik LD~ 3 17o reen Street gets rc treet on the run an altern losed for six by way of Su service will Streets. Non lots behind ti eet close( Day obs have the option of turning left or right when they approach the barricade at the intersection of Green and Pickens. The Columbia City Police will be responsible for redirecting traffic at the two terminal intersections. It is advised that no one park a car in the Russell House parking I speaking ns today a member of the President's will appear in the Russell today. led 24 year veteran Wayne member of the Senate in the legislation which would (1) states against abortions and le an unwanted pregnancy a a" between a women and her imber of children to two that mis as of January 1t 1973. CWNTER 4 R @ j5 6P E C3C St ate route around the campus mter, Pendleton and Pickens decaled cars may park in the ie Coliseum. I Thurs. ervation lot or along the three-block stretch on Wednesday night or Thursday morning before 10. Any cars parked in these areas will be blocked in until 4 p.m. lhere will be no movement of vehicular traffic in the prescribed area for six hours. The two parking lots behind the Coliseum may be used on Earth Day, and there will be no tickets placed on cars without student decals, as approved by the office of Blusiness Affairs. It is a peasant walk from the parking lots hind the Coliseum to the center of campus, but please allow yourself enough time to walk the distance. There will be the usual bus service for those people who wish to use it. Bua-es leave Irom the Park St. entrance of the Coliseum at 8, 9:30, 11, 12:30, 2, : :40, and 4:45 and move directly up G;reen St. until they reach the harricade at Green St. and Sumter St .where the bus will turn left and circle the campus by way of Pendleton and Pickens Streets.