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VOL. LXII. - NO. 61 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, Februar USC SC) sets guid The USC SCPIRG has established the following guidelines for its activities during the Spring: When a validated majority of students at USC have signed the SCPIRG petition, USC SCPIRG will ask the Board of Trustees to officially establish SCPIRG at USC. Ten days after the Board of Trustees approves SCPIRG, nominations will be accepted for positions on the Local Board of SCPIRG. This Local Board will coordinate SCPIRG programs with the curriculum, will ascertain which areas USC students want in vestigated (by means of referendum, polls, dorm meetings and hearings), and will elect four members of the SCPIRG State Board of Directors. The Local Board will be elected according to a plan based on population and geography similar to the present student Senate. Fifteen days after the Board of Trustees approves SCPIRG, short biographies of all candidates for the Local Board, plus statements of why they are running, will be published in the Gamecock. Eighteen days after the Board of Trustees approve SCPIRG, elections will be held for the Local Board. Simultaneously, recruitment of the professional staff will begin. The staff will be recruited through letters to school placement offices with preference toward, but not limited to South Carolinians. SCPIRG will place ads in professional journals, in major state newspapers and will ask for referrals from faculty and trustees at participating schools. During April and May, other schools throughout the state will go before their Boards of Trustees for approval.. The Local Boards will then select members to sit on the State Board. SCPIRG will become officially incorporated in late April or early Inform stu premise of "Letting students know where their money is going," and cooperation in all phases of studennt government are the keys to Pete Feheley 's concept of ef fective student government. Feheley, a candidate for student body treasurer, stressed the im portance of cohesion among members of the executive branch, between the executive and the student and between the students and the student senate. "I think there is a lot of despair among students that whatever the student senate says, the (University) administration will veto. I think if the students made useonf the susdent ennatn re it IRG elin es May. Questionnaires will be distributed on all campuses in order to get project suggestions from as many students as possible before next year. During June the State Board will meet and begin work in the following areas: hiring the professional director, screening the staff, making arrangements for office space and contacting faculty to arrange courses and projects for the fall so that sutudents participating in SCPIRG projects might receive academic credit. When the fees are collected the staff can be hired and students will begin work on projects. During the third week after the fees are collected, refunds will be given to those not wishing to support SCPIRG. At USC, refunds will be given out from 7:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Monday through Friday of the third week at the Russell House and at other locations if it is administratively possible. Local Boards elected in Spring, 1972 will serve in the follo%fing fashion: one half of the members will serve from Spring, 1972 to Spring, 1973. The other half will serve only until October, 1972., when new elections will be held so that freshman might participate im mediately, and the Local Boards will have continuity. At other schools across South Carolina, Winthrop College students have signed 65 per cent in favor of establishing SCPIRG at Winthrop. At Coker College, 63 per cent have signed. Activities are also underway at Furman, Clemson, Presbyterian College, Erskine College, College of Charleston, Converse and Wofford among others. At USC's Columbia campus where over 52 per cent of the student body has signed the SC PIRG petition, the petition drive is continuing in order to insure a validated majority. dents of ex Feheley 's Feheley e Take u These furry guinea pigs presently reside in Bates House. In accordance with University regulations these roommates are being evicted. They need a new home and extra kind parents to help them adjust Teacher concepts By BOB GRONDAHL, like and give the Staff Writer candid view < Editor's Note : This is the strengths and w seventh of a nine part series of White said the interviews with the Student evalution is not Government cabinet. The cabinet University of W, is composed of students appointed a system of stuc by Pres. Harry Walker and is an teachers since unofficial part of the executive proximately 50 n branch. experimenting "The purpose of teacher teacher evaluati evaluation is two fold," com- White said a ci mented Michael White secretary of methods would academic affairs. ""It will give method is a geni the student a clear perspective of the teacher's at what the course and the teacher is learning. This m teachers by studc performance. oenditures The second mi measure a teach by whether stude an aways of thinking x "6 ting the instruc would strengthen the senate's teach. position." "Let me stress As treasurer, Feheley said, "I we want teachei would do my best to see that the be voluntary. Th new administration's goals are an absolute m carried out and let students know teaching, along' where their money's going." service, is one ( "I'm not sure that the students activities of know how much money they're professor." paying out to be used by student In order to ke government. It should be the ob- impartial, White jective of student leaders to se evaluation quest that the money goes where they administered mia want it to." semester durini To make student government period by sixty s spending more responsive to The questionaire student's wishes, Feheley favors compiled and mi making many activities optional at for distributio dContinued on Page 5,) Semester. 4L4 Is hom e -Mwry Sill to the change in environment. If you love animals and need someone special to care for, please consider adopting these two friends. evaluation revealed professor a more if his teaching aknesses." :oncept of teacher iew. He said the ishington has had ent evaluation of 1924, and ap iajor colleges are with or have 3ns. )mbination of two work best. One ral assesment of ility to motivate ethod would rate nts' judgement of thod would be to er's effectiveness nts have learned ,~ feeling and ac- -Mra i tor has tried to A faculty student committee is said White, "that researching and preparing a participation to sample questionaire, White added. 3 evaluation is not The faculty members are: Bar easure because bara Ohanesian, English depart vith research and ment; Dr. Peter Becker, History f the three basic department; Dr. Jumer Kuhlman, a university Political Science department; and Dr. H. K. McMillian, College of ep the evaluation Engineering. The student mem stated the teacher bers are : Mar y Hor ton, ionaire would be Psychology major and Bob Iway through the Grondahl, Business Ad a week long ministration major. elected students. "In summary I feel that a s would then be .workable and just teacher ide into a booklet evaluation will help to improve the n by the fall overall academic quality of the University," Whit sad