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Mungo: From Page 1 You're lucky if you can break out of your bondage," Mungo said. "I'm a realist and a prag matist, but you can't stand much stark realism. I like to write poetry, it's introspective. I do it to find out about me. My poetry is really a subjective observation on life, things that have happened to me. I plan to publish a book of it this year," Mungo explained, sitting in his office complete with chandelier and two ster ling silver replicas of sailing ships. "They're collector's items," he said. "As all men, I need know that others care and in return, I rush to freely give of me and mine..." from "Sweet Waters" by Mungo. Mungo is a philanthropist. "Giving is part of being real," he said. "To get something out of society, you have to put into society. After a man makes $25,000," he explained, "the amount of money is very limited. You can just drive one car at a time. Money is so imma terial. Society just uses money to keep score by." Mungo sponsors a scholar ship fund for Clemson students, and his will provides that in case of a disaster that kills him and his family, 70 per cent of his estate will go to the Epis copal Church and the remaining 30 per cent to USC, he said. According to Mungo, his busi Brunton Campus parking lots are not being used fully, according to Harold Brunton, vice president of business affairs. Brunton cited three lots that never reach their parking capacity. A temporary lot behind the Physical Education Center can hold 200-300 cars, he said, but usually about 50 are parked there. The Bates House lot can hold 100 and the Coliseum lot, 200. These are all decal lots and can be used at a $10 semester rate. "What we are saying is there is parking available within walking distance for both faculty and students," he said. "It's not as close, however; it means a change in habit." Brunton said parking this week has been worse than ever because of the work being done for the new nursing school. Land clearing started last week and areas which had been used is no mop-head. She's sweei tive of [ial-a-Maid - a corm residents in the Columrbia ar your pocketbook with an av~ you're stronger than dirt giv 787-9721. DIA L-A SED4A Student's ness has arranged to donate a utility plant valued at three quarters of a million dollars to the northeastern part of the city. "This won't be announced until next week," he said. Mungo is the only trustee to be contested for his seat on the board. "Since I've been on the 'They (board memberr century that I do. They I of youth.' board, there have been many changes. The board is more vital and active," he said. Con cerning some board members opposed to his re-election to the board, Mungo said, "We are world's apart in ideas. They don't live in the same century that I do. They have an innate suspicion of youth. They want to be young and can't. They're incapable of enjoyong life and they've lost interest in it. I think that they plain damn envy youth," he said. "I'm not the least bit interested in having a title in Parking for parking have been fenced in to facilitate construction vehi cles. The new Business Administration faculty-staff lot should have compensated for the parking space lost to the nursing project, Brunton said, but the January sleet storm and poor weather retarded comple tion of the lot for more than two months. He also released plans for new parking projects. This summer the parking capacity on the Bates House block will be doubled, Brunton said, and the mall area will be completed. The final designs for an addi tion to the Blossom Street park ing garage calls for .six more parking levels to hold 456 cars. "We hope to start construction shortly after the end of the spr ing semester," he said. The new levels will be financed with $1,400,000 from parking revenue.bonds. The money was yinlg in profits as a representa ~nient servioe being offered to aa. Join our staff and liberate erage of$2 to$3 per hour. If Sus a call - day or night - at ERVICE lack of c front of my name. I'm on the board because I know I can do something," Mungo said. "But I say if you don't belong up there and can't do anything up there, then you ought to be bounced out on your butt." Mungo added, "I lecture a lot. I think it's important that a ) don't live in the same iave an innate suspicion Michael J. Mungo trustee do that. He must keep in touch with youth." Mungo has two main concern for the USC student body. He sees the drug problem as sym ptomatic of today's culture. "It concerns me greatly that the cream of our society would have to use an artificial stimulus to make life bearable. People no longer have enough sense of purpose and no imagi nation," Mungo said. He attributed this to the acceptance of mediocrity as a standard of achievement. "It's a hell of an encompassing prob lots not I borrowed on the projected income from parking fees, decals and meters. Last year the University collected $222,000. Brunton said his office is doing preliminary planning on a major parking garage for the block of Pickens, Pendleton, Senate and Marion streets which will hold 2,000 cars. He said no funds are available, "but we want to get plans ready so as soon as we can obtain the funds, we can proceed." Long, range plans for a mass transit system will be done by Wilbur Smith Associates, a Columbia-based engineering firm that has offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Brunton said Wilbur Smith is a world wide traffic consultant and Columbia is his home. The plans should provide for a path through campus on which stu dents would be transported on mini buses. Brunton's office is asy To Opem Charge Account *100 (Limit) BRITTONS lirection t. lem," he said. Mungo's partial solution to the drug problem is to have a very strong program of drug education in elementary and high schools. "We must keep the problems that drugs create in the forethought of the people involved," he said. "We must let them know that it isn't worth the gamble." "I need to believe in God and man I need to help man believe in man..." from "Sweet Waters. Mungo is distressed by the student's lack of direction. "The students need a real concern for the problems of man. They can help man understz.nd man," Mungo said. "I don't think stu dents realize how powerful there are. I'd like to see a domestic peace course, one that would get students to attack environmental and social prob lems," he said. "The purpose of ully used trying to get a grant from the U. S. Secretary of Transporta tion for the project. An intracampus bus runs daily to various points during class hours. Last year the bus ran hourly at night but Brunton said the route was shortened because "we found that nobody was on it." He said students didn't ride the bus because it was not dependable. "Overriding everything we recognize that faculty, students and everybody have a very legitimate complaint," Brunton said. "We are embarking on a program that we think will answer them." George Key, university sec urity officer, said 40 spaces that have not been rented are avail able in the Blossom Street gar age. These spaces are guaranteed parking not just a "hunting license" as Brunton has called decals. Key said all parking spaces are not being used because people don't know about them and because the lots are on SGA de parking While the "studies" of bicycle paths are still in progress, the Park ing Committee of the Student Government Association continues to debate solutions to the parking problem Progress ranges from nonexistent to slow, according to Phil Newsom, student member of the Committee. Deborah Kadison, SGA Press Sec retary, re-emphasized that regist ration of all bicycles uedr on cam ipsetting an education is to help you learn to think. Today's campus radi cal is tomorrow's conservative Main Street banker. Society must have a totally new input," Mungo said, adding, "The most gratifying thing in the world is helping others." Mungo stated his philosophy: "Be you and accept the respon sibility for it. But you have to be impervious to public opinion if you believe in yourself. Mungo gave his views on some other topics:University Arts--"I feel the University has been greatly slighted in cultural events. The university should have an aesthetic life. We're trying to fund $18 million for ETV and the proposed cultural center." USC Athletic Department--"I enjoy sports activity, I think everyone does. It's part of our vicarious, hero-worshipping nature. The athletic department is the public relations division of the university. I don't think it detracts from the rest of the university. Hell, they're plann ing a quarter million dollar natatorium (indoor swimming pool) in the physical education complex. This was funded by the athletic department, but it's for all the students." Student Fees--"Forty per cent of your education is being paid by the South Carolina taxpayer. I don't think anyone should complain about the activity fee which he pays. HAROLD BRUNTON ...new parking projects. fringe areas. "I've talked to a lot of faculty and staff and they just don't know." We are conscious of the prob lem," Brunton said. "We are not ignoring it; we're trying to do something. A certain amount of money and time just have to be expended." abates problem pus is mandatory, effective immediately. Bicycles may be registered at the Campus Police station on S. Main St. at no cost. It is expected that registration of all bicycles will aid the police in returning stolen ones. Locks and chains may also be obtained at the station for $3. Warnings and fines will be issued to bicycles not parked in authorized bicycle rack areas and those not bearing registration deals.