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Veterani A Full Ti With close to 3,000 veterans on the USC main campus alone, Robert Grant "Bud" Thurber has more than a full time job on his hands. Bud Thurber is the recently appointed Director of Veteran Student Affairs at USC, a much needed office set up through funds from the Office of Education to promote veteran programs and help the veteran achieve his educational goals. "First of all what we need," Thurber said, "is publicity. We want to let the people know that there is such an office as Veteran Student Affairs and that we are here to help them." He said his office serves basically to provide a service to all veteran students. But in Thurber's opinion the Office of Veteran Student Affairs is not limited to just helping veteran students cut red tape. Professor Interviews Laird In an effort to bring government closer to students, University Prof. James T. Myers will be in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, Nov. 6 to tape an interview with former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. Laird, currently counsel to the President for domestic affairs, will talk with Dr. Myers on "The Presidency: Role and Functions." Some 50 video-taped interviews with Laird and other government officials will be used at USC for introductory American govern ment classes next spring. Myers, whose program may be the first in the country to use a series of television shows with government officials for a political science cournse, explains that television is the only way to bring major political figures into the classroom. Along with Laird, Myers has upcoming interviews planned with House Minority Leader and Vice Presidential Nominee Gerald Ford, AFL-CIO President George Meany, House Speaker Carl Albert and Sens. Hubert Hum phrey and Barry Goldwater. Myers has already taped in terviews with Sen. George McGovern and Adm. Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as with South Carolina Sens. Strom Thurmond and Ernest F. Hollings and Reps. Bryan Dorn and Floyd Spence. The officials are interviewed on the parts of government with which they are most familiar. Thurmond,.for example, discussed the passage'of a bill in the Senate while Dorn explained how a bill is handled in the House. Myers uses a format -in his in 'erviews similar to that of television talk shows. Next semester his students at USC will observe four interviews a week and also .attend a small discussion session for their course in the Department of Government and Interriational Studeies. Laird, a congressman from Wisconsin for eight terms, served as secretary of defense from 1969 to 1973. Author and editor of several political science books, Laird also chaired the Republican National Platform Committee in 1964. -'Affairs me Job "We want to let him know about programs which he might have been unaware of before, but we also want to let him know that there is someone here who he can talk to about his problems and that we sincerely want to help him." Thurber noted that the veteran on campus is in a different situation than most othei students. "For the most part, the veteran student isiolder and is more serious about his education. He is in school because he sees it as a means to get a better job." * Thurber noted that the veteran student frequently has a heavier financial burden to bear, children to feed and bills to pay which the younger, nonveteran student would normally not have to worry about. "So, we have a responsibility here, not only to serve the veteran in easing administrative problems, but must also realize that the problems can be often of a more personal nature." Since the veteran student has also been away from school for several years, it is often difficult for him to readily adjust to the classroom again. Thus, he may lose interest or become discouraged because learning isn't going smoothly. "One program which we are trying to publicize to the veteran student," Thurber said, "is the Veterans Tutorial Assistance Program which will help pay for tutorial services in subjects in which the student is deficient." According to the new director, many veterans in school here are totally unaware of this program which allows up to $450 in tutorial aid. He added that a list of available tutors is being compiled. On the USC campus, the director is working closely with the Carolina Veterans Club to help establish local awareness of the office. As a result of efforts by the Carolina Veterans Club and the Office for Veteran Student Affairs, approximately 25 disabled veterans from the Columbia VA hospital were able to attend the USC-NC State football game. "We want to sensitize veterans to the fact that we are here to help themwhile trying to isolate what he feels are some of his most im portant needs so we can better serve. Paper Shortage Limits Number Of Schedules The newsprint shortage which is causing publications around the country to cut back has found its way into the university, according to Charles Boswell, space and schedule co-ordinate. Due to the shortage', a limited number of spring schedules were printed, and associate provost Nicholas P. Mitchell asks all students to conserve their copies. "In the past, it seems students have picked up copies of the schedules, looked at them, and thrown them away. Then they would take another," said Boswell. This time, only enough schedules have been printed to give each student one, with some left over for use in the Coliseum at registration. "We can only print 35,000 copies total for the spring schedule. In the fall, we had to print 10,000 extra copies just for the Coliseum . This time, we just can't get the paper," according to Boswell. * GGAR Mustang slacks give 3 plenty of leg room These racy "Wide Traks" are clea up-to-the-minute styling. 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