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K VOL. LXIV NO. 60 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA. S.C. 29208 April 15, 1974 Outdo Plan Fi BY DAVID HAVIRD Gala and festivity mark the opening Thursday of a European style cape on the fringe between Humanities Office Building and the reflecting pool. Characterized as "neutral ground for faculty and students" by its originator, Distinguished Professor of English and Com parative Literature Morse Peckham, the cafe is designed as an experiment toward expanding the cafe idea to other locations on campus. According to Vice Provost for Liberal and Cultural Disciplines Edward Beardsley, the cafe will be. expanded to a situation of per manence if the experimental one proves successful. In preparation for the opening, which will include a student art show and concerts by the Music Department during class breaks, half the vending machines in the lobby of Humanities Office Building have been removed to allow for over-the-counter pur chases of coffee, soft drinks, sweet rolls and doughnuts. In addition to over-the-counter service, a man with a push-cart , ft i . Is this one of the things peop deception in advertising? Surely t where people are beautified. But thE nuly shop? Staff photo by L.naal ir Cafe nalized will make the round into the cafe area and will sell food items there. English Professor Benjamin Dunlap and some of his students are building a small stage for dramatic productions and a fence to screen the cafe from the faculty parking lot. "I am committed emotionally to the outdoor cafe," Dunlap said. "Morse wanted to five years ago and each year since, it's been supported. The administration had said when the the campus ar chitecture reached a certain point, they'd do it." Dunlap, who is a member of the Advisory Committee for Cultural Affairs working out of Dean for Student Activities Robert E. Alexander's office, said, "We felt very strongly that the ar chitectural priorities were awry that virtually no provision had been made for student-faculty interaction. And that struck us a deplorable omission." Last fall an implimentation committee was set up by the Ad visory Committee for Cultural Affairs, made up of students Robert Remington and Charles Smith, Peckham, Beardsley, and members from the Division of (See CAFE, Page 3) +'p refer to when they talk about his quaint site cannot be a place n again, who has ever heard of an te Cowart. r,.m Ulf9 E'w Th r rSNj. . So you think the only things hurt by the fuel erisis have been the auto-oriented populace? And the only things benefiting have been the major oil companies? There have been other SAC Concludf Funding Figures To I BY MARK MORROW was considering. The Student Allocations Com- Simoneau said mission (SAC) has finished by the SAC were E deliberations on next year's budget and they followe requests from various student guidelines of the i activities and will release tenative the number of org funding figures sometime this for money this y week. than last and the Paul Simoneau, newly elected limited amount SAC chairman after the sudden allocate. resignation of Charles Smith, said Responding to one of the main problems with this about the structu year's hearings was that many Simoneau said hi Drganizations did not fill out budget there was a bettei requests properly. The com- the commission. mission had set up meetings to favor a proposal instruct organizations on the representative f pruper way of filling out requests, organization bE however Simoneau said, many executive sessi groups did not bother to send representatives. Often, Simoneau said, more time SGA To was spent trying to figure out the meaning of particular items in a B ud et I budget than anything else. Many times a figure would look vague to Open heari the commission and the student proposed 1974 organization would be asked to Government resubmit their request. All this (SGA) budge took considerable amount of announced by F time and slowed the entire process chair m an of down considerably, Simoneau said. Senate Flnanc The SAC took about 60 hours to go The hearings over budget requests from more p.m. Monday, than 40 campus organizations. Russell House, This problem of recall became According to more apparent the second time the nouncement, commission went over a particular senators, cabini budget. By the second reading, he other SGA ofi said, the key facts concerning a been requested budget request might be buried in help anwer an a maze of information that the SAC _______ winners and losers. The poor pumps end up in the scrap heap while the junkyard operators get what might someday become a valuable relic. Staff photo by Lafayette Cowart. as Hearings Pe Released This Week budget is up for discussion, but warned of inherent dangers in that the cuts ordered plan. is fair as possible "A commission member might d the numerous worry about offending the club !ommission. But representatives when they cut the anizations asking budget," Simoneau said. "They ear was greater may feel the entire budget is SAC has only a necessary and argue for that point of funds it can and cause the process to take longer than it does now." recent criticism Simoneau rejected the idea of ring of the SAC, having the student body elect SAC did not believe members, saying it would turn it way to organize into a "popularity contest." He He said he would . said the student body is apathetic which calls for a anyway about where their money rom a campus goes and feels the present method allowed into of selecting SAC members is good on when their for the time being. The SAC has also recently come under fire because many H old organizations feel that the Com mission's members know little or lern s nothing about their particular organization. Simoneau responded ngs on the saying the commission was -1975 Student learning about the different Association organizations all the time and this have been knowledge will make the SAC odney Shealy, better. the Student He supports this reasoning by e Committee, saying that the members of the will be held 4 SAC are making a large sacrifice April 15 in for the students by spending as Room 310. much time as is required for the Shealy's an- lengthy hearings and various "all student appeals. Commission members ~t officials and receive no stipend of any kind and !icials have Simoneau said they were just to attend to y questions." (ee SA,Pae2