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G&B to stj BY KATHY CALLAWAY Gamecock Staff Writer Coming off what was perhaps the finest year in the history of the USC yearbook, Garnet and Black editor Fred Merritt said . last week, somewhat predictably, he plans no major changes in the format that proved so successful last spring. For those students new to the University of South Carolina, last year marked a new innovation in the type of yearbook churned out by the Garnet and Black staff. A binder with eight separate magazines, ranging from The National Lampoon depicting student social life, to the Saturday. Evening Post showing the conglomerate of organizations, to Sports Illustrated with shots and commentary on the school's sports heroes, made up the popular an nual. This year will find the same basic format with a few prospective improvements. The most noticeable to the reader will be the variation in the names of each magazine: The Carolina PALMI -PH V.,.DOWNT( iy with ma Lampoon, The Saturday Review USC World, The USC Intellectual Digest and USC News. These name changes will be supported by a few variations in the USC version of the copied magazine. He said The Southern Living section will continue to show student portraits, and index and short stories on student life but will reside under the name of the Garnet and Black Register. The magazine entitled Saturday Evening Post last year will be done away with completely, placing school organizations in appropriate sections in the other seven magazines. The eighth magazine will be a USC News and World Report. Merritt feels this will fill a definite need to cover politics on campus as well as relate them on a local, state and national level. A problem with an inadequate binder which tore and ravelled will be solved by a flexible, ligheer cover this year, he reported. Merritt said the success of the type yearbook can be backed by figures. Last year 2,400 copies were sold in advance. The extra ETTO HAIRSTYLING Sl nplete Service for Men and Worn DNE JERRY HENDRIX -- 256-24 )WN IN THE ARCADE MALL - S walkin...on firm natual b (det. 0) ho Saon D.is Wlon wood t' anr'ld Sknainavan cMottik walkng...ona fim, aturlgb gazine -st) copies ordered numbering 1,600, were sold out by 2 p.m. the day they were sold. . An additional printing was investigated but ruled out due to an $11 charge the printer demanded for each copy, Merritt said. . The price raise this year from the $3 tradition to $5.:. caused a few perspective buyers to back off, Merritt says, but fie setimates that 50 per cent more books have been preordered than were sold last year. If public opinion doesn't measure success, Merritt says experts praised the 1974-75 yearbook nationwide. Outstanding praised for the Garnet and Black came from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Merritt says this year's staff is affected by the success of last year's book. More people, especially photographers, have sought to work on the book than ever before he said and the regualr staff now numbers about 60. Merritt had high praise for last year's staff, especially the fresh men, of whom he was "very proud." Many of the staff have UDO en 45 UT #11 ~nd if, se. 25 En's r1e format returned and Merritt said this year' will measure up to and maybe surpass last year's. Looking to the future, he said the Garnet and Black will continue using the magazine format but will probably move more and more towards originality - -within each magazine, a step which will be seen in moderation. A quarterly magazine, he said, replacing the annual altoghther is also being considered as a long range plan. Finance comn SGA allocah BY RUSSELL BOYD The Senate Finance Committee held budget hearings on proposed allocatiors of unappropriated funds from the, budget passed by the senate in April. Monday night .committee proposals for the supplemental budget total $18,000 in addition to the $17,000 ap propriated in the spring for the 1974-75 academic year. Due to absence, proposed allocations from the Office of Academic Affairs and Women's Affairs were cut from the budget with the exception of tentativ funds allocated for the "hotline" OF CLASS ':CANTON I 6400 GARNE O CEDAR TERRAC (opposite tc <FAMOUS IN:RC t WITH SPARKLING VY FLOWER & MUSIC. R OPEN 7 DAYS A WE 776-9199 Happy I 159 a Thurac 6:00 1 1/2 block fra h* STUDEN~~ FRED MERRITT ...50 per cent more books ruittee hears on proposals service. The contingency fund proposal for an additional $4,300 was also cut from the bill. The statute requirement of 5 per cent for the contingency fund was passed in April by the senate and has already been overspent. Chairman of the finance Com mittee Bob Kilgo said if con tingency funds were needed, they would have to be withdrawn from the miscellaneous sections of the budget. 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