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Frank Shealy, a USC student veteran and a member of the committee, said the committee "hasn't been a very functional thing until this year." Describing the school year, Shealy said, "It's going to be a useful organization." The committee members would Ido "everything in our power to help veterans academically, finan cially, and spiritually," and called it a very productive meeting. Shealy said one of the com mittee's functions was to help veterans entering the University upgrade their academic skills. The USC Admissions Office, reported Shealy, reviews veterans' records to see if they are eligible for credit. Financial aid to student veterans is a key concern of the committee. Shealy, at the meeting, suggested a veterans' bank. His idea was accepted by the other membeis, He said many veterans were in need of financial aid, and went on to explain his ideas. Some veterans just returning to this area, said Shealy, have trouble getting credit The same applies to those veterans who never did establish a lot of credit to begin with. Shealy explained how the bank could help. If a. veteran's check does not arrive in time, and he is then stuck with tuition or family expenses, the bank would loan him the money to be paid back later. It would act as an emergency fund, said Shealy. "We are trying for same-day service," said Shealy. He noted the bank would be funded by student veterans on campus, veterans who are Carolina graduates , and the American Legion. All of these people would be asked to make deposits. "We have received indications from the American Legion that they would provide a large sum of money to the veterans' bank to get it off the ground," said Shealy. "This would also be a cushion to absorb a defaulted loan should there be any." "We," Shealy said, "are guaranteeing the veterans a loan." He said this "has to be a professional banking operation." The bank, according to Shealy, would operate through either the Carolina Veterans Club or the Veterans' Affairs Office. A "target date" for set-up of the bank would be within ten weeks. Shealy said the matter has been discussed with other veterans and that everybody is excited about it. The bank, remarked Shealy, "would operate much like a credit union," and the committee may eventually get it chartered as such. Another concern of the meeting was the possible establishment on USC of the first American Legion post on a college or university campus in the United States. Shealy said American Legion--Post Six, which is a few blocks off campus, has offered to help USC in any way it can in the formation of a post. Shealv said this post on campus would be a stationary meeting location for veterans to dicuss common problems and solaios. He said the Carolina Veterans club has not ben centrally located. "We float from place to place." This will be discussed at another committee meeting on November 12. A social for student veterans will be planned at this meeting. The social would be held at American Legion-Post Six. It would be paid for by the post and free to student veterans. He added that the matter would be decided upon at the Nov. 12 meeting. He would like to have it soon, but almost defivitely before Christmas. He said there will be "food and seasonal spirits" at the social. The veterans "hope to get out of this a more unified veteran body on campus to work for the interest of all student veterans...." He adds he hopes the veterans' organization will be "like our own veterans' fraternity," Shealy said. SPROAT History head, U.S. scholars release book John G. Sproat, head of the USC Department of History has joined with fourteen other distinguished historians throughout the United States to compile information for a recently released book entitled, "Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct." The book, published in August, was written as an authoritative history on all Presidents from George Washington to Lyndon Johnson at the request of Counsel John Doar for the impeachment Inquiry staff investigating charges against Richard M. Nixon. Each of the 15 historians in volved in the work were specialists in the period they covered and were asked to provide a factual, objective study of charges of Presidential misconduct levelled against former Presidents *or members of their Administrations. Sproat provided the commentary on Presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and McKinley. The book also includes an in troduction by C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor of History from Yale University and director of the study. The volume was published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. and sells for $1.75 per copy in the paperback form.