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FU,nded through B 'USCbegi A Southern Studies program has beenestablished at U unded by the Lucy Hampton Bostick Foundation and the University on a matching basis. The, gift from the Bostick Foundatiop will support the program's teaching, research, conference and publications over a five year period and is one of the largest grants ever made to the University in support of an academic program. Announcement of the program's establishment was n\ade by President William H. Patterson at a luncheon pteceding the opening session of the first Bostick Con ference being held Friday and Saturday on campus. Spence cal in federal BY BILL PRATT Of The Gamecock staff The Federal government can cut spending in all parts of the budget, 2nd district . Floyd Spence said Thursday during a campaign swing across the USC cu .could Just cut across the board," Spence said, in reference to excessive Federal spending. Including, he said, the military budget, which accounts for 27.2 per cent of the Federal budget. A constitutional 'mendment requiring a balanced Federal budget, and an increase in savings. are two inflation fighting measures being considered, he said. "I've got a constitutional Findoc wVhat toknc aboU speal it's our 2nd Annui Ig Dr. James Carroi, and designsr of APt Audio to demonstrate He will besequippedut and test speekers. - You can even bri have him check them something about your know. Plan to be'st our 2nd i a,d find out everythin speakers. And APL. For more informu ostick gift Ln southe Southern Studies is an in terdisciplinary program whict sponsors and coordinates graduatu and - undergraduate. courses anc independent study in variout aspects of the history, literatur4 and culture-of South Carolina ant other -Southern states. Majoi public conferences are held eact semester, and, students in th4 program also have the opportunit3 to participate in smaller, lest formal symposia and workshops. Director of the program is Dr James B. Meriwetheri McClintoci Professor of Southern Letters. An experimental sophomort level team-taught course, "Soutt Carolina Studies," is being offeret for the first time this semester. L9 for cuts spending amendment that will require the government to balance the budgel each year," he toll a Golden Spw audience. "Right now," he added, "we've got to get money into the saving associations to be loaned out." Ar increase in savings, Spence con tinued, will stimulate the home building industry. Spence also spoke out against the nomination of Nelson Rockefeller to the vice-presidency in his in. formal talk with about 30 USC students, and said he "intends to vote against him." "And, not because of what has been brought up against him," ce added. "I don't like his iosophy," he said, "It might be something that can be said about somebody with a lot of money." Prwievt Chief-Enginec vill be hereat Upstair explein, and compere sound. tchnically demonstrate ri your own speekurs in and nut. You might leamn spakr that you didn't tductad everal times daily. Annual Speaker Clinic g you need to know about ition call 262-mi0. Tn studies New pernanent ai will be brought t4 to participate is Several menbers of the USC faculty, from various department" which are assisting in the program, and visiting lecturers, are joining Meriwether in the course, which deals with a number of aspects of the intellectual, cultural, and social life and history of South Carolina. The undergraduate course will be offered again this spring, and Meriwether plans to offer a new interdisciplinary graduate course, "Southern Issues," in the. near future. New permanent faculty and visiting faculty, in various fields pertaining to the South and its history, will be -brought to the -University to participate in the program. At the present time, the program is financing 13 graduate and un dergraduate research assistant ships and, according to Meriwether, this number will be increased as the program progresses. Conferences, symposia -and lectures, with both visiting authorities and USC faculty members participating, will be sponsored by the program each year. Major conferences such as this weekend's Bostick Conference on "Time on the Cross" will be held at least once eath semester, and will deal with a major subject, or a I&9. program d visiting faculty the University the program. major new book, important to an understanding of the South. Symposia, also to be held at leasi once each semester, will deal with smaller topics. Bostick lectures will each feature an individual, from any one of a wide variety of fields, who has made a significant contribution to South Carolina life or history. Another major undertaking in the Southern Studies Program, according to Meriwether, is the sponsorship of publications con cerned with Sputh Carolina,. particularly with its history and I literature. One such publication I now being undertaking by the e Southern Studies Program is the .t updating of the standard g bibliography of South Carolina, . published in 1950. The Bostick Foundation is an g educational foundation established j by the late Lucy Hampton Bostick 1 of Columbia. Bostick was a v longtime director of the Richland v County Library and a publisher of a several books of regional interest. I Trustees of the Bostick Foundation' are H. Simmons Tate Jr., A. Mason a Gibbes and George Walker. t SBA funding questioned From Page One . back to the Supreme Court that the i defendant cothplies with the letter I of the.law." t Chartering - Commission Acting Chairman Carnell Foskey could ( not be reached Sunday to comment i on whether or not the commission 6( would instigate an investigation of t the Bar Association. "I can't understand why the SAC I and the Chartering Commission i allowed this to go on so long. The E SAC had thought about cutting off funds to the SBA earlier this semester, but nothing became of that," Frierson said Sunday. SBA President Mitch Willoughby feels his organization is within their constitutional guidelines. Last spring, he sald, the SAC issued the SBA a mandate to comply with their request to change their constitutional membership policy. "Right now, we are drafting a revision for our constitution," Willoughby said. "Although our present constitution states 'all law students' this doesn't preclude undergraduates from joining. "We have never excluded any undergraduates who were not members, from any of our func tions. In fact, when we had Ravenel and Edwards speak, there were meny undergraduates there. It's just that' our membership policy has never been tested." At the moment, there are no non law students in the SBA, he said. TRlARmns GIESE Giese vists Mexico Dr. Warren Giese, dean of the JSC School of Health and Physical ducation, is one of two American ducators traveling to Mexico City D advise the Mexican government n sports, health and physical ducation. Giese and Dr. Harry Fritz, dean f the School of Health and 'hysical Education at the State Jniversity of New York at Buffalo, vill leave Saturday to meet for a eeek with governmental officials nd sports and physical education eaders in Mexico to discuss the resent programs of that nation nd ways to improve them. In explaining the purpose of the rip, Giese said that it will help roaden the base of participation r the sports program in Mexico ind improve the country's health ind physical education programs The trip is also being made at the equest of the Mexican govern nent. Giese said he and Fritz will be onsulting with the officials to help nake plans to increase sports rograms at all age levels hroughout the country. A member of the President's ;ouncil on Physical Fitness and ports, Giese is also on the U.S. lympic Committee, chairman of Ne Governor's Physical Fitness Ldvisory Committee and past vice resident of the American association of Health, Physical Mucation and Recreation. WOODSY OW MOOTS: BNE A HOOtnDONT P(3 WE