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VOL. ILV NO. 23 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. MONDAY, NOV. 18 1974 Search'cq for stu BY BILL GRANT Of The Gamecock staff The search committee charged with finding a successor for outgoing Dean for Student Affairs Charles H. Witten bas weathered its first internal squabble and will begin its work shortly after the Thanksgiving break. A dispute concerning the number of faculty representatives on the committee has apparently. been resolved with Acting Provost Keith E. Davis' decision Thursday to include only two on the six-man panel. Davis said early last week he was considering naming three SAC restr bill intr BY LEE POWELL Of The Gamecock staff A bill altering the composition and structure of the Student Allocations Commission (SAC) was re-introduced in the USC Student Senate Wednesday night. Tom Efland, Robert Kilgo and George McMasters proposed the bill at Wednesday's meeting. Von Hoff BY FRANK DELOACHE Of The Gamecock staff Congenial and red-faced columnist Nicholas von Hoffman told a crowd filling Booker T. Washington auditorium last week' "moderate extremism" similar to fascismplagues America today. Covering topics ranging from foreign policy to the economy to vice president designate Nelson Rockefeller, von Hoffman classified himself a "Jeffersonian" in favor of small government and free .enterprise. "I don't want to roll back oil prices. I want oil companies to divest. I don't want any monopoly situation." Von Hoffman said America's two political parties, "Demopublicans and Republierats," are the reason only 40 per cent of the electorate voted ,Nov. 5. "I doubt if disillusionment is the reason. Politics and politician~s have always had a bad name," he said. "I think the reason people aren't voting (and this isn't verified by a >mKUCmittee lent affai faculty members to the committee, a decision that brought immediate dissension from the committee's three student nominees. "How often do the faculty have to work with the Division of Student Affairs? Not that often, I would suggest," Eileen Berlin, a student member, said Tuesday. "The students, who have to directly work with this person, whoever it may be, should have the largest say in just who this person is." Berlin, along with Neal Hart man, were nominated to the committee by Student Government Association President Leigh Leventis late last month. University Union President Frank. 0 ,ucturing 'oduced Efland, spokesman for the group, said the bill has "been in the (Student Allocations) Committee a long time and there's been a lot of work on it." Presentation of the bill came at a relatively late hour of the senate meeting. Several senators had left before the bill came up before the body. For this reason, the bill was Continued on Page 12 nan: A f poll of 500 random Americans sometimes I think America is a nation of random Americans. We have a two-party system with a one-party state. You can't deduct FOOD--While American are world's best-fed people, mIllins go hungry daily. Some thoughts on skage le. selected rs head Siano, the third-student member, nominated himself. Davis said he was considering three faculty members "because we didn't want any particular group to have a majority." However, he changed his mind during the week and on Thursday asked only two faculty members, Patti P. Gillespie, of the Theater Department and Harold W. French, of the Religion Depart ment, to join the committee. Richard Werte, dean for residence life, is the committee's representative from the student affairs staff. Davis, in Washington for an educator's conference, could not be contacted to comment on his reasons .for the reversal, although student members feel their initial outrage at his decision played a large part. He said the committee would begin its process of sorting, screening and interviewing can didates "hopefully, just before the Thanksgiving break or in early December." He said the com mittee should have a list of three candidates to present to USC President William H. Patterson by the spring break. Witten's resignation becomes effective June 30. Davis would not speculate on the type of person the committee will be looking for, or whether the committee would go outside the Continued on Page 12 orm of fas a party position from any issues from foreign policy, the economy or .the post office." According to the Washington Post nationally-syndicated On the inside BAK IN FORM-Jeff Grants regained some of the well-publcised talent to lead USC to feurth wit. Pagte?. 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