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Mungo p transfer f BY MARK DILLARD Of The Gamecock staff A plan to sue the USC Board of Trustees to regain a place on its Intercollegiate Athletic Committee tIAC) has bpen abandoned by Board member Michael J. Mungo, because he found no legal basis for such action. To protest his removal from the athletic committee of the Board of Trustees, Mungo is refusing to serve on the new committee assigned to him. Mungo was transferred by his fellow Board members from the IAC to the finance committee Dec. 11 following his criticism of the Trustee's efforts to find a replacement for head football coach Paul Dietzel. "As a perpetual protest to their action, I refuse to serve on the finance committee," the Columbia real estate developer said Tuesday. "The point is this," he explained, "Anytime a public official feels something is not being done in the public interest he has a right to carry it to the public." Mungo said he had suggested the Trustees simplify their efforts by making a list of their choices for the job, going down the list, of fering the job to each coach until one accepted. The Board, however, continued with its original selection methods, which involved several committees. The Board voted to remove Mungo from the IAC on the same day it interviewed Mooney Player and Jim Carlen, then top choices for the coaching position. Two statements attributed to him in the press, one of which he did not make, led to his removal, Mungo said. He was quoted in the Nov. 21 edition of The Gamecock as saying the Board of Trustees were "too damn slow" in picking a new coach. The other factor was a North Carolina newspaper article claiming that Mungo had offered the position, along with $60,000, to Lou Holtz of North Carolina State. Mungo said Tuesday the Holtz story is untrue. James W. Cothran, Board vice chairman Mungo said, assumed without checking with him that the story was correct, and led the Trustees in the move to transfer Mungo from the Athletic committee. Of the eight Trustees who voted against him Mungo said, "I think they acted in haste and are em barrassed by it. I think maybe they see that It was foolish." HE WAlN PART DAYS ( Apply 1211 College i rotests rom TAC . He blamed - the Trustees disapproval of him on their "elitist concept" of the Board's position in the University. "They don't think that you should ever talk to the press. They don't think you ought to associate with students. They don't think you ought to associate with football players." The final outcome of the whole affair, the selection of Texas Tech's Jim Carlen, pleases Mungo. If he had had an original choice, he said, it would have been Lou Holtz, whom he knew personally, "but, had I known Jim Carlen, he would have been my first choice." Mungo also said that taking his criticism of the Board of Trustees to the public may have had a positive effect. "I felt like we were floundering in the selection of a coach and after I made my public comments we got some action. I don't know whether it was a matter of coincidence or. not." News briefs Plans for organization of the Graduate Student Association have been announced by Angie Holweger. The meeting will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in room 323 of the Russell House. Holweger said the association will help coordinate activities and discuss problems faced by graduate students at USC. Persons interested in teaching any six week mini-course should contact Anne Nitchner. Nitchner can be reached at 777 5261 or 777-5262. Tickets for the annual Chinese Banquet will be sold from 11: 3 the week of Jan. 23-30 at the Rusiell House. The Year of the Rabbit will be the theme of this year's banquet. Charles Moylan will present a two-hour dramatic presentation on advocacy, Jan. 21, at 11: in the Law Center Auditorium. Moylan has been named twice as Prosecuting Attorney of the year in the United States. His talk is being sponsored by the Student Bar Association. LP [TED -TIME )N LYa py % I. I hi it to II T.he.CR ~P. O. B. JR. SEPA 6.99 TO 14 PANTS, SWEATERS! Pants in solid and4 pattern polyester, corduroy and rhore,\ lots of styles in sizes 5 to 13; orig. $12 - $20, 7.99 Sweaters in cardigan, pullover and jacket styles, acrylic, s-m-1; originally $10 - $17, 6.99 to 10.99 (dept. 121/214) Junior Sportswear Upper Level DAVIS ON'S RATES ).99 ti rirmmiraa .h.