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* The The(GAMECOCK VOL. LXV NO. 56 TeUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. . TUSA,ARL2,17 Wheeler: BTW hoi BY STEVE PARKER Of The Gamecock staff The University's decision to temporarily house the new medical school in Booker T. Washington has - jeopardized a grant of $30,000 that had been slated for a volunteer group of mostly USC students. The Wheeler 'Hill Activities Project (WHAP) is supposed to receive the funds for the up coming year, but since the group has lost the use of the USC-owned high school, some doubt has been raised. "There is the possibility we might lose the grant," Jeff Wallace, a co-director of WHAP, said Wednesday. "Without housing, the department (the South Carolina Department of Youth Services) might recon sider." Prices con BY MARION ELLIOT Of The Gamecock staff Prices at the USC Convenience Store are higher than at local grocery stores, but lower than local convenience stores, ac cording to a Gamecock survey taken this week. Prices of nine randomly selected items at the campus store in front of South Tower were compared with those at Winn Dixie at Five Points, Piggly Wiggly on Rosewood Drive, Majik Market on Rosewood Drive and Young's 7 to 11 on Devine Street. The stores were selected according to their proximity to the campus, making them likely places for students to shop. The campus store's prices varied from slightly to significantly higher than both grocery stores. Sugar prices varied the most, with the campus store's price ranging from 46 to 56 cents more than the grocery PRESS COUNCIL--The Gamecock's management held a press council to find out student opinion of the newspaper. Page Hil proje( ne to Med The group has been using Booker T. 'Washington as its home location while providing supervised activities for elementary and teen-aged disadvantaged youths in the Wheeler Hill area of Columbia (that area across Bull Street from the P.E. Center and Bates complex). - However, the University's decision to house the new medical school in Booker T. Washington' for a few years, until the existing Veteran's Administration Hospital can be readied for such use, has pushed the organization out. Some 150 students are. mem bers of WHAP's staff, many receiving credit hours from USC Independent Study courses and others receiving pay. Some work strictly on a volunteer basis. WHAP had to sever official [petitive at 1 stores'. Other items varied from zero to 14 cents. "We can't buy enough quantity to get the huge discounts that grocery stores can," campus store manager Kemper Winn said. "A shortage of shelf and storage space prevents us from buying the quantity of goods and selling them cheaper. We have to buy a case at the time." Grocery stores can buy in big quantities and get discounts enabling them to sell goods cheaper, he said. "Supermarkets can buy it straight from the people who make it," Winn said. "We have go through a middleman." Except for such items as milk and bread, the campus store buys goods through a local distributor. "Milk and bread will be a little more, but grocery items are more because we buy them from a distributor," Winn said. "Groceries sell some things as loss leaders, making no profits, -On the inside SPORTS--Day of the Gamecock will feature baseball, track and football. Page 7. t loses school relations with the University last year in order to receive funds from the Youth Services Department, according to a letter sent to Provost Dr. Keith Davis by Wallace recently. Still, contacts between the group and USC are quite evident. One of the major goals of WHAP, according to Patty Bagwell, a worker, is to improve University relations with the residents of Wheeler Hill, a predominately Black com munity. "They (the residents) were upset that the University had bought out Booker T. and thrown their kids out. They were really irate when we first came in," Bagwell said. "But we managed to soothe things out. We've provided those Continued on Page 2 JSC store but using them to'get 'espl)'hi the stores. We can't do that," he said. The campus store's prices were lower than both local con venience stores. Sugar, 46 cents cheaper, was the only surveyed item sold for less at the Majik Market than on campus. All surveyed prices at Young's 7 to 11 were higher. "We're lower than the majority of the convenience stores," Winn said. "We try to keep below them. They show a much larger profit than we do." Sig Huitt, USC director of In formation Services said the convenience store began operating about 18 months ago with the idea prices would be comparable to those of other convenience stores. It was started in response to student groups who wanted to purchase Continued on Page 2 FILMS: W.C. Fields wry humor comes to USC Wednesday in "It's a Gift." Pae ii. Higher education " Ombudsmen attempt to cut USC red tape. BY MARK DILLARD "It's a petty problem," Thrift Of The Gamecock staff said, "But that's when people get the run-around." Thrift said she A chemistry student whose went directly to Nicholas P. instructor plans to have classes Mitchell, vice president for ad on Reading Day. A student who ministrative services, to get made "C's" on all his tests in a permission for the student to get course and fails. Customers at his diploma. the Campus Shop whose books Sometimes, Thrift said, are stolen while they shop. ombudsmen get bogged down in All are people who have gone to red tape themselves. She said it USC's ombudsmen in an attempt took over four months to get a to cut University red tape in getting their problems solved,. ls nwihtepoesrsi According to a pamphlet put out th se sergaewudb by the Ombudsmen, which in- bsdsll ntemdtr n cludes two students, a professor fiagrds and a full-time co-ordinator, they Th stdn mae c'"o "are here to help students, bt,bttepoesrsi C faculty and staff deal with wsntapsiggaei e problems in the University too cas great for them to handle alone." " aut ebrhsfl An example of ombudsmen atoiyt iewaee rd cutting red tape, according to te at"Trf ad S o coordinator Julianne Thrift, was o ie edpn ntego the case this week of a student wl ftefclymme. wanting his diploma early We h rfso' odwl because he would be traveling wsntfrhoig h m during graduation ceremonies. bdmnwn otedprmn The request had been turnedCotndonPg down.pe