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University of 19n e 1 South Carolina n7 Volume LXV No. 60 JAMES CAMPBELL New Dean Advocates Listening BY MARK MAYER Of The Gamecock staff USC's new dean of student af fairs, James B. Campbell, is an advocate of "listening" concerning campus problems. "People have to learn to accept you and respect you," Campbell said. "Too many administrators have lost credibility by saying let's do it now." Campbell believes that it is important to sit back and hear what all sides have to say about an issue. Campbell began his new position Monday replacing Charles Witten who resigned. Witten is currently on a sabbatical and will be going into full-time teaching in the next year. Campbell, 44, comes to USC from a five-year tenure as the vice president of student affairs at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Before that he held a similar job at the Rochester In stitute of Technology for eight-and ohe-half years. Campbell thus far has been impressed with the University. "The people at USC are very ac comodating and are willing to teach me what is necessary to know in order to do an acceptable job," Campbell said. Please Turn to Page 4 Parking J Ed. note--This is the first part of an in-depth look into the parking situation at USC--a subject which has been controversial and touchy I for many years. The GAMECOCK has talked with various members I of the Administration in an attempt 1 to tell students exactly what is I being done about parking. BY R. VANCE BUTTS Of The Gamecock staff Commuters -you know the story:1 You leave home early in the morning for that long trip to Carolina, perhaps a fifteen mimnut Budget BY BOB BAKER AND MARION ELLIOTT Of The Gamecock staff Specific actions being im plemented to enable the University to live within its budget as ap proved by the Board of Trustees were announced yesterday by the administration. The actions followed a $5.2 million cut by the General Assembly in state appropriations approved by the State Budget and Control Board this past winter. Students A BY MARION ELLIOTT News Editor Ten Vietnamese students, whose educational funds will end June 30, will be eligible to apply for at least two federal grant programs in September, according to Washington aides of South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond. The 10 students have been at tending USC through a Navy ROTC program administered by the University's NROTC Department. Their fees have been paid through the program according to agreements with the now defunct South Vietnamese government. When that country was taken over by North Vietnam earlier this year,- the State Department an riounced plans to end the program. The State Department wanted to end the program this past May 23, according to Captain Horace D. Mann, USC's chief NROTC official. However, he said the Department Af Defense asked that the program continue to help the Vietnamese students already in college until they graduate. "It was the opinion He Said "I'd rather have a hb and write than four Ph of South Carolina. We in higher education." --Governor James B. group of 30 teachers attending I University this past Tuesday. Problem ) ide that stretches into eternity as 'ou seek that ever-elusive parking pace, a space found more often han not far away from your lassroom. You find yourself uming, wondering just when the Jniversity is going to tackle a >roblem that seems to worsen each 'ear. It wasn't always so. Until a few 'ears ago the parking problem vasn't really a problem at all, but iow with new campus expansion vell underway, the surface >arking situation Is deteriorating. ilonstruction of the new biology and history complexes as well as Cut An According to a statement released by USC's Information Services, 10 specific areas are being cut back either reflecting actual fund, cuts, minimal in creases or approval of the same level of spending for '75-'76 as for '74-'75. They are: 1. The hiring of personnel has been frozen. Even replacement positions must be approved by the president. Personnel will be cut by attrition. 2. Preventive maintenance has been cut out almost entirely. Eligible Fc of the State Department that the program was now illegal since our requirements by contract'to South Vietnam have ceased," Mann said. Recently, the State Department announced the June 30 deadline. Eight of the 10 USC students are scheduled to graduate in December. The other two would probably graduate in May, ac cording to Trinh Huan Tung, the ex-military leader of the Viet namese students. Tung said about $3,800 is needed for all 10 students to graduate. Sen. Thurmond, Mann, the Columbia Council for In ternationals and others are seeking funds to help the students finish at USC. A Thurmond aide said that the students will become eligible to receive funds through the Basic Opportunity Grant Program and the Guarantee Student Loan Program, according to a statement he received from the Washington Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) office. The aide said the Vietnamese students would be as eligible for What? indred kids who read .D.' at the University have invested too much Edwards in a speech to a he Taft Seminar at Clemson tna1yzed the Russell House expansion has eliminated many heart-of-campus parking spaces. The University is pursuing a goal of alleviating the crunch, by providing space on the campus fringe. The University has not stood idly by. Now under construction is the new Pendleton Street garage, with completion slated for this fall. There were also, until recently, three committees appointed by President Patterson to study the problem. The findings of a Faculty Advisory Committee and a Special Plase Trn o age 2 2as Ann 3. Educational equipment purchases and replacements have been cut out almost entirely. 4. Student assistants will not be paid the minimum wage after the first of the year when the minimum wage is raised from $2 to $2.20. In the past the University has paid minimum wage. 5. University-funded academic research has been curtailed. 6. The Center for Shakespeare Studies and "Proof" Editorial offices have been abolished. 7. Custodial services have been r Grants such grants as any American student. "They would basically have to show poverty cir cumstances when applying just as any American student would," the aide said. He said the Vietnamese students should contact the University's financial advisor. The funds will probably be available by September 1, he said. The wish to provide for those Vietnamese students already here was an underlying reason for allowing students to receive other federal grants, according to Thurmond's office. A bill to provide the $3,800 needed by the students has been passed in the South Carolina Senate. The measure was ready for debate in the House of Representatives when the General Assembly adjourned last week, according to Mann. "It is a possibility that the bill will be passed when they come back the last of this month," Mann said. "It's still on the agenda and state legislators are talking about it." A report in local papers earlier this week said the Vietnamese students might become refugees and sent to refugee camps if no financial aid is found. This report has been denied by several of ficials involved. "All of the students now have sponsors and are not in danger of being sent to refugee camps," Mary Wise, president of the Columbia Council for Internationals, said. That organization has secured sponsors for all 10 students, she said. The Council also is seeking Please Turn to Page 11 The Pendletan S ounce.d reduced. 8. Departmental supply budgets have not been increased. 9. Frequency of some publications has been cut. 10. Postage and telephone service has been reduced. While most of these actions are self-explanatory, the GAMECOCK was assured yesterday that no programs except the Center for Shakespeare Studies and "Proof" editorial offices, which are con nected with scholarly writing, would be cut completely. All University hiring has been frozen in line with Gov. James Edwards' moratorium on state employe hiring. According to Provost Keith Davis, if someone resigns in a given department, that department will be asked to not fill that vacancy without justification. Preventive maintenance will not be cut "almost entirely," ac cording to USC Information Ser vices Director Sig Huitt. Ie maintenance budget will be in creased $300,000 from last year's budget. However, the Ad ministration expects maintenance service to be less effective with the small increase because of inflation and the completion of additional buildings on campus, Huitt said. Rather than purchase replacement educational equip ment, Huitt said, such equipment as microscopes and typewriters, which may have been scheduled to be replaced, will be given a longer "life." That kind of equipment will probably be used for two years longer than previously planned, he said. In spite of past practices of paying minimum wage to student assistants, the University has realized it can no longer do so because of its tight budget, Huitt said. The University, as an educational institution, is not legally bound to pay minimum wage to student assistants. According to Bernard Daet wyler, vice president of finance, programs for academic research funded by the University will not receive requested increases for the coming year. The research areas which will be affected most are those established for state government oriented research, Please Turn to Page 9 M-~1 Kim McDowed sreet garae-a