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University JULY of ~? !anwk 1 South CroJina 1975 Volume LXV No. 64 Renovation To Close Horseshoe BY MARION ELLIOTT News Editor The road through USC's Horseshoe area, the site of the original - South Carolina College, will be bricked in the next step toward renovating the area to look as it did before 1860. According to Harold Brunton, vice president of operations, the bricked road will become part of the 9ld fashion look that is being restored on the Horseshoe in celebration of our nation's bicentennial birthday. The Horseshoe will be closed to traffic within the next few weeks while the road is bricked. Officials will try to reopen the area to traffic afterwards, Brunton said. "We will try to keep it open for casual, non-stop driving through it by visitors and sightseers," he said. Parking on the Horseshoe will be removed and if traffic in the area is not of the casual variety it will be closed to traffic permanently, ac cording to Brunton. The cost of bricking the road will be minimal, Brunton said. "We will use old brick and unemployment labor that is available from federal unemployment funds." The Horseshoe Advisory Committee (HAC) recommended bricking the road as part of its renovation plan for the Horeshoe which has been studied for the past year and a half. Two consultants working on Horseshoe projects as well as alumni members and historical preser vation groups have been consulted about the decision, Brunton said. Whether or not the Hoseshoe should be reopened to traffic has caused some disagreement among officials. After the HAC became divided over the issue, President William H. Patterson asked the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) to make a recommendation, according to George Curry, a member of HAC. The AAC recommended that the road be made somewhat narrower, that parking be removed and that traffic be allowed in the area in a controlled manner, Curry said. "The committee felt it would be a pity for people to not be able to drive slowly around the area," Curry said. Also, the road is the easiest way to supply offices in the area and a fire hazard would develop if entrances were completely blocked, he said. While the Horseshoe is closed, traffic will be rerouted to allow faculty and staff parking between it and Green Street to exit at the crosswalk in front of Russell House. That action has brought objections from Steve Hill, president of the Student Government Association. A more per manent system should be worked out before long, according to Brunton. The South Caroliniana Library and McCutchen House on the Horseshoe are now being remodeled aq.cording to restoration plans. "Our two principal goals are to restore the physical exterior appearance to-what it was before 1860 and to improve the interior of the buildings to mgke them useful modern buildings. We do not plan to make them into museums," Brunton aid. Street Cl BY MARION ELLIOTT News Editor A plan aimed at solving a safety hazard for pedestrians and drivers at the in tersection of Devine and Sumter streets, behind the Longstreet Theatre, was ap proved Monday by the Board of Trustees Building and Grounds Committee. The plan proposes to close the east side of Sumter Street (nearest Russell House) where the street splits to circle around Longstreet Theatre, according to Harold Brunton, vice president of operations. The west side of. Sumter Street would be widened to allow for two-way traffic. The committee unanimously supported the plan and gave Brunton permission to talk to city officials about it. This intersection has been a problem for five years, Brunton said. "The plan should also help solve the confused traffic flow at the intersection of Sumter and Greer streets," he said. Another problem in the area is that the Parking Pro Could this be a quiet little private parking lot for important officials beside the geology building? No, it's the first of several "service areas" to provide service Space Short BY KAREN PETIT of The Gamecock staff Solutions to overcrowded conditions in manl are being hampered by a lack of funds for built according to Harold Brunton, vice preside University officials see this space problem as of the right kinds of space with few departmer overall space shortage. The two biggest space shortage areas a Pharmacy anti the music department. A $ grant Monday solved the pharmacy problen Milne, spokesman for the pharmacy school. According to Milne, pharmacy enrollment 1972 space plans. In 1962 there were 6 full-tii time paid faculty rnember, no teaching graduating class of 32. In 1975, there are 19: part-time faculty, 10 teaching assistants, and of 55. The space capacity in 1962 was 14,168 squa enrollment and faculty increased, the amount c Another factor contributing to the space creased amount of research conducted by th The new building will more than triple the 0n )smg on new entrance to the Longstreet Theatre will face the Russell House also, according to Brunton. "A lot of new traffic on the street with the new entrance and the shifting of the theatre into an active one again will accentuate the problem," he said. "Everyone so far has been enthusiastic about it and I am optimistic the plan will be approved," Brunton said. He now plans to coordinate the Sumter Street plan with Green Street proposals and preser. both to City Council within the next few weeks. SGA President.Steve Hill said the new plan would make things easier for students. "Anytime you can close a street in the middle of the campus, I am for it. It should make the area more attractive and easier to cross," he said. "I really expect no problem with the full Board of Trustees approving the plan ind I don't see why City Council would object since we would still have two lanes of traffic-just both on the same side of lAngstreet," Hill said. Don wninwy >blem Solved? trucks easy access to buildings, according to Harold Brunton, vice president for operations. age Hurts Dc space. To alleviate I the BA building, nu have been made inl macy school prov r USC departments quarantine. Ling and renovation When asked for 1 nt of operations. "Hallelujah for the a deficient amount but it is the type of w~ its experiencing an At present therei ment's needs. The I re the College of 'teaching studios, sa 2.3 million federal head. is, said Dr. Larry "As you increase Moody said. has exceeded the As one of the fast ne faculty, 1 part- ment has doubled ir1 assistants, and a for practicing room full-time faculty, 8 library. a graduating class "We are anxious ti music department. aire feet and while for both faculty ani if space did not. The most serious problem is the in performing arts, ac e staff- space. A proposed current amount of sidered In other matters the committee . reviewed the new Green Street pla now being studied by the administration. It calls for the removal of parking = the street, and the widening of it by 29 feet. A median running down the middle with one lane traffic on each side and a three feet high iron rail fence in the middle of the Please Turn to Page 2 Garnet And Black Sales To Resume During Summer The last four magazines of the 1975 GARNET AND BLACK have been com pletely printed and willbe ready for mail distribution July 26, according to Tim Arrington, plant representative of USC for the American Yearbook Company ir Clarksville,Tennessee. Arrington said the remaining magazines will be mailed directly to purchasers of the 1975 yearbook who should get them by July 31, especially those who have received the cover and the first four maga-ine at the distribution in the fii at week in May. The remaining portion of the yearbook, which was supposed to be distributed by June 30, was not printed according to its original schedule because of a number of late proof changes by the editor. Fred Merritt, editor of the 1975 GAR NET AND BLACK acknowledged that there were scheduling difficulties, but added that the remainder of the yearbooks should be in the hands of those who have already purchased theirs before the first of August. Bob Baker, editor of the 1976 yearbook, said there were still a limited number of the 1975 GARNET AND BLACK's to be sold and encouraged those who had not received or bought their 1975 copies to come by the yearbook office and do so. The GARNET AND BLACK office is located at 1624 Pendleton. Anyone-having inquiries regarding either the '75 or '76 yearbooks should either come by the office between 9 and 11 a.m. and 1 and 5 p.m. or call during those hours at 777-2038 or 777 4170. partments he present problems some classes are held in rsing school and law center. Larger offices o two offices and a trailer behind the phar ides office space as well as an animal hiis reaction to the new plans, Milne said, new building. It is going to be a lot of work, ork you don't mind doing." s no long range solution to the music depart porn apartments are providing some space for id Dr. William J. Moody, music department students, you increase problems of space," est growing departments, the music depart students and faculty. More space is needed s, rehearsal areas, teaching studios, and a get the band room attached physically to the 'Te separation across campus is undesirable I students," Moody added. problem for the music department and other cording to Moody, is the lack of auditorium Auditorium in the BA and Humanities area 'lease Turn in Page 8