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University JULY
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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
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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
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