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University JULY of 3 South Carolina Volume LXV No. 66 Govern BY MARION ELLIOTT News Editor A proposal calling for a University Council with equal representation for students, faculty and administration as a governing body of USC now ap pears to have no hopes of being passed in the near future. The University faculty rejected University governance, as the proposal is called, at a meeting of the general faculty on April 28. That rejection had gone unnoticed by the Student Government Association (SGA) and the com mittee that originally made the Green Strec For Traffic BY TOM COONEY of The Gamecock staff Once the Horseshoe is bricked in, traffic exiting from parking lots between the Horseshoe and Green Street will no longer be allowed to exit onto Green by way of the alley between Preston and Woodrow according to Harold Brunton.vice president of operations. Brunton expects the construction on the Horseshoe to be completed in one or two months depending upon the weather, which means that the passageway could be closed off to traffic by the begin ning of the fall semester. Meeting with Student Govern ment Association President Steve Hill and Ombudsman Skip Hardin last Thursday Brunton told them, "I think we have solved one of your main concerns on Green Street." The chance that cars would have continued to exit onto Green Street at the crosswalk had been a serious concern to SGA President Hill, who later expressed his satisfaction with last Thursday's development. As a result of closing off the passageway to traffic, cars will enter, and possibly exit, the staff parking lots between the Horse - shoe and Green Street by going between the Coker Life Sciences Building and the Science Annex. Plans now call for the removal of a volatile storage building and the back end of the Science Annex to provide access to the parking lots. Brunton said the dlistance be tween Coker Life and the Science Annex is the required 20 feet for two-way traffic. Hlowever, if it is inconvenient for traffic to exit as well as enter there, cars will exit onto the Horseshoe between the President's home and Rutledge College as it had previously. The old entrance to the staff lots, located between Lieber and Legare-Pinckney Colleges will be blocked off. At the meeting, Hill asked Brunton if there was any possibility of closing Green Street except during traffic rush hours in the late afternoon and early evening. Bruton replierd that ance Pt governance proposal until just last week. Such a proposal would have to be approved by the general faculty, the Student Senate and the Board of Trustees. Under the proposed University governance a University Council with broad areas of power would be formed. Such a council consisting of equal representation from the student body, faculty and ad ministration would be able to override a veto by the University President with a three-fourths majority. A Board of Trustees' veto could not be overridden. The proposal was drawn up by an ad hoc committee composed of kt Plan Altered former SGA President Leigh Leventis had proposed a similar plan this spring but the City Council rejected it and would probably do so again. Citing the fact that several pedestrians have almost been seriously injured by passing cars at the crosswalk in front of the Russell House, Hill told Brunton he thought stop signs should be erected at the crosswalk and that the speed limit on Green Street should be lowered from :30 m.p.h. to 10 m.p.h. to help insure the safety of pedestrians. Hill added that he thinks the present warnings lights on Green near the crosswalk are ineffective because motorists either ignore the flashing lights or cannot see them because they are partially ob scured by trees. Brunton agreed saying, "I would prefer a stop sign myself." He added that if the stop sign proposal is not acceptable to the City Please Turn to Page 2 Librari BY JOHN SHARKEY of The Gamecock staff The move into USC's new central library during Christmas recess will be a milestone for the ex panding University libraries. Kenneth E. Toombs, director of libraries, said the new library will be completed in October, but the libraries won't move into the building until the University is not in session. Collections of the Science In dergraduate, Education, Music and McKissick libraries will be moved into the new library. The new library and the university's progressive library system will rank USC's libraries among the best in the United States. Several features of the new library distinguish it as a unique and extraordinary project. The seven floors will have 2,275 seats and abot 1,500,0X) volumes. an Face student, faculty and ad ministration representatives originally commissioned in 1973 by former USC President Thomas F. Jones. At that time SGA President Rita McKinney predicted the plan would go into effect before the 1974 student elections saying, "This is the only way the students will have a direct say in the decision making process of the University." However, the proposal took longer to prepare than McKinney allowed and a Faculty Senate committee which studied the proposal made its recom mendations to the faculty just this past April. While many other areas of the Unii receive finishing touches of exterior, South campus area continues to be a OMOI It is the largest academic building in South Carolina and the largest single construction project ever undertaken by USC. The library's media facilities cost $75,000. "I believe it is the largest media collection in any stuens. hee ilm besmll Whmemrs inoher anreasftearch receigned finhn touesfexbasison wilth ampus aer ciuses to store reeach matrasteeoomb It ditnt the larestacaemi buildin infSuntuCrol and uipmntrtosb moved ibray' thedibar facliie larges meiars $.ollion in nw sutuen Tesupen ill beenal memrsc vlvdinreeac s Grim j Since the proposal would involve constitutional changes it had to go before the whole University faculty. The faculty rejected the proposal upon the recom mendation of the Faculty Advisory Committee. In its report to the faculty that committee said, "It is the unanimous view of this com mittee that the structure en. visioned therein (the proposal) is based on a conception of the University which is unacceptable in principle." The report later says the University faculty and ad ministration each have certain University business which they sinn q11 fil 1 #1; fl 04111 1111 11 wp7. Progress versity campus beauty lovers. decorating, the struction compi focal point for re nDe The libraries also have anout standing rare book collection that will be moved to the new building from McKissick. A recent acquisition of a collection including the first edition of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and the first issue of the Federalist Papers is an example of the quality of the rare book collection. Toombs said the libraries have not had any budget cuts in "seven or eight years" but "because of expanded graduate and research programs, the demand is greater than our budget allows." Inflation has also affected the libraries. Toombs said one example is periodicals, lie said the cost of periodicals has increased 200 per cent since 1969. The libraries continue to expand. The growth can be seen in the severe space shortage McKissick l,ibrary is experiencing. The new library will alleviate this problem Future should have authority over. The academic program should be controlled by the faculty, the report says, since they are knowledgeable in "disciplined inquiry" and know best how to direct the work of students into fruitful paths. Meanwhile, the orderly process of daily business should be carried out by the University ad ministration, the report says. I n some matters authoritative powers are exercised jointly by the faculty and administration, however it is not acceptable to establish a Please Turn to Page 2 I *3 No date has yet been set for con etion. cemlber and also provide approximately 90,000 square feet of space at USC because of other libraries moving. Toombs said the space shortage in McKissick is because of a tremendous increase in acquired volumes, increase of use, and a delay in the construction of the new library. He said between 1967 and 1974 the total number of volumes doubled. The library acquired about the same number of volumes in that seven year period at they did in the 161 years prior to it. In the past year about 110.000 volumes were acquired. Toombs said in the past six or seven years library use in McKissick has in creased 500 per cent. MicKissick will be the largest part of the moving operation There are about one millhon volumes in McKissick. The books Please Turtn to Pae 5