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From Page I simple equality of authority bet ween these two permanent but distinct segments of the Univer sity. the report says. "The student body," the report says, "is in the position of effective equality neither with the faculty, which is responsible for its training. nor with the ad ministration, which is responsible for maintaining orderly procedures." When students enroll in the University they accept the disciplines which the faculty and administration aave established to provide them, according to the study. "To propose that students, whose role in the University is by nature only temporary and who are not or not yet-fully involved in the academic profession should have an equal voice with the faculty and administration in shaping the life of the University neglects both capabilities and their real in terests, which lie mostly outside the University in the professional world," the report says. The vote of the faculty to reject the proposal was nearly unanimous, according to Dr. Rufus Fellers, chairman of the Faculty Advisory Committee. The * Greer From Page 1 Council, perhaps warning lights could be placed on both sides of Green at the crosswalk. Brunton recommended that Hill writn him a letter outlining& his desires for the stop signs and the 10 m.p.h. speed limit, and that he would address Hill's requests to City Manager Gray Olive. Acting immediately, Hill wrote Brunton requesting, "Upon completion of construction of the proposed median, stop signs should be installed at the intersection so that vehicular traffic would come to a complete stop in order to allow pedestrians to cross the street unscathed. "Also, we feel that the speed limit should be lowered to 10 miles per hour to further eliminate potential hazards In the mean time, we would like to see the caution lights put out in the open so that vehicular traffic can see them." In a brief interview with the Gamecock Tuesday, Brunton was asked if he thought the City Council would approve Hill's request to install stop signs. "I don't like to second guess the Council before they act on something," he replied "but I do have an opinion." Although he did not say so WeJKeK's Eda# P.O. Sexu 4618 Women's Educa non-profit ag * Free Pr< * Problem * Free Ab * Contrac4 * Family If you're a woman a Women's Educational someone who cnare The nance IP vote was a voice vote and thus no exact count was recorded. "The members of the Faculty Advisory Committee and apparently the general faculty don't think that the proposed plan is the right way to run a University," Fellers said. "There exists a lot of room for various parts of the student community to have more to do with managing its own affairs. I would first advise them to take ad vantage of the responsibilities they now have before asking for more," Fellers said. Student represen tatives to certain committees of the University have shown very poor attendance slates for the past couple of years, according to Fellers. Furthermore, the proposal has never been considered by the Student Senate which has never acted on it, Fellers said. "That clearly means that they have no interests in it." Steve Brown, SGA attorney general and chairman of the committee that composed the University governance proposal, disagreed with Fellers' assessment. "We were com missioned by former President Jones to send a report to the Faculty Senate. That was our t Street Pk Brunton's impression seemed to be that the City Council will not ap prove the stop sign proposal. The Sumter Street plan was also discussed at the meeting. This proposal calls for the closing of the east (Russell House) side of Sumter Street from Devine Street to Green Street. Also, the west side of Sumter Street will be widened approximately five feet to ac commodate two-way traffic. "We feel that putting the traffic on the west side of Sumter would be safer," said Brunton. He feels that the intersection of Devine and Sumter Streets will be much less dangerous, because at that in tersection, Sumter will not be as wide as it is now and pedestrians' chances of being injured will be greatly reduced. A side effect of the Sumter Street plan will be the expansion of the parking lot adjacent to the Longstreet Theatre. A third row of parking will be created; currently, there are two rows. Also, the entrance to the parking lot will be on Green Street once the east side of Sumter is closed. After the meeting Hill com mented, "I think things went well, and they went pretty much as I expected they would. I think that Esa Se0wiceb, 9Ke. Caada S.C. tional Services is a enicy that offers: agnancy Testing Pregnancy Counseling orwtion Referrals ~ptive Clinics Planning nd need assistance call Services to talk with number ta eall is 779-8355 an Fac mission. If they had accepted it, the proposal would have gone directly to the Student Senate. "We had gotten votes of confidence from the Senate all along and I can assure you we would have no problems with it passing there," Brown said. As far as student representatives' attendance at committee meetings, they are no worse than faculty attendance, Brown said. Both Brown and SGA President Steve Hill said they were surprised that the faculty rejected the whole proposal. "We didn't expect the proposal to go through complete," Brown said. "and we were willing to compromise. This was just supposed to be a start. We em phasized in the report that we didn't consider it to be in final form. We put in about 80 hours of work each on this and they refused to even look at it with an open mind." The report to the general faculty said that students have only a limited time here, Brown said, "but I think the time students spend here is very important and we have no way to effectively express our views on expansion or anything of the University. The whole project started out under mn For Tra all the matters discussed were important and that they (the ad ministration) will go along (on the Green Street plan) with pretty much of what we want." The combined Sumter and Green Street plans now go to the City Traffic Committee, whereupon, if approved, the plans will proceed to the State Highway Departrment. The proposals do not have to be approved by the Board of Trustees, because "They have already ap proved the philosophy of the project," according to Brunton. Brunton could not say when the City Traffic Committee will act on these proposals. but he seemed confident that the plan in general d C service. Excellenat se beerOpen 5 til 11i I.D. card,s: All can eat *1.95A)\ lise8daty nigt4 Capri's Italia, 7.4 Ha es Grim Jones on an optimistic note and all of our work is now thrown out without their giving any specifics." "Our next move," SGA President Steve Hill said, "will probably be to generate student interest and talk to influential people in the Faculty Senate who may go to bat for us later. We may also talk to the President and discuss some changes in the proposal." "Students give input now, but our major objection is that we only give as much as the administration grants us," Hill said. "Students are totally at the discretion of the administration and we really have no executive power other than the lobby," he said adding, "We want equal representation to protect students' rights." Referring to a passage in the committee's report that says students are transcient and should follow rules of the administration during their tenure here, Hill said, "It sounds like they are saying the faculty are here forever and since students aren't they don't have the ability to share in governance. I find it hard to believe that students can't help to effectively govern a university." Hill took the blame for students ffic Altere hopes construction on the project can begin before the end of the year and because of the size of the undertaking, he expects the con struction to take several months. Other matters discussed at the meeting included: The parking capacity of the Russell House parking lot will be increased when meters are in stalled along the curb on the Russell House side of the lot. Point out that motorists have con sistently ignored "No Parking" signs along the curb, Brunton said, "If you can't defeat them, join them." Beginning this fall, University police will check Devine Street between Main and Sumter for izza, Lasagna, Veal armesan Spaghetti and elicious Italian salads. LIso Steaks, shrimps, nd Fried Chicken. omplete carry-out ~lection of wines and .m. Monday- Saturday. 'acKdty with yand . ri un68t rrrrnt Future and the SGA not knowing until now that the proposal had been rejected. "It was my fault that I didn't know about it. I could not attend that particular meeting. In the fall we will have a represen tative meeting with the faculty at all times and hopefully this won't happen again," Hill said. Paul Fidler, associate dean for student affairs and an ad ministration member of the committee that composed the governance proposal, said a lot of work will have to be done by the plan's supporters in order to get additional information to the faculty concerning it. "I favor the concept although there were parts I objected to," Fidler said, "and I would like to see it work here. However, I really don't think the sentiment of the faculty is for it. The faculty do not like the idea of students sharing in the making of decisions that have traditionally been made by the faculty." The University governance proposal has already gone through four SGA presidents' terms. It now appears that if such a plan is to ever be implemented here, it will probably be at least several more presidential terms from now. d parking violations. This section of Devine was previously policed by the city. According to Brunton, "For the first few days (f school we generally ignore parking violation because people are often unloading their cars." City police have not been as lenient toward violators as the University during the first few days of school. Ombudsman Skip Hardin mentioned to Brunton that as a result of several near-accidents on the ramp, bicycles and pedestrians should be somehow separated, possibly by placing speed bumps on one side of the ramp. 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