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Construction Projects Continue BY JOHN SHARKEY of The Gamecock staff All campus construction projects, except the new central library and the physical education addition, will continue through this fall. The physical education addition has been completed and the new central library is expected to be completed in October. The library will open for the spring semester and books will be moved during the Christmas holidays. The library is the largest academic building in South Carolina and the largest single construction project ever un dertaken by USC. Collections of the science, undergraduate, education, music and McKissick libraries will be moved into it. Kenneth E. Toombs, director of libraries, said the new library's seven floors will have 60 miles of shelves and 6.5 acres of floor space. "One floor of this building has more space than all of McKi?sick," Toombs said. (For more information about the new library, see story page 31 A). Construction projects mat will be continuing are the Russell House addition, Longstreet Theater, the Pendleton garage, the Biology building and Gambrell Hall, the social sciences center. Also, the College of Pharmacy recently received a $2.3 million grant for the construction of a new 72,000 square foot building, and construction on Russell House is one of many projt ,et for Alpril or early summer. an $8.4 million University auditor ium will be started in January. The Russell House addition is scheduled to be finished next year. Bob Todd, director of student union, said, "We're hoping for April 15 or the end of April, but certainly by summer school next year. " When completed Russell House will be divided into four floors. "We're hoping to put the noise on the bottom floors. The top floors will hopefully be a quiet area consisting of six meeting rooms and a large browsing study lounge," Todd said. The main floor will consist of an information desk, a reservation desk, small administrative offices, a main lobby, two conversational lounges, a television lounge, two meeting rooms and a multi purpose ballroom. The lower level will house the campus shop and the basement level will be a media center. Atten Caroli We A Simplify your m< account at First. in Greater Colt blocks of the L throughout the Call on us when F"rst-C"tiz4 1230 Main Street / F< D Avenue at Charleston 7039 Parklane I Don Whitney !cts now underway. Completion is The new University auditorium will be built across College Street from the Humanities complex. It will be adaptable to a variety of uses and will be able to vary in size from a 700-seat facility to a maximum seating capacity of 3000.It will be part of the state's new cultural center. Federal revenue sharing funds are being used to pay for the construction. The new Pharmacy structure will be a seven-story addition to a biological sciences building now under construction on Sumter Street between Green and Devine streets. Completion is set for July, 1977. Elsewhere, the Pendleton garage will be partially open by mid-fall. Longstreet Theatre and the Biology building are scheduled to becompletedby next summer and Gambrell Hall is expected to be completed by the end of 1976. tion 2 ia Stul want yi itizen >ney matters by openi -Citizens Bank. We h imbia, including twc ISO campus. We al state from 42 off ices you need us. mns.TheCar irest Lake Shopping Center / Rosewood Highway (West Columbia) / Marley Drh id. (Dentsvitle) / Sumter Highway at Gri eburg Office Park / Lady St. at Sumter Highway North 21 at Wm,ke. Rd Former Po joins USC. William A. Emerson, Jr., former editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post and senior editor of Newsweek, will join the University of South Carolina College of Journalism faculty this fall. Emerson, a free-lance book and magazine writer, will assist in developing a magazine specialization area within the College of Journalism's news editorial sequence and will be the initial holder of the Gonzales Brothers Professorship in Jour nalism, according to Dean Albert T. Scroggins, Jr. The Gonzales brothers' endowed chair has been established through the USC Educational Foundation by the State-Record Publishing Company as a memorial to the three Gonzales brothers who founded The State newspaper. Born in Charlotte, N.C., Emerson spent his pre-college years in Atlanta, Ga. He established the Atlanta bureau of Newsweek in 1953 and was named chief Southern correspondent in 1956. During the 50's, he directed civil rights coverage in the South for Newsweek. He was appointed a senior editor of Newsweek in New York Cit in The Gat Needs Drop by Russell H Bill Pratt at 77 0.000 dents: Duat s Banh ng a checking ave 10 offices within three so serve you in 22 towns. DoBanki rts? CitiZens Rank & T rust? Compajny Shopping Center / e at Broad River Rd. / enlawn Rd. / st Editor Faculty Bill Emerson 1961. Emerson joined the staff of The Saturday Evening Post in 1962 as articles editor and prior to becoming editor in 1965, served as executive and managing editors. A graduate of Harvard College, Emerson began his journalism career as an editorial assistant at Collier's Magazine. necock 'You Duse 317, or call r-4249, 8178