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vol. Lxvui no. 3 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C? Thursday, September i6, 1976 j ' W j* V;;'^ Maxcv dk f still fallir By PATRICIA ICLKAZEK (iamecock Staff Writer After thousands of dollars had 1 falling down. A 2-by-2 feet piece of ceiling night. No one was injured. Roberi |{p('.irloiv>p I .ifo /-tvi/'L- ho turned into the maintenance dep cause was not known. Repairs ar Last spring, two ceilings coll; student safety. Because of thecei condition of the dorm, renovation in the dorm rooms were replaci IN ADDITION, ALL hathroon ceilings were not replaced. The construction was to be iii when the housing office had to g< because the jot) costs more than : the contractor ran out of water] between the university and the c contractor to finish the job. As a result of these days part o of school. The housing office mad in the Downtowner Hotel, 1301 M Hampton Hotel, on Main and G< STKWAKT SAID. "When we I called everyone affected. We told have alternate accommodations i others did not come until Labor understanding and everything moved back into the dorm last Kach room costs between $8.! Stewart said he had not receive thousand dollars. PKTKH POI'KJOY, HA in Mi didn't have any problems. Th everyone enjoyed it. It (the hotel? 1HBMh?U< ? -A* / * y>- V ;Wfc ;(-J .TBlMT^T < ... % f'u*W >rmitory I lg UUWI1 >een poured into it, Maxcy dorm is still of the second floor collapsed Monday t Stewart director of business affairs of d been noticed and a work order was artment on Aug. 20. lie added that the o scheduled for Thursday. apsed in Maxcy causing concern for ling mishaps and the general run down > wiTc iiiiuu* and aw noors and ceilings ed. i renovation was completed. The hall wished by Aug. 20. Work was delayed [) through the state purchasing system $15,000. Another hold-up occured when proofing. An agreement was reached contractor who offered to pay another f Maxcy was not ready for the opening e arrangements for 46 students to stay ain St. Five were housed at the Wade ervais Streets. knew Maxcy would not he ready, we them if thev wanted to come we would ready. Some came as early as Aug. 29; Day The studcMits involved were very went very smoothly." The students weekend. iO and $12.00 per person each night, d the bill yet, but it will be several *xcy, agreed that all went well. "We icre were some inconveniences but ;) was a lot nicer than Maxcy. Speake can't pi By ELAINE ELLISON ?-*% I. t1A_ ## WW ! A uiiiiit'cucK aian wnier Last semester, the Student Government Association's Speakers Bureau brought four "big name" speakers to USC. THIS SEMESTER, THERE are no speakers of the same caliber scheduled to speak on campus, and according to John Rivers, it's because the Speakers Bureau was cut out of the Student Government's (SG) budget last spring. Rivers, president of the Speakers Bureau, said the group is "still legal, functioning and current, but not funded." He added, "Carolina ic far hohinH ripmtnn Rontict College and the College of Charleston as far as getting speakers to come to the university." He said "inter-school" politics were responsible for the Bureau's lack of money this year and the "new student body president (Dave Wilsford) did not approve of us and did not see any money proposed in his budget for us." He traced Wilsford's opposition back to fall 1975, when the question of funding for the '75-76 Speakers Bureau was taken to the Senate. Rivers said Wilsford "was the most vocal antagonist in the senate throughout the year against the Speakers Bureau and so it was no great surprise, when he became president, that \vc were left out of the budget." WILSFOItH. Sf; PRFSIHRMT. ^ F said there is a simple explanation and there was no "vendetta or witch-hunt involved." He said the Speakers Bureau was Vrnmmm H Vv >v rs Bure ly speal left out of the '76-77 budget after $10,225 was allocated to the Student Union's Ideas and Issues group by the Student Allocation Committee (SAC). He added that he had the impression that the money given to Ideas and Issues would be used to attract "big name speakers." The Ideas and Issues' plans for this fall semester include three speakers: Bud Clampett, originator of Bugs Bunny; Ansel Adams, a DhotoffraDher: and Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of the Manson family and author of Helter Skelter. The initial correspondence with Bugliosi was made last year by the Speakers Bureau. The "names" attracted by last year's Speakers Bureau included Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, Christine Jorgensen, Eric von Daniken and James J. Kilpatrick. THOSE FOUR SPEAKERS attracted about 13,500 students, 6,000 attending the von Daniken speech. With a $13,000 budget?of which about $12,000 was spent?the cost per student attending the lectures averaged less than $1.00. Wilsford said that when the cabinet met last April to decide on the budget they were informed about the $10,225 which SAC had allocated to Ideas and Issues and felt they "should not duplicate the students' money" by giving money to the Speakers Bureau. According to Wilsford thic ( J V- - vr - ? ? duplication would have occurred if money had been given to the Speakers Bureau for essentially , _ i i,I..,.,,* .1, an kers the same purpose as ideas and Issues. Wilsford did say he was initially opposed to the SG Speakers Bureau, because "it was not the SG's business." "After it was instituted I saw their point?the fact that there should be big name speakers on campus," Wilsford said. Rivers said he felt SAC was given the idea that "the Speakers Bureau would, simply bow out of the picture" if SAC allocated Ideas and Issues more money. "I had heard in a round-about way that somebody convinced SAC that we were just temporary," Rivers said, "and if SAC gave the money to Ideas and Issues then we 1 -J t X - r At -1 wuuiu dow oui oi uie piciure. Rivers also said that the Speakers Bureau was not "given a chance to defend itself" and that Wilsford succumbed to political pressure from the Student Union by omitting the Bureau from the budget. WILSFORD DISAGREED AND said he was not influenced by political pressure. "The Union did feel that way (opposed to the Speakers Bureau) but, as far as political pressure, I discount it 100 per cent. I don't feel there are any political ties between mvself and the Union," he said. Wilsford stated that members of the Speakers Bureau had three weeks to defend themselves before the senate financial committee hearings. He says he happened to meet Rivers in the Pendleton Building See SPKAKKRS, Page 4 i Jeff Setdd?THE GAMECOCK