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Wilsford c board's pi By SANDI McDANIEL Gamecock Staff Writer Dave Wilsford, SG president, criticized USC Board of Trustees' policy of excluding him from closed board meetings. Wilsford brought up this criticism at an informal discussion on his ex-officio status at the Student-Trustee Liaison Committee meeting Friday. By state law, the University Board of Trustees may allow the president of the student body to sit in and offer suggestions to open meetings of the Board. For the past few years this privilege has been irregularly used by student body presidents. Wilsford wants to use the privilege to its fullest. Wilsford thinks it necessary for the Board to clarify his status. His question is one of permanent Switchboar By BARBARA SISK Staff Writer The university's change to a new switchboard system in order to save money and improve service is causing some students problems. Katrina Chandler, a staff mpmhpr of rarfin sffltinn WI.TR in the Coliseum, said the information line "has been a problem since the beginning of the semester." The university and state switchboard systems combined June 30. Richard Eisenman, USC communications manager, said savings will be $25,000 this year and $35,000 every year after this. Chandler and other students have been complaining about the reluctance of the operators to give out a telephone number until they ask if the caller has a campus telephone directory. If he does, the operator instructs him to use it; if not, she asks why he does not have | ^ I OFFER GOOD FOR 1.2.3.4.5 OR DINNER SERVED MON. THRU SAT. 4 PM-8:301 SUNDAY?-11 AM-8:30 PM I C I I IKiru rcowrrk . - b wM\.n Jtl\ V CU | 11-4 P.M. Mon.-Sat. j $1.99 j VALID ANY DAY I THRU AAON. SEPT.: (not valid for bona I 1 i Q2Q33EQJ33 criticizes olicy membership to all meetings, not iust open ones. There are many meetings to which he is not invited. Wilson said closed meetings could create a feeling of secrecy between the Board and the students. BOARD SECRETARY George Curry took issue with Wilsford, saying the Board had discussed Wilsford's membership at their June meeting. Curry said it was then decided that Wilsford had the right to attend all meetings except those dealing with personnel and contract matters. He further oointed out that hp had sent Wilsford a copy of the minutes of that June meeting in which the Board had stated their intention to participate fully with Wilsford and the student body on any issue concerning the student body. d causing pr one, if he is a student, if he is on campus and if he lives on campus. She then tells him to get a directory ^ !L1* fJ? as suuu as possioie n ne is an oncampus student. If the student insists, she then gives him the number. The semi-public places on campus, such as the WLTR newsroom, have a special problem of directories disappearing. When a telephone number is needed, the campus operator may have to be called. The caller then must go through a series of explanations before he gets the number. The switchboard operators have about 100 state agencies to service besides USC, according to Ralph Hutchinson, ouerator sunervisor The lines must be operated 24 hours a day. The 14 operators are instructed to refer students to the directories, said Hutchinson. "We are not trying to be hard to get along with," he said. Most of the students ? i & Mm each j 6 PERSONS JfW PLUS PM j I 27,1976 uets) i I enoccT irocc wn >><# 2120 BELTLINE BLVD. | Rhone 782-6367 I I 3?B3BS5SEE&2B_ i ' 1 JL Flag designed for U Michae! J. Mungo, trustee, exam flag adopted by the Board of Ti day. The flag was designed by Lyi oblems are cooperating he said, but some operators have complained about vulgarity from some students. Th* GAMECOCK it the itudtnl newtpip?r of the. 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