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Thursday, November is, 1976 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. vol. lxviii, no. 21 JLJJLJU^JL gj By PATTY SHAUGHNESSY Gamecock Staff Writer Cost and availability of energy are two major concerns of USC energy officials, according to Hal Brunton, vice president of operations. ? The U.S. Weather Bureau last week predicted the coldest winter in the Southeast in the past 5 years. The bureau said the cold will be from Arctic winds sweeping the lower half of North America. Allotment for utilities for fiscal year 1976 is $3,445,000, and for fiscal year 1977 it is $4,337,000, according to Bernard Daetwvler. vice-president of finance. Daetwyler said if the university needs more for utilities, money is shifted from another budgeted area. For example, he said, the money can 0 come out of the preventive maintenance or painting budgets. TO HELP THE university conserve on utility consumption here, Ed Shelley, energy officer for the university, is in Southern Studies unic usi. progra By MERRY BATEMAN Gamecock Staff Writer Once it was a hospital during the Civil V Lieber College houses a unique little known in the university system. ^ Using an interdisciplinary approach, this is known as Southern Studies. Southern Studies began in the fall of 1973 i direction of James B. Meriwether. The sponsors and coordinates undergradu graduate study in any area in which Southeri history and literature plays a part. Southern Studies is not a degree pro) provides students with the opportunity of br their professional training in addition to thei course requirements. Meriwether said Southern Studies is a r _ i 1 a. * l a* s iasnioneu euucauonai program existing ior P of its students. All activities are centered their education. FEW STUDENTS receive financial su Southern Studies, he said, but fellowships arc those who Drove themselves. About 20 graduate students are currently wih Southern Studies. A student can bee volved with the program by contacting M< and entering on a trial basis. Southern Studies allows students to ' 0 projects of interest while obligating them to projects solely for the program. "You can imagine the amount of work th be done. Doing English graduate work car quite involved," Jim Scafidel, Southern Stu doctoral fellow, said. "But add on personal to research that have nothing to do w graduate requirements and add on research that have nothing to do with your personal and you find that you have to really want Southern Studies. It isn't for everyone." SCAFIDEL. THE first cost doctoral fel <6 Southern Studies, is writing a biography I^ongstreet. He worked with Southern Studi his graduate study. Scafidel's wife is also in Southern Studies been given direct contact with scholars fror the world," she said. "I have met them al ferences that I have been privileged to read and through the visiting professor progra See SOUTHERN STUDIE l# ost, availa charge of the study, and has been asked to cut consumption by $200,000, said Brunton. i USC uses electricity and gas, but gas is in i critical supply, Brunton said. If the gas ^ supply were cut. "all of our facilities have i oil standby," said Brunton adding that "switching to oil is complex with only a few days supply." Brunton said the university would have enough oil on hand to supply heat for two or three days and what would happen when that ran out is something "we will have to face when we come to it." One way to conserve, said Brunton, is with the use of a time clock that turns the electricity in a building on and off automatically. Many USC buildings use time clocks to regulate electricity consumDtion. The power coming to a building is shut off I at a certain time, and automatically comes back on at a preset time. Time clocks were i installed in some buildings at the beginning i of the summer and are still being installed in 1 others. j IF' r* " ~~ pport in r:;t0 work on work on J|p at has to . ? become ,v ?i llmu nvn null | on A.B. * _ es during Cancer drive i. "I have A fund raising competition bet a all over benefit the U.S. Cancer So t the con- tomorrow. The winner of the papers at the two universities will be m here." Csirolina-Clemson game. The S, Page 2 ROTC) is in charge of the driv< ibility qu "VERY FEW thermostats are controlled ndividually," said Brunton. "One of our lmrct nrnhloms ic that fr\r 1fl voqpc hum (IVIUV ^/ft VW1V1UU MKT VI1UV AV J VMl U HV 1IUYV worked very hard to make people comfortable,but this is not only expensive, it lses up more energy," said Brunton. He added that "we are backtracking as ast as we can, but there is the human >sychological problem too. You can't have iveryone happy about temperature." Brunton said they were now working oward a heating system that is controlled centrally rather than in each room. Helping save energy are three new boiler ilants which were built after 1963, according :o Shelley. The new plants are more efficient Decause they produce chilled water which is ised by the Air Conditioning system in addition to steam, he said, while the old toiler only produced steam. The new boilers also provide electricity to individual areas. The old boiler has not been in use for the past four months said Brunton, but they may have to fire up the boilers to *et enough steam to heat the university if ^ 1 SG By WAY Gameco< ? * & mu i?ie new stud and effi Assistan | One of i overlapp | came to l lot of gq I Faculty Student/ they all 1 "IT W out whe jurisdict really so committ "We n i students I nHMHi outcome l;/ n^nBBHBH|n students ministra 24-meml cases th cases h 1; although r^y *'1 wj before tl IK j4>y^|W| violatior an appo * < ' they hav mark ai?n?nd*r?the gamecock initiated ministra "It's r ;ween USC and Clemson to students ciety will be concluded happens week-long drive between reason s announced at Saturday's that it i? Arnold Air Society (A>F. that 1 e at USC. ;stiomed this present cold snap continues. "THIS IS THE first winter we have tried to do without it (the old boiler) because one new boiler was not connected last year," said Shelley. The seven day time clock is agreed to by the buildings residents and the energy office, said Snelley. He said the time clocks are efficient because they cut all the mechanical systems off in buildings for 6-10 hours, and that saves considerable amounts of money. "This is an absolutely enormous and complex problem," said Brunton. "We are making, I think, almost daily savings, but the program will take three to five years," he said. "Our way of life has to change." The university policy states that new programs should earn back their original cost in two to four years, said Brunton. See ENERGY, Page t> Judiciary proving NE BROOKS ;k Staff Writer d improvements have been made with the ents judicial system in terms of consistency ciency, according to Marsha Duncan, t Dean of Campus Relations. the major problems in the old system was ing jurisdictions. Duncan said that when she JSC last September, she found there were "a od systems but too many systems." Student Government had their system, the i i rv: : i n * ^ oenaie iiau uie uiscipnnary tommiuee, Vffairs had the Campus Relations Office, and had overlapping jurisdictions, Duncan said. AS HARD for a person with my job to figure re a case should go. The way the courts' ion statements were written, the SG never Ives the big cases, so it went to the discipline ee, she said. eeded more consistency, efficiency, to give a maximum number of options, and to allow , faculty and staff to have some input into the of disciplinary cases," she added. he new judicial system was initiated this fall, have chosen to appear before an adtive hearing instead of the campus court, a )er court of students, faculty and staff. All is semester have been heard by Duncan. No ave been heard by the Campus Court, i two cases before the court were dropped ie hearing was held. !R THE NEW system, students charged with is of conduct regulations are required to set intment with Duncan in order that they may heir rights in the judicial system, the options e and the actual case if they wish to discuss it ime. They may be accompanied by an at>r a representative from the Advocates' Ofch consists of students trained in the judicial 1 to act as advisers rather than attorneys, its will then be informed of their option ot lg before an administrative hearing or the a. n: ii ?? _ i a coun. since me new judicial system was , all cases have been heard at an adtive hearing by Duncan. 10 surprise to me that 99 per cent of the have requested administrative action. That on every campus," Duncan explained. One >tudents choose administrative hearings is > "less time-consuming." Another reason is Duncan tells them what action See JUDICIARY, I'age 5