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T rustee* By KATHLEEN MCINTYRE Gamecock Staff Writer Several measures have been app Trustees to prevent any further shut the university's future energy need Actions approved Feb. 12 by th< creasing storage capacity for fi , possibility of using multiple source: ching for additional means of enerj Vice President Hal Brunton, said unuous now 01 tuei ana tms was problem to be solved. "USC'S FOUR energy plants onlj hold 94,000 gallons of fuel oil at t trustees have decided to add an ur with the capacity to hold 300,000 gal fuel oil truck will also be purchase from the central storage area to campus." Semester extension unaffected by bill By CYNTHIA CONNOLLY Gamecock Staff Writer A bill that could prevent students from making up excessive absences would affect aecondarv public schools in the state but not USC. According to George Leventis, director of research for education and public works house committee, public schools have had trouble meeting the 180 days attendance requirement because cold weather and fuel shortages have occasionally clooed down some schools. However, USC will still have an extended semester because it is not affected by the state's requirement for attendance, USC President William H. Patterson said lUVDWiy. The decision Feb. 1 that canceled university classes for two weeks was made by Patterson and the USC Board of Trustees. Major changes in the university schedule, such as the recent extension, are approved by the faculty as well, Patterson said. The administration and faculty considered a four-day week, Patterson said, but the expense of maintaining the dormitories for -J- AU- ?1 I rcaiucms mauc mc piun impractical. Patterson said the semester was extended rather than canceling spring break "because so many people had already made plans. It was bad enough to inconvenience everyone to begin with without having to repeat it a second time." The bill has passed the S. C. House of Representitives and is being amended by the Senate to include absences caused by illness, says House member Nick Stoddard. State aid alloted each district it nnrtlv rtotArminAfl hv *Kj? at. tendance record of the previous year. If the bill passes the Senate, it will prevent schools from being penalized for unusually poor attendance due to natural causes. Hie request to give the State Department of Education additional authority was initiated by Cyril Busbee, superintendent of education. Under the General Assembly Act of 1970, only five days of absences could be excused by the Board, according to Busbee. > stppro) Daily a reduced I "On a roved by the Board of universit down and to help meet normal u S. Rnintnn < ; trustees include in- THERF tel oil, studying the warmer i of energy, and sear- degrees, {y conservation. Energj there was not a con- to oil. S< the most immediate source fc "The u gas alone ' have the capacity to Bruntoi he present time. The years of I iderground oil storage ^ about Ions, Brunton said. "A carry the d to transport fuel oil ?jn the the boiler plants on down oui buildings 'ir^PvT V" -.-..^11^ -. V , K' ? ^ m_ <? ? ' , -'C ~2<* ' .1 . - . ., .,, z^"f?", J* V-r > The USC campus was near T\ 11 ueans call shutdown necessary, unfortunate By BEENDA EASTERLING OtAll tir? vxmiicvuvn ohiii ff IIVCI USC's two-week shutdown h been called imperative, i convenient, and unfortunate university deans and departm< chairmen. "The shutdown was necessai but I wouldn't want it to happ anymore," Julian H. Finch pharmacy college dean, sal Fine her said the two-week < tension of classes in May cot cause administrative problei because the end of exams will "on the heels of summer schoo re new < mounts of fuel used by the uni in an effort to conserve energ> normal day before the ener y would use approximately 24,(X sage of fuel oil has been cut I said. HOST ATS have been set at 65 d weather the Air rnnHitinnorc r sources will be able to altemat ilar energy will also be explo >r energy. niversity will no longer be dep as a heating fuel source," Brun n added, "As I see it we still lun lomework ahead of us. We kno> our energy sources, we only ha1 ;m out." future we hope to have more c ' need for so much energy, an in order to prevent any furl ly deserted during the twc "THIS IS not as large a for pharmacy as it is f< departments," he said, sonally, I would prefer to c classes over spring break of possible adminii problems." Since prof esse year-round, the two-w< tention would not affec Fincher said. William H. Nolte, department chairman said week break gave those "interested in learning" tii k serious readizuz. "Although it is unfortui university had to close, it j me the shutdown was impe Nolte said. ias Ernest Furchtgott, ps; in- department chairman by "People who return to sch Jill ?wu weena ueeu a ? period." and after spring t ry, said, students will need en warm-up period, and this i er them in studying, id. Some faculty membi ;x- students labeled the t ild shutdown as an "inconvc us Many said they woul be preferred keeping the u |." open even without heat. energy ] versity have been energy gy shortage, the THE I K) gallons. Now the for chai to 16,000 gallons," campus January egrees and during' semeste ...211 l_ a. wm ue sei ai ou bcuicow: To ca e from natural gas servatio red as a possible engineei will inv< endent on natural particul. ton said. In adc re from two to five faculty v what we want to business ve to find a wnv to recomm TO IM ttl reserves, to cut allocate id to redesign our main ten. her shutdowns or mayalsc \ Hf f! aSr??r -week holiday. rs Closing :ontinue J*"?" By JULIE MIDKU m wwk Gamecock Staff Wi Jv six restaurants -eK ex' vvere among the b t them, uSC affected by ti week closing of the English Hardee's bu3ines 1 the two- about 40 per cent, students assistant managers me to do depends on studei offices," he said. 44 nate the over half of what jeems to doing." srative," Charlie Glascow main office in Coli ychology campus establishn i said, closing two hours ea ooi after three weeks, but wil /arm-up regular hours a bo* >reak, he March. another The Big Birc nay hurt manager John Sumi went out of busi ers and weeks." The Big Bi :wo-week five days a week in 5a*?nce." only to keep the Id have employed, Summer: niversity provide 90 per cent Stephen Kamorof! plan snoriages," Brunton said. JNIVERSITY'S academic ca nge to provide for additioi for students during the pc . Such a calendar would prov r just before Christmas and r at the end of January. wmt J' r ??y wui uinei Muuies 01 en n measures, the university v ing firm. The university's E stigate energy requirements ar emphasis on electricity, lition, a committee on cons< members from the college administration will make endations. PLEMENT the energy plan I up to $250,000 by deferring ance expenses in the 1976-77 ) have to come from the 1977-7 y- v-"" Marl 5 slowed t Stuffy's, sa f reduced to chtime b and two bars estimates th usinesses near stuffy's bus he recent two- Kamoroff a ! university. up its is was cut by students itu said one of its . "Our business BUSINES nts and state decreased We did a little assistant m we had been hours were was closed. of McDonald's the two exl imbia, said its make up fc tent lias been Burger I rly for the past Figueroa sc 1 return to their affected, bu Jt the first of expected. 1 damage cai 1 restaurant per cent of mere said, "We Lum's r iness for two Thomas, rd stayed open decreased a stead of seven, weeks. "Mo workers there comes fro isnlH Stii/fonte nniv<ir<itu " of its business, the extra til f, a manager at up for lost lendar will be studied lal days away from ak heating needs in ide for ending the fall ueginning uie spring ergy needs and conill consider hiring an division of Operations for the campus with :rvation consisting of of engineering and energy conservation Lhe trustees agreed to and cutting certain budget. Some funds B budget. |V ' irT 5SSB * TiLiv/T^H^^^HH^BlS ? * Jf' ^ k Morrow THE GAMECOCK . business id their hours were do only a small lunusiness. Kamoroff lat 80 to 85 per cent of mess is from students, lid Stuffv's will make business when the ike up school in May. S AT the Pizza Hut severely, Andy Wall, anager, said. Employe reduced while school Wall said he is.hoping ra weeks in May will r the past two weeks. King manager Noel lid business there was t was not as bad as he {p Kflid tho nrtmaru pt niiai j ne from the loss of 90 its student employes. ight manager, Lee said his business lot during the past two st of our night business m students at the Thomas said. He said ne in May should make ,< / business. ^'