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3 Cutting down a tree is more | difficult than many people I think, as these two men I demonstrate. This tree, on J Devine St. at Fiv*? Pninic H ?- ? mv-m* m VIII Vt3 f 15 Eg! being cut section by section. I The man on the ground holds g the ropes as the man on top of I the tree guides the top section > down ? and hopes he doesn't Eti _ S Informatii By JOSE DUVALL Gamecock Staff Writer A I.I 1 1 ... <-? ntYY icicpiiunc service 10 neip stu formation about the university will semester, according to Jim Anderson, gi the office of campus relations. "ASKUS" will provide information fr< to students asking such questions as "Ho aid?" or "Where do I go to pick up footba "How do I withdraw from the universit; call has not yet been decided, according i "We are going to have answers to qu area of the university, about clubs and as student organizations, the v organizations on campus, etc." he sa answers to questions about the different center, the library. Task force 1 By KIM FOWLER ficii Gamecock Staff Writer Con $300 Budget proposals for heat and cons electricity bills at USC totaled In nhnait **-2 Jff b Sbmi ij$ m V US Bgf f \ '^_I_-^^^M ra'riU 8HE|BBSe^. ' - ': on service tc "We hope to have so questions students run ii The office of campus dents get basic in- dexed brochure with ol be installed next four-digit numbers cor raduate assistant in that the campus relation question under the app both student and staffe am 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. w do I get financial THE OFFICE ehopes ill tickets?" or even telephone line with tape y?" The number to person won't be handlii Ia W 'UlUtl OUII. estions from every "W may be two weeks organizations such ?"e telephone line canno arious religious have to add anothe: id. "We will have want start out too b majors, the health received," he said. Anderson said the proj tackles energy lis have created the Energy $2.75 millio servation Task Force, but a amount hai i.OOO hnHcAf * !? ?> > > *- ' 1 -* v? * vMi n?o uidue uuugei p jervation a tough goal. proximately 1975-76 the heat and electricity this will be r\ i totaled $1,999,073 while last but thus far r they increased to difficult." s. i \ j- --- jji ! I I Richard V^I THE GAMECOCK j[^BEgE^?| 8HhHBWK!&-' ' \ s&EmMiM . X j 1" to v" I begin next! me 300 to 500 answers to different campus i ito most of the time," he said. organizatii relations will soon publish an in- Minority S ften-asked questions and three- to responding to each. He explained ki is staffer could look up the student's favorable, ropriate number, saving time for these office r be a service be saving ; to eventually net more than unp phone ansv recordings, Anderson said, so one somebo lg the entire system. ? "THUS F into the program when we see that will be a u it handle the system, and if not, we added, r telephone line, but we just don't .. . . ig and not have the service well charage0f th ?ram will start on a trial hasis Thn not ^ reac r problem desp n. "This year the sideration. Each mem ? increased to a monthly on specif iroposal of ap- problems in their area $4 million. Hopefully The task force's c educed by $1 million, program is known as efforts are proving Energy Mana.cmer aid the Operations System. Division. The purpose of tl Energy Managemer Til K COM- System is to cut down MITTKK in energy in the univei charge of energy plants and in m< reducing this buildings," accordii energy bill was Operations Division 1 organized in done by adjusting ter January 1977 to cutting off systems develop programs weekends, and holiday to control energy off lights in unoccup usage this year, reducing manpower by The task force is start (stop) program headed by Vice reducing manpower President of manual controls and r< (Operations, Harold Brunton. T1IKKK WILL l>e th ? ? i iic- inemoers are the university will undei from different to provide the needed areas throughout energy. The first phai the university $299,982 which has he< where energy is a purchase gasoline and main con- East Energy Plant ar m itllffi iiriiaitll semester elations office is now contacting major ins on campus such as the Counseling Bureau, itudent Affairs and Veterans' Affairs. sponses we have gotten have been very ' he said. "The people are excited about it in is. We see that this system is not only going to i to the students, faculty and staff, but it will also the offices around campus time spent on the /ering questions that could be better answered dy else," he said. AH, we have received very good support, und it niversity effort to collect the information," he Juncan, dean of campus relations, who is in e program, was away at a conference and could I > neu. lite budget cut ber reports Flast Campus buildings, ic energy The second phase will cost i. $300,000 to purchase oil and onservation gasoline and will connect me lenirai remaining buildings \sest of it Control Pickens St. and the three other energy plants. Even though this tie Central phase will help conserve energy, it Control the funds were turned down. "But and control they were turned down as part of sity's four operating funds and are now being ire than 100 proposed from capital funds," said lg to the Brunton. If the legislature decides his can he to allocate this money from capital nperatures, funds, the last phase can thena be at night, concentrated on. Brunton said "It /s; turning is my understanding the requested lea areas, amount will now go through." automatic s and by used for TIIK FINAL phase will be a jcording. payback period which includes reaching the goal of reducing the $4 ree phases million budget by $1 million. This *go in order must be done manually by a amount of twelve-man maintenance force. *e includes They will have to neglect some of en used to their normal maintenance work in oil for the order to adjust thermostats and id thirteen valves manuallv.