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GAMECOCK Monday, Nov. 21,1977 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIV, No. 23 Anticipate hhhhhhh 1 : m^Lin ,*i i? r ,: The newest chapter was a as the Tigers, boasting a 7The festivities were kicke let off a little steam, raised Curtis Boyd's facc as he Ic victory. ? S. C. bud % UDIAHI TIIDMLI) i?j iiiiinii Gamecock Staff Writer After its budget request f< 9 higher teacher salaries w? refused by the S. C. Commission c Higher Education last month, tl university has had those moni< reinstated by the Budget ar Control Board of the Soul Carolina legislature. The board had approved a 2 University SO office It. lUMMV PmVI.'i I Gamecock Staff Writer The university will pay the bil renovations, according to a lettc Brad Steele from USC President man. Steele said the university is pic the renovations because "so ma raised" by students when senate I be used to fund the project. "The bill passed in the senate 2S ;>\i iiiui.ii tuuuuvvi^j' (iiniiu u ? university funding," said Steele. on... jj- t ^BL f ^fiSp?^ iHfiSSi. ririptl In thp tradition \l TaroHna-rip 2-1 record, came to Columbia to ta d off with Friday night's Tiger Bur a little hell and got mentally prepa aves the game tells the tale ? the ' ...and not hoarrl ? percent increase for salaries last summer, but President James B. Holderman was pushing hard for a )r 9 percent increase. USC got .c $776,251. which is within $1,000 of m the amount turned down by the ,e Higher Education Commission, ;s according to Budget Director l(j Peter Denton. [ji "The commission chose not to recommend the pay hikes, but we made our case well to the BCB," r to pay for renovations Cost estimai Student gover project this wc $15,500, said Ste 1 for the SG office take three to fiv jr to SG President February. James B. Holder THE KENOV, installing new v king up the tab for and modifying I ny objections were The cost of the funds were going to $15,000, accordii planning. The r i to 12 but there was volved is that tl that we asked for renovations ii conditioning sys f nJBm nflRjBifl: fJBB X Jmu Richard Vog?l -THE GAMECOCK nii&n rivalry this weekend i I me on ine tiamcciicKs. |gg 11 (above), where students ||| red for a rough game. Rut fll Tigers struggled to a :i 1 -27 ^ aftermath I grants tec Denton said. All of the statesupported colleges and universities received 9 percent increases, he said. THE PAY HIKES are deemed necessary by university officials to keep USC academically in competition with other "class 1" schools in the Southeast. A class 1 school grants more than 100 Ph. D.'s each year. Carolina professors > ed of $14-15,000 nment will start taking bids for the ?k and the maximum bid will be ele. Renovations in the annex should e months and should be completed by A TKIVL Innlurln Inoinrt nAtu n uiLiuut ici y iii^ nun Lai pel, kails, painting, replacing the ceiling icating and air conditioning units, renovations will be around $14,(XH) to tig to Ed Bass, manager of campus eason for the amount of money in he SG office will undergo extensive nvolving the heating and airitems and other items, Bass said. See INNOVATIONS. page :i ..apr ? ? 0 i i ^:=?\. v A / earn $700 less a year than the average, 1. lesion iviarcnant, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said. The board will now send its recommendations to the S.C. legislature when it meets in January. Although the budget will again he subject to changes by the legislature, and particularly the House Ways & Means Committee, 95 percent of the BCB's recommendations are passed, according to Board member and State Comptroller General Earle Morris. \/n vmiui cip^ii'^i KlllUil the university was less successful but will carry the fight to the legislature, Denton said. "We've got a very good case for receiving fair and equitable appropriations, and will be contesting for fullformula funding and enrollment adjustment." The Higher Education Commission lowered the university enrollment projections which affects funding, Denton explained. Basketball seai ml.!_ ! A t * ins issue contains a special Gamecock basketball season. II I IT?W?C ?. Richard Vogel THE GAMECOCK ry hike ONK I'AItT of the university's appeal concerns the state's bookkeeping procedures. In efforts to have better control and more information over the spending of money, the legislature is using line-item tunding, in which the budget is itemized, instead of budgeting lump sums. Denton said. Although he said lie feels there is nothing wrong with this, Denton said "line-item with no flexibility is unrealistic." I SC will ask for a 5 percent spending leeway on its budget item requests. Also because of a change in l>ookkeeping, Carolina must now pay for fringe benefits that were given a direct appropriation from the State Retirement System on behalf of the university. This, the Budget Director said, costs I'SC $1.7 million and must 1h? paid for witKk fik/tc Willi IU11IVMI I VV O . The total rppropriation for the nine-campus system stands at See SA lw\ II IKS. pa^r f> i son previewed section previewing the M?77-7N J