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I . The South Carolinian Library < Zampus Mail SamecocK Volume LXIV, No. 52 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. July 27, 1 978 SG spe Assembly USC budg Rv Marv Jmii Rt?l*v Mmtcock Staff Writer A budget request of almost $71 million from USC was approved Tuesday when the General Assembly overrode Gov. Jamep B. Edwards' veto of the state budget. The strongest opposition came from the senate where some senators said "higher education had been well taken care of in past years." uespue a last aitcn eirort from the opposition, the senate approved the state budget 31-6 and the house approved it 77-29. use PRESIDENT James B. Holderman said he was "very pleased that we were able as a system to get this approved. We are pleased with the support that nds moi ^IwmBPP':-; - approves ^et request the General Assembly has given U the budget, especially full formuli funding." _ x ti. nuvui uiiik iu tx untversii) spokesman, it was a victory for th< campus system because this wa the first time all USC campuses were unified. "Full formula funding" com bines all campuses within the US( system as a one line budge request. According to a university official, this is a tremendou] victory for the four year campuses especially Coastal Carolina, USC Spartantyirg and USC-Aiken. All of the campuses ha< requested faculty and staff in creases. New faculty positions foi 1978-79 total 113 with new suppor positions totalling 115. *e money Budget juggl* By Jan Easterlta Oamrcock Staff Writ Student government expend! totaled $54,625, although a budget passed by the student senate. "They have not overspent/' Alexander, dean of students. "IT and fixed costs they can appro budget, but in the past they have projects they planned to implem for." Doug Bostick, administrat Alexander, said the difference ' percentage of the balance forwai money not used by organizations This money Lb usually used for caj such as new machinery and equi people or projects who don't have said. Two reasons the budget had to I wheelchair lift installation, a pun little over $1,000 more than e: budgeted money for fringe benefi all full-time employees' salai university toward health insu compensation and retirement, B After SG expenditure reports a he and Alexander refigured the 1 percentage of the balance forwa not a routine thing we do. The mo it's just the way we give it to th difference. Only our office has review the budget and break do differently." Bostick said the money could 1 and Alexander felt the expenditu "We could have written them ofl Core text choices va Books, bo $ I By isarry J. uie Oamtcock Staff Wrl While some departments are ai one text in their multiple secti< courses, others have increased made available to instructors. One change has come in the E where the choice of texts for Eng 102 has been expanded. Accor< head Dr. George L. Geckle, semester, freshmen English inst to choose one composition text a limited variety, as opposed to th ft 1 1 1 - 1 # _11 A! " uuok ueing usea ior uii secuons i Geckle said the reason beh choices available was "to give o V We wanted to give them the opp< b of a book they would feel con s students will actually receive bet s teacher likes the book and is teaching from it." Geckle said freshmen Englisl - able to choose one 101-102 comp t selection of three. Selection of or y made available from a list of foui s of one 102 reader will be made fr n..?tinkiA i. if ? avauawic icaid. in auuiiiuii, it t^u - choose to use a casebook to ass: major paper, a choice of one is av i five available casebooks. r DR. CAROLYN B. MATALE t freshman English, said that even the different sections would be r than a! 2d to make upj ig would havi t Commissioi tures for 1977-78 SG bases of only $43,125 was student act actual alio* said Robert E. from studei iov hnvp rwsismnnol fooc priate for in their Five pert never set up which a conting< ent to be budgeted programmi additional ive assistant to activities i was covered by a allocations. *d money, which is Balance the previous year, used to pital improvements However, S pment, and to fund assistant U regular budgets, he forward fig agreed that be refigured were a budget. !hase which cost "a "The alio xpected," and un- years with Its, a percentage of Alexander ies paid by the "Any ca trance, workmen's budget," h< ostick said. lias been ime in, Bostick said maximum Midget, adding in a a new b rd money. "This is determine ney is really theirs, item 'and em that makes the estimate ol i the flexibility to tivity fees ?vn the percentages because of one. "I will be added only if he using the b res were wise ones, don't inten I this time and they used each h ni'c nnrl m u/f 1/11/ III nn and basic i ^ number of ihering to the use of same ? it ons of introductory one text f< the choice of texts does not < tellectual English department, "The th lish 101 and English liberal an< ling to department William 1 beginning this fall English, si ructors will be able each book, ind a reader from a just take < e past policy of one "Every even if we ind expanding the not come ur faculty a choice, formation, >rtunity to teach out ifortable with. The THESIN ter instruction if the issued to enthusiastic about teaching a ana guars h instructors will be describes position text from a and there le 101 reader will be ments. Th< r texts and selection fact that th om a group of three fact that e slish 102 instructors Accordir ist the student in a channel as ailable from a list of compositio the studen To avoid :NE, new head of bookstore, i with the new texts, basically consistent [locate for discrepan e to appeal to the Student n for thtm to cover the amou i its budget on projected re ivity fees, Bostick said. To c nation for last year, all mor at activities fees were added rent of this total was taken ou sncy fund to be used : ing during the year, new org; funding. Eleven percent of rees would be taken for tl forward monies, Bostick sa determine SG's original lue Ann Rough ton, former a<j > Alexander, said she had i ures to determine the allocat there is not a set wav to detei cations have been figured foi out using the balance forw? said. mpus organization has an i e said, "but for the student g< difficult to keep from e> amount." udgeting process drawn up this year's projected budge project in a line item bud t what each will cost. Ten p will be allocated to SG inste; a senate bill dropping the p< give them the maximum the alance forward figures," Boj d for the balance forward f year." ore booh equirements would still be th books used by the student w is just the choices that are di >r all sections is nice for eff do much for academic inte freedom." ree books really represent d middle-of-the-road type p< liesing, assistant director lid. "If you look at the table c , they cover basically the sar iifferent approaches." teacner emphasizes differe use the same text, all the si out with exactly the same " Geckle said. G SAID the freshman Engl all freshman English ins issistants, sets guidelines fo: intees some uniformity. "1 in great detail the nature of are many ways to come at ; manual ensures standardize tere are different texts in no > iveryone is getting the same ig to Geckle, every effort wi student into a 102 section that i *1 book as his 101 section to ai t to buy a different comDosl I confusion as to what book freshmen are being instruct See BO d \cy ; Allocations mt," he said, venues from letermine its ley collected to club sport t to establish for ongoing Euiizations or the student hp Sn tntol id, were not allocations. Iministrative ised balance ion. But both rmine the SG the past few ird monies," approved set wernment, it Lceeding the and used to *, lists each Iget with an ercent of acad of eleven, ercentage by y can get not itirk said. "I igures to be :s e same. "The ill remain the fferent. Using Iciency but it grity and inconservative, )sitions," Dr. of freshman >f contents for ne group, but nt things, so :udents would i kind of in ish handbook tructors and r the courses lie handbook assignments these assignation, and the vay alters the s education." II be made to uses the same raid requiring ition text, to buy at the ed not to buy OKS, page 2