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. CamPu?Uth Library Volume LXIX, No. 60 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Sept. 13, 1978 ? :: 1 K&v. iB ummm %' ' Mf" - HHHHH IpBIIK | | | njjj RHUU, Sti By Jim Phillips News Editor Russell House University Union and Student Actn have been combined in an effort to eliminate duplicati services, save money ana put programming closer t< students, said James B. Campbell, vice president of sti affairs. Campbell explained the reorganization in Mond meeting of the RHUU Executive Council. "ALL WE'VE done is move another program capacity into the Russell House," Campbell said. Campbell said he wants to get programming o Student Affairs and place it within the control of Ri House. Student Activities will no longer be directed b Dean of Student Affairs, Marsha Duncan, but will be ject to the control of Tom Otts, director of the Ri House, Campbell said. Otts said, ''We've not lost anything but have just p 1 in chiHcnf antiiritioo " 'I'Vid /inmmnn thinnminatAi* Kat OiUUVIIV UVUTIVIVO* AIIV VVIBtlllUII UwlIVllllllHvVl IA/V the two is programming, he said. However, he said.R and Student Activities do very different things. THE UNION has a long history of a program council, Otts said, while Student Activities is a loosei unit with more than 135 organizations, all of which do own programming. "My hope is that with everyone h< together and involved in close proximity, the clos mmilrl mmiKn crvorlr fhlnrta nn " Via cat#! fvuuiu iiiajMv n 1111115a \ziif ire ooiu. The present system has caused lack of coordim cooperation and communication bet4*etsh!%tXe t . ;:=vl% j ."!L'J w ' ^Wp^;'-a;' v ^ .JHWkMMBI?^ll '^^^MBnlti^nl^^T T ^^^^^^^^>^^^^^B^^:^:^i8BB6HBsil^8Bff^KBPBBii!pBniH^HftS^^SBjBwfc^^ < ^ .Jt^ . ident Activitie; organizations, Otts said. Otts attributed the lack of co dination to the separation of RHUU and Student Activiti rities "it's like the left hand not knowing what the right is doinj on of he said. o the "In the short run, there will be some problems," he sa ident "Any time there is a major innovation in progress, th< are structural and organizational problems. You alwf ay ? inmate some proniems, operational, organizational, i ministration and procedural." ming OTTS SAID the effect the reorganization will have "positive because we ought to have improved co ut of munication between organizations doing similar thing: issell The end result of the reorganization will be bet y the university programming," he said. sub- Ellen Brody, RHUU program advisor, said, "I fu issell support the unification of student activities and the un because it would help both organizations." icked The timing of the reorganization is right, she said. "Sti ween wise, the timing is good" because of the rec HUU reorganization of the office of student affairs, she sa "Qtli^onf.wioA if ic hur/l " Kaaqiisa (Via AMonUatinno ar< UVUUVIIV TTiOVy IV AO IIU1 U| MW?UtA? VIIV VI gVUUMAVlVIKO Ml \ the height of programming. ming r-knit their KENNY PALUCH, RHUU Cinematic Arts Commit >used chairman, said he is worried about the union fading av eness with the joining of Student Activities. The union has b asked to give a lot more in the way of inconvenier ation, compared with other student organizations, to V - ', ,'.4:x t:'^^^^WBBB(^,<x - . xmUBSL^iS^m MB SfcZ ^ la Blra&aHMtfMeB PmBL#. ^B?S3Sli?ranGn& l^sSBSBKSsBBEiiail^B^ ii^Ei "?\jtt^iin a HIA tliA Irrint^ or- Paluch said, "We sometimes doubt that the ades. ministration is entirely supportive of the student union." i " Camnbell said the administration dmvs sunnnrt th#? j>> k ri * student union. id. Marshr Duncan, recently appointed dean of student ;re affairs, said the reorganization will be beneficial to both iys groups in that each will be exposed to different approaches ad- and more ideas, information and staff support. "I think that once everybody realizes why the move was made they will accept it," she said. is ,m- THE DIFFERENCE between RHUU and Student Acis " (ivitioc anpnwlirirf (a Hunpan ic tha (vi\a nf 9. UTivivw, mvvva vv axuiivuii, iw? v11v ijpv vta pi u5i ?11111 jtlll? ter each handles. "It is not the case that Student Activities is small time, because they are in charge of around 200 illy organizations, and each of those groups has their own ion planning," she said. morcrinc* pari allnw nc miirh Hiuprsitv flfi mssihlp ...v- D...e V?.. ? ' ? ?v r l?" between the two groups, giving them a broader base from ent which to work," said Duncan. t ' ? John Foster, RHUU president, said the union will have 1 more resources because of the merging. Foster, however, said he is concerned about possible confusion resulting from the reorganization. "I don't think we are duplicating toe activities," he said, adding that RHUU and Student Acvay tivities handle different types of programming. "I just don't want the union to lose what it has now." he said. ^ce Gretchen Laatsch, assistant director for programs at 2et Russell House, said, "I think there is going to have to be a -JW^'dfH^vvX*X'XkX*X%X'XXX'X'X*XX XVXv X XX*