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g0mms% 0**?% &"*** The south Carolina Libra-/ all lcU" 88 B ^USM!** ? Friday Volume LXIX, No. 102 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Jan. 26, 1979 . By Bernard Sinkler Oamtcock Staff Wriftr The USC Student Senate passed a hill WPflnPsHflv prpntino a J ""O " University Honors and Awards Commission. The eight-page bill, drawn up by ^ the Senate Academics Committee, ^ . was first passed page by page and SD0ns0r then passed again as a whole. The ^pan 0< bill must now go to Student Th finirorn m nnl QH Pmci^nnt >J.Uf VW1I?V>1V, JJjg Seamus O'Boyle for his signature. w-|j ger It must be approved by the f t. Division of Student Affairs and h signed by USC President James B. QCClirr,;. w. i * dboUIUll Holderman. ohairm "This bill is a consolidation of chairm four different universitv com " ine mittees into a single commission," A j according to Sen. Kenny Paluch, ag c^a Horseshoe, Maxcy-Thornwell, and Award academics committee member. h "We've been working with the secreta president's office and the provost's office on this. It is something that Thr both of them want." . commit to the THE COMMISSION will be verusei responsible for selecting out- award, standing seniors, graduate forwarc students, USC nominees for Who's ^ Ac Who in American Colleges and tabulat: Universities and Who's Who in awards American Graduate Schools and nomina Law Schools. Also, the commission Com mi will select the recipients of the SG Also, Meritorious Awards and the anc* A recipient of the Algernon Sydney budget Sullivan Award, awarded each AH year to one student demonstrating recogni outstanding service to USC. awards the thir In addition, the commission has year. "the power and authority to collect The < and collate the individual at the 1 academic awards conferred upon with st students by academic depart- for ap ments" and "establish additional fellows guidelines and procedures not in to the I conflict with the provisions of this In at statute." commi The Honors and Awards Com- commi mission will consist of: three orhono faculty members appointed by the the pow USC President; the chairman of of the t the SG Academics Committee; a himsell member of the SG Academics procee< Committee; a student member of that m Omicron Delta Kappa, the co- questio D*. U? illll/fl l^u dormitt construt to be stu i Senate < i twaras c< of awards day; and the * , , Student Affairs. > ,?,C ' :J& newly-appointed chairman < < - ^ SG Academics Committee ve as an ex-officio member " v ommittee until the outgoing *11; . ::|i lan's term ends. Upon in i iiiiiiiiiil Mhillfl ng official duties, the new ' an will replace the outgoing : an as an active member. . chairman of the SG lies Committee will serve ' irman of the Honors and Commission. The dean of N vflB t affairs will serve as 1 v;/ ry. <*m . PROCEDURES the ; .:-r< ision will follow, according ! 4 J| * bill are: the public ad- , 1 ,rx nent of invitations for each v ' v honor or recognition and ^ S ling of nominations to the :^ j| ademics Committee for -Irion of points on appropriate and the preparation of the * ,fm > r7:' tions for Honors and Award ? v 9 ssion consideration. > : < J? ' '* ' ' ' ' the chairman of the Honors wards will prepare the ""<M ~ , " for university awards day. ' : awards, honors and "^9 . / , , tions will be conferred on < ? day, which will be held on ^ ' ? ' d Thursday in April of each < commission must advertise ^ fi aeginning of each semester * ' ||| udent media the final dates plying for scholarships, " < ' Mm hips and awards, according ? idition, no member of the Ission may nominate a i ssion member for an award ' * ir which the commission has r ,' /er to grant. Also, a member < " commission must disqualify # f from participating in any x k? J dings where grounds exist 'V. ay place his impartiality in f#* By L ASSltfi The feasibility o university branch c member committc I yVS ST111 S C? President James B II I Im The committee w ^ and Coastal Carolir have four committ administrator, a ge 1 personnel represent U?B Jy John J. Duffy, who COMMITTEE MP -J-j __ in the proposal. The L Tiff Ufa effects of changing ?> campus to a reside positive reaction is ^ 9 4* other three issues wi the project, a den M demand for campus If a loan is obtain repaid in addition I sonnel costs. Each dividual loan. Duffy done to see if there keep a dorm filled "If the proposal is as to whether a tr creates the following p?ir recipients of awards an< ex c e p t^ '' ^(^ ^ ^ | 1.250 p?lnts and 25 receives 30 points. 'Jr3B Inclusion of a nomine Dean's List or the Presi< receives 10 points f semester. Rgp||f Examples of positioi mMP receive points are: SG I ^'bHP 40 points a year; Russi SB? University Union membe points a year; Carolii Chairman, 20 points a y president, 20 points vigllK fraternity president, 25 I?*\- honor fraternities weren ^ in terms of national 1< ^ currently sponsor awai Fowler, student electii mission chairman, told I '" spring elections will be h 12. Candidates may file lift{$19 to 2 3. A 2 - w e e k carr ?.-< * period will follow. ShBR^I^A Vice President Gari eigh Grogan somethi ant New* Editor Duffy Si f constructing dorms on three , w^en n i_ _ _ I? ? -i _ . r. hr? nrps# ampuses win De siuaiea uy a iz- ? i?:e to be appointed by USC passed . Holderman. state ag ill study the Spartanburg, Aiken ^ Edwa: la campuses. Each campus will Caroline ee representatives including an showed neral faculty member, a student *n ?avor ative and a student, according to of dorms urill ^lioir tha r?Arnmiffnn I OaSlal Vt AAA vAl CA A A IAAV V. V/ tllAIAAVVW ? This p :mbERS will consider four issues a* Coast first is a question concerning the Coastal from the original commuter-type name t ential campus. Duffy said if a !? reached on this first issue the through ill be studied. They are: funds for lographic study of the student J:1.ia. ? housing and what type housing y6j t?f\ tn fnriH th<? nrnit miicf Kp COntraP to paying maintenance and per- Accordu school must secure its own in- semeste said a demographic study will be nJ?Fe stl i is sufficient student demand to of them in the future. Gaspe i acceplfcd4here is some question maintan aditional dorm" will be built or services pointed out, two conflicting statements in the election bill. "At one place in the bill it says 'campaigning shall not begin until the Monday following the last day of filing' and the second place in the Bbill says 'campaigning shall not begin until the first day of the cpmpsfpr thp arp h#?lH ' " it system Norris said jtermine Sen Michelle Crout, Humanities j h and Social Sciences, then pointed national' out lh.at "an.y amendment HirharH supercedes previous parts of a the SG bill." Therefore the amendment cultv and 8ivinS candidates the right to begin )ers A camPa^n'n8 at ^e beginning of ' 1sn spring semester when elections are t ? - held takes precedence over the 3 499 90 main body of the bill stating that u - 9 7k tn campaigning could not begin until to 2 749 ^le Monday following the last day ; oi ining. ruing ior canaiaaies lor i office will begin Monday. ie on the ? ll"'L'eh THE SENATE approved the following committee ap... pointments: Anne B. Miller, 3 . .1 f Health Services Advisory Cornell mittee; John M. Watt, Student ell House ... .. <- rvnintc /"locations Commission: Ginna 'opt 4ft Holland, Advisory Committee on P ' Campus Residential Life Services; par- Huh Kenny Faluch, Student-Faculty a vear- ^e^a^ons'? Eric Sadow, Amoco nnintc a uutsiancung leacner Award; Jv Thomas Woodruff, Committee on j t' 9r Honorary Degrees; John Boswell, . r ^ Registration Committee and the Library Committee ; John Holman, University Drug Committee; BROWN Barry Avant, Committee on >DK was Counseling Services; James lile other Walsh, Advisory Committee on Intramural and Recreational >nrW<:hin Athletic, and Jonas Best, Honorary Tt, t. J Degrees Committee. ecoenized Vice President Morris won .K .. confirmation of Dana Morris as iadership, nf ople that JU7a,^;um' -ds dav " mittee< De'res:a Gerald as chairman of academic committee, ion Kim and I)avid Clay t0 the com" _ munications committee. ons com:he senate eld March Senate also accepted by acFebruary clamation a resolution giving ipaigning condolences to President Seamus O'Boyle's grandfather who died *V Norris this past week. ne involving a continuing education center." aid. the study is completed, a formal proposal will jnted to Holderman. If approved, it must be by the USC Board of Trustees and various ;encies, according to Duffy, rd M. Singleton, chancellor of Coastal i, said a student survey taken last year 91 percent of the student body at Coastal was of having on-campus housing. '4I am in favor s because I feel they will enhance the future of Carolina," Singleton said. >ast semester the undergraduate enrollment al Carolina was 1,759. According to Singleton, aireaciy nas a 3>z.a minion loan reservea in its hrough Housing and Urban Development, Washington. The loan, however, did not pass Holderman's office and cannot be used until ly is completed and the proposal approved, m C. Casper, chancellor of USC, said, "I ly think there should be a study to determine dorms) are needed and if this, in a way, is 1 to the concept of regional campuses." ng to Casper, Aiken's enrollment this past ,?? nrrio 1 CQO /\r> A a Ir /> % in i wao i ,uuo uuuci ciuurtica. /nrwcn ir> ^cuiu^ idents from other parts of the state and many are in favor of campus housing," he said, r said other factors to consider besides ning the dorm are providing health and food . to the students who remain on campus.