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gj Se ip4?ni v r!*? ^?r T^ft ??&* ' UL |8 ^gB^' ___. |g gr BH |L^__JB Bm rag \?| W| *? ffir? II j2|u. ' Eg | I II l^t. m b *^- ivSVIk <'^^L**^B[" * JB .^B ^H H 1 ""**iM*'wi'w,*HH'MM*,^w'i*'",*"p'''#i?H*,f*#>,|*frl?'' S Volume LXIX, No. 109* Univereifcy of>South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Feb. 12, 19"79 v-v. A*;', 1''.V v-y ^ /. j./8 C t\' :i^Hn he ?>(_J com By Jim Phillips & Don Fobes Pf Editorial Pa?? Editor Copy Desk Chlof th the News analysis mem small have A rather major overhaul of the Kxeci present Student Government, SG, ? 01 Constitution, which was recently rPPftmmPnHpfl hv Sin nrocirlonJ *" VU1UVIU Seamus O'Boyle in an attempt at t^e streamlining, raises the question gjw of how much streamlining is advisable. presi( O'Boyle proposes to reduce the ancJa legislative branch of SG from 59 to as sec 23 members, a substantial reduction. The designation of ln Student Senate would also change ?rga11 to Executive Council. Several j , senate members have expressed dele8 the concern whether the new Provi< constitution would provide 1 ? Prnl uucijiiau; uuu juai i cpi t'SUllUlllUH. seiecti The current constitution not fa provides for proportional bills b representation with a total number should of senators not to exceed one memt mm i USC has sign< ton Hotel, penc Department of HUD, according president for bu The purchase the neighborhoo "We've alrea< of the hotel, am h OUIL, rrc: auucu will go through is that it's long I be done with bai THE OWNEF of South Caroli Bank of North National Bank. The second' 1 received by HI T . 7 ~ 1 : Calhoun, HUD "At this time, v loan win not go ' { far looks favora , i I "It's done," I V 1 said, "We're w* j we've got the bu KM Calhoun said financial mana |Mfek| They check the l j if there are a 1 procedure is ex cording to Calhc ,? ititutions; ;nt of the student enrollment considered legis i Columbia campus. However, Another rati proposed constitution provision of the nates each college as a single- the 7,500 studeni ber district. Therefore, the and the 18,000 est college on campus would campus are rc as much representation in the delegate re* uuve council as me largest delegate from levote. (dormitory) Pn campus delegat CH COLLEGE, according to *n addition )roposed constitution, would members of th< a president to serve as executive office ate to the council, a vice council as nor dent to serve as first alternate members. A secretary-treasurer, to serve ministrators, tr :ond alternate. university, the Affairs and the addition, each of the 10 Faculty Senate lizations represented would ex-officio seats c a delegate and an alternate The question ate. The current constitution aside, the old c Jes for no alternates. from nmis respects. blems could arise from the For example, ion of alternates. Someone have been altere miliar with the debates and remains the ! efore the Executive Council president would I not participate as active of the Executive >ers. Hastily and ill- would be title Loan approval awe Dntract signed r i T f aae nampton By Mark Platte Frank Corley, H Gamecock stait writer ficials would revie ?d a contract to buy the Wade Hamp- sure ^at wou ling a $3 million loan from the U.S. repay the loan He Housing and Urban Development, approved because ; to Bernard Daetwyler, systems vice stitution 1 see no i smess and finance. all." price of the hotel is "somewhere in d of $2.8 million," Daetwyler said. i THINK we'll iy signed a contract with the owners cerning the loan) d now it's really the financing of the said. "I talked v . "We have good hopes that the loan Columbia, and the with HUD. The advantage of the loan through the data erm and low interest, and it wouldn't financial data and < iks or the public sale of bonds." send along with the take two weeks or ;S of the hotel are the National Bank about the only thi na, NBSC, the First Union National transfer." Carolina and the North Carolina Daetwyler said 1 amount of time, th ialf of USC's loan application was need the hotel afte JD on Jan. 31, according to Ralph will be sold. iiiuui-imniiy Housing representative. "It depends on th ye have no reason to believe that the future," Holderma through; what we have received so people moving off c ble," he said. enrollment is going JSC President James B. Holderman, need for it in a few > liting for the transfer from HUD, but The $3 million 1 ilding." repayed within 40 the loan is reviewed by HUD's rate, according to E gement specialists and attorneys. 'phe review pro title to the property and review to see specting docunn ny outstanding liens. The normal statements, legal o lib-r. o pool aviij i?n>v a i v?i uiiavc ciuoili^, at" iOclfl [)y USCJ I SC ,un $ 270,000 a year. : the old v. ti Nation could result. finance and secretary would be nnHpmrv>ratip . - ^ changed to chairman of constitution is that organizational affairs. Is living on campus presidential powers under the { students living off proposed constitution would ex- ( presented by one pan(i, giving him more specific ( ipectively: the COntrol of committee ap- t the Council of pointments. Appointments to t Eisidents and an off- maj0r university committees, such ' e. as the Board of Student , to the 23 voting publications and Communications f? onunril thf? fmir " --- and tne Student-Trustee Liaison rs would sit on the Committee, would require i-voting, ex-officio legislative approval. |?n thrpp an. le President of the Appointments to standing i ? nt ci..Hani university committees, such as the . Student Allocations Commission, would be provided SAC- and thc studcnt Organization Itooln! Licensing Commission, SOU", would need only the sanction of the of representation committee involved. onstitution differs one in several APPOINTMENTS TO j UNIVERSITY committees, such , executive titles as the Committee on Curricula and i d. President of SG New Courses and the University < same, but vice Drug Committee, would be made j become chairman by the president, subject to no < Council, treasurer one's approval. id chairman of Currently, the senate must 4 i ited to buy V T t notei UD area manager, said HUD ofw financial statements and make Id have adequate cash reserves to ; said he feels the loan should be the university is a "solid inreason for it to be disapproved at probably know something (conin about two weeks," Daetwyler >;th unn ,.ff: i rum lilt; 1 1UU Ullltldid licit* III ;y should be finished with going soon. There's an awful lot of jther information which we had to application, and they felt it would longer to go through it. That's ing that's holding us up on the that although there isn't a fixed e university feels that they won't r five years and that it probably e people who file for housing in the n said. "The average number of ampus is increasing, although the ; up.I don't think we'll have a real 'ears," he said. oan from HUD will have to be years at a three-percent interest >aetwyler. cedures from HUD include inentation, such as financial pinions and the repayment of the ' currently leases the hotel for he new approve all committee appointments made by the president Another difference concerns jicpuruuon 01 mc Mji Duagei The onstitution now in effect manla tes that the president and the reasurer present the budget to :he senate on a semesterly basis, rhe proposed constitution only -equires an annual budget Under the present constitution, the vice president appoints senate committee chairmen and members, subject to senate approval. The new constitution, however, empowers the chairman of the Executive Council to make whatever appointments he deems necessary without approval. The new constitution would also instigate a minor but important change regarding the stipends of the chairman of finance and the chairman of organizational affairs. Whereas, in the present constitution, both officers are paid 'a stipend as provided for by S? CONSTITUTION, peg* 3