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Volume LXIX, No. 109* Univereifcy of>South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Feb. 12, 19"79
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By Jim Phillips & Don Fobes Pf
Editorial Pa?? Editor Copy Desk Chlof th
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A rather major overhaul of the Kxeci
present Student Government, SG, ? 01
Constitution, which was recently
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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
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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
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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
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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
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