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I Volume LXX.No. f University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. September 12,1979 Qffi r inane By Jim Kuykondall 1 Gamecock Staff Writer i Many USC students have not 1 received their financial aid awards 1 for this fall, and there is still no idea as to when those awards will ' be arriving, according to John Bannister. Director of the Office of Student Financial Aid. < Bannister and his financial aid , office have been working seven j days a week trying to get those < 'This office was In That's what we're tryl weeks.' awards out. "Things are in a mess, I won't try to defend it," Bannister said. "But I will defend the people working here now. Ever since I've been here, there's only one weekend that we didn't work. They literally try. I'm amazed at the way people continue to come back here and keep working." BANNISTER TOOK OVER the department in late July. At the time he took charge, he said, the nfflna tirao /HoniHtantviul WAAAWW VTOO UIOVi5UlUJA/U. "When I came here the third week in July, only about 800 i awards had been made to the I students," Bannister said. "At USC there are about 11,000 J I _ ~ Printing m< increase < By Larry I Q am* cock 81 Students would not suffer "in ai Shop were consolidated with U Richard Davis, director of Univers "I would think the students migh more 10 oner, dui i ao noi ininK it v If Russell House Print Shop wei Print Shop, people and machine ficiently, Davis said. Prices woul Russell House Print Shop and Uni i few duplications of services, he a< | serve the students." "PRICES WOULD probably ren who will be managing the printii remain competitive but also sei J l #n 11 ft. ? J f a irecior 01 iiusseii nouse umversi C.W Wooten, assistant stab memorandum to Tony Ellis, direct concerning the possibility of pux collator by the Russell House Print "Presently they (Russell House folder that is adequate for their | collator located at the Brown Bui] not using and could sell for $100. \ combined, we will have a surplu cording to the memorandum. [ "I TALKED AT great length wit print shop, about their operation a \ their press at $5 an hour, which is < cue memorandum. "We are dia Brown Building Print Shop at fiIt are charging their small pressei operation needs to be updated, an Shop could do this for them." Woolen recommended that Uni\ House Print Shop the surplus 16-4 Print Shod and raieet the insurer a House Print Shop under the jurist have more experienced managen* ce disorganiz ial Qirl A IUA UIU %J students with applications for some kind of financial aid. This omce was in a mess; it neeas a complete overhaul. That's what we're trying to do, but you can't do It in four to six weeks.'' The main trouble with the department currently is a lack of qualified personnel. Bannister's staff consists of several part-time working students and only eight r a mess; It needs t ng to do, but you cai Director of I trained people. "The problem with the office for too long is it's been understaffed," Bannister said. "We're not going to be able to see any results until we Set a staff completely assembled. Monday I wound up being the receptionist on the front desk for an hour and a half. For three days all I did was answer the telephone on the switchboard/' he added. THE FINANCIAL AID DEPARTMENT will not show noticeable improvement until the spring semester starts. Bannister has constructed a "three-year plan" in which he hopes to have the department running in a erger may ;fficiency JVIIM iff WHt?r j iy way" if Russell House Print University Print Shop, claims lity Printing Services. \ it be better off because we have /ill happen," Davis said, e absorbed into the University ry would be utilized more efd probably be the same, since j versity Print Shop have only a elded. "Our first objective is to lain the same, but it depends on \ ng facilities. We would try to *ve the students," Tom Otts, ty Union, said. b printing officer, sent a or of Procurement and SuddIv. I chasing a jogger, folder and Shop. Print Shop) have a Jogger and operation. We have a 16-bin Iding Print Shop which we are Vhen the State Print Shops are s of Joggers and folders," ach Susan Henzel, manager of the f nd found they are charging out j extremely low," Wooten said in irging out our presses at the in hour, and commercial shops \ at $18 an hour. Their entire d Dick Davis at the USC Print rersitv Printing sell the Russell \ bin collator at Brown Building nd folder and place the Russell liction of the USC Print Shop to ent. S?PRINTING, Pag* 7 ed | lelayed professional manner once again. "We'll begin to make our i| nkonrtafl MAV# ?*AAW " UA viidii^co iicai jrcai, lie aaiu. i lie g| next year things won't be easy on 1 the staff, but will be for the j students. Then the next year, j things will be easy for both the ! staff and the students." Bannister came to USC from I Iowa State University, where he ,1 -was the head of a successful |l i complete overhaul, n n't do It in four to six John Bannister Student Financial Aid j financial aid department. "WE QUIT DOING THINGS like 1 they were doing them here in | 1965," he said. "There are too f many pieces of paper here. We need to deal with the masses, and you can't deal with it that way. So much of what we've been doing is mnniuil Wa miiRt nap rnmrnitprs "We've got to get our staff assembled and then plan," Bannister said. "You can't run a $$-$10 f million operation with part- I timers." The disorganization throughout | the financial aid department has | caused trouble for many USC I students. S? FINANCIAL AID, p?g? 7 RH rem By James Hale Q?m*cock 8t?H Writer The Capital Planning Committee will be considering plans for the renovation of sections of third floor Russell House University Union this week, according to David Rinker, system vice president of facilities planning. USC President James B. Holder man's approval of the committee's suggestions is KA^/\?*A fVin nnftmnfA/) ucv^ooai j uuiui c uiu couuiaicu $130,000 project begins. "My best judgement at this point is that there is no difficulty with this particular project because it has a very strong rationale for going ahead," Rinker said. "In fact we are going ahead in terms of planning and design. THE WORK WILL complete renovations which began last summer. The completed phase allowed for improvements to the Russell nvu?c wcoi wuig w awuiuuuHiv WUSC, the Gamecock, the New Crucible and a 1S6 person capacity conference room. The two-phaaed project was left incomplete because of a lack of planning details and funding, Rinker said. "It was presented in a very surface sort of way; it did not have the amount of detail behind it and that waa why it was deferred," he said. The second phase under consideration will provide for additional conference rooms, a music listening room, a typing room, a x ? >v Ha ..v r-x^Xy. s ... -. V1 MRillHi ^ SraliiPlia :-^s : . fl HK^-: yvations pi recording studio, the relocating of re< Technical Services and the Ot camping rental area. Improvements will also be made to ] the RHUU Print Shop and the hall wi areas. tyj US( Two additional conference ch rooms with a 100 person capacity tyj will also be added, according to rei DftWrf Rlnkar exj thi Facilities will be included to bej provide for banquets in these rooms. THE MUSIC listening room will be be equipped with 33 earphone ** stations, allowing a student to listen to one of eight channels. Also wi nnwi/)?H will K* a hiMr nr |nvf?wvv vw mm* w w w f HfV F" turntables, twoA Mterks a reel tn ail reel recorder and a direct sound tie into WUSC. "We are going to pr have a system in which you come by in and there will be a counter and 00 you could request the tape or re anned :ord that you wanted," Tom ts, Russell House director said. Reside the music listening room 11 be an acoustically-treated ring room where students can e typewriters for an hourly arge. Currently there are 30 jewriter rentals that may be moved by students or staff to ;ir residences. The recording idio will also be acoustically signed and will allow for the iking of professional recordings, is room will be open to the ident body for any type of sound tivity. The studio will be nipped with pianos and will be red into WUSC allowing the ition to broadcast live remotes, cording to Otts. following approval of the >ject, construction will start in out three to nine weeks, !>ending on the availability of iplies and the necessary work ce, Rinker said. Renovations are pected to be completed within ee to four months from ginning. rhis project will help RHUU Mu. tL. /Mi tK? OCI VC UR SUMDnUt, UlUS id. A survey of college unions vealed that 81 percent of schools th 10,000 or more students ovide a music listening room nong their facilities, he added. Although the funding for the oject is expected to he approved ' the committee, Rinker said, the mmittee may opt to fund other novations instead.