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The South Carolina Library . Carepus g. > I r-j ^ Monday Neu oy nonaa i empieton AMtetant Newt Editor The New Crucible will not be published next year because of Student Allocations Commission budget cuts. The publication was a literary magazine for 15 years as the Crucible, and underwent format changes last year. Susan Morris, a SAC member, said the Crucible's budget request was rejected because the publication was not making money emu tti utics in mc uicigciiicie uiu not sufficiently represent the needs of USC students. SAC's budget allocations for next year largely affected the student media, Morris said. The New Crucible, Open Door and the Contemporary Sounds Committee of Russell House University Union were "cut hard," she said. LUANNE HICKS, editor of this year's Crucible, said SAC "didn't give The New Crucible a chance." int* iiidg<t?int; wci& itviseu uns> year and "One year is not enough time to determine whether is would succeed or fail," Hicks said. Morris said the editors of the New Crucible "definitely took a wrong approach" in making the magazine appeal to the student body. "They only sold eight copies of the Crucible all year ; they made four dollars,"she said. "SAC doesn't know what's going on," Jeff Amberg, assistant editor of the New Crucible, said. Amberg said he personally sold 38 copies of A I Li: Al I A _ I uie puoucauun lasi ween ana estimated the total sold this year at "more than several hundred/' The biggest mistake made in the publication of the New Crucible was that there was no effort made to market the magazine, Amberg said. Students want to read the New Crucible, he said, becaus^ a survey last year indicated the campus wanted a literary USC still Carolina c By Jeannu Qam?cock S * Ton :11 i- Am mi ? _ ???_ uou win seen iiuuiun in iunam] Board for a new Carolina Arts Centei The Buildings and Grounds Comr voted Thursday to request approval million allocated this fiscal year am over the following two fiscal years. The $3 million is needed to comp designs and for preliminary site pre facility, David Rinker, USC syst< planning said. Rinker added that v only be carried through the summer. THE FINE ARTS center will hous< and speech, media arts and art, preliminary schedules are followed, with completion scheduled for late IS r The committee hesitated requestii trend toward cutting government t said he was afraid if USC were allow Assembly would cut off additional ft project would "go down the drain." uat jrresiaem James B. Hoide requested regardless of the problem: "If we take this attitude, we sho addition, but a stadium expansio Holder man said. Holderman said the Qeneral Ass 'year for preliminary planning of tb USC would need additional funding f< RINKER SAID THERE will be ( because of high interest and inflatio lack of funds. \ A tract of land bordered by the Co , QervaisStreets isthe tentatively pte Vl 'l ' Mill HI \ * l'|' I ill 1 I me LXXrNo.'72 Ui No money j Cruci ; i' ' yHB^ viffi :-:;V -^WHvCfll i IBBWHWw "" "tMr " ?> ' ':*1K i? V ' ' . y /' ' ''' ^. magazine. j SAC needs to show a "little more -1 1* A 9 II A . _ A 1 A ueaicauon 10 siuueni meaia publications, Hicks said. Members of SAC are not journalists and cannot determine how to handle the student media budget, she said. CLISBY WILLIAMS, who was designated to be co-editor of next year's New Crucible, said she was disappointed and surprised that SAC denied the magazine a budget. i>T ...?..Unu I u ; 1 f i wuuiuu i iihvc uceii surprised 11 seeking irts center # Ralston taH Writer I from the State Budget and Control r. . .. y nittee of the USC board of trustees I of the $40 million project, with $3 1 the balance allocated at intervals r leie architectural and engineering paration for the 350,000 square-foot ems vice president for facilities without his funding, the project can e the departments of music, theater , including several theaters. If construction will begin in mid-1981 83. ig the money because of the recent mdgets. Trustee Frampton Toole ited the $3 million, the S.C. General inding at a later date and the entire rman said the money should be i of acquiring it. j uldn't ask for anything, not a BA n. We should just stand still," uimM Attkbtir> MCA AAA Vnnf I ivmwij C*|/|/i upi IdHAl fMV|VW Jflai e facility with the assumption that >r completion of the project, problems with additional expenses n rates if the project is delayed fo* ngaree River, Blossom, Huger and V r ,ij ,,1 , I 1 nivensity of South C allocated fori ble kill* i'MttnHnnpii ^ If - 1/f jMW^^ ~ . ir- > they had just cut the budget," she said. Williams said one year was not enough to evaluate the success of the publication and she thinks 4,they (SAC) should have given it (the budget request) to us.' * Another campus organization hdrt by SAC's budget allocation was Open Door, which was denied funding. "They get some money from other places and we had Okl"?l?) 1 nam ? ? -J uuvuv ig i?tn ?/lgaiU<.OllUlld dllU tut; For st? Faculty c By Teresa K: Weaver Gamecock Staff Writer A state senator's proposal cr grievance committee designed speci faculty members prompted mixecTre latuujr uiciiiucrs. Sen. John Miles, D-Sumter and troduced an amendment in th establishing a State Institution of 1 Grievance Committee that would members of the governing boards sities. Nine members would be appointed to hear cases from faculty membe they had not received a fair hear individual universities. iPERRY ASHLEY, journalism chairman of the Faculty Advisory < his major complaint against Miles' that the board of trustees members v?n?*_ w 5C1 iiivuivni 111 gi icvawc mm "Off the cuff, I would say that the 1 probably don't want to get involved this process would take," Ashley said Eldon Wedlock, a professor in the he has mixed feelings concerning Mil feel a little bit yes and a little proposal It's important to have body; it seems to be fundamentally !i impartial decisionmaker," Wedlock t I ."The problem that I have with th board drawn from boards of trustees the needs of academia," he said. A committee similar to Miles' pro made up of faculty members from si would be more effective, according tc THE(U?C ADMINISTRATION is f out an unreviewable process,'' Wedlc anolina, Columbia, S magazine ^4^1 V%f T C. x 44 ,% ycm'iM, - ^ <5 same money as last year," Morris said. New clubs that received funding included the Equestrian Club, the Frisbee Club and a program USC had developed in conjunction with the Columbia Correctional Institute. The Ideas and Issues Committee of RHUU suffered a budget cut from its request of "about $35,000 t/v |M A AAA H * ? ?- ? 'J '"'l- * 1 iv *iu,uuu, iviui is saiu. ane saia SAC felt the New Crucible and Ideas and Issues were not serving the main interests of USC students. ate grievance com iiscussesi faculty is "pretty r Wedlock said tl eating a state don't even know at fically to handle very uninformed a taction from USC Robert Rood, go professor, agreed' Clarendon, in- of faculty unaware e S.C. Senate "I think the proj higher Learning ,4I don't think it's i be comoosed of but I think it's unr of state univer- boards and trustee Rood said the c< by the governor the same princ rs who felt that Grievance Commi ing within their employees sit on faculty members i professor and with faculty grieva Committee, said muv sAPifn WVIII1 ???? ??*' amendment was astronomy, said tl do not have the the university syst ters. "No matter wh< >oard of trustees state law states tli in the time that caSe should be the I L . "Most of the fac law school, said grievance, aren't 1 es' proposal. feel that the admit bit no about the honest," he said, an independent ?|'m in FAVOF fair to have an own grievance pr< said. the state complete! kA IflAO IC 1 4 iv iuva 10 ukii ? auiereni way from is riot attuned to he (Miles) thinks vt "I think lie (Mil< posed board but people on the facu late universities tUne with the majoi i Wedlock. USC Provost Fn .,by the senator wc tfc k said, and thfe levels ot bureaucra .C. Mar. 1980 AC Mn /? * ? >*.* * ** * M 4 * Robert A SAC would rather schedule programs for students than pay student media personnel, Morris said. Gamecock staffers should WOrk for thl? nanpr fhoi/ want to and not for a salary, she said. Tom Travis, Gamecock editor in chief, call SAC's decision "very , irresponsible." SAC members are not qualified to allocate student funds and have no idea of the value of the various organization on campus, he said. mittee oroposal Jm $V -it nuch powerless to do anything." lie majority of faculty members ' >out the senator's proposal, and are bout the whole issue of grievance, vernment and international studies that there is a widespread problem iness about the proposal. M)$al is unreasonable," Rood said, treasonable to have a committee, easonable to have people from the s sit on the committees." >mmittee should be established on ipie mat ine slate employee ttee is based on. He said that state that committee, and therefore should sit on a committee dealing ince. >, professor of physics and lat a grievance committee outside em is completely unnecessary. it the faculty would like to have, lat the final appeal in a grievance board of trustees,'' Safko said. ulty, as long as they don't have a hat concerned about it. Most of us nistration and the board are fairly t of the university operating their ' jcedure and being divorced from u_ i* J - ly, sjrimarc saia. "We operate in a i the state, and to operate the way 'ould le*d to a mediocre faculty." js) is out of touch with what most ilty fee! about H. He is just not in rity,"Gimarc said. mcis Borkowskl said the proposal ceedsonly in creaUoft '^cWitional icy'4 in the grievance procedure.