Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Expande exposes The University's Board of Trustees and the South Carolina General Assemby have made a wise decision to expand the Coastal Carolina Regional Campus to a three-year status. The decision provides new hopes that further education will be available to students who cannot afford to go elsewhere to college. Coastal is now a two-year branch of the University at Conway and will move to the junior level after meeting accreditation requirements and receiving legislative funding. Funding was approved last week by the South Carolina House Ways and Means Committee at the rate of $825 per student, an amount below allotments of other state schools and half the allotment of students here in Columbia. Coastal is presently funded $600 per student.. Coastal qualifies for the third year level with 744 The Gutenberg e> Learning BY HARRY HOPE SAIGON - Throughout the length and breadth of this war-torn, sexually deprived nation, the people are picking up the pieces of their lives and trying to GAME Although The Gamecc students of the Univeri is not an official publical opinions expressed here resent those of the uni' or all staff members of Editor .............. Managing Editor ..... Editorial Page Editor. News Editor........ Copy Desk Chief .. Sports Editor ...... Asst. Sports Editor . Advertising Manager. Copy Editors ................ Photo Editor d regiona youths tc full-time students but does not qualify for a four-year college which requires enrollment of 1,000. The branch intends to seek the four-year status, and should since the nearest four-year college to the Conway area is more than 60 miles away. -Francis Marion College in Florence, which was once a branch of the University, is the only state four-year col lege in the area. Also in the area is Coker College in Hartsville and it is the only state four-year college in the area and it is not state sup ported. An editorial in The State (Jan 31) argued against the expansion of the branch with the conclusion that South Carolina should tailor its system to meet the market. And it should make fuller use of its existing facilities by expanding the tuition grants program." The editorial contends that the expansion in the long run will be too expensive, and cperi ment to live in figure out how to live with out a war. LIK DUK, an out-of-work biology professor turned heroin pusher, was wanderi g about the city streets yel ling obscenities and wonder aloud "Hey, G.I., you want POCK ick is a publication of the ity of South Carolina, it tion of the university. The in do not necessarily rep rersity, the student body The Gamecock. ......Jerelyn Eddings ........Sybil Norwood ....... Linda C. Owens .........Patrick Tyler ............Bill Grant .........Steve Parker ............Jim Hersh ............ Art Frank ........... Val McD)onald Mary Myers Chere Cope .................. Tom Price opini I campus college called the law which gave the Board the authority to make the approval "un wise." South Carolina is tailoring ing its system to meet the "market." The "market," being a need for higher education, exists in the Con way area. The expansion in itself is meeting the "market." Extending the Univer sity's facilities here in Columbia would only be a burden on those youths who could not afford to come here. Students at Coastal pay the same tutition without all the services as students in Columbia. Housing costs, both on and off campus, in Columbia are higher than average, and prove expen, sive to students. Furthermore, the lower part of the state has the lar gest number of low income families who could not afford to educate their chil dren if sent to Columbia or Vietnam happy snow?" Finally, he plopped dejectedly on the front stoop Ree Phuc's Happy Hotel and Book store, took out a pack of Galois cigarettes and began crying. His plaintive voice rose over the battered, destroyed city streets as he said "No more mainline to America. G.I.'s going away." Meanwhile, Dr. Hik Up Quong, chief of staff at A. Ch'yt Hospital, sutured up-the torn belly of a nine-year-old girl, lit up a marihuana cigarette, and with tears in his eyes and a growing glow in his face announced to his dedicated staff of morphine addicts, "Well, group, I guess we go back respectable practice." The staff, entirely bummed out by the whole thing, immediately broke into tears and went off in search of illegal drugs. Spec. 4 Hershey Crom% left the VD clinic of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgi cal Headquarters and looked wearily into the crowded city street which he has helped populate over the past two years. Sadly, he stroked the butt of his M-16 and, with a tear in his eye, squeezed off one last round of the war at a pass ing cart. "Well, gooks, you won't have ol' Hershey to shoot at anymore." Pnin Pnu Pzat heaved a sigh of relief as he stepped from behind a parked car and threw his last maintov Dns other state-supported schools. By expanding Coastal Carolina, these young adults are given a chance for furthering their education here rather than in a technical school. If these facilities were not open to these students, the state would have the burden of more unemployment and unskilled labor. Most of the state schools are in the Piedmont area or without a cocktail into a crowd and, as flames spattered the build ings and a 96-year-old woman began to burn, Pnin Pnu Pzat pulled out a crudely lettered sign read ing "Belfast or Bust" and headed for the nearest highway. Maj. Everton F. Osgood swung his jeep around the corner and into the build ing, crashing through GREBIGCIVCOMTAC (Great Big Civlian Com munications Tactical Com mand) headquarters and wrecking in the command ing general's office. As he finally stopped on a dime (unfortunately, the dime was in the general's pocket) he yelled "Boy, I tell you, what a wart I been drunk every day for eighteen months." Meanwhile, somewhere at a secret POW camp in South Viet Nam, one hag gard American prisoner who had been a prisoner for four years turned to the American newcomer and asked,"Are you telling me you actually voted for Nixon?" All over the countryside peasants were peeking out of bomb craters and asking "Who they kid? Huh?" While gunfire from truce violations rang through the leafless forests, one peas ant gallantly raised a white flag above his rice paddies and yelled into the firefight. Columbia and Charleston. A lack of college s in the lower state further supports that the "market" is open. The expansion of Coastal Carolina has been a wise move on the parts of the Board and the legislature. The state is giving a chance to those students who would otherwise be uneducated in college. war "Why you no get off land? War over. Go home. Tell mother she want you." Lt. Walter F. de La Merde :sat in the cockpit of his B 52 bomber and yelled back to the navigator, "O.K., Bruce, bombs away." Unfortunately, the plane was not airborne at the time. Capt. Le Phic "Lip-off" Phing led his helicopter squadron down onto the Mekong Delta and directed a murderous machine gun fire into a running group of figures below. Unfortunately, the captairi discovered too late that the people down below were the 466th Mess Kit Repair Battalion, Army of South Viet Nam. "No can win all," he chuckled as he circled back to finish the job. Dna Dhuh, Editor of the "Mekong Times-Democrat & Messenger," sat stunned behind his desk as he sur veyed the ruins of his office wrecked on orders from President Thieu. He pulled out a copy of the U.S. Con stitution and stared long ingly at the First Amend ment. And, in the presidential palace, President Thieu paced his office nervously and muttering, "War end ing, they say. I raise hell, I say. We keep this war going. I not let her n ring and black market de yet. No, sir..."