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4 -4 OL NO. 3 VIRSM OF SOUTHCL 0,0 LXC O EST SUf AROULINA, COLUMBIA, S.C. 29208 Eccles.-New. Head. Sudden Depai BY BETTy WOODRUFIF Ma1wsthPe With the consolidation'of the thdeamnta computer science and math de- ta eebigm partments, one department head, "iepn g had to go. But according-to Dr. bogti obl Bill. Caldwell, Assistant head of met"Tepoi the math departMnent, the deci-, Alon~Ma 1,wovn was thee per fairltha were being prmaie "Or0i'the morilng. of May; 9, Dr. .(James .R.) - Durig, -who .Is deno.teCllg fMt n Selehe, esled Dr.Wahabin an S ueadahdetnntpa wouy beEcmbnig WODRFFs Mathisste Wominthih onolheatead of thethdeamnt ptientdeparten udeatet eD. F*yar,a Bill Ciws, hassitaf eadnputr n. h pe th mthepsttent hedout /adBudi Aolofthog wahnt was noode unemnoy farya wthopedbyidegitvoai d"pil h he monigo l ayalco9,I d4at o r the beof Mthde w ld be c m iig vinerseri Ptment Merger Dis son to Inform been Wyman Williams, who had "This lefh f the changes been here for 25 years, and when people In thi de. he left, a lot of faculty went. last spring, )Wahab was TPhere were seven professors here given notice,, 4c the depart-- with tenure out of 27 and Wahab who raised a ius head had, had to decide who to release. provost. The stras Up- * looking fo d rudr 'heprora 'theenerDi CaWhb a heeresena professors her iveoie lookig for grad students have spent sew Cao-n ci orunder eral weeks in six Soutly Car- ig h heporm olina urban areas wiiting es- heW~ Ind mo says concerning the "chang-adpak inswelas g face of S.C." Later this seraUS he vt ater year, those essays .will be tertm cc. See.story contbinetd into a bodkc. Story fudmn 'Iiravlling and pak places Wahab a lot of unhappy of seven persons recommended department. Then for tenure, the administration three people were only allowed four. Five people and they had friends resigned In the department, and fuss with the vice- there were others seeking Wa. n come this spring, hab's demise. Evidently, they got through to somebody who let him go," Caldwell said. "I-would n't exactly say that it was an ab;ove-board operation." Caldwell said that he could semerging the two departments, something Wahab himself had been working on since he caine to the University, but that he "couldn't see telling him in May that he is no longer head of the department. What time would he have to relocate if he wanted to? second summer, das oiin tohrshos thletes are man- mantus" SC Sportsmobile. Ciwl losi hth to playgrounds thuhsoeninhemhd around the city, atetsolhvebncn 2 athletes devote nidabuthmegrTee 0 teachittg sports ptrsineete,Ece ad Dr. tekiS bth atha thead neveralgo f fers o a vic-chan ellrsi a