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AE VOL. LXIV NO. 37 -UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA. S.C. 29208 DECEMBER 6 ,197 Senate BY CARL BAAB Gamecock Staff Writer The student senate Wednesday overturned the Student Allocations Commission (SAC) decision to fund those minor sports clubs which participate in intercollegiate 'Fairness' Gets Shoi In Faculty BY PATRICK TYLER The faculty senate last night shunned a student government proposal to establish a "teacher fairness and responsibility" committee. In a voice vote, the senate upheld the report of the faculty advisory committee that "such a committee not be established at this time," reasoning that the duties and responsibilities of faculty mem bers regarding grading practices and "evenhandedness in examination" are already "listed in the faculty manual." Rita McKinney, SGA president and Ombudswoman Eileen Berlin argued for reconsideration of the measure which was passed by the student senate in early November and called for the setting up of a committee whose membership would be equally divided between students, faculty and ad ministrators. McKinney prefaced her statement to the faculty by saying the intent of the bill "is not to lay the faculty on the carpet." She questioned one recom mendation of the advisory com mittee which stated, "departments and colleges should move to review the status of teacher respon sibilities set out in the faculty It Was BY DOUG WILLIAMS Gamecock Staff Writer (First of two parts.) Nineteen-sixty three. The United States was on the verge of entering a war that would yield no winners, only losers. The first strands of Beatlemania were beginning to shake the world's music scene. President :John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Sandy Koufax was leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a sweep of the World Series, beginning the downfall of the once unbeatable New York Yankees. And Henri Monteith enrolled at the University of South Carolina. The South had fought K0 Kills SA athletics. The bill, if signed by SGA President Rita McKinney will eliminate SAC funding for club sports as of Jan. 5, 1974. Coming out of the senate rules committee, the bill follows an SAC Proposal Down Senate manual. Adherence to such standards will avoid most problems of teacher fairness." McKinney said, "There are still no means to insure adherence to these standards.. .no avenue of redress." Berlin buttressed McKinney's statements, saying "If a professor will not listen to mediation, there is nothing the student can do." The present avenue of appeal open to a student who has a complaint about the grading practices or examination fairness of a faculty member is first to discuss the conflict with the teacher, second to take the conflict to the department head, third to go to the dean of the college and fourth to appeal to the university ombudsman, Phillip M. Grier. Berlin, who works with Grier said that out of 25 per cent of the students with complaints that enter the present process "75 per cent are not satisfied" with the results. Dr. Michael C. Pelfrey of the psychology department tried to salvage the SGA claim that students and faculty alike should be included in the appeals process: The students to lend peer judgement to it; and faculty to likewise give peer perspective to See FAIRNESS ., Page 7 ALong W.W. Ball, one-tin editor-stated 'eve had the right of '1 desegregation as long as it possibly could. Monteith, Robert G. An derson and James L. Solomon broke Carolina's color line in the fall. In the spring of that year, Harvey Gantt enrolled at Clemson. It marked the first break in the color line in public education in South Carolina. Lucinda Brawley became Clemson's first blacno ned in 1963 C Sporh decision of last week to fund both the bowling and wrestling clubs at USC, which had been allocated $1,131.80 and $1,140, respectively. "I don't think we should allow the SAC to come back at the end of November saying they'll fund these clubs through the spring," A Truly SilE Residents of the Towers and McBryde Quadrangle get their only semblence of silence, it yRoadT i e Charleston News ry decent white mc reating Negroes as and Furman becarne the first private college in the state to desgregate with the admission of Joseph A. Vaughn. - But for blacks trying to enter the University of South Carolina, it had been anything but an easy road. In 1919, W.W. Ball, one-time editor of the Charleston News and Courier and dean of the College of Journalism stated that "every decent white man nnd woman" in ;CIub Fi said sen. Ervin Woods. Speaking against the bill, Ed Ewing said, "If we pass this bill, it will be a club over the head of the board of trustees saying there is no money when there is." At its Thursday meeting, the SAC passed an amendment to nt Night Rick Paige seems, when workers on the library addition retire for the evening. o Integi and Courier n and woman' ;inferiors.' the state had the "right of treating all Negroes as inferiors." Twenty-seven years later, Cleveland M. McQueen applied to the USC graduate program in education. His response was a P25,000 appropriation to a state supported black college, the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agriculture and Mechanical College, for a graduate school in Education. inding continue funding the sports clubs through Feb. 1, which passed by a 4-3 margin. However, a second motion followed to accept the statement as originally written by Chairman Charles 'Smith stating the SAC would fund the clubs through the fiscal year 1973-74. The motion carried, but there were four ab stentions. Paul Simoneau then further amended the statement to include clauses saying the SAC would continue funding only to "alleviate harm to the clubs and the in dividual members" and hoping that the Board would find "more realistic sources of funds," when it meets in January. Following the Wednesday senate session,Smith said, "The SAC took a great deal of time and effort to weigh the relative merits of fun ding or not funding. I'm surprised that the student senate came to such a quick decision." In other action, the senate defeated a bill authored by Sens. Robert Clarkson and Ed Ewing that would have eliminated any SGA funding of political activities. The bill, which is the subject of a civil suit by Clarkson, originally was offered to the senate as far back as September. Since first offered by Clarkson it has remained in the senate finance committee where numerous amendments were attached to it. Originally the bill was intended to also limit SGA funding of charities as well as political activities, but those provisions attacking SGA funding of charities were deleted. According to Ewing, who spoke in behalf of the bill, the bill would see that "No branch of SGA or any committee or group established and funded by SGA shall make any expenditure of funds originating from the student activity fee for any off-campus based partisan political or semi-political ac tivity." The main objections to the bill came from Woods and Allen Ward, who objected to a provision ;ee FUNDING Page 3, tation The issue almost reached a head that year when ,John Wrighten applied to the USC law school and was refused. He took the case to court where it . was ruled that unless the state provided an educationally equal law school at the black college, Wrighten would have to be accepted. For some reason, the issue died, as Wrighten never pressed the case. Despite Gov. George B. Tim merman 's- determination to keep the university segregated, 11 students from Allen University came on campus in 1958 desiring applications to take USC's en trance exams. The director of the university's examination and See BLACKS, Page 2