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University June of South Carolina Volume LXV No. 61 Handicapped Needs Met SIc BY ELLEN BILES Of The Gamecock staff Physically handicapped University students have very special needs. The Administi-ation is responding to those needs, but the response is often too slow and inadequate to satisfy the han dicapped. Architectural barriers which prevent access to campus buildings are perhaps the major drawbacks for physically han dicapped students. Bill East, a January graduate of USC's law school, said recently. "To a large degree the number of steps up to a building determined what my professional life was going to be." East who has had to use a wheelchair for the past five years wanted to work towards a Title IX Ej BY MARK MAYER Of The Gamecock staff A law prohibiting discrimination by sex in any educational program that receives federal funds, Title IX, is scheduled to go into effect July 21. The law was originally passed by Congress in 1972 but has taken three years to work out the regulations for its enforcement. Nearly all authorities agree that there will be serious problems resulting from Title IX. Athletic department heads said this week that they basically agree with Title IX and do not expect it to cause great changes at USC. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), however, predicts that the rules may well signal the end of intercollegiate athletic programs as they have NewGc Ed. lote: This is the second and final part of an in-depth look into the parking situation at USC. BY R. VANCE BUTTS Of The Gamecock staff Beauty, it is said, lies in the eyes of the beholder. To Carolina commuters, beauty is that small empty space between two white lines, and it belongs not to the first, but to the quickest pair of eyes that spot it, its conquest dependent solely on the reaction time and vehicle manuevera bility of the eyes' owner. Last week, the GAMECOCK examined both the preent and Students Feel >wly, If At All graduate degree in social work but the building, DeSaussure, was inaccessible to him. Because the new law school building was ac cessible East became a lawyer instead. Al Corbett, 34-year-old director of the management science center and teacher of Computer Science at USC, had a severe case of poliomyelitis when he was seven years old and now sperds most of his time in a wheelchair. While working towards his Ph.D. and teaching at USC, Corbett said he has encountered few problems. Corbett said his experience at USC has been limited to newer buildings which were built with handicapped persons in mind. Even the new Business Ad ministration building has some fective Ju been known in recent decades. This view was disputed by Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), in announcing the new regulations on June 3. He said, "I can't see anything in the provisions to put intercollegiate athletics out of business." Secretary Weinberger em phasized that "although schools must provide the funds necessary to insure equal opportunity for women who wish to take part in sports, the regulations do not demand dollar-for-dollar matching expenditures for each sex." Darrell Royal, Texas University coach and president of the American Football Coaches Association, led a contingent of seven other coaches in asking a House educational subcommittee last week to declare a moratorium trage B future status of USC parking. There emerged two issues of equal, dependent importance; one was controversy, the other, necessity. Necessity has brought USC to a watershed: construction projects have eliminated many parking slots, and, while little space will be lost this year, the situation will gradually deteriorate. Faced with this problem, the University is presently constructing a new multi-storied parking garage on Pendleton Street, a $3 million facility that may be outdated in a rapidly expanding university by the time of its completion. The simplest solution proposed has been one of peripheral parking, the moving of parking facilities to the fringe areas of campus, in locations much the same as the problems, though. According to Corbett, "The architect made a mistake." The bathrooms were designed so that a person in a full adult-size wheelchair has some problem going in and out. When the problem was discovered, Corbett said it was too late to correct it. "The biggest problem for han dicapped people," Corbett said, "is not being able to go to the bathroom. It's those dad blamed Please Turn to Page 14 fy 21 on the application of the new rules. In a formal statement signed by the eight coaches, they stated, "income generated by football is a principal source of athletic income at many colleges and frequently finances the entire athletic program as well as the con struction maintenance and debt retirement of facilities." "In many instances it has provided the funds for the present expansion of women's athletics. This will no longer be possible under the HEW regulations," the group said. The results of Title IX include these basic points: ITEM. . .Discrimination in personnel policies is prohibited. While women make up 67 per cent of all Please Turn to Page 4 est Park present lots behind Carolina Coliseum. Peripheral parking then, seems to be the key--but here the issue splits. Should USC build more multi-tiered garages at the inconvenience of eliminating even more parking spaces during construction? .Or, should the University make better use of property it already owns? Martin E. Lipinski, assistant professor of engineering and member of the now static New Presidential Advisory Com mittee on Parking (NPACP) told the GAMECOCK last week that "The basic problem is that the University has enough space for parking, but it's not in the right place." He named, for example, the University property between the new P~E Center and the Roost, presently unused. Special Alter B BY BOB BAKER AND MARION ELLIOTT Of The Gamecock staff Sixteen academic or research areas of the University which originally requested state government funds, but were denied separate funding by either the State Budget and Control Board or the General Assembly will be funded for the '75-'76 fiscal year. The areas affected include six research bureaus and institutes of the University, general research, "start-up" research grants, new programs in media arts and for honor students and other special projects within USC schools (in cluding model schools, School of Public Health, drug education, the law library, ROTC and the graduate school of criminal justice). In spite of the fact that these areas will not receive special funding from state agencies, the Gamecock learned yesterday that monies will be appropriated for these programs from within USC's basic operating budget for the next fiscal year. The University originally asked the State Budget and Control Board to fund these areas separately. However, six programs were not recommended for such funding to the General Assembly by the State Budget and Control Board. The remaining 10 areas were recommended and approved by the House of Representatives. The funding for these areas, with a total ap propriation of $1.8 million, was sent on to the Senate, where none of these areas were separately funded by the Senate Finance Committee which eventually cut the total University budget by $3.2 million. In fact, the USC medical school was the only program to receive special funding in the final version of the state appropriations bill. The med school is scheduled to get ing Sol] Complicating the problem further is the simple fact that most commuters are highly desirous of parking as close as possible to their classroom or place of work, and consequently waste a lot of time driving around and around, in hopes of seizing a choice space. Lipinski thought a peripheral plan would work, but only if there were enough lots scattered around the various ends of the University and therefore convenient to the commuter, rather than one or two huge lots out of the way of most commuters. Dr. Richard A. Rempel, another faculty participant on the NPACP told the GAMECOCK last week that he was in favor of the peripheral idea, and further stated that the University could build a multi-story arage Areas udget $807,158. Although the areas which necessitated special funding will not receive specified funds, they will be funded out of the basic educational and general state allotment of $42.7 million for USC. News Analysis Essentially, this means the 16 areas which were denied, special funding by either the State Budget and Control Board or the General Assembly will be using funds from the general appropriation which USC receives from the state. Bernard Daetwyler, USC's vice president of finance, said Wed nesday that "all of these areas will be funded by the University. They will continue but will be funded out Please Turn to Page 2 11,342 Enrolled For Summer Enrollment for the first summer session at USC totals 14,908 on all campuses. At the main campus in Columbia 11,342 students are attending classes while 2,738 are registered on the eight regional campuses and 828 are students at the four military centers operated by USC for the first summer term which ends July 10. A total of 13,111 students enrolled for first summer session classes in 1974. Enrollment breakdowns by regional campuses show enrollment as follows: Aiken 487; Beaufort 114; Coastal Carolina at Conway 624; Lancaster 285; Salkehatchie at Allendale 124; Spartanburg 799; Sumter 213; and Union 92. ition? possibly in those parking areas in ttse behind the Coliseum, a well tended facility housing perhaps cafes and waiting areas, com plemented by a shuttle system with buses operating at regular intervals. Rempel said, "I could see temporary parking at the Fairgounds with shuttle buses for faculty and students during a parking crunch when con struction of new lots is going on." Regarding the obvious question of raising the necessary con struction funds for such a facility, Rempel touched the con troversial issue related to necessity, a proposed switch to faculty staff pay parking-one of the few free fringe benefits now enjoyed by faculty and staff. "The members of this (NPACP) Please Turn to Page 2