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Rempel Cited For Dedication BY BILL PRATT of Te Gamecock staff Richard A. Rempel,history professor and former Facilities and Grounds Committee chairman, is being given an award for faculty dedication which will be named after him. The Richard A. Rempel Faculty award is being established to "encourage the faculty to do more for the students" and to "recognize faculty members who have done a lot for the students other than their - teaching duties," Student Government Association (SGA) President Steve Hill said. Ie award, Hill said, will be given at the awards banquet held each April. Nominations will be made by the student body. Afterward, a com mittee appointed by the SGA will select the recipient, Hill said. Rempel left USC to take a teaching position at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. USC Grac Role Ini A USC graduate, Clyde Over street, played a key role this week in the launching of three American astronauts scheduled to perform the first international space docking. Overstreet was chief of the Launch Support Electrical System on the Saturn launch vehicle. As such he was responsible for launch support electrical systems on the ground for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Overstreet graduated from USC in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He has wr.-rd, at Cpe Kren.e.. S.C. Hi BY R. VANCE BUTTS of The Gamecock staff If the number of USC presidents were compared to the number of years USC has existed, we'd probably qualify for inclusion in a list of banana republics. Let's face it; USC, as a state-controlled institution, is irretrievably lost in the maze of politics, funded by the tax monies controlled- by politicians. It's not that state control of an educational institution is bad every USC student attends school on a scholarship because the greater percentage of his overall tuition is paid by state funds. But when politics begin to interfere with the institution's educational efficiency, something is wrong-the educational bureaucracy becomes a mass of faceless figures, lost in the political maze. In Columbia, changes perhaps do not happen with the swiftness of banana republics. They occur over longer periods of time, and ofteri evolve into controversies, luate Plays L aunch since 1960. The current space project calls for the docking of a United States Apollo spacecraft with a Soviet Union Soyuz One in earth orbit to test compatible rendezvous and docking equipment and procedures. The ma jor goals of the mission will be conducted jointly by the astronauts and cosmonauts during the joint phase of the nine day flight. Overstreet is married to the former Yvonne Smith of Miami and they and their daughter now live in Titusevillea Flia. NEWS Al wher Educ especially in a period of recession when government purse strings are slowly tightened. In this prologue to a series of articles, the Gamecock will examine what has been termed a dual education system-the USC regional campuses, and the state Technical Educational Centers (TEC) schools. In 1963, Gov. Donald Russell, accompanied by then-legislator John C. West and former USC president, Dr. Thomas F. Jones, visited California to study the successful community college system and meet one of the pioneers of the community college system, Dr. Julio Bortolazzo. Upon their return, the committee recommended a similar system for South Carolina, but the recom mendation stopped there. Gov. Russell resigned shortly thereafter to take a U.S. Senate seat, and the new governor. Robert E. McNair, seemed cool to the idea of a community college system in South Carolina. It wasn't until West became governor in 1971 that the issue resurfaced. West brought Bortolazzo out of his California (ALL MER ONE TABLE CORDUROY, BLUE DENIM , AND OTHER BELL BOTTOM JEANS FAMOUS MAKES ALL W EST ER N SHIRTS SHR SLEV SHIT goo BRODCL TH A SO TED IT WALYSIS ation Exa retirement as the new head of the TEC system, and it wasn't long before Bortolazzo stirred the state's political pot to the boiling point. Bortolazzo wanted USC's regional campuses to merge with the TEC system to form a com munity college system similar to California's. The new system would provide both academic and technical education. The proposal met with instant opposition from many quarters, among them, USC Trustee Michael Mungo. USC President Jones issued a report on the proposal which was suddenly withdrawn before publication. Bortolazzo claimed the state would be com mitting economic suicide in maintaining both the TEC and regional campus systems, and that it discriminated against monetarily disadvantaged students. A community college, Bortolazzo felt, could adequately provide technical and academic education, and even fulfill the needs of college freshmen and sophomores. USC in Columbia, he said, could then concentrate its E A TE.H NISFO OURGUL DOuBLNENT TENNSI ( LI I T 41 ALL SEW ONg MOE REUTOS N TS . RTHEBE mined facilities primarily on junior, senior and graduate students. The result would be more students in higher education, a needed goal since in 1971 South Carolina had the lowest national percentage in 18-21 year-olds in school. The opposing view was that the com bination would seriously impair the efficiency of the TEC-Regional curriculi. Bortolazzo resigned his post after a ten-week tenure as TEC head, claiming he received no support except from Gov. West and USC's political power structure was simply too strong to fight. Last month, Bortolazzo returned at the request of several TEC center heads and for his son's graduation from the Medical University of South Caroina. He repeated his former position, saying the dual system amounted to economic suicide. Next week the Gamecock will report on the status of the TEC Regional systems, along with Gov. Edward's position on higher education in South Carolina. RSTOCK) FAMOUS MAKES BELLUBOT TOM JEANS, VALUES TO $1 4.50 KNIT ' TOPS *2 9 $. 99 YELOW,L TBLU 8 EIG CORDUROY JEAN s0a REG $1400 TH MS FAMU0 O ALS AE