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VOL. LXVII NO. 27 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15. 1976 La1! By Kerry J. Nortl Carolina Presid Patterson was hai resignation of a i official in one m School Dean Rol Wednesday anm tentions to leave b and the USC ^Law June 30. Foster anr resignation at a law faculty sayi "philosophical d university admini the school of law further." In rncionatinn fn Pq( 1 VOIgllUVIVII W A U I these differences creasingly difficu dean. "The problems have been solve Orir to St; After one dry Humanities Buil< Vice President the sculpture st Gambreil Hall n Clay in wet wea would s function of the s After work on % v Sch irup later in in the pi lent William H. animos nded the second develoj najor academic Foster i onth when Law maketh Dert W. Foster to avoit ounced his in- to get 2 oth the deanship Rumi School effective resigna lounced his school' meeting of the Trial ing there were chargec ifferences with Holling: strators on how Hollii should develop prograt his letter of satisfac terson he added from ei made it "in- During It" to remain as accusal ween I we have had uoluml i" Foster said Holling 19m j^n^p iking bi ay thirs semester, the drinking bir iing will be inoperative for for Operations Harold Brui ;mrl? was rlrainpri nurnnsi ext door interfered with th ther, according to Brunton iift into the pool and clog sculpture. Gambrell Hall is finished 1 ' i - ool D* a telephone interview, "but s rocess, a certain amount of i ity has necessarily { 3ed." This animositry, >aid, is with the people who i ie policies. He said the way I i future conflicts would be i new dean. ! ars concerning the I tion of Foster began last 1 ;r after irregularities in the I s Sumer Pre-Admission (SPAT) program were I i by Sen. Ernest F. j s, D-S.C. ig's son participated in the ti and received an unitory grade preventing him itering with the fall class, the resulting exchange of lions and comments bet[ollines and Foster, a local aia newspaper reported s as suggesting that Foster t?ag^^^ srds sty d sculpture in front of the another six months. nton said the pool in which ely after construction on ie operation of the pump, i, and dust in hot weather the pumps impairing the :his summer, the pool will ;an Fc should resign because ol natter and that Patterson s jsk for such a resignation. The board of trustee; response to the charges, lo^ toe standards of admissions students said to be affected I SPAT irregularities, an < that, according to the Am< Bar Association (ABA) tlirea the accrediation of the law s The rumors surfaced agai before the Christmas break, interview at that time 1 would reply only to the quesl the accuracy of these rumc saying, "I did not consider tl a life sentence and I am oj option." Foster said Wednesday tl had taken the Christmas ho to consider the questic resigning since the threat loss of accreditation had be refilled and the birds wil Originally the pool and s purely for their aesthetic Thomas Jones administrati office building, and the sc mitted in a competition fo A professional jury of enj used in selecting a scale m preliminary selections. Sculptress Lynn Emory c for $10,000. The federal dc under a program initiated ment would pay Vfe the price Humanities Buildings wen Emory returned to Colu bearings in the sculpture. One problem with the sc trying to buy $50,000 worth c were substituted for more Instead of metal, polyethylc Using polyethylene add< project, when Ms. Emory completion of the sculptur >ster r the resolved. He said h hould been made by the b< semester. He not 3 5, in last Wednesday, wered In his letter a for 14 Foster said, "I sele ?y the turn over the leader action center for the furtfc jrican the controversy wh itened our accreditation s chool. laid to rest by the r n just the American Bs In an Council on Lega Foster resolving that the s :ion of full compliance. I c< >rs by conscience have lef lis job. with the problems jen to law center in recei A screening comi i a f lin *???? iuv 1IV new Ut'dll was lidays Foster resigned. I >n of Donald S. Rus of the Judicial Circuit Ju been Please see FOSTE 9 y ? - ^^HKkSMfiwMNEG^^^S^B ,s^pi WB l start operating again, Brun culpture were designed and ; value. During former I ion, the pool was sized to refl ulpture was selected from ( ir the proposed artwork. gineers and artists and stud< lodel of the bird sculpture o >f New Orleans was awarde vernment paid $5,000 towar by Lady Bird Johnson whei for any artwork on a federa i a federal project. mbia one year and a half i ulpture, according to Brunl >f sculpture with $10,000 chea expensive ones in order to >ne was used inconstructing t ed complications from the had an allergic reaction e by one year. esigns is decision had P'pt^nBII ^ginning of this fied Patterson ict this time to ship of the law ier reason that lich threatened II AMUCIilUUU tl Education, sajHL ould not in good t my successor that beset the Sj mittee to select |||j formed before pKgB t is chaired by .sell, Fourth aKe Dean R R, Page Three IflllliP va) ^LfiSS Wednesday June end 9IHHEB5i He said Foster w? USC since 1 Aug. 1, 1970 dean, the enrolled inc In 1974 a $< completed I According Southern A sities and O * developed f< Foster's ton said. probably t r . , plan for commissioned Liucation JSC President thP fflonHv lOU.y -? :J Although 50 entries sub- (differences himself an snt votes were concerning ver four other Foster sau constructs served by & the contract differences, ds the $10,000 During th e the govern- have been s 1 project The arisen." In July ago to replace tenured 1 divided tc ton, is that in members, iper materials protest from save money. they should he birds. decision. The comr start of the decision on to it delaying and asked Please see i jr H m&gF H Tir JJMB obert W. Fnstpr ster ars 4 live . Valk ool Dean Robert W. ive his resignation to become effective ling a 6-year deanship. he will go to the of London to do )rk for a year. Foster ed to return later to a tion at the law school, is a professor of law at 1962, and became dean i. During his tenure as number of students reased from 651 to 933. ? r 11 ? . >.d minion iacuuy was fro the school. 5 to a report from the Lssociation of Univer oiieges, tne curriculum sr the law school during tenure "produced he most constructive overhauling legal in the United States admitting there were of opinion between d the administration future development, i "I don't think any e purpose would be public airing of those 11 e past two years there miArol ior 11 rvo knttA cvci cxi 111cii nave 1974 a committee of aw school faculty dismiss four faculty The decision sparked n law students who said I have had a voice in the nittee later reversed its two of the professors them to stay. YEARS. Page Eight