Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Also, of course we n dishes: small spinach mushrooms, and others, e with unusual, excellent [FOOD... wQftouse Provost unreliable, not The Gamecock By Frank DeLoache In a recent letter to another administration official, Provost Keith Davis said, "As you know The Gamecock is notoriously unreliable as a source for university policy." In his letter Davis went on to deny that university officials were considering raising admission standards as a means of limiting the incoming freshman class. This denial was necessary because: -The Feb. 12 Gamecock reported that Davis told a meeting of student leaders, "It's going to be harder to get into USC." He said the administration wants to limit enrollment to a 1 per cent increase from last year. "It's a good time to raise academic standards," he said. --The Feb. 19 Gamecock again reported that minimum acceptable SAT scores may be raised to 650 in the College of General Studies and to 800 in the rest of the university. -The March 4 Gamecock reported the USC's Faculty Advisnrv C!r?mmittf>p'R rprnmmpnHatinn tr> limit frpchman class to 2,200. --Soon after The Gamecock's Feb. 12 story, Davis told a Greenville News reporter, who is also a USC student, that students who had already applied for the fall semester were not accepted if they were under the new proposed minimums. Those students have since been accepted, but only after the proposals were dropped. While all these reports were showing up, many students, faculty members and citizens were voicing their concerns to Davis and other officials. Many of these people felt USC was deserting its purpose by raising its standards and denying many young South Carolinians the chance for an education other colleges won't give them. Then and only then did Davis and others decide it was best to drop the admissions proposal. So the point is that the Gamecock is not1'notoriously unreliable" about administration policy, but that the university administration is unreliable about its own policy. The Gamecock was alert to the ideas under discussion by university policy makers. We reported these changes and the administration found many people were against changing admission standards and dropped the proposal. In a sense the administration used the Gamecock as a method of testing how the public would react to a change in admission standards. Admittedly, many times The Gamecock publish -v speculation that may or may not prove true. Another example is the rumor of President William Patterson's plans to resign. Although the rumors have been denied, we're still convinced resignation is imminent Rut that's The Gamecock's iob?to be aware of changes and ideas that may someday become university policy and affect many students and members of the faculty. The time to criticize The Gamecock will be when all it prints is the press release from the Office of Information Services announcing new admission standards. f RENT YOUR EQUIPMENT I ; THIS SPRING > i * < i I -jr North Face Tents < I Camp 7 SleeoSna Baas < I * Kelly Packs < i [ STOP BY THE SHOP FOR DETAILS ' i I i I * I. A the 940 Harden Street \ I ; near i0?00-6:00 sat.