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vol. lxvih, no. 19 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S?C? Thursday, November 11, 1976 F acuity mai By JOHNNY LOTT Gamecock Staff Writer Two proposed amendments to the faculty manual have been presented to the Faculty Senate, according to D. Bruce Marshall, chairman of the Faculty Advisory Committee. If adopted, the first amendment would permit USC colleges, schools and departments to "elect from its faculty D a committee on Scholastic Standing to oversee the academic progress of students within its degree programs." Also, the committee has the authority to create specific regulations concerning entrance requirements, determining the "good standing" in individual programs, controlling attendance and limiting enrollment. Further stipulations of the amendment require the committee to be "subject to review by the University rV?mmittpp r?n .^hnl astir* StanHintf anH PptitiAns" year, the college's or division's committee must report to the university's committee so that the effectiveness of the Patterns Cold weather and brisk wind $ create a strange sort of eeriness to walking alone. The Bates House ramp c^ages around a lonely traveler in a web-like pattern on his way , Cham store prei By PATTY SHAUGHNESSY Gamecock Staff Writer Chain store prices are cheaper because they depend on high volume, saiu i<an Diuusoe, neau pnariiiacisi ai mh K-Mart on Charleston Highway. Bledsoe said his store is the second I highest volume pharmacy in the city, Eg with Tavlor Street Pharmaev first 8m .?H Pharmacies surveyed are K-Mart on Charleston Highway, Revco at 1438 Main Street, Eckerd's at 638 Harden Street in Five Points, and Cornell Arms 1 Pharmacy, at the corner of Sumter and H Pendleton Streets. " Q* * I Parkland Pharmacy in Parkland jifl^ Plaza and Taylor Street Pharmacy would not release their prices. Pharmacies were given a list of the < ten most often prescribed drugs and asked for their prices on certain quantities and strengths. | Bmg Cliff Terry a member of a Columbia drugs var consumer information group, said that given a li $ pharmacies are not required to give J fhoir nrinoc nlthmiah thou nro allAiiroH ? to advertise prices. E p l Arms All pharmacies are lower in the top Sumter ai rli<iir(c ooirl 1 nrlc-strk r>f?!icnn f / L^II |n^OVI 1UCV1 Ul U^O OC41U JUIV/UOV/V, IVUUVII because the most often prescribed prices is t prices are used to get people into the same ove ^ store. "Opera lual amend] regulations can be determined. THE OTHER proposed addition to the manual would require that recommendations affecting faculty legislative powers from any of USC's academic units to be forwarded to the Board of Trustees by the president of the university These recommendations would be forwarded only aftei review by appropriate committees and judgment by thi Faculty Senate or general faculty. Marshall said Tuesday the first amendment "will giv< the divisions of USC the kind of control they need for thei: programs." He said the amendment would aid in th< standardization of different programs within the univer sity. ENTRANCE and qualifying tests will probably be usee by a number of USC divisions, he added. The Colleges o Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacy, and others are amoni USC programs that already utilize various ways o screening potential students. A lot of these already have been using methods c * m -m scription drug p] m jett 1?? prices vary J tn SI r^PCIlt Clirirnv dnno K*/ (tin rin mnonnb nricoc , 5 ^ M WVIIV ivwj iiiv vjiaiiiv<vwn| pi wo y from drugstore to drugstore in the Columbia area. Fh st of the 10 most prescribed drugs and asked their pr ? and strengths. ong, owner of the Cornell for all stores," he sail larmacy, at the corner of has its own operating id Pendleton Streets, said the leads to the difference :>r the differences in drug >ecause no two stores have the "IT'S 1IAK1) TO co rhead costs. that there is a set price ting costs are not the same one store," Long said. orients sought screening applicants," he said. i nil /?i_ 11 r a i < . i me ^onege 01 Business Administration s proposal tor s autonomy hastened this amendment by the advisory I committee, Marshall said. But the B.A. school's request was not the solfi rpasnn fnr thp hoino m. r mended. He said several other schools expressed some e concern over quality control before the BA school made their request. e However, this will not be a compulsory measure, he said r referring to the amendment. e "No unit of USC will have to do it. It's purely an optional arrangement," he said. The first amendment will >e studied by the Scholastic Standing and Pptitinns and Ivith twill I discussed at the next Faculty Senate meeting in f December. g Other topics of the last senate meeting include the f changing of certain course descriptions for the Department of Aerospace Studies, the addition of a tentative new course if in geology and other course changes and deletions. ?* ? * Alexander?THE GAMECOCK rices cheaper MT/flEi *a*r The small inf ScMl dependent store can do a volume of $300,000 to $400,000 a year while a large ||pp** chain store can do as much as $3 million to $4 million in volume a year. Long said his business is not hindered *; V much by the larger chain stores. "I'm not really in direct competition with the national chains/' he said. "This is mv own business rind T'm in ^mmm Eckerd's, 638 Harden St. in Five H* Points, sees no advantage to advertising drug prices. "You have to be careful to advertise fairly," he said. "Advertising -fJSr prescription drugs is not like admgffl vertising products such as aspirin lg n*' because prescriptions only appeal to n#?nnlp u/hn h^vp nrp^rrintinnc r*f n _p I" 1 ? certain drug at that time." DANIEL ALSO said that if a person > >?the oamecock is in pain they will go to the pharmacy that is most convenient rather than of prescription drive five miles to the cheapest armacies were pharmaey. , ices on certain If Prices were. the same for prescription drugs, it would be just like it is with gasoline stations price d. "Every store fixing," Daniel said. * cost and that According to Daniel, the price of 5 in prices. drugs "has gone up very little in the 1 a mi - _? 1 iiL pasi iu years. 1 ne rise in neuiui care me out and say has not been in drug prices; it's been in for drugs in any doctors' prices and hospital care." 4'This would not See PRICES, Page 3