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Sierra Club works By JIM PHILLIPS Gamecock Staff Writer Legislators, conservationists and corporations have all been concerned with environmental problems in the past decade. Many environmental controversies have focused on how to find a compromise between preserving our rapidly dwindling American wilderness and finding new sources of energy and raw materials. The Sierra Club, an organization founded in 1892 by John Muir, is one group that has fought to save A morinn V 1 th.ivi .va o wnuci iiesb ana resources. The Joseph LeConte chapter of the Sierra Club includes North Carolina and South Carolina. The John Bachman group is the Columbia division. LAKRY TURNER, president of the Columbia organization, said the club is a "grass-roots, conservation organization whose main interest is protecting our environment." Turner's organization is now fighting the construction of the Richard B. Russell dam on the Savannah River between South Carolina and Georgia. The Sierra Club is joining several other environmental groups in the state in a law suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers in an effort to halt construction of the dam. Turner said. "Thp suit ic nn ?1 , */*i ocwi ai icviUUUill points. It mainly concerns the environmental impact statement by the Corps of Engineers to the EPA. The Senator: colleg n - - lor quality, By KATHLEEN McINTYRE poor job in seven Gamecock Staff Writer techniques and professors also South Carolina's colleges and proved upon." universities shrmlH aim tft Mini ivi 4uaiujr rather than quantity in higher "THE NEW 1 education, says Sen. Robert lake, benefits to colh D-Newberry, chairman of a sities so they \ committee to restructure the achieve a degre Commission on Higher Education. Lake's bill pn member commi: "ITWRrtl * mpwp ? i nas stopped from each congi growing in colleges and univer- appointed by th sities, and it will remain on a advice and const decline until 1985. Now the state Assembly. It st needs to get control of higher member could b< education and try to give quality to of any institutio these institutions," Lake said. ning. T. Eston Lakes cites the effect of birth control methods and the fact that T we are now at peace as reasons for ^ m the decline in college population. Bftl i He said colleges have reached a Ubi level where they no longer need to build dormitories and classroom |A facilities for war veterans. "WE NEED TO IMPROVE the 3rd W??k quality of higher education because there is too much 11 duplication and overlapping of I education," Lake said. "All ft ft colleges are trying to offer and I IHWl teach the same things. A "Colleges need to beoin tnl 1 * specialize in the area in which they * j|fl are strongest. If this is done, |1| I colleges will be able to reach a \ |J11 level of excellence in the particular t\ n nil field instead of doing an average or \ |U UH Siinprotara USC will host fraternity sport- |i^S^0Bp||rgS smen from five states in the "SnilthP!l?f rirnolf Ci.n?.?.4 '' v>> wn nu^ci siar inKBRSKttlhHL competition Saturday at T.G. Bell ^ Camp. The event will begin at 10 The schools participating are the University of Florida, the ^ University of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina at Plinrw?l u;u ?- ?MpV< 11111, North Carolina State University, 3 PKKFOItMAN the University of Tennessee and I)AII Y USC. for environment statement did not adequately address itself to the questions of wildlife habitat and water quality." Turner said snm#? nf iho lanH n-?>?? * _ ~ u.v lunu iv uc uuoueu oy me Russell dam has been set aside as a wildlife habitat by the state game management program. He said the Army Corps of Engineers has not adequately figured the cost of replacing the lands in the cost of the dam. In addition to the suit, the Joseph LeConte chapter has come out publicly against the dam in a news release. The Club is also lobbying against the dam in Washington, D.C. Members of the club have par i * ncipcticu in iucai neanngs on construction of the dam. One recent conservation cause of the Bachman group was preservation of the Congaree Swamp. The group was the main driving force behind legislation that will allow the federal government to buy the area and set it aside as a National Preserve. THE SIERRA CLUB was fnnnri<?H ??* -' ill U JUtV-CCVOl U1 effort to save the Yosemite Valley in southern California. The smaller regional groups concentrate their efforts on saving particular areas within their own region. Turner said that each group and chapter is responsible for local conservation work and supporting the national concerns of the organization. RpsiHp<; fiohtinn (V.? ? : * ?luoajcurc environment, members of the Sierra Club try to enjoy the environment. The club sponsors an extensive outing program in South Carolina and North Carolina. Their projects, designed to get club members out of doors include backpacking, white-water canoeing, camping and rock climbing. ;es should aim not quantity al fields. Teaching man of USC's Board of Trustees, the efficiency of would lose his position on the board need to be im- because of this stipulation. "THE REASON FOR this new SILL would give arrangement is because the iges and univer- majority of the trustees have their vould be able to own school in their main interest e of excellence." instead of all the schools in South ovides for an 18- Carolina. This causes a conflict of ssion, with three interest," Lake said. ressional district, "We need a statewide master e governor with plan to consider the student first, ?nt of the General the taxpayer seeonH anH m ?? 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