Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ratings? Solmon also commented on what curri< might be called reputation lag. ' Recen "We get a number of calls," he distin] said, expressing concerns like larges '"Iliey (the raters) didn't know anycc that we hired professor X, Y and Z he s and we're really better than Lessii Harvard." solicit the USC administrators said the Hesea efforts of lesser known schools to establish themselves often go The unrecognized. librar rating Leon Lessinger, dean of USC's addin school of education, said the librar biggest ingredient in a school's prestige is its faculty reputation Hea earned through its publications, educa "In the last five years we had a 300 Chica percent increase in enrollment," Berke he said, and under those conditions 1 Ohio 2 "a good deal of your energy is absorbed in getting people and "In classrooms. Your faculty is rank,' overworked." produ admin WITH ENROLLMENT leveled South f li.. - rr?i. i t uii, linjuny cuorvjj nave Deen directed toward reworking the SOI STAGE DC A Gourmet's Deligh Happy Hour 4:30-7:00 Mon.-Sat. Gourmet Sandwiches Served Till 12 Mic Great Drinks - Niohtlv Entertainment Open Mon. - Fri. 11-2 a.m., Sat. 11-12 LmII.L I jiL SPECIAL JHl | 39 _ limb J IW, From page ;ula, Lessinger said, pearing in the i tly the school's faculty has Florida, Duke and' ;uished itself by having the the second group < t number of invited papers of State and Georgia i Ulege of its size in the nation, and Peabody and T aid. An invited paper, . fourth ten. "Reputa nger explained, is one almost completely < ed for presentation before like us to be know American Educational teaching faculty i rch Association. Lessinger said. "It though," he added. quality of the school's y is extremely important in The top law schot a school, Lessinger said, were Harvard, } a (hot ITCPV ?/)..??>:? MioKi fTon PKinn rtr b v^uv o cuuvaiiuil v/in^a^vj y has been weak in the past. Berkeley, Colui sylvania, Virginia, ding the Cartter rankings in Texas, Duke, Nor tion were Stanford, Harvard, New York, go, UCLA, California at ley, Wisconsin, Columbia,, The criteria for i State, Michigan and Illinois, schools is universit; at least 75 graduate terms of prestige, we don't satisfied the reqi ' Lessinger said. "I'd like to fared badly in the ce the very best teachers and law school was in t listrators for the state of of ten overall and Carolina." slightly less than flip pre JTI1EASTERN schools ap Other southeaste I included in the ! VanHprhiU in t Florida in the fc isK "N. Georgia, Louisian. ||?\ and Tulane in the f H|^P\ n and Tennessee wer sixth ten, Alabama gJgMV f j Florida State in tl llSlli?\ I'M" and Mississippi in ^Jjy with use. ! ip\ i "IT'S A I I ] >/ problem," assocu * dean Thomas Hag if , factor of USC's law ' Open 11 a.m. for Lunch; reputation, said Disco open at 4:30 small number of , . . # other regions of the in,Km of the graduates d Dinner served outside the state t nightly 6-12 ? Both Haggard an CHECK ALL OUR PRICES AND COMPARE STROM'S ,M STILL ONLYm HEINEKEN 369 5plies * DONT MISS THESE VA OLD MIL WAUKEE RHINE LANDER BUDWEISER 14 Saluda Ave. (5 Points) 799-8567 or 5413 1 ankings were Jerome Bt'aun agreed that th< 1'exas Austin in Law School is underr af ten, Florida Haggard pointed to the sc n the third ten, "rich curricula" and added ennessee in the "the qualifications of the U itions are made are comparable to any sch< )n research. I'd the country." He said the fj n as the great includes a number of gradua n thp onilth n fnn Ion; nr. IIo ...v WWMWIJ vvp IOTT OVIIWIO OUV.1V CIO Aid won't be easy, and Yale, as well as forme review members and gradual degree holders. >ls n the survey Braun, who has visited a ni I ale, Stanford, of other law schools as a mt i, California at of various faculty committeej mbia, Penn- he has received numerous UCLA, Cornell, pliments on the new facility a thwestern and (completed in 1973) from administrators. Braun calle new facility "the best ii nclusion of law country." v affiliation nnrl s per year. USC HAGGARD SAID the law fj iirements, but salaries are competitive with ratings. USC's southeastern schools. Strivi he eighth group remedy its reputation pre was considered USC's iaw school has ever; "adequate" by going for it, Braun said. " got a young, bright faculty ? the best if not the best i irn law schools southeast," excluding Dukt survey were Virginia, he said. he third ten, Other factors in the sc >urth ten, and favor, Braun said, are the lil 1 Stntp Minmi c?nJnn?r. "" '"* , .......... gimi oiuuciiui, nu apm iuj ifth ten. Emory with other schools (USC is th e ranked in the law school in the state), an , Arkansas and location and a university ie seventh ten, mitted to improving itself the eighth ten ,,rnie tuition is dirt cheap added. REPUTATION An earlier survey conduc ite law school Peter Blau and Rebecca Mai gard said. One was reported by Change, ^ school's lack of 1974-75. The Blau-Marj laggard, is the survey included the opini< graduate s in deans on the top schools in 1 country. "Most of study, but USC's wa lon't go too far mentioned among the top o practice," he journalism schools in the rati These top nine schools of d assistant dean nalism were Columbia, Minr 1 Northwestern, Missouri, II Reporters 4 34 for Hh| | THE NEWj^p i I \"l ^3^ LUES I Dfi 'I This Thursday I /" n Jl H jl | sandwiches tet H m A * rnrnrnzmm i Z/Ul ?|P ? ? ? eUSC ' Wisconsin, Nebraska, Michigan ated. and Stanford. hool's . I that i ALBERT SCROGGINS, dean of iculty the journalism school at USC said [>ol in most of the schools on the Blauiculty Margulics rankings are "primarily tes of research oriented." If the only rvard factors considered were faculty, r law facilities, "hands-on" equipment te law available to students, budget, and ' student quality, Scroggins said imber i USC would be well within the top ;mber ' ten. i, said "We are much more interested com- in problem solving and public t USC service aspects of mass media other than research orientation," d the I Seorceins said Sn far thp nwvls nf i the | the state have not required a Ph.D. program, he said, but several recent acquisitions have upgraded acuity the research capabilities of the other faculty. ng to i Twenty percent of the students (blem, are from outside South Carolina, /thing Scroggins said, mainly from New We've York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania one of and Virginia. Student feedback n the indicates USC's journalism school e and has an extremely good reputation i on the east coast, he added. The ihool's journalism school has more honors brary, students than any school on Baltics campus, Scroggins said, with e only many participating in the Carolina i ideal Scholars program. comAlso use WAS ONE of the first he journalism schools to employ 1 Virino Disnlav Terminals ji<s nart nf 1 the new technology in newspapers, ted by 'Facilities also include one of the gulies best photography labs in the Winter country, Scroggins said, and five guligs excellent radio studios for student >ns of use. In the future, he added, 8 fiels students will have the use of s not television studios for news shows i nine and similar items to be aired by kings, cable. Color equipment is not jour- presently of broadcast quality, but lesota. i should bf> nneradwl hv novt vmt llinois, ' he said. wanted The Gamecock ? aft $.25 Friday, & Saturday RYSTAL" - large gameroom Rosewood Dr.