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By WAYNE BROOKS
Opinion Page Editor
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Student Government ol
measures to the universii
students a more audible i
nance, but to no avail. Sir
have still been talking abc
was an SG election to be 1
hear the candidates talk
governance, like the Gre<
issue that has been passed
the next. This spring's SG
the corner, and now we'r
about university governar
At the January 25 meetii
resolution, which calls for
on the Board of Trustees,
SG Vice President Joe Di
most of the student senat
winning support of the S
ainicuit. wnat I fear n
President Drawdy do not r<
will find in developing a we
implemented. The pian its<
A number of factor? w!!! h
First of all, they must r<
of Trustees oversees not 01
but nine regional campi
representation on the boar
be realistic if that student i
campus and all regional ca
from each campus, needl<
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ao wnai 11 ail ot the ca
system were combined fo
How should that student
Should an election be he!
candidates from the vari<
each election? The wini
campus would probably
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it USC in the fall of 1974,
'ficials were proposing
ty administration to give
/oice in university goverlce
that time, SG officials
>ut it. And whenever there
held, you could be sure to
;ing about it. University
m Street issue, is an SG
on from one SG election to
elections are just around
e beginning to hear more
ICC.
lg of the student senate, a
a student representative
was proposed on behalf of
rawdy. It's no doubt that
;ors present realized that
.C. Legislature would be
>any senators and Vice
*alize is the difficulty they
11-defined plan that can be
ilf cannot be a simple one.
2ve to be considered.
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nly the Columbia campus,
ises as well. If student
d is realistic, it could only
represented both the main
impuses. A representative
ess to say, is ludicrous,
mpuses in the university
r one seat on the board?
be elected to the board?
Id on each campus, with
>us campuses running in
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be enrolled at that par
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ticular campus. Should the n
by student bodies or studen
campus, would there be m<
running? Or should the ste
student? The legislature elec
the board. As you can see
student representative and hi
of the difficult questions tha
Because a realistic plan, if
for only one student reprc
determined whether one si
represent all of the campuse
the Columbia campus undei
students at the Coastal Ca
Spartanburg campus, and
represent those students? Ai
be no guarantee that the
would be from the Columbia <
or Union student understand
he adequately represent u
students on this campus woi
give the seat to us becausi
enrollment and because we
I'm sure students, especial]
leaders, at the regional camp
control of the seat as much
surprise n*e if students at
combined forces and voted t
thus dealing a blow to the m
blame them? Regional camj
for a long time. With this ii
vantages can we expect
representative unless he is fi
After pointing out the a bo1
sidered in developing an im]
vice president Drawdy, I w?
that the plan could allow fc
between representatives froi
involved for discussing the v,
campus with the board
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it senates? And on this
>re than one candidate
ite legislature elect a
ts all other members of
deciding who elects a
ow they elect him is one
it must be faced.
there is one, could call
isentative, it must be
tudent can adequately
s. Could a student from
-stand the problems of
irolina campus or the
could he adequately
tid because there could
student representative
campus, could an Aiken
our problems and could
is? Who else besides
aid see it our way and
e we have the lamest
are the main campus?
ly student government
>uses would like to have
as we do. It would not
tile regional campuses
or the sttnlc candidate,
ain campus. Could you
>uses have felt slighted
n mind, what real adin
having such a
rom the main campus?
ye problems to be con
plementable plan to SG
is told by Mr. Drawdy
>r occasional meetings
m all of the campuses
aried problems of each
representative. These
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meetings, he said, would all
input. I'm sorry* but I'm stil
thing, the board represents
problems on campuses wit
familiar. He can be expect
reverberate proposals to
meetings between campus r
be expected to be held ver
from one campus to anothe
month would be more tha
could hardly stand.
As far as the chances of
plan by the legislature are <
he is encouraged that I
Clarendon, is making plans
for student representation
Sen. David Turnipseed, E
pressed a similar interest in
senate. My advice to Mr. D
seek the backing of legislate
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the chambers' younger mem
Gressette and Rembert De
Emeritus Solomon Biatt will
encouraged. I do not que
abilities of Rep. Harvin or S<
ages ana iew years ui seVvi
ciout they need. Hartnett is 1
If Mr. Drawdy's plan
legislature, which I do not s
suggest that he and all other
weaknesses they have on tl
portant to them, the Si
Committee. They should u
have, and this committee is
mittee that can make any k
the Board of Trustees. In the
should give his plan careful
it. Otherwise, the issue of un
be just another Dart of his m
president this spring.
dents'time lii
?xtracurricul
ditor:
*s your semester last time? Wj
or most students, it was prob
oi take only a few courses, thoj
i bit of your time.
mester kept me quite busy evei
Nevertheless I came out a
ng the circumstances I have
that the university is a good pla
is education if he or she wants
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ow each campus to have
11 not convinced. For one
itive cannot understand
h which he is not truly
ted to do no more than
the board. Also, such
epresentatives could not
y frequently. Traveling
r for a meeting once a
n most representatives
getting approval of the
concerned, Drawdy said
tep. Alex Harvin, Dto
present a bill calling
on state school boards.
>-Spartanburg, has expresenting
the bill to the
rawdy is that he should
ors whose seniority and
nore noliiioAl rlmit than
bers. If senators Marion
mnis or House Speaker
support the bill, I will be
istion the integrity or
in. Turnipseed, but their
ce do not give ihem the
*7, and Turnipseed is 33.
fails to pass in the
;ee improbable, I would
SG officials examine the
he committee most imTl
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se the best thing they
i the only possible comind
of difference with
meantime, Mr. Drawdy
study before presenting
iversity governance will
mpaign platform for SG
mited
ars
is it fairly easy or quite
ably the latter because
se few courses can take
n though I only had four
11 right academically,
to work under.
ice for a student to go to
to do precisely that, but
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