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I GAMECOCK EH || Thursday Feb. 16,1978 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIV, No. 29 I The proc midable dra the festivi beginning of the Horse.(S ! Caroli acadei unders By DOUG JOLLEY Gamecock Staff Writer The academic reputatioi unjustly during the past fe West, director of admissioi "I consider us the equal c any university in the countr said. "Many of ourprogranr the schools in this area of t doubt that Carolina is as g our reputation is just not a missions office are seeing w that situation." President Holderman agi have undersold ourselves . any school that you'll find in country for that matter," h< excellent programs that are nation, that just need to be KICHAKD BADDOUH, admissions at UNC also agr very much the equal in acad or any other of the ACC scho "To have a highly re? university, you need go students and the necessar "You need all of these ingre of them you can't succeed, amount of all of these at Ca need for a quality prograir "Carolina lost some acad withdrew from the ACC, b media played it up at the tim IISC withdraw fhi a rule requiring athletes sports to have at least an See ACADEMICS, page 4 Stude By BERNARD SINKLER Gamecock Staff Walter A bill allowing student re trustees of state-supported \ 10 me s.u. legislature by Clarendon), sometime next Joe Drawdy, vice preside Government Association sa voting student representativ for whom Drawdy works. Di not a new idea, but had be< years. Partly because of Harvej unanimously passed in a stuc the state legislature to prop< ession of this forgon was only part of ^BH| ties marking the the Chinese Year of lee related story, p.5) jpSfc ^ W *t lia's (' ? bmics iMVL 1 nf ITQP hie chffax/irl HC a VA Wk/\y 11UO OUllCi^U w decades, said Arthur >f Chapel Hill (UNC) or ^UflEg y you can name," West is are better than any of ^ NLygi he country. There's no BBS!! ;ood as North Carolina, is good. We at the ad- ^51 hat we can do to rectify reed. "I think that we and we are as good as i the Southeast, or in the e said. "We have some s Mb. i some of the best in the AM ; highlighted." assistant director of JLg ees. "South Carolina is emics of North Carolina ols,"hesaid. yarded and successful od facilities, faculty, y funds," West said. ;dients, without any one We have an abundant ESBSPSS rolina, exactly what we l." emic prestige when we ecause of the way the ie," West said. 2 ACC refused to repeal competing in varsity 800 on the Scholastic :nt represer on of th presentation on the boards of ' universities will be introduced nu state Rep! Alex Harvin, (D- Gi week. mi ;nt of the 59-member Student en id he suggested the idea of a of e to Lt. Gov. Brantley Harvey, i rawdy continued that this was frc ?n discussed for about twenty re] vo >}s reaction, a resolution was th< lent legislative meeting asking )se a bill allowing a one voice- l t r-ty I 'i I i -"' MMMBraHBlBsSfcSflHr,vfcBiofcfoftfl^rtSrEir ' 5-|' J itation bill ie vote student representative on the now students have a voice, but ha\ e board. THE RESOLUTION received a g< mber of people including Rep. eenville and Chairman of the He itiee, said Drawdy. USC President h dorse it, but was very receptive a Trustees, Drawdy said. \n election was held involving th >m the regional campuses to dc present the students on the board ted to let the Columbia campus pr 5 student body, said Drawdy. tIARVIN SAID students of the state 5fe''*sSi i m Wliil hf US^SKBSr jj^gjBP^ :-'^^^Mb < T^JWWBWI^^^MMBP^*1&0 tAimSm < mW^Wv]?i'iiTvwBiff ASXP^^H ? HV I/1! If ( -^Msi 9^t ? ( 'ijm PI < tr^^OHflSHL V) N mffil' *1118c Bill Boineau-THE GAMECOCK ^ i to go to St J board of trustees. As his hel] re no voting power on body ( Simula [>od response from a draft f< Nick Theodore, D- t4 "Wh< use Education Com- "Over loiderman didn't fully come t c was (ho IICP sre?nd l ~ 1'IKIIU * ' The I e student presidents accord itermine who would Shou] I. They unanimously repress esident represent all duties c Sen. troducf legislature asked for For next fall Budget $7 milli short By DON FOBES Asst. News Editor Nearly $2 million in the additional budget deficit of $5 mil] 1979, if the state Budget and Conti requests are not met. The BCB, the agency which con presents a proposed state budge General Assembly. PRESIDENT DR. JAMES B. Tuesday that "we're in the pro< statement to the legislature that w we're asking for (nearly $70 mill budget doesn't cover the shortag perienced over the last five years f Ki\ f.-li-- ? 1?' >uuugv.i/ nasii i uccn luiiy iunaec "And all of our campuses face t We will be running a deficit at ever manage that deficit ; and we can s hings if we manage our resource ;ept priorities. We will give up low n favor of higher-order priorities "THAT'S WITH THE $5 million. >5 million we will have a $7 million md that would be calamitous f< because we would have to cut be .ervices and enrollments." Housing and tuition would be Hess of monetary considerations, contained. It generates its own rev< 10 intention of raising tuition Wp' :osts," Holderman said. IF USC DOES not receive full-fui erms, we would have to make em tnd cutbacks in programs and s aid. The 1978-1979 budget is the first ti las operated on the unitary syste ampuses fall into one category. "WE WERE LESS successful egrated plan) because they (legi )laying one campus against anothc s a single item which is the USC nan remarked. USC's budget is "formula-gem resident. "It's based on x studer Ve've taken x students and not g( he last five years we've been she See 1 ate asseml p on the bill. The student legislatur >f members from college camp ting state government processes ii )r the bill was written by the stud at we're really supporting is a cat the years, colleges board of trust 0 be made up generally of wea a lot of time politicking the legis >oard has somehow lost touch with ing to Harvin. Id the bill become law, the jntative would be accorded all the i )f any other board of trustees men Tom Turnipseed, D-Lexington, 1 the bill in the senate said he wo See T1 \ on hole, USC faces an lion for fiscal 1978rol Board's (BOB) trols USC's funds, it annually to the Holderman said :ess of making a e need everything nun), uecause me es that we've exwhen the formula I. he same problem, y campus. We can till do a lot of new es effectively, exer-order priorities If we don't get the deficit next year, )r the university, \ck on programs, unaffected regar"Housine is self enue, and we have 11 resist that at all nding, "in general rollment cutbacks taff," Holderman ime the university m where all nine before ((he inslature) ended up ?r. This time there budget," Holder?rated," said the its and y dollars. )tten y dollars. In >rt by $30 million. BUDGET, page 8 kl? uiy e, said Harvin, is a uses in the state n every detail. The lents, Harvin said, use," Harvin said, ee members have lthv npnnlp TWv ?t 1 lature." i the student body, voting student rights, powers and nber, Harvin said. who plans to inuld like to see the RUSTEES, page 3 4