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BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID Monday, April 3,1978 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. Volume LXIV, No. 38 permTtno^j V ? _ - . ?^ WmmmSm " ; ' ' .'r \j^.; -V< ? 11 Ji ?H dj 5 Jm '^^^^:i^^l?:^?^l^::>vA;',WllllIr'M:i^i|lI 'li T^Tr < "o ^?'"s ?V - - vVjb&s^ > " HMffilH : ': 'fjp j Paul Mltchell-THE GAMECOCK Vice President Walter F. Mondale signs an autograph at the S.C. Democratic Convention's und raising banquet, held Friday night at the Coliseum. USC to help create sat By JOHN McCURRY universities to other schools in the Gamecock Staff Writer nation, said J. D. Waugh, acting dean of the college at USC. USC has joined six. other univer- "The program is only a proposal sities in pioneering a new satellite- and there is no guarantee (hat it communications system which will even start," said Waugh. "If may establish new concepts in the federal government decides to education. proceed with it, the program could The College of Engineering at start as early as next fall." USC, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford THE USC COLLEGE of University are three of six Engineering is one of the founding proposed earth stations which institutions of the Association for would use satellite com- Media-Based Continuing munications to provide Engineering Education. Waugh engineering programs from major was a founder of AMCEE, vice On the inside t bai Profiles: Garry Norris John 1) SeamusO'Boyle hditorii p^.7 Garry T V. Alcohol on ( (JSC committee to stu By MIKE FRITZ Gamecock Staff Writer Alcoholism is the work-study emphasis of the USC Drug Committee, according to chairperson Mimi Parrott, dean of residence education. The committee was awarded a $30,000 grant this past fall from the S. C. Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse for alcohol education on the campus, Parrott said. TU? ? * * ' * " me uuiuiiiuiee nas eignt workshop presentations. "We deal with attitudes towards drinking and try to get people to identify their own attitudes and what influences those attitudes," Parrott said. IN ADDITION to residence and hall advisors, the committee conducts workshops with University 101 and education classes on a regular basis. According Coliseum advise By ALY COVELL Gamecock Staff Writer USC President James B. Holderman Tuesday named a Carolina Coliseum advisory committee to take charge of scheduling programs for the arena. David C. Sennema, director of the S.C. Museum Commission and former executive director of the S.C. Arts rnmmiccirtn *?roc : n - ?? fuuiun, nao naiucu ciictirman. uie committee will also be in charge of the elephant room and the concourse in addition to studying security. ellite communic. chairman of the board of directors to meet the neec and a member of the executive committee of the board. ACCORDING many other sch< A 1 ' niu^CiCj nas grown to 17 major plying for mei institutions. Other schools in the would be dozen program are Colorado State, colleges of engin Auburn. SMU. Michigan, Min- nation recei nesota, Illinois, Purdue, engineering cou Massachusetts. Illinois Tech, Case smitting stations Wester n Reserve, Southern The schools cot California, Georgia Tech and programs for h Kentucky. The association is said. "This p preparing a proposal for the available very sj National Institute of Education on to schools that < the use of satellite communications have access." The program j professional engi /ii and industrials ft- leIII SOU Carolina by attr nt that have earlier St mill feU II# C southeastern stat lO *ac^ ?* certa ^ engineering progi The selection of enver concert six originating sti for South Caroli PtJ. 14 i using television e tool, and for co< state agencies, V> a 1* "WE HAVE C Morris' senate "*'"8 tv in e ic Waugh. "Our en was an early lc ' based engineering ^ 'amp us idy student alcoholism to Parrott, any university group can ask for a workshop presentation. Last fall the committee made presentations to the Student Union Regional Con~ ?-j *- * - ** *- - ? - - tciciiv;c cuiu 10 me jran-Henenic Tri-State Workshop. "Anywhere that we have made a presentation, people have been eager to participate. The evaluations that people have turned back to us have been overwhelming," Parrott said. "Usually because of so many questions during the presentation we run out of time," she added. "What we do is talk to people who are friends of someone who has a drinking problem who ask what their rcle should be," said Katherine Callaway, a graduate; student working with the committee. "We also get a lot of people who say they have a parent with a drinking problem." ? .innUA, , _ b v See ALCOHOL, page 6 >ry board named Vice chairman Chris Vlahoplus, vice president of university relations and public affairs, said the committee will be divided into subcommittees which ;n * "' * win cover mese areas in addition to public relations. "WE WANT to ensure that community needs are understood," Vlahoplus said. "We will coordinate with other community groups and operations." The committee is not new, he added, but has been revised to serve more actively within the community. See COLISEUM, page 4 itions system Is of engineering, on-campus facilities are among the best in the nation and we have a TO WAUGH, proven record of cooperation ools are now ap- among state agencies in the use of -nbership. There educational television " s of stations at eering across the The proposal decide if the iving special program should ourchase acrm ta rses from trail- an existing communica:ions satellite, or be a part of a new ild also video-tape satellite program according to iter use, Waugh Waugh. rogram makes The program would allow >ecialized courses universities to share resources and ordinarily do not to provide expensive educational programs to engineers at a low will also help cost. "It will open new courses, neers in the state especially on a graduate level, zation of South without increasing the size of the acting industries faculty or staff," Waugh said, shied away from es because of the THE SATELLITE DELIVERY lin specialized system would solve a number of ams Waugh said, complex problems for colleges of USC as one of the engineering. They would not have itions speaks well to retain large inventories of ina's success in prepared programs. One tape is an educational could be stored in a computer and jjpcrauon among transmuted to other colleges on taugh said. request. The system is important in providing continuing education REDIBILITY in for professional engineers. Waugh iducation," said said many engineers want to take gineering school special courses, but cannot get ;ader in media- these courses over existing g programs; our delivery systems.