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pfesi^?^1 w+-~ ny nancy Ann UMeman OMMGKk Staff Wrttar When President James B. , Holderman talks to USC ad- ] ministrators about a university < problem, he has usuallv talked to students about it first. Every six weeks, Holderman meets with a 30-member panel of students, faculty and\ administrators and calls on them onehv4>np ail* thair crmonan/uw and w+j W KM* ^ilVVHUVVO CMIU observations concerning USC. , The president's panel is part of Holderman's Carolina Plan, approved last fall by the Board of Trustees. The panel began meeting early this year. EACH REGIONAL campus is renresented bv one nr mnr?* students selected by the Division of Student Affairs and approved by Holderman, according to Page Morris, an administrative intern. T :v 1 Journalism By Brian Duncan Gamacock Staff Writer Reorganization in the College of Journalism will enable students to gain a more complete understanding of employment areas in journalism and mass communications, according to Dean Albert T. Scroggins. The reorganization nrimarilv concerns a separation of the i college into an upper and lower division, Scroggins said. Hie lower division is to emphasize basic education requirements as well as journalism core courses "so they (the students) can move smoothly into the upper division," he said. me upper aivision, wmcn begins i upon completion of 60 hours, i mainly involves required sequence ] courses. Scroggins said an internal re-evaluation of programs by a faculty and student committee last year led to creation of the division and accompanying structural and academic changes. THE MAJOR reason for the division was to accomolish a more effective advisement program, and therefore better meet the needs encountered by graduates, according to Scroggins. The structure of the sequenceoriented programs prompted a number of complaints from students that they felt uncomfortable about taking different sequence courses, Scroggins said. Hp a HHAH (kaf oAnoowimi? v Mvtvax/vt U1UV MAW OUVIOC1A1CXXI program itself tended to be a bit sequence-oriented. By using the faculty members most interested and best equipped for advisement, , Scroggins said, the college hopes to ! improve this. Because the field of mass communications is quickly and continually changing, Scroggins i said, definite, clear-cut job lines I Correction ! In the July 6 edition of the J Gamecock the story on reading | and writing entrance tests in the | College of Humanities and Social , Sciences contained an error { concerning a course code. { loef not*o4ft?AnU nl?<> il-4 m. iiv inav |N?agin|ni D1IUU1U 1 CilU? < "a student who scores 390 or below on the verbal SAT is now automatically channeled into ' English 100." The Gamecock i regrets the error. < J 3 i 4h'ao T?-fc *->m Tin ^ The panel has an open-ended agenda so discussion is flexible, Morris said. No motions are made and no votes are taken, and the nanol o/tfo Anlir in an ? vuaj urn Oil auVlOVIjr capacity. If panel discussion accurately represents USC student concerns, students are not altogether satisfied with the distribution of athletic tickets, parking, professor evaluations, copy machines, money-changers, housing, library hours and deadlines for computer registration, among other things. MARK LUNDGREN, editor of the Gamecock, said students who want their questions aired at panel meetings could contact him or other panel members such as Seamus O'Boyle, president of the Student Government Association, or John Foster III, president of the University Union. school rer ire becoming blurred. He cited as samples Multimedia of Greenrille and Columbia Newspapers, inc., two South Carolina media >wnerships which control between hem at least 30 daily and weekly lewspapers, eight television and (even radio stations. Therefore, hey offer a variety of career od x>rtunities not only in news but dso in advertising, broadcasting, rnd public relations. ACCORDING TO Scroggins, "a lumber of students who graduate :rom a particular sequence are not always able to find employment in hat specialized area. Thus when iiey seek or take employment in m allied area, they aren't always is comfortable with their professional skills as they might be Scroggins n A ? ?* * rvivu a uiuauci curriculum background." Although the sequences and course requirements will remain as before, Scroggins said the college is "de-emphasizing the sequence to give the student a broader base in his journalistic training." He said he hopes 9tudents will be encouraged to explore other sequence areas with ^1 * ? tree ciecuvcH ior auamonai professional skills. The academic requirements accompanying the division, adopted March 23, 1977 by the college, remain virtually the same. / k*' / ? ( ?/ airs st "We have a good cross-section t 1*.? il 1 oiuucuu* ?uiu nacuiiy on uw panel Lundgren said. "Some of the represent organizations like t media or union and are supposed know what a lot of students fo "Others are students who are involved with university activiti that they have a hand-hold on ti heartbeat of the mmruiR " LUNDGREN said the on weakness he could discern in tl panel might be a lack representation for off-campi students. But on the whole, Lu dgren said, the panel is a very go< idea. - everyone is on equal terms ai talks freely," he said. "Ea< opinion counts. Occasionally tl president will ask an administrat 1 to look into a question and they report back at the next meetin "The students learn from it, to because they get a direct pc >rganizes according to Scroggins, who said year or so was needed to study he it would affect a student program. He added the chang are to be implemented this fall. SCROGGINS SAID iournaliR majors must, upon reaching attempted hours, maintain i overall GPR of 2.0 to remain good standing with the college. Those students who have le than a 2.0 at completion of tl lower division or who fail maintain a similar average in tl upper division will be required I the school to withdraw as a jou nalism major until a GPR of 2.0 fltrain ntfflincH Hp oniH Dr. Henry Price has been a pointed director of the new upp academic division while Dr. L.\ Brown is to direct the lower. Ral] Morgan has been appoint! chairman of the advertising-pub] relations sequence and Patricia < McNeely is the new head of tl news-editorial program. Uf AT ISAT .GRE-DAT IftVMI PCAT?0CATofiMAT SAT VAT ftAT j NMB I, ILIE ECFMG Fuk VQE NAT L DENT BDS NURSING BDS STANLEY H. KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER Test Preparation Specialists Since 1938 OPEN DAYS, EVENINGS, A WEEKENDS , For Information. Pl?a?m Call | (803)772-0454 " | Th# GAMECOCK it the student newspaper of the University of South I Caorilna and is published three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters and once weekly on Thursdays during both summer sessions with the exception of university holiday* and examination periods. Opinions expressed In the | GAMECOCK are those ot the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. Chang* of addrass forms, subscription raquasts and ofhar corraspondanca should ba sant to tha GAMECOCK, [ Drawar A, USC, Columbia, S.C. 2970$. Subscription ratas ara $5 par samastar and it for tha summar sassiont. Third class pottapa paid at Columbia, \z grV of spective from the top adi," ministrator at the university." *n SOME MEMBERS of the student he senate have complained the panel to may be usurping some of the powers of the senate. Morris said 80 because the panel is only a sounding board and legislates nothing, Bakke From pag fMinnnt ho niintoH " ly Beaufort Vice President Darwin E tie public, but added that the memorai of reticence. us One high administrative official w in- in his response as others, saying Dd "irritated" him so much. He said tl and others "who deal with the medii id letter appeared in his opinion "to as ch have enough sense to know when to s lie University Counsel Grier said, or common sense decision. The Bakke *11 have time to go over it and apply it tc g. "We have the complete brief, and o, out with our reaction. It would not b 5r- copy, because these are lay people Anyone who wants to see the entire welcome to do so," Grier said. Victoria Fox, USC affirmative acti comment. 5 j ..tin .JIB SI 00 m in I Open 6 Days a V S3 I 'til mid to I 749 Saluda Ave J? I 256-C ?" I Also Dentsville a; IS I Shoppin.) er hmbsbshdh IT r- ? l :>h MWMM n H^^HB^^HKfi9Bl^9B^HS^H| ' HKTTTm the complaint was discussed but dropped. The president said he would like to hold meetings of his panel at each regional campus. The first one visited was the Coastal Carolina campus in Conway where a June meeting was held. _ I. Bashaw had no reaction to make idum had "nothing to do with" his 'as neither as happy nor as low-key he had never seen a memo that tie memo was an insult because he ei do not go off half-cocked" and the sume that those in authority do not peak and when not to." Ne sent out the memorandum as a i case is unusual and we wanted to t nnr flthiatiftn f V?u UlVUWVIVIIt 1 Thursday a memorandum will go e necessary to send out a complete and we can interpret it for them, case or my latest memorandum is Ion officer, could not be reached for m V eek ? 11 a.m. Lnight . ? Five Points >t)81 rid Cedar Terrace g Center iOiaLiJAaflilifa'J