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Volume LXIX, No. 68 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. October 2, 1978
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By Jan Easterltng
Oamccock staff Writer
R. Markley Dennis was elected chairman of the USC
Board of Trustees during a regular meeting of the board
Saturday.
Dennis was selected as interim chairman this past spring
when former board Chairman T. Eston Marchant resignei
to campaign for the position of S.C. adjutant general.
William Hawkins was elected vice chairman, replacinj
James Cothran, who told the board members he did no
want to be considered for re-election. Paul Goldsmith
Othniel Wienges, Robert Peters and Hawkins were re
elected to the executive committee of the board.
The board also approved the intercollegiate Activities
Committee's recommendation to appropriate $250,000 ol
athletic funds for expanding the university's baseball field
"We want to make the baseball arena more attractive foi
play-offs," Hugh Wells, chairman of the committee, said
The money would be used to increase seating capacity fron
1,700 to 3,700, he said.
The committee made the recommendation to the board ai
the request of USC Athletic Director Jim Carlen.The boar<
also aDDroved $125,000 for the comDletion of office SDace oi
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the second floor of the roundhouse "specifically for
women's athletics," Wells said.
A resolution was also adopted to give lifetime memberships
in the USC Gamecock Club to persons who make
contributions to the USC Educational Foundation of more
I than 125,000 during a five-year period, me aonauons are
i restricted to use in support of the athletic program.
The board also approved transferring $250,000 from
I athletic funds to the educational foundation for scholarships
t and to render their appreciation to the athletic department
it for the money.
USC President James B. Holderman told the board that
university system enrollment is up 5.1 percent this year
; from the previous year. "The fact that enrollment is up
f gives us the encouragement to ask for an increase (in
university appropriations)," he said.Holderman said the
university has been told by the Commission on Higher
Education to present a budget for next year five percent
less than the present budget. This would be a $3.5 million
1 reduction in our present operating budget," he said. The
current operating budget is $124 million, $73 million of
t which came from state appropriations, according to Beri
nard Daetwyler, USC system vice president for business
l and finance."We will continue to push for full-formula
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funding," he said. Holderman said USC would continue to
grow because South Carolina is one of the fastest growing
states economically in the country.
The board also voted to revoke a Juris Doctor degree
awarded to Gabriel Ann Scott Elliot in 1975 by the USC Law
School.
Elliot was an assumed name used by the woman when she
enrolled in the law school, it was reported in a February
1977 issue of the Gamecock. The woman was admitted to the
school on the strength of transcripts from Vassar College
in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The transcripts actually belonged to
Mrs. Alan F. Blanchard of New York City. Blanchard is the
former Ann Scott Elliot.
The hoax was discovered when the woman applied for a
job at the S.C. Attorney General's office and listed a USC
law professor as a reference, the Gamecock reported.
The professor, upon checking into the woman's records,
noticed that if she had been born in 1945, as she claimed, she
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The professor asked for verification of the records from
Vassar. Vassar checked with Blanchard and discovered
that the Elliot attending USC was not the same one who
graduated from Vassar.
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