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[ ( . * f r \ % Volume LXX, No. 36 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Nov. 19, 1979 Gamecocks a< By Brett L. Friedlander Sports Editor The USC Gamecock football team was invited to their first bowl game in five years following a 35-14 victory over Wake Forest Saturday. Immediately following the game, Robert W. Fennell, a member of the Hall of Fame Bowl selection committee and a 1950 graduate of USC, told the team, "On behalf of the Birmingham Football Foundation, the sponsor of the Hall of Fame Bowl, on the night of Dec. 29, 1979,1 hereby extend an invitation to the University of South Carolina to participate as one of the two teams in the 1979 collegiate Hall of Fame game." Head coach Jim Carlen replied, "We accept," to which players and supporters of the team cheered the decision. "IT FEELS FANTASTIC," offensive guard Fred David said. "It is something we've been working for all year. I'm at a loss for words. I'm so excited about going to a bowl game. This is the first one for me." Besides being their first post-season appearance in five years, it is only their fourth in an 85-year history which dates back to 1894. The other appearances for USC were the 1975 Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Fla., the 1969 Peach Bowl in Atlanta and the 1945 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. The Gamecocks have never won a bowl game. "We've had to face adversity but we hung in there all season. Now we can relax," the 6-1,240-pound senior added. The Hall of Fame Bowl, which is played at Birmingham's Legion Field, does not have a national television contract. However, according to Fennell, about 90 percent of the country will be able to view the game. Mizlou Television Network will be handling the television telecast while Mutual Broadcasting Company will carry the game on radio. WHILE THE GAME does not have the reputation and prestige of some of the other bowls, the team and Carlen are satisfied with their selection. "The Hall of Fame is about the same level as the Peach and Tangerine Bowls," Carlen said at this post-game press conference. "It all goes back to money. You have to evalutate how much the bowl pays off if you are going to compare them." There are several reasons why the Gamecocks were at the top of the bowl's selection list. (JSC's won-loss record, an explosive offense, niinit Iho miint-tnr-liirrt rnchpr in fht? nation and 'A 0onH fan following IIUII1WV1 ... ? O - o were all factors which were taken into consideration, according to Fennell. 'The most significant factor in our decision to pick South Carolina is the support they have gotten from the people of Columbia and throughout South Carolina/' the bowl scout said. ''They deserve to enjoy the reward just as much as the team does." THE CONTEST will begin at 8 p.m. Central Standard Time. Although the Hall of Fame Bowl has yet to pick an opponent for USC, Louisiana State, Tennessee, Navy and Penn State have all been mentioned as possible challengers. (JSC Medical School accreditation stalled By Jean Ralston O?m?cock Staff Wrh*r A medical school accreditation committee visiting USC last week said certain recommendations in the South Carolina Commission for Higher Education Master Plan could seriously hurt the USC School of Medicine and its chances for accreditation. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education visiting the medical school Nov. 12-15 issued an interim report which said the Master Plan "contains recommendations which, if implemented, would have a deleterious impact upon the goals and objectives of the USC School of Medicine and also indicate a serious misperception of the process of medical education." The purpose of the Master Plan is to coordinate post-secondary education and to define the responsibilities of each state institute of higher education toward the overall strengthening of post secondary [ education in the state. USC PRESIDENT James B. Holderman will turn the interim report made by the committee of four out-of-state doctors over to the commission on Monday. The committee's full report will not be | completed before Dec. 6 when the Master Plan will be voted on but, "the committee felt so strongly that they gave me permission to use this recommendation from their full draft," Holderman told the board of trustees on Saturday. "The implications are very clear that if the recommendations of , the commission are adopted we would face very serious problems with the accreditation of our medical program," Holderman said. The visiting committee was most concerned about the recommendation in the Master Plan that the USC School of Medicine be limited to the training of family practice and primary care j physicians. The plan says the Medical University of South Carolina i * 4 - t J | Ull ^ n4.?4A C/VM ai unariesion snouia oe uh? majur tuait* icsumtc iui cuuv.?uuuai programs, research and public service in health-related areas." | use s SCHOOL OF MEDICINES was never designed to be a limited medical school, according to Holderman. When established in 1974 the school was supposed to be comprehensive. I In a report to the board at the Oct. 26 meeting, Holderman said he was not aware of any other medical school in the nation where a j programatic limitation is placed upon the training of physicians or I how primary care physicians could train in any other than a com ] prehensive medical school with a wide range of specialties. Holderman also expressed concern at the previous board meeting ] over the recommendation that the USC School of Medicine give 1 priority to the admission of students predisposed to serving in rural I and urban shortage areas. "This could cause many difficulties including the obvious possibility of discrimination," he said. ccept I IBiS^ i ||=rr -iffi5 mSeS^Hl:'' sv # v?^ i-y^1. ; - ^y '' >j| ^ l^P MjMPBp: - f ^ ;; y,' . j?h?^h? Hfc.vT- f HHH W air fW ffiil ipg - ' Wp*f^ "' ^ w mm M / [ - - f BV; - ivy~rrurn rJ^j.'?. .'"-T.I" I ' "'X ' ." . ( USC Ail-American c yardage in the Gameco ' their win over the Dea Bowl in Birmingham, A muuuii By Mark Platte Assistant News Editor An amended contract ratified b the USC Board of Trustees nmti n llmirC Vian/I oaiiu uajr, uun auuvvo ntau v-vav. Frank McGuire freedom of futur statements without affecting hi current $400,000 contract. The board was forced to ratify th< contracfafter the State Budget an< Control Board refused to conside the $400,000 agreement fo McGuire because the money in volves USC Athletic Departmen funds instead of state funds. The State Budget and Contro Board met Nov. 7, and the five momluir crrmtrt loH hv Hnu Flinl lllUltlUV-l O ft V? V/ f A-'IVI Riley cited the The General Ap propriations Bill of 1979 as thi basis for their non-involvement it the contract. MCGUIRE'S LAYWER, Rep i ? , rr?^i n n:?i.lr.n^l nt??. JCdll lUdi, U-nitilidilU, til Hi smu Rep. John Felder had the contrac revised with the deietion of tlx sixth item of the agreement, whicl states: "Both parties to thi: Agreement congratulate an< commend each other for thi mutual services rendered each and this Agreement resolves al disputes between the parties and i intended to forestall any futun statements or comments of an; nature which are derogatory to o critical of the other." The board held executive sessioi in a "contractual matters' segment of the meeting. The grou| deliberated for an hour during th session and when the meetinj reconvened, chairman R. Markle; Dennis told the board, "As you ar )owl gai MP1 w Br *2B iSMM 111 X4NL ftwMiiffflH^ flL; ; ' * and/date George Rogers (38) mu cks' 35-14 win over Wake Forest )Cons, USC gained a berth in the la. e contraci f r ihfcJ;. ' :?n * t/SC board of trustees p member William Brockington. n publically aware, the contract agreement entered into between the board and Mr. Frank McGuire ' was presented to the State Budget e and Control Board...and it was not t a proper matter of consideration B by it, and this resulted in an h amended contract to eliminate s provisions." 3 Dennis said with or without the e section on "appreciation," * McGuire would have to be 1 guaranteed freedom of speech. "I s didn't know of any enforcability or e question of enforcability of y anything that restricts limits of r freedom of speech." The courts would have to n . determine if what McGuire said UfmiM pnnEtitnttt a carinuc Kraonh TTWWKM VVfl IV7VI Vl?VV U OVI ?VMi> K/l VWVII P of contract, should the ape preciation cause be left in the g agreement, according to Dennis. y e "I DON'T SEE that it has any me bid rj^^HHHI^^HHBk IBSw H jfcS^Rjn it M:; fi | ^nnHp^n|g.. &i^;i:-.,-^4U>>-??. '. " . 'i;5- ?, I?a'vc Kobark-G AMKCOCK joiic70 #of ou/ntf axzra Saturday. By virtue of Dec. 29 Hall of Fame t revised serious impact, not as far as the university is concerned, uennis said. "I don't know what Mr. McGuire would say about it, but his attorneys wanted it out." Besides th? matter of Agreement, the paragraph dealing with the presentation of the con- tract to the State Budget and Control Board was also removed. In a related issue, the board passed a resolution on personnel to select the next head basketball coach. Paul S. Goldsmith, proposed, "Be it resolved that the president, the vice president of athletic affairs, and the athletic director are authorized to proceed forthwith with the recruiting and selection of a new basketball coach." USC President James B. Holderman said there would be no member of the Intercollegiate Activities Committee on the selection team for the new coach because he wanted to see personnel changes "taken out of the hands of the board, much the same way a dean is selected." WILLIAM S. BKOCKINGTOX, member of the board and the In tercollegiate Activities Committee. said, "What we've been trying to do for a long time is not have any input at all from the board in these matters. We don't select the deans, we don't select the professors, so why should we iiliAAPn ( II /kli ' ' tiun/au me uuaivuiuciii tuacii. Holderman, Bill Putnam vice president of Athletic Affairs and USC head football coach and Athletic Director Jim Carlen will direct the search.