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Volume LXX, No. 36 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Nov. 19, 1979
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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,
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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
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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.
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current $400,000 contract.
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contracfafter the State Budget an<
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the $400,000 agreement fo
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funds instead of state funds.
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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
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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
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Holderman, Bill Putnam vice
president of Athletic Affairs and
USC head football coach and
Athletic Director Jim Carlen will
direct the search.