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The next issue of the The South Carolina Library gamecock will be Mon. Jan. 14. gj Campus fl 1980. Have a safe and happy Bra H ^ HH H -% ttg EH faa Volume LXX, No. A3 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Dec.10, 19*70 Effective fall 1980 Trust By Jean Ralston Gamecock Staff Writer A residence hall rate increase of 11 percent was approved by the USC Board of Trustees Friday and will take effect next fall semester. The increase raises the housing fee from a $225-$785 range to a $290$890 range. The increased Residential Life Services budget from $6,733,220 for 1979-80 to $6,961,802 for 1980-81 reflects inflationary increases in utilities, telephone, salaries and wages, fringe benefits and supplies and expenses. WILLIAM S. BROCKINGTON said in a survey of 10 comparable major universities in the Southeast, all were expecting housing rate increases for 1980-81. TVio I InitmroUtr of r\ ic av M. IIV UlilVWOlVJ VI VJUU1 51a 10 UA" pecting a 10-15 percent increase, Clemson University a 15-20 percent increase, while the University of Alabama is expecting a four to five percent increase. "It (housing rate increases) seems to be something we can't get away from," Brockington said. USC President James B., Holder man present an ^mended . draft of the Comriiissifcn on HigKfer** Education" Master Plan to the board. The amended draft clarified the CHE position on ,the primary care physician, program at the USC School of Medicine. % THE AMENDMENTS were made following objections by USC to the original draft of the plan which recommended that USC be limited to the training of primary care physicians. The commission clarified itself by stating, "the main emphasis, not the limitation, of the USC School of Medicine should be on primary care physicians." Holderman said the amended plan represented a "new dimension for the USC School of Medicine" and substantially reduced the qualifications on the medical school. Faculty. to disc i i grieva ees to ii THE PURPOSE of the Master Plan is to coordinate postsecondary education and to define the responsibilities of each state institute of higher education in the state. After the board issued a written objection to the seemingly restrictive implications of primary care physician training, the CHE more clearly defined the term "primary care" as a philosophical concept and not a diminution of medical education quality. "Primary care does not mean a restricted undergraduate medical education curriculum or faculty or less competence required in the curriculum," the amended plan said. HOLDERMAN HAD spoken out against the primary care recommendation in the Master Plan because he said he did not understand how primary care physicians could train in any other than a comprehensive medical school with a wide range of specialties. However, in their clarification oi th$ t^rm, tjie CUE said it un rtAPttf/Wtfl nritfldmr /?a rn if*' fhc graduate sense to include famil> practice, psychiatry, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology and some emergencj medicine. * "This is a great change from what was in the original plan," Hugh Wells, a board member, said. "I think this gives us the opportunity to proceed with our medical school without the serious limitations which were originally envisioned in their first draft." THE CHE REPORT stated new USC graduate medical education programs in any new areas shall n..K4^? k., mro uc ouujcvi w a^/i uvai uy me viu^. Holderman and the board expressed satisfaction with the provision that existing programs at the medical school in optometry, gerontology, surgery and radiology would not be affected by the CHE movement requiring approval for new programs. Senate :uss ince 111T?>G 1 11 m ncreas H1 v-vHBil|._ - B BSE S ' /', ? ^jflL ;.. ' ?a;^'^R^v^PPB George Curry (center) and U ? a a m i a Doara meeting f-rtaay. Before the CHE re-evaluation of their position on the primary care instruction program, Holderman ' and the board expressed concern i-e-sssst* r Master Plan may hurt the medical I school's chances for re, accreditation. A Liaison Comr mittee on Medical Education visiting the USC medical school for an accreditation study first brought the possible re- \ accreditation problem to the attention of the board. Dr. Roderick Macdonald, dean of the USC School of Medicine, said he sees no problem with the reaccreditation of the medical school. He said he was pleased that the amended plan cleared up any statements which could have had an adverse impact on the medical school. The medical school was first accredited in 1976. THE BOARD VOTED to meet with the board of trustees of the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston as soon as possible following a recom By Tmwtn Weaver OwnMocti Staff Writer The Faculty Senate will meet again Wednesday to attempt the adoption of an internal grievance procedure that exempts faculty members from state personnel regulations. The proposed grievance procedure presented by the Faculty Advisory Committee was sent back to the committee for revision at the Nov. 21 Faculty Senate meeting, and there was a motion to adjourn before discussion of the proposal at the Dec. 5 meeting. The internal grievance H Drocedure was adonted bv the general faculty at a meeting last Wednesday. The USC Board of Trustees requested the school administration to "take necessary steps'^ to keep the tenure and promotion system for faculty at a meeting last Friday. USC PRESIDENT James B. Holderman is scheduled to appear * dorm ttjjKAk^ rSC Board of Trustees Chairmai ^w, ^J .. 4: L.. it nun x? A T tn A1 meuuciuuii uy ine ^ritLi inai uav and MUSC coordinate planning for health and medical education. The CHE also recommendef the two medical schpols meet before Sept. 1, 1960, to prepare budget and staffing forecasts for the next 10 years. ; "MUSC and USC medical schools have arrived at a unique opportunity and mission to jointly do what we can to improve the medical and mental health of the people in South Carolina/' Wells said. "The time has come that we sit down with them to try to im prove our relationship." The CHE also agreed to include engineering and computer science as two areas which should be developed at USC as major academic programs in the future, Holderman told the board. In the original draft the two programs were completely omitted from reference. Holderman had expressed concern over the omission on previous occasions because he felt the two programs were im. portant to USC and the state. before the State Budget and Control Board Tuesday to ask that IQVIUbJ I11VU9UVIO W ^AUiU^t^U from the state personnel system, which makes regulations concerning the hiring and firing off most state employees. The faculty, which is responsible for making initial evaluations for tenure, called a meeting last week and asked university officials to take immediate action to retain the internal grievance procedure. The call for a meeting came after a faculty member went outside the university system to the State Employee Grievance Committee with an appeal of a tenure decision. Michael Smith, of the history department, was dented tenure and promotion last year and given a year's notice. After having first appealed at the university level, he took his case to the State Employee Grievance Committee. THE STATE GRIEVANCE Committee, which acts under the v rates jBL sE v JHHHKinB | J| ^j||f| ' T J ' y ^Hfe' lKHK:!; \| "'t - ^"'^??!l 'j jv ** viSnu it** Kussell K. Pace-<iAMEC(K'K 7 Markley Dennis {right) at the che also clarified its position on the College of General Studies stating it was not interested in the abolition of the two ..year programs in the college. Holderman said the CHE is conducting a study looking at occupational and college parallel programs in two-year colleges across the state. "We can find no real objection to this," he said. The CHE still has not built into the plan any recognition of USC as a multi-campus system. Holderman had requested the CHE to recognize the coordination and complement among the nine USC campuses. The CHE also approved last week a 15,500-seat addition to Williams-Brice Stadium and the enclosure of an intramural field at USC in an all weather bubble-like shell with limited opposition. The CHE expressed some concern that women's athletics might suffer discrimination once the bubble is built: However, Holderman assured the board the bubble would opportune the expansion of women's athletics. authority of the budget and control hoard, has the ultimate power to reverse the university's order to .1 A _ ? tAft. ? terminate axniui. Smith received a favorable vote in the tenor* and promotion committee of the university, but was denied tenure by Holderman. The university grievance committee reviewed the case and decided in Smith's favor. The grievance committee said there had been improper considerations injected into the proceedings by the higher administration, and they recommended that those administrators reconsider their actions, according to Smith. Provost Frank Borkowski, acting for Holderman refused to change his mind, Smith said. JeV ^ * ' JL ^ -%s Two state attorney general opinions In the past two years have stated that university faculty personnel matters should be handled by the budget and control board's personnel division. * - _ Ait' \ 'l?i^