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f >4? '"V. .. ' '/ ' /.' ' V-\ ' 1 " /; ' - ,Tha South Carolina Library >' I Campus Volume LXX, No. 56 University of South Carolina, Columbia S.C. Feb. 11,19E30 Clems* By Tammy Kilpatrick Gamecock Staff Writar The state university with the best developed academic program in a particular area should receive more state tunas tnan similar programs at other schools, Clemson President Bill Atchley said last Friday. Both USC and Clemson have engineering schools, for example, and Clemson's is a very strong part of the curriculum offered at the university, Atchley said. He said state schools should look at matters in a consolidated way. "That doesn't mean I advocate we do away with that (USC's) engineering program. I think we need to look and make sure we've got things in the right order and we're not duplicating a lot of things." The two should work together to improve higher education in South Carolina, without expanding programs in both schools until at least one has maintained a level of quality, he said. Atchley said, "We can't support everybody in the state because we don't have that many dollars." ATCHLEY SAID he is not advocating just one engineering school in the state, but expansion of other engineering schools should reconsidered "We don't ,have law here, for instance, so to have a law program here would be stupid when you have the strength down there.** The founding of a joint university press also would be in the best In f? State ap By Teresa K. Weavei Gamecock Staff Writar USC is challenging the jurisdicl Employee Grievance Committee decisions involving faculty member! University officials filed suit in Court last week asking for an o exempt faculty members from Division regulations and bar them dismissals to the state grievance pre Seven employees who have j decisions in the state system have defendants in the case, along with and Control Board and the ! Grievance Committee. mar/\ - ? I ? 1 f a* i *vu i\TiV r,i\ i upiuiuus iruin me stated that faculty members of colleges and universities are cte employees and have the right to. pr< to the State Employee Grievance ( to these decisions, USC, along 1 universities and colleges, had sol employment decisions. The suit states that placing tenur state disciplinary policies "woul< surdity not intended by the legislatu The suit also contends that mem Employee Grievance Committee j "professionally or educationally"t Concerning faculty tenure. USC history professor Michael Sr faculty member to appeal successf in the state system. Smith had be< USC as of Dec. 31,1979, but was ord? the State Employee Grievance Coir 1,1980. The committee ruled that Smith's had not been properly evaluated ficials. Smith did not receive the re the history department, the departr the dean of the college. The Unive Promotion Committee advised tha the president overrule the t? recommendations. Wants to avoid < on presic '.?^':j. pRRW* ^lf|. , Sy^m Sk - . C/emson Universit) interest o|. both universities, ) cording to Atchley. "I'm worki with Dr. Holderman (U; president), and we think it can quite healthy." Clemson does not have a press publish professors' books iculty grievance < tpeals ch THE PRO> , . ~ , cepted the c Lion of the State Faculty Grip' concerning job case and sug . ,, . _ provost and ti lt.v?iuuu wu'hji kept their ori| rder that would Smith was r State Personnel not schedule i from appealing because of th cedure. to Smith. He appealed tenure semester. > been named as ? ! requeste the state Budget Upon being 1 State Employee comply with teaching dutit John Sproa attorney general ^ state-supported q t .ssifjed as stete Smithsaid, as one of thee ^viauiaiww. A ? 1V? with other state victory in U e authority over because his v six other USC e decisions under the state syst< 3 create an ab- Smith said, re." not found in ibers of the State other cases a are not qualified prompted act o make decisions USC legal c suit was has nith was the first decision of th< ully his dismissal particular cai 5n terminated by "THE DE >red reinstated by mittee) mac imittee as of Jan.. university pc tradictory b job performance - statement bui by university of- Quinn said commendation of Committee it nent chairman or not met the c rsity Tenure and was denied t the provost and because the i mured faculty's months that h duplication amongst sfiisJTI' I If^ Site dbMHrifek Ilk I '"BS9P ^ I 0^ j BEll^l m 1 H&- " 1 ;ffiSK,- S, '-".^p > | ? SllMH Wk *' .^^^BySHHSBK^^^^BHSiilj / President Bill Atchley ac- professional articles, so the ing pooling of costs and maintenance SC with USC would be beneficial. "It be would be stupid for us to develop our own university press when we to could work together," Atchleyor said. 3ases /OST and the president, however, aciecision of the tenured faculty. The y/ance Committee ultimately heard the [gested that it be reconsidered by the le president. They reviewed the file, but >inal judgment. einstated this semester by USC but was id to teach any classes, primarily f problem of late scheduling, according ; said he is conducting research this d to my lawyer teaching responsibilities einstated, but the university did not that," Smith said. He said he will have as beginning in the summer semester, t, chairman of the history department, no idea what he (Smith) is doing now. If I'm told to give him classroom duties r, he'll have them." ni> fW?lc that thff cnit hu f IQP naminn him m?v >^Ma? VM^/ >iv?amiig ana*! lefendants was prompted directly by his le state grievance process, but only yas the first completed case. There are ! professors appealing their decisions to 3m. "If the State Grievance Committee had my favor, there would have still been oming up. Any one of those would have ion by the university." counsel Tim Quinn said the university's ed on the contradictory nature of the f? r^riouanno Prtmtniin Umilh'i! >e. CISION they (State Grievance Comle was totally inconsistent with all >licies. The verdict in itself was conecause it gave him (Smith) reint denied him tenure," Quinn said. the decision of the State Grievance 1 Smith's case implied that Smith had criteria of tenure at the universitv hut his rights to proper state procedure university did not advise him after six le would be terminated. See Faculty, page 4 ate schools bs coopei Thft firct trnor nrocirl/inf A UV/ 1IIOI Jfl.ni pi VOIUV^IU OC11V4 II It issue of faculty grievance, disputed between South Carolina schools and the state, is a matter of concern for both universities. Two recent opinions of the state attorney general ruled university faculty members are state employees, thereby falling under jurisdiction of the state grievance committee. Traditionally, faculty grievances have been settled by thpnnivorciHpv It would he stupi our own university p work together.' A major concern of universities is that state employees are given permanent employment after six months, while universities generally wait four to six years before granting tenure. LISC IS SUING seven professors who took their dismissal cases to the state grievance board, naming the state Budget and Control Board and the State Grievance Committee as co-defendants. Atchley said Clemson would not become involved in the suit but supported USC on the principle of grievance. "We certainly agree and support the idea that the faculty shouid come under grievance. It's a fair procedure that should remain fiSSaHk^^ ' " '.w * aHBk '?^-f?'-~t?^'.";" 1 mm Psm H "fj ' m lJ flr mSSm - " ,? v^;.'. mst^aam George Thorogood and th campus Thursday night. See i ation within the confines of the university," Atchley said. USC and Clemson operate under the same standards for grievance, in which peer evaluation is taken into account before taking the case to the president and possibly the board of trustees. "I don't feel that we're unfair to anybody, and I don't think there needs to be more and more regulations from the state put upon universities that can be done d for us to develop ress when we could BillAtchley within the educational community," he said. In another move, Clemson has proposed a program forming a state energy research and development center at Clemson involving the cooperation of all South Carolina colleges, Atchley said. "We'd be more apt to focus our attention on the problems in South Carolina." THE RESEARCH center would study means of alternative energy, food production and nuclear waste. The proposal has-been presented to the Commission on Higher Education, and Clemson awaits a decision by theS.C. Legislature. Holderman has made headlines See Atchley, page 4 Br^ 9 Destroyers rocked the ttory, page 7.