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irnttmr Volume LXX, No. 76 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 11, 1980 Two-s By Teresa K. Weaver Gamecock Staff Writer Students will be suspended from USC beginning in fall 1980 if they accumulate too many "gradedeficiency points", based on any grade-point average below 2.0. Under the measure presented by the scholastic standards and petitions committee of the faculty senate, every point that a student earns under a 2.0 GPK will count as point toward their GPD, the grade point deficit. The new system will call for a two-semester : ..r ..j.. .1,? t n suspension in any aiuucin wnu u GPD greater than 24. The figure can be calculated by subtracting the number of grade points earned from twice the number of grade points attempted. When the system begins in fall 1980, all continuing students and freshmen will be assigned a GP1) of zero. Throo linoc nnnf :?ininu tJriiHo 4 II I1,iVW VW,.VM"....p, D" deficits, a warning, and advice to check with the dean will be added to the student grade report this fall. The faculty advisory committee proposed that the powers of the university committee on scholastic standards and petitions be extended so that the committee would serve as an appeals body for all of the individual colleges' scholastic standards committees. *II i ? _j ,1 l ms issue win oe consiuereu agair) at the last meeting of the faculty senate on May 2. Also, the scholastic standards and petitions committee recomI Hostag to sue By Teres GHir.ncof A West Columbia woman wh neiti ai me u.?>. canuussy m ii?j billion lawsuit against the Ira administration announced Mom j diplomatic relations with the cot | Angela Belk will file suit in Iranian government with "false! and kidnapping her husband." < said. Barroll, who will represent Bt j U.S. government to legally clain American banks. HELK'S HUSBAND, William was one of 50 Americans taken 1 * 5,1979. Barroll said there are enoug against Iran. There have been prepared under which claims co The Belk case is unique amon has been in contact with a Califi of a man that was killed by the hostages were taken. Barroll was unsure what fede filed in, but said she lias been < time. Cases similar to Belk's wer German assets were seized, an when Cuban assets were taken cases was that they were rel, American losses. TIIK C'AltTKH AOMINIS' government has about $8 millic unknown amount of real estate? Barroll is naming the U.S. At iii.... II ;? 1? U auinoruit'S HI me sun n? iictvt.- hi escrow. An escrow account is \ are met by the owners of the ass Carter put a freeze on ail In taken in November, but the len; purpose of Barroll's suit is to ei the Iranians. Grade-deficie i ;m ester s mended that changes be made ii the nursing school's policies o ..ii : ~ ? ????? tillUW 111 DLUUCIUft LU 1 courses. Under the measure, nursing course in the bac calaureate program can b repeated only once to get th required grade of "C" or above, t student can repeat a total of onl four nursing courses. In th associate degree program, student can repeat a total of t\v nursing courses. These change will also go into effect in fall 1980. In other business, USC Provo* Francis T. Borkowski addresse thn foniiH\f coMoto ohnnf thn 1 OttHJ OV.U.VJ .^naiv V university budget that is before th state legislature. Borkowski reported at the las meeting that the legislature ha only approved about a $200,OC increase over last year's budge and he said Wednesday that th situation hasn't changed since th; time. "Right now the outlook decidedly not bright, and it seen to be getting gloomier as we ai proach the end of the year, Borkowski said. Several major decisions coi ccrning possible budget cu should be made by the a< ministration within the next fe weeks, Borkowski said, includir the possibility of an increase tuition for the upcoming fall < spring semester. He also said th, decisions involving next year personnel policies will have to 1 made soon in order to be prepare for a limited budget. [e's wife Iranians ,a K. Weaver -k Staff Writer ose husband is one of the hostages m has decided to proceed with a $1 nian government after the Carter clay the United States would break intry until the hostages are released federal court today charging the ly arresting, wrongfully imprisoning Columbia attorney J. Leeds Barroll *lk, said the suit will try to force the a Iranian assets deposited in various , a U.S. State Department worker, lostage by militant Iranians on Nov. h laws on the books to base a suit announcements of legislation being uld be filed, he said. ig the hostages' families, but Barroll jrnia lawyer representing the famil> Iranian students a month before the ral court district Iielk's case will Ix considering filing the suit for a lonp e filed during World War 11 wher d there was one incident in the 1960i , Barroll said The difference in tin cited to financial claims to replacc I'll ATI ON estimates the Iraniar )ii in cash in American banks and ar and money in secret bank accounts. (Irw/ftrnmant 'irisl trori/vi il< v-i i ii i iv, 111 cuiu v ? iwuo uuimuij e Iranian assets placed in permanen leld by a third party until condition: ;ets. inian assets after the hostages wen gth of escrow is at his discretion. Th< nsure the money is never returned t< ricy points effectiv uspensio t _ * n flk 4l^1 s .' " I|||jHP Ilj^^ tits jjj The faculty senate pa: 5, meeting,.. , , , Lit 's The administration i )o "somewhat reluctant to move o ?d any belt-tightening measures unt tifa ?t f i??rwi Im i/ld/it I ^/?n 'I I hi n W L I 1C4 VV cl 111 111 UUU^i:i . I7WU V llllll Sadat j By Susan Hand Gamecock Staff Wruei Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat, president of the Arab Republic <>l Egypt, will not come to USC tc | receive an honorary degree dtirinp his current trip to the Unitec States, USC President .James B Holderman told the board ol trustees yesterday. Sadat and his wife had madt tentative plans to accept degrees ? from USC, but in a letter tc Holderman Sadat said his visit t( ! the university had to be cancelec because his American visit wouk ! be confined to Washington, D.C. i Holderman met with the SadaU ; and President Carter Wednesday nnH c?iH tho Rovntian m*f>ciHr?n may return to the United States I within three or four weeks. Sada , plans to view the "Carolina Alive' singing group in Egypt nex month. , A MOTION WAS passed by th< board to permit the establishmen j of a coeducational Army ROT( unit at USC'. The unit may b< formed in the fall of 1DH0 with thi U S Army responsible for th< costs of staff and USC providing i space for the project. j Associate Provost Stephen H j Acker ma 11 said the KOTC uni must be annroved bv the Soutl , Carolina Commission on Highe t Education before it can bi 5 established at USC. The HOTC program is ; q "cooperative effort" between th< p Army and USC, Ackerman said j and the faculty and technica equipment for the project will b efall 1980 n policy adc ' ?S' :**: .4'. . : : . ......^(v,. V v. w,.*>>%.'it;:' '1 11?. rk Sm s _ ' ? ssed new criteria for academic suspei s that we've given up. because it's millioi n not all over. But I'd be less than our on i! honest if 1 didn't give you my views mome k that unless we get at least $:* or $4 must i visit postpc t * o^rat 5 USC President James B. C()St is t Holderman years. salary t provided by the Army while cquipi equipment, supplies and clerical Ack workers will be provided by the KOTC ? university. studer t The new Army program will be Army "similar" to the programs lull Ik ? established at USC by the US Ul" v ? Navy and Air Force, but it will be simila - different "in the way the Army, ^ olle^ i, Navy and Air Force differ." Till /VI ISAM 111<I 11 NcllU III" rutin Mill t Jlii> presei never been an Army HOTC unit at and II t USC1 before. has ;i 1 Twenl r STl'DKNTS i:\ROLI.KI) in millio i* Army KOTC will not receive a newst degree for their involvement and HoI< s the program will be taken in corp e conjunction with another major, Movie I, Ackerman said "It's basically for is l>ec 1 people who want a military career house p or for those who just have an in- Arts ( ( , .' : -' ; ....'- -.; : ;. _ . Barry Newman - GAMECOCK is ion at yesterday's 11 more, we can't keep up with igoing commitments and the ntwm we feel (lie university naintain," Borkowski said. med in the military." he said, establishment of an Army program has been discussed krmy officials and the sity for more than two Ackerman said There was atorium. or temporary halt, ahlishing new programs at sities until the Master Plan Kfllitl' llVllll>')tillll tl"IC 'lt\. I W,l IV I U\UIV(IU\KI ?? tio Ll\ \, he said. Master Plan lias been ively approved in the SC. of Representatives but the program cannot be initiated final approval is granted, man said. program will cost I JSC ) in the first year of lion, Ackerman said, but the expected to decline in future The $18,(XH) includes the . r 1 i i i ior one cicncai worKer ana rient needed tor the unit. erman said he expects the unit to grow as the I'SC it body increases. Until the KOTC program becomes a dged unit, the I'SC chapter tork in conjunction with a r program at Presbyterian ,e in Clinton. SC. Kit K WAS a 25-minute utation of Movietonews film olderman said the university ilready received film from lieth Century-Fox's multin dollar donation of th<> ilm library. derman said one reason the o rati o n p r e s o n t e d ^ie 'tonews Film Library to USC ause the university plans to the film in the new Carolina Center.