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By Jearinie Ralston
Gamacock Staff Writer
Statistics from the past three
years show that USC has a higher
quality of entering freshmen, is
one of the largest recipients of
research grants in the nation and
has had a dramatic increase in
faculty salaries.
The average Scholastic Aptitude
Test score for entering freshmen in
the fall of 1979 was 928 at USC
compared to the average score for
all South Carolina students of 800.
USC has also had a large increase
in the number of applications for
freshman admission in the threeyear
period.
JOHN BOLIN, director of admissions,
said USC has been able
to attract brighter students and
more applicants because the
university has "a whole new
Thomas
By Tammy Kilpatrick
Qamccock Staff Writer
The Movietonews Library
donated to USC, including 60
percent of out-takes with no
duplicates, will be temporarily
housed in the Thomas Cooper
Library until the Carolina Fine
Arts Center is completed.
Installation in Thomas Cooper
will allow students and faculty to
begin research on the newsfilms
within the year, according to
James Jackson, a consultant to
USC and president of Educational
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rroaucuons, inc. jacKson was
instrumental in Twentieth-Century
Fox's decision to domate the films
to USC.
JACKSON SAID the first shipment
of films may arrive as early
as July, with one million feet of
film delivered by the beginning of
1981 and four million more by the
end of 1981. The donation includes
100 million feet of film, equal to
20,000 miles of footage.
"We're very fortunate the
library does have temporary
space," Jackson said. "There's
alreadv a security svstem. the
stacks are there and the personnel
is there to make sure it will be
secure." The film will be housed
on level one of the library.
THE FILM, made on highly
inflammable nitrate-based stock,
is undergoing transfers to safety
film in New York at the expense of
Twentieth-Century Fox.
The Carolina Fine Arts Center
proposed by USC should be open
within three years, Jackson said,
and the films will be more
available to the general public at
that time. Plans include running
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Dignitary visit
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image" and has gained national,
recognition.
Bolin said USC's reputation has
been helped by the visits of many
international dignitaries, campus
expansion and renovation, the
strong reputations of individual
schools such as business and
journalism and by the success of
the Honor's College.
"BUT MORE than anything else,
we are getting more and better
students because of the people here
that are happy and are telling
people how good the university is,"
Bolinsaid.
A lot of bright students are
finding that a good state university
close to home is the place to go,
Bolin said. Small private schools
are not as popular because they
cannot keep up with the
technological developments a
Cooper t(
reels continousuiy through the day I
for people to watch and renting the ]
films to college unions interested ]
in showing them before motion I
pictures. I
JACKSON SAID the film library
will provide research aid for
students and faculty who wish to
produce still pictures from the
strips or reproduce the film. "We
are committeed to making it
accessible to the students and the
public," he said.
When the film is received from
New York, library employees will
begin re-cataloguing the material
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Research director A. Riley r(
Macon said the large amount of e<
grants was unusual for a school tr
without a major medical school or
a land grant agricultural school. b
In 1979, USC placed in the top 100 a
institutions in receipts of outside tl
grants and contracts for research, b
with a total of $17.8 million. n
Macon said USC was able to r
acquire money because the faculty c
has become more aggressive and fi
concerned about receiving grants. t1
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MACON SAID the $17.8 million p
supported about 1,000 projects and p
that 3,000 additional projects were i
funded by internal or depart- s
empoiary
for students' use. "The Cooper is th
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The Movietonews films cover ta
world events between 1919 and 1963 pt
and most of the clips have not been cr
seen for 40 or 50 years. Jackson bi
said the films include more than 50 a<
hours of footage on Franklin D.
Roosevelt alone. tc
"All of it has some historical e;
value, and as fast as we can con- y<
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he said. si
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Grants are not exclusively for
jsearch projects; many fund
jucational, public service and
aining projects, he said.
Three of the major projects
eing conducted through grants
re: a geology research project of
le minerals in Egypt, which has
rought international acclaim, a
uclear magnetic regulatory
esearch center that interprets the
hemical structures of materials
or other schools and businesses in
he Southeast ; and a public service
iroject that helps disadvantaged
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IN FISCAL 1978-79, faculty y
alaries at USC increased 13
>ercent and increased another 8 r
ercent in fiscal 1979-80. These d
ncreases were above the national c
tverage of 6 percent for the two- p
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have never been seen by the C
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asier access to them. "It will take
ears before all of the library is r
inverted to video-tape," Jackson t
lid. He said the film must be (
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Caroline Denham, institutional
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inverting.
AN EMPLOYEE of Twentiethentury
Fox for five years,
ackson said a number of overires
were made by institutions
irougnout me nanon concerning
he donation of the film, but USC
nade strong efforts to convince the
orporation they wanted the films.
'At the time the decision was
nade to make the donation, the
iniversity was in their (Twentiethcentury
Fox) terms, the frontunner,"
he said.
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