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The South Carolina Library g Campus Mail Wednesday Volume LXX.No. 91 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. August 13, 19BO r IUI v. By Stephen Riddell EdKor Irt-Chlaf USC will receive over $127 million from the state next year if it is fully funded by the Commission on Higher Education. USC President James B. Holder man told the Board of Trustees that the administration is prepared to "live with full formula fundine" at the board's meeting Tuesday. The formula requires that the Columbia campus be funded over $93 million which is a 32.5 percent increase over the $68 million level at which it was funded this year. Holderman was quick to point out that USC did not request this money. "These figures are dictated by the formula," he said. "We don't come up with them, they use Dw AU...J uy vvauoi nmuau Staff Wrltw USC has grounded its Piper Navajo twin-engine airplane at the request of the S.C. Aeronautics Commission while an investigation is made of performance and possible deficiencies of that model of aircraft. The airplane, purchased in Jan. I. |\ % - s < * 4 ,< ;;.i:Ci ; :: . ^v. >VM--.; 1<:R USC's Piper Navajo twin-en Aeronautics Commission. (P Today at use #4 cfn : bud > 1 aroi are generated by the formula." j i THE CHE HAS developed a < formula that takes into account the < types and numbers of degrees i offered at a university to use as a | guide to fund the institutions in the state. This year USC was only funded : at 90 percent of what the CHE ] formula called for. "We got about i $10 million less than the formula ; required this year," Holderman ? said. "The 10 percent deficit is a substantial one. As a university, it ic HifftniH frtr tic tr\ nlnn withnut a *" IV. uu vv ,,?v..v,?v U committment to full formula funding. Holderman said USC has not requested any money for enrollment growth. "We are only asking for what the formula grour 1979 for $296,400 bv the Com mission for primary use by the university, has been grounded since July 18. University spokesman Chip Gray said USC plans to use other state aircraft and some commercial flights to meet the transportation needs of university officials. USC Systems Vice-President for Ipt :# *>r 'dm**' ' 1 lyfiio anfsujg?<J imo Muoji uunuat fro to 6y John Parnell) On the in Prime minister and speak at summer com men< "Chic" disco lacks fla USC baseball recruit i 7. idies _ i get ina *equires," he said. "We hope that n the fall we will receive adiitional funding if we have an enrollment increase. This is the n? rm i t Ji i i* a way LttL nas nancuea enrollment growth the past two years." use HAS PROPOSED adding 204 new positions next year. Holderman said about 130 or 140 of these positions would be for faculty and that the remainder would be staff positions. "We didn't ask for funding for any new positions last year," Holderman said. "The 204 positions represent only a 4.6 percent increase over two years. This figure is remarkably low considering the growth in l>iu&iauia ctiiu 3ci vitcs m una un iversity." In other action, the board voted ids Pi Business and Finance Bernarc Daetwyler said the state Aeronautics Commission charges the university it's "regular going rate" for use of other state air nlonoQ whirh nrp 0<>nprnl1\i MS ^ M M M J available to USC. But, he said, USC has no priority for use of the planes. THE UNIVERSITY vice 1 after a request by the S. C. ?ir/p university chancellor will cement. See page 2. ir. See page 6. is happy to be alive. See page $ iH i jR 13 ?1 (/SC President James B. Holdei Trustees Tuesday. (Photo by Joi to establish a Center for Child and ] Family Studies. The program would not be a degree-granting unit. It will be an administrative unit within a college. The Center will also provide research support to legislative committees and state agencies who are working to J_ j :-i 1:-: ? ueveiup social policies un uie iieeus of children and families. The board also voted to shorten the probationary period for associate professors and per ai 1 president, who was a member of ; the committee who recommended ? the purchase of the Piper Navajo I Chieftain from Hawthorne Aviation of Charleston, said USC U 4^ iias iiu piuiu> lu puiunttbe anuiuei , aircraft. Daetwyler could not give ; ' any estimate on possible additional costs of using alternative aircraft, but did say the university has experienced no difficulties with the Navajo since its purchase. Bill Goodwin, a spokesman for the Aeronautics Commission, said the twin-engine Piper planes have been under investigation by the National Transportation Safety 1 Board after some of the Piper models were involved in crashes. On July 10, Goodwin said, six I people were aboard a Piper Navajo being leased to Westvaco Corp. by Hawthorne Aviation. The plane left Charleston Airport for Iai f ttrv ?\ 1 1 t \ f IVJI clII?CUUI g, UUl YVIICIl U1C puui noticed mechanical problems and attempted to make it back to Charleston, the aircraft crashed before getting back to the airport. Only the pilot was killed. GOODWIN ALSO SAID a Piper Navajo crashed near Greenville Nov. 2, 1979 and five of six people on board died. He said the suspected problems in each case Weather TODAY: Partly cloud Chance of afternoon and e percent. THURSDAY: Temperati Lows in the 70s. FRIDAY-SUNDAY: Mm weather continues. Little ci 1G? I w S . at |. J# 13?l < W?' yWiWw?, %'' '; j^' " '^i Wm^'. ;r.:;---;.Bt : ; *| ';, 3 ?& : r.vp ;|ff ? il?P JgS^H|^ ,?<f .m*?&,' JB^nHUr i W m& II rman addresses the Board of hn ParneU) professors from six years to two years. Holderman said this measure will allow the administration to get rid of professors who do not perform satisfactorily. "We don't want to IrPon iv\nr nrnfpccnrc nrnnnH fnp civ |/ wvy* r VUMVt U MA \f M* ?V4 A V/? UI/1 years," he said. "We would like to be able to .terminate faculty as soon as we determine they are not suitable for USC. This will allow us to make tenure decisions earlier." sea Board, page 2 rcraft are referred to in the aviation business as "soft failures"malfunctions "where the pilot is deluded into thinking he can make it back to the airport." Goodwin did not say what the investigators think are the possible performance deficiencies with the planes. John Allen, executive vicepresident of Hawthorne Aviation, said his firm has not been contacted by the state commission on any investigation of the Piper Navajos, adding that the planes involved in the Greenville and Charleston crashes were "not anywhere near resembling the same airplanes" that USC and Clemson University have grounded. ALLEN SAII) THE aircraft are different in design, some models having pressurized fuselages' while others don't and different engines are sued mi different types of Navajo Pipers. The Hawthorne executive said he disagrees with the method of investigation in such aviation cases, noting that as a taxpayer he feels the Aeronautics Commission is putting additional hardships on the public when there are no hard facts to support the move to ground the Pipers. y with hot temperatures, vening thundershowers is 20 ures in the mid- to upper-90s. ch of the same. Hot, muggy hance of precipitation.