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, South Carolina's Beat Coilm Newapgptr Volume LXX, No. 49 University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C Jan. 2fc>, < Iffir ^BBP^ ---l-TWff V " yC^ (I [ B :$;^H I JH Residents of (JSC's Bat Iranians' seizure of the i Several Iranian students Oi been discriminated agains For desegreg< Commit! plan gui< By Donald B. V Assistant Noi | The Commission on Higher steering committee approve developing a desegregation state-funded colleges and univ Dr. James E. Bostic Jr., presented a "planning prosp contents and procedures for plan. The 23 committee memb< making progress toward com desegregation plan with t Education. IN A JAN. 7 report, the De] the nine state-funded South C 1964 Civil Rights Act in five an I Racial identifiability i Predominantly white schools schools are in violation beca tifiable. Injustices in resource alloc; S C. State College operates lower faculty salaries than tra ? Duplication of career-orient State College, USC and Clem S.C. State unique only by racic Racial identifiability of g( members on seven governing black. Four of those blacksi Trustees. Racial identifiability of f; Concentrations of black and present at predominantly bla< institutions. Thu ItVJi i/?;i t i/\n fion^irtmorit A I IV LivlUVII HV/II L/V|7(U II1IV III to submit a state-wide deseg federal funding for the institu! A technical committee is mittee in directing the develc the five civil rights act viola tii HS >r4w, * 111 -"..fV. i i ^.i, Vv~v~ - . ,- . y ' * BBinaHnHnH os House protested the iostages in November. 1 n campus say they have t. (File photo) ition tee OKs delines Voathorboo ! ?vs Editor Education's "blue-ribbon" d guidelines Monday for plan for South Carolina's ersities. committee vice chairman, ectus" which proposes the a state-wide desegregation jrs adopted the proposal, pleting an acceptable state he U.S. Department of partment of Education said arolina schools violated the eas. in student enrollment. ? and predominantly black use they are racially idenations to S.C. State College, with limited curricula and ditionally white schools. ed programs offered by S.C. son. The duplication makes il identity. >verning boards. Out of 84 boards, seven members are ire on the S.C. State Board of acuity and administration, white faculty members are i'k and predominantly white gave South Carolina 60 days legation plan or face losing Lions. assisting the steering coni>pment of the plan to correct Irani* from By Teresa K News Ei Freedom for the American h< mportant liberty for more thai vho have been leading cautious lays a USC student from Tehran * 4rPV*n f/\/\lr o/\ Irvnrf '' f V me ui ucai ia/vjiy ou ii/iig) u jrocess will probably take four ;ime." The student asked that his nan >e identified as a student who tl clings ' * SINCE HE came to USC mor said he has experienced some i from students and administrate problem to a simple "lack of unc living in the United States and A "The feelings I've gotten froi 'Taking the ho stag that is almost everybt everybody is happy it' -A ( into two parts ? in school an "During ordinary days I never once or twice because of the prej ((Oi i t i ? at oiunes 1 reau in me papei people feel the way they do. formation," he said. He said most of the hostility h< environment, although the press "I'VE NEVER been directly "It's just a lot of little things against me. I think many other with that feeling." The student said he wasn't sui affected his grades, but oth< countered some grading discre] personal feelings about the Irani in matn courses ana tmngs professors to be unfair. In mor completely neutralize professor said. Prejudice against Iranians b actions can be blamed almost < the American media, the studen Rogers ... - \ KSBKv^fl I gSW; \\ HeismanTrophv win James Ho/derman arm held before a joint set No wmanj m stu< cautic . Weaver dhor >stages in Iran may mean an n 35 Iranian students at USC 5 lives since the crisis began, le student said. "The erasing times longer. It will just take le not be used and that he only lought he should "share some e than a year ago, the student increasingly negative feelings ;>rs. He attributed most of the t : .. ici autiiuuig uciwccii imniciiia mericans. n Americans I can categorize es was wrong, and idy's beiief. Almost s over.' JSC Iranian student d in my daily life," he said, felt any hostility, or at most >sure the media created. :s made me understand why It's just a lack of true ini has felt has been in the school lure has been subtle. on the spot," the student said, chained together that worked Iranian students could identify *e that professor prejudice had ?r Iranian students had enpancies because of professors' ian crisis. like that, it's pretty hard for e objective courses, you can't s from all that they hear," he ecause of their government's jntirely on unfair coverage by tsaid. lauds G HP'4 m i hH B9 : ; v JK : 3 B. hI&^I K H^l j.; \ :^: : : :1 - ?? y'.;.' -m8-: ::.:: :::::'^ :ajHH^HBHWSBSSMS?? S _Bj?. S?: flfiWEBfiRilli |w| i| K||^B | @ BBSbpIbm - BBI M m | nfir dan ran Rnnf*r<c *ttf?nH<: h. "v' ~ ' Gov Dick Riley at a cerei tsion of the Legislature yes dents 1 >us life 7 don't think any Irania the Shah's regime. / c ever live without the friends that were \ government and never -A L BECAUSE of what he sees as t student said most Iranian stud granting interviews or giving ar the 444-day siege in Tehran, A reports were usually unreliable formation he thoueht he could b< what he read and heard, he said. "I took the sum of the reports a "In a case like that it's hard to f but be conscious that one side is m The hostages' release createc Iranian students all over the state is finally over, the student said. "Taking the hostages was v everybody's belief. Almost every said. ALTHOUGH he thinks accoun hostages are "exaggerated," tf practice. "If the torture existed, it shouh the Iranian government," he said Thf? studpnt's nnlitiral lpanino leans toward supporting Ayatc understands the Americans' di accepting that position. Memories of Shah Mohammac vivid to the Iranian student, an capable of understanding these n "I DON'T think any Iranian regime. I don't think I could eve of my friends that were taken in seen again. Later their names 1 execution list," he said. "The i people were taken in and never s< Both American and Iranian sti "betterness rather than bitterne beginning with attitudes on this c "People tend to forget a lot of 1 saying we should remember eve let anything like that happen aga General ? BBS c h p B *, 1 1 W tr ^ Hi ai 1 WmjSm tl 1 a< I st Hi < ? I s* ^m^m^m p , between (JSC President n* nony honoring Rogers terday. (Photo by Kim !li i\ Freed :style MM * \n couia ever forget fon't think / could nightmares of my taken in by the seen again.' JSC Iranian student he "power of the press," the lents are not interested in ly opinions publicly. During merican and Iranian press he said. Most of the inelieve was a combination of inri Kir tttrA ' ' niv* uiviucu uy iwu, uc r>cuu. ind the truth. You can't help ore right than the other." I a feeling of relief among , and most are glad the crisis vrong, and that is almost rbody is happy it's over," he ts of torture inflicted on the le student is critical of the 1 not have, it was not done by I. is are unsure, but he said he )llah Khomeini. He said he fficulty in understanding or I Reza Pahlavi's rule are still id he said Americans are inlemories. could ever forget the Shah's r live without the nightmares by the government and never would show up on the Shah's nost talented and promising ?en again." idents should start promoting ss" among the two countries, ampus, the student said. harshness," he said. "I'm not srything, but we should never in." Studies From Staff Reports Heisman Trophy winner eorge Rogers expressed is opinion on the imortance of USC's General tudies program yesterday ) the South Carolina eneral Assembly in a acked House chamber. "I want to thank the ;gislature for their up oming vote on thtvGeneral tudies program," Rogers jld laughing and ap lauding lawmakers, who ad recessed for ;i fou linutes to honor him. If it wasn't for General tudies, there would be no leorge Rogers and no ieisman either," the USC lilback said. Rogers is enrolled in the ollege of General Studies, hich offers vocational aining arid other curricula id allows students to enter le university under lower imission standards. The ate commission on hii?h*?r iucation has recommended uitting down two of the 'ograms and has asked the eneral Assembly to review le rest. "Since 1 was a young bo\. 1 ive had an ambition to be le recipient of the Heisman rophy," Rogers said