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9 ? ? 1-4 Z 4 V/l 1L. Illipurt LOllL LVJ 3LULC 9L11UU19 The move to eliminate the state Commission on Higher Education is out of line. The commission serves a necessary and proper function in this state's higher education system. Hep. Ernest Nunnery, D-Chester, claims the board is 4'superfluous" and said he will introduce a bill in the S.C. House of Representatives this week calling for the immediate elimination of the commission. Nunnery said he is adamantly opposed to recent actions by the board. Nunnery is being childish. Just because he isn't happy with the recent actions of the commission, he wants to eliminate it. If every board and commission in the state has to start worrying about making controversial decisions for fear that ? ufiii hn oKniichoH thic ?fatp will staffnatp and t?o nowhere. If f? III W V1HU v/v??v<w ww mmm ? 0 _ Nunnery has really questioned the commission's role and function for a long time, as he says he has, then he would have proposed eliminating the commission before now. The commission was set up in 1967 to oversee all statesupported higher education institutions in South Carolina and its members are doing the job the way they see fit. The commission's decisions are not final. The institutions affected by its rulings have an appeal route through the( n ?crit? 1 nfurn JUV^IvJtll VUl v. Nunnery argues that the individual institutions are better equipped to handle their own coordination of programs and that they are also more capable of presenting their budget and financial problems to the Legislature. Now the commission presents each institution's budget to the House Ways and Means Committee. USC and Clemson may have the power and influence in the Legislature to flourish without the commission, but the rest of the state-supported colleges and universities don't. If the commission is abolished these smaller schools will lose most of their clout in the Legislature. USC and Clemson will gel virtually anything they want because they have power anc influence. Schools like South Carolina State College anc Winthrop College will only have what's left after USC anc Clemson have taken what they want. 1 ~ * Tf1^ U/xM/xfU IT AAmmiooiAn ic avoH A T\C Clearly, UoV> uuuiu ucucin 11 UIC tuinnuooiuu 10 MAVU. Hydrolic power is better source 4* . ? tor cars than gas To the Editor: The recent decontrol of gasoline has delighted the oi companies and taken another bite out of our wallets Already the price of gasoline has jumped. At the rate thing: are going gas is headed for the $2 mark. I think it i: amazing that a few years ago everyone was talking about i shortage and now they tell us that there is a surplus of gas Between the oil companies and the Arabs they have got u over a barrel. There could be hope around the corner. I recently heari of the use of hydrogen to power cars. I had always knowi that there were projects to harness the hydrogen atom fo power plants, but never of using hydrogen to run a car. Th commercial said that hydrogen would burn clean, whic 1 1 I Al__ ? 4 " 1 i U r? ? r?M/l tiiAlll/4 Kn 1 W0U1Q msKtJ ine I'liviruniiiciutiuaiA anu wuuiu uv plentyful supply. It is safer than gasoline because of th process in which it is put into cannisters. The process c how the engine runs and the process of how it is made wer briefly shown, but I cannot recall how it was done. I hop they can make this hydrogen fuel cheaper than gas. Mayb in a few years the technology to use this new fuel and t adapt it to our cars will be here soon. Hopefully when w begin to use this hydrogen power in our cars, we will be abl '' ? onniinfl in\tm ufithmit u/nrpvino nhnnt wasting pi IU ui ivc aiuuuu iwvtii *t iiuuuv jt..D ? pensive gasoline. I Joseph Myei Freshman, Kducatk 9a mecock Founded 1 908 Newsroom: 777 7181 Advertising. 7/7 424! Business Office 777 3888 Production: 777 2832 Stephen Riddell Fditor Jill Hancock Copy Desk Chief Leesa Bainbridge . Editorial Page Ed Teresa Weaver News Editor Cylinda Calvert Wire Ed Don Weatherbee Asst. News Editor Jerry Brewer Genoral Mana Michelle Burchetto Co sports Editor William Tinsley Production Mana Richard Meyers Co sports Editor Jean Hatchell Business Mana Mark Platte Entertainment Editor RUss Furtick Advertising Mana LynnMassey Asst. Ent. 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We reserve the right to edit columns and letters for space and style, and vv reserve the right to reiect any column for any reason Address letters and columns to. Editorial Page Editor. Gamecock Drawer I USC. Columbia. S C 29208 YJ"Jsj..-.t. I sentiments at Carolina after the commission's ruling to I eliminate all two-year programs in the college of General j Studies might lead some people to back the move to eliminate the commission without giving the proposal much thought, j But in the final analysis, abolishing the commission will not Letters to the EditorFnnlich nn V * ft^V/CF I* of freshmen's 1 To the Editor: count, in the end. is for tha The standardized Revision person to get a test score o i and Editing Test is given by at least 110 points. Thus, th< the English department to student who has worke< ^ all English 101 students. In hard and has been successfu order to pass English 101, jn writing good paper: ^ every student must pass this throughout the semestei , test. receives an uncompromising ' and undeserved F if he fail! It does not matter whether the test. j a student has passed or even n received all A's on his other The format of the Revisioi r assignments. What does and Editing Test is multipli !! i/Jf e utnt/ui ui-uuico : not comparable : to Iranian crisis To the Editor: After reading "File 13" in the January 30th edition of t\ Gamecock, I could not believe anyone could be as insensiti\ about the hostage situation as Mark Platte was. To compai the hostage situation to the General Studies Program a " Ko V-<o \imrct inalniH/ I hnvp pvpr rp.lf) puai O IV WV/ 1.1 IV. YT VI OV UIIUIU^J A ?.< (?/ VT v> . The American hostages were 52 innocent people who wei 9 held in Iranian captivity for 444 days. I feel that this is n something to compare to a General Studies Program, but crisis that we should be glad was finally overcome. T1 American people in Iran did not have the choice as whether or not they wanted to be there, unlike the choice tl students in general studies have. ger $>?' THE UNIVERSITY of South Carolina's General Studies ?0' a wonderful program that allows students to attend colleg who under different circumstances would not attend collei at all. I'm all for the program, but I strongly doubt "all 2,3 general studies students" (that is a direct quote from M Platte) feel they are being held as hostages and for those th do, I suggest you go to school some place else. Another ooint I would like to bring up is the way in whi Mark Platte uses President Holderman's and Govern ' Riley's name throughout the article. It seems to me tli people of their positions should be addressed in a much bett fashion, rather than comparing them to Iranian authorities d d Therefore, the entire article in which Mark Platte wrc ' did not place any emphasis on the griefs in the Gener studies hTOgram, oui snowea now someone can iukc 1 terrible situation like the Iranian crisis and make a joke of re I feel that next time he decides to make an analogy he shot do so correctly. Paulette Bils Sophomore, Political Scien " - fur* 7\ i" ^ help the majority of the schools in the state. Some may view eliminating the commission as a solution to higher education's problems, but they must see that a hasty decision to get rid of the commission will have serious implications for state-supported institutions in the future. t indicative knowledge choice. Five choices of possible revisions for a work together to have a good sentence or paragraph are paper. However, this given, and the student must learning can only come choose the revision that is through more actual most needed. This selection practice in revising papers, of the "most correct" Surely this added practice in revision does not mean that writing is a much better the other answers are indicator of how much a u/rAnrt Tnctnirl c amo an. student has learned about ? I wilf,. I1IOIVUU, OV/1IIV Mil swers are more "right" than writing than the Revision others, so each answer is and Editing Test. worth a certain number of points, beginning with five When a standardized test and decreasing to one. score is the only final conChoosing an answer worth sideration in receiving a one point instead of two can passing grade for a course, mean failing the test by that as is the case with Knglish one point. Thus, the element 101. the purpose of that of luck plays too large a role course is defeated in the test scores. It is true that a student Ku^enia Honker should learn how to make all Krcsiiiiutn, So* ioIo^v Major _ iv r if _ e iMotning wrong ; with plaid clothes a 8 To the Editor: knock it! It is nobody's ^ . * __ C Kiioi n nc c ?i-h o (i*n /"? h aj tJO t / \ e i am writing in reierence uumucoo *>?. v..Wov to the opinionated letter wear. Students have as dealing with students much right to wear outfits ls wearing plaids, bermudas with animals printed on ? and other stylish pieces of them as those who decide to clothing. The writer seemed put on the usual blue jeans Jq quite upset and embarrassed and sweat shirts. _ about those certain students At, - 00 r- a As far as individual tv who choose to dress in ? _ t , ? . unique looking clothes. The S'of the s^aUed Dhud letter insulted these students epidemic" seem to ha the .j, by implying that the group most originality about them )r was part of a The "norms of USC" appear at epidemic, an(* a's0 that tG ^ the ones going along ;r their clothes were ap- wlththecrovvd * propriate to wear only at the zoo. We must learn to ap :e preciate the differences in il Fashion minded in- ideas and actions of others tl uiviuuun win tuiiuiiui: iu ctiuunu uo in a piwuivi: woj , t. wear what is in style learn to accept people the [d whether it's duck shoes and way they are, and things will whale skirts or credit card go along much smoother, ty earrings and pigeon-faced watches; therefore why Name withheld by request &