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Volume LXX, No. 59 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Feb. 2Q, 1981
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USC graduate student John H
bad check charges Monday
Richland County Sheri ff's Depai
According to sheriff's departi
escorted two sheriff's deputies i
make the arrest.However, Gree
the building.
Theater and Speech Professo
was sitting on the floor when
Campus Police officers in the do
Dreher said the officers were;
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drawn, sne saiu. However, K.b
Rep. Ernest Nunnery\
troduced a bill in the Hou*
Commission on Higher Edt
Williams)
says
By
USC charged ii
Assembly Wednc
Higher Educatai
College of Gei
programs w^re
The appeal wai
House of Reprej
mittees that wil
week whether th
institutional adnr
be eliminated.
The commissic
discontinue the
programs and to
/remaining two-;
programs in the (
usr STATES
a mission's activii
mission reporter
colleges and sent
' The commissic
:Wjr .J$ mean that US
^ :|i duplicate progra
USC claims or
erroneously mat
two-year progra
ames Carolina should k
COMMISSION
?? said the comm
ties im
rtcock
Chief
mnn All
cili y uiccii woo ancoivu w.?
at Longstreet Theater by
rtment deputies.
nent reports, Campus Police
to Green's 2:30 p.m. class to
n had gone to another part of
r Ann Dreher said the class
L - 1 1 1 1 ?..,A
sue louKeu up aiiu saw iwu
orway.
armed. "They had their guns
ptain Walter Johnson of the
D Chester, has in
te to eliminate the state
ucation. (Photo by Tony
; acti
'Tom Coyne r
Staff Writer ^
i an appeal to the General
sday that Commission on r
on actions concerning the j
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rierai aiuuies iwu-yeai
precipitous and unwise."
s issued to the Senate and
;entatives education com1
decide some time next
le secretarial science and
ministration programs will
>n directed USC Jan. 8 to
two associate degree
submit a plan to end the
/ear occupational degree
College of General Studies,
in the appeal, "The con- c
insistencies in the cornties
and pronouncements f
the danger of precipitous \
c
firm hired by the comd
that different types of j
erveri hv the technical i
or institutions.
>n interpreted the report to i
>C's two-year programs
ms offered by the technical i
ip of thp r-nnmiltjintv: whpn
nend the final report,
ie the statement that all
ims in the state of South
>e discontinued.
member Fred Sheheen
ission - took , almost eight
l"Drri ir
LV-A *
sheriff's department said no g
The officers located Green
and escorted him to the Richla
Green spent Monday night
Tuesday.
Johnson said this isn't the i
ment has had to go into a stude
"At times that's the only
Johnson said. "We always g<
don't go wandering through
guidance."
Earlier Monday, Green's C?
City Police. Green, who is fror
city parking fines.
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A/ays ai
stalls bi
By Teresi
New
A move by a state legislt
mission on Higher Educatio
mittee Wednesday amid str
tatives.
ReD. Ernest Nunnerv. D-(
said his proposal is not reh
commission and the universi
two-year degree programs
Studies.
His bill met with strong res
Means Committee, where i
sideration.
THE FOURTH-TEKM law
intn HiccnliMnrt tha nnmrnicc
IIJVV MIOOVITIIlg H?v WllllllIOiJ
before the agency ordered
programs in General Studies.
The commission said Jar
minate the programs becausi
by the state's technical colleg
USC administrators appe;
Assembly Wednesday.
"I'LL ADMIT the timinj
Nunnery said, "but I have b
tember."
But Rep. Tom Marchant, D
nroDOsal is a "vindictive"
commission) recommended z
Marchant said, "I lake it a:
trying to wipe out an agency t
ions
nonths to reach a decision. "It
recipitous," he said.
Sheheen said the commission hi
nended Winthrop College and (
Jniversity for voluntarily disco
heir two-year degree programs anc
College for ending their two-year pi
it the commission's recom nendatio
Sheheen said, "The university vee
hey want to read and interpret stl
vay they want them interpreted."
USC President James B. Holderr
ioard of Trustees Chairman K. 1
)ennis at the Feb. 11 board meetii
?1iminntinn of thp Opnpral
>rograms would put USC furth
violation of a federal desegregation
SHEHEEN SAID this reasoninj
>nly unreasonable but might be unla
The U.S. Department of Educa
ound USC and eight other state-si
ligher education institutions in vio
livil rights desegregation laws.
The Education Department has
:he schools to submit desegregati
3y March 8.
In its February meeting, the cor
tried to clarify its position.
Commission members said the^
trying to eliminate the College of
Studies. Rather, the commission
upgrade and strengthen the
through a gradual shifting from
occupational degree programs to I
baccalaureate programs. The
General Assembly's e
committees must both vote to elim
programs. Otherwise they will be c
SL UUOs
tuns were drawn.
in the theater's costume shop f<
nd County Detention Center.
in jail and was released late is
P
First timA th#* Klicriff's ripiurt.
v w
nt's class to make an arrest. fi
way we can find someone," p;
:> through Campus Police. We
i that campus without their p<
oi
ir had been towed by Columbia
n Charlotte, N.C.,owed $170 in ti
Ir I
n<
id Mean:
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li to end
a K. Weaver
Editor SU
itor to abolish the state Comn
was stalled in a house com- .
ong opposition from represenChester
a 1972 IJSf! trrariiintp
? . Up
ited to the battle between the
ity over the order to phase out
in USC's College of General Sl<
?istance in the House Ways and
nembers voted to delay con- je
maker said he h'd been looking stj
ion since last September, long
LSC to kill associate degree ^
i. 8 the university should tere
they duplicate courses offered ?v
;es.
a led the order to the General
F*
g is extremely unfortunate,"
een considering this since Sepa\
-Greenville, believes Nunnery's
one taken "because they (the pi
i cost-saving device at USC." m
s a personal affront that we are
he General Assembly set up." tli
unwi
LWflll. fc.
tion has mW %#. j|
j dd or ted J1 v jflnJL
la t ion of jB W
ordered
on plans flH amission
four-year
ducation USC Boat
linate the v. Marktey D
ontinued.
> for ai
Green was required to pay the fi
?e and $2 for each day his car was
According to Lloyd Beam of the c
; towed if the owner owes mor
arking fines.
Green said he received no notii
nes were. "I received nothing,"
arents."
Beam said notices are sent to inay
parking fines, but the parkin
stain out-of-state car owners' nam
"T uinillH fhinlr fliof if llim> hod
a ?T v/u*u tiuim utav it nivj iiau
ckets they would be responsible (
now when they have a lot of ticket*
sComm
commis
THE LEGISLATUHE establish!!
pervisory board for state liig
embers are appointed by the gove
Rep. Jarvis Klapman, R-Lexingtc
n't think we, as a 25-member bod}
von't be a part of it."
Rep. Charles Hodges, D-Horry, i
; premature without giving the iss?
NUNNEKY said ne man i o
leration until the matter can be sti
"I didn't want to ram anything <
jnnery said. "There is still a delib
To replace the commission, he pi
gislative committee on higher ec
ate's colleges and universities.
ABOLISHING the commission w
an $700,000 and the agency's woi
at! of two or tnree people, accoran
He believes the state Budget ai
'ersees the state's finances, an
immittee staff could help in overs
Nunnery asked the committee to
?rmanent state budget provisions
11 that would abolish commission I
THE BILL, a separate attack
waiting consideration by the Ways
Nunnery said he isn't sure whel
jshing for the abolishment of th
lission itself.
The bill to eliminate the commis
ic House, Nunnery said
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W& $? > :. '
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ennis
rrest
nes, $130 bail, a $20 towing
left in the city garage.
rity parking division, a car
e than $50 in delinquent
fication of how much his
he said. "Neither did my
state residents who fail to
g division lias no way to
les and addresses,
an excessive number oi
?nough to p.i\ them. They
he said
lttee
?sion
id the com in ss ion i o
her education in \ *>2
rnor.
>n, (old the committee, "1
y. ought to at ' hastily and
igrt 'd that action would
je a hearing.
bject to delaying con
udied further.
down anybotiy's throat,
erative process "
-oposed setting up a join)
lucation to watchdog tne
ould save the state more
~k could be handled by <1
tig to Nunnery
id Control Board, which
d the Ways and Means
eeing the state's schools,
make his proposal part of
He also has introduced a
funding.
on the commission, is
?and Means Committee,
[her his next step will l>e
e funding or of the com
sion has 23 co sponsors in