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soutli.Carolina no.a. Qamecoc.x South Carolina'* B**t Colhg* N*wipap*r ^ ppHfly - --:. , ~- ? Volume LXX, No. SO University of South Carolina , Columbia, S.C. Feb. 23 1981 Riley tum-i LW %Jr ^ By Tom Coyr Staff Writer Gov. Dick Riley announced Frid mission on Higher Education's rec< I JSC's twn-vpar occunatinnal dptrrM | of General Studies. "The Commission on Higher Edu its recommendation if we are to ha\ system of higher education,'' Riley s USC appealed to the General Ass f the commission's actions were "pre USC PRESIDENT James B. Hol< Board of Trustees meeting,4 'The co | the consultants' report. The chairr | recommendations that are found no report." Riley said, however, the consults | entirety," along with a follow-up Knht/OAn rf Airnrnnr'c cioff mnmKn MVtYT WII 0 V/ T VI UV/A O OWU 111VAI1UV indicates the commission is actinj recommendations. R. Markley Dennis, USC Board ol at the Feb. 11 meeting, "It is not * attempt to dictate the day-to-day There is an increasing tendency for itself as a principle governing body i V T riouse c< I By Teresa K. W< "t * .A . N?w? Edkor State colleges and universities w I 4 percent personnel reduction requi fiscal year 1981-82 if an option i ^ budget-writing panel is approved. ml. _ if 1I?_ P/iw lilt; nuuse ways tiiiu mcaiu vuu give higher education an addition; state schools from the budget cut. A special subcommittee on higl Rep. Charles E. Hodges, D-Horry, < r ? The plan, if approved, should solve said would arise if colleges and ui reduce personnel. THE COMMITTEE'S recommei I the House and Senate for approv budget matters. USC President James B. Ho Blackm; Reagani Du H/vnalW R \A/aalkarKan Assistant N?ws Editor President Ronald Reagan's budget cuts "will fall disproportii poor people," Richard Gordon mayor of Gary, Ind., told a Rus? Ballroom audience Friday night. !The 48-year-old black mayoi serving an unprecedented foi secutive term, spoke at USC as pa Observance Month. Speaking to students and Columbians, Ha pressed concern about problems black Americans. TT#v4aU/vm ' * t naicnci saiu uic navc-uuio should "carefully assess each [step and proposal Reagan make; how Reagan's actions affect their Hatcher, who has served as pi the National Conference of Bla< and as president of the National < of Democratic Mayors, said 62 Reagan's proposed budget cuts ai the cities of America, "where I \ live." "Reagan speaks to America's pocketbook," Hatcher said. "N( he make your pocketbook cry, I I you a severe case of heartburn." Hatcher said he is particular^ about a proposed ten percent t said although the tax cut everyone, "appearances can be d for en rear dt ,e DENNIS SA! commission's r ay he supports the Com- higher educatic ent decision to phase out Riley said, 3 programs in the College authority and specific functio ication must be upheld in Riley said th je a rational, coordinated administration said. stitutions. He >embly Feb. 18, charging termination of < cipitous and unwise." "THE RES< derman said at a Feb. 11 Assembly appi mmission misinterpreted mandates the c nan's letter makes three two-year instit where in the consultants' duplication wh Kiley said t ants' report "taken in its save the state letter and conversations propriated $3,5 rs and the consultants, year occupati< I within the consultants' Technical Coll year occupatic f Trustees chairman, said Holderman i for a board chairman to $3,233 is an i workings of an agency, graduate stud the commission to regard cost for a stuc be similar toe e saver earlier that tl faculty merab ill not have to make the 7 hired is the fir: ired of state agencies in Women and developed by the House in any forced i Firing thes imittee voted last week to university's i il $6 million and to exempt desegregation supported higl her education chaired by Revised the proposed plan. COMPLIAIV problems state educators would be "ne liversities are required to forced, Holdei Hodges saic for his subcc idation will now go before schools from I al, along with other state Also, pers dismissing tei lderman told legislators security and ayor critici s budget pi 44We are giving people wl more, and taking away from proposed too little already," Hatcher s anately on Hatcher said he does tx Hatcher, Reagan's actions will aid t! jell House the economy, but thinks it before people receive the b ?I? moacuroc WIIU 15 urth con- He said poor people will se rt of Black and difficulties" in the next f about 350 Another problem of tcher ex- Americans is stereotyping shared by Hatcher. He called stereotyj assassination that comes in i n America Hatcher said it is not p< and every siertmypiug, Ciiiu nc uacu 5" to know diana, as an example. lives. He said Gary is located i resident of diana, which is called the ck Mayors "Region", he said, is view Conference central and southern Indiar nercent. of moral, visual, and physical ] e aimed at Although the problem of f the people serious one, according t stressed his point by satiriz heart and of central and southern Indi >t only will "People from the Regi ^ . mi ? ciii#o fhou u>nro snnt Mavn ?e win give ow.vo, v..^j their advanced weapon skill y disturbed Hatcher said events sue ax cut. He servance Month give peopl applies to to offset physic racism, whi leceiving." still prevalent today. ding >ctr?>?>< '3* ID the state Legislature should clai ole, particularly in its relationship wi ! A.1 A. A.1 t_ _ I * i A >n lnsuiuuon s ooaras 01 trustees. The commission clearly acted within responsibility and,in fact,was carrj ns established by law." le commission has the authority to st and curriculum of the higher educj also said the commission can recc existing programs )LUTION, passed last year by the *oving the Master Plan for Higher Ed ;ommission to study duplication in mis utions and senior institutions, and to e ere it occurs," Riley said. he elir" lation of duplicate progran thousands of dollars. "USC-Columb 133 per student in all programs, incluc inal degree programs; while TEC (T ege) is appropriated $1,242 per siuaer >nal degree programs." said these figures are misleading bee average figure for all students. H< ent's education may cost almost $8,0 lent in an occupational degree progra osts for a TEC student. jives pers ia n?nn/>cpH nut wnnlH mpan firing a era in the rsine-campws USC system-o st fired" policy. minorities would be the first to lose t eduction, according to Holderman. ?e blacks would "seriously hamf appeal of a U.S. Department of E i order facing USC and eight oth< her education institutions, Holderman JCE with the Education Department' arly impossible" if the $4.7 million < rman told the legislators. 1 the desegregation order was the maj )mmittee's recommendation 10 exer the cut. onnel reduction would cause prol nured professors having legally prot I nnritxnnto nrvf aacillr Kpnlron UnHOdC C tumi uui V^UOIIJ ui uuuti, u zes Hfij aric I e an opportunity Rirharti Hatc ich he believes is Hicham Hate Black Observ tmmend General %3k ucation, J|| ;sinns at liminate BjjP^ Jwlfc is could j ia is ap- I ling two- 1 - Midlands H it in two- Bl ^SmHRSSSHHhRBb .. Gov. Dick Riley issu ause the . * ; said a supporting the state 00, while Education's ruling to m would two-year programs oi General Studies. >onnel cut ibout 350 THE ADDITIONAL alloca n total money to state colleges the Commission on Higher E< heir jobs according to Robert Toom Committee researcn director >er" the Iducation It would have cost a supj er state- million to grant full-formuh said. universities, Toomey said. li a "realistic" compromise by sut^^en- "The total $6 million will r the 7 percent cut and as littl orreason scnoois. ioomey saia. n? npt state they wish now. In addition to voting for hif blems in the committee approved an; ected job education and about $2 millii aid. lost by the USC Medical Schc |S^^"ivV^--feVi :^vo,:> --r'' --'-""-L-HM& ' < < f JgHRfiH ance Month festivities. or! a c tatnmnnt FriHaxi Commission on Higher eliminate two of USC's ffered in the College of options tion to higher education brings and univeruities much clofter to duration's full-formula funding, ipv Hausp Wavs and Means )lemental allocation of about $11 a funding to state colleges and e said the $6 million allocation is the House committee. estore as much as 70 percent of e as 40 percent to the individual e schools will be free to do what jher education funding increases additional $7 million for technical 3n to replace federal funds bein^ K>1. rnfc, v featured speaker at USC's