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* * " ' ? g.v . ' The South Carolina Librar South Carolina'a Bett College Newspaper Wednesday Volume LXX, No. GA University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. March A, 1981 us< : v;V:: -1 .m4' - < mm J:^B?s2&sas^ 5S?3sr& if>'.* .->- iSBl. .jyfe&aHy , > vfflKlSi l:; '< ? &-> ' $?<* j|g | a ? ;> ' v'.:; " ' \ W xjc^j^^^^EBagCT ->>! ! -j-^_ .^. _ ^<v.^ ' .< '^m^fflHH.'. I.-." i'7?4^*.''jy?~ ^:j \ <,.' 'y' fyj.V: ' #: l> USC President Ja Comr integi By Tom Coyne Staff Writer The blue ribbon steerii i established to devise a plan South Carolina's public universities, yesterday passe plan "in principle." The committee must ap version of the report and subr 8 to the U.S. Department of E< The department issued an Dick Riley Jan. 7 that South C plans to bring state public universities into compliance i the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The committee's final vers will go to the attorney gem miccinn nn Uintiax vii liuuld governor for approval. T Department will have 60 day plan and to negotiate with Sot revisions. IF SOUTH Carolina fails t the federal requirements, sta universities will lose $25 mil aid. In the compliance order, Department cited segregatioi areas within the state's hig system. Racial identifiability of sch student enrollment figures. L ? Cde 1b Kj" ^^:'i" X*x | L^KjHk - i \ ik. ^ i " - jl I mes B. Holderman nittee L dLIOII 4 Inequities in ng committee, State College, to desegregate colleges and Duplication ol ;d a draft of its and other trac the state. prove a final *Kacial identi nit it by March rninistrators a iucation. order to Gov. Racial inequa arolina submit of state institu colleges and .vith Title VI of The overall i will be $19.? , , , Seventy-four ] lion of the plan million, will be aval tha ? - \r :" Student recr ilon *he million, and $ he Education graduate inc( U?n the College progn ith Carolina on and ^j000 wj . 14. UNDER the f.JZStHZ Wlt5 the propertioi e colleges and ministrators lion in federal state instituti %rtz? n in fivp m?lnr . ,.JV. stltUtlOJiS. ' education xhe proport ministrators a , , . requiring doct 1 baaed on national prop torates. The :fen< By Done Anli USC representatives appea House committee to reinforc allowed to maintain the tw< programs offered by the Colle USC's appeal to the House E was in response to the Comi recommendation that seven t commission said the program technical colleges. THE 20-MEMBER commil their arguments; however, programs until after the Sei evidence. USC President James B. He USC's position. He said USC < consideration by the House th commission. HnlHprman caiH ahmit tKo more apparent than real," an< don't fix it." llOLDERMAN introduced represented the College of Ger John N. Gardner, a Gener House committee the quality faculty has been improving sir Gardner said USC has plaj baccalaureate work," and to ( "avenue of upward social mob USC PROVOST Frank Bork costs of the "duplicated" prog committee that funding for th through a commission formu containing program cost br programs. Borkowski said if the progr; students moving into four-yea ur? ( ne oaiu iuui -year programs s year programs. "The end result we submit, t General Studies would be to f student and not less," Borkows USC GENERAL Studies gns the quality of the General Sti mittee to support USC. McCurry, banging his fist committee, "I've got mine, g J ?i-_ LI I dl Lea plan resource allocation to S.C. f programs between S.C. State litionally white institutions in fiability of faculty and adt state institutions. ilit&es on the governing board tions. cost of the desegregation plan > million over five years, percent of the money, $14.5 } used to enhance S.C. State, uitment will account for $1.9 1.5 million will be allotted to rntives. Denmark Technical ims will receive $1.1 million, ill go for faculty recruitment. proposed desegregation plan r\ of black faculty and adwithout doctorates at each on will at least equal the black students graduating degrees from state inion of black faculty and adt each institution in Dositions orates will at least equal the ortion of blacks with docproportion of non-academic ild B. Weatherbee itant News Editor ired Monday before a South Carolin re the university's position that it b 3-year occupational associate degre ge of General Studies. '.ducation and Public Works Committe nission on Higher Education's Jan. wo-year programs be eliminated. Th s duplicated programs offered by stat ttee listened as both sides presente it will withhold judgement on th late Education Committee hears th >lderman began the hearing by statin ioes not support a bill presently unde at would dissolve the higher educatio two-vear nrnerams "Himlinatinn i i he quoted an adage, "11 it ain't broke guest speakers, most of whor leral Studies, to argue on USC's behall al Studies faculty member, told th of the General Studies programs an ice the college was founded in 1915. /ed a "vital role in offering less tha ?liminate the programs would close a ility." owski refuted commission claims tha [rams are excessive Hp rpminrfpH th le programs under attack is allocate la. Using bar graphs and document eakdowns, Borkowski defended th ams were eliminated, General Studie r programs would cost the state more ire funded at a higher level than twc herefore, of eliminating the College o und USC at more dollars per averag< ;ki said. tduate Chuck McCurry, who defendec udies programs, also urged the com against the podium, told tin entiemen,' referring to his two-yea see (JSC, page 4 wa? - Bgl v H ' ; Jr p".;-.:J -~?7;~-?"----:^Bi JPP*< *>.?*???"< IPCSL#* 77?e A/i/e ribbon steering ci bring South Carolina inU Education desegregation o meet the federal requiremer black personnel at each institutioi least equal the proportion of blac state job market. Lt. Gov. Nancy Stevenson q whether the plan would produce improvement in faculty recruitrr the next five years. "Of the s stitutions in the state, four of ther less than 2 percent increase in blac and only one projects more than a increase," Stevenson said. Commission on Higher E< Chairman James E. Bostic Jr. sai( be impossible to have any great in black faculty because only 3 to 4 p all doctoral graduates in the m black. ' a ie e ?pP? 8 - MBBii^\ e BK' = e ? 8 e W9 ? ^Sj r n ilflHr**^? ' s k -'i' 1| Z^ft-y7r: I _ _ ^ 7 .ivrz.. j/v >~ s ^Jf^ IW 1 Commission on High Chairman James E. Bos tic *v\ L,, % ...... (?'. * .> ?I'M'I I I L -s# I, . , ? n?nf mi mit tee, which was set up to o compliance with a U S n rder, yesterday approved a drai its. a must at TO ELIMINATE stu< :ks in the based on student enrol plan calls for a 50 percer uestioned of the disparity in propo suff cient white hi?h sch001 8" over traditionally white four-y .even in- T^e p^an wi^ allocate J n project State to alleviate ineq k faculty allocation. 0 oercent ?n duplication of pr states that USC, Clemsoi not have similar mission? iucation USC and Clemson encc 1 it would areas of graduate and \ crease in The mission of S C. State ercent of college with graduate pre ition are master's level," the plan se im . W':: . 1 ?'y;. ': -. ' . '.:: ,. / ?: x & ' , <... * . : -m /<#?? .\n ^ <v ^ >' *$'' ''& *' . > ' s' ^ *> * " .' - << '**' 'v : ' / ;0S ;> <: >>:.V . , : *> . . mmmmp w m er Education Jr. v< -> iQOrr .VA* N?v^ form a plan to Apartment of ft of a plan to dent identifiability iment figures, the it reduction by 1986 rtions of black and raduates entering ear institutions. H4.5 million to S.C. uities in resource ograms, the plan n and S C. State do i. "The functions of >mpass prescribed professional study. 5 is that of a senior tgrams through the states. to Committer, page 3 i