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--y" ^ ^South Carolina's Best College Newspaper |? pj^jny . Volume LXX No. "75 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 10, 1981 Chair By Tom Coyne stan wrttcr The executive council of Russell House Ui yesterday voted to impeach Cinematic Arts < Warta after Warta's committee began proceedings against him Monday. The council voted at the meeting's outset privileges to Skot Garrick, the Union's sum and a member of the Cinematic Arts Commit! the only committee member to oppose gn Garrick. Warta said his vote against Garrick was vation." He said he had nothing personal a{ but he expected Garrick to vote against h peachment proceedings. Dale Oldham, Warta's legal adviser, argue it?:..:i??i i - iicua (jiivuegeu Kiiowieage mai most j v. 'didn't have. Council member James Rokosny said Garri any special knowledge since two other exc members were also members of the Cinema mittee. Richard Hamilton, the committee membei the proceedings by compiling a list of griei Warta, said he had waited until now to peachment proceedings because he did not impeach Warta. "It took something for me to courage to do this, but it got to the point wh was nilini? tin " Hamiltnn caiH Committee member Steve Starke said W control committee meetings. "Things have b without the knowledge of me or other commitl Starke said. A major complaint of committee member failure to maintain communication within t "We are not a one-person entity. We are a grc spokesman, and he is not doing the job ol Starke said. Warta said he had submitted a letter Tuesday to Union President Brian Dalton. He said yesterday he knew nothing of Warta Warta later said he had decided to face the hearings so no one could accuse him of running The committee has invited Warta to remain Warta said, and he plans to accept that invitati jjii mm issasgs i * CecilEc/wards Floyd Bill would c universitie; By Teresa K. Weaver News Editor The Senate Education Committee Wednesday approved a bill that would make appealing Commission on Higher Education decisions more difficult. The bill, which was approved by a 6-2 vote, would require any appeal of a commission order to be approved by both the House and Senate education committees. Sfcnate Education Chairman Harry A. Chapman Jr., D-Greenville, is sponsoring the legislation, which he predicts will run into some strong opposition in t he Senate. "1 know it's going to t>o very con man i .. wr- .^ar"WA.<. ^ | . mKmuversity Union Chairman Tom impeachment to give voting I mer chairman pp Warta was ? zing a vote to I 5 "self preser- * . !jj gainst Garrick, Jm H lim in the im- pj * S >d that Garrick ^ jury members % 9* > *#ck did not have ;cutive council )t;/> Am?o xviv m to V/V/ill" crkAlrAf>??int% I opvivcijuwn, of resignation >wever, Dalton Cinematic Arts Cor 's resignation. Russell House Univers impeachment impeachment proceec ; from a fight. against Wart a. (Photo i i as a member, on. ?- t! V Legislature eh H USCtn ;"'w' , By John . StaU i.; Cecil Edward Floyd, a Flo '/' V o V MM USC's Board of Trustees Wed INM W General Assembly. ^ i - 'i Floyd got 108 votes whiW [I?! d;V- $g| representative J. Mumford Though Floyd will not serve o: v V Wilcox retires in June 1982, thi \ by the Legislature. v Floyd said Rep. D. Mallo V \ called for the vote "rather the k AMI campaigning." Floyd said he Tp ca,i; FLOYD SAII) he became ii :omplicate >' appeals troversial," Chapman said. "I anticipate a strong fight, but I still think the bill's got a good chance. Really it's kind of a 50-50 type of cnance. CHAPMAN SAID the present system of requiring only one legislative committee's approval is unfair because the commission's order is not given enough importance. The burden of proof should be shifted more to the schools making appeals, he said. The bill stems from USC's successful appeal earlier this year of a controversial nn ( K >1 ( t Vw* n\iiri\v*o it it v.wiiiiiiiooivMi n\:vir?UMi iiicJi (lie ulll Vt I > so a Bill, pa go 4 x mpea< :;R V - _ '^inH ,.fc^ nmittee Chairman Tom Warta was imp eat ity Union's executive council. Warta's con lings after committee member Richard Han by Barry Newman) -i__ F"*f ;cis riorence surgeon usteesget ne Vaughan Judicial Circuit Writer interested in ben and got involved rpnrp snrffpnn was pWtpd fn rActrfn affUio f - ? 9 " ? ? - ~ ~ 1^01511 OiVCI llliJ I nesday in a joint session of the Floyd said he ti will be an asset t i his opponent, former state in Hie Medical Ui Scott Jr., received 43 votes, an example. "Th n the board until trustee Hugh the Medical Univ e vote was called for this month "I think the leg interested in the y McEachin Jr., D-Florence, this in my camj in wait through another year of recognize this am 1 and Scott both agreed to the Floyd, 46, gra< economics. He r MUSCand compl wolved in the race for the 12th New Orleans, iim^ Iia (I| I ;; " rir Tr h<hHF 96i SS^TBBbKt'hwi Mj >189 rsg * fa B :'.v_^ _." *"_"ri~^ "~~ -" i~, v'-" 1;r^~-f'"_\ Hlg The Senate Education Committee would complicate appeals of Commiss :hed dtftfL WB^MMsmz^MW^M" . :ii4&&;;-; ^ ' AW *'* ? 'jji .v -If '' A ?hod yesterday bv an 8-2 vote of imittee voted Monday to begin the li/ton compiled a list of grievances :w member board seat about a year ago. "I've been ig a member of the board for a long time, when Mr Wilcox told me he was going to erm," he said. links his expertise in the medical profession o the board, stressing his longtime interest liversity of South Carolina in Charleston as ere should be a strong relationship between ersity and USC's Medical School." he said, islators recognized that we need a physician tchool," Floyd said. "I tried to emphasize ?aign, and I hope the administration will d can put me in a position where I can help." iuated from USC in 1956 with a degree in eceived his medical degne in 1959 from eted surgical training at Charity Hospital in iSS L-v] ffi approved a bill Wednesday that ion on Higher Education decisons.