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1 The New Administration?A News Analysis / Baker Reviews 'Cannonball Run' Page 3 ' Page 9 . GAMECOCK LXXI, No. 3 University of South Carolina Wednesday, June 24,1981 RAJ ? USC signs order offi discussioi HiBMiMttigEnHaCfiBat <_s If! 'I Rx A ft mmmm Bv Members of the university 2 l\ Nfor desegregating the state' Eg \ x I flkJA BE rflnl i desegrt er month n and evi cm it ur OKJVJ III i,--v t*t? * Aurott <<>A.M AI CA ?r' i i JN A t's board of trustees Saturd< s colleges and universities. purl igation 0i More I 0* Jt Carolin FA EJr IS were o ^ Educa ? desegn vluation use The Cil < 4 agreed CAROLINA departr iritn cm "IVV VWJ use WPPBW propose /i^^H * ' v ^ g HH <r\ I K s < * # I i A H ?'-. * J * \ M I signinj I Board I JM8^.. genen Comm HL weigh: |%^| legal a MBfe \ contac . t AAA were , ^P educal " " - K W*. flow Of 1? goverr man plans< V -4*V^.-^. -::-' ' .: ; signed . :: Marie; ':' - - 1 ' ? v' M r. i J - aaiuru nil mill or iy approved a federal plan which1 six co John I'arnt'll/^aim-tot k seFVC ( thi By MARK PLATTE w\ tdttor lej than five months after South us a's institutions of higher learning wfr rdered by the U.S. Department of mi tians to submit a statewide *gation plan all but one school have to the plan. m A] signed the plan Saturday, leaving th tadel as the only school which hasn't sa to it. at be plan was ordered by the education nent to encourage schools to move T! mpliance with Title VI and the 1964 C< ghtsAct. pr op was forced to make provisions in its ot *1 of the plan, further complicated by St ACP's claim that certain parts were pr unacceptable. Before the final W 'We're pleased gned the order ther standouts d< -NAACP Preside! I, the state Commission on Higher Ui tion, the governor's office, the USC st of Trustees, the NAACP, the attorney he il's office, and the Senate Education fe ittee all had input in the decision, CI ng and evaluating considerations, S( dvice and interpretations. A BOAKI) of trustees meeting si lay, the order was accepted. p< commission and the governor's office nt ted USC June 16 asking them if they ready to sign. The state office of ion told USC that although the c< P objected to the school's plan, the pi the plan would not be changed. e< w office of education conferred with the fi lor's office and commission Chair- U ames E. Bostic and ruled that the P's objections wouldn't change the > USC President James B. Holderman ta it Friday and board Chairman R. pr y Dennis added his signature pi lay. wi lane thn mnut />nnfucind ot in VI iV VU11I UOUI{^ OIUIV-IIIVIII 111 * der, which lead to USC's delay in h* I the proposal, was Appendix K, hj stipulated two people from each of the th ngressional districts would have to to an the USC board and other boards in ec fEBC w m9 \ b state. The attorney general's office, rich was solicited for advice by USC's 1 rnnncpl caiH JVnnenHiv If vuoe mornli. .^1 ed as an illustrative model for something lich might be done. With that opinion in md, USC agreed to sign the plan. "It wasn't really clear in a lot of people's inds as to how much the force of law apendix K carried and it was clarified by e attorney general's opinion," Holderman id Monday. "The opinion put some people ease about the reorganization of the >ard." HE NAACP's main concern is that South arolina State College in Orangeburg, a edominately black school, is given equal >portunities and programs existing at her shcools. "We're concerned that S C. ate is not emasculated in their ograms," NAACP Chairman Isaac illiams said Tuesday. "We're pleased that fh^it I l?r h^ic V.IIU1. IWJ and hope the 3 the same/ nt Isaac Williams SC has signed the order and hope the other andouts do the same." The Citadel, which is not signed the order, may stand to lose deral funding, according to Sen. Harry A fiapman, D Greenville, chairman of the mate Education Committee. The Medical University of South Carolina gned with the same stipulation that Ap?ndix K is just an illustration and may not jcessarny lk; implemented. Holderman said the only major conjssion USC made was to phase out rogram that offers a doctorate in iucatioual administration. The program ill be offered instead at S C. State and in VP vpars thp nrncrram will ahnlich<*H at s c." YOU HAVE TO give a little and we didn't ke anything; but we gave on the E.Ed, ogram Holderman said, adding that the an is something "the whole state can live ith." Milton Kimpson, assistant to Gov. Dick iley, said after the board meeting. "You tve to keep in mind that the legislature still ts to enact this legislation. Of course, at is point it is simply a recommendation as one way you might go about achieving |uity among board members."