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* '.Hr'Xsk'mj Vro Performer: *;FB|i| Rogers Must Prove His Reputation ' GAMECOCK LXXI, No. 14 University of South Carolina Wednesday, September 9,1981 Studen As Cone ? ;A ^ B&gm i kj w si H s 3 | v-/.-., I pi . b i II ' - David Swoap, undersecretary of the Services, talks with USC President Jan brothers at Denison University. L ts Must Fi jress Cuts SUM Photo by ( AP1RS HAMMOND U.S. Department of Health and Social les Holderman. The two were fraternity nd Own I > Social S By DAVID CORVETTE 3 New* Editor c C College students whose Social Security nefits are cut will have to rely more 1 miiltf An rlrontc 1r?anc 'i n H c/'hnl^rchih I U V UJ \J II glUUU), 1V/UIIO C* ft 1\A UVUUiUIUlll^ ograms, Undersecretary David B. Swoap the U.S. Department of Health and ? iman Services told the Gamecock Friday. ( 'Generally, the philosophy behind it (cuts 1 student benefits) is not that we don't ( pport public efforts to undergird 1:? i.. l?? ?u,v,1 r-. I uudiiuu, uuviuuaiy, uui uicic oic a wiiuic > st of other scholarship and fellowship ograms that are available to students, 1 d we just don't think the socfal Security f Iministration system should be the system f at is designed to meet that need," Swoap id. } rhe second most powerful person in a i partment whose $250 billion budget is < ceeded only the total federal budget and 1 e Soviet budget, Swoap was here Friday to i sit with USC President James Holderman, ] former college classmate. < CONGRESS recently passed a bill that I ;mld phase out Social Security payments to udents over a four-year period, Swoap : id. Continuing these payments would eate "an inappropriate drain" on the cial Security trust fund, which will go inkrupt next fall unless other reform easures are passed. awoap said many siuuenis wno receive >cial Security benefit payments also are stting federal tuition grants, creating a stem of "duplicate" payments. "The oper government source for that kind of isistance (paying tuition) is in the many ograms administered by the Department Education." he said. Swoap said his department's budget Superma Swoops I Lifting Up VAV11I9V11 * mm Money ecurity ccounts for 36 percent of total federal ixpenditures, making it "just natural that uts have to occur in areas that we have >een administering." une sucn area involves reseaitn anu raining grants to medical facilities like the JSC School of Medicine. O.M. Higgins Jr., associate dean for idministration of the School of Medicine, ;stimated half of the $1.5 to 2 million available to the school for research this year :omes from HHS. THE HHS funds "are not provided for the )asic purpose of running a medical school. ~ * 1 - - ? -1 ^ ^ ^ J rn M f tr?/\?v? Urt o O A ' ' 1 Iiai K1I1U Ul luiiuiu^ lumira 11 win uit aion, -liggins said. "The med school is no diferent from other departments in federally unded research and training grants." Higgins said the medical school has not ^et felt the impact of Reagan adninistration budget cuts because the existing funds are "previously committed," He said it may be a year before any reductions affect USC research in cancer prevention, heart disease, diabetes and drug abuse. However, Swoap said Secretary Richard Schweicker. head of HHS, is "a very strong proponent of medical research and funding. So, when it comes to cutting the budget, he would prefer not to cut medical research." Swoap graduated with honors from Denison University, Granville, Ohio, in 1959, one year after Holderman, a fraternity brother. He spent almost seven years in the Army and served as a consultant to a California Senate committee on labor and welfare when Ronald Reagan was California's governor. U o * r?-% r? ii/ith C5WUit|J adlU lie >raa upi\;^v\i Ti mi Carolina on his first visit to the campus? especially with Holderman's management of the university and with an academic program he called "unique in the country n tt ? page 10 r I n * For sm # ? page 6 J