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College students whose Social Security
nefits are cut will have to rely more 1
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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-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.
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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
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