Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fiAMTtinon Founded 1908 Mark Platte, Editor-in-Chief Jerrv Ft rower Clf>nornl Mnnn per Linda S. Haines, Advertising Mario Jean Hatchell, Business Manage 9 Mark McEwan, Production Manage Everyone' UbC otficials decided some time ago that they wouldn't lobby for more university money from the state. That decision came from an agreement between Gov. Dick Riley and state university presidents that if the student surcharge was passed, no lobbying would be done. Now, it seems, students are on their own. It is only they who will lobby and it is they who will seek to influence legislators. The student surcharge is history. There is no way the surcharge will be refunded. Not only do students have to pay out more and more each year for tuition but now there is nobody willing to go to bat for them. If they want something done, they will have to do it themselves. In the fiscal year 1979-80, residents of this state had to pay $890 per semester. Out-of-state students had to pay $2,000. Compared with in-state figures for eight area campuses, that $890 was expensive three years ago, more than $100 higher than the average for the area colleges. Out-of-state, the cost was cheaper than the _ r T rn /NI w -r-m. -r ^ average 01 uau, uiemson, ui\uChapel Hill, N.C. State, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Maryland. During fiscal year 1980-81, while . ii. omer campuses were Keeping instate tuition down, USC increased by 17 percent tuition for South Carolina residents. With the ex V.CJJL1U11 U1 V^1CU15>UI1 tlllU UlllVCI&lty of Virginia, all the other schools barely raised tuition at all. USC could now make the claim that out of these eight schools, it had the thirH hi(jhoct in.ctata hiifmn urltila v% 1/ 111 iJVU tv tui I/1V/11J W 1111V/ keeping the second lowest out-ofstate tuition. Fiscal year 1981-82 brought no better luck. USC's in-state tuition made the rise from $1,040 to. $1,1170, putting the university second behind Clemson out of the eight schools for most expensive instate tuition. Carolina also advanced in out-of-state tuition, from $2,220 to $2,450. That gave USC the distinction of having the second lowest out-of-state tuition the year Kr?fr\r*o onrl K*?incf fhp fmirth hinhoct v """ "V1,,b "" ,"b"V/kM' in fiscal year 1981-82. Tom Coyne, News Editor TT David Tallcy, Sports Editor John Vaiighan, Entertainment Editor Beth Sundrla, Copydesk Chief Mike Fisher, Graphics Editor Lezlie Wallace, Editorial Page Editor Patty McCarthy, Asst. News Editor lggr Johnny Boggs, Asst. Sports Editor Mike Lough, Intramurals Editor r I Fletcher Johnson, Graduate Assistant r Mark Ethridge Jr., Adviser To Blame Those are the figures. Who is responsible? A good share of the blame goes to the State Budget and Control Board, which, in 1977, decided that state agencies, such as USC, pay employee salaries from any category other than general appropriations. That simply meant that student ? r 1 i l _ r ctuuvii-y ices nau tu uear inure ui the burden for salaries. According to statistics USC puts out, student activity fees increased 77 percent from fiscal year 1976-77 to 1981-82. And officials speculate that as long as activity fees are needed to offset salaries, the increases will continue. The tuition hike is also the fault of USC. No matter how much this university complains about state controls and financial mismanagement, there is no doubt that money can be used from other areas to off-set a tution increase. For instance, how can the state of North Carolina keep in-state tuition so low? At UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina residents pay $599 per semester. At N.C. State, it costs $670 for a resident per semester to attend school. The final part of the blame should be placed with the students themselves. Students at California State in Northridge, California pay no tuition at all. Their fees total $200, just a fraction of what f'nrnlirin ctnHpntc nnv Students at California StateNorthridge actively lobby each year in Washington in order to request no tuition. They bombard 1/^rfiol rif rvir^fi ?i?? icgioiaiuio wii/ii fNJ&WJcll U?> Slclllllg their opposition to tuition but that's only the beginning. One of the reasons students at California State don't pay tuition is the same reason many students in New York State had free city college to attend. In California, tax is six nprnpnt Tn Npw York, the tax is eight percent. South Carolina not only needs additional monies from added sales tax but needs to tap all resources in order to avoid escalating tuition. That takes the efforts of the state, USC and its students to make it 11 t/wl/ Maii; ic f Vin timn f/-v itlf Arm vvui rv. ivvjw khj 111^/ tiiiiv/ tu nuui 111 and be informed. &> ?2* ^ ^ w HOWARD, IN All NN YEARS OF E) TWO TEAMS PIW. Off A TRADE Letters To Tin Atwater's Methods C TO THE EDITOR Your profile of Lee Atwater (Feb. 15) coven can fault his won-lost record, especially recei Question. There are still a few of us who are appalled; "Posturing" is the Madison Avenue term for t words smear, half-truth, and character assass a pioneer of this sort of negative campaign responsible for its introduction in the Southeast As one who believes that real issues should I chagrined when that focus is misdirected at th witness to the 1980 First Congressional Distri< tack mounted on Charles Ravenel's personal ii was a campaign that could have, and should 1 issues. But Lee Atwater, with his jugular sens( instead to embark on a course of character ass; Perhaps one should not be surprised. Lee's d< of the success rates of "posturing" campaign acceDtance of such taotirs hut also thf?ir nnnar could be expected from someone who learne< Dent's role in the Nixon administration-one Ji of dirty tricks." I suggest that one way to "clean up" politi proach that may not appeal to students of Ma courage issue-related electoral decisions, anc people who might otherwise decide to offer fc that seems to be an integral part of Lee Atwate Inadequate Publicatic TO THE EDITOR they are not int | In your editorial of Feb. 15 if they believe entitled "Not Interested", interests have you pointed out that the fectively "shut (ilinn .11; C 1 i If Aiiuig ucuuuiic iui btuut.llt uicjr iiiudiicci 11 government offices was not Inadequate adequately publicized. In has a bad effect; fact, the cutoff date arrived representation, before many people had good represent; realized that the election in lack of partic season was upon us. Many leads to a vicioi conscientious students are so perpetuates itse preoccupied with their year. j studies that they should be We strongly forgiven if they happened the way to breal not to see some obscure make a con n Af i nA a 4- Y\ /V 1 I w A nvrtlnin 4/\ uuiiv,^ rtuuui tilt: ill III g IU CAjiiaiu tu 1 deadline. This does not mean students just oMaaNBanaMBaHnHBMBmMnnnBannMNaBBaMaMMBHnMMSBBHMMHMaMMUMCMMaMai GAMECOCK Business Office: 77 Sole reproduction rights granted to the Associated Press. All other material contained herein may not be reproduced without the permission of the editor. Opinions expressed in the Gamecock are those, if sinned, of the writer and, if unsigned, of the editor. The Gamecock welcomes letters and columns. All letters and columns must he typewritten, triple spaced on a 65 space-line. I c chnultl ?w. ll o/?. 1?..?,? .... > . i.i.i ,im\> wurus, ana columns should be limited to one newsworthy subject no longer than four typed panes. Letters and columns MUST be sinned with the writer's correct name, telephone 1/r __ imeme m mm seen ? rnmsr,.. e Editor )n^>n Tn n. '1M. w sd only one side of the story. While no one ltly, Lee's methods are certainly open to at the campaign tactics of the New Right. ^ i i* ! l i tit i_ it. _ iieir auverusing lecnniques, aunougn ine ination also come to mind. Lee Atwater is ing. More than any other person, he is ae the focus of a political campaign, I am le personal attributes of a candidate. Any :t campaign may recall the merciless atltegrity and fitness for public office. Here lave, been won on political and economic i for what wins political campaigns, chose assination. octoral dissertation is an exhaustive study ~ is; it shows not only the spreading public my effectiveness. And besides, what more i from Harry Dent? Let's not forget Mr. >hn Connally characterized as the "doctor ics is to clean up political tactics--an apchiavellian ethics, but one that would en1 would not frighten away the many fine >r office, were it not for the mud-slinging r's campaigns. DIXON ROBERTSON Law student ^ >n Has Bad Effects erested. But student government is. i that their extend the deadline so been ef- that a wide variety of out," then students may have a chance ustrated. to run for offices. e aHvorfico thp pamnaiCn ^UUiltdllUU ?w,v. wui, W.~ J ? ; lack of good philosophies of the can- i? And lack of didates. ation results loudly proclaim that ipation. This election time is here. is circle that After all, either student (If year after government is a vital institution that will attract believe that informed persons or else it is r Jo ?.. n nnintloQc sham that should ^ WUt I O IU , M v?a??v certed effort be scrapped. Isn't that the lew and old issue? j^CK CROSSCOPE what their SHAHIN GOLSHAN Engineering Majors ^ 249 Newsroom: 177 7181 7-3888 Production: 777-2833 number, mailing address, class standing or faculty position and major. Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but the writer's name may be withheld on letter, upon request, if the circumstances warrant it. ?rv UM17VI' ifu* rignt 10 cdii columns ana lencrs jw space and style, and we reserve the righI to reject any column for any reason if Address letters and columns to: Editorial Pane Editor. Gamecock. Drawer A. USC. Columbia. S C. 29208. il\t> Jo ? I; J J * . r, III niniM'U suKii'rn ur^unnun"" "i the University of South Carolina and receives funding from student activity fees