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GAMECOCK LXXIV, No. 118 j/L University ot Soulh Carolina Thursday April 29, 1982 Reagan Ad\ From Staff Reports USC's Baruch marine research laboratory near Georgetown was dedicated by President Reagan's top adviser Tuesday. Dr. George Kevworth, a nuclear weapons physicist named last August to the top federal science post, told the group attending the dedication ceremonies that the Reagan administration i. committed to keeping the same level of federal financial support for basic scientific research. Kevworth did warn the group of scientists and university officials that "federal interest doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's stimulated by several concrete national objectives." Kevworth went on to cite some of these national objectives, such as the obligation of wealthy nations to extend the limits of scientific knowledge. He said the United States is in such a position to do this type of intellectual exploration and should take every opportunity to do so. He said, however that the United States must be careful what type of research they decide to pursue. "The United States has to look closely at the kind of science and technology it supports." Keyworth said times had changed since the 1960s when the United States was able to be less discriminating about what projects it supported because the economy vas booming. He said then it was possible for the administration could ensure "that the best and most productive science and scientists would be supported." He said today the administration must be more careful in the programs which thev select and search for research projects that Amoco Teacher Three USC faculty certificats will members and a graduate May 15 durir teaching assistant will be ceremonies honored for their out- Coliseum. i: 4 i- : ^ 1 *1 sianuiiig leaciinig aoiiuies j>aciiK, a nai when they are presented Palestine, with the 1982 Amoco Out- bachelor's de standing Teacher Awards University of during May commencement completed his exercises at USC. in pharmacei This year's recipients University of i ? / J 1 ^ 1 A/?n nn_iuue piidi 11nicy pi uiesbui lifOO. Dr. Farid Sadik and He began Deborah Grier James, a career as ; Ph.D. student and graduate professor ai teaching assistant in the Winners from campuses outside Columbia include JH Dr. Trudy K. Henderson of Jn. the Department of Sociology fl The Amoco Outstanding Hj^ Teacher Award is presented iB annually to a faculty * member from a USC four- $ w^Bl'" year campus outside Columbia and from a twoyear USC campus. Supported by the Amoco / Foundation, the award r recognizes excellence in Deborah (*i classroom teaching. Can- Louisiana didates for the awards are moving to the nominated by students. Mississippi in Presented since 1966, the (JSC in 1973. I honor carries a $1,000 cash tenure at Ca award. The checks and associate prof< uiser Dedicc could thrive "in the testbed of the market place." He said the administration would have to depend on these marketplace mechanisms to a great extent to determine how much to fund these programs. He said tne United States will continue to be the world leader in science and said this would continue despite America's loss of its large competitive edge over other industrialized nations. He said the nation lost that lead when the standard of living was rising rapidly and people felt secure. He said at that time the United States stopped concentrating on production and turned toward distributing our wealth and resources. He said many people involved in science and technology "forgot'' to use all the new knowledge. "We assumed, wrongly, that knowledge would antnmatipallv finH ifc market place," Keyworth said. He said a reorientation of American institutions and practices would be needed to compete with foreign technology which, at the moment, "strikes close to our economic heart." Keyworth was the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremonies. Other speakers at the dedication included Dr. John L. Rrooks director of environmental biology at the National Science Foundation, 6th District Rep. John Napier, and USC President James Holderman. Holderman described the new laboratory and residential buildings at the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and uoasiai nesearcn as a nappy combination oi private and public resources working Award Winners A 1 be presented to his present rank of ig graduation associate dean and professor in Carolina in the College of Pharmacy in 1976. ive of Taibeh, James is a native of earned his Charlotte, N.C., and expects igree at the to complete her Ph.D. work Georgia and at Carolina in the spring of Ph Pi r^nrtrnn t An a x u.t^r. vk-51 tc 1354. utics at the She earned her bachelor's Mississippi in degree in literature and drama at the University of his teaching North Carolina at Asheville an assistant and her master's in English t Northeast at Clemson. James taught for three years at Francis ||||i&?^, Marion College before |||% enrolling in the Ph.D. program at Carolina. If Greer tutors in the USC Writing Center and teaches a freshman English course in Lisk, an assistant mar professor of English at USCSumter, joined the Sumter p|L faculty in the fall of 1979. He came to Sumter from MBFjIte Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis., where he nrftfp??nr nf RnflliVh nnrl rier James creative writing, as well as University, chairman of the Department University of of Language and Literature. 1970, and to At Sumter Lisk is adviser le started his to the campus literary rolina as an magazine, "The Sandhill." A issor and rose published poet, he completed 1 USC's Baruch ms Tuesday. together. He also had high praise f Vernberg, who has been dir institute since 1969. Vernhfire told thp nrnwrt that came to the university th campus had one small lab ai nnounced his bachelor's degree in E)nglish at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., after which he began work on his master's degree at the University of Houston. Henson, an assistant professor of sociology at Aiken, joined the USC faculty in 1978 after completing her Ph.D. degree at Bowling Green State University, where she also worked as a graduate teaching fellow. I>r. Fa rid Sadik n ni rnnr^ hnr k/iiv v(ll lltVI I1CI MKUMV'I A degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and her bachelor's from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. uc:h Laboratory 8K|yjflaB|M irine research laboratory was dedicated grown to world center for marine and or Dr. John estarine science. ector of the Brooks added that Baruch is one of 11 federally funded long-term ecological when he first research sites in the country and said e Columbia Vernberg had generated an undeniable id has since demand for the new facilities. ML I Ik fi Student Government President Ashley 1 Abel speaks at a rally to close Greene Street I event. TX ^ V camera photographs the |