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! : i South^Caro1inianafcLibrary Horsoahoe ^ i ? _ Engineering s By Toni Saddler Qualified people for engineering faculty positions are in short supply, and USC cannot compete with industry and other universities in hiring, College of Engineering Dean J.D. Waugh said this week. Waugh said the engineering school needs about a 75member faculty, although it has only 47. "The student-teacher ratio is much too high. Who wants to work in a place that's understaffed?" he said. According to Waugh, the school turned away about 300 potential students last year because of the faculty shortage. I According to USC President James Holderman, about 80 to lj 85 percent of the USC budget goes to salaries. The state has cut university funding $4.6 million for next fiscal year, an it approximate 5-percent cut. "Every single one of the people they (engineering officials) offered a position to this year, they didn't get. They couldn't compete salary-wise," Holderman said. "That's a very staggering statistic." About 50 percent of USC's income comes from the state, as opposed to 75 percent several years ago, Holderman said. In early August, the state Commission on Higher ^ Photo by Fr?nk \^iter WUSC assistant sports director Scott Wilborn checks the radio station's record library. The station recently dismissed five disc jockeys because they were nonstudents. j Problems, errors pla By John Braun Updating tl | Problems with the USC Telephone responaibilitj Directory are nothing new, but some officials, Taj [university officials are at a loss to explain avei whey some errors in this year's phone book be listed corr occurred. off cumulati In a random sampling of 25 students, the semester. Gamecock found only nine entries that were ONE STU1 complete and error-free. identified, sai J Common mistakes include unexplained a soPhomo abbreviations, missing local addresses, hours atthe ( wrong classifications, omitted students and was "Sted as missing telephone numbers. more than 30 Scheduling JERRY BREVVEH, assistant to the dean said spring j of Student Affairs, said Thursday the in- system by M formation listed in the directory comes from the data was j student computer records entered by student *pI< housing and registration officials. Students h RpciHpntiare responsible for keeping their data files 0f communii up to date, he said. that individu "It's the hardest thing in the world to keep students mov iin tuith ctnHpnk u/hon th#?v mnvp around " the summer, Brewer said. Some tele > 'j Student files were sent to the printer in Pinckney on I late June or early July this year, according *? ^ J to Student Information System manager Quadrangle v Maxie Taylor Jr., who is himself listed out Brewer said of order in the new directory. "That 'Jr.' because frat< always throws them off," he said. "I've assignments, been here 13 years and I'd say I've been DIRECTOI (listed) wrong 13years." Macaulay sai chool faces si Education denied $2.3 million for salary enhancements at use. The commission recommended eliminating the requirement that colleges fund 25 percent of all raises and fringe benefit hikes from institutional funds, if the legislature approves. The commission also recommended that the General Assembly provide no special appropriation for faculty salary enhancements this year and opt instead to allow colleges more flexibility in shifting funds and granting raises above state salary caps. The recommendation appears to be aimed at USC and Clemson University, both of which have lobbied in recent years for extra money to increase salaries in highly competitive technical disciplines, according to The State newspaper. Clemson received only $200,000 in salary enhancements out of $500,000 requested. Waugh said U.S. universities generally are having trouble hiring faculty. "The entire field of engineering is wide open. The demand for engineers just keeps going up. A graduate has no problems finding a job," he said. Five WUSC disc jo By Jeff Draine compromise and TT nrv too IT.** j- 1 Z would really be hi f ive WUSC-FM disc jockeys have allowed ,Q / been dismissed because they are not Fjnk said FtFhe t?s a fn^t; ntr . ... problems with losi The Activities Office is still deciding g students as what to do about part-time students mled b w who are employees of the university s id ..p je donl radio station. to do, they tell ot A provision in the station s con- . ,, ' J stitution that allowed honorary ?". ? , , members enabled WUSC to hire J^Z.n people who were not full-time " . students, said Marc Fink, WUSC whJSnThev Ire b? station manager. But the Activities . .J Office assumed that these honorary ~ * members would be full-time students, , . in accordance with their regulations, urncr- f since alumni or part-time studente ^USC.lf they arf. are not mentioned in the provision, a V71"1 or Par "1 according to Ron Emler, coordinator saJF' ^VUSC canr of Student Media and Associate guidelines, then ? Director of Student Activities. anowed to As stated in the Carolina Com- frequency even t( munity handbook, "active mem- WUSC's studio eq bership in licensed student <<j don't think tha organizations shall be limited to 0f people cre nprcftnc nffipiallv rnnnpntpH wifh ? . . - - r~. ~ :J ,* ? tstuaent Meaia; University as faculty, staff, or full Emler said th time students." exists to keep s A PROPOSAL to allow part-time organizations an students to work at WUSC will go perience exclusive before the Student Organization But Fink said al Licensing Committee soon, Emler students add tc said. "It's totally up to them now," he process. "Most said. come here have o Nina Frankel, graduate assistant top 40 radio and for the station, said the proposal was a about the type of gue USC's '82-83 1 hp filf>s on thf? rnmnnfpr is thf? the McBrvde and Horsesho* r of housing and registration said the McBryde lists shou ^lor said. Students who com- by mid May. -age of 30 hours yearly should "They (Residential LifeSi ectly, he said. "We are keying (telephone) lists (f ve totals through the spring Pickney)...when students n Communications Direct BENT, who asked not to be L fheir names should ha id he was listed in the directory phone book," Macaulay sa re despite having completed 62 broRe down somewhere." end of the spring semester. "I a freshman last year, and I had ^ wen* *? sur then, too," he said. usc branch campuses wer . the directory because of un Coordinator Lucy Lawhead whether they would return I grades were entered into the campus in fall, Taylor sai( ay 19, almost a month before assumption (that these sti g\ven to the printer. return) ? right or wrong,'' T epnone numoers are acquirea TAYLOR SAID he did il Life Services from the Office abbreviations such as "F cations, Taylor said, adding sometimes appear after do al omissions may be because speculated it may be the wa ed into different dorms during interprets the dorm name. Langley said the 10 camf phone numbers in Legare- operators, who also handh :he Horseshoe, renovated prior ment numbers, have infor [982 semester, and McBryde revised each month. vere not listed in the directory. she said faculty and staff the McBryde omission was updated from state personne jrnities handle their own room student information is ta computer records, t OF Men's Housing David She urged students to kef id he did not know the cause of current as possible. taff shortage 'Every single one of the people they (USC's College of Engineering) offered a position to this year, they didn't get. They couldn't compete salary-wise.' m mm - (JSC President James Holderman The United States does not produce enough engineers to supply colleges and universities with the faculty they need, he said. "Japan produced five times per capita the number of engineers than the United States last year. The Soviet Union and West Germ.' ny also have more engineers than our country," he said. According to Waugh, no additional faculty members were hired last year to help teach about 1,400 undergraduates and more than 400 graduates in the engineering school. ickevs dismissed that the station year-old who can remember seeing irt if they were not ^e Beatles on television probably rt-time students knows a lot more about alternative tre were several rock music than an 18- or 19-year-old. ng alumni and part- ?^er DJs provide music disc jockeys. "We education for the younger ones." ?her authority," he Graduate assistant Frankel added t tell the FCC what "^e ?*der DJs help in training her people what to new ones- "When we have a new DJ, we can just tell him to listen to one Communications ^e ?^er ones to help him learn." require WUSC to Frankel also pointed out that most for 12 hours a day new ^sc jockeys have never been )Sted to 3 000 watts cajwscu iv dxicniuuvti rauiu, aiiu li ig people to cover usually takes about six months to pick Christmas, spring upon the music. will be difficult for The cuts ,n Personnel are also afnot allowed to hire fecting station programming, me students, Fink Frankel said the station is still operating on the same schedule but ot follow the FCC substitutions have been necessary to mother station can fill in for missing disc jockeys. share the same Specialty shows that depend on ) the extent of using certain elements of personality and uipment, Fink said. expertise have had to be cut, Frankel it anybody wants a said. eping around here They have already received some that don't belong." complaints on programing, according e activities policy to Frankel. She also pointed out that tudent media and the FCC expects WUSC to serve the i educational ex- greater Columbia area as well as ;ly for students. USC. umni and part-time WUSC has started a recruiting ) the educational drive for new disc jockeys, and the new students who station management hopes that this nly been exposed to will help the station find new talent, have a lot to learn Frankel said a lot of training will be music we use. A 25- necessary. :elephone directory e omissions. He ..IT>S NOX easy keeping up with 34,000 Id have been in students," she added. jrvices) had the Brewer said the directory's advertising, or Legare- done by Student Media production workers, loved in," said was well done. "The faculty and staff or Elizabeth (listings) were also surprisingly correct," he said. ve been in the id. "Something Problems with the directory are not new, Brewer said. "I was, as an undergraduate, nmer school at listed aU four years as either a sophomore e omitted from oraJun,or certainty about About 16,000 copies of the directory were ^ u:? . . - iu me ^uiumuia printed at a cost of $30,000, Brewer said. The i. "It's a basic printing cost is covered completely by jdents will not advertising revenues. aylor said. not know why " li" and "Us" _ rm names, but |mSIO ? y the computer . The Student Senate Academic Com HIS information mittee will recommend relaxation of the i state govern- attendance policy. Page three. mation that is USC stages a powerful production of information is 'Jhe "ir,May Party" <" Longstreet. Page 1 records, while ,, ken from the * Gamccoch football team gears up to meet the University of Cincinnati Bearcats >p their files as amid Ho ecominK activities. Page 13.