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* South .Caroliniana?Library Horses^00 I buuTIoWTI ,m& I U.S. POSTAGE ^ - PAID mam *?*%,? I I Permit No. 213 - Pfi P I j Columbia, S. C. 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. "Tne 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. According to USC President James Holderman, about 80 to 85 percent of the USC budget goes to salaries. The state has cut university funding $4.6 million for next fiscal year, an 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 WUSC assistant sports director Scott Wilborn checks the radio station's record library. The station recently dismissed five disc jockeys because they were nonstudents. Problems, errors pla By John Braun Updating tl Problems with the USC Telephone responsibilitj Directory are nothing new, but some officials, Taj university officials are at a loss to explain hir aVG1 whey some errors in this year's phone book be listed corr occurred. off cumulati In a random sampling of 25 students, the semester. fZsitfr>iinrl nnlu nino ontrioc th'it tnni'n AME1 ctiii v/m>>>c.vv^rv ivunu vi?ij iuiiv vimivo umv nviv OI Ul complete and error-free. identified, sai Common mistakes include unexplained asasophomo abbreviations, missing local addresses, hours at the < wrong classifications, omitted students and was **s i missing telephone numbers. more than 301 Cnhn/^i Jinrf kJVlAVUUllll^ JERKY BREWER, assistant to the dean said spring i of Student Affairs, said Thursday the in- system by M formation listed in the directory comes from the data was t student computer records entered by student teh housing and registration officials. Students i R H are responsible for keeping their data files 0f Communi< up to date, he said. that 'individui "It's the hardest thing in the world to keep students mov up with students when they move around," the summer. Brewer said. Some tele] Student files were sent to the printer in FMnckney on t late June or early July this year, according to *aJ' 1 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 frate assiflnnipnts always tnrows mem on, ne saiu. rve ? been here 13 years and I'd say I've been DIRECTOI (listed) wrong 13years." Macaulay sai chool fac Education denied $2.3 million for salary use. The commission recommended requirement that colleges fund 25 percer U ? lr/\n /m/vvm ! MniS 4* >42 1 ^ ^ JL1 1115c UCIICIU llllVCd II UIU UlSllLULlUIlcil IUUU approves. The commission also recommended Assembly provide no special appropriatioi enhancements this year and opt instead more flexibility in shifting funds and gra state salary caps. The recommendation appears to be a Clemson University, both of which have years for extra money to increase salar petitive technical disciplines, accordii newspaper. Clemson received only $200,000 in salary of $500,000 requested. Waugh said U.S. universities generally hiring faculty. "The entire field of engine The demand for engineers just keeps goi hac nn nrnKlomc finrlincf n inK '' nnU mu i?w uuiviuo linuiiig a juu, lie sdiu. Five WUSC i By Jeff Drains Five WUSC-FM disc jockeys have been dismissed because they are not USC students. The Activities Office is still deciding what to do about part-time students who are employees of the university's radio station. A provision in the station's constitution that allowed honorary members enabled WUSC to hire people who were not full-time students, said Marc Fink. WITSf! station manager. But the Activities Office assumed that these honorary members would be full-time students, in accordance with their regulations, since alumni or part-time students are not mentioned in the provision, according to Ron Emler, coordinator of Student Media and Associate Director of Student Activities. As stated in the Carolina Community handbook, "active membership in licensed student organizations shall be limited to persons officially connected with the University as faculty, staff, or full MmPstnHpntc " A PROPOSAL to allow part-time students to work at WUSC will go before the Student Organization Licensing Committee soon, Emler said. "It's totally up to them now," he said. Nina Frankel, graduate assistant for the station, said the proposal was a mm i IQP'c ' Q yuc uuu o u tie files on the computer is the the McB ' of housing and registration said the ^lor said. Students who com- by mid M *age of 30 hours yearly should "They ectly, he said. "We are keying (t e 1 e p Y ve totals through the spring Pickney) Commuj )ENT, who asked not to be ^^*Their d he was listed in the directory Dhone b< re despite having completed 62 L . end of the spring semester. "I a freshman last year, and I had Studen then, too," he said. (JSC bra ^ ^ ? u- ^ the direc Coordinator Lucy Lawhead whether grades were entered into the campus ay 19, almost a month before assumpti given to the printer. return)>phone numbers are acquired TAYL< il Life Services from the Office abbrevia nations, Taylor said, adding sometim al omissions may be because speculate ed into different dorms during interpret Langle phone numbers in Legare- operator; he Horseshoe, renovated prior ment nu 982 semester, and McBryde revised e /ere not listed in the directory. She saj **,.r* : : iiiu mem yue omission was updated I unities handle their own room student computei i OF Men's Housing David She ur; d he did not know the cause of current a es staff s enhancements at . ,u 'Every single eliminating the 1 a it of all raises and (USC's College i Is, if the legislature posjtjon tQ thjs that the General. They Couldn't C n for faculty salary I to allow colleges nting raises above imed at USC and t lobbied in recent IT .. . _4 ies in highly com- f United States ig to The State supply colleges and ? he said. "Japan produced r enhancements out engineers than the Ui and West Germany are having trouble country," he said, ering is wide open. According to Waug ng up. A graduate hired last year to hel] more than 400 gradua iisc jockeys ( compromise and that the station would really be hurt if they were not allowed to keep part-time students. Fink said there were several problems with losing alumni and parttime students as disc jockeys. "We are ruled by a higher authority," he said. "People don't tell the FCC what to do, they tell other people what to do." The Federal Communications Commission will require WUSC to remain on the air for 12 hours a day when they are boosted to 3,000 watts, Fink said. Getting people to cover those hours over Christmas, spring break or summer will be difficult for WUSC if they are not allowed to hire alumni or part-time students, Fink said. IF WUSC cannot follow the FCC guidelines, then another station can be allowed to share the same frequency, even to the extent of using WUSC's studio equipment, Fink said. "I don't think that anybody wants a ioi or peopie creeping arouna nere (Student Media) that don't belong." Emler said the activities policy exists to keep student media and organizations an educational experience exclusively for students. But Fink said alumni and part-time students add to the educational process. "Most new students who come here have only been exposed to top 40 radio and have a lot to learn about the type of music we use. A 252-83 telephon rvdp and Horsoshoo omissions Hp J - - II McBryde lists should have been in stude [ay. (Residential Life Services) had the Br< lone) lists (for Legare- done i...when students moved in," said was nications Director Elizabeth distil he sa names should have been in the x>k," Macaulay said. "Something Pre wn somewhere.'' Brew ts who went to summer school at nch campuses were omitted from oraJl :tory because of uncertainty about Ab< they would return to the Columbia print* in fall, Taylor said. "It's a basic printi ion (that these students will not advei -right or wrong," Taylor said. )R SAID he did not know why ' .. tions such as "Hi" and "Us" es appear after dorm names, but I fti ?d it may be the way the computer s the dorm name. * J y said the 10 campus information mitte 5, who also handle state govern- atten mbers, have information that is ach month. L < I'PL . id faculty and staff information is "rom state personnel records, while ' information is taken from the r records. meet ged students to keep their files as ami" is possible. ? Shortage one of the people they of Engineering) offered a year, they didn't get. ompete salary-wise.' - USC President s Holderman does not produce enough engineers to jniversities with the f? Ity they need, five times per capita the number of nited States last year. The Soviet Union also have more engineers than our h, no additional faculty members were p teach about 1,400 undergraduates and tes in the engineering school. lismissed year-old who can remember seeing the Beatles on television probably knows a lot more about alternative x wiv music uidii an ltt- or iy-year-oia. The older DJs provide music education for the younger ones." Graduate assistant Frankel added that "the "Mer DJs help in training the new ones. "When we have a new DJ, we can just tell him to listen to one of the older ones to help him learn." Frankel also pointed out that most new disc jockeys have never been exposed to alternative radio, and it usually takes about six months to pick up on the music. The cuts in personnel are also af fecting station programming. Frankel said the station is still operating on the same schedule but substitutions have been necessary to fill in for missing disc jockeys. Specialty shows that depend on certain elements of personality and expertise have had to be cut, Frankel said. They have already received some complaints on programing, according to Frankel. She also pointed out that the FCC expects WUSC to serve the greater Columbia area as well as use. WUSC has started a recruiting drive for new disc jockeys, and the station management hopes that this will help the station find new talent. Frankel said a lot of training will be necessary. e directory rs NOT EASY keeping up with 34,000 :nts,"she added. jwer said the directory's advertising, by Student Media production workers, well done. "The faculty and staff rigs) were also surprisingly correct," id. iblems with the directory are not new, er said. "I was, as an undergraduate, all four years as either a sophomore jnior." Hit 16,000 copies of the directory were ?d at a cost of $30,000, Brewer said. 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