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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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' 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)
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)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
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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
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phone numbers in Legare- operator;
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982 semester, and McBryde revised e
/ere not listed in the directory. She saj
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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
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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
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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. The
ng cost is covered completely by
Using revenues.
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dance policy. Page three.
JSC stages a powerful production of
Birthday Party" at Longstreet. Page
he Gamecock football team gears up to
the University of Cincinnati Bearcats
Homecoming activities. Page 13.