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Budget bo< By John Braun The state Budget and Control Board Friday tentatively approved the phaseout of USC's two-year occupational studies programs and a $750,000 cut of the USC School of Medicine's fiscal \9M hnriopt - O"*' By using the word "tentative,*' the board reserved the right to restore the funds when it discusses state university budgets in November. State schools now have until Nov. 1 to draw up their budgets. Friday's actions also included slashing the Medical University of South Carolina's budget by $750,000 for 1983-84. The Commission on Higher Education introduced the medical school and occupational studies proposals to the board last Tuesday. The board instructed CHE in September to determihe areas in state universities and colleges best ahl? to ahsnrh budget cuts totalling $3.5 million. THE BOARD Tuesday passed all of CHE's recommendations except the cuts in the medical schools and occupational programs. The board asked the commission to find other ways to trim $2.2 million from the higher education budget. CHE Chairman James Bostic told board members Friday that after discussing the 1) A # uuuru s requesi ior new proposals with CHE members, the commission decided to reaffirm its recommendations to the board. The commission, Bostic said, had discussed an across-the-board cut, but "there was almost universal agreement among commission members that we had done that too many times already and that, in 1984, to do that was going to one more time take us to some common level of mediocrity." Bostic said the state spends too much per ^i.? J ?. A. _ 4- 11 % % " * siuuem ai ine uat meaicai scnool, and that CHE felt the state per-student appropriation should be cut to $30,000 from its present level of more than $50,000. Bostic said surplus funding was necessary because the school had enough faculty to teach twice as many students as it now has (173). "WE LOOKED at this with the state auditor's office. One of the conclusions was...that the school could have delayed its placement of some portion of its faculty," Bostic said. "As you know, the enrollment 300 Clemson f jr . HHBHBHHHHHnl 1 fflnHr', ,/^H ji ill s ^Sju ^I H 1 J I & ?**J ; i S| ti'Wyiii-} g-j<^ iiiir!ia|tfiL|^**' * t^TpipBr .-j? , " ijj ^iiin. i?yiiQw<iii "W;v-.vf-: : : -v""r"v--U .- -; ?}: ^ Jk ' USC students Joey Pellicci and Elite Nelms si Clemson football ticket camp-out. They were tw ard tentati projections for the university medical school have not been achieved as planned, and it is our best judgment that it will be 1988 or '89 before the school could reach its maximum enrollment." USC Provost Francis Borkowski said the nnmhar nf ? ? ?1 * US tnvunjr (II U!C MlCJUCm SCI1UU1 WSS as low as it could be for the school to be accredited. "The staff has to be at a certain point so that all of the various...areas within...medical education can be covered adequately. That is directly related to the accreditation." Sen. Rembert. Dennis, Senate Finance Committee chairman, said the state is already committed to the expansion of the HSfl mwliral cphrml fhrnimh uviivui v1u uugll u1c ICUCIfll renovation of the Veteran's Administration hospital. "The federal government has spent $18 million in renovating these facilities, and these will be provided rent-free to the University of South Carolina," Dennis said of the Garners Ferry Road hospital. "THE COORDINATING of efforts and the elimination of duplication between the two medical schools is necessary and a must," Dennis said, "but any talk of eliminating the medical school at the Universitv of South Carolina or holding it status quo, I say in all candor, is to suggest violating agreements entered into and approved by the General Assembly of South Carolina." CHF1 approved the gradual phaseout of two-year occupational programs in the USC College of Applied Professional Sciences, Bostic said, so that USC can "continue io place its major emphasis and resources on the improvement of .its graduate,. and professional programs in business, law, education, liberal arts and the sciences." PUC tu.t 11 1 1 " ' vnu icvuiiiuicuucu nidi uie pnaseoui iasi three years, with no new students admitted to the .programs starting in fall 1983, Bostic said. The phaseout is expected to save USC $729,000 in the first year. He added that students already in the programs will have until 1985 to meet their degree requirements. MUSC'S $750,000 budget cut is meant to encourage me MUSC nospitai to collect unpaid medical bills, Bostic said, citing that last year's unfunded patient care cost the state $12.3 million. That total exceeds USC ootball tickets i ' jfl IHnlflf " : JB t Swte by WaWy Alptm rid friend "Stroh" party outdoors at the o of the 900 students at the camp out velv OKs I JISpsp mm ^y | -: (-' t- j~"'bB^-4'1' v - H ^ j| ~ HHKfrTx. v ._ v - PWBPqSy^aj^^rv :?>:<? ^ ^ymmPTWlMBB^'' ' -?--->* :' *?* < State Treasurer Grady Patterson (left) and C before the Budget and Control Board meeting cuts for two USC programs. medical school's $9.3 million budget. "We think that aggressive collection can in fact allow the medical school to achieve that reduction in the hospital budget," he said. Gov. Dick Riley was the only board meiuuer willing 10 accept the CHE recommendations without reservation. Riley, Dennis and state treasurer Grady Patterson agreed to tentatively accept the proposals. Rep. Tom Mangum and Comptroller General Earle Morris voted against the proposals. Morris originally voted to tentatively accept the recommendations, but remaining; only From Staff Reports Tho o 1 m rvc f OftA ? ^ 1 * AIIV uAiAtwv iiw i ciuctiiiiii]^ CarolinaClemson football game tickets from this weekend's camp-out will go on sale to students at 8:30 this morning at the Athletic Ticket Office, according to Dick Jordan, assistant ticket manager. For the second year in a row, no roll calls were taken during the camp-out. "I decided not to call roll because only about 900 students were there, and there were 1,750 tickets," Kyle Pruitt, Student Senate Athletic Committee chairman, said yesterday. He said he made the decision about 12:30a.m. yesterday. Christannp Rlirtnn anrl ciofofc rv , - - ?' %x- MliVI OIO VV^A O 1VUU1 L/CCp and Debbi Deep were the first three students in line, arriving at the Assembly Street tunnel about 1 p.m. Friday. "We didn't think we'd be the first people in line," said Debbi, a sophomore engineering major. "We just came to get good seats and have a good time," said Ruth, a . freshman business major, adding that their tickets were in the upper deck on the 50-yard line. Ruth said the three were on their way to Food Town u/hpn thou nooo/wJ *? "i-1 ?:? .... ........ ...v/j j/uo.n,u a gu 1 ?Ulllg the other way with a sleeping bag. "We were going to go to the game, but we decided then to go get in line," Ruth said. She said the three brought sleeping bags, a radio, food, "stuff to drink," pillows and backgammon and cribbage games to the campout. "We were going to go back home, but we didn't want to carry the stuff back up to the room," Burton said after finding out they were the first in line. Burton said they played cribbage, talked ISO outs Sjr ' Bpp; :' 7]j'i[- ' " ^mkr^II . * Fggjto?>: mmm ... - $*, ' ' v1" * ' * " ? '&'. *?.;V ':o: " .- v : ' :* - -'"'. -c*;,;i:.&? : > ' *>' ,' ;. ' ;. - . ^ y v ;: ,>V: . ^ 'J: ' < PtMta by Rich Iitwin omptroller General Earle Morris converse Friday. The board tentatively approved budget changed his vote when he realized Mangum had voted "no." BOSTIC TOLD the board of several proposals CHE is still studying, including: Merging the USC medical school with MUSC. _ ?. - ^iijuimciiiiig graauaie education programs at Clemson. Terminating graduate engineering programs at USC. Eliminating the doctoral business programs at Clemson. Terminating unaccredited business programs. 900 camp out to people and listened to the radio during the afternoon while waiting for the barricade in front of the tunnel to be lifted. Only one other person arrived before 4 p.m., she said. "It's just an excuse for a big party," she said about the campout. Burton said ?hp el?nt ahnut MAV^/V MK/VUV ^YVU Ill/Ul ?> "We kept waking up from time to time anyway," she said. Despite temperatures that dipped into the 30s, Ruth said she wasn't cold most of the time. "I got a little cold around five in the morning, but mostly it didn't bother me," she said. "I had four layers of clothing on, anyways." Burton said they got some attention from photographers because they were the first three in line. "We felt like celebrities," she said. "Some of the people we talked to said '(Jolly, you're number one?'" "I sat with a fraternity at the Clemson game last year," Burton said. "We just decided (this that i* j ?, ...?v ?v vv.auipiii^ uai; would be a fun thing to do." inside An illustrated history of USC, prepared by Institute for Southern Studies faculty members, goes on sale Nov. 1. Page three. The USC Dance Company's fall concert was a successful production of nine diverse works, selling out Longstreet Theatre Friday. Page eight. Second-ranked Duke University downed USC's soccer team 4-0 Sunday at the Graveyard. Page 10.