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2-year programs
under fire again
Two-year programs in the College of Applied
Professional Sciences are again under attack
from the Commission on Higher Education.
The Commission recommended that the
college's two-year programs be dissolved by 1985
as an alternate method in combatting recent
university budget cuts.
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January 1981, but the House Education and
Public Works Committee killed the proposal.
USC's intense lobbying led to the proposal's
death. Even George Rogers, 1981 Heisman
Trophy winner and General Studies student,
made a plug for the two-year programs before a
joint session of the General Assembly.
CHE's 1981 proposal was based on a report
made by a consulting firm. The report showed
that many of USC's two-year programs were
also available at Midlands Technical College.
To base proposals on such a report is
unrealistic. It is similar to not allowing a second
law school in South Carolina. Midlands Tec has
business programs; should USC be forced to
drop its business program because it is being
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mendation was as senseless as the current
recommendation is.
The College of Applied Professional Sciences is
a viable part of the university. Like every other
college, its purpose is to educate students and
prepare them for jobs. Its importance is not
lessened just because it is a two-year program.
Not all employees are interested in graduates
with a bachelor's degree.
CHE first recommended to end the two-year
programs only 21 months ago. To rehash the
issue so soon is a waste of taxpayers' time and
money. Surely, members of the House committee
who voted to kill the measure in 1981 will
not reverse their opinions so quickly.
With the state's educational level constantly
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educational issues. The recommendation to
eliminate USC's two-year programs is a stale
issue that doesn't deserve immediate review.
If the university's budget must be cut, there
are certainly other areas that could better
handle the cutbacks, areas on which students
aren't so dependent.
The proposal failed once already. Leave it
aione ana look tor something that really needs
attention.
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Editor:
While everyone is still mourning the
untimely death of our football team on
the field against Furman last
Saturday, I would like to make an
observation about the halftime performance
of the Carolina Band and
the performance of the football
players during halftime.
Because I know several members of
the band, I have watched the band
practice many times. The band
members work extremely hard to get
a halftime show together, ana thei^
tremendous work is rewarding both to
the people in the stands and to the
band members themselves. I know for
a fact that Saturday's halftime show
took two long weeks of practice to
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was at 5 p.m.
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will be here any minute now") students
the bus stop. By 6 p.m., only a few hui
students remained.
Every Monday and Wednesday, I arri
few minutes after 5 p.m. and watch thre<
the opposite direction, one right after tl
Graduate critic
Editor:
The Gamecock's slovenly reporting
this semester on disabled students'
issues has been unconscionable.
Twice, the Gamecock has reported
what appears to be administration
press releases on how wheelchairbound
students "have no . problem
finding a parking space" (Sept. 10,
page 4) and how handicapped parking
is the "primary function" of the
campus police (Oct. 6, page 1).
Neither of these articles even
mentioned that USC is facing a
serious lawsuit in federal court
because of the failure to enforce
wheelchair parking, not to mention
the administration's admitted policy
of trying to find the offender before
issuing a ticket, presumably while the
wheelchair-bound student waits and
misses class.
Can you imagine the campus
parking patrol attempting to locate
violators in reserved parking spaces,
restricted parking lots or in metered
spaces before issuing a ticket? Of
course not!
The most recent article (Oct. 13,
page 1) which cast Brenda Cooper,
head of Disabled Student Services, in
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practices took place on a wet, boggy
field.
Their performance on Saturday was
admirable. Furman's bnd also
performed and took the first 10
minutes of the halftime to do its show.
With 10 minutes remaining, the more
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marched onto the field and began
their show. With five minutes
remaining, the Furman and USC
players rolled back onto the Astroturf.
What followed apalled not only
myself but the students seated around
me. Several football players on both
teams, obviously looking for the
brains that fell out of their helmets at
the end of the first half, began to
wander aimlessly through the stillperforming
Carolina Band. Several
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;izes stories on
such an unfavorable light, failed to
mention that DSS is plagued with
drastic financial cutbacks, shortages
of help and poor quarters from which
to operate. DSS is the only administrative
office which even tries to
render solid assistance to the many
disabled students attending USC.
Why doesn't the Gamecock
examine the Federal Rehabilitation
Act of 1973 and then take a really
hard-nosed look at whether the
university is in compliance with this
act, and if not, why not?
The student newspaper is supposed
to be a watchdog of the administration,
not a mouthpiece and a
public relations rag for the
bureaucracy. Holly O.tlin,
Graduate, College of Journalism. 1972
Editor's note:
The Gamecock ran two front-page
stories concerning the lawsuit Ms.
Gatling discusses in the third
paragraph of her letter.
In the July 7 Gamecock, a story
entitled "Former student sues USC
officials" reported that Wayne
for band
Furman players began to pass a
football over the heads of the
majorettes, who were bravely trying
to ignore the whizzing football, flying
only inches above their heads.
While this kind of disrespect could
be expected from Furman, was there
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be Just as bad? Without the band, it
seems quite likely that the stands
would become as lifeless as the
football team.
I feel that the band deserves an
apology from both Richard Bell and
Dick Sheridan. Next time, the two
coaches should make sure their
players are better behaved before
taking off their chains and unleashing
them to wreak havoc on a group of
hard-working students. John Deiner
Journalism sophomore
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join the students at the Capstone bus stop
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ones. Oh, and you might want to
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Andy Shaw
Broadcasting junior
handicapped
Cockfield, a former (JSC student,
claims in a suit that he was prevented
from going to class by problems with
campus handicapped parking.
As stated in the article, Cockfield's
suit, filed May 18 in U.S. District
Court, contends this problem is a
violation of Section 504 of the 1973
Rehabilitation Act, also mentioned in
Ms. Gatling's letter.
The story also included quotes from
pertinent university officials.
Another article in that same issue
entitled "Recent USC graduates
discuss parking problem" reported
that two handicapped USC graduates
agreed there was a handicapped
parking problem on campus.
Ms. Gatling also mentioned stories
dealing with disabled students in the
Sept. 10 and Oct. 6 Gamecocks. The
quotes Ms. Gatling mentions were
from university officials and were not
taken from administration press
releases. The quotes were also the
opinions of the administration, not the
Gamecock, and were clearly labeled
as such.