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.opinion Clemson pen m> m torce examir Clemson University's footb week received one of the stifft handed down by the National C Association. The Tigers were ruled ineligi games until tne 1984 season, sc cut from 30 to 20 for the next tw and the team will be prohibiten rtf itc rtomoc foloincoH lura unfi VI iW ^MAiAVkJ WVAV IOV/U Ai VV/ UilVI The Atlantic Coast Conferei more severe, prohibiting the Ti in a bowl game for three yean Several disturbing facts mus Clemson's embarrassing affaii This is not the first time C department has been involve virfn Tm 1 fV7C uceuiiigd. in 1 uic Vyiciiiau gram was slapped with a thr< and a cutback in scholarship violations. Clearly such a har message to Clemson to play b> But instead of cleaning up its tinued to cheat, this time in fo has listed 69 charges and mo: tions against Clemson dating t academic year. Some violate 1981 and '82, meaning the at! and its representatives were bi as the NCAA was in the midst vestigation of previous violatic The football and basketball tions have taken place unde presidents (Bill Atchley and R. football coaches (Danny Ford current head coach at the Uni\ one basketball coach (Tates athletic director (Bill McClelU of these six individuals must hf 4" V> r* nUnriAn ^ ui uic auuaca guiug un. 11 charge? Atchley said Clemson persoi athletics will review NCAA rul periodically in the future to be tand them. But the people who acw>, v;ciis cinu udsu iu pre athletes knew they were doing question of knowing the rules; breaking them and trying not Atchley said, "Personnel fr on down in thft nroErram" havi by actions such as probation, reductions, a ban on rec reprimands, assignment to removal from the football proj But if Atchley were serious athletics will play a proper rc would have simply severed CI those guilty of violations, let cheating will not be tolerated The penalties imposed by t ACC will force Clemson to loo Thft drivp tft h#? ISJn 1 in cnnrh ?? * v -w PVV A t v? A U|/\/A v%u school's reputation, image an< "Anyone who thinks the tai this campus is in for a big sh< last week. Atchley's words ha them, however, because that's ? ? - - - oeen nappening during the pa up to Clemson to show ? thr< that it isn't so anymore. r??Gomeco ji Kditor-in-<'hief Richard Meyers Copy Desk Chief . David DeWitt Opinioi Asst. Copy Desk Chief Kay Bender Wire K News Kditor John Braun Photo I Asst. 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USC, Columbia, S.C. 29208. laities lation ??13 all program last 5st penalties ever U T Collegiate Athletic II i P\ v UI ble to play in bowl y\> holarships will be ? 0 academic years 0\ WVhiinTI 1 from having any [1 the 1985 season. ice's penalty was gers from playing it be questioned in fm WS !lemson's athletic jllL fuL id with unethical n basketball pro- SHE ee-year probation is for 150 alleged ?h npnaltv u/nc a """ rv"?*v ** sgasMfflBfflfflHHHMHi / the rules. ?= act, Clemson con otball. The NCAA _l?tt?fS re than 150 viola >ack to the 1976-77 C? 3ns took place in qj ICiXg S iletic department eaking rules even The irony of south Of its 19-month in- rejt lQw ranking i >ns achievement is that 1 state often has been ai prugranis viuia- progressive states in i T two university vanced educational C. Edwards), two creating the legal frai and Charlie Pell novat,ve measures in ana cnarne reii, tion It ranked fjrs rersity of Florida), southern and middle Locke), and one creation and almoj in). At ieasrt one maintenance of a pub ive had an inkling an* supported system not who was in and secondary school ' W WaS Revolutionary War. Between 1712 am mel involved with Carolina's governing b es and regulations pulsory the establisl sure they unders- schools for the use of al offered television Province. _Two acts ?" created in unaries 1 xspective student Wide elementary ai wrong. It wasn't a school with thr je tei it was a matter Of quent legislation Cc to get caught. establishment and pub: &,u . & , colony-wide school i Om the top levels (Summerville). B been disciplined The Assembly name salary freezes or members, establis ruitinc written qualifications and sal? other duties and curriculum offerings, p omer auues ana supervision of teachers gram. by the school board, in his claim that funds for teachers'. >le at Clemson, he school facilities. The lemson's ties with provided first aid for _ , , outstrip ftf rhorliw Tm Xing people Know funds*for the salary of at Clemson. nis of Goose Creek, he NCAA and the the first "state a k closely at itself, school districts (paris* ; has damaged the salaries and school bui i integrity. ^on was authorized 1 waEfs the do? on under the December 1 , ,Pa 4 U1 ^ .j The construction of t )Ck, Atchley said school building was b< ve a hollow ring to Town in 1725. From 1 5 exactly what has free public school St few vears It is political and social tui >Ugh its actions - ony; however after & was maintained contir terrupted by the Revo Except for a perio< ^ 1.# Revolutionary War, has provided without i legal framework for a public education. Bel 1900, it was among th KdU?r Le.lieKau charter a state c( ditor Sydne Waller , ... , editor Andy Putnam establish a state-wi hoto Kditor John Osborn public elementary sch I Manager Ron Emler "free school" act of r Mark Ethridge. jr. mained essentially u T .. U?d? S?"?7' 1868, the state was div is Manager . . Jean Hatchell . . , .. tlon Manager Mark McEwan districts, local SChOOl 1 pointed by the legisla i8in? 7774249 funds for teacher Hon 777-2833 aiiuvaicu anu uiauursl iitorials. All letters and guest SOllth CSFOlillH Qp a 65 space-line. been the first state to nd guest editorials should be aid for textbooks. If ian four typed pages Letters state-wide conference he writer s name, telephone hel(j Its firgt gtate R prepare teachers for was established in 181 id fetters. I with a high school f( e Editor, Gamecock, Drawer, School W8S Complete twenty years after th wsIalwHI f 'EMNlLffiWy I CMENHF ,-J H 11 i education! Carolina's curr* n/^i mofi Anol ?? ? ?? - " guesi ec ustorically the mong the more -ecognizing ad- first normal sch(x ideas and in States. mework for in- A major restruct public educa- system of schools \ it among the the 1868 state consti colonies in the ting legislation crea st continuous board of education, licly controlled state superintenden of elementary first state textbook c nrinr t/i fho .j pnvi vvr wit Uic liiai CUUIlty uua which had responsi i 1777 South and certifying appli< ody made com- positions in the put lment of two county. Among the 1 inhabitants of provisions of the co passed in 1712 requirement that \ A- H __ At A wwii a uuiuny- open 10 an wiinoui id secondary color and that a c ichers. Subse- dance law be pass< illed for the system was establ lie support of a wide compulsory a n Dorchester tion was passed ur tion, but a compulso d school board was enacted in 1876 tuy U1 v^umuiuiu u iries, specified County. >rovided for the SOUTH CAROLI1 i and the school tional journal, The and allocated was founded in 1876 salaries and the state's first nor June 1712 act waG supported sole a public school anu ?rao uuuci UIC L vn by allowing jn Agnes Irvii Benjamin Den- Charleston (mur Asylum, took initij id" for all local the first kinder^ les) for teacher Carolina to be connt tiding construc- institution. The foil and disbursed phanage board supp 1712 legislation. gram by allocating he first public private funds. ?gun in Charles The major educat 712 to 1730, the the 1868 constituti reflected the over into the preser moil in the col- as amended. There 1730 the school tant exceptions. F rnously until in- was made to compi lutionary War. Second, and of mor< ft following the sequences, was the South Carolina children of one rac< interruption the attend schools prov i system of free Sixty years later G< :ween 1800 and in a message to a j< O finnf t/. " J " 1 c ttioi aujuca iu nuuse una ?) imi6, allege and to pared with the profc de system of all other state iooIs. Under the "trivial." 1811, which re- From 1951 to 1954 nchanged until fort was made by th iHpH intn er?hiv?1 Hio o^nnnUnnni 14IV CUU\.UllUiml boards were ap- and white students iture, and state wide school buildi salaries were state-wide transp 3d. were inaugurated; pears to have time state allocatioi Authorize state a view to equalizing i 1850, its first class sizes, curricul of teachers was The fervor of som ormal school to "revolution" was c the free schools Supreme Court's d< 37 in connection Brown (segregatioi >r females. The major thrust tow d in 1859, only resulted from press e opening of the government to elim ^ ]?p ^OMIMq il roi?nrrl ii i iiuui y THR liforial which )1 in the United those i tion fe uring of the state indirei vas mandated by school; tution. Implemen- levels, ted the first state vested the first office of 30 cor t of education, the thirds commission, and distric irds of examiners A h ibility for testing establi cants for teaching before lie schools of the direct > more "radical" given nstitution was the Colur )UDlic schools be m;aue regard to race or Penns; ompulsory atten- first qi id as soon as the Caroli; lished. No state- respor ttendance legisla- tionfo ider the constitu- for a f ry attendance law privat that applied to the and pi nrl tr? Phorlocfnn Of edlli VV V*H4* VV44 ^ of priv MA'S first educa- r Carolina Teacher, ahdica by the principal of privat nial school which signifi !ly hy state funds ntient < ontrol of the state. a11 ,ev fig, director of the ,.Noj licipal) Orphan JJ16 ! il steps to create Caroli jarten in South ?Y?r a jcted with a public V1"e P owing year the or- populf >orted the new proI money from its P.p* histor ional provisions of s^ ion were carried school it 1895 Constitution level, } were two impor- fjradu irst, no reference annua _i.i i sinns i nisuiy uiteiiuance. * 5 far-reaching con- gave t mandate that the ? e were "never" to hordei ided for the other. appro] ov. James Byrnes, limite< lint monfinrr nf fVia ITlCCliC stated that com- 1944, < "em of integration all hl? problems were ^ad a .. than 5 the first maj0r ef- entire e state to equalize and f orUuuties of black Biehl* ' ifte first state- In t "g program and tional ortation system match find for the first ticulaj is were made wi th P?**t. ' recall la and materials. JHisor e supporters of the liminished by the Hls:( Jcisiori in the 1954 n) case. The next ard equalization public ?ure of the federal The inate the still une- a USC ironic LOUGHOUT the first 200 years, Carolina continued a poiicy of laintaining public schools in the poor attended free and vho were able to do so paid tuies, and of (2) giving direct and ;t aid to privately-controlled L.!-L. 1 - J i.! a ii s which uiierea education ai an Between 1795 and 1836 the state escheated property in almost porations in more than twoof the state's election (school) ts ictor in Columbia's failure to ish a public school system 1880 was the very generous and indirect city and state aid the incorporated trustees of the nbia Male and Female mics. Clearly, as in the case of ylvania and New York in the narter of the 19th century, South na intended to limit its state isibility to elementary educar the poor and higher education ew young men, and to leave to e corporations, aided by public *ivate funds, the major burden cation. The phenomenal growth rate academies in the 19th ceneflects in a large measure the ttion of secondary education to e interests and clearly was a ? jr? it _i, j ?i ? emu lauiui in ukj siuw ueveiupof the state's public schools at els. single factor has so determined lliteracy rankings of South na as the failure of the state period of many decades to proublic education for its non-white ition. In 1929, three high schools led state high school diplomas to students for the first time in the y of the state. In 1940, 13 counill did not have accredited high s for blacks. At the college five four-year colleges were ating about 200 black students lly. The legislature made provin 1946 which, for the first time, >lack students an opportunity to i graduate schools within the rs of the state. At the same time, priations were authorized for a d number of blacks to attend al schools outside the state. In :>nly approximately one-fifth of ick elementary-school teachers bachelor's degree. Of the more >,000 teachers, only eight in tne state held masters' degrees; ive of those teachers were in md County. he past, the rhetoric of educaleadership often has not been ted by legislative action, parrly in the area of financial supPerhaps more persons should a statement by Justus K. i, South Carolina's first state ntendent of education. He said: >ry records no instance where a i have been made bankrupt by >eral expenditures in behalf of education." author is Dr. Judith R. Joyner, College of Education professor.