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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
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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.
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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
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/ 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
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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
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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.