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h ffldaM MIhI m mSS ML December 3, 1982 ,1 IbhJ -1 i B A >- I B University of South Carolina | a m a I, H voi.75,no.46 II Universil Rw Rirhnrri Mmumtc Former USC football coach $50,Q00-a-year contract with th to fire four assistant coaches, A said yesterday aftern mi. Bell, who posted a 4-7 recor toiAo Kt r Moi*/inn LuaLii, vrao tn tu mj itacikv.mii refusing to dismiss defensi\ defensive end coach Bob Roe Keith Colson and receivers' coa "I sent him (Bell) a directiv< he didn't do it," Marcum said y< BELL, REACHED at his ho comment on his dismissal or on his four-year contract by refu coaches. Marcum said he met with season's end to discuss tne iooh "Throughout our series of dii that Coach Bell and I were not corrective action was required statement released late Wedne "I advised Coach Bell of tli nhancrM ns woll as nthpr nnn-i declined to make the changes coaching staff/' Marcum's sta MARCUM SAID the decisioi made and sent to the presi Holderman)." When reached for com Holderman said, "Marcum hai and I think he's handled it well he's kept us appropriately info "I am thoroughly suDnorti operates, and the athletic dire< Holderman refused to say ar AT THE FACULTY Senate Bell's firing was announced, I with Marcum's performance a j Poll indie By Forre$t Brown USC students' reaction to th Richard Bell has been overw to a random sampling taken b; f The Gamecock questioned s the firing, and almost all the "not fair." Typical was Jennifer Woote "I DON'T REALLY think i chance. You have to have ( journalism sophomore said. Most students interviewed did riot have enough time to I 9 team. "I don't think Coach Bell sh can be expected to have ai season. It takes time to buih I Bell should have been giv Tammy Lane, an undeclared Ninety po By John Braun Ninety positions will be elii during 1983-84, but tenured fj r? ? ttcp i> Iitic attic iui a wiuic, udv it. Holderman told the Facult nesday. "After considerable del attention, we have determi now be necessary to phase c positions of tenured faculty think that is something all of * 1*1 - 4 - A. A I we wouia nice 10 pui on 10 end." Holderman said a fact chaired by Provost Frank recommended $2 million in i instruction and support s< reduce the $10.7-million pi deficit for the next fiscal yea Holderman did not ela academic reductions, but s services reductions include taxi service, the Alumni several university catalogs. ires Rit ty not obligat 'I ad i Richard Bell nullified his . e university when he refused 018 K0 1 athletic Director Bob Marcum gf||gr | d in his first year as a head dBClilll i late Wednesday night for romigM re coordinator Larry New, * BfjUe* , defensive secondary coach ch Jerry Sullivan. - A- 1 11 ?I 1- .U/l s iu inaKe muse cuauges, aim esterday. "I thii me yesterday, said he had no a man v whether he felt he had broken who is i sing to fire the four assistant anymor Departr Bell several times since the Holdern toll program's future. Marci scussions, it became apparent coaches ? 1 ? A. 1?i in toiai agreement as iu wirai uuc^iu, Marcum said in a prepared of. sday night. "It w ic need to make certain staff progres personnel changes. Coach Bell that I requested involving the BELI tementsaid. over Pa last gai i to fire Bell was "a decision I arch-rh dent (USC President James A team spvpn d ment yesterday afternoon, team, s handled it from the beginning Marc , and I support the system, and defense rmed. V . v veryhij ve of the system) the way it out wii :tor." ; 5 (defens ly more about Bell's firing. Marc ^ several 3 meeting Wednesday, before Marcui lolderman said he was pleased pick his is flthlfttir director. :ates negati\ Not e firing of Head Football Coach react*c helmingly negative, according 44?E y the Gamecock Thursday. _t?.rti fn/lanfc oKnnf fhoir roQpfinnc tn . . lUUVlltO UMVUV fxvift IVUVV1VI1U vvr students thought the firing was ^5 rig worse reaction. thewh t's fair. He really didn't have a "'Sa? room for improvement," the Coach by the Gamecock thought Bell Buti build the quality of the football "Itt undecl lould have been fired. No coach persor 1 undefeated team in his first (firetl i a good football program, and nice m en more of an opportunity," freshman, said. "IW sitions to be Two vice president minated^tUST end of the year v Holderman added resident James Despite the $2 m y Senate Wed- repeated his warnii . increase for fall 19* liberation and million problem" left ned it will not "Certainly a portio >ut or eliminate met by a tuition incn f" he said. "I think there's any wa nrf??AA ? XI A. _ uswuumagicc nappens, mai we c? the very, very stantial tuition increi ilty committee ^However, Holdern Borkowski has . ^ieve that he will reductions from increaws for in-state jrvices to help cover the entire $8 mi ojected. budget USC's budget prol r. state-wide economic borate on the not a dimension wh aid the support solve by itself and > eliminating the that to state agent Cordially, and legislature. I can a leave no stone unl shard Be ed to honor co uSquH Hnarh Roll nf thn nnnH fn m wwma wcv w certain staff changes, as well as non-personnel changes. Coach Bell 9d to make the chenges that I >ted involving the coaching staff. ? USC Athletic Dii Bob Mi ik with Bob Marcum as director of athletics w< vho is first and foremost an ethical athletic di iinning a very tight ship, and I do not get in1 e ? thankfully ? in the activities of the A nent. And it's a very pleasant experi< nan said. 1m said 3ell felt he could not fire the asi and, "I certainly respect his opinion...He h >? kt?f T rtlori linvtA fKa fnfnl v\rA(tram y w uuim vii, uuv x aiou na v uiv wtot p& vgi am v rasnJt a question of losing, it was a quest sing," Marcum said. /S TEAM opened the year with two impressiv icific and Richmond. But the team lost five of nes, including two 30-point losses and a 24-6 ra\ Clemson. USC's only win over an NCAA Div this season was a 17-14 win over Navy. Amc lefeats was a 28-23 loss to Furman, a Divisio um said he felt Bell's coaching system empl : at the expense of offense. "Our expectation to ih on defense and not so much offensively, We: Ji probably more players and experience < lira^ oiftanf fhft fiolil ..V ' v.- * v* miv a?vau. - v"."/ . .1, . . um said he has already asked permission to head coaches in search of Bell's replac n said whoever is selected as the head coac j own people. See "Bell ie student rea all students in the Gamecock poll gave n inc tn Roll's firim* hnu/fivpr WAS FIRED because he wasn't following ons of him (Athletic Director Bob Marcum),' y, a senior biology major, said. "If he wasn't d ht, he should have been fired. The team seeme the whole year. They seemed to lack the right d ole year. Four and seven (record) is pretty bad lould give someone else a shot. least with Coach Carlen, we had a winning Carlen had a lot to offer the team," O'Kelly sal 3ther reactions in the poll were generally negat link they didn't give him a chance," Angela Nic lared freshman, said. "I think it centered aroui Wwttfr T fkinlr Ho harl (ho haarj IlICi cunilgco, UUV 1 uuu i kiiinn Iiv nuu uiv I?uu> < he assistant coaches). For one, I heard he was tan. I heard the football players liked him a lot. WASN'T HAPPY with the news," Charles Hoed, terminated at I s who will retire at the university case for vill not be replaced, possibly can." Holderman also c< illion cut, Holderman made by a committi lg of a major tuition Higher Education t< 13 to alleviate the "$8 two-year campuses after the program cut. think that that prof n of that will have to be " hopefully sc ease," he said. "I don't U.?C ' Wl certainlj y, unless some miracle attention lobbying an avoid a fairly sub- In other Senal ase." unanimously passe nan said he does not system that will i recommend" the $400 Community next y< students necessary to passed by the Stude illion deficit. The proposal was 3lems are indicative of wording changes, woes, he said. "This is The Senate also i*?h thi? nniversitv can for undergraduate ve need to directly say new regulation in* :y leadership and the students taking in ssure you that we will elective may not re :urned in making the for the course anc II ntract, Ma rector # ^ solved a v ^ thletic SMEM^AW^ as his Jk?L% o think Jm 1^ ion of BP V e wins V its six loss to ision 1- ? r ?ng the i. r-iS n 1-AA *?? lasized ? /el was started fri that r'M talk to Former (JSC Head Fa h^'wili *'r8C* '8te Wednesday i assistant coaches, acc I," page 4 hod Marcum. iction to E egative chemistry major, said don't think it's fair. It c Hood added that if tl the in- Marcum, the firing coi ' Frank Some neonle thouch oinghis of pressure because d to get dismissal this past yea irection "I don't think he wj . I think with the team," Weatherbee said. "He season, left. Then again, it's B d. thinks he didn't do eno ive. OTHER STUDENT! :hols, an coaches on the payroll ndsome university. t to do it "It's pretty odd v/e 1 a pretty when they're paying '' sophomore education Sally McGill, a jur a senior mn i i _ i i. uau, nome as much funding as we hour; towa jm men ted oi) a proposal Th ee of the Commission on J[Je a r\ /iIaoa At* ml\r*ri?\ T TCP'o tllG ' IS tll/OC \Jk UUV O with other schools. "1 c^an K>sal will die of its own photi on," he said, adding that * f spend a great deal of an(*{ to defeat the proposal. ?? :e news, me senate ?^ d the student discipline 11| replace the Carolina jar. The proposals were < nt Senate on Nov. 15. beer ; passed with only minor . are changed the guidelines seas independent study. The eludes stipulations that dependent study as an sceive grade-point credit Pag 1 that no more than 15 = I rcum says H ^BHr v V. k. ~ i W^L. jfi' i ffiHHHHHi otball Coach Richard Bell was right lor refusing to dismiss four ording to USC Athletic Director IaII'o fSrinn ICII o 111 iiioj . "If it's because of his losing season, I loesn't seem fair to me." here were problems between Bell and lid be a little more understandable, t Bell was under an enormous amount of former head coach Jim Carlen's v? >1 as given an adequate chance to work Freshman economics major Amy had to pick up the pieces after Carlen. lob Marcum's decision to fire him if he ugh for the team." S expressed exasperation about having I whn arp nn longer activelv servinc the lave to worry about the tuition increase all these coaches," Jack Nichols, a major, said. lior journalism major, said Bell may See "Student Reaction," page 3 mnan savs s of independent study may be applied rd an undergraduate degree. e Senate also passed major changes in ssociate degree program curriculum in College of Nursing, as well as minor ges in the College of Journalism ^journalism requirements and clarified cognate requirements in the Theatre Speech Department. side Some students at the ELM Center have i sending in the clowns for God. Page 3. Three area theaters, including USC's, staging productions during the holiday ion. Page 8. Football players and coaches from other wis react to the firing of Richard Bell. e JO.