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< ? ? DUI bill passes p. 3 jP??? j&todg&L dSSBt^ 1! mm ^JcfcXjy Plays succeed, fail p. 8 BT gigg mr* Atfr April 8,1983 USC meets Miami p. 10 ^^CT^WbB W I R ^?|l PTrI University of South Carolina te:-agM ^HHj^Hk H i SHttk S W H 1 1 vjP Photo by Mary Ann H< Government end International Studies professor Dom Weatherbee was one of many faculty Senators to debate t phaseout of the Center for Undeclared Majors Wednesday. Cnmmissinn annri W V H M % By Associated Press The state Commission on Higher Education rejected proposal to merge South Carolina's two medical schools 1 decided to set up an overseer board by a 9-6 vote yesterday Now on its way to the General Assembly, the plan draft by the commission's Health and Medical Education Co mittee would establish a board of directors to reguk enrollment and budgets for both schools. Commissioner Louis Wright, chairman of the medi< committee, said it was an attempt to contain costs and < sure quality through better cooperation between the Medi< ITniuPrcitv nf Smith Parrtlina 011H tho T Tninnrt>lfxr Cm v?*i t VI v/1 MX/UVX v/UJ. Will 114 U1IU VHV uni YV/I OILJ \J l oui ^ Carolina Medical School. * "It will cut down on the competition and disagreem< between the schools that we historically have had," Wri? said. Opponents said the action would create another layer Court rejects Doyle' n r_ _i x: _jl. t urcsy s eieunon vicit By David Hitl vote; an I Campus Court yesterday denied Jim a post< Doyle's appeal of the March 8 Student hTnot^ Government elections in which he finished second in a three-way race for president. The c< Doyle's campaign manager, Gary Gates, irregulari said he and Doyle will decide whether to the outcc annool tho ruliniJ aftor fhov ovaminn thr. uiarranf iI I r^/M ? Vv t UllUf, v*l\yj VAUlllIIIVy U1L> TTUitUIIV II court record of the case. SG Atto Judge John Bryan, speaking for the court, election's agreed the election was problem-ridden, but enough vc said the problems didn't affect the election runoff wit enough to invalidate it. election. % "It was a poorly run election; it was "We're I terribly run,'' Bryan said. He said steps zu or 30 x should be taken to eliminate such problems Jones sai in future elections. needed m Chief Student Advocate Blake Martin, runoff, representing Doyle, based his case on the Two stu SG election codes. A section of the code the desk i states the Elections Commission must pollworkei ensure that all elections are run in a "fair, at 5:45 p.r equitable and just manner." all polls w< Martin said the election's irregularities A Burnt 1? prevented 11 irom oeing iair, ana 11 snouia was not ir be declared invalid. ween Bak< Martin said the irregularities included the difficulty moving or consolidating of some polling signs or o places by the Elections Commission ; had been t confusion on where some students should Faculty Se I to phase c IBy Leslie Potash University administration is reconsidering its decision to phase out the Center for Undeclared Majors after the Faculty Senate voted down part of a recommendation by the Scholastic Standards and Petitions ? commiuee. Frank Borkowski, USC provost, ^ announced plans for phaseout to the Faculty Senate at their meeting a Wednesday. W But after hearing dissenting opinions from Faculty Senate members, the administration agreed to take another look at the plan. THE STANDARDS and Rations committee of the Faculty Senate made its recommendations to the Senate to phase out the program. The first recommendation would jjj| have required all enrolling students to m f?ntf>r I ISP. rnllp0p hut it u/ns vnfflH E down by the Senate by a vote of 47-27. The second recommendation would require students to declare a major after 30 credit hours of work. The Senate passed this proposal. U Borkowski said the administration >?is is reconsidering in light of the Faculty .. Senate's decision, but stressed that "" the university is still having fiscal he problems. THE FINAL decision will be made ives overseer bureaucracy. Commissioner Harold Ja 4 'a shotgun marriage that will do more I )U? "I don't understand what this boai commission and the trustee boards an ecj to do," Jacobs said. m- The education commission first r ite committee's provision for a board of dii Rllt thp nrnnAcal urac ?^v?v vi?v |/t v^oui ?v uo puoo^u a 1IC1 LUI -al against a recommended merger of the I jn- Marion Woodbury, MUSC vice pr< ;al "shocked" by the commission's turnai ith very harmful to MUSC. It abrogates th MUSC board of trustees, and in part do< jnt board," he said. jht "It creates confusion and increase* education substantially," he said, of But CHE Chairman' Fred Shehee s appeal; Dry stands 4 elections Commission bias shown W ?r on a wall in the SG office; and printing of Doyle's name on the Mem ourt ruled that while these ties occurred thpv HiH nnt me of the election enough to gflPl^ invalid. rney General Mark Jones said the r* problems did not cost Doyle & B ?tes to prevent him from forcing a :h Barry Gray, the winner in the 1 not talking about a controversial otes. He was defeated soundly," d. He said Doyle would have ?*#*** ore than 400 votes to qualify for a dents testified they were told by assistant in Sims dorm lobby the r had left, when they tried to vote n. The students said they thought ould remain open until 6 p.m. jy resident said her polling place I the lisnal snnt nn tht> natin Kof. er and Burney. She said she had witni finding it because there were no nm?irfn ther notice that the polling place J, noved.. . . Gs,e? I Sm "Ooyto." 4 ' oloctioi mate debate lilt nnrlonhr PUl Ul 1UUUIOI 'The results would be terrible for some who have no place to go/ ? Center for Undeclared Majors Diri or James Lancaster by Monday, he said. ''Wp arp pnnnprnoH oc qpq Hio ?? - ? ^ ??VV? MO Ul V U1C CA" cellent staff members of the Center for Undeclared Majors that the students receive sensitive, highquality advising, that this important task not be given the short shrift," he said Wednesday. If the Center for Undeclared Majors is phased out, it will be done over a one-year period, he said. Steps toward phaseout would begin shortly. Phaseout of the Center for Undeclared Majors would require the approval of President James Holderman, he said. The decision would not require the approval of the board of trustees because it is an internal administrative decision and not an academic decision, he said, although the board has had the opportunity to discuss it. JAMES LANCASTER, director of the Center for Undeclared Majors, said he does not know exactly what board for mei icobs called the board merger, said he wasr harm than good." there was ever a maj( *d would do that the USC President Jar *n't already supposed the commission's dec "We look forward ejected the medical cooperation between rectors with a 9-6 vote. medical educatior nmissioners voted 9-6 cos^s wherever possit wo schools - MUSC President J isident, said he was ^erence f?r today to gi -ound. "This would be The seven-member le responsibility of the rePresentatives fronr is the same to the USC sc^??^s? *wo from t governor. j tho /iacI r\f nnl,^ non i **? rn/ j niv. v-uoi ui uicuicai lilt: UOl/ UI1U 1V1U over the board's rec n, who opposed the board's work. I -* -** v I r MK^HHT U ygfll . ,,^s. ^ : . v ^ vjss April Delozier answers a question from Chii intial candidate Jim Doyle's Campus Court hot far left), and Doyle (right) watch. Doyle's app< j a *l_ a - ras was uamea oy me uouri. is decision ed majors would happen if the center is phased out. "The results would be terrible for some who have no place to go. Those who are undecided is another question, too. "But it is safe to assume that the Faculty Senate doesn't wish to phase out the center but that they wish to solve the problems," he said. "I think the administration has expressed its willingness" to work out a solution as weli, he said. LANCASTER SAID he doubts phasing out the center would generate much revenue. He said the center has a budget of $160,000. nart of u/hirh nan't hp c oxroH because some staff members work there only part-time and work in other parts of the university at other times. "There would be savings of probably no more than $120,000. "Media arts has a budget of about AAA ?1 A- ^ A * ftw.uw ? aiinusi iour limes as much," he added. THE STUDENTS most difficult to deal with would be those ineligible to enter their preferred colleges, he said. "Nobody really knows" what will happen to the students if the phaseout See "Faculty Senate," page 4 d schools l't surprised by the vote. "I don't think >rity in favor of merger," he said, nes Holderman said he's pleased with ision. to working with MUSC in furthering the two schools to increase the quality 1 for South Carolinians and reducing ?le," he said. ames Edwards scheduled a news conve his opinion. board of directors would consist of two i both the Columbia and Charleston he CHE and one appointed by the Z trustee boards would have veto power ommendations but could not alter the 1^1 ^fhoto by MkKael Icdtf sf Student Advocate Blake Martin at SG iring while his campaign manager, Gary >al of the March 8 Student Government