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Med schools de * By Associated Press W State Rep. David Hawkins said the battle to prevent a "superboard" from overseeing both medical schools in the state is far from V/YCI . Hawkins, D-Spartanburg, is a member of the Medical University of South Carolina board of trustees. Representatives of MUSC have argued for a merger of their school and the fledgling USC School of Medicine. But that merger was shot down by the I Commission on Higher Education Thursday. The Commission passed a recommend: vaoi that a joint board be appointed to nvPI" Wh cphftfilo arirl onnnnroiJo W V -mrm. m. ?. W*K>? UVKVVAU UlllVt VHWWt W^V cooperation. Hawkins is a member of the House committee that will consider the proposal, and he said Friday the fight will continue there. "We're going to try to kill it in my committee," Hawkins said. "I'm hard put for someone to tell me that in a small, poor l state like South Carolina we need two Atchley gets \ from all Clem: By Associated Press CLEMSON - Clemson University President Bill Atchley, in an upbeat mood after hearing the vote of confidence given him by * the school's board of trustees, said he wasn't worried about his future at Clemson. The board, which apparently had been divided in its support of Atchley, gave him a unanimous vote of support following a fourhour closed-door meeting between the president and the 13 trustees Friday. Atchley said he was confident despite reports some trustees were trying to oust him because of his efforts to reorganize the school's athletic program "because I felt the best interests of Clemson would be served by how we came out here by communicating together. | "I'm very happy we can move forward unified, and we will," Atchley told reporters after the meeting. "I think that's what we've always wanted to do." Board Chairman Thomas McTeer Jr. refused to reveal specific points discussed during the marathon executive session, which Atchley attended in part. "We just had a good, healthy discussion," McTeer said. "It's been good for Clemson. We're unified and we've got a lot of work to do." | McTeer said after the unanimous vote it didn't mean "that some people haven't "MOST m LEADS 1 ? Besides studying tor his degree in management, senior Scott Bacon is also learning what it takes to become an officer through Army ROTC. "! attended an Army ROTC Hay during my treshman summer orientation When I found out von werent obligated to anything your treshman and sophomore vears, I decided to try it 1 enjov ROTC. 1 m learning things 1 normally wouldn t f| ^ Irnrn in college I ike leadership K theories. And tactics I he managemcnt training you receiv e is really ??ood. too It helped me a lot with my |fpi other management courses 1 in prettv involved with the I niversitv. so I in ^lad ROT(" doesn t take up a lot 01 unit* u > |um aauipir |\ ot hours ,i week At tlu- end ot vour f junior year, you haw to j^o to A JvaiKidCamp It s a lot ot tun Vou j?*.*t a introduced to everything the Arinv has to otter I.inks, helicopters, vou ? name it ^y" "In your last two years ot ROTC. ,,,1.,,', you receive $100 a month. The wav I see it, ROTC is paying you money bate to continual] medical schools. We're 49th in nearly everything you name." Hawkins blamed the commission for 4 trying to avoid responsibility for directing 1 medical education by forming another tier of bureaucracy. 1 B The university board administers the school, the Legislature picks the board and the CHE oversees higher education in the state. s That ought to be enough, Hawkins said. "They're passing the buck," he said. "They want still another committee to decide what to do with medical education.'' ] | Hawkins supports MUSC being the state's only medical school and compares USC's cost of educating a medical student ($50,000) to that of MUSC ($25,000). , MUSC President James Edwards laun- p ched a public relations drive to encourage the merger between the two schools. But USC President James Holderman p denounced the effort and won enough CHE r support to forestall the merger. s mfR nf sunnort i son trustees changed their minds" as a result of the \ discussion with Atchley. Both McTeer and Atchley said the f president was not asked to make any con- < cessions to the board in order to keep his jod. tie answered some quesuons aDOui j why he interpreted (things) one way while c others might have interpreted it another way," McTeer said. "(It was) a clarification of why things t were done in the past, why certain decisions t were made and how things will be done in ? the future." the chairman said "It's tine that in the past there was dissatisfaction among some members of the board," McTeer told reporters. Some of that dissatisfaction, McTeer said, was caused by "a lack of communications." Atchley, who has been university president since 1979, first ran afoul of trustees in January when the majority of the board's members said they opposed parts of his plan to reorganize university athletics. Some trustees criticized Atchley for A..i 4i ~ : ...u? u bpeamug uui UII me aiiueuc issue, wiucu resulted from National Collegiate Athletic Association sanctions against the school's football program. Earlier this week, Atchley announced that a key portion of that reorganization plan ? the search for an athletic coordinator ? had been suspended indefinitely as of mid- ( See "Clemson," page 5 ? IDENTS DON'T KNOW 1 O AN ARMY OmfFB'i AT GRADUATION Hn?ngn ? ^ IU<HU IK m.i|t>r .irul JUftHttlfl W DE All VI-%! ntensive Spa emphasize coi ly Mark Farmer c :_u :n l._ a iucc iiuciuiivc opdiusu tuuiara win uc ffered next year for students who are erious about learning conversational panish. Spanish 111, 211 and 311 comprise the rugrain, wnicn requires consent 01 istructors for admission and will be imited to 12 students per class with one ection per course. "Many students who take basic anguage courses are there to meet anguage requirements," said Assistant >rofessor David Hill, head of the com nuicc un iiiiciiaivc siuuy. "THE PURPOSE of this program is to irovide an alternative for people who are eally seriously there to learn the skill of peaking Spanish." Hill said the program is unique in J :? 4i? 1.. cvcim ways miu is uic uiuy uue ui its ;inci in the state. The major difference between these :ourses and traditional courses is the smphasis on oral skill, he said. "Twenty-five percent of the final grade s dependent upon an oral interview." A PTCfJ rrill? f: t 1? - r 11 r?r n<jrv inc< iiiai It'W WWKS OI IIie irst course, all conversation is in Spanish, he said. "The language requirement is going to >e fulfilled not by completing 'X' number >f courses, but by having a certain >roficiency." Another unique feature is team caching by language specialists. Two ncfnir?fr?rc will Ko occi(fn<wl fn oonh nlncu WMMVVVAU Tf AAA ?-TO UOUl^HVU W VUCI1 V1QOO ilong with two native Spanish speakers, vho will sharpen the students' skills hrough half-hour conversation sessions >ach week, Hill said. "The special feature is that there is a ating given to each student at the end of he semester based upon national itandards which were originally leveloped by the State Department," ?111 : J nil saiu. A RATING of one to five, five being the lighest, is given to each student. This letermines the type of Spanish-related lob the student could start at, Hill said. For example, he said it may be that a 'ating of one would be required for a job jreparing visas. Someone who has taken some Spanish nit isn't sure where he should begin can >e placed according to proficiency, he ;aid. Support the March of Dime BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATIOI rHAT ARMY ROTC 5 COMMISSION and yon just give the A <.>f your time. When I ^ Army, my experience iiv^ really paid ott Becaus ft*"** added ;^>ther d.men CPTJOEL t'nioeemn ICC# I Leg an e C.o I M vM M k H MkM -7 "7**7 /.CIO' UGANISfc. " nish classes nuoro'ifinn IIWCI oauuii in ? ihkee courses are condensations of other courses. The 111 and 211 classes, offered this ytear, are equivalent to 101 and 102, and 201 and 202, respectively. The 311 class, which will be j added next year, is equivalent to 310 and 410. The classes are also unique in the number of credit hours they offer. The 111 class has seven credit hours, while 211 and 311 have six. All three meet each day of the week. Hill said at the end of the first course, students should be able to communicate in general terms in everyday situations. At the end of the second, they should be able to handle themselves in a broader variety of social situations. The third course is based on street language. Dr. Jeff Magun, a Columbia op tometrist taking the 211 course, said he got into the program because "an increasing number of Latin American people come to see me." MAGUN SAID he speaks Spanish to most of his patients. His yellow-pages ad contains the line "El Doctor Maeun Habla Esnanol" (Doctor Magun Speaks Spanish). Jim Dixon, a language major, found out about the program through the mail and began with the 111 class last semester. He decided to continue with the 211 class. "The fact that you get so many credits per semester is the reason I took it," Dixon said. TINA CAMPBELL, a freshman journalism major, said she likes the class because it meets every day and gives "more opportunity to increase your skills." Hill said an assistant to the chief justice of the S.C. Supreme Court, lawyer Ronald Childress, is also in the 211 class. Hill said he likes to see people like Magun and Childress in the class because it lets the other students see how A.1 A At !? ?1 *11 A uiey can pui ineir skius 10 use. Hill said the program is not economical because it has two teachers for a small class, but said this kind of program brings in more majors. He said there may be a similar French program by spring 1984. - The GAMECOCK is the student newsp*- 1 , per of the University of South Carolina and is published three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the fall and spring semesters and weekly on Wednesdays during both summer sessions, with the exception of university holidays and examination periods, u Opinions expressed in the GAMtCOCK are those o( the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. 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