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State Rep. David Hawkins said the battle
to prevent a "superboard" from overseeing
both medical schools in the state is far from
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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
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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
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in management, senior Scott Bacon is
also learning what it takes to become
an officer through Army ROTC.
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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
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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
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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- (
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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
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;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."
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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
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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,"
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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.
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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
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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.
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