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South CaroLiniana Library Horseshoe BULK rate" u.s. postage p a i d Prr??it W-k 2'3 c ' i !.. ? Financial aid remains p. 3 H a fridRy Professor makes film p. 10 M September 9. 1983 USC looks for win p. 13 H University of South Carolina Change of com w am m m m Media arts adjusi * ; . ^ "SWI> ^ Villa. j ippi Photo by Mnry Ann Hollij Media Arts chairman Porter McLaurin Says department hasn't undergone significant changes. Poniotrotinn clniA/c hil/ I ICUIO LI U LIUI dIUVVO urn according to universit By Beth Harrison Bicycle registration with the university can reduce the risk of theft and increase chances "6 3f6 of recovery if stolen, a campus police of buying spokesman said. StudPfltS " The purpose of bicycle registration is to oiuuciiio. give students, faculty and staff members the opportunity to register their bikes with the university and have their names, addresses and serial numbers of their bikes recorded, said Danny Baker, assistant vice president for law enforcement and safety. The applicant also receives a decal that can Jim Lar be affixed to the bike and a card with the Registrator bike's serial number on it, he said. way, of Re: in charge ol ALSO OFFERED is the opportunity for front of Ru the bike owner to have another identification i niienkar o l i r* Vt ac a f/\pi 01 CAP11 fit \/ nil TY1 hpf IIUI11UV.1 , 3UV1I UJ U JVklUI OVVU11 \J 11UIIIUV1 ) engraved into the hub of the bike. "In addi- PART Ol tion, we like to give students information on of how a t adequate locking devices," Baker said. chain with i During the first week of the fall and spring mation fror semesters, bikes can be registered through locks," Bal Parking and Vehicle Registration Services The pure! and the office of Commuter Services. This considered two-day program is implemented in front of Baker, the Russell House, Baker said. tial investn After these days, bikes can be registered several hui year-round at Parking and Vehicle Registra- covered loc tion Services at Pendleton Street uarage. me weamer Registration is free and continuously valid. "We are According to Baker, bike theft went down ing locks ai by 32 percent in 1982. Nine bikes have been Baker said reported stolen from campus since the begin- their locks ning of the semester. Baker se motivating "IF I'M not mistaken, the majority of go that exti those bikes were not registered," he said. "You can't trace the owner of an unregistered bike." BAKER The program, started three years ago, will rather stea continue indefinitely, Baker said. and no ma He said organizations often get excited good lock, about programs and then let them die. "With "We're the transient nature of the population theft), and (students), you must keep things going." about," h imand ting to admin By Mark Farmer and Chris Handal The Department of Media Arts has undergone no real change since becoming part of the College of Applied Professional Sciences in the spring, accor ding to the department chairman. The department was originally in the College of Humanities. "We've been adjusting to the administrative procedures," Department of Media Arts chairman Porter McLaurin said. "The chain of command is different." MCLAURIN SAID si nee the graduate program has been suspended, professors don't have that pool of assistants from which to pull. However, if the economic shortfalls which initiated the suspension turn around, the program may be reinstated, he said. "Wp rati iisp the prarhiate susnpn sion period to review the graduate program," he said. This review will give the department a chance to examine the state's media and the growing number of films made | in the Southeast, particulary in South ! Carolina, McLaurin said. "The media arts department is the ! talent source for many of these 1 movies," he said. t "ALSO SOME of our ideas may have more flexibility now, such as re. r - m ;e tnerts, s y official j!| s looking at the possibility locks and selling them to ,Jf| Campus police spokesman j Danny Baker | nb, of Parking and Vehicle 1 Services, and Rosemary Broadsident Student Development, are j. F the bike registration program in j issell House. i F the program is a demonstration hief can cut through a lock or a bolt cutter. "We provide inforn companies that make adequate basing of bicycle lockers has been by the university. According to lockers would require a substan- -Hi nent for the university, up to |Bj ndred dollars per locker. The * kers would protect the bikes from and thieves. looking at the possibility of buynd selling them to the students," . The students would purchase from the university at cost. tid ne Deieives tnis wouia oe a factor for the students if "we can ra mile, totally as a service." y $1 SAID a would-be thief would il a bike with an inadequate lock rkings than a registered bike with a minimizing that opportunity (for ! that's what crime awareness is all D e said. (lev iotratiua nrnro nauuiivi# [# vwu quiring a computer language or a foreign language," he said. When the department was undergoing changes this past spring, four untenured professors were told their contracts would not be renewed, but because of USC's responsibility to fulfill degree requirements, they are still with the department, McLaurin said. "What will happen to them is still open," he said. He said he hopes the four professors will be able to stay. THE FUTURE of the department's graduate and undergraduate programs became clouded in early February when the university was facine a severe budget problem and was looking for programs to phase out, he said. Talk then specifically centered on the media arts department. McLaurin said he had been told the department wouid be recommended for phasing out to the USC board of trustees. Chester Baine, dean of the College of Humanities, said he knew the department was being considered for phasing out. However, others in the administration disagreed that media arts would be phased out. Such disagreements happened more than once during the media arts controversv. HEl^ ,i^\# / \ NBk .- BH^B^K^ ^a^r, . WgjW^^ zr$ Xv fety precautions anny Baker (left), assistant vice president for law enfo ices used by thefts during bicycle registration. Barry idures use PROVOST Frank Borkowski said at the time that no decision had been made. And President James Holderman said he didn't know how many programs would be phased out. Thp mpdin arte Hph.itp int^n?:ifipH in early N. .ch after four untenured faculty members were notified they would not be rehired for the fall semester. This move would have left only one tenured member, McLaurin, and three instructors in the department. But officials disagreed about the facts of release notices. BAINE SAID he was told by the provost to send out the notices. But Borkowski said such notices were an administrative matter for each college and he had no knowledge of who had been sent the notices. Then in late March, the rumors of the department's proposed elimination became fact as the administration made the recommendation along with other programs to be cut to Academic Affairs and Faculty Laison Committee of the board of trustees. After a three-and-a-half-hour, closed-door meeting, the committee decided to suspend the media arts' graduate degree program but the undergraduate program was transferred to APS. ' ! B^b v' pf ^ 4 HHw J ? rL$i pP1' *T^pSP5PP" * * w '*?*> Photo by Jennifer Woolen fcement and safety, demonstrates bolt cutter Lynn (center) and Wayne Spoolew watch.