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Students can help
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USC students who live in the Wade Hampton
Hotel and University Inn are being faced with the
same threat as the fairy tale characters, the three little
pigs, but instead of a wolf, it's the board of
trustees who are doing all the huffing and puffing.
In addition to confiscating their houses the board
has decided to increase the students average housing
rate by 15.7 percent next year.
Once again the student is being nickeled and dimed
to death. Last year at this time, students were hit
by the rising costs of education and this year it's the
rising cost of life. All good tragedies have a
scapegoat, so who do students have to blame?
President James Holderman and the board of
trustees are certainly not to blame for a state law
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housing, be self-sufficient. Increases in the costs of
utilities are to blame for depleting the student's
pocket. However, these are inconveniences that
students and non-students all over the country are
facing. Trying to beat the system is less than
satisfactory, especially when it's impossible to win.
Since 1976, housing rates have risen more than
75 percent. No one enjoys funneling greater sums
of money into the system every year. Yet, instead
of taking the necessary action, the status quo continues
to supply the demand beneath nothing
greater than muffled complaints. This is a very inefficient
method of handling a worsening situation.
Students can make the system work with fullformula
funding.
For more than a year, Holderman has been
working with a non-complying state Legislature to
set up a system that would allocate state money to
publicly supported colleges and universities.
Holderman has been unsuccessful in attaining fullformula
funding for two very important reasons.
First, the state Legislature is more concerned with
improving the education system at the elementary
and secondary school level. Second, he hasn't
received the support he needs from the USC community
in applying the necessary pressure.
Full-formula funding is a goal one man cannot
achieve. However, if that one man has the support
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the Legislature will agree with him.
We hope next year's increase will serve as a
catalyst for students and their parents to write letters
to their representatives, circulate petitions,
make telephone calls and do whatever else is
necessary to obtain the needed funding.
Losing a student because of economic pressure is
a terrible waste. Next year's increase will certainly
result in a decline in the number of students who
live on campus. When it becomes cheaper to live
off campus than in student housing, something is
wrong. Students can make that single voice crying
in the wind louder by supporting Holderman in his
move for full-formula funding.
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To the Editor:
John Hinckley was declared innocent
only a few days before the Rev.
Sun Myung Moon was found guilty in
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u.s. courts. Millions ui /miici icaus
saw Hinckley shoot President Ronald
Reagan on national television, but he
was eventually found innocent by
reason of insanity.
Shortly afterwards, Moon was
found guilty of tax evasion in a case
that aroused much controversy. Nine
religious organizations representing
millions of Americans are supporting .
Moon's appeal to higher courts.
A parallel case that was obviously
more unjust took place about 2,000
years ago in Israel. Barabbas, a known
criminal, was freed while an innocent
Administration
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The policymaking of this university's
board of trustees is insensitive to the nee
students. More specifically, the lack
reflected in their decisions regarding tl
Hotel, University Inn and the student hoi
Although administrators realized they
tract to sell the hotel within five years o
made no effort to allow input from the re*
give students adequate notice. Now, alor
they offer residents little priority.
Instead, they should allow these resideni
sign up for rooms before others change
' respective dorms.
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On Clemson's t
If you've been reading many of
Clemson University's public relations
releases over the past few months,
you've probably begun wondering
what happened to President Bill Atchley's
hiring freeze of September
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It was then that Atchley informed
the public that he would implement a
university wide hiring freeze as part of
his plan to deal with near-disastrous
budget cuts.
Among Atchley's other remedies for
those budget cuts ? which trimmed
$3.2 million from the university's cof[
fers ? were a 2-percent pay cut for
classified university personnel and a
delay in a scheduled merit increase for
faculty.
Atchley's efforts were successful in
staving off financial disaster for the
\ university, but if he succeeded in
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Jesus Christ was found guilty and
sentenced to crucify.
Why did Jesus become the object of
such injustice? It could only happen
because man has the tendency to shift
responsibility from him to others. It
was clearly Pontius Pilate's responsibility
to decide the innocence or guilt
of Jesus.
But Pilate bowed to the wishes of a
negatively biased mob. He washed his
hands of his responsibility and let them
decide Jesus' fate.
Realizing it was impossible to seat
an unbiased jury, attorneys for Moon
requested Judge Charles Goettel rule
on the recent tax case. Goettel refused
and he insisted on a trial by jury.
too insensitive.
portion of the hotel
administration and crease. In addition, fc
ds and concerns of Students must dem
of sensitivity was in order to ensure
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rooms within their
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liring of two vii
reducing the number of faculty and
staff hirings over the past 12 months,
he failed miserably in keeping the
population of the university's administration
down.
In less than 12 months, the university
has seen the addition of two new administrators
? an executive assistant
to the president and a vice president.
They were both hired ostensibly to
enhance the university's communica
tions, but in reality to make sure
everyone can say he's "proud to say
Clernson." Were
these additions to Sikes Hall
? which surely must be getting crowded
these days ? worth their price tag?
Atchley decided over the summer
against hiring an athletic coordinator
because of the prohibitive costs ?
estimated at more than $100,000 -jinvolved.
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udent says
This decision has received much
condemnation, and rightly so. This is
another case where an official failed to
exercise his responsiblity correctly.
We hope USC administrators will
act responsibly concerning the Collegiate
Association for the Research of
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democratic society, groups should not
be denied their rights simply because
they are unpopular. There is no justice
or righteousness on the part of an administration
that would be influenced
by negatively biased campus
organizations.
Thomas Griffin
Religious studies senior
students say
sale revenues toward reducing the in udget
cuts should have been made,
and an audit of Residential Life Services
the money is being spent efficiently,
jelled out for the increase ? with facts
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dents were not represented at the board
/ernment President Barry Gray called the
' Nor did other SG officers question the
SG officers won't speak for students,
peak for themselves.
Stanley Davis
Psychology junior
Taay Snail
Journalism junior
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"The position would take about
$100,000 to fill because of a salary,
secretary, travel expenses and other
benefits," Atchley said at the time.
"At the risk of being misunderstood
and people thinking I was under
pressure, I had to reevaluate the
situation."
It seems that over the past few months
Atchley has re-evaluated the
university's financial situation and
discovered the funds necessary for two
new vice presidents
Perhaps Atchley is trying to improve
on that old adage of the leopard and "
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something like this: "If the Tigers
can't change the color of their stripes,
maybe they can hire a vice president or
two to white-wash over them."
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