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Page 2 ? September 28, 1984 Dateline THE GAMECOCK R Riley warns S.C. colleges to meet enrollment goals Associated Press South Carolina college and university officials were warned by Gov. Dick Riley Wednesday that if they don't show improvement in meeting minority enrollment goals "the federal government can come in and require a new plan or perhaps take more drastic action." The state, one of several under federal court order to integrate its higher education system, set the enrollment goals three years ago as a part of a five-year-plan ? but has yet to meet them. wun jusi two years leit in tne plan, college presidents, Riley and some state Higher Education Commission members have begun looking for answers. 44I WANT our state to be a leader in education and do something not simply because the feds tell us to do it, but because it's the right thing to do," Riley said Wednesday in a meeting with the state Commission on Higher Education. Commission chairman Fred Sheheen said he has con W1UUUU lllttl llll ^Irtll IcUlllin SUllCCU U111C55 IIUMCC UUUIU^ become personally involved, and he called on each institution "to create a board-level ad hoc committee for the remaining two years of the plan to monitor institutional activities and results." In response to remarks by the governor and Sheheen, most college officials cited a need for more money to fund scholarships programs for minority students. Currently, the desegregation plan includes no money for scholarships at the undergraduate level. "THE BOTTOM line is that we can turn their blood orange, and we can get them hyped up to come to Clem son," said Clemson University Provost David Maxwell, "but when it comes to footing the bill, many minority families cannot afford the $20,000 it takes." Maxwell proposed that the state consider "something like the college G1 bill for minorities. The vestiges of economic discrimination are still here in this state, and that is the achilles heel of the whole desegregation effort." "We really become vulnerable to the federal government" if goals aren't met, said Milt Kimpson, Riley's executive assistant. The federal government could cut off South Carolina's federal money, order an extension of the plan or take court action. "Maybe we're not as committed as we ought to be," Kimpson said. Kimpson, who served on the committee that nammereu oui me pian in iv?i ? aner me leaerai government said the state was not complyiong with the Civil Rights Act - said the group thinks the goals were reasonable. BUT IF colleges can offer valid reasons why the goals cannot be met, "we need to renegotiate with the federal government," he said. i aon i iniiiK me leaerai government s going 10 oe 10 amenable to downgrading those goals," warned CHE chairman Fred Sheheen. Preliminary figures, the commission collected last week by telephone show most of the state's four-year colleges and universities started this school year with a higher proportion of minority students than 1983, but fell short of this year's goals. Official fall enrollment figures will be reported in midNovember, and might change that picture somewhat, cautioned Alvena Chapman, the commission staffer who monitors compliance with the desegregation plan. RA?rn on rvrpliminarv fioiir#>c which rr?vf?r all r\f thp I 12 senior colleges except the Medical University of South Carolina, only the University of South Carolina's Spartanburg branch met its goals for undergraduate minority erollment. Last year, four colleges met the goals. The Citadel, USC-Coastal and Winthrop lest ground from last fall, in addition to not meeting this year's goal, the figures show. The GAMECOCK is the atudei - gj ] newspaper of the University of South M Carolina and is published three times H a week on Monaays. 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Q PIECvt Subscription rates are $15.00 for (1) year, $8.00 per fall or spring semester 16 PIECE and $3.00 for both summer sessions. /' ' Third class postage paid at Columbia, 20 PIECE The GAMECOCK is a licensed stu- aq ai \a/avQ Dl dent organization of the University of ^LWAYb . . . bUhbtt South Carolina and receives funding f A flCAf\ from student activity fees. W*nLL nnilnU " 799-2683 918 HHIPMHH m ^ ^ \ 4'1' 1 ga 'tiTOMwm * p^rr?, \. ~&S^Km * Photo by Jennifer Wooten A masterpiece Debbie Lambert, an Early Childhood Education junior, learns to mix colors in Class-Art for children. Train accidents spark Associated Press While the board In the wake of a recent rash of ac- resources to investi* cidents at railroad grade crossings, the of railway accidents National Transportation Safety Board we are going to do plans to investigate some 50 crashes in- or two is look at all volving Amtrak trains to see where im- passenger trains," I provements can be made, the board's The emphasis wil chairman said Thursday. speed corridor beca Jim Burnett told reporters that while even less chance of t there has been a "great and dramatic to stop and you ge decrease" in grade crossing accidents more people who m; in recent years "now we see things are the train." going back in the other direction." "We think now is the time to focus THERE HAVE 1 public attention on this danger," said fatal Amtrak-vehi Burnett, here to address a regional South Carolina this safety conference of the Federal July 11 crash in M Railroal Administration. collided with a gas two people. rAi al uKAur. crossing acciaents were up almost 17 percent during the Burnett said h first five months of the year while the satisfied with any c total number of crashes rose almost 15 not have gates or fh percent. as a practical matter In 1983, 7,161 grade crossing ac- them at all crossing! cidents claimed 575 lives and injured "The first thing 2,623. The Safety Board has a man- identify which cro; date from Coneress to investigate rv^<-? ^ ? ? o iiivjai uangci auu lie transportation accidents and make you can aiso jo recommendations to prevent them njng for school bu; from recurring. materials so you c ?tf 11 "MS A> R*7T S I ///" " ' I I ' / 920 S. Main Ope I I * FEATURIS 00 M-F I I ^00,> Tables Top ^ SPECIAL I I Big Screen featuring LL SATURDAYS I S As Always No p.m. I 1 E SLAW & ROLLS I |p~ - $ 8.00 III \ (T 1 A CA I IS ? S13'50 1 || 254 cup of dr IS, BURGERS, BURGERS I li C0Up0r - NO WAITING I IS 0ne Per Personi S. Main Street I |j e*p? Preserved over 130 years Rnrlu nf cailnr fnnnrl |#||U J V B W M w in frozen Arctic soil Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta ? The body of a sailor, almost f perfectly preserved in the permanently frozen soil of the Artie : for more than 130 years, might help solve the mystery of how j a 1845 British expedition perished to the last man. Owen Beattie, an anthropologist at the University of Alber- \ ta, and two colleagues, hope tissue samples taken from the body of Petty Officer John Torrington will indicate if the more than 100 men in the expedition died of sickness, food poiscning or scurvy. "We now a fair amount of the peripheral information about the Franklin expedition. . . but what we wanted to do was to. . . look at the remains of the sailors," Beattie told a reporter on Wednesday. I "What we're looking for. . . is to find out what were the i stresses, dietary, environmental or whatever stresses on the individual." Beattie, pathologist Dr. Roger Amy and Eric Damkjar, an Artie archaeologist, spent three weeks last summer on Beechy Island, a rocky crag linked to King William Island in the central Artie. They exhumed the body of Torrington, 20, who died in the spring of 1846. The body was almost perfectly preserved in the j nprmafrnct anH the cripnfists tnnk small tissue snmnlps frnm I it last summer. Two other men who died at about the same time lie in nearby graves and, Beattie said, at least one of them is equally well preserved. Beattie said tissue tests and information from skeletal remains found elsewhere will offer clues to explain the cause of death of the seamen and scientists on the data-gathering ex pedition led by bir John l-ranklin. Possible causes include scurvy, which is caused by a lack of Vitamin C, other dietary deficiencies or food poisoning. Amtrak investigation doesn't have the protected crossings." he said. f ?ate the thousands I ; each year, "what While only a small percentage of ac- I over the next year cidents involve hazardous materials a of them involving "when you have hazardous materials iurnett said. accidents you can get a big band ... l oe on the high- you nave uie potential lor setting me k tuse there you get whole train on fire when you have a he train being able train running through a gasoline or rt more danger to propane truck," he said. ay be passengers in BURNETT SUGGESTED some of I the increase in grade crossing accidents Deen at least three is due to the improved economy and cle collisions in resulting increase in highway and rail year ? including a traffic, and he said many people have cBee when a train forgotten the hazards of rail crossings oline truck killing because many dramatic accidents had been eliminated is agency isn't In remarks prepared for delivery to :rossing that does the safety conference, Burnett said ishing lights, "but Federal Railway Administration proyou can't provide posals for rules dealing with drug and alcohol abuse among railway you have to do is employees can be improved. ?sings present the <u incin nrsi. /\na Me saia me agency snouia ensure a ? igs like route plan- standardized testing system for drugs >es and hazardous and said all employees directed involvan avoid the un- ed in accidents should be tested. 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