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Lightsey commission
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From Staff Reports
Improving undergraduate education will
be discussed at a public symposium spon
sored by USC's Presidential Commission on
ft Undergraduate Missions from 2:30 to 4:15
p.m. today.
The forum will feature a panel of national
education experts including New York
Times' education editor F.dward liske;
William Toombs, director of the Center for
the Study of Higher Education at Penn State
University; and George Weathersby, former
commissioner of higher education in
Indiana.
The meeting was organized to give the
campus community a chance to hear the
nanHiviewc on the undercraduate mis
#> sion of colleges and universities. Lach
panelist will make a brief presentation, after
which the meeting will be opened for questions
and answers.
Panelists will talk with the USC commission,
headed by law school dean Harry
l.ightsey, before the public meeting to
discuss undergraduate curriculum, partii'nl.irlv
;it m multi-camnus svstem such as
USC's.'
The L.ightsey Commission was established
last fall to look "at necessary duplication, at
unique problems, at critical mass, at
^.geographic, economic and social variables
affecting each and every campus and the entir/?
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Faculty and administrators from all nine
USC campuses are represented on the commission,
which is to report its recommendations
to university President James Holderman
by Oct. 15.
The commission has been visiting departiwnnlc
anH rnllpon*: nn all nin/? I I' mm.
puses, talking to students and faculty
members about the futures of particular programs.
The commission's recommendations
may include adding or deleting curricula
' from undergraduate programs.
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Staff Raportt
More than 100 USC students, faculty,
alumni and others were honored for
academic achievement and service during
Awards Day ceremonies yesterday on the
Horseshoe.
The university's highest honor, the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, was
presented to former Student Government
Sen. Steve Loflin and former Student
Alumni Association President Nancy
Holderman, daughter of USC President
James Holderman and former homecoming
queen.
Jean Galloway BisseU, general counsel
to South Carolina National Bank and a
lecturer at USC's law school, received the
CtillivAn fnr nulRtandfne alumna.
Court: Landlords
By Associated Press
The state Supreme Court has ruled
landlords have no legal duty to keep their
leased property safe for its tenants or their
guests.
In dismissing a SI.5 million lawsuit arising
from the death of two teen-agers in a Spartanburg
County apartment lire, the court
ruled a landlord cannot be sued for personal
injuries caused by problems with the
premises ? unless he signs an agreement to
keep the premises safe, or fraudulently conceals
defects from the tenant.
The attorney for one of the victims was
disappointed by the decision. Spartanburg
lawyer Albert Smith said he'd hoped the high
court would "extend the law" that currently
stipulates "you can get protection for your
property but you can't protect your life."
SMITH REPRESENTED C.B. Young
Sr., the father of 15-year-old Jacqueline
Young, who, along with Tonnette Wells, 14,
died in an electrical fire that broke out while
they were overnight guests in an apartment
rented by the younger girl's aunt. Cynthia
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The recipients for the Sullivan award
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Honors and Awards Committee, made up "
of Students and faculty.
Diane Rose of Columbia was presented
with four flwnrrle inrlnrlino the rienroc 1 '
A. Wauchope Award as one of two u
outstanding undergraduate English ma- ^
jors and the Alpha Phi Omega scrvice ^
fraternity's Carolina Community Award. v
She also was selected for inclusion on ?
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The Amoco Outstanding Teaching
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Wells.
On June 1, 1981, Ms. Wells was awakened
during the night by her niece's call, and
found the apartment filled with smoke. The
older woman was able to escape by breaking
a window, but the two girls perished. According
to experts, the lire started in the control
box of the furnace and was caused by faulty
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The Supreme Court upheld a lower court
decision that Young's SI.5 million lawsuit
against Joseph C). Morriscy, Garth H. Sherman
Richard L. Ncibling, general partners of
Broadmoor Apartments, in Spartanburg
County, had no legal merit, and that the
owners were not negligent.
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unreasonably dangerous, but the Supreme
Court refused to hold the landlord liable for
"personal injuries to tenants and guests arising
out of latent defects in construction."
"TRADITIONALLY, UNDER the law of
Doutit Carolina, a lanuioru owes no umy 10
maintain leased premises in sale condition,"
Associate Justice David Harwell wrote in the
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The Amoco award for outstanding
raduate assistant went to Julia Ann
leath, who works in the economics
jpartment.
Distinguished service awards, given by
le USC Educational Foundation, went
> James Bradley of Lancaster, a USC
oard of trustees member who helped
evelop the Lancaster Gampus; Arthur
Williams of Columbia, general chairman
f the Summit Fund, a $35 million fiinraising
campaign; and William Kanes of
'olumbia, director of USC's Earth
ciences and Resources Institute.
The ceremony was sponsored by
hnicron Delta Kappa, a national jcader.
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unanimous opinion.
Although the Broadmoor owners had
"covenanted to repair" the apartment, the
iustices found "this duly arose only upon
notice of the defect," and failure to carry out
any repairs left the landlord liable to a breach
of contract suit, and not for any personal injuries
caused by the defects.
Wednesday's opinion comes in the wake of
an effort to change South Carolina's
landlord-tenant laws, which stem from
feudal Fngland.
A hill aimprl nf iMwiino :ihn<;iv<? nraclirp* hv
both parties by assigning responsibilities in
the care and maintenancetial property is pending
in the General Assembly and could
become law within the next year, supporters
said Wednesday.
"WK HAVK a lighting chance, once the
legislators understand that this bill is one that
protects the interest of both tenants and
landlords who act responsibly toward each
other," said Stuart Andrews, who heads the
state Legal Services Association.
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