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a _ The Gamecock Founded 1908 __ Monday Volume 77, No. 84 University of South Carolina April 22, 1985 > Zoning proposal on commission's aqenda todav from Staff Reports The Columbia Planning Commission will consider a zoning amendment relating to the Carolina Mall controversy at its meeting ^ today. USC's representatives proposed the amendment, which would change definitions of colleges and universities and clarify rules governing businesses on campus. The Zoning Board of Adjustments postponed action on USC's request for special except ic^ for some mail stores when university legal counselors said they needed more time to study present guidelines. The noaru is scneuuicu 10 ruie on inc request in May. \ The controversy began when Five Points and downtown merchants circulated a petition claiming such businesses as ihe mall were not functions of an institution of higher education. The petition was signed by 64 merchants, at least one of whom has since withdrawn his name. The petition 10 the board said, "Such VJJJV.1 iiiiwii^ ? MI u^, uv.11 iiiiniiai (u 111 v. itiA* paying service merchants surrounding the area. The university is an educational foundation ? not a commercial entity." USC President James Holderman has said USC will do what it takes to keep the mall, and student leaders sent their own petition to the zoning board and to merchants who signed the hostile petition. Also, the Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday supporting the mall. Six of the stores in the Russell House basement have been approved by the board, but four have had to file for special exception. On March 12, the board refused to grant the mall a variance for the mall shops. Technology can By Marisa Porto , x College educations should be more general, can be a bridge between humanities and scien* higher education panel said last week The panel was made up of Ted l iskc, /V< education editor; William Toombs, director o the Study of Higher Education at Penn Sta Weathersby, former commissioner of highc l.wCo.io The men were invited to campus by the Pr< mission on Undergraduate Missions. The comi by law school dean Harry Lightsey, wanted to dent view of the goals of undergraduate educ According to Toombs, the interest undergraduate education has been rising in th - - bUDieiS [r^v>Riverbanki Zoo debuted its polar bear cubs Saturday. Z-.y^ The cubs are the first to be pplgggj born and survive in S.C. JOSEPH GARNETT/ih. G?m?cock \a> , j8j?|?|lll k IB j^HBD !^H 18 i% Jn-:^9^m JM^?liIfcl 11 i^laSSSIfilMBM^MM T ---HI i | 1^1 fe^cSl- f.- j v-A1.- J ^^KlM.Sxil4L .'BD^Bi SB flfl = -/j i b-jf . ~- !^^j,.-^ ^JjB K_^$-'Sj^ jjl| - >:SW ' Efl . 4MPS Reflex action JOSEPH GARNFTT/Th* Gamecock Jan Morris, vice chairman of Lexington County's Libertarian Party, picketed yesterday in support of Reflex store owner Tom Moseley. Moseley opened the clothes shop for business yesterday in support sf the a.l. Mouse proposal 10 ease blue laws, as of deadline, he had not been arrested for violating the laws. krirlno kumonifioc onrl cniat unuyc iiuiiiaiiiiBco any oi^i&i and the emphasis on the humanities is part of this interest. and technology "There is nothing wrong with the humanities or technology ces programs, a they are competing features against the factor of time. If yo say you want more humanities, then you have to say le! ?\v York Times what? the advantage of humanities is that you can learn f the Center for yourself after you're introduced to it," Toombs said, te; and George Humanities is pitting their students against busine: :r education in students, Weathersby said. "I don't think it should be taught as departmentalized, esidential Com- doesn't do service to fight each other. My sense is to under mission, headed tand what kind of expectations we have of students in each ( nrt in/lnr\nn t Un finl/tr in t Kn nit lira in I lin lunar r\C r l/illr n in ovnant rtu/lan gll ail IIIU^^II" Hit I lv lvl.1 III lilt, liuma, III lilt Wl SMIIS wv VAptV.1 ^lUUtll alion. to have. In the technologies, they lend to be defined by addir in assessing courses. It seems to me that we are dealing wth a rigidity < e past few years thought that must be changed first," he said. JMifttv %. "I Infill- I USC lags behind in hirinn i/unmon Ill I III II llj VVUIIIUII By Linda Taylor The decade of equal rights and feminist marches is over ? these arc the '80s, and equal opportunity is an accepted idea. Girls grow up with the idea thai they can be anything: a doctor, a lawyer, a college professor. But statistics from USC's System Affirmative Action Office tell a different story for women hoping for a faculty position in higher education. Rcccnt figures from three departments traditionally considered 'women's areas' and seven more commonly associated with men suggest equality hasn't caught on at USC's faculty level. FOR KXAMPLK, 94 percent of the nursing faculty is female, compared to 2 percent of the mathematics and statistics faculty. Figures in three other departments follow the same pattern: 7 percent in business, 18 percent in computer science and 35 percent in criminal justice. While the situation has improved within the criminal justice faculty since 1981, men instructors still outnumber women almost 2 to 1. However, nursing appears to be the only department with a female majority. On the other hand, English and education have fewer female faculty members than would be expected. Once thought of as one of the few acceptable areas of study for women, the English department faculty is 17 percent female, and the education department has 3 percent female mcmbershio. Higher education is slow to change ? slower to change than government, business or medicine, according to one faculty member who asked to remain anonymous. ' "HOW MANY of your professors are women?" she said,adding that it's a challenge for the student to recall any. "There are plenty of women in a number of academic fields, yet the percentage is not reflected in the university. Over a third of the law students (at USC) are women. How many ol their professors are men; she said. "The lag has been going on for 20 years. When 55 percent of the Ph.D.s in English are women every year, wouldn't you _J See "Women," page 6. ices, panelists say Fiskc said technology is forcing the breakdown of divisions /. between humanities and sciences, and he said he believes more u humanities are needed for a college education, is "Technology isn't the humanities. Technology by definition it is interdisciplanary. When you build a bridge, you have to start with a value judgement. Technology is a way of building ss the culture. In some ways, the advent of technology is forcing a sort of breakdown," Fiske said. n monies saiu me suae 01 unuergrauuaic ciiucauon is one 01 s- uncertainty. "What we arc working for is a general education )f with a broad base." ts Universities aren't diversified in that they don't leach ig students how to adapt to changes within their profession, >f Fiske said. "You have to find things to teach which will make people learners all of their lives," he said. * .If ' -J***' x, ** .. ,ti? A j@k__ . : ?P