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Trustees increase tuition, fees for all students | By Yvatte Latorre Assistant news editor Student protesters crammed the rear of Capstone's campus room during the USC board of trustees meeting July 26 in hopes of persuading the board to reconsider increasing tuition. Despite students' arguments, the board unanimously approved tuition increases of up to $75 per semester for resident and double that amount for non-resident undergraduate students. The increase also calls for a one-time, $2 surcharge per credit hour this fall semester that will be used for library acquisitions and equipment. AN ADDITIONAL $50 com putcr fee will be required of students in the colleges of engineering, business administration, science and math. Students taking computer courses will he exnpctpd to nav a fee of up to $50. Students in the masters of international business studies program are faced with a $500 increase in 1986, a $750 increase in 1987 and another $750 increase in 1988. "I don't understand why they're trying to increase it all at once," student Robert Ridgeway said. "I'm not paying for it, but I've talked to a lot of people who r .u~:_ wuir\ iui 111v.11 luniuii. ii?i a what conccrns me." MANY 0F the students objected to the timing of a tuition increase only weeks before the beginning of the fall semester. ' ' I # ^ r Ua/J Uiicinnrr tUlt 11 5 UUU UU3IIK3.^ mat they have to wait this late in the year to raise tuition," said Stanley Davis, a psychology graduate student. "We were never formally notified. That's not the proper liason that should occur between SlUOciiis ttnu ttuiuiniMidiiuii, said Chris Lane, a graduate c ctn/ionf whr\ aHHrpccpH ISU3II1V33 Ol uuviu ??iv? m\?wi vojvm the board. "Historically, the budget is adopted in August," President James Holderman said at the meeting. ACCORDING TO Holder- I man, the board had to wait to see \ how much money had been allot- t ted USC by the Legislature ? before adopting a budget. The I board changed its scheduled Aug. ; 14 meeting to July 26. < "We do make apologies with respects to time, but we'll always have very little time," the prcsi- ! dent said. "We are not given a great deal of time ourselves. We've onlv had a month since the Legislature went home. "None of us like to go about the business of raising tuition, but we have no choice," he said. STU1JEN I UOVKKNMLIN1 ^resident Kelvin S t r o b I e presented bis ease on behalf of he students, saying. "Many .tudents come from moderate- to o\v- income families. The students are being killed with adiiiional fees." Stroble presented Holderman if ti a netition signed bv USC Spartanburg students that also protested tuition increases. All USC two-year and touryear campuses face tuition increases. At the meeting's adjournment, students expressed disappointment with the board's decision. "MhMBKKS Or the board sympathized with us, but not one supported the motion," said l.croy Gadsden, minority chair- 6| man of the SG Senate. "Not one p discussed the motion. When it U was time to take action they turn- g| ed their faces. m "We understand we need an increase, but bring it about gradually," Gadsden said. "The whole meeting was a facade. They'd already decided. Board members said they understood, but when the vote came it was unanimous," said Russell Benjamin, a political science senior. "I want us all to understand (hat this year is not going to be an | exception to next year and the | next, trustee James Bradley said. "We can't provide quality education at third-rate costs." The Gamecock Founded 1908 , Wednesday Volume 78, No. 8 University of South Carolina July 31, 1985 Discontent Dnnr fiminn hir I UU! inuuiy, Jfllj spark USC stut By Susan Paine News editor With a month's notice, all graduate business students will be cxpcctcd to pay a special enrichment fee of up to $1,000 in k addition to across-the-board tuition " increases. The fee was the most substantial and controversial increase approved by the USC board of trustees at their July 26 meeting. Reasoning behind the increase involved USC's growing computer costs in the colleec of business administration. "ONE OF the reasons they use for our ? increase is that our program is first-rate,'.' W said Eddie Gwock, business graduate student. "I think a good measure of a school's program is what business thinks of it. It depends on what percentage of people (get) jobs and we didn't fare so well last year, which is ccrtainly a concern of ours." Student protests did not discourage the trustees trom assigning special ices 10 students on a month's notice. "What they're doing is dividing the stu^ dent body and hitting pockets with special ) fnnr H Ctn/lnn( r.rt?/nrnm/>nl Pr/?ciH^nf iv.t.1, kjiuuvni vju?vimnviii i VJIUVIII Kelvin Stroble said. "It's not fair." Student representatives front the business school cited timing as their major objection to the tuition hike, although they were not opposed to some increase. "THE SPECIFIC objection we had was not directly related to the general stu ."'"i i*$Wt jh increases lent protests * dent increase," said Chris Lane, a master's student in business administration. "It's the timing and the magnitude of the change." Lane said, "For a graduate student coming in for his first semester, this amounts to a pretty sizeable change for someone who's budgeted closely." The current $1,000 enrichment fee for master's in international business studies students is stable, but all other graduate business students will be assessed $500 for in-state students and $1,000 for out-ofstate students beginning in the fall. Students said they were concerned about raising tuition for incoming students who may have made other college decisions if they had known about the proposed increases. SECOND YEAR full-time MBA students will be assessed half the fee charged to incoming MBA students. The USC catalog savs the university re tains the right to raise tuition fees, but the timing has still been a cause for friction between the admininistration and students. USC President James Holderman called it an unavoidable problem became of the timing of legislative approval of USC's budget, but students said they wanted to at least be aware that increases were being considered. "We were never formally notified that this was being considered," Lane said. "That gives us the impression that they were Irvine to railroad this throuch." * 1, .fc % ? r ^SfeK. v ?'~ * &,* r ;\ t *~ ^ * # orrSSBBETHE? ton tfe m 9m m id tfcey eat it to ri *ftin?ti?. The "\ tft," tin mm m| anaijNrttf am* Mi ?f Cotamfe SumIV buMmi an "Jrr 7 ?Mrr?Tiig wiI Street. The mwel & y ceeeet its ? ' 'if T^ISUL lliiiipiiiBi j mchri mmrt saaai^ffijpi^ to* i gra ?^ ?-*- = * ' ^ HSfpPj Kg m . FJ | ? ISLJ MM tt> 1 m j^HH K . jpi ifltri vreivti piOim Jcimy Noyes helps protest a tuition increase day. C or bettc for transl By Mary Miliar Staff writer When the USC Faculty Senate decided to stop transferring courses completed with a D, they were simply preaching what the university's colleges had been practicing for years, according to the man behind the change. I F*W Alan Caor nhairman r\f L/i . ninii ovni) viinuuiun vi the Scholastic Standards and Petitions Committee, said his committee proposed the change in academic regulafcmtifiid tjons at the Senate's July 11 rtl muft meeting because "virtually asting everyone adheres to the nrflrtirf " '0 mto "The business school hasn't strttifg accepted D's in transfer for rtlHUpti years and years/' said Dr. i 0>foi- James Kane, dean of the colem lege of business t ftwf _ j i ? aumimsirauoii. Perry Ashley, acting dean of ** the college of journalism, ex^9 pressed considerable surprise ll on tht that the policy is a newcomer, to Office 6*rv?t "Generally, I don't think MilrtlMS- any colleges have been honoris ing D's. It's not really a mulm change, it's just been put into writing," said Terry Davis, assistant director ol admissions. Davis said the undergraduate admissions of IflMWBk fice accepts a transfer student but the dean of the student': --I r college decides which credit! r.t . ........ - - 'fSMMM r ity RAY nRnNRFRRm* n?n#rnrlf i with about 25 other students Fri sr needed Fer credit from his previous institution will be accepted toward his degree. Stephen Ackerman, assistant provost, said the dean still has say over what course work will be accepted. Ackerman also said the new policy may not appear in IJSCs fall catalog as worded "because of its ambiguity." The proposed wording that states, "Academic courses must be completed with a grade of C or better al regionally accredited institutions in order to be counted toward a degree at the Univer sity of South Carolina," coulc be construed to include USC among inose regionally ac credited institutions. Charles Weasmer, chairmai of the Faculty Senate, said th< regulation deals only witl students transferring fron outside into USC. In other action, the Facult Senate decided that gradua tion with honors will now b based on a cumulative GPR including any courses attemp led at other colleges. Previous ly, only courses that transfei red to USC were calculated ir to a student's GPR. Since failed courses do nc transfer, it had been possib , to graduate with honors froi ? USC after failing courses ou i side the system. USC adds di genetic cour By Susan Paine News editor USC will offer the first n gram in gcnetic counseling it fall. "Genetic counseling is a and there are very few progr counselors," said Janis Edw? tor of USC's Genetic Coun saia me program win dc oi nation. Advancements in genetics diagnose and treat genetic < predictions of hereditary ris Young, director of USC's n< THE FIRST program counselors was founded Lawrence College in New Y Young noted "the increas fessionals who can answer about genetics, suggest appi terpret and explain test resu The counselors work with laboratory technologists ar health teams. USC's genetic counseling 45 credit hours, of which cl< up 31 hours. INTERNSHIPS IN Sou regional genetic centers wi hours, and eight hours will I work. The two-year program i with medical students, one graduate students and on* health graduate students. The Southeast has 25 reg Each of South Carolina's c< high-risk pregnancy and USC. craniofacial and t Medical University of Charleston, and biochemi mental retardation at the Center. "When we started thin master's program, we centers," Edwards said. "" in five to ten years there w increase in the number < developing that fast." MORE THAN 250,000 Kr\rn tifitk KirfK ppf c 00 \J Will Willi Ull III UVI VWl J VM babies in South Carolina a life-threatening birth defec "We hope that some of trained in this state are Southeast," Edwards said Other possibilities for < program include the chil< state Department of Heal I Control and psychiatric ge Psychiatric Institute. Within the next two mo I clinical genetics will also t prenatal diagnosis techniq I ing. The need for aotl ; diagnosis, amniocentesis, for the past five years at UNDER CVS, no anc 1 obstetrician puts a thin tul e the uterus at the side ^ chorion villi are located, ry . r, . . placenta. Miction is u; milligrams of fetal tissue, y The tissue is then ana drome, sickle-cell anemi e Edwards described CVS procedure" that is quick k" Amniocentesis involve nion, the membrane su anrl rirawinc forth a tin testing. CVS can be done fron >t the pregnancy, while ai le performed until 16 to 18' m niocentesis take three to t- but CVS results are kno egree in iseling jaster's degree pro i the southeast this relatively new field ams to train genetic irds, assistant direeseling Center, who nly the 10th in the have helped doctors disorders and make ks, said Dr. Robert :w program. to train genetic in 1969 at Sarah ork state. ing demand for propatients' questions opriate tests and inIts." C -!l! - ! famines, pnysicians, id others in genetic curriculum includes issroom study makes ith Carolina's three II provide six credit be awarded for thesis nrluHcc tu/r? rr?nr?#??: course with biology r course with public ional genetic centers, enters has a specialty: reproductive loss at >irth defects at the South Carolina in cal abnormality and Greenwood Genetic king about having a contacted genetic rhe response said that ould be a 100 percent af counselors. We're American babies are icn year, adoui j.uw ,re born with major or :ts annually, the counselors that are going to work in the :linical training in the d care services of the th and Environmental netic counseling at Hal nths USC's division of legin of fering the latest ue, chorion villi sampler form of prenatal has doubled everv vear USC, Young said. sthctic is needed. The be into the lower end of of the embryo where at the beginning of the >ed to gather a few ilyzed for Down's syn a and other disorders, as a "simple outpatient and painless. ;s puncturing the amrrounding the embryo, ly amount of fluid for i eight to 11 weeks into uniocentesis cannot be weeks. Results from amfour weeks to process, wn in a week. I II HI! Ml III I. II I i