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Volume 79, No. 30 University of South Carolina October 31, 1986 I
Perkins admit
surprise about
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salary release
By BUDDY MOORE
News editor
Paul and Cheryl Perkins said they were somewhat
) surprised when USC President James Holderman
fionr/?c rnivprnino Iphan Slarlnt't pvncnccc
and salary Tuesday.
"We had pretty much scaled ourselves for a
struggle, for an appeal to a higher court," Mrs.
Perkins said in an interview with The Gamecock
Thursday. "We had pretty much prepared ourselves
for a long wait."
USC declined to appeal Circuit Court Judge
James Moore's ruling Tuesday. Moore ruled that
the public's right to know the figures outweighed
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"It wouldn't have been good for the university, I
don't think, to have continued to fight this," Paul
^ Perkins said. "I'm concerned about their public
relations as well.
"It's my school; I go to it as well as everyone else.
It's the kind of recognition they didn't need."
Perkins, a journalism senior, and Mrs. Perkins, a
lawyer, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
against USC in order to determine how much the
university has paid for Sadat's services at the
school.
They said the case was a victory for the state's
FOIA, which states public information should be
disclosed.
"I really think it put the FOIA on the map in
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statute," Perkins said. "I don't think a lot of
{? reporters were necessarily informed about the
Freedom of Information Act before this. I don'l
even think we were."
"The legislature intended for the public, not jusl
the media, but the public, to be able to gel
documents if they so desire to look at them," h<
said.
"It's like Judge Moore said, to allow state agen
cies or public institutions to operate in secrecy onl\
invites non-accountiblity, misdeeds ? the sures
way to corruption," he said.
The Perkinses said they didn't expect all of th<
? publicity they've received since they began askini
for the figures in March for the free-lance article.
"We're really glad the apathy that everybod;
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By TODD HINF.S t!
Newt reporter
If the proposed Student Government con- tl
ip stitution is ratified, elections will be held only si
in the spring, according to an amendment to
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new constitution. s
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amendment preventing major SG elections
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dent Robert Beall appealed to senators
finish with amendments so the entire constil
tion could be voted on next Wednesday.
Another amendment changes the f
treasurer's duty from serving as chairman
the Finance Committee to serving as an act
non-voting member of the committee.
Sen. Michael Hogue, who presented I
amendment, said it would be unfair for an <
ecutive officer besides the prcsiden to be a
to have another vote on the budget.
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trustee
By T.C. HUNTER
Nows reporter
Putting a voting student
member on USC's board of
trustees is one of Student
Government's primary goals in
the upcoming year, according to
SG President Amy Houser.
Students would have much
more power in the university's
happenings if they were given a
seat on the board, she said
Thursday.
She used Sadat's salary as an
example oi now msigmiicum me
student body is in USC's
decision-making process.
"I don't know that her salary
was discussed at a board meeting,
but I would assume that it was,
because it concerned a university
employee and a salary," Houser
said. "If it was discussed in an
executive session of the board
and a student was recognized as a
full board member, then he
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By The Associated Press
The chairman-elect of USC':
* Faculty Senate says many facult;
members he's talked to are indig
nant about the $314,000 paid t<
a Jehan Sadat for teaching thre
I semesters.
| Rufus Fellers, who will becom
chairman of the Faculty Scnat
k next fall, said Wednesday he an
other professors were upset b
how much Sadat received.
"This is only my personal op
nion, but I would say all the rca<
tion I have heard from facult
members has been one of ii
dignation, that this is out of th
question, ridiculous," sai
Fellers, an engineering professo
"What she got paid for or
to course was more than they gi
tu- paid for six," Fellers said in
telephone interview.
SG He said distinguished pr<
of fessors such as Sadat do brir
ive more national recognition to
university, but he said their coi
ihe tributions to the "academic pn
ex- g r a m . . . a r e not v e r
ble significant."
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re 1,800 black students on camire
not participating in any E
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Alpha senior, who argued for nee
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omething doesn't fulfill a need, bla
eed to exist." I
aid he thinks organizations such poi
ion of Afro-American Students sue
AACP are not reaching many of
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i't take the time to urge their
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be right there in the decisionmaking
process."
She said she was powerless
when it came to deciding what to
pay Sadat tor her services to
USC, because salaries of university
professors are determined by
the board of trustees.
"I could have made a statement,
but 1 have no power to
speak," she said.
She wrote in a memorandum,
"The amount of money the
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university was paying IVIIS. oautii
far exceeded my initial expectations.
The figures revealed were
shocking, especially to a student
concerned with rising tuition
costs."
"It is my hope that in the
future the university will weigh
the credentials and costs of the
distinguished professors against
the needs of the students and the
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ssors upset
at's salary
tion," he said. "There probably
^ would have been some, but it
/ would have been dead by now."
By fighting to keep the infor3
mation secret, the school
e "amplified the whole thing," he
said.
e But the current chairman of
c the Faculty Senate said it is difd
ficult to get a gauge on the impact
y of the school's disclosure.
"The opinions would range the
i- gamut ? all the way from no
comment to maybe agreeing with
y it to being upset by it," said Dave
l- Rembert, who teaches in the
ie biology department.
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r. Othniel H. Wienges Jr., chairic
man of USC's board of trustees,
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a much Sadat was paid.
"We didn't know the exact
> terms, but we approved the hiring
lg of distinguished professors,"
a Wienges said Wednesday. "We
n- approved the philosophy of it."
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y of about 135 professors from the
various colleges and departments
id at the school. It is the governing
Id body for the faculty and the
c- undergraduate programs.
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^erry Pearson, an Alpha Phi Alpha
ior also arguing for the resolution, said,
re we really reaching the people we need
No. Then these organizations don't
d to exist."
Jut James Franklin, a student governnt
representative said, black students
d to have something they can identify
h. "Just by having black organizations,
cks have a support group," he said.
Hack organizations have been very imtant
in historical reform and change,
h as the decision of Brown versus Hoard
Education, which was researched by a
ck organization, Franklin said.
I he U.S. Supreme Court case called for
end of desegregation of public schools.
'There is a need for black representa
n," said Christa Tidwell, arguing
iinst the resoution.
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