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Volume 79, No. 72 University of South Carolina April 3, 1987
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By RONI BEA KAYNE
Editor In chief
In an effort to let bygones be
bygones, USC President James
Holderman apologized Thursday
^ for his sometimes "excessive"
w spending of public money.
"Some people may feel that I
have made expenditures that were
unwise," Holderman said at the
board of trustees meeting, emphasizing
the board had been
aware of his discretionary fund
gift-giving.
"In hindsight, I realize that
this method of recognizing
university triends, while done
with the single purpose of moving
this institution forward very
* a rapidly, was, in some instances,
I excessive, and I am sorry for this
' error."
Holderman said the board and
USC administration have tried to
rebuild public confidence in
university spending by setting
salary limits for visiting professors
and a policy to fully
disclose all spending from discretionary
funds.
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giving gifts from any source, except
for tokens of recognition
similar to those traditionally
t A given by colleges and universities,
^ including our own."
Earlier in the meeting, board
Chairman Othniel Wienges
reviewed past board decisions to
first withhold information about
discretionary funds and later,
release the expense accounts,
"while still protecting the privacy
of university benefactors."
Wienges said any decision that
board members can unanimously
A approve, like these recent deci^
sions, must not be an issue, but a
. "fiscal oversight."
"We have followed the rules,"
he said. "We stand behind the
president of the University of
South Carolina.
"We owe no apology. We have
a commitment to being the best,
and,to ensure that, we need to remain
on the course of progress."
In other action:
The board welcomed incomW
ing Student Government President
Mike Hogue as a non-voting
board member, a partial result of
efforts by former SG president
Amy Houser to allow a voting
student representative on the
board.
Wienges said he invited Hogue
to attend any closed executive
sessions the board may have in
See "Board," page 2
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By TODD HINES
Assistant news editor
An audit of the Carolina P
finances has revealed the various c
ly face losses from the events tl
there were no improprieties or disc
CPU was audited so the Fins
along with USC students, would
uses student activity fees.
Former Student Government
Sheridan found after an investig
CPU committees that the expen
university regulations. He did, ho
problems with the programs.
"The problem has been, after lo
lot of things have suffered fron
dance, and they have lost conside
money," Sheridan said.
The most dramatic deficit <
Cinematic Arts branch of CPU, w
in the fall semester. Out of 89 tr
semester, 72 had losses and one lc
Sheridan said CPU has take
semester such as showing four rr
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By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Holderman had to sa
Copy desk chief faculty, administrators
Listening very closely to USC President Or what Holderman
James Holderman Tuesday night as he Because of an advi
discussed 10 years at the university, tuition meeting was assumed tc
increases, and new facilities such as the Holderman's discretion
Swearingen Engineering and Koger Arts wasn't.
centers, was a television producer. Gorin would not say '
Norman Gorin, a producer for CBS' 60 wanted to cover, but hi
Minutes news show, was interested in what Columbia to talk to He
rer's audit of CPU
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is, no discrepancies
show to the public for free. These measures won
create a profit, but they will reduce the losses,
rogram Union's Eddie Daniels, associate director of programn
ommittees usual- ing, said the cost for movies this past semester wa
ley sponsor, but not altogether unexpected.
repancies. "That's not a loss to me. We look at it as th
ance Committee, theater has to be subsidized if students on this can
know how CPU pus want movies," Daniels said.
Sheridan also said other programs such as sped*
Treasurer Jim speakers and events were costly and very poorly ai
;ation of various tended by students.
ditures met with "I just have a real problem when we subsidize th
wever, find some public to come to events that the students have pai
for, so the emphasis should be on serving th
oking at it, that a students," he said.
1 real low atten- For example, a lecture by Eugene "Mercury
rable amounts of Morris in January, which cost $3,610 for persona
hotel and reception fees, generated only $26.
occurred in the Also, a lecture by Sarah Weddington in Octobe
'hich lost $11,511 cost $2,116 and only generated $19 from students
lovies shown last As part of the Cultural Series, the musical "j
>st $495. Chorus Line" lost more than $3,000, and Conten
n measures this porary Sounds lost about the same amount for ii
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By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE
Copy desW chief
The meeting was announced to answer the one
question USC students could not ask their university
president, James Holderman.
Because of a mistake, made when submitting a
classified to the advertising department of The
Gamecock, the Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity
had the nearly 100 people who showed up to the
forum Tuesday night thinking Holderman would
discuss his discretionary expenditures.
Devon White, president of the Delta Sigma Pi
pledge class, explained before he introduced
Holderman the president could not discuss the expenditures
because of inauiries bv the 5th Cimiit
Solicitor's office and the state Ethics Commission.
But the president had other things to say, and,
with a rapidfire delivery and an occassional joke to
the questioners, he talked about the major events of
his 10-year presidency at USC.
Holderman's main focus dealt with tuition
increase.
"We are governed by a formula," he said, adding
only in the 1977-78 did the state come close to fully
funding USC. Another handout he distributed
stated the cumulative shortfall between the required
minimum formula to operate USC and what the
state has allocated to USC is $69.4 million, and the
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same time is $18.9 million, a difference of $50.5
million.
"The tuition raises do not equal the formula
short fall.
"Imagine what this university could do if it were
fully funded for the past 10 years," he said.
He said USC would be forced to cut programs to
meet the expected funding from the legislature, but
would not specify when asked what programs would
be cut.
"I don't think anybody really knows yet. The
f provost has told them (the academic departments)
to prepare for a cut," he said.
Holderman also warned about the ecumenical
year. "On Sept. 11, 1987, The Horseshoe will be
closed."
He said students and faculty from every school in
J the system can come onto The Horseshoe to see the
nterests 60
y to the students, "He will talk to 60 Minutes,"
and alumni. said. "But hopefully not in a
cuan i nave 10 say. lorum."
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) be a discussion of show was interested in, he said, refer
ary spending, but it Holderman's main topic of the m
"We didn't come down here to talk
what the news show tuition increases."
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metal detector.
He also said the university would have no part in
distributing tickets for the service at the stadium.
He said they are expecting 10 people per ticket,
"800,000 to 1 million people."
"I have nothing to do with distributing the
tickets, for which I am oratefnl "
Darren Thomas, a business senior, asked the
president to what he attributed USC having one of
the largest black communities of a traditionally
white university.
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See "Holderman," page 2
President highlights
USC achievements
By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE
Copy desk chief
During the meeting, Sigma Delta Pi fraternity
members distributed a pamphlet, called "The
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the achievements of Holderman's 10-year reign
as university president.
Holderman highlighted the pamphlet when he
began talking, with a list of accomplishments of
the university, including:
the Swearingen Engineering Center, which
he said will quadruple space and double enroll*
ment available to the engineering program, and
which was also constructed entirely from out-ofstate
funds and private donations,
the Koger Arts Center, which he said would
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oegin 10 emerge as a major entertainment
center for the Midlands,"
the revised academic calendar, which he said
would eventually move enrollment, graduation
and finals up a week earlier for the next five
years, ' v '
separate graduation ceremonies for
graduates and undergraduates,
?a new, ail-purpose I D card for all the
system campuses,
and the remodeling and painting of campus
dorms.
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Gorin man Wednesday, but would not say if the
public show would tape a segment.
Staff members at the 60 Minute'; office
at the in New York City, said they do not confirm
ring to whether a story is being followed,
ecting, However, one said Thursday, "We don't
about discuss works in progress."
Gorin would not say after the meeting
USC, what, or who, brought the producer to
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