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Volume 80, No. 46 University of South Carolina December 4, 1987 I i
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By MARY PKARSON
I Administration reporter
USC faculty salaries was one of the main issues
addressed by President James Holderman and
'?tglish professor Trevor Howard-Hill at Wednesday's
Faculty Senate meeting.
I he debate centered on the question ot whether
USC provides a faculty salary figure to the State
Budget and Control Board to help increase the
<| state funding for faculty salaries.
During the meeting, Holderman explained a
! small part of each year's budget process that starts
Student Metli
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By KELLY S. MARSHALL a
' Senate reporter s
' . The Department of Student Media will be >
^ jP.ven control of all the production of the s
) Freshman Review, a bill passed by the Student
i Senate says. c
But Student Media has yet to decide if it will s
; take the project. i
Thp Kill'c nfitc'idp pti/lc ii/ppl-c r\f HphalA \
| within the Senate about the profits from sales >
of the Review. j
But the vote was close. Student Government |
3 Vice President Leigh Hunter had to cast the
1 ; deciding vote on the bill. I
The bill was originally passed by the Senate, I
I but was reintroduced and amended after being j
vetoed by S.G. President Michael Hogue. I
The bill still has an accordance that must be
signed by Student Media before it is given pro- i
duction of the Review. i
One senator was opposed to the project
because of the profits.
441 tnirl if nnrp unH 1*11 cjiv if :<onin "
\ ^tanley Davis said during the debate. "We
I ] should be more careful with our money. We
| I are providing them with a way to make a profit
j from student fees."
After the bill was passed, Communications
Committee Chairman Harry Turner said the
arguments over money had clouded the
; y original issue ? improving the Review.
"I understand the other senators'
] arguments, but 1 think Student Media should
a get money tor tne extra work tney do, turner
said. "But the main purpose of the bill was
i just to improve the quality of the book."
Margaret Michels, acting student media
i J director, said the department is still investigating
the possibility of producing the
book. But Student Media should be compen]
sated if it takes on the project, she said,
v "If Student Media and Student Government
[j Drug reduces risk
i i By The Associated Press
BOSTON ? A common drug appears to
j alcoholics from dying of liver disease, but it should
used as an excuse to keep drinking, doctors say.
A study published today shows that even
5 alcoholics continue to drink, they seem to bencfi
1 the medicine called propylthiouracil, or PTU. Th
cut the death rate in half among people who took it
* a two-year period and was almost completely el
| among those who drank the least.
"The finding is very promising," said Dr. Markl
I' > ^ftoila, clinical director of the National Institi
* ^'Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. "However, the tre
| goal in alcoholism is always abstinence. That ha
emphasized."
Ordinarily, PTU is used to treat overactive I
glands. The new study suggests that it somehow p
the liver from the poisonous effects of alcohol.
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outer frame of the Roger Arts Center Thursday as he
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IlCllC lVJUlYd
with the Commission on Higher Education.
"The salary figure that goes into the formula is
the one the CHE generates, based on their examination
of peer institutions," Holderman said.
"We are not asked to provide a budget figure for
salaries. The CHE puts one in the budget request.
Then we will proceed to fight for even more."
He also said the Council of Presidents of South
Carolina colleges and universities is planning a supplement
possibility for this year, but that it is in the
very early stages of planning.
The plan is attempting to find a way to put a
a to publish !
ual,bill says I
ire going to work together, there should be
ome compromise in where the profits will go.
Nc certainly don't want all the profits, but we I
hould have a part in it." , \
I InHpr thp nr?\i/ Kill QfnHpnt MaHiq vl/iII hn in
:harge of layout for the Freshman Review initead
of a publisher S.G. hired. The Com- Hi
nunications Committee and Student Media U&
-vill consult on the book's price, but the Senate ^
A'ill have final approval over the price of the
Review, thereby controlling the profit that j.> V
inpc tA QfuHpnt MPHIQ
tvy "ivu.u.
S.G. will also continue to get $1 profit from
the sale of each book and will use the m ney '
for unbudgeted expenses within S.G. Profits ^^1
going to Student Media are to be put into the
general Student Media account for its own use.
Hut under the new bill, Student Media can- ) v
not apply for additional percentage funding in B u
connection with the Freshman Review. The
bill also says Student Media will never be ,
publisher of the book, even if the facilities and I
equipment are available in the future, Turner
"I'm very pleased the bill was passed," he
said. "And I'm sure the quality of the book jsjjg
will improve. Now we'll have more access to
equipment, layout and pictures that we didn't |jp|
have before."
"It seems to be a good quality now,"
Michels said. "We wouldn't produce it if we I
didn't think we could improve or at least maintain
the quality."
Also during Wednesday's meeting, Commissioner
for Higher Education Frank
Shehcen spoke on The Cutting Edge, a program
designed to improve colleges and univer- a
sities in South Carolina.
The program is designed to establish
scholarships, allow easier transfer of college ",ei
credits from techinical schools and establish
minimum admissions standards, Shehcen said.
of alcohol-inducec
The treatment was developed and tested
keep OrrcKO at the Addiction Research Foundal
not be to. A report on the work was published ii
England Journal of Medicine.
when An estimated 18 million Americans have
t from ing problems, and liver disease is a com
ie drug death among them.
during "In the long term, it looks like PTU is b<
Tective tients, even though they continue to drii
Jerome Zeldis of Boston's Beth Israel Hosp
ku I.in- much tempted to try it on a few patients.'
Lite on However, he and Dr. 1 nomas LaMo
atmcnt University School of Medicine also advisee
s to be the best treatment.
"The current management of anyone t
thyroid plications of alcoholism is to stop drinkii
rotects forever," said LaMont. "The public has
because this could be used as a crutcl
JONATHAN Willi A MS/The Gamecock
perform his welding duties.
at salaries
one-time infusion into the budget of as much as $5
million that would be an addition to the $63 million
outlined in the CHE higher education package,
The Cuttine Edne.
The packagc includes provisions to bring the
state's colleges and schools to full-formula funding,
the level of funding determined by CHE to
make S.C. higher education competitive.
USC's faculty salaries are below the salary
averages of other Southeastern state universities.
I he proposed plan would help bring faculty
salaries to this level.
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commercialized Christmas
(ephen King, a graduate student, poses as Santa ai
rature to Patricia Young, an undeclared freshman. Sanl
use Thursday.
I liver disease, doct
by Dr. Hector drinking."
:ion in Toron- The researchers studied 310 alee
1 today's New rhosis and other liver disease cause
they entered (lie program, they
serious drink- equivalent of K ounces of whiskey <
mon cause of qucnt binges. During the two-year s
pills twice a dpy; the rest got placet
neficial to pa- Nearly all the men and women
nk," said Dr. When the study was over, 13 percen
ital. "I'm very had died, compared with 25 percei
group. However, those who drank
mt of Boston The researchers measured the alc<
1 abstinence as jects' urine and divided the patien
and low-drinking categories. Thede
vith any com- for low drinkers who took PTU ar
tig completely, drinkers who got placebos. However
to hear that, high drinkers who got PTU and 26 |
h to continue got placebos in the high-drinking c<
Library
needed
preside!
By MARY PKARSON and TONY
MORENO
Stflff writers
Thomas Cooper Library will
reccive the additional $1 million
needed to maintain current levels of
periodicals and subcriptions, President
James Holderman told the
Faculty Senate Wednesday.
"I understand a resolution is coming
from the Library Committee asking
for $1 million dollars, and we arc
prcpareu to say mai win oe an equally
high priority. We will find the $1
million dollars from somewhere,"
Holderman said.
Director of Libraries Kenneth
Toombs said the promised $1 million
in extra funds is a relief, but more is
needed to upgrade the library
research facilities.
"The ? ra funding was needed to
maintain minimum operational purchases,"
Toombs said. "I am relieved.
I would have hated to get into
massive cancellations of subscriptions.
We will be able to maintain
present level of purchases we are at
now."
While he remains very supportive
of the administration's efforts to
help the library, Toombs said better
permanent funding is needed in addition
to the money provided by the
resolution.
The resolution was designed mainly
just to keep subscriptions while
oeuer iiinuing is necucu 10 Keep
libraries competitive with other
research libraries of similar size.
For example, Toombs said the
library receives only half of the level
BBy TODD HINES
Assistant news editu
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( ]r //?Ml ^it.' I ft* tiameioik v'l' 1^ I't' ) 'U I [ 1S^
Outside of thes
s he hands out small tables and
!a was in KusseTI * television, board
vided in the area
Zuleba expect:
building. He said
curs after 5 p.m.
Or^ 'he loud roon
vy O OCL j big-screen televisi
control booth an
)Siolics who had cir- refurbishing.
J by drinking. When Other new leal
drank at least the in the back of th<
i day or went on fre- by removing ceil
tuciy, nan iook riu visidic.
>os. Kohn said a n
continued to drink, corner of the ret
t of the PTU patients ing down portio
it of (he comparison rounds outside o
less did better. The loud spac
inoi levels in tne sun- cnarging aumissi
ts into high-drinking main open to all
ath rate was 3 percent "We didn't w;
id 25 percent for low would come in a
it was 22 percent tor Food will he ?
percent for those who the Gamecock di
)mparison group. the quiet and loi
to set I
funds, I
it says I
of funding that University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill library N
receives.
"We have a long way to go," he p?
said, adding that part of the problem kS
is the formula that the Commission bi
on Higher Education uses to generate
funds for higher education. p
"We need to improve that formula pi
generating funds for libraries. The |g
current formula obviously does not j /
generate enough money to support pi
the graduate and research programs P
as far as the libraries are concerned," H
Toombs said. "It doesn't give p
enougn money 10 ouy inc collections
needed and to meet rising inflation."
He said the library has 2,(XX) fewer
subscriptions for periodicals than it
did 10 years ago because of the increasing
price of subcriptions coming
from overseas. "Almost half of our
subcriptions are from overseas," he
said.
"We purchase heavily in the
United Kingdom, Holland, Germany
and Switzerland, because that's
where a lot of the scientific journals
are published and literature as well.
And if it's published in a foreign
country, you have to pay for it in (hat
currency."
Davy-Jo Ridge, associate director
of libraries, said the problem here is
the falling value of the dollar on the
foreign market. "We take thousands
of periodicals," she said. "You can
expect subscriptions to increase as
much as 20 percent in one year."
Toombs said the subscription costs
naa increased this past year oy
$227,000.
tects unveil
4- /"X /at rr* />
iu icnuvaic
;n Spur area
lans for the renovation of the Golden
csented Thursday to student organi/.and
Pete Stuart of Drafts and Jumper, a
resented drafts of new designs for the
j give the area a loud side and a quiet
is between.
cen working on the project plans for a
isk of getting basic necessities planned
ailable.
ilable for renovations from allocations
budget over the past few years, said
ssell House director.
funds arc probably enough to cover the
J by the firm, but he expects more funds
determined until a committee can be
ing to discuss operations.
e closed in the spring when construction
nd it should be completed for the fall,
i will be designed to provide a Ibungefor
students to Rathe; and relax, Kohn
: firm is working on is to add more colm
and have several partitioned living
about 12 feet by 12 feet each connected
spaces will be completely open and
3 secluded effect. Chairs and a table
idc each partition.
e areas Kohn expects to put a number of
chairs for a cafe like atmosphere. A
games, ana magazines wm also tie prof
s lounge use will be the same as the
85 percent of Russell House activity oc1
will probably have features such as a
ion, a stage, a disc jockey booth, lighting
d advanced air circulation and electrical
lures would be removable, tiered seating
c room and a modern technological look
ing tiles so the air circulation ducts are
icon light sculpture might be put in the
I- and yellow-colored room after knockns
of the concrete veil block that surf
the Golden Spur and lounge.
e can be reserved by any organizations
on, but Zuleba said the facility must rest
udents.
ant it to be monopolized by a group that
ind take it all the time," Zuleba said.
>old at a special counter connected with
ining area for students to bring into both
id sides.
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