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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday
Volume 82, No. 25 University of South Carolina October 11, 1989
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Tuesday.
Honors colle
Epsilon Pi introduced new mem- Some 400,000
bership education programs. men and 250,00<
The National Interfraternity women belong to
Council, which represents fraterni- tions in the Unite
ties at 900 college campuses, nada. After a slum
weighed in with an anti-hazing from 1965 throi
campaign of its own in September, Greek organizatk
stressing that the image of fraterni- steadily over the h
ties everywhere was suffering from Hazing has coi
hazing incidents that harmed campuses this fal
pledges physically or notorious case at 1
psychologically. Mississippi, when
"It's not a concern for decreas- pledges were ab
ing membership," said Jonathan J. and naked last mc
Brant, executive director of the pus of Rust Colle
Indianapolis-based council. "We're antly black schoc
just really fed up with the percep- and a racist epithel
tion that silly and dangerous things chests.
By RON BAKER
Staff Writer
Black enrollment in South Carolina College is increasing
slowly, in spite of more substantial growth in
black enrollment for USC as a whole, according to
university officials.
About 2 percent of the students enrolled in the honors
college are black, as opposed to 13.7 percent of
the undergraduate students as a whole.
The Gamecock reported in February that 1.3 percent
of the students in the honors college were black.
While the number of blacks in SCC has increased, so
has the total number of students in the college, said
SCC Coordinator for Academic Affairs Reenea
Harrison.
Harrison said there are 12 black students currently
enrolled in SCC, and there are four black students
who are "trying out a course" to see if they want to
enroll.
If all four students choose to enroll in the honors
Greeks discuss ei
pledge process, h
By The Associated Press occur on the coll
An ontifiOTinrt pomnaimi oimnH fro torn itinc o rn <
i in aiiu-iiiu-iiig waiupaigii amivAi iiaiviuiuwo aiv .
at countering the image of greek dated with those I
rows as gin-soaked Animal Houses "What has en
appears to be gaining this fall on making our case
campuses from the University of that we are pain
Southern California to Dartmouth. the stakes have be
Worried by their image, as well liability," Brant sa
as the possibility of lawsuits, Fraternity brc
fraternities around the country are campuses still re
moving to eliminate hazing. Some ditching the timewant
to eliminate pledging, the of putting new r
practice of having a period be- physical or menu
tween the recruitment of a member their formal initia
and his formal initiation when haz- cesses that have
ing is most likely. and hundreds of ii
In August, two of the' nation's decade nationwide
largest fraternities, Tau Kappa Ep- "I really don'i
silon and Zeta Beta Tau, decided form any sort of 1
that the most effective way to end without pledging,'
hazing was to ban pledging al- afella, a sophomi
together in their chapters. month into Alph
Kappa Delta Rho also approved Penn State Univer
a long-range plan that includes a "The oneness
move to end pledging by 1995. Phi with the brother
Sigma Kappa amended its consti- you have in comr
tution to allow for experimentation and tribulations
with non-pledge programs. Alpha there."
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of posters. The posters were for sale on the Russell
ge wants to ii
"I think that the honors college has
always had a very elitist, lily-white
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kiiiu oi image, unionunaieiy, ana some
of that is expressed by these students."
Reenea Harrison
SCC Coordinator for Academic Affairs
'They are telling me they are afraid they won't do
well in the honors college," Harrison said of black
students who turn down invitations to apply to SCC.
"We are trying to increase public awareness" of the
honors college, said Harrison. She said the college
will soon begin to expand its effort by letting people
throughout the community know about SCC.
Harrison stresses that the courses offered in the
honors college are "more challenging" than normal
curricula, rather than "harder." Many black students,
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to fraternities is .
fully aware that
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>1, with "KKK" ing freshman Kelly Bailey prep:
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mm sues o1
By GEORGE GEORGAS
An industriar hygienist ha:
$250,000 lawsuit against USC, ch;
was wrongfully fired.
Helen McGill Hied the suit this
nesday, two days after being fired I
insubordination and failure to get i
J**- ^er t>?ss? William E. Wells, the <
environmental health and safety. W
jVr JffO she was actually fired for reporting
fraud and mismanagement in US
? l chemicals and hazardous wj
?BHH The termination comes at a ti
USC and the state Department of I
Environmental Control are conferi
SIp violations found in DHEC's last
iff of the university as a waste genera
^ negotiations followed her reporting
M dons of state and federal laws ai
^ tions concerning the handling of ws
jkj CJ McGill, who had worked since i
WJf i manager of hazardous materials,
was harassed after making notice
leged waste management to USC ai
wchillon/vu gamecock pjer job involved disposal and tran
of chemicals, waste from the chen
House patio engineering departments and oils
vents used in campus construction \
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percent. Harrison said there are now about 750 students
in SCC.
Harrison said she has been chosen to head an effort
to attract black students to the honors college. "I contacted
students by letter and by telephone," she said.
"There is interest that has been generated, as well as
more black students than they've ever had before."
William Mould, master of the honors college, said
he is pleased with Harrison's effort.
1 "I feel that she has been extraordinarily successful,"
Mould said. "While I'm not being at all complacent,
sitting back and saying, 'OK, we've done all we have
to do for minority recruitment in the honors college,' I
do feel we're definitely on the right track."
Harrison said the image most students have of SCC
may create inhibitions among black students. "I think
that the honors college has always had a very elitist,
lily-white kind of image, unfortunately, and some of
that is expressed by these students," Harrison said.
century, and 22
j ^Mj^ig distinguish the
JL Marx from the U.
The survey, t
spring of 1989 at
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mrnm/~" tory an(* Uteratui
Jt iIIMli> i had been graded
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IJw - half would have
JP percent would ha
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' Organization con
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, ^ //< P the Humanities.
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> survey are dis<
^ TUiiifcj^ Chairman Lynn
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curricula so und
essential areas of
Because more;
and universities
dents to graduat
courses in histor
ence or mathema
the only solution
general education
"It is through
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ties establish a (
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She said other workers in her department
shared her concerns about university wastei
filed a management practices, but wouldn't speak
arging she specifically about the case and referred all
questions to her attorney, J. Lewis Cromer,
past Wed- Cromer said the basis for the suit is her
For alleged harassment by Wells, citing his "continuing
along with efforts to isolate, discourage, humiliate, beiirector
of rate and otherwise attempt to have (McGill)
IcGill said quit her job."
I incidents Cromer said the damages sought would
>C's hand- cover what she suffered in terms of mental
iste. anguish, humiliation, embarrassment, loss of
ime when self-esteem and reputation, and a consequent
health and loss of present and future income,
ring about He said it is ironic that she was fired for
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tor. These was insisting on reporting, and she was in\
of viola- sisting on monitoring all hazardous waste,
id regula- That's what she was hired for, to see to it
iSte- that it's identified, transported and all federal
\pril as a and state regulations are complied with,
said she "Her view was that DHEC should know
of the al- whenever something was wrong.*"
id DHEC. Paul Ward, USC senior vice president and
spoliation general counsel, had no comment about the
nistry and claims, which he said USC has 30 days to
and sol- respond to.
irojects. Wells wasn't available for comment
enrollment
particularly Carolina Scholars, are afraid the difficulty
of the work will cause them to lose their scholarships
if their grades drop, she said.
i-imi xaiii, a umvtiMi^ spuKcswuiuaii, saiu enrollment
in the university as a whole has reflected a
growing black population. While total black enrollment
increased only .2 percent over the past year for
undergraduates, the percentage of freshmen has
jumped from 13.6 percent to 17.4 percent
One way the honors college has chosen to address
this disparity is by judging the applications of
African-American students differently, Harrison said,
because often black students, regardless of their abilities,
don't pretend to perform as well on standardized
tests such as the SAT and the ACT as white students.
Black applicants, Harrison said, will be judged
more on their high school records, including such in
formation as leadership skills, class rank, grades, extracurricular
activities and other such indicators of
potential.
ianities lacking,
up survey says
^CKWELL USC English professor Phyllis
Fleishel, who teaches American lita
recent Gallup erature, agrees with Cheney that
t 700 college se- colleges and universities no longer
i half of the stu- place a strong emphasis on a wellientify
the Magna rounded education. "I do believe
t could not place that in a number of cases, universi1
the correct half ties become institutions of higher
percent couldn't training rather than institutions of
writings of Karl higher learning," Fleishel said.
,S. Constitution. She is also aware of the general
conducted in the lack of knowledge of many stu67
American col- dents. "Many of my own students
sities, tested 696 have little knowledge of history
cnowledge of his- and current events, much less liter e.
If the students ature," she said. "The long term
on the the stan- effects of this ignorance are shatscale,
more than tering. If the students don't know
failed, and only 2 it now, then their children won't
ive made an "A," know it either," she said.
u!!l! As a possible solution to the
ducted the survey , . .,
Endowment for ^?ukcatl0n P?Wem Cheney sets
frvrth <i prvro nf lanrnmr*
1U1UI a vv/iv ui lvoiiuu^ WIUUl III"
nC eludes 50 semester hours of rer
results ot the . . ,
hv NFH cluircd learnin8 concentrating on a
rhpnp in srt well-rounded, solid background
e eney 1 education. These hours break down
:T"TLZ'; in"> 18 hours of study in cultures
,rsl . ? and civilizations, 12 hours of foreStt,dy
fen 'anguage. six hours of tnathe
matic concepts, eight hours of na
aiiu iiivsiv vvjiivfcvo . , . are
allowing stu- mral s.clence and Slx hours of s0"
e without taking sciences.
y, literature, sci- Carol Kay, dean of USC's Coltics,
Cheney feels lege of Humanities and Social Sciis
to strenghthen ences, found the report reassuring
requirements. of the new curriculum the college
i the curriculum put into effect this past fall,
university facul- "In many ways it reaffirms the
lesign for educa- core curriculum we have right
;h the curriculum now," she said. "I found many as
micate what it is pects of it appealing, especially the
person should emphasis on the study of other
ey said. countries and cultures."