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Excess
New USC president should cut
unnecessary administrative jobs
Things are tough all over. The signs of recession have been si
facing all across the country during the past few months.
Colleges and universities are no expection. As a result of fun
mg ^lii^igtucics uiai nave cnppieu siaics aciuss uie country, nu
dreds of thousands of students will be writing bigger tuiti<
checks this spring term than ever before. Mid-year tuition i
creases have hit and hit hard. Massachusetts students will be ta
ing the biggest brunt of these increases, paying as much as $6^
more this spring.
Interim President Arthur Smith said USC would not have
face mid-year tuition increases, but the university is cuttii
budgets all across campus. Residents hall advisers' positions a
not going to be filled if they are left vacant by students who gr
duate, are fired or get shipped off to the Persian Gulf. And that
no exaggeration.
Graduate assistants in some areas will not be replaced if the
positions become available.
Housing fees are going to increase for next year by 4.8 percer
and energy costs at the university could escalate to betwee
$500,000 and $1.2 million in additional costs.
But there is one area on campus that seems to be immune to tl
belt tightening ? the administration building.
Rep.- Herb Kirsh, D-York and chairman of the House Ways ar
Means Committee, said USC needs to pare down the administr;
tion and get their salaries in line to where it's not so outlandish.
Many top administrative positions were created by former Pres
dent James Holderman, who resigned in the wake of criticism <
his spending and administrative practices. Kirsh said he wants 1
cut many of the positons Holderman created.
Surprisingly, Chairman of the board of trustees Michael Mung
agreed that some of the jobs might be unnecessary and could t
eliminated.
"I don't know that I would argue with that," Mungo said. '
want to leave it up to the permanent president. But there are jot
that I think need to be done away with."
Smith emerged as the front-runner in the race for the presiden
probably because he is the only one that has publicly stated that h
is being considered for the job. He has also gotten more than hi
share of positive coverage from the local media, which has greatl
helped his chances of becoming USC's next president.
But S.C. House Education Committee Chairman David Beasle]
D-Darlington, said that in order to eliminate some of the unnece*
sary administratiive positions might require hiring someone othe
than Smith.
"I think that Art's got a decent amount of integrity about him,
Beasley said. 'There's still a question in some people's minds s
to whether Dr. Smith was too tied to Dr. Holderman."
If Smith does get the presidency, he should definitely be pre
pared to make drastic administrative changes and eliminate the e>
cess baggage in the administration.
While administrative salaries keep climbing, (top administrate
recently got an average 4.51 percent pay increase), so does tuitior
housing and other fees. But students, their parents and faculty ar
tired of it, and they aren't going to take it anymore.
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Congress, that pool of American political
wisdom and butt of countless jokes, is an em^
barrassment to the United States. It's as simple
J" as that.
T A few weeks ago, I berated President Bush
for his ineptitude. Well, the lack of intellectual
wattage in the federal legislature makes Bush
ls seem positively Churchillian. If someone put a
gun to my head, I would say I am more of a
Democrat than a Republican, but the behavior
of the Democrat-dominated U.S. Congress is
almost more than I can take.
My grievances are many, but the primary
^ reason the Congress is such a national joke is
that Congressmen have turned their organizae
tion into a self-perpetuating oligarchy. The
French First Estate had a higher rate of turnover
than Congress, and we all know what
happened to that bunch of enlightened nobility.
Congressmen put more effort into getting
reelected than to running the country. Something
like 98 percent of senators and representatives
returned to their jobs in the 1990 elecr
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that only biology majors were in narr
qualified to speak on the issue of clearly havii
dissection. Using her logic, I sup- dissection's
pose only military personnel are searchers thi
qualified to talk about the rising laws of moi
tensions in the Middle East. Any- around the c
, way, as I happen to be well edu- this belief ar
cated in more areas than one, I can the courts,
say quite confidently that a person
need not dissect non-human ani- Whether
mals to know that it is morally animals hav
wrong, a waste of precious life, own, one o
and that it desensitizes students dissected. S
toward animals. One cannot jus- their nervoi
tify, solely on the grounds of hav- like our owi
ing a higher I.Q., the killing of our kin. The
millions of cats, frogs, birds, rats being unique
and snakes per year just to satisfy ven't the rig
a desire for hands-on experience, our own self
There are models available now intelligent
that feel and act like human tissue planet, hum
when cut open. Also, constructing sponsibility
a frog's anatomy from clay could of those crea
help in memory retention and do not hear,
could be a more creative, compassionate
activity.
Contrary to Rudd's statements, Pseuc
there are excellent alternatives
available, which are endorsed by mean
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Medicine, an organiza- To the editor
tion of one 2,000 veterinarians and Whaah, 1
doctors in this country. I wonder if Wedlock cry
the writer would consider these knows how .
professionals qualified to speak out dents at USC
against the archaic practice of dissection?
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tion. Why is that? Like some pundit put it, if
the board of General Motors ran their company
as poorly as the Congress runs our country,
they would have been fired long ago.
Congress must be stopped before it is too
late. I know that sounds like, a linp fmm a h^H
horror movie, but our country is starting to resemble
a bad horror movie. The people responsible
for federal expenditures (Congress and the
president) have tripled the federal debt through
bloated defense and social welfare programs.
What have we got in return for becoming the
largest debtor nation in the world? The Pentagon
had to buy supplies from K-Mart when we
finally needed our military forces, and people
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if instilling respect for Center. I'd bet he needs
eatures, dissection and cise anyway,
vould be obsolete. But
many of these profes- Does the professor rea
*e federal grants (tax- his pseudo-citations are <
iey) to cut up animals people not to park there?
le of research, thus tickets are meaningless, i
ig a vested interest in incites more people to
survival. Although re- just for the laughs of see
nk they are above the body issue worthless tic
rality, caring citizens doesn't Wedlock have
ountry are challenging portant things to do in
id even taking them to time, like instruct his s
legal study.
Rudd likes it or not, To even think the adrr
e an agenda all their would consider erecting
f which is not being ound faculty parking lots
he should know that ous. What else are the>
is systems are much do to raise tuition?
n, which makes them Dry your eyes Mr. We
jy deserve respect for stop meddling in univer:
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The Gulf Crisis beinj
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approximately 20,000 I
: who are ready to volunt
et's hear Professor gulf as a ground force,
some more. Now he garia cannot deploy the
all the commuter stu- the official resolution is
feel. the Security Council at
We are waiting in antici
condone anyone for draft and acclaim of th
larking in the profes- tion. With this move, Bu
ated lot, but the last show its solidarity with
niversity needs is a against the tyranny
" professor who is occupation.
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are still starving on the streets.
Now, the government tells us that the American
people have to pay higher taxes for the
government's shopping spree. It could not be at
a worst time, either. Basic economics says that
when there is a downturn in the economy, one
shouldn't jack up taxes and cut government
spending. Obviously, most Congressmen didn't
take ECON 101; maybe they were busy running
for campus treasurer instead.
Term limitations (such as restricting Congressmen
to two terms, maximum) is an idea
whose time has come. California passed a termrestriction
resolution for state legislators. Hopefully,
this kind of bill will find its way to the
federal level. If they can't be voted out of office,
they can at least be forced out.
That way, a younger group of politicians less
experienced in the ways of political graft and
corruption can move in. By the time they get
really good at lying and stealing from their constituency,
they will have to leave office and sell
used cars.
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iliseum lot This arrangement of force in the
) the Law gulf will become the future model
; the exer- of international relations in tomor
row's world, in one way or
another. Geographically, we might
lly believe be far apart from the United
convincing States, but politically we are get'
Since his bng closer and closer with every
t probably year. with every month, with every
park there week and every day. We want to
cing some- be in close friendly relations with
kets. And die United States, and a gradual
more im- admission into NATO would help
his spare safeguard the country politically as
tudents in well as militarily from any foreign
intervention. A weak military, economic
and political force today,
linistration Bulgaria will become a strong
gates ar- country tomorrow when it emis
ridicul- braces friendship with the United
r going to States of America.
Katerina Kaloyanova
cdlock and journalism graduate student
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pedestrian law
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To the editor:
itics Please, no speed bump on Sumter
Street. Why not do what the
University of North Carolina does?
They have brightly painted crossl
close at walks that are marked clearly by
iked upon flashing lights and signs (reading)
m of Bui- "Stop for Pedestrians in CrossLor
in the walks." Motorists respect these
There are signs for the most part because the
Bulgarians law is specific and they are tickeer
in the eted if they ignore them. The lives
But Bui- of students should take priority
cm before over traffic flow, but traffic flow
passed by in a city is a necessary evil. Before
the. U.N. a major north-south artery is impation
the peded by a speed bump, an effort
is resolu- should be made first to appeal to
Igana will law ana courtesy,
the world Charles Lee Egleston
of Iraqi library and information science
graduate student