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Tuition
Lack of state support, funding
forces avoidable rate increases
Every semester without fail, students are forced to worry about
something other than their studies.
Once again the board of trustees has raised the question of a
tuition increase. In the past, once the question has been raised, the
board has almost always voted in the affirmative.
So now, since an increase in tuition is inevitable, all that needs
to be decided is how much. The increase now being proposed
would include a $25 increase on resident students and a $100
increase for non-residents. Graduate students would experience
similar increases. Over the last five years, tuition for USC students
has increased almost 50 percent.
The blame, however, cannot fully rest on an administration
which receives their funding from state government, but on a
group of legislators who are not supportive of South Carolina's
education system. Student government is correct in lobbying the
legislators, but it is not certain how much leverage they can wield
without student support.
South Carolina's colleges and universities in comparison to other
southern schools fall far behind other states in the region in state
? j support. This shows a general lack of concern over higher education
by our state leaders. South Carolina higher education receives
only an average of 38 percent from the state. As a result, South
Carolina colleges and universities have the second-highest tuition
rates in the South.
Florida schools are also expensive schools to attend, but they
receive 70 percent for higher education. Our neighbor, North
Carolina, provides over 50 percent of higher education budgets. As
a result, UNC resident undergraduates only pay about $900 a
semester. USC resident undergrads can expect to pay about $1,500
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Even though South Carolina is a legislative state, meaning the
legislature wields most of the power, the governor still has an
important role to play.
Gov. Carroll Campbell, once praised for his leading role in the
governor's conference on education, needs to strengthen his role
concerning higher education. He needs to wrest higher education
policy-making away from the legislature.
When coupled with the recession, the tuition increases hurt the
student population, and hurt them unfairly. If state government will
not support higher education, there are still some things the administration
can do.
Rather than lay off employees, the administration continues to
support its huge bureaucracy by making the students pay. To support
such an inordinate bureaucracy means to support an inordinate
amount of waste. For the university to remain on good terms with
the students it wants to serve, the board of trustees and the administration
need to look into restructuring before sticking it to students.
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I would like an explanation from the 1
at South Carolina Public Television a
why "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" has 1
reduced from a wonderfully convenient
day slot to a miserable two-day stint.
For some reason, my Mond
Wednesdays and Thursdays are now plaj
with a five o'clock stab in the back by a
subversive kids' show called "Barne
Friends," starring a big man in a plush d
outfit.
My friend and yours, Fred Rogers, ha
a back seat to this purple prehistoric :
One Friday afternoon a couple of weel
SCETV ran a spot explaining to devout
disciples that our regular visits I
Neighborhood would be chopped dc
Tuesday and Thursdays.
Hogwash. Blasphemy. Sacrilege.
By far, Fred Rogers has more of an in]
on our lives than "Barney & Friends
could. What are the people at ETV thi
The endless good that Mr. Rogers has d
to us, His-Neighbors, should not be for
and for Barney and his mob to even set {
his turf is laughable.
Candlestick is Sai
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To the editor: ^
Andrew Borgert's article on why
San Francisco does not deserve the ^
Giants epitomizes poor journalism. ^
Please get your facts straight.
To begin with, since 1986, the
Giants have been fourth in the ^
league in attendance, and fan support
is some of the best in the ^
country. Just ask retailers, who, ^
since 1985, have been selling
Giants material at record paces \
(they are among the ten teams in ^
all of sports who sell the most merchandise).
Fan support for the 1992
campaign was as strong as ever ^
until it became clear that the Giants
would probably leave (which we no{
now know will not occur).
Who can blame the fans for their
frustration? It is true that several
attempts to build a stadium in p
downtown San Francisco have not ^
been successful, but consider the ^
reasons. If you have ever been to
San Francisco (and judging by your
article, you have not) you would p
know the city is landlocked for one ..
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thing.
The city also faces a number of
pressing social problems that
Columbia is not only incapable of
understanding but will hopefully
never have to deal with on the
same scale (homelessness, the
highest property values in the
country and a severe lack of fund- VJ
ing for public education). In light _i
of these problems, the voters decid- CM
ed, rightly I believe, to not dedicate
more money for a stadium when
Candlestick is more than adequately
sufficient. ^
This brings me to your com- ^
ments about the Stick. I attended pj ^
some 60 games while living in the
Bay Area, and your assessment of
the stadium is just plain wrong (Do suc'h
not spend so much time listening to .
Skip and Harry Caray). A
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^irst, the setting is remarkable,
i Francisco is not called the
is of the Western Hemisphere
no reason. The park itself is
cious and among the most aestically
pleasing I have ever been
(I have been to many of them),
I the playing surface is generally
arded among the best in the
gue (ask Don Zimmer, Will
rk, Jack Clark, Whitey Herzog
i Tommy Lasorda). If their opins
do not convince you, then why
e the Giants led the league in
ible play balls since 1986? This
iild not be possible on a "bad"
d.
anally, as for the weather, have
t ever been to Wrigley field in
ril, Fenway Park in October,
ntreal's Olympic stadium anye
of the year, Comiskey Park,
cinnati's Riverfront Stadium or
ee Rivers Stadium in
sburgh? If you have, you would
complain about the weather in
idlestick. In fact, the weather is
art of what is referred to as
me field advantage."
lay indoors if you like, but I
"Croix-de-Stick" any day. (By
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means, as would any San
icisco fan. Do you?)
.S. Candlestick does not sit on
San Andreas fault.
Martin A. Davis Jr.
History graduate student
amecocks
on't deserve
awl bid
he editor:
^ould someone please, Please,
ASE tell me what is happening
nd this campus? A bowl bid!?
my goodness! Is everyone in
i a heightened state of euphoria
no one sees reality anymore?
bowl bid. Yeah. Right.
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to eliminate my weekly Neighborhoo
lis minimalist schedule idea]s. From
"trips" on tto
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igh the flimsy swinging unadulterate(
ise to the tune of John ^at js soreiy
mastics. Admittedly
dered about Mr. Rogers phenomenon,
ise. Did he ever really As young
e vacation for the week- iovable Bob
ipt job? Of course not. dominat
) inside, kick off his pred spo0n-f
blue canvases, zip into more import
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Whatever.
Now I love the Cocks as much
as everyone else, especially the
football team, but a 6-5 record does
not deserve a bowl bid. So what if
we beat three top 25 teams, assum- i
ing we beat Florida? Uh-huh. I am ]
sure. Beating those teams only <
makes a lousy start look better in
the end. <
Should the Gamecocks win 1
against Florida and Clemson and
get a bowl bid (I do not EVEN i
think so.), I encourage anyone to i
look me up in the campus directory
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me I do not know what I am talk- '
ing about. Personally, I would love i
to see the football team make me 1
the biggest liar since...uhhh, Bill i
Clinton, but I do not see it happen- <
ing. I seriously wish you luck,
guys. It would be nice to see some <
good BLACK MAGIC. j
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Michael Woehrman c
Mech. Engineering sophomore r
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Traditions, I
Nunnery are
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To the editor: v
This letter is in response to Jon
Nunnery's column of Wednesday >
Nov. 11. Mr. Nunnery made it a
clear in his column that he dis- Is
agrees with women being admitted ti
into the Citadel and presents sever- v
al arguments in "support" of his p
views. His first argument is that s
federal funding should not be used C
as an argument that women have g
the right to attend the Citadel (after it
all, it is their tax money) but b
instead states the money should be a
used to preserve the "tradition" of S
an all-male school. It never has v
been clear to me why tradition
holds such an honored place in the
hearts of Southerners; sticking to
tradition has been more our downfall
than our salvation. Take.a
7o mmh
- BrSP*
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thy of airtime. From the zoo, to
1 Studios or quite possibly the
ife wasn't more convenient than in
rs' Neighborhood until the show
wn to an end. At that point, Fred
dress himself and run off to some
oard meeting for the Church of
evers.
out of context, Mr. Rogers
d could easily epitomize post-'60s
his choice of curtains to his regular
e Trolley into the Neighborhood of
e, Fred Rogers still retains the same
1 posh and poise of the late '70s
missed.
/, we are the result of the Rogers
adults, we all have memories of
Dog and Lady Elaine Fairchild,
rix who raised hell in the 'Hood,
ed us on how to love people and
antly, how to love ourselves. He
the way we are.
. Rogers just the way he was, too.
veek at five o' clock,
you, Barney.
nmpa
moment to recall some of our other
time-honored traditions...
Mr. Nunnery's second point was
in the form of a question; he asked
why women want to attend the
Citadel. As the question was never
properly answered, I would like to
offer a few reasons:
1. The Citadel represents an
opportunity for military training
within a college setting, complete
with physical education, a chance
to earn rank and an atmosphere of
camaraderie.
2. It is the only military college
education available in its area;
women should not be forced to
move to another state simply
because of the Citadel's archaic
ideas about the importance of genier.
3. The last time I checked, government
funding for given programs
(such as engineering) is only
ivailable at one school within a
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lot have the same access to these
irograms.
4. Military training for women at
he college level will help to preiare
them for front-line combat ?
in inevitability, by the way.
5. The Citadel offers a network
>f support even after graduation,
>ne example being a placement
ervice for graduates. (Granted, this
s called a "good-ole-boy netvork.")
There are more, but I will leave
ou with your own thoughts. Here
re two final thoughts for Mr.
T tiru ? ?
* winery, wnen you nave a aaugner
(by some sweet, soft-spoken
/oman who stays in her rightful
lace) and she looks up at you and
ays, "Daddy, I want to go to the
'itadel when I grow up," are you
oing to say, "Honey, that is
^possible because you are not a
oy, and only boys are worthy of
ttending such a fine institution."?
econdly, careful. Your political
iews are showing.
Janie H. Wilson
Psychology graduate student