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Pharmacy CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ther recommendations before considering the report. “Winning allies over here in the General Assembly is going to be good for them,” Jackson said. Although the two schools’ boards of trustees have the au thority to make the decision to merge, student leaders said rais ing awareness among legislators ic nrnrial ha. Amick said. The students have also earned thg support of faculty members, some of whom were present for Thursday’s rally. Together they argued that because the report’s authors only spent one day on USC’s campus and didn’t observe the school’s interactions with Richland Memorial Hospital and Dorn VA Hospital, the resulting recommendations are based on inaccurate pretenses. “In fairness to Dr. Sorensen I think he relied heavily on the re r\r»r*+ ntriHon Vw cause of the influence wil the Commission on Highe Education. “I think th legislators ca encourage tt board < h “We have to ensure that whatever program gets through that the best pharmacists are e graduating there.” " JENNY PATEL „ THIRD-YEAR PROFESSIONAL STUDENT if . the three deans who visited the campus, and in my opinion that report is incomplete, in accurate and perhaps mis leading at times,” USC trustees mem bers to take a closer look at this and also to get the message out that this is not a smart decision for the state of South Carolina,” I pharmacy pro fessor Gene Reeder said. USC President Andrew Sorensen and Raymond Greenberg, president of the Medical University of South Carolina, support most of the re port’s recommendations but not a complete termination of phar macy education at USC. Sorensen’s support stems from a vision to increase biomedical re search in South Carolina by com bining the strengths of both pro grams to eliminate duplication in clinical education. The statewide vision would direct all pharmacy funding to one institution with the top researchers from both schools at work. Sorensen uses California as an example of streamlined curricu lum. The state has two public pharmacy schools and a popula tion of 35 million people, while South Carolina has two public pharmacy schools and a popula tion of 4 million. California also has five private pharmacy schools. Opponents argue that USC has the higher quality academics of the two schools and should be the host site if any merger is to take place. “We don’t need to build new facilities, because we have the capacity to accommodate the number of students recom mended right here at USC,” third-year professional student Jenny Patel said. Her fellow al liance members said USC is also a better locatioir because of its inclusion in a large, compre hensive campus. “We’re saying the program should be here, but we’re also worried about MUSC and their students too,” third-year profes sional student Bryan Mayer said. “The main concern is patient safety and patient health care in South Carolina. We have to en sure that whatever program gets through that the best pharmacists are graduating there.” The report doesn’t recommend an increase in total enrollment af ter the merger, and alliance mem bers said that makes a merger completely unnecessary when the state is facing a pharmacist short age. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu Oratorio CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 before the Varna International Conductors Workshop. While other groups will have the opportunity to perform “The Martyrdom of Polycarp” in the fu ture, it will be exclusively for the USC Concert Redford will provide an open fo rum on the compositional process and the oratorio at First Presbyterian Church Saturday morning in the church’s lecture hall. This forum will be free and open to the public. Solo artists will act out the ma jor roles while the main choir will act as a chorus and advance the plot. The Columbia Children’s Choir will sing VI1U11 1UA AliV time being. Traveling and performing with the Concert Choir is an or chestra com posed of 15-20 USC Band and Symphony mem According to cnorai professor Carol Krueger, an oratorio is a story told through song, but does not include spoken text. WlUiUVlVX on Sunday’s per formance. Altogether the oratorio in cludes about 80 singers. Redford has ^ worked on pro- ™ jects with ueia. Ridgley and Krueger both ac knowledge the notability this or atorio can bring to USC as it was written specifically for Wyatt, something that will be mentioned in future performances. Cairns wrote the text, or libret to, to the music. Cairns and uiaucy, Aiieiuuiiig wuiiv un me score for “The Jungle Book II.” Along with “The Martyrdom of Polycarp,” Redford has recently composed music for the new Disney “Winnie the Pooh” film. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu TIRED Of THE SAME OLD APARTMENT? __ STERLING UNIVERSITY (803) 252-2634 21 NATIONAL GUARD RD. 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