To the editor:
All those who sincerely revere this historical institutions of South Carolina, and who value cohesion, unity and justice among its citizens, will surely applaud the June 16 announcement that South Carolina State University’s probation has been lifted by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The difficulties experienced by the university, and by many persons who have recently assisted it, have been most challenging and fraught with governmental, financial, legal and political complexities of the most difficult and dangerous nature. I am well aware there are those who think the state has done too much in support of the university. But that is simply not important now. Because the loss of South Carolina State’s accreditation would have driven into the heart of our society a bitter and rancorous division of feelings which the state should not endure and simply cannot afford, especially in the face of other, urgent and looming fiscal issues which affect the daily lives of all South Carolinians and their posterity.
I believe I can accurately claim to have followed this issue almost daily for some years now. And I will assert that in the entire length and breadth of the state of South Carolina, no person has seen the importance of the university’s accreditation more clearly than Senate President Pro Tempore Hugh Leatherman, and no group has contributed more directly to a viable fiscal resolution of this matter than the staff of the Senate Finance Committee.
— Dale M. Rhodes, Richmond, Va.
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