Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of South Carolina Board of Trustees


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was merge. Some of the delete comments below favor a "delete and merge" option, which isn't available due to the terms of content license, which encourages redirecting to preserve content attribution history. Besides this legal/policy concern, the consensus of comments (as opposed to bolded recommendations) supports such a merge.Chaser - T 02:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

University of South Carolina Board of Trustees

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Recommended deletion, Merge information with the main University of South Carolina page. Nen yedi  • (Deeds•Talk) 21:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Start page, will expound upon later. Information of the BOT is not entirely germane to main USC page; like the South Carolina Gamecocks page, the Presidents of the University of South Carolina page, etc. Gamecock 22:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Delete This article only contains material that is better placed on the University of South Carolina page. --Stormbay 22:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with University of South Carolina. - Presidentman 22:40, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, every university has a board of trustees or equivalent, and to list all members and chairs would be indiscriminate. As with mission statements and the like, this is simply information an encyclopedia does not need. --Dhartung | Talk 03:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi! The page does not list all members, but merely what the board is and what its functions are.  The page was modeled after the precedent set by:  Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses.
 * The USC BOT has had a number of notables, whereas most boards do not. For instance, every board includes the Governor of South Carolina.  Vice President John C. Calhoun was on the board, several speakers of the state house have been members, a number of Lieutenant Governors, etc.  For the entire antebellum period, the board regularly included the influential men of the state.
 * The board's composition is the chief reason for the creation of Clemson University. The Radical Republicans controlled the state government during Reconstruction and thus elected their own to the board.  The Radicals on the board pushed for blacks to be admitted to the University and this is the principle reason why Thomas Clemson wanted an agriculture college that was not to be controlled by the state government.  Notice that the Clemson BOT has a majority of members who are self-perpetuating life members, so that the state government can never impose its will upon the college.
 * The power structure is as follows: state of South Carolina --> University of South Carolina Board of Trustees --> Presidents of the University of South Carolina --> University of South Carolina --> South Carolina Gamecocks.  There's a page for the Presidents, but shouldn't there be a page for the body that elects the President?  (similar to the United States Electoral College electing the President of the United States)
 * Much scholarly research has been done on the BOT in the following secondary sources:
 * In addition, the BOT is regularly mentioned in the newspapers of the state, including The State, The Post and Courier, the Greenville News, just to name a few. It was mentioned earlier this month over the academic standards set for football players when the head coach complained. Gamecock 01:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In addition, the BOT is regularly mentioned in the newspapers of the state, including The State, The Post and Courier, the Greenville News, just to name a few. It was mentioned earlier this month over the academic standards set for football players when the head coach complained. Gamecock 01:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In addition, the BOT is regularly mentioned in the newspapers of the state, including The State, The Post and Courier, the Greenville News, just to name a few. It was mentioned earlier this month over the academic standards set for football players when the head coach complained. Gamecock 01:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In addition, the BOT is regularly mentioned in the newspapers of the state, including The State, The Post and Courier, the Greenville News, just to name a few. It was mentioned earlier this month over the academic standards set for football players when the head coach complained. Gamecock 01:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In addition, the BOT is regularly mentioned in the newspapers of the state, including The State, The Post and Courier, the Greenville News, just to name a few. It was mentioned earlier this month over the academic standards set for football players when the head coach complained. Gamecock 01:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In addition, the BOT is regularly mentioned in the newspapers of the state, including The State, The Post and Courier, the Greenville News, just to name a few. It was mentioned earlier this month over the academic standards set for football players when the head coach complained. Gamecock 01:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge per above, definitely not suitable for an individual article.--JForget 00:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge Most of this obviously goes better in the main article. The Clemson part goes with Clemson. DGG (talk) 02:21, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect per Presidentman and DGG. --Aarktica 20:22, 25 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.