Panel discusses
Hill's charges
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Gamecock Staff Writer
The USC Student Senate Powers and Respon
sibilities Committee met with Student Govern
ment Association (SGA) President Steve Hill and
SGA Vice President Trey Lott in a closed meeting
Tuesday to discuss allegations made by Hill
against Lott's ability to fulfill his official duties
last summer.
Committee Chairman Bruce Carter said that
there was "a tremendous lack of communication
in the SGA executive branch." The meeting was
called to help restore this communication, he
added.
"The meeting was closed because we were
discussing personalities (Hill's and Lott's), and
we (the committee) felt it (the closed meeting)
would let Steve (Hill) and Trey (Lott) speak more
candidly," Carter said.
At Tuesday's meeting, Hill said Lott was ap
propriated funds by the Student Senate to codify
senate statutes, hire a secretary for the student
legislature and to maintain correspondence with
senators during the summer. Lott was negligent
in these duties, Hill charged.
Lott responded that he was not at USC for half of
the summer and was working and going to classes
when he was here, which limited his available
time. Lott noted that the SGA office went through
two housing changes during the summer that
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caused confusion in the office. Lott also said he
felt further senate correspondence was un
necessary after Hill sent out two such letters
during the summer.
Hill said for the first time Tuesday that Lott did
not give him certain bills passed by the Senate last
spring until Tuesday. Willis Walker, chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Hill's
allegations are suspect because one of the bills Hill
mentioned was the SGA summer budget. Walker
said that if Hill never received this bill then the
SGA could not have functioned this summer. The
Senate Judiciary has started an investigation into
Hill's allegations.
Carter said it was difficult to place blame on
either Lott or Hill. He felt the "misun
derstanding" was "the fault of the (SGA) con
stitution and the senate." Carter speculated that
the "inexperience" of the senate and the rush to
get bills passed at the end of the spring session
caused the confusion in official duties.
The senate was not specific enough in its
designation of Lott's duties, accordidng to Carter.
SGA Attorney General Steve Brown said if the
senate actually expected Lott to be fully active in
his office during the summer, then the senate was
setting.a "precedent." Brown said this had never
been demanded of a SGA vice president before.
Brown felt that when the senate requested Lott
to codify the senate statutes during the summer,
they were unaware of the amounj of work in
volved. The senate statutes have only been
codified once. This was in the summer of 1973.
Brown suspects it is a job requiring at least four or
five persons. Lott is still working on the
certification.
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Extra student patrol
added to ramp
By JOHN SHARKEY
Gamecock Staff Writer
An extra student patrol for the Bates House ramp area began
operating Tuesday night.
George A. Key, director of Public Safety, Security and Com
munications, tolk the special Student Government Association
(SGA) committee investigating safety problems in the Bates House
area that the patrol would be on the ramp each night.
THE SGA committee was formed after five separate robberies
occured in the ramp area since the dormitories opened. The last
reported incident occurred on Sept. 16.
Chief Marvin D. Harrelson, the committee's canpus police
representative, said that the patrol is an extension of the work
study funded student-night patrols already on campus. He said
that the students will always patrol in pairs and be in direct contact
with campus police. He said that they will report any suspicious
activity via walkie-talkie. Harrelson told the committe that their
request for additional lighting will be evaluated after reports from
the student patrols.
Sam Kaplan, committee chairman, said that he was pleased with
the cooperation the committee got from campus security. He siad
that the committee got the student patrol one week after requesting
IKey asked the committee's assistance in preventing false fire
alajrms and damage to fire hoses in Bates House.
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