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VOL. LXI- No. 71 University of South Carolina Columbia S. C. 29206 Monday, h 29, 1971 Still; Yar elected in P By CHARLES FELLENBAUM News Editor Julianne Still was elected vice president of the Student Body in Friday's run-off election. Oliver Washington was defeated by a margin of 474 votes. The final tabulation was 1,465 votes for Still, 991 votes for Washington. David Yarborough will be the new treasurer, defeating John Blackshire 1,272 to 1,018. Miss Still said that she will start working with the newly elected senators this week to inform them of their duties. She will also appoint a clerk for the Senate, as provided for in the recently approved SGA constitution. Miss Stili plans to appoint Susanne Kiester to the position. more organized this fall,'" Miss Still said. "We will know the calendar of events that Student Government will participate in and plan for them. 'I also hope that never again will a bill be passed and allowed to sit on an ad ministrator's desk waiting for a decision. No waiting a month for Dean Witten to Finance pack of last full Se RY GLENDA MiILLER from the Fin News ICditor which provides f Wednesday's Student Senate for Student Gov meeting was "the last full business This bill allow session for Student Senate for this student activi school year," vice president of the allocated to Stu student body Jim Bradford said. each fiscal ye 'A leel this Senate has come of Finance Commi age. This Senate has transacted mend "in the spr more business than any Senate in year" "a per< 1he past. I think all of you have based on projec played an interested and active A third bill wt roll.' liradford said. Special Fund foi A package of bills introduced ment was passe( and reported favorably from the The hill ei Finance Committee was passed Wednesday. One ill which was tabled at the last Senate meeting is designed to give students a voice in deciding the.amount of their activity fees. t Sen. D)avid Yarborough said. ''I' think the spirit of this referendum is a very good idea, one USC sti utright now, the student body is hospital as a res 00 u,1niformned to vote on the ac- Friday night as tiiyfees," Sen. Koger Bradford others were lea said. Club South abou He said "students may be old boy was arre against a raise in fees although it with the incideni .may be necessary in many in- ('lint Sloan v stances." Columbia Hospite Sen. Kradford submitted an lace which regt amendment to the bill which according to.Ju provides for the amount of student witnessed part activity tees to be set by the Senate Miss Still said sh rather than by referendum. The Campus Club an< Senate passed the bill as amended. had been cut wit Tlhe' Senate passed another bill ltvithen um borough run- offs write a letter about whether a bill will be approved or not.'" Miss Still also said that she plans tc immediately compile a bill book of all legislation that Student Governmeni passes. "I've been in the Senate two years and have seen identical bills passed twice,' she said. '"September is not going to be the beginning of the Student Senate year, We're going to begin our work right now," Miss Still said. "We want to discuss the possibility ol once a week Senate meetings. "'This will give us time to give bills a second reading so that senators.will have more time to talk to their constituents. "It will also allow more press coverage so that students can make their opinions known to us," Miss Still said. A small group of senators will be trying to get student government in shape this summer so that it will be ready to functior when the fall semester begins. A book listing student problems is to be compiled, and will include channels oi communication available to solve the problems. age result nate session ince Committee Government to "petition th( [r a General Fund Student Allocations Commissior rnment. for Iunds it in any year projectec s a percentage of revenue form the General Func ty fees to be falls below projectived revenue.' ient Government This system replaces the olc ar. The Senate method of student activity feef ttee will recom- heing allocated by the Student ing of every third Affairs Committee. Under the new :entage amount law the money will be distributed Led expenditures. by a special commission and spent ich establishes a in accordance with commissior Student Govern- statue, Sen. Yarborough said. iables Student 'ontinued on Page 5) mnt hospitalized; others unhurt ident is in the Tom Stoudemire. Koger ult of an incident firadford and D)avid Spinnazzolo, ,he and several wvho were also with Sloan. were all vmng the Campus hit. hut suf fered no injuries. t 7:15. A 16-year- The f6-year-old youth was sted in connection charged with assault and battery. % 1Miss Still said none of the USC /as admitted to students knew the youth, and she i with a cut on his could think of "no possible motive ired 15 stitches, for the attack." lianne Still, who of the incident. Sloan said last night that he e came out of the expected to be discharged from the I saw Sloan, who hospital today. He said he was hit h a screwdriver, from behind and had no idea what t. .,.. . ''provolked: the at tack. Juliann Vice Presid S.C. HOUS, vote for 11 By CHARLES FELLENBAUM News Editor The South Carolina House of IRepresentatives has voted in ifavor of a proposed amend Iment to the national con !stitution that would give 18 'year-olds the right to vote in state elections. The action will "probably take the place of the bill that was under consideration to amend the S.C. State Con stitution to give 18-year-olds the right to vote," according to Rep. Sherry Shealy, R. Lexington. Although Rep. Shealy said there were no dissenting votes in the House, she added that she expected some opposition in the Senate. In other action, Rep. Shealy. has introduced a bill that "would prohibit the sale or giving away of furniture in the House and Senate chambers." The bill was amended in the Wavc and Means Committee to include all state property. "They are on an economy drive," Rep. Shealy said. "But last year over 24 desks were given away to past members." Shealy had planned to in troduce a bill that would require defense attorneys and prosecutors to state before a case was brought to trial whether or not an alibi witness was to be introduced. "This would help speed up trial and court procedures," Rep. Shealy said. She said lawyers seemed to be against the bill, "and since many of the legiliators are e Still ent elect a favors 3-year-olds lawyers, it doesn't seem to have a very good chance." The apparent oppostion will probably keep the bill from being introduced. March nIans announced by Coalition The New )ay Coalition of ('olu1mbia plans announced yesterday tor a march Saturday April -3. The New )ay Coalition, a group ol G1 's students and local people announced the plans at the Rally in the Valley. The march will be concerned with three demands which are to he presented in Washington at the national march April 24. according to Gary Jar dim, a member of the coalition. These demands are: I an immediate end to the war, 2E 54SHna year guaranteed income for a I amily of four and 3i the immediate release of all political prisoners. The Columbia march is in coordinaition with actions being planned by the .Peoples' Coalition for Peace and Justice. This group is planning marches on every capitol in the country next week to emphasize the demands for the national march and also to com memorate the third anniversary of Martin lauther King's murder. T'he march will start at Russell House at I p.m. and.marchers will proceed to the Capitol Building. Other planned actions include a month long drive starting April 1 to get signatures on the Peoples' Peace 'Treatv.