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Allocat BY PATRICK TYLER Gamecock Nws Editor Several basic conflicts surfaced during Student Allocations Commission (SAC) hearings when 15 groups were called in to clarify budgeting questions Tuesday. The commission met for a total of seven and a half hours, six of which were taken up in a marathon night session. During the afternoon session five more organizations were asked to come in next week to answer questions on items budgeted for next year. One budget was ap proved. The Amateur Radio Club asked for $647.80 for their programming and additional equipment. Two motions were passed in the afternoon session establishing guidelines for student groups. One, introduced by Barney Oliver, former president of the University Union, will prohibit groups from allocating money for refreshments at business meetings. The other motion, also by Oliver, makes it mandatory that organizations sending representatives to programming conferences send students other than graduating seniors. One other guideline was clarified at the afternoon meeting when Oliver asked that the board be specific on how much organizations could spend per person on banquets. At meetings earlier in the semester guidelines had been set through a motion by Oliver. However, Oliver and commission secretary Alan Rosenblum dif fered on their understanding of the motion's intent. Rosenblum, who keeps the minutes of the commission meetings, said he understood that $5 would be the maximum a group could spend per person on a banquet. Oliver said he recalled that the figure was $3. After brief discussion the commission decided that the guideline be fixed at $3. Before the commission ad journed at 2 p.m., a policy dispute grew out of discussion concerning student organizations that in directly support charities. Carl McIntosh and John Rada argued that it was not fair for student funds to be spent on charity when those funds were intended to directly benefit students. Com Annual I The Cam Russell Diamonds and 2024 DEVINE STREET COLUMBUA ions 15 Grc Scott Derks, chairman of the commission argued that the in volvement of students in the drives that support various charities is an experience that is beneficial to the student. Derks said after the meeting that he thought the dif ference in opinion should be left at the opinion level and not at the guideline level. However, student senator Robert Clarkson, who has been attending the allocations meetings and who has also spoken out against what he calls the autonomy with which student groups use and misuse their funds, said he is going to push For passage in the senate of guidelines that would prohibit any kind of indirect support of charities with student funds. State law prohibits direct donation of student .unds to charity but excludes the monetary support of fund drives ind publicity for such drives. Clarkson said he felt like he had been "gagged" at the allocations hearings from questioning the groups that appear before the board on the method in which they have spent their money this year. Clarkson said he had been con ducting a personal investigation For the past month into the misuse Df funds by various campus organizations. He said Derks told him before the meeting that he would not be able to question the groups as they :ame in and that if he did attempt to interupt the meeting he would be 'ejected" from the room. Derks said after the meeting that since Clarkson was not a bona fide commission member he would not be able to take part in any discussions during the meetings. When the night session did get underway, criticism was leveled at a budget request by the student association of the College of General Studies which requested l5,780 for offices and programming or next year. Oliver argued that the group was "exceptionally administration oriented" and therefore should be funded by the administration. Oliver compared the function of the organization to a smaller Student Affairs Office. He said since the Student Affairs 3ffice on the main campus is runded by the administration, the general studies office should be ikewise funded. ing. 'atio Sale pus Shop House 11 3JetueILerz Watches * FIVE POINTS ups Called Bei Rosenblum echoed these arguments saying he thought the group should "reevaluate their intentions." Robert Alexander, dean of student activities, then suggested that the commission give the group a figure with which to work and ask them to resubmit a budget. Toward the end of the meeting the commission's conflict with the athletic department came to a head when the USC Soccer Club came before SAC. Earlier in the semester the commission, in an attempt to get the athletic department to start funding in tercollegiate club sports at USC, gave an ultimatum to the athletic department saying they would no longer fund sports clubs that played teams that were funded by the athletic departments at their schools. Richard T. Fernald, soccer team coach, told the commission that he had received a letter from Harold Hagan, assistant athletic director, on Jan. 29 saying that the athletic department "at the direction of the Faculty Athletic Committee" would make a study of club sports "and their relationship" to varsity athletics. Fernald said that since that letter he has had no word from the department. He also said that he had previously approached Hagan and told him that he was willing to put the soccer team under the proper rules and regulations that would make them qualify as a varsity team under NCAA rules. Fernald said Hagan told him not to take any steps until a decision had been reached. Derks then told Fernald that "we cannot fund you under our present guidlines-we feel this will force the athletic department to fund you." He added that the club could resubmit a budget that would cover the expenses of only their intramural activities. Fernald then asked "What if the athletic department says no?" Alexander replied, "We punt." Fernald said, "And we become the political football." Alexander said that his office would see to it that the soccer club wouldn't lose their program after what Fernald called long years of work, but Alexander suggested that Fernald ask the athletic department to ''come up with a solution.'' We IIaVe 1 We Have RegZulajr or3 WidIe I )en ii lBelsIb I,.................... DelI I10)tomsll In ........... Bllue I)enlimu JackLet. b)1................. 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