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Studen USC Stud( And The' BY ERNIE KASTNER AND NICK PARHAM Gamecock Staff Intermittently over the past year, it has been possible to read in the local papers about students at USC being charged with drug possession after their rooms had been searched. A brief outcry has been raised over these incidents charging students' rights violations, but many students at USC do not know just what their rights are. Following are some of the rights that a USC student has while attending this university. Student rights and freedoms at USC are basically the same as those guaranteed under the U. S. Constitution. While this has not always been the case, court decisions and student activists have forced univer sities across the nation to afford students the basic rights guaranteed under the Constitu tion. Students have same rights as everyone. Concerning searches of a student's rooms, while the uni versity still maintains the right to search a residence hall when "delay may create a risk of USC Sti Your student cards ar4 Captain's Kitchen on t Highway in Cayce. Ev Wednesday and Thurs card brings a delicious own shell fish chowde with your regular mea Although Kitchenr come ear for dellici CHARLI Lt Courts ?nts 'Laws' harm to property or students," present policTcalls for officials to first seek a legal search war rant. Charles H. Witten, vice president for student affairs, cannot remember any time in "recent years" when a search warrant was not first obtained before a student's room was searched. Searches without warrants in four cases. In a memorandum prepared by the University, it states, search warrants must specifi cally list the person to be searched, the premises and the items to be seized. The University also main tains the right, the memoran dum states, to conduct "routine inspections" of the dormitory for purposes of maintenance. These come, however, mostly during the vacation periods when students are not on cam pus. According to the memoran dum, legal searches may be con ducted without a warrant only under four situations: emer gencies, hot pursuit, cases of contraband udents!I a valuable at The he Charleston ery Tuesday, day evening your a cup of the Captain's r or fish stew free Offer good trough this semester. the lines at .the Captain's love quickly, we suggest you ly and avoid even a short wait >us low-country seafood. ESTON HIGHWAY, CAYE or incidental to a valid arrest. Emergencies are defined as situations in which there is no time to obtain a warrant, and conditions appear to require immediate action. Such a case would be when an officer hears a scream followed by a gunshot. Hot pursuit requires that an officer be about to catch an escaped suspect or is about to catch a person who is about to flee. The memorandum also states that, "An officer may make a search if he knows that con traband is threatened with immediate removal or destruc tion, as for example, when the smell of marijuana can be detected outside a room" and the officer believes if he does not act quickly the marijuana might be destroyed. In the course of a valid arrest, the memorandum states, Officer may search to protect himself. an officer may search to the extent necessary to protect himself, prevent the escape of the suspect or preserve evi dence. The privacy of student records and the conditions for disclosure are defined in the "Statement of Student Rights and Freedoms" in the student handbook. Final transcripts or academic records are to contain only information on academic status, according to the hand book. Access to conduct records is prohibited unless the student provides written authorization or the records are subpoenaed. "Properly iden "A CHILDS WORLD College of Ea SUMMER A pplications to summer session are now beinj A pplying Montessori techniques to sound epeis ing's "Environment for Discovery" offers a i primary emphasis on the educational period a lect, rather than merely his store of knowle students between the ages of two and six ye by a 6-1 student-teacher ratio. If you would the best educational environment available achievement, contact the College of Early L 803-82-6443 or write, The College of Early County ( tified investigators" may have access for security reasons as do "other educational institu tions" upon request. Counseling records, the hand book states, are available only upon written authority of the student or under subpeona. Concerning the double indemnity of university stu dents, the fact that a student may be liable to punishment by the university and surrounding municipalities, the handbook states: Educational institutions are not sanctuaries. "Students should be aware that educational institutions are not sanctuaries from the reach of the civil and criminal laws of the communities and states wherein such institutions exist." The handbook adds students who commit offenses against these municipalities "are sub ject to prosecution by those authorities as well as liable for disciplinary action under uni versity rules when their con duct violates institutional stan dards." Mike Grier, university ombudsman, said the university is a separate jurisdiction from any other locality. A USC student convicted of an infraction of the university's rules and who is to appear before the university discipline committee, the handbook states, will be sent a written notice including the nature of the charge, time and place of the hearing and notice of his right to have representation, to FOR DISCOVERY" rly Learning SESSION accepted by the College of Early Learning. Inmelogical theory, Collegeof Early Learn nique type of educational process. Placing erein the individual may increase his intel Ige, the College of Early Learning admits rs. The learning environment is enhanced lke your child to have the opportunity of it the most Important phase of academic arning for a mutual interview: Telephone Learning, P. 0. Box 19ColrbIa.mm South. AOUrts call witnesses and question all witnesses against him. All proceedings at such a hearing will be kept confiden tial, the handbook states. USC students have a Student Suprene Couit 1o appesO rulings to. So far, not many stu dents have taken advantage of this court and court officials hope that this situation will change in upcoming years. Doug Dent a senior law stu dent who is chief justice of the student court said earlier this year that one reason students don't take advantage of the high court is that they have no bill of rights in the student constitu tion. He said that under student law there are not such guarantees as freedom of speech, freedom of press, free dom to assemble, freedom to bear arms, right to a jury trial etc. Students don't use court. In the absense of these basic freedoms under student law, Dent said a student would have a hard time bringing a suit against the university. However university officials like Witten encourage students with grievances to use student channels in redressing those grievances, yet they maintain student rights are the same as those of others. What happens in the end is that students find themselves fighting two judi cial systems when they run into trouble. If a student is arrested in a residence hall by city police for possession of marijuana he not only faces charges in county court under the prescution of someone like John Foard, 5th district solicitor, but he also finds himself before a student faculty discipline committee which potentially could throw him out of school. Physical environment may be discriminatory Students may have the same rights as everyone else, but the physical environment of cam pus students unobstensibly bears on those rights. It is a fact that students live under close scrutiny, and that campus students live in quarters that are closer and less insulated to noise and drafts than those of the average citizen. Therefore a well intentioned law like that of letting a police man enter a residence if he fears losing evidence if he has to leave to get a warrant, may become discriminatory.