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THE VOL. LXIV NO. 26 -UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S.C. 29208 OCTOBR2,(7 Tom Jones takes a break Israeli Em Started Or BY TOMMY FOWLER ' Gamecock Staff Writer C A special Israeli Emergency$ Relief Fund has been started on campus "to aid Israel's economy,"- i according to 'Linda Walker, co- U chairman of the project com- r mittee. The fund is a nation-wide efforet -supported by the United JewishV Appeal (UJA) to raise money to0 help pay for hospitals, doctors services and other non-militaristic causes. At present, the nation-wide fund has raised $300 million since ite started the day after the Arab Israeli war began this month. The local organization, which contains a campus and community chapter.r The US the objecl enjoin ti student 9 charitabli Clarkson, Citing Union's fi program support f out of sti said "I he tmk 126 3 pick and contribu fees shot else sele< Clarks( declaratc imandatt "We'll the adrh for spen( "and el guide in been don Clarks4 actions. when, as tended a students. "We h cup," he mandato He thi from the State Fair. Associat ergency Fun I USC CampL hese two combined efforts have Nations. r,llected "over $300 million in the over 1,500 olumbia-USC area......over of the pres IO,000 in the ColumbiaUSC area. economic, The campus effort was begun aid. ist week and a table was also set A rally ( p in the Russell House lobby for held Sunda iceiving donations, the underj "This Is strictly an emergency Will be spe mnd," explained Wally Fischbin, , UJA alon ice-president of Hillel, a service. Fischbin s -ganization for all young people .people to >onsoring the collection table students d and It will continue sporadically, opn-qe 'i hen space Is available in the formed. ~ussell House, ,until the "This ra mergency is over." raise mon A petition has been started to be aware, let mnt to the President of the United on," said tates, local and U.S. chairman epresnetatives and the United 3kson Bri painst US BY DOUG WILLIAMS xamecock News Editor C Board of T1ustees is going to be 1 ot a law suit which will seek to ie spending and collection of ictivity fees for "political and a" causes, according to Robert B. student senator from district 19. Carolina Cares, the University mding of the Little USC Overseas for impoverished children and or the Equal Rights Amendment ident mandatory fees, Clarkson tve nothing against charities, but I rears old and am perfectly able to . choose the charity I want to te to. I don't think my mandatory id go to charities that someone m wants the court to give a ry judgment that such uses of ory student fees are illegal. probably get the court to require kinistration to promulgate rules ling this money," Clarkson said, t the university to enforce the es they now have, which has not ,e." mn cited two events leading to his The first occurred two years ago a freshman law student, he at beer bust with about 400 other law ad one keg of beer; I got a half said. "I had already paid $10 ry student bar fees." m referred to the Student Bar ion's donation of $900 to the Soputh id-m Is rhis petition, which has ignatures, is in support ent U.S. aid, asking for political, and military pen to all people will be y at 2 p.m. in front on ~raduate library. There akers from the National g with local guests. aid, "We plead with the come. The majority of on't know what's going rant people to be in lly Is not specifically to ey but to make people them know what's going IDavidReiner, co- Studen ngs Action C Board Carolina Public Interest Research Group (SCPIRG) and a $300 contribution to the Women In Law student organization. Basically, Clarkson wants to cut down on the mandatory fee involvement in charitable and political activities. "Carolina Cares collects $20,000 a year," he said. "Most people think I am against Carolina Cares. But my issue is mandatory fees. "If th;ey can't get mandatory fees," he continued, "it might induce more people to contribute. A lot of people are appalled that their fees go to charity." Once he gets into court, Clarkson hopes to be able to use "discovery proceedings" to force the university to hand over documents that it has been in the past hesitant to make public, he siad, lincluding records, budgets, etc. "Recently, my sources have sort of dried up," he added. Even though Clarkson "can't see how I can lose,'' the reaction to his plan has been somewhat mixed. "Rita (SGA President Rita McKinney) disagrees and so do a lot of them," he said. "But a lot of them are mature enough to see that I do have a point. "But some have had a bitter reaction. I'm sorry they are not mature enough to understand." Despite the fact that he does ;not believe he'll gety the support of either the student senate or the student body, Clarkson claims he is "gaining support by the day,." The administration hopes I'll graduate and forget about it," he siad. "A lot of people don't think I'm serious, but I am." Clarkson exDects the suit to o eventually before the state supreme co t. As"' ....... .....