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Smoki BY FRED CHRISTIAN Gamecock Staff Writer Faculty opinion of the Student Senate's bill prohibiting smoking in campus classrooms was favorable, but some faculty doubted the bill's effectiveness. I)r. Bert Dillion, Arts and Let ters, supports the bill. but said it should go even further. lie sees the detrimental .effect of smoking not so much in the smoke, but mostly in the trash, smokers leave behind them. Unless eating and drinking are also curtailed in classrooms, Dillon believes .a ban on smoking will have little effect on cleaning the classroom environment: Dean James Kane of the College of Business Administration also links the smoking problem with eating and drinking in classrooms. But, Kane claims, the problem has been eliminated in the new B.A. Building by the students them selves. Funds NE For Schc BY DAN TOWERY Gamecock Staff Writer USC has trouble attracting scholarship students because of limited funds according to C.H. Witten, scholarship committee chairman. "Unless more money is given to USC's academic scholarship programs, we will continue to lose some of the top students in the state," Witten said. "With such limited funds, we-are only able to attract about twenty per cent of the top 150 high school seniors in the state." USC has three basic academic scholarships :the Carolina Scholars, National Merit and National Academic program solarships. The Carolina Scholars program gives 10 scholarships a year. However, because funds are limited, only seven were given last year. Applicants must be academically acceptable and must show leadership ability. Nominated students go before a screening committee. After this, about one-third are approved. An Board Accepting Applications . The Board of Publications and Communications is now accepting applications for the positions of Editor of the Gamecock, Editor and Business : Manager of the Crucible and Station Manager of WUSC-AM. 'Applications forms may be picked up at the Office of Student Activities, 212 Pendleton Building. The deadline for all applications is 5 p.m. Dec. 3. For further in formation call 2782. H ous in BY C'ARLI BAAB Gamecock Staff Writer The Director of Housing Ser vices, who was reported Thursday to favor the Student Senate "bikes in dorms" bill, denies he ever favored such legislation. D)irector Robert A. Stewart was said to support the proposition when Senator Andy Sansbury at tempted to get the "bikes in dorms" bill passed in the Wed ne'sday Student Senate session. ng BiI( James '1 links th drinkinc 'Those interes go out of their wi The Business students have requested and enforced a policy against smoking, eating or drinking in the classrooms. The only problem in the new building comes from non-Business students who.use the building's Auditorium. These non-Business students are eded larships applicant is then interviewed by an eight-person faculty committee. If the committee approves him, the nominee will be offered a four year $5,000 scholarship. Since the money for these scholarships comes from in, dividual gifts," Witten said, "we were able to give only eight this year." The Merit Scholarship program is USC's second type of program. A studentchoosing USC as his first preference may apply for the scholarship. "Last year 13 or 14 took USC as their first choice," Witten said, "but we could only give two scholarships. This is rather pathetic when you consider Georgia Tech gives 30 a year; Michigan State 60; Georgia, 50; and Emory, 20 a year. Until we get more money from the Educational Foundation, we can only hope to get about ten per cent or the merit. finalists." USC's third type of scholarship program is the Academic Scholarship for black students; Twenty-five semi-finalists were nominated this year and only one came to Carolina. Program funds are so limited no scholarships were offered last year. For the 1973 fall term, 101 general scholarships worth $43,000 were given. Bookstore profits accounted for $20,000 of this. ."We need more money for all the scholarship programs at USC," Witten said. "This year we gave $95,000 worth of scholarships, but had to turn down many of the state's top students simply because we could not afford to give them a scholarship. You cannot blame a students for not coming here when some other school offers him a full four-year grant." Sansbury, who is co-author of the bill, said he had consulted with Stewart about the proposal. He said Stewart had given him the impression Housing Services would support the bill except in the cases of Capstone and Columbia Ilall., On Thursday, however, Stewart challenged the Gamecock's ac count of Sansbury's remarks, and later challenged the truth of Sansbury's remarks to the Student Senate. Jains Fi Kane of Business e smoking problerr in classrooms. students who prof t in conservation*s :y to trash the cla! ---Be rapidly destroying the new auditorium by smoking, eating, drinking and leaving trash everywhere, Kane said. Howard Brinson, main tenance director; says that the Senate bill will make his job of keeping academic buildings clean L ucky Boy III, a 13- r shot i Cup steeple chase run Saturda sqeezes by favored Soothsays tacular photo finish. Lucky Bi Skip Brittle, took $30,000 home nies Supj Sansbury opened the talks saying he was sure his version of the earlier meeting with Stewart, and the idea Stewart supported the bill, was accurate. SteWart said Sansbury's account was wrong. "You didn't quote me right, I never meant to give you the impression that I supported the bill," he said.* Sansbury replied, "Then I believe you led me on to believe something that you didn't actually sunnnrt." avor, D 4dministration i with eating and ess eem to ;srooms. rt Dillo'n much easier. Brinson doubted that the bill alone will be enough to stop in class smoking. Assistant to the Provost Barry Rosen echoed Brinson's doubts as to enforcement of a smoking ban. There is no university wide smoking ban, Rosen sa;., and any I the Colonial Mry. Miles Valer In Camden, %oothsayer, trali r in a spec- Lucien L aurin. y, ridden by action as Lucky for his owner, and one-half fur orting B i Later Sansbury asked Stewart if he would support the proposal.. "I just don't really think it's a great idea," Stewart said. "I do not support bicycles in dorms." Stewart said he.did not support the bill because he thinks bikes in the dorms would detract from the "safety" and the "pleasant at mosphere" of dorm life. Stewart and Sansbury went over these same p)ropositions several times. Stewart was finally asked whether he would want t ke his -ubt administrative enforcement would be ineffective. Rosen explained that the ad ministration believes the most effective enforcement of a smoking ban would be a cooperative joint venture by students and faculty. Dillon said as a non-smoker he does not mind others smoking. What does bother him is the trash in Humanities' classrooms. This trash comes from smokers and students who eat and drink in class. Dillon finds this problem more acute in Humanities than in other buildings. "Those students who profess interest in conservation, love and ecology seem to go out of their way to trash the classrooms." Dillon says. He linds such behavior con tradictory and. believes it is the actions of people who are "too arrogant and feel that they don't have to be considerate of anyone else except themselves." Thomas A. Price tine and was able to hold off ied by Secretariat's trainer, about 9,000 fans watched the Boy took the two-mile, six long course in 5:21, 4-5. cBill bike in the dorm if he was a student. "1 would probably want to, but I think I would be more mature in understanding the reasons why I couldn't," Stewart replied. "If the bike was worth over $100, I would have insurance on it," he added. Though nothing was resolved by the meeting, the bill was passed by the Student Senate and will go to SGA President Rita McKinney for her to sign, and then to President Thomas Jnes fre hs approval