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Vn K VOL. LXV. NO. 11 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. OCTOBER'7,1974 All alone In our "throw away" society I something out a window rather ti properly. A constant eyesore on th abindonded cars provide a flagra teated his environment. Staff ALLEN LAWHEAD atWandane crackdown t is often times easier to heave ean take the time to dispose of it D nation's side roads and highways. itt indictment of the way man has photo. Budget po BY LEE POWELL of The Gamecock staff The USC Student Senate finally approved the Student Government Association fall budget at a special session Thursday night, however, a group of senators told The Gamecock they are considering legal action to overturn the decision . Sens. Frank Shealy and Weaver i Greyson, and a small following, 1 said after the meeting they were ~ considering going before the a student court system to nullify < everything that occured at the & special session, including passage of the budget. Although they said they had no t EW official s Athleti( BY FRANK DELOACHE of The Gamecock staff The University's athletic budget would be "clearly inequitable"'if new federal anti-discrimination regulations are approved, ac cording to William H. Thomas, Department of Health, Education and Welfare official. In addition, fraternities and sororities receiving "substantial" University aid (such as housing) may be forced to move off-campus. Women's dormitories would also be freed of curfews and visitation bours not similarly applied to men's dormitories,Thomas said. The proposed regulations are the result of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act passed in 1972 and an extension of the civil rights legislation of the 1960's. They would prevent sex diccrimination n federally-funded educatiom programs. Although the proposals do not require "equal aggregate ex penditures for athletes for members of each sex," HEW of ficials at public briefings in Atlanta recently said "comparable expenditures would be required. The USC Athletic Department I allocated $891,000 this year for the football team and $40,000 to six I women,s intercollegiate teams. Thomas, director of FIEW's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in Atlanta, said,"Clearly, i 'hat's inequitable, but there may be other considerations involved." I USC athletic department of icials, men and women, contend 4EW officials said "comparable I 'xpenditures mean equal ex )enditures." Administrative assistant Harold Hagan said such a equirement would eliminate all issage mai lefinite plans as yet, Shealy and reyson said they disapproved of he methods in which the budget vas finally passed. They said most of the senate was "tired" of oming to special sessions and !oted for the budget merely to be1 lone with it. Thursday night's I nleeting was the third session this rear in which the senate heard lebate on the SGA budget. The first two meetings, no of icial business could be conducted ~ecause there was not a quorum resent, which is required by enate rules. A quorum then onsisted of at least two-thirds of 11 the senate members. Prior to Thursday's budget1 lebate, the senate approved a rule 1 hat would change the qnnrum to a . ays 6> . budgei but two men's and two women's teams. "No, I've never said that (comparable means equal) and they know that I never said that," said Gwen Gregory, director of Policy Communication for OCR in Washington. She said HEW is stressing "equal opportunity" for women, and "we're not gonna look at budgets I don't know if the USC athletic budget is inequitable or not. Maybe women aren't in terested in the same thing as men. It's going to take a period of time." Although the regulations have not been defined specifically, the proposals will affect other areas other than sports. An institution receiving federal funds can not "aid or perpetuate discrimination USC Vice. John R. J From Staff Reports Dr. John R. Welsh, vice president for instruction at the University of South Carolina, died mexpectedly Friday morning at iis home, 6058 Robinwood Road, in Columbia. Dr. Welsh, 58, a member f the USC faculty since 1949, was head of he Department of English before 3eing named vice president in July 1974. USC President William H. Patterson praised Welsh Friday is "one of the most experienced md dedicated of our faculty and idministrators who had a splendid ecord as a teacher and head of the r spur lege 'a simple majority"-50 per cent )lus one. Bob Kilgo, chairman of :he Senate Finance Committee, explained the present problems >f constituting a quorum. He cited kttendance as a problem, and said vithout enough people, no official >usiness could be conducted. One ~enator said those who did not how up should not be in a position o serve. Another said the need for majority to constitute a quorum vas obvious, judging attendance tatus from the last two meetings. ['he bill was passed, but not without subsequent debate. The bill was passed m a second pecial session Thursday night. rhe first special session was ad ourned because a quorum was salled for and there were not unf r against any person by assisting any agency, organization or person which discriminates on thebasis of sex in providing any aid , benefit or service to students or employes." Fraternities and sororities are groups that diseriminate on a basis of sex, Gregory said, and the university could not provide any substantial assistance such as housing. But if the groups rent from the university at a fair market price, Thomas said the regulations may not affect them. If a fraternity or sorority moved off-campus and rented a house off campus, then HEW would have Continued on Page Four President, elsh, dies Department of English and who showed every promise of making a great success of the new office of vice president of instruction to which he has recently been ap pointed. "We shall all miss his common sense, his experience and his daily courtesy and reliability in University affairs, his belief in standards and in servicing student interests to the utmost." Patterson sadded. University officials announced Saturday the appointment of Dr. William H. Wesson, of the College of Business Administration, to replace Dr. Welsh on an acting Continued on Page Two il fight enough senators present. Ac cording to senate law, it would take a quorum to pass the bill that would require a majorityto be a quorum In the second special session, Allen Lawhead, president of the senate, to crack down on at tendance rules, especially with rules, especially with those members who Lawhead said were apathetic towards the senate and fiever showed up. As a result , two senators were "deemed to be resigned automatically," since they naG missed more than three committee meetings, another senate regulation. The debate came after the C.ntnued on Page FIve