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GAMEGOCK VOL. LXV1I NO. 47 The University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. THURSDAY. APRIL 8. 1976 ; | Groups f $433,4< By Lee Harter Forty-eight student organizations have been funded by llio QtnHont A 11 r?r? n t i nnc r^m. mission (SAC)' for the coming year. The budget, which has been approved by the Student Senate, needs USC Pres. William H. Patterson's approval. Patterson is expected to announce approval of the budget by Friday, according to Sue Ann Roughton, adviser to SAC. The funds allocated by SAC total $433,465. Allocations were made to student organizations chartered by the Office of Student Activities. All chartered student organizations are eligible to apply for student activity fee allocations except religious, fraternal and political organizations. SAC determines through a scries of hearings during the spring semester which organizations will receive funds. Almost all organizations' budgets were cut to some degree, said Paul Dominick, outgoing Student Government Association treasurer and SAC chairman. The <^nfc from th#> fnr fnnrfc to cover two different areas of the university budget. Intramurals and payment of the staff needed to operate the new to get D?> areas of the Hussell House were included in the SAC budget. Thirty thousand dollars were appropriated for intramurals and $15,000 were approved for the Russell House staff additions. Because intramural activities would have ended and the new areas of the Russell House would be useless without managing See GROUPS, Page 2 ^ ^ Paul ^tninick '76 SG Editor's Note: This news analysis is the first of two articles examining the accomplishments of the Student Government Association this year. Some of the major issues concerned with the student body at large and what SGA did or did not do about them are reviewed in part one. Student government endured much venom this year from several quarters, some of it deserved. But in many mostly unnoticed ways, reforms were pushed through in several areas of campus life and progress toward at least one long-range goal was made. Among buA s endeavors in 197576: GREEN STREET While President Steve Hill failed to spearhead the campaign to close Green Street, he ensured that student efforts would be coor ,r\ p: ~ ....w, -W***S?.. r,**?rSu? ?. *???r . % * * v.- * *<;?tr*? ~~ ^ mm *5we '?<^3r^ Jim East tries out an incomplete Law students chosei Admissio By Karl Turner According to Dean Robert W. Foj School of Law, freshmen enterting tl this summer or next fall will be then "We have eliminated all wild rards selections will be made by the facul dividual merit. This is determined comprised of the applicant's LSAT college record. There will be n< pointments." Applicants who do not meet the r< automatic admission may still be coi Summer Pre-Admission Trial Pro which has been in effect since 1973. Th designed to give a larger number students a chance to obtain adr demanding and highly competitive ci A pushed i dinated through the establishment of the Green Street Committee. Directed by Barry Alford, Hill's secretary for community relations, the committee members gathered more than 4.000 signatures on petitions, persuaded at least a few merchants in Five Points to support the closing (two polls of the Five Points Merchants Association showed a majority favored the idea) and enlisted the active support of President William H. Patterson, board chairman T. Kston Marchant and the other trustees. The committee was tied down at the beginning of the year, however, because too few students were concerned about the issue. The n I! n/] l\i f A 1 f 11) o o v ;ui. o iicui iiifc helium vy nnui u **a.? well publicized, but less than 30 persons came. Residents of Preston and Woodrow, who had petitioned earlier that the street be either closed or left alone, staged a demonstration Oct. 13 that forced SHSflP I '-""? m*t WlnR an^>MMMWPyr*^y n T' ntfBf -+<mCL r' project in the reflection pool. 1 n based on law school, he said. However, admissic >ter of the USC assure the appl le school either school. ? only on merit. ^nc student, who " 4* a 11 whn wpnt through SP , IIC oaiu, /-vii -- - ?? Ity based on in- second year, said "W by a formula ar,d that not all of us scores and his was very stiff." 3 political ap- But he sees SPAT "Since there were 01 iquirements for we were able to mak nsidered for the study groups. Plus, gram (SPAT), experience gave us a lis program was said. of Drosoective The wild card adm nission to the by the USC Board ofr irriculurn of the reform the campus and the Green Street Committee into action. It began simply, with some 30 people walking back and forth in the Russell House crosswalk, and exploded later, because it lacked leadership, into a tissue-paper bonfire and a near-riot. Seventeen USC students vvere arrested for public drunkeness, disorderly conduct and other phnrOPQ v,,v" The committee hastily scheduled another hearing, ran a full-page ad in the Gamecock sa>ing "We Hear You!" and attracted about 150 students. At the hearing Alford outlined a selective buying campaign to be used in Five Points if merchants there were not responsive to SGA's "soft sell." The campaign proved unnecessary when the committee met with the Merchants Association at the Top of Carolina Restaurant to explain why it wanted the street closed. Though See SGA, Page \\ ,*T~ ' -? ? ? .? 1 , 3 ^swwwmmiic W???? by ill Milter i record >n into the SPAT program does icant's acceptance to the lawwished to remain anonymous, AT in 1974 and is completing his 'e knew that we were borderline would make it. The competition as somewhat of an equalizer. ^1?. U J 1 ~ A 1 IIV ctuuui UIIC-MUIIUI t'U Muuems, e many friendships through our by the end of the summer our in advantage on the others," he ission refers to a policy adopted rrustees on Jan. 25, 1975. By this See LAW. Page 2 " > ISetvs A nalyais By Tun Hedgecoth