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Senate nrin r--? By MARK LUNDGREN Gamecock Staff Writer A bill designed to control the "total printing, postage and nrpsidpntial onntinffpnpv pv penditures" of the Student Government (SG) has been introduced to the Student Senate. The bill was presented at a meeting Wednesday night by Senator Russell Bellamy, its author, and has been referred to the Finance Committee. It has the support of Rex Gale, SG treasurer. The bill states that the SG treasurer needs to know "not only the total amount spent in each of these categories, but what is printed, what is mailed and what the money from contingency is used for." The categories convered by the bill are three of the four major spending areas of SG. The other main area is money appropriated by the senate. Bills proposing expenditures by (tin L-onitu muct f 1 vet Ko nrocontoH tllV/ OV1IUIV IllVtUV 111 OV MV pi VOVIIWU to the SG treasurer for assignment, of a financial bill number. The treasurer is required to give any bill proposing allocation of monies a financial bill number. GALE SAID that this action, already law, allows the SG I The GAMECOCK is the student I f i newspaper of the University of South 1 Carolina and is published twlci weekly I 1 on Monday and Thursday during the fall I and spring semesters ana once weekly on Thursday during both summer terms with the exceptions of four times in August and on University of South Carolina holidays and examination periods. i Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors and not ttvose of the University of South Carolina. IT, University of South Carolina it an equal opportunity institution. Chang* of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to The Gamecock, Draw* < A, USC, Columbia, S.C., MM*. Subscription rates are $4 per semester and %2 for the summer sessions. I Third class pMtat* paid at Columbia, S.C. rillTlTiwSfiv'l j PARTY ; AND l OPEN HOUSE Iatthecollegeof! jEARLY LEARNING 12830 Broad River Rd J i Saturday, Oct. 30 I at 7:00 P.M. 'Parents, do not ^encourage "trick or |treating" (vandalisnn lor extortion) this Halloween! I ill i considc * A rang, pc treasurer to know that bills are in the senate that propose spending. The treasurer does not have power to stop any bill proposing allocation, or to interject an opinion. The SG treasurer is notified of passage of a spending bill as soon as it is passed by the ? A. seiuue. The bill presented Wednesday proposed that only "the president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the student body and the two employed full-time office secretaries," be allowed to print anything paid for by the SG. The printing section of the bill stipulates that a receipt must be obtained from the print shop for any SG printing done there. urill am ivcvuipto win cuiiiaui liiiuiiuaiiuu about the date, the cost, the reason (what is printed, explained in detail, according to the bill), the number of copies printed, space for the signatures of the secretaries having the printing done, and the SG officer approving the printing. The two full-time secretaries must have prior approval by one of the four SG constitutional officers (president, vice-president, treasurer or secretary) before the> could have material printed, Gale said. OF THE TWO receipt copies, the tl 11 s I I I I I WI I , i \\ tl AAA 1 JLKJKJ I The Ultimate Di "The Finest Disco i Sensurrouri "Earthquake" S? Money Back Guar 2728 Rosewood Dr. jring bil A >stage e: original shall go into the files of the SG treasurer and the carbon to the Print Shop, the bill states. When the nrintinff hill is rwpivpd by the SG, then the SG treasurer can compare the bill and the receipts. If the two do not correspond then the treasurer can go the print shop and check the receipts on file there. This system should clear up any discrepancies that may occur, Gale said. A sum of $4,000 has been budgeted this year for printing, according to Gale, but the SG "probably won't expend that much." "The problem we have figuring out the printing budget is that we don't know how much will be i printed," Gale said. T Jist vpar's nrinfinc* hiiHflpt "wnc J r. O i well over $5,000, which was too ; much," Gale said. SG has changed from copying most of its printed i material to mimeograph, which saves $.04 per page. THE ONLY PERSONS allowed to mail anything at the expense of i SG are the same as those , authorized to print material at the r expense of SG, under the proposed s bill. A Postal Authorization Form must be signed by one of the four constitutional officers of SG for ! anything mailed with a copy being 10 i of FECIAL A" iiiiiii iiiii ? ? VKBM 1 TONIG isco -ri_. in s.c." ! nis d m ound m m antee AGroatLittU The Left Guar I to conl _ __ xpenain placed in the files of the SG treasurer. The bill also provides control over spending by the President of SG from the contingency fund. The bill states: "If at any time the President of the Student Body uses monies allocated in the con tingency fund he must submit a written report to the Treasurer of the Student Body as to the total amount spent and for what purpose it was spent." Gale said that this bill, if passed, will "make Student Government more responsible for their money." The bill would provide for "a system so the treasurer doesn't control the money, but knows where it goes and what it's spent for," he said. A POSSIBLE addition tn thp hill Gale said, would be a section requiring the SG President to inform the SG treasurer of legislation signed by the SG President and USC President Patterson so that the SG Treasurer would not make the mistake of allocating funds for bills that had not been approved by all arms of SG and the university administration. Hi it nf tho tA7 AAA alWatoH tn Sfl for this fiscal year, Gale said, $10,000 had not been budgeted. Hie t Gua rTR ACTIO |Kjjjf r* j? k -HT ONLY I S Week Po IESH * Band from N.C. d Does it Again trol ures spring elections will cost ap- ^ proximately $1,500 to $2,000. Bills for Carolina Cares and the new judicial system offices at Kirkland Apartments requiring funds of approximately $1,000 and $3,000 to $4,000 respectively are now in the Finance Committee. "New programs will not be able to be implemented unless money is transferred from other categories," Gale said. Transfers of monies over five per cent from one category to another must be 0 approved by the senate, according to the treasurer. News brief The USC debate team of Don Drennon and Beth Ferrel have returned to Columbia after three days of debate at the University of ^ Kentucky. The soDhomores established a four win four loss record with Drennon and Ferrel claimed victors over nationally ranked Southwest Missouri State University, Butler University, West Georgia, and Wheaton. One of USC's losses was to Kansas University, the returning national debate championship team of 1976-77. ?: 1 N* m * Iteak and Brew beye steak, baked tato or french fries, n salad, hot rolls and jtter for just $2.05 oz. mug of beer 45*) 799-25751 11