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Budgets of 23 By JOHNNY LOTT Gamecock Staff Writer Twenty-three student organizations will get less money next year and 18 will get more, according to budget figures released by the Student Allocations Commission. OF THE 54 organizations applying for SAC allocations. th?? Rur?*?11 Hnnoo University Union suffered the largest cut in its initial budget. This year's allocation for the union was $143,673, whereas, next year's allocation will be $115,969. Pun Nio, president of the union, said the union had hoped to receive more funds for next year. "We were very disappointed with the outcome of this year's budget," she said. The union, she said, serves more than 131,000 persons. This alone, she said, Looking up The buildings on campus can start forbidding at this time of year. Clas papers and projects come due, exam But when that's all over, things start to and even the Humanities classroom ai buildings don't loom so heavily. ?The Gan Most students having sex unuc a iiiuiim By MARGUERITE RYAN Gamecock Staff Writer Most USC students engage in sexual intercourse at least once a month, but about half use birth control methods, according to a Gamecock survey. WHEN 306 randomly selected students were asked if they engaged in sexual intercourse in the past year and how often each month, 222, or 83.7 per cent of the respondents, said they engaged in sexual intercourse, and 41 students declined to answer. Those who engage in sexual intercourse nnre nr Ims a mnnfh nrwuint fnr 20.9 per cent of students asked,andsevenor more times a month account for 23.6 per cent of the total. Thirty-seven students responded "never" to the question. Males engage in sexual intercourse more often than females at USC, the survey indicates, with six men and 31 women saying they never engage in sexual intercourse. The "at least seven times a month" category accounted for 29.1 per cent of the males and 15.8 per cent of the i females. m. ? student organ warrants a larger budget. In addition to the allocations decrease, the union's outside revenues, which includes income from concerts and other pay events, were limited to $43,993 next year. The union got $82,402 this year. A $6,750 decrease in the union's Contemporary Sounds committee allocation will limit the number of big-name bands performing at USC, Nio said. "It's not hurting US. it's hurtinff thP Rtllrfpnfe Tho Kitrlrta* ?>?? . Q M. I?V l/UU^^l nao steadily been cut for the past three years." The union doesn't intend to appeal the budget to SAC now. Over the summer, the union will evaluate its finances, she said. "If we do need more funds, we'll go through the proper channels. It's a lot of money that we've been cut, though," she said. The major effect on students, she said, will be a reduction in programs' sizes next IBBes to look ses end, ts begin. look up, f|P^y|P^ riTiiftB-i'' id office :.^^'V-i'^:^;."" ; :'^A 5 HP 1 icuueK sur At least 65 per cent of all classes, freshman to graduate students, said they engage in sexual intercourse, with freshmen the highest, 72.9 per cent, and seniors the least, 65.8 per cent. Juniors were highest in the mid-frequency categories, two to four and five to seven times a month, with 32.8 per cent of the total. Freshman and seniors said "never" to the question more often than other classes. ALTHOUGH 83.7 percent of those polled said they engaged in sexual intercourse, only 58.8 oercent sniH th??v . v. viivu pan i" ners used birth control. Birth control pills were the most often mentioned form of birth control used by those who engage in sexual intercourse with 44.9 per cent of all students surveyed, and 4.7 per cent said they or their partnners used condoms, the second most frequently used birth control method. Other methods respondents mentioned were foam, intrauterine device and diaphram. Students were also asked if they or their partners had had an abortion, and 22 said yes. The junior class had the highest frequency with nine, and graduate students the least with two Twenty-six students declined to answer the item. Most students said they enjoy sex with a rtfirtnpr nf tho nnruwita ??? -* "" r ? - V* ???V v|^|fW?W OUA) VT1VI1 U1 Of per cent of the total, Nine students, eight male and one female, indicated referince for both sexes, and 14 students, eight male and six female, said they preferred a partner of the same sex. izations cut; It year. Sue Ann Roughton said fewer in-coming students next year necessitates a tighter budget. The USC budget office issues a projection on the number of students expected to enroll at USC each year and next year's projection is lower than this year. Tho chlHortf 4t.2? A - 1 JL.UVL1 iniicia u.st\s nub iu nejp work out its budget. "We're not getting any substantial increase in students next year. We had about three times as many requests for increases as we had money," Houghton said. Before SAC works out organizational budgets, it takes from the total budget 5 per cent for their own contingency purposes and 11 per cent for student government. Then it allocated the rest to various organizations. She said the allocations committee couldn't afford an overall budget increase vey On p tVi W11V 1/1111 Ul of students < i cheat; none i are caught j By KAREN LEE 1 Gamecock Staff Writer s s More than one third of USC students c cheat at least once a semester on tests, homework or other assignments, and t virtually none of them are caught, ac vmuuig iv a t I.VCIU aui vcy. a In the survey, conducted by The c Gamecock staff during the past three tl weeks, 305 students were contacted and c interviewed from a list of 400 randomly selected telephone numbers. s it THE MOST FREQUENT response to a s question about cheating was no opinion. Of p the total, 58.9 per cent responded in this & manner. h However, of those that did answer, 37.2 tl per cent said they cheated at least once. Of them, only 0.2 per cent said they ever got c caught. tl i increased for the student organizations. The committee decides which organizations need the most money on the basis of budget requests According to SAC guidelines, $15 is taken from each student's activity fee for use by the allocations committee. Then the committee appropriates the funds at its discretion. Dave Aughtry, president of the Student Bar Association, said his organization hasn't received its budget yet. However, the SAC figures show that the bar got a $4,669 increase for next year. Aughtry attributed this to the bar's presentation of its budget request. He said SBA didn't inflate its budget estimate. Organizations normally "bloat their budgets by about 20 per cent," he said. "We took the straight-forward approach. I was afraid SAC would penalize us for our honesty," he said. See BUDGET, page 7 MBMI I|* :: Vj' ,; -' w\ mm Mark Alexander THE GAMECOCK The school with the highest incidence of confessed cheating was the business administration school. Of B.A. majors responding, 53.5 per cent said they cheat at east once during a semester. None admitted that they got caught. History majors responding gave only me of two answers. Fifty per cent replied hat they had no opinion, and the other 50 >er cent said they cheated more than three I imes in a semester. All of that sn npr ?nt s aid they were never caught. Of the sophomore respondents 79.3 per i :ent said they did cheat at least once, iteshmen had the second highest report of heating with 71.6 per cent. Of the juniors, 2.3 per cent replied that they cheated at east once. Of the seniors, 48.9 per cent aid they cheated. Graduate students urveyed cheated the least, with 37.5 per ent. n i aupnoinores ana seniors were the only mo groups that said they got caught. FRESHMEN, GRADUATES and juniors II said they never got caught, while 40 per ent of the sophomores and 60 per cent of lie seniors said they had been caught heating. Most students said they would not turn omeone in for cheating if they knew about . Of the total respondents, 58.1 per cent aid they would not turn in a cheater, 5.0 < er cent said they would and 32.6 per cent airl tnavKfi TK? a o a ~'al ? ??iv. uuici t.o |jci ceiu eiuier [ ad no opinion or said they knew of no one lat cheated. Of men, 36.7 per cent replied that they heated at least once, and 28.2 pper cent of >e women said they cheated. .