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?AMEGOCK Thursday Oct. 30,1977 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIV, No. 14 Voting a i^IIa in Oli IMIV 111 By KIM FOWI.KH (iamrcm'k Staff Writer In the basement of the Russell House are 22 ! * not been used in previous years because the 1 not aware of their existence or did not realizi using them. The machines have been stored for the past elections commission donated them to the 1 used in campus elections l>ecause too much into programming each machine. "Fast commissioners didn't know they we know they were down there until someone Commissioner Denise Painter. "For about tu the coliseum and were moved back up to the I "FOH A KKUl'LAIt election with machinc Loan defaul I?V IW. \ l/lltlfhrN (iamrcwk Staff Writer Defaulting payment of a student loan may way out for a recent graduate in a financial default can bear serious repercussions. "Default of a student loan is about as eas> taxes." Bill Mackie, executive director of th Loan Corp., said. "Default is a sure way fc U guarantee that lie will never again get a cent means no charge accounts, no automobile . home mortgages." Till* S.C. Student Loan Corp. administer teed Student Loan Program which carries a interest charge and is designed for sffcjjpnt: income families. voting machines that have Elpefions rnmmiusinn u?ac e the problems involved in several years after a local University. They are not time and money must go re down there and I didn't 1 v ' ^y,;:f > told us," said Elections fo years they were down in vV.v. , f tussell House." . .. ... Idly waiting * in top condition it would This s||en| See MAC IIINI*.. page I Russell House basei _ Its can have s< The loan office tries to conti declaring a loan defaulted, Mac! given a nine-month grace perioc seem the easy three months of increasingly stroni il squeeze, but If warnings fail the GSLP report: bureaus throughout South Carolina 1 as not paying residence, according to Mackie. ie S C. Student same weight as one for repossessii ir a student to the student from getting credit, of credit. This loans and no A ll(H.I) is placed on the studen cannot obtain a copy to apply foi another college. s the (iuaran- Finally-the defaulted loan is tur seven percent Office of Kducation for collection s from middle KOK cannot immediately collect it the I'.S attorney's office. A court llv ItltIAN TI'llNKIt ( anuH'Oi'k Staff Writ* The recent rape of raised questions a bo university has a very jj to Chip Grey of Infor "Considering the si; f^-'.T:' rBSS5SjjSSSSS?,l!lf!?^ police hove done a gc SSRiBWPiy^'' "fWtt cidents." Crcy said. The assault last Tli OgH^^BfinEBHOSSr reported rape on cam . Grey. Since Oct. l, 19 reported at CSC. the girl injured or hud The alleged assault on I lie Blossom Sti : " "' ' "' '''::''>s;|^: Columbia police. The . up h< ^mm 1 taken lo Hichland M? UK*** vugi th? oamecock medical check. in tall} of voting machines in the unused ment stands ready to assist and ni y1!^!!^ 0+0%.w*a act the student before and all the > lie said. The student is But defaul I after graduation, and default rate g warning letters follow. percent in th s the delinquent to credit loans." i and his current state of This default bears the Till-: CAM on of a car and Drcvents nriminisii'rs similar proe according to t s I'SC transcript so he r a job or admission to However. . given to a c ned over to the Federal federal court and prosecution. If the Percent, i full, the case is given to l.ast year judgment is then sought \DSL loans ipe proble Campus police urge wo men t c in ?r they v these ; an 18-year-old I'SC eo-ed lias have I ut campus security, but the attack: ,ood security record, according malion Services. (?u?ii garag< re of the campus, I he campus pat roll kkI job in preventing such in- the tin campu ursday morning was the first pus in ih months, according to >7G only 13 incidents have been The "These ranged from purse- the f<x s, and in only two assaults was drey i clothing torn," Grey said. i:$ att? look place Thursday at 3 a.m. there" eet overpass, according to . . .lOOnSln^i ~ *4 I I * ISCCl ti.xtailUIII, (lllt'l EUIVIHK pilSSffl 4 ?hind her and dragged her into rhe girl made it to a fraternity "Tin ladrangle and from there the ran t I called. The woman was then I'm su ?morial Hospital for a routine popula very I* Richard Vo?*l -THE GAMECOCK ing ballots. Rut the machines have been I for several years because of the time oney required to program them. sequences student's assets can be seized. Mackie said t is not much of a problem at I'SC. "Our loan is very low." said NJ>ickie. "'ess than 1 e two years my office has administered (JSLP PI'S Student Loan Accounting Office, which National Direct Student Loans, follows a edure t?> secure payment of defaulted loans, supervisor Kddie Killian. nfter three months defaulted N'DSI. loans are olleetion agency l>cfore being turned over to Killian said NDSL defaults run as low as five ..v.?np v .i\ .nuut-iio inirrowro in iiiul .YW students iMtrrowcd $r>M,iKH) from C.SLP m patrol garages, ) walk in pairs this case, the city police arc handling it since u*re called," Cliey explained, "hut usually ire handled by campus police." No arrests >een made in this case or in any of the other s on campus ids are maintained all night in the parking 's. and trouble spots such as the overpass are led bv famous SPrlirilv lintil limirc .?f >rning. according to (Icorgc Key. director of is security. However, telephones are not lined in tlie garages because of vandals, he last rape tin campus occurred in March 197<> on >thall practice field l>ehind the Roundhouse inphasi/ed that in lx>th rapes, and in 12 of the icks in ino past year, uie victim was alone, en out late should walk in pairs, and any time is an incident it should be reported." he ad "There is no way of knowing how many >rted assaults have taken place." he said. university is a large area to patrol, and we ight up the whole campus." Grey said "But re that compared to percentages of resident tion similar in size to I'SC. there has been a >w incidence of such aetions."