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GAMECOCK Thursday, Nov. 17, 1977 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIV, No. 22 V l I / f sbhbBBBHB^k :;?if?WSMm ?? llliiHin |hhh mmmmma/n * fji|? j8B88BB::;SB8B 8 il ft jj ?? s8S l?l||lp ijjjf Slll> 1 H Arches A series of supports under the ramp car ^ which connccis im* i*. r? v enter 10 ccnuai ai Security gun loc By IHH <i JOLLKY (iamccock Staff Writer Ciuns are a prevalent factor in today's society, according to Capt. Marvin Harrelson of the campus police. "Regardless of what you're going to do, people are going to have them, he said. "Our job is to let the students know the rules and give them every chance to turn their weapons into our security gun lock." Students can register and keep personal weapons at the gun loek. The student is assigned a number and registration ^ card which he uses to check out the gun whenever he wants to go hunting or go home with the gun. llv CUIUS (iiiinccock A new cal is now beinj Many pe "tremendo The curr crisis like weeks. Th instead of close (iurii energy. I' runlheuni However 4 "B August eos Davis s; school ses problems \ l M) i : K i|Si ^Bbmb||8HB8H^BB^BWB^p Faster Kri ^^^Bb^yKHBGHMESSElRBk hBHHBSwSSSSSIHHh It would M j|B Dnvi minimum form jik * >s ,j impossible .v- . Ijr^jjp ;ulministi\ JS* ^ ^ 1111111K11 [ Y. ]\\ v*' 1' hH^BHKh ._ I VII rmUfaiiM' ^yrOLTW? 1, mmi \ . ; . B| Bv BOB I Oaimu-ock Salaries ^I $7 (HK) pac-l proved by The slue bin boineau -the gamecock Hoard las tiiinv fi-iiiw.v riinrioni. r'niniim .,* Kh? President - - v,..^ . January, Iks by. 1 "The pr It nvnilrihlo #n 11 "Many people don't know or don't understand alxnit the system," llarrclson said. "We try to work in coordination with the resident assistants to let the students know. The key to gun control is to let people know. The guns aren't confiscated, hut are iust taken care of." TIIK ('OI)K of student conduct, which is printed in the student information manual distributed at the beginning of each year, states, "the unauthorized possession or use, in any way, of firearms or any other deadly weapon is prohibited." The present student conduct code was drawn up l>y the faculty senate in the late 1960s. Marsha Dunca, director of campus relations, said, "There is a possibility of rewriting them (the codes) for the purpose of updating them in I he ilendar i u 1 uvwiiuiiy^u dovi.k Staff Writrr lendar lor the 1978 fall seim'sler and itc 15)79 snrint* M-nu'stci g devised, said Keith Davis, provost l.?r the university. rsons on campus are unhappy with I ho present calendar allows only four days lor sprii g hreak and would he .1 us headache to change during n id-year," Davis said, ent t'SC calendar was put into * lici t t<? prevent ,111 merg\ I \m 1 I'icl In^hniain- %t (Oacn/I I lw> 11111 vnrc i t \ l<i>* !\i . UIK. \?I?V IUOI t \ 1 VH1I > * ? I ' IV I I V IVf.-'VVI HIV lllll > V I .HM MM I ?? is school year, I'SC will have .1 live-uek Christmas break tfie traditional three. he believes the extended vacation will enable I SC ?> ig the most severe part <f the vinter and will ?unserve SC has built up an oil reserve of gallons which could versity for a month if another shortage should occur the air conditioning necessary to open the school this t more than natural gas used lor winter heating, Davis said akea very severe winter to come out ahead." he said, lid faculty men hers have complained because sunm u sions were spaced so close together. There wi'rr also \ itli grading linal t xains and giving out senior grades TIIK \i:\\ calendar. Ilu* spring m'UH'sUt v ill pmhahk U-gm u. ? or 1> and ond mi I hi* n.uldlo of May. I >.tvis >aid I r rcu \ ill also allow !t*n days ulT lor >print> hrrak and |m??lil\ day, as \u*H asa lliroo \\ rek Christiu.is hrrak. he impossible to stall lall semester any later than l . ln-i s said, because I SC' students wouldn t he able :<? i.;el rl>e of classes before Christmas and Thanksgiving. al voles will betaken among '.he faculty because it w uM i ? to satisfy all preferences, havis said. "litim.iteh. it i> a; dive matter." he said. Mavis said he hopes ??? timsh lie >y Dec. I. sses proposed * nr^sirl^nts .KACI'K l Staff Writer for USC and Oemson presidents will he raised more ilian li if a recommendation hy a special study committee is ap the state legislature. ly committee, whose chairman is Sen. James Waddcll .It . I) recommended in a report to the Slate Budget and ("nntrol ;t week that President .lames lloldernian and Clenison Hubert Kdwards each receive an annual salary ol $.YU?oo l>\ 1979. Kach is paid S4(>,724. esent salary level is too low to attract the type ol person \\t Sim> SAI.AKIIS. paur S SC students near future. Tliey need it." If a student commits a serious infraction ol the rode. Incould have his housing contract immediate!) revoked, ami his standing with the university could he mtiounIv jeopardized. University officials said ihey t onsidered firearm violations the most serious violations <>| ihe code I)OI (; ItOSTICK. one of the KAs in the Towers, said. "The matter doesn't come up too often, hut w hen it does, w? li.'iiullc it lliimuili M:irOi:i ! )nnr:in s < 111< < uampus relations). "Our biggest fear is that someone will get drunk and start fooling around or ^el mad and threaten sonulxxlv with .1 gun and somebody gets seared, hurt. 01 killed