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* Campus I By DOUG JOLLEY Gamecock Staff Writer Students can "charge it" at the beginning Friday with a Master Cha rviir/tKnoAC nf rriArn fKnn #?i rr\ pui viiauvo vi iiiuiu man ivyu uuiiaio their own card. George Adams, bookstore manage: have their signature on the card and r though the card can be to the paren ? trying to get it across to students that ? card, it must have their signature, th By ClIRIS DKESK Gamecock Staff Writer Clarence Beckman, 79, needed to have the batteries for his pacemaker surgically replaced, but refused to sign the consent form for the operation. The courts said he was incomDetent and an # pointed Beckman's wife his guardian. When she also refused to authorize the surgery, the court appointed another guardian who did. The Beckmans, now in a nursing home, have decided the next time the pacemaker needs batteries, they simply won't tell anyone at the home. "It's like Catch-22,". said Robert M. Veatch of the Hastings Center Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. "If you refuse medical treatment you're crazy, ^ and if you're crazy then you aren't allowed to decide whether or not to refuse treatment." YKATCII SAID having to sign consent forms implies that one could refuse to sign. "But the tradition is that you just can't refuse," he said. Veatch spoke at a two-day HHHH Celebration of fall The fall season can mean t Autumn rituals such as Hal standard evpnbi for almost ? ^ means cooler weather result bookstore is not suffici< the student Campus Bookstore "THERE*! irge or Visa card for establishing , provided they have really done credit line a r, said students must especially di lot just their parents', more money ts accounts." We're to use the cc if thev plan to use the the long rur eir parents' signature cards." says medi hinothipR ronfprpnrp in Canntnnp sponsored by the Philosophy department. Veatch said, "There is no moral obligation for a competent adult to accept treatment merely because it would prolong life." Other factors such as "anticipation of agony" and "inability to continue with a life plan" may effect the situation, he said. , fr manual burdens may also influence the decision. If an operation would consume a family's financial holdings and merely prolong life, there is no moral obligation to have the operation, according to Veatch. However, parents can't refuse simple medical proceedings when that treatment would restore a child to health. Veatch said examples of this would be a Jehovah's Witness refusing blood transfusions for his child because he believes "foreign" blood costs one eternal salvation. Courts have ruled consistently in such cases that parents cannot refuse blood transfusions if they would save the child's life. VKATCII SAID there are standards of treatment in deciding many things to many people, lioween and Thanksgiving are everybody, but autumn also ing in trees losing their leaves. now occ< ent," Adams said. "The bank must is using the card." S BEEN a lot of talk before t the use of credit cards, but nothing about it," Adams said. "We estab s additional means of assisting the Liring the book rush and not as a wa . In fact, the credit companies charj ird. But I expect the bookstore will 1 from increased sales due to the ? fl I seal care I whether or not to refuse medical treatment such as "usualness," "usefulness" and "grave burdens." Veatch said usualness is unworkable because "any new treatment would be extraordinary. The status quo would be the norm, but sometimes treatments are unusual but are required for one reason or another." Usefulness is also an unacceptable reason to accept or reject foifl * 11 Tt> 1 ncc 14 'c (i uuiiucm, iit ouiu. vuivoo iv o useful, why bother?" lie said. "If it is useless, then it's morally expendable." He added that some treatments were useless for some goals, hut not for others. Carolina ( By KIM FOWLKK (ianu'cock Staff Writer Last year $10,000 was raised in food, money, toys and clothes by Carolina Cares. This year Carolina Cares expects to double that figure, according to chairman Peter Shahid. Carolina cares was created in 1969 as a freshman project and is & Ji *3 WSBr J&m -Sift There's something irresistab! rflvrA 2m Aa lit a i i iiicar siuuciiis 111 iu mr w an autumn ritual took place m ?pts credil know that To establish a credit c check a customer's ere plications, and will is his about established according t< was over mummy, ai which urn' lished the amount due or a minimu ! students, over $50 must be cleared y to make always be possible imm $c us a fee rush. benefit in The bookstore's comr use of the owned South Carolina E cards, and does not plan ilrp fntrh "Usefulness should be for preserving life for more than just basic metabolic processes," lie said. An individual's own sense of what constitutes grave burdens is used as a guide in determining whether medical treatment can l>e refused. One family who had lost seven of ten members of the family decided the risk was too great lor ik? ? i in*; Slimming iiiviuut'i a iu nuvt" surgery. THKV WKltK allowed to refuse treatment. Joan M. Altekruse, one of the rpsnondonts on I hp nanf?l caiH lores $20, presently sponsored as a student government project. Our goal is to raise $10,000 in cash alone and another $10,000 in food, toys and clothes and 1 believe we can do it," Shahid said. TWO MAIN events geared towcvd the Carolina Cai&s projeet have been undertaken, a basketball marathon and the Gong Show. CTXhkK 'i ifKflri rW "*f " I ^ .1" ^'v' ' 1 K- ^MM m ^ ipt Britton Andrew THE GAMECOCK e about a nile of leaves, and \ emptation. This enactment of ?ar the Pickens Street bridge. > \ cards ard account, the issuing bank will dit line after accepting their apsue a card with a credit line o the credit check. Payment is e the customer pays cither the HI jjctyiiii'iu. v naigt'b IUI uniouiiu) by the bank although this may not ediately at the l>ookstore during a nercial competitor, the privately bookstore, does not accept credit to do so in the immediate future. A A -zz changing norms influence the question of refusing treatment. One of ihese, she said, was "physicians adhere to the idea <>f preservation of life at all costs and by all means. In an earlier age, before technology became so important, the tools of the physician were in his character love, compassion, friendship. It was a measure of what he would personally bring to the care of a patient," she said, "Mich as keeping an all-night vigil ever a fevered child." She said that a second change is that physicians were once great authority figures .000 aoal The Gong Show drew a $1,247 profit. Carolina Cares will sponsor three more events. On Nov. 29 ARA Food Services will hold Carolina Cares student night in the Kussell House. After a Christmas dinner Carolina Alive will sinn Christmas carols. President llolderman will perform I he third annual Christmas tree lighting. An interdenominational ('hristmas service, conducted l>y campus ministers and religious groups, will follow in Hut ledge Chapel. ON NOV. :to, Carolina Cares will nrnviHo hnlf-fmn> jwlivitifw; flnrimi r1 " ' ? """ T ,,,x" M,b the I'SC Alabama game. A collection will be taken. Governor James Kdwards has proclaimed Dec. l Carolina Cares Day. On that day, workers will be placed at various shoonine areas throughout Columbia lo raise money. Renovations? l-'roin |?ii i The annex. lornurK the I><xik t orneroi hum ampus i;<'<>kst<>re. is in the roar <>l iht* >(i I'fice Currently, the rmmi is ?Ii\ icKhI l>\ partitions but now 'lit- annex will contain tlu* supreme court, the attorney ueneral's "Mice. the campus court, a senate n eeting room and court tiles. All < ! the spaces will become permanent offices. Till: SII'KIIMI. courts .111(1 campus courts wore located in Kirkland Apartments mi IMckens ruirvi, ihu iik- mommas .tie nenig lorn down, leaving the courts with no place to n.eet. In a previous issue "I The Gamecock. Steele said h?> urged the hill's passage because he wanted to "centralize the student government." "The way it's >et up im?w. somebody could just \wilk 111 and pick up something," Steele said earlier. He said S(I documents, old resource materials, codifications and furniture could he subject to theft because much of the space is unable to be guarded.