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'Campus I By DOUG JOLLEY Gamecock Staff Writer Students can "charge it" at t beginning Friday with a Master C purchases of more than two dolla ttefc own card. George Adams, bookstore manaj have their signature on the card an< though the card can be to the par ^ trying to get it across to students th * card, it must have their signature, Speaker By CHRIS DEESE 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 incomnetent and an I\ pointed Beckman's wife his guardian. When she also refused tc authorize the surgery, the court appointed another guardian whe did. The Beckmans, now in i nursing home, have decided tht next time the pacemaker needs batteries, they simply won't tel nnvnnr? at th#> hnmp "It's like Catch-22," said Koberi M. Veatch of the Hastings Centei Institute of Society, Ethics and th< Life Sciences. "If you refus< medical treatment you're crazy p and if you're crazy then you aren' allowed to decide whether or not t< refuse treatment." YKATC1I SAII) having to sigi consent forms implies that on* could refuse to sign. "But tin tradition is that you just can" refuse," he said. Veatch spoke at a two-da; Celebration of fall The fall season can mea Autumn rituals such as II standard events for almoi ? means cooler weather resu Bookstore is not suffic the student he Campus Bookstore "THERE narge or visa card tor esiaDiismng rs, provided they have really done credit line jer, said students must especially c i not just their parents', more mone ents accounts." We're to use the c at if they plan to use the the long ru their parents' signature cards." says med bioethics conference in Capstone c nnncnroH ht; Ihn DliilncnnKtr o|^/iiuv> vm mj t aav I siiiuoupujr department. i Veatch said, "There is no moral obligation for a competent adult to accept treatment merely because . it would prolong life." Other ; taciors sucn as "anticipation of "agony" and "inability to continue i with a life plan" may effect the situation, he said. i . Financial burdens may also t influence the decision. If an > operation would consume a i family's financial holdings and ; merely prolong life, there is no > morai ouuguuon iu nave ine I operation, according to Veatch. However, parents can't refuse t simple medical proceedings when r that treatment would restore a ; child to health. Veatch said ; examples of this would l>e a , jcnovan s w uness rciusing Diooa t 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 2 transfusions if they would save the ? child's life. t VKATCII SAID there are v standards of treatment in deciding I n many things to many people, alloween and Thanksgiving are st everybody, but autucnn also lting in trees losing their leaves. > now acc leni, Adams said, i ne oanK mu is using the card." 'S BEEN a lot of talk before \ the use of credit cards, but nothi about il," Adams said. "We esl as additional means of assisting I hirinp fhp honk ni?h nnri tint uk .1 y. In fact, the credit companies ch ard. But I expect the bookstore w in from increased sales due to th IVUI WUI V whether or not to refuse medic* (rnotmnnf cimK ic "ncnnlnncc II VOllllVIll OUVII CIO UOUUIIIVOO, "usefulness" and "^rave bui dens." Veatch said usualness i unworkable because "any ne< treatment would be extraordinary The status quo would be the norn but sometimes treatments ar iintisiml hut ;>ro rpfiuirod for or ? ? ~ ? " - ""1 ?- ? reason or another." Usefulness is also an una ceptable reason to accept or reja treatment, he said. "Unless it useful, why bother?" he said. "If I2? Udeieaa, uieii u s iiiuiauy t* pendable." He added that son treatments were useless for son goals, but not for other Carolina By KIM FOWLKK Gamecock Staff Writer Last year $10,000 was raised food, money, toys and clothes I Carolina Cares. This ye Carolina Cares expects to dout that figure, according to chairm; Peter Shahid. Carolina cares was created IQfiQ as 11 frochmjiii nrnipcl :inH 2Z5555555M?55ir~jSggSggg : _ :^;.t.; S|S SBt** : ! * 'iJfl WBSsSSSm ml Al_l 1 t a. mere s someinmg irresista these students give in to the an autumn ritual took place epts credit ist know that To establish a credit cai check a customer's credi plications, and will issi this about established according to ng was ever monthly, at which time Lablished the amount due or a minimurr the students, over $50 must be cleared t way to make always be possible immet arge us a fee rush. /ill benefit in The bookstore's commi e use of the owned South Carolina Be cards, and does not plan t like Catchil "Usefulness should he for preserving life for more than just basic metabolic processes," lie is said. w An individual's own sense of /. what constitutes grave burdens is l, used as a guide in determining e whether medical treatment can he ie refused. One family who had lost seven of ten members of the family c- decided the risk was too great for L-t the remaining members to have 's surgery. it x- TIIKY WKHK allowed to refuse ie treatment. ie Joan M. Altekruse, one of the s. respondents on the panel, said Cares I $20, presently sponsored as a student government project. "Our goal is to raise $10,000 in cash alone and in another $10,000 in food, toys and by clothes and 1 believe we can do it," ar Shahid said. >le .? 'i-ti/t m i iv Li11 i ft \r .M/iiii I'vuma uu toward the Carolina Cares project in have been undertaken, a basketis ball marathon and the Gong Show. .j"... ^ tvvjKjiniD^^^IHBlH^^H^S^B BwkSuH ' B,.lion Ariel...-/ fur GAMECOCK bit* about a nile of leaves, and temptation. This enactment of near the Pickens Street bridge. cards rd account, the issuing bank will it line after accepting their aple a card with a credit line the credit check. Payment is the customer pays either the i payment. Charges for amounts >y the bank although ?his may not iiately at the bookstore during a ercial competitor, the privately K)kstore, does not accept credit o do so in the immediate future. 22 changing norms influence (he ijucaituii \n iuumii^ 11 Vdiiiu'iii. One of these, she said, was "physicians adhere to the idea ?>f preservation of life at all costs and by ail moans. In an earlier ;ige, before technology became so important, the tools of the physician were in bis character love, compassion, friendship. It was a measure of what be would personally bring to the care of a patient," she said, "such as keeping an all-night vigil over a fevered child." She said that a second change is that physicians were once great authority figures uuu goal The Gong Show drew a $1,247 profit. Carolina Cares will sponsor three more events. On Nov. 29 AHA Food Services will hold Carolina Cares student night in the Kussell House. Alter a Christinas dinner Carolina Alive will sing Christmas carols. President llolderman will perform the third annual Christmas tree lighting. An interdenominal iona 1 Christ mas service, conducted l>y campus ministers and religious groups, will follow in Kutledge Chapel. ON NOV. :w, Carolina Cares will provide half-time activities during the I'SC-Alabama game. A collection will he taken. Governor James Kdwards has proclaimed Dec.- 1 Carolina Cares Day. On that day. workers will he placed at various shopping areas throughout Columbia to raise money. Renovations? I'roin page I The annex, lormerh the I>?K*k Corner of the Campus Unokslorc. is in the tear <>t the >(i ffice. Currently, the room is tiividiHi Ia partitions !>ut mm the annex will contain the supreme court. the attorney .ueneral's "Itn r. the campus court, a senate n eeting room and court tiles All the spaces will become permanent offices. iiir. x rur. mi i nuns .ititi campus courts were located in Kirkland Apartments on Pickens Street, but the buildings arc l?cing lorn down, leaving the courts \uth no place to 11.eel. In .1 previous issue > ! The (iamet'wk, Steele said In* urged the hill's passage because lie wanted to "centralize the student government." "ine way us >ei up now. somebody could just walk in and pick up something," Steele said earlier. He said SG documents, old resource materials, codifications and furniture could be subject to theft because much of the space is * uiwuic iu in: ^uuiutn.