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* ^ / Volume LXIX, No. 110 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Feb. 1-4, 19*79 Constitutiona Qfi nofifmn i wording 'no By Bernard Slnkler I Q?m?cock Staff Writer < A referendum to supposedly decide if a new Student Government, SG, constitution should be instituted is tentatively scheduled i r t-i _i ? ior r eD. zz, penaing completion of a petition l to bring the proposal to a student vote, ac- < cording to SG President Seamus O'Boyle. ] O'Boyle said the total number of petition < signatures will not be determined until this weeKena Decause mere are about 200 copies of the petition document on campus. "THE PETITION is nothing more than a request to have the new system put on the ballot," O'Boyle said. "What we're trying to do is give students a chance to decide for themselves what kind of government they want." Opponents of the proposed constitution mntf?nri thf? nptitinn ac u/nrH?vH ic r?r?t cuf , ?V? ficient to bring the proposal to a student vote. The petition states that the undersigned students "request a referendum concerjiing the organizational framework established by the current constitution" of the Student Government of USC. The onnonents sav that rr ?? J petition does not specifically request the proposed constitution be put to the students i - :&s$n?^H?I?filllisli I II B* >m m P iH m' _ ^'"- -I-'- ?^S:vS'- ~V~.*l.'i!- ^K:' :'^H||^P^'' u ^ ryfl "7^- ^Z_ ^^Hlrapv ' ^ " ' l\^\,-. yr^i-y^'i;:_?/lV I flf?- -' " > " ' i- -_ -~ -?~4f^,>. -- '"~irT"^~ W%t*m HHfMMtMMMSM ?**? **?* * *? ***> <t np;" ?MMMMaBagy^sar ca v**<* ****?> I referendum in Question t sufficient for a vote, the proposal cannot be offered ? a referendum. A PROPOSAL for a referendum must t made public "not less than 14 days befoi the election in which it is to be considers according to the constitution. O'Boy] DroDOsed the new constitution to thp Shirtat Senate Feb. 7. He said the earliest possibl date to hold the referendum is Feb. 22. The current constitution also states th; 44All proposed amendments shall be voU on within 60 days after being proposed. The required 2,500 signatures must 1 validated by the SG Elections Commissio Election Commissioner Kim Fowler sa the names of students signing the petitic would be checked with signatures < university records. Fowler also said referendum by Feb. 22 is possible. ? . ?*. e? n r ci auiu annulling signatures iur u petition have said that senators have be< following them advising students not to sij the petition. Barry Horvitz, who has been solicitii signatures, said there was no reason for (petition) to be published in the Gamecoc "They (students) know what they' signing," he said. Nine of eve action at US related, accor of student affa Ardaiolo, wl of discipline disciplinary c semester invo time of the infi "MOST of U was drinking' he said. "I thi thinking. I hi potentially dai Some lpoU curred at USC ?Students i walkway lead No one was hi incident in Cal crashed into a ?In another a car swerved car, Ardaiotos ?A student in the Golden ? ?More tha Thomson Hea intoxification handle the si iff V ;v ' i 7 ,9 0D ^ V VS* V* e \.ir-. : - ;, ^, i" ^d.'^5y ;liaia;:y- . . it le i^3^i&iWii^hilSii n feBSIlPS? ; id c-v-v :-j )n )n f? 7 1 ^ *' ?n : 'WWiM^Sm&Si W&a' k. 'SSH re r r5"^ - 'We foui :oholthc bfusl can free CD ?* o uy uuiuuii niiaui a Qamecock Staff Writer a ry 10 incidents requiring disciplinary C this past semester were alcohol f ding to Frank Ardaiolo, associate dean e irs. k io is responsible for the administration F on campus, said the majority of 80 c :ases handled by his office this past lved students who were drinking at the v raction. c s lem do come right out and say, 'Yeah, I a . . . It predisposes you to fool around," 4 nk the majority of students act without 11 id some cases that could have been ngerous." v intially dangerous' cases which octhis past semester included: p rolled a beer keg down the elevated s ing to the Solomon Blatt P.E. Center. t irt, but according to Araiolo, a similar lifornia killed an infant when a beerkeg r car window. a keg-rolling incident on Sumter Street, c to avoid a keg and sideswiped another t! aid. There were no injuries. s was stabbed in the neck during a fight s Ipur. A n 20 women were admitted to the Ith Pantai* thic noet foil KonnucA I?MI M?tO pMO V 1(111 M\/VOUO^ VI so great that friends were afraid to g tuation, according to Ardaiolo. "We t passed out in bushes near McBryde ng to get back to their dorms on a cold s I. "You can freeze to death like that." s 0 ike to see these things happen," Ar- o "here is a drinking problem on campus, fc w -\ $mn&r5> C# v H> ' iiii i i |mi ii i n a.T *: $&' i %i< :fc> 'ii:m :' if-:?:'-dv '-1- - B^MBMHreBcKBgaS^ranirotffcffiSSgyfl. < r - : Vs* > ' s^V-xs hes near McBryde... You >ze to death like that' ind McBryde is only one of the problem areas, ilthough certainly not the only one." Residence halls are a main source of discipline roblems, according to Ardaiolo. He cited recent >vnmnlp? nf fir*> PVlinailichor vanHalicm o nrl coirl 1 v TUIIVH4IIOI1I, H1IU OUIV4 C* ;eg was thrown through a window in McBryde. fraternities have had some "alarmingly ugly in:idents" with alcohol-related functions. "We're trying to get a handle on what's going on vith all this drinking," Ardaiolo said, "not just on our >wn campus, but all across the country." Ardaiolo aid a student was killed and others critically injured it Louisiana University during a fraternity initiation. 'We want to avoid this kind of tragedy at this iniversity," he said. According 10 Ardaiolo, drinking is going on in iolation of state laws and university regulations. 'We're trying to do what hasn't been done in the >ast," he said. "The alcohol policy (for fraternities) hould have already existed. We're just catching up o where we're supposed to be." Fraternities and sororities are being asked to egisier parues ? a requirement residence halls lready follow, Ardaiolo said. Ardailo said most ampus organizations, including sororities, attended he conference. Only three fraternity members howed up, which was "too bad, because they don't eem to realize there is a potential problem here," irdaiolo said. "We're not trying to stop the drinking, Ardaiolo said "Hell, everyone drinks. I drink. It's a part of [rowing up, and a part of going to school is learning odrink responsibly." "What WP Wflnt is fnr chlHontc tn I air a nam ftf rtfhnr .. .. ? -W >V> vv vunv vwi v vi VVIIV1 tudents," he said. "It would seem to me that if a tudent drinks to excess, the height of fellowship, r of being a fraternity brother, would be to take care if your brother when he's bombed out of his mind, or etter yet, help to keep him from getting that way."