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' JUiUdlE1'11'1H I M 8 ^hmp?^miiiim i|lilf^ ^SKHSS^ IS Friday ^$ 0^ Volume LXIX, No. 123 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 20, 1979 ; [SG Pre f By Bernard Sinklc Gamecock Staff Write A bill allocating Student Allocatioi funds to student organizations was p Senate Wednesday and immediatel Government, SG, President Peter ! improper procedure in appeal regulat senate President Michael Warshai should have had the chance to appej the senate, prior to the bill's approval "THE APPEAL is of the recom Warshauer said. "They (the organiz decision to us." The allocation to 74 student groups approved by the senate without oppos: "I have vetoed the bill they have pa "What I did was simply put them bact The bill will be reintroduced dur By Ron Stokes I Gamecock Staff Writer " USC's campus and supreme courts have ruled the Student Allocations Commission, SAC, is unconstitutional in its actions regarding funding of campus organizations, according to a supreme court opinion published bv Russell Putnam fnrmpr supreme court chief justice. Putnam, a former member of SAC, delivered the court opinion that SAC was not following guidelines defined by the Student Government Constitution. The opinion contends that Article III, I section 4(u) of the constitution: I voclc cnln nifli/M-itti r wvo MIV OUIV UUll 1U1 1 IJ IU appropriate the Student i Activity Fees in the Student J Senate, and that the Student i Allocations Commission exists "as an advisory" < agency whose recom- i mendations "the Senate i isident >r session, R r cording to ns Commission, SAC, "The in >assed by the Student will get a i y vetoed by Student not a big < Haeseker because of was an en ions. In othei ler said organizations presented al their allocations to Finance C Monday's crease. mendation of SAC," THE S< 1 O A Ol_ ? auuiid/ appeal aftts salaries \* There is i requesting funds was salary fr ition. allocation ssed," Haeseker said. A propo [to step one." chief ad^ ing a special senate proposed; Courts ri unc shall approve or amend as it fit T Trvr?n niccnitn r\f tko UV/VU * & V . v pv/ll pUOOU^V V/l Li IV/ Allocations by the Senate it (the allocations) shall then be approved by the President of the Student Government and the President of the University." These guidelines, as defined in the constitution, have not been followed, according to Putnam. 'The Senate misplaced responsibility by allowing SAC to become ^ ? :?i i ? i -?..j ? * ? hi uiucrptriiuciii siuuem government function," he said. SAC assumed an unconstitutional amount of authority regarding the allocation of funds for campus clubs and vetoes donday, to hear appeals of SAC alloc, Warshauer. iportant thing is we're back to scrat< fair hearing on the appeal, "Warshauer deal at all. We had no desire to shaft a -or of letter, not intent." r senate action, the SG budget for 11 to the senate body and referred to i committee. It will be formally intr special session. The bill calls for a i G PRESIDENT and vice president's 'ill remain at the 1978-79 levels of $2,250 a proposed increase in the executive s om $1 to $100, according to S is. sed judicial budget will total $2,921.50 /ocate and assistant advocate wil salaries of $800 and $500 respectively. _1 _ ? f uejunaini onstitutio organizations, rarely conferring j with the Senate and disregarding | the necessary approval needed by the SG President before sending the budget allotments to the i university president for final approval, Putnam said. "Unconstitutional actions in the PVPC r?f tho H nrn<n;c v J V.U VI VlIVy \ VUV/ 14 I 1 IV/J O j general prompted the action" I which resulted in a suit filed against SAC, according to Putnam. "SAC became corrupted by their delegated power. Judicial actions i began spring semester 1978, but' because of prevailing cases regarding disciplinary measures, these actions had to be delayed," nesaict. i The Supreme Court's opinion I J allocati ations, ac- The senate also passei funds which remain in th< T-> 1 _ 1 - 1 jii. r-ewpie nov.ai ,yc<?i win ue carriea said." It's to next year's Student / nyone. It sponsored by Sen. Rober Finance Committee. J79-80 was the Senate THREE FRATERNIT1 oduced in Omicron Delta Kappa, OD $5,555 in- a total of $6,134. Accordi: i proposed Banks, Health Sciences and $1,850. allocated SAC monies w ecretary's service beneficial to the C G budget Organizations receivin . The new National Organization foi 1 receive Circle K, a service organ Spanish, Snow-Ski and the A j actions: >naI ; states it should be made clear that r SAC exists only as an advisory i agency in regard to the allocation s of Student Activity Fees. This s includes five percent of Student i Activity Fees designated for a reserve fund to be used by the r Senate to handle unforeseen needs, v according to the opinion. Since this p reserve fund will involve almost s $20,000, any allocation of the fund r must follow the same channels as f any other allocation, according to g Putnam. v Putnam said SAC needs to be made more accountable to the student body. The Senate Finance t Committee must also become Y 1 - 1 ? inui c nivuivcu tiiiu u*ne a larger i role in allocations, he added. I 3 a bill stipulating that surplus e SAC account at the end of each forward as a balance to be added Allocations Funds. The bill was t Stein, chairman of the Senate 1ES: Alpha Phi Omega, APO; >K; and Rho Epsilon, were funded ng to SAC member Sen. Conrad , fraternities or sororities are hen they sponsor a program or arolina community g no SAC allocations were the the Reform of Marijuana Laws, ization and the Boxing, German, t Wind-Surf clubs. SAC appropriations must follow he Senate's budget and go through he necessary channels, which 3utnam said are subject to input rom the USC Division of Student Ufairs. "Influence from student iffairs administrators is a political eality," he said. However, Putlam said he feels it is possible for itudents to operate SG without supervision from those adninistrators. "The system as it is now can be nanipulated very easily by people i/hr? arp nnt roctvinciKIn tn V aaw v?a ^ i*Vf V 1 VijpVHOlUlV IU V I IV. >eople who it will affect," Putnam aid. The student body should ealize the Senate is the central igure responsible for effective [overnment, and students should rote for responsible people in SG ilections, he added. Most of the appropriations will >e ratified and any organization las a legitimate right to review heir allocation, according to 'utnam. > J