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" IJ^ '"^'"r^^^ ^&f?gUKtt0P Volume LXIX, No. 130 University of South Carolina, Columbia. S.C. April 23, 1979 Gro B.. Bi i - ni-t* _ ay mim naue Qamccock Staff Writer The assigned appropriations for campus organizations and clubs funded by the Student Allocations Commission, SAC, have drawn mixed reactions by the recipients. "They not only cut us very heavily in certain areas, but they upped our income ungodly," Phil Lownes, director of Bell Camp, said. "They wanted us to make a 75-percent profit margin in concession so that we'd have to sell our Cokes for 46 cents each." Bell Camp allocations were cut by $7,083 while projected revenues increased nearly $5,000. Lownes said the major area in which SAC decreased the Bell Camp budget was in staff salaries. Lownes said because of the allocations, Bell Camp rental fees will have to be increased and memberships might have to be sold to students. "I'D HATE to see just a group of students like SAC speak for all of the students," Lownes said. "They told us we have to generate $29,223, and they're going to give us $2,127. That means that 93 percent of * funds then would have to come from Bell Camp itself. Last year, we were able to generate 57 percent," he said. Lownes said Bell Camp's total funding amounted to only 83 cents a student this past year. Bell Camp would receive only 12 cents a student, according to the budget proposed by SAC, he said. "Needless to say, I was extremely upset when I got this budget back," Lownes said. "We're going to bring in over $11,000 in membership sales, which is faculty, staff and alumni." The day-camp program will bring in over $5,000, 'and renting the facilities to faculty will bring in $4,000, he said. Lownes said he originally asked for $47,000, and SAC cut the budget to $31,250. He said he will re-submit uds disi ? 'mW1 Lij'ifi:::^HnlBmH^i^l^^^B^^MfS^ii^:f^^C<^{^iW^'-1^' ^ ^??1 Iwfh:': 't-^hTiWm::-t:J!jjKKj^^^l^^^^^^^^^^^Mii^^. a budget request for $40,162, which r will amount to 50 cents a student. i "SAC told us that they didn't see where their funds were being spent S in the last five years," Lownes < said. "In the last five years, we've t built a lodge, a bath house, a J remodeled concession stand, a j warehouse, playground equipment 1 and canoes. Luckily, the university i f has payed for such things as our \ new rianuicappea iacuities and all of our utilities," he added. 1 Ron Marsh, future station I manager of WUSC, said, "It (SAC 1 funds) for the station meets the i need of most everything except for t stipends, and we asked for higher i stipends because we need to pay < mir accictanfc TUlc ???? . vm MUUIDVUIIIO. 1 llio wajf, Willi funds, we can afford to pay more t qualified people," he said. \ Marsh said that beginning Jan. t 1, WUSC must be on the air at least 1 12 hours a day or the station will " IS'" Y tW:^T^1 JSSl k nii+?? .Q/ Miilll/SHHnc isk having to share air time with mother station. NED FLYNN, president of the 5urf Club. said. "I'm somswhat iisappointed with how the budget urned out because we requested ' 5,000 for the total next year, and ? ill we got approved was $1,263. rhat is less than the total we have 1 or this semester alone, which is 1,700," Flynn said. Flvnn said club memhprshin will lave to be decreased so trips can ye planned for smaller groups, ^lynn also said the club will not be ible to accept new members >ecause the allocated funds are nadequate for purchasing new xjuipment. Jon Nason, outgoing treasurer of he Russell House University Jnion, RHUU, spoke about each of he RHUU committees and the uncling mey received. "Cinematic Arts is a minor in \r.fnn< xvof" & ^^'-"'k^vH' ^KHRw^w *""' "* '': '.r-. crease, and it doesn't even cover the cost-of-inflation rate," Nason said. "Basically, Cinematic Arts has increased their revenue projection considerably ($36,048)." Nason said that Contemporary Sounds' new budget, an allocation of $30,016, allows the committee to have a concert at the Carolina Coliseum. The budget allows for Contemporary Sounds to attract large acts, according to Nason, but he said he feels the funding is not as large as he would like. "THE TRAVEL CENTER has converted to where they are making more money than they are allocated, and thev are not requesting a revenue," Nason said. "Fine Arts is a minor increase, and I have no other comment on that." Nason said that Free University is now charging a $2 registration fee while increasing their revenue dina and decreasing funding requests. The Ideas and Issues Committee was not greatly reduced in funds, nn/l ?l,n 'T\_: 1 n 1- ' cxiiu me 11 ami iiixpeaiiions Committee covers expenses through travel fees, according to Nason. "Special Programs didn't get the money they needed," Nasson said. "I think they requested $10,000 but only got about $6,000," he said. "SAC always maintains that if you have a bad year you won't get funded more, and Special Programs did not have an outstanding year," Nason said. "My argument to that is that we didn't have an outstanding year in Special Programs because we didn't get the money to have an outstanding year." Nason said SAC gave RHUU a fair hearing. "I've got to command SAC," he said. "I feel very good about the way we were funded," he added. Scott Reeves, treasurer of the USC Soccer Club, said, "There were some minor things we would like to have had. We requested about $8,000 and got about $5,000, but mast of our main expense (travel) was met. so we're satisfied," he added. til mi a & Tir P A /"i' _ t ? i liu.Mv s preseni policy of looking at how much the club does, how many members it has and how much they get, is the right course of action," Dave Caulfield, president of the Government and International Studies, GINT, Undergraduate Society said. "I don't think a club like the flying club should be allowed to buv an airplane, for example, but if it's based on the club's need and what it's doing, it's a fair policy," he said. The liINT Undergraduate Society applied for nearly $6,000 and received $2,000, according to Caulfield. This figure is approximately $150-$160 more than the group received this past year.